Events on Friday, April 18
Friday 4/18 @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
Austin duo Ghostland Observatory fuse sprawling, futuristic electro with Rapture-style spastic rock, describing their sound as "a robot making love to...
Friday 4/18 @ The Hotel Café
LA-based trio Seneca Hawk crank out loud, rootsy Americana in the same stripped-down vein as the Black Keys, with guttural, heartfelt...
Friday 4/18 @ UCB Theatre
Hitting shuffle on an unsuspecting iPod can mean unpredictable embarrassment — as when, say, songs from The Little Mermaid soundtrack pop...
Ongoing Events
Friday 4/18 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical...
Friday 4/18 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
While Ryan McLennan's Audubon-inspired drawings of woodland animals seem innocent enough, the graphite-and-acrylic works on paper reveal the animal kingdom's vicious...
Friday 4/18 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious...
Friday 4/18 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides...
Friday 4/18 @ California Heritage Museum
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups,...
Friday 4/18 @ Honor Fraser
Toronto-based André Ethier's grotesque, surreal paintings are psychedelic allegories illustrating misconceptions about modern history and culture. In his latest collection, Vancouver...
Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
Friday 4/18 @ LAXART
Los Angeles' Anna Sew Hoy takes inspiration from her medical-doctor father in her latest exhibition POW!, which focuses on the theme...
Friday 4/18 @ Skirball Cultural Center
This year's resurgent Dylanmania — from Todd Haynes' byzantine biopic, I'm Not There, to Murray Lerner's performance-driven documentary, The Other Side...
Friday 4/18 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
In the group show Anything Could Happen..., five international artists get together to celebrate the vibrancy of contemporary street art. From...
Friday 4/18 @ Robert Berman Gallery D5
No doubt David Trulli's former career as a cinematographer had an impact on his current work, as his scratchboard pieces exhibit...
Friday 4/18 @ California Plaza
If Chucky the homicidal doll had gotten a scholarship to Juilliard and developed an obsession with John Cage instead of murder,...
Friday 4/18 @ Armory Center for the Arts
ArtForum critic and independent curator Michael Duncan encourages childish behavior in Good Doll Bad Doll, an exhibition featuring modern and contemporary...
Friday 4/18 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Last year, London art-gallery impresarios Simon Rumley and Zavier Ellis curated The Future Can Wait, an ambitious group show spotlighting some...
Friday 4/18 @ MODAA gallery
While Michael Kalish's early work is marked by portraits of iconic figures (Jimi Hendrix, Jesus), his new exhibition at Culver City's...
Friday 4/18 @ SCI-Arc
"Merletti" means lace in Italian; for architects, it refers to the pattern of folds along a watchtower's defensive rims and other...
Friday 4/18 @ Hammer Museum
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks...
Friday 4/18 @ LA Louver Gallery
The title of UK painter Jason Martin's latest exhibition evokes the South Pacific's warm, breezy environs — but his abstract, mostly...
Friday 4/18 @ Unknown Theater
Director/choreographer Jennifer Li spins her theatrical yarn with a seamlessly integrated movement style and an ensemble of offbeat collaborators. For dirty...
Friday 4/18 @ Milo Gallery
Two-parts pop to one-part folk, Max Miceli's landscapes and portraits force viewers to examine the relationships between man and beast, industry...
Friday 4/18 @ The Getty Center
As video art's growing reach now extends from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to commuters watching YouTube on their iPhones,...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Friday 4/18 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs looks at Israel's female citizenry as a reflection of the state's 60-year history of independence....
Friday 4/18 @ Bank
Los Angeles multimedia artist Martin Durazo curates this collection of work by 17 artists under the broad thematic umbrella of power...
Friday 4/18 @ Laemmle's Grande 4-Plex
Director/producer/cinematographer Adrian Belic follows 1999's Academy Award-nominated documentary Genghis Blues (about blind musician Paul Peña's relationship with Tuvan throat-singers) with a...
Friday 4/18 @ Telic Arts Exchange
More laboratory than art gallery, Telic Arts Exchange stages collaborative multimedia projects that invite curious audiences along for the ride. Its...
Friday 4/18 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his...
Friday 4/18 @ Claremont Museum of Art
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than...
Friday 4/18 @ Regen Projects II
After capturing the essence of SoCal beach life with her surfer portrait series, photographer Catherine Opie tackles another bastion of American...
Friday 4/18 @ High Energy Constructs
Armageddon looms at Eddie Ruscha Jr.'s debut solo show. The son of the pop-art icon pairs psychedelic works on canvas and...
Friday 4/18 @ Natural History Museum
Pavilion of Wings returns to the Natural History Museum for the exhibition's tenth anniversary. Now, anyone jealous of the Shins' experience...
Friday 4/18 @ The Raven Playhouse
Academia and egomania collide in Rick Mitchell's Personality Crisis, a play that takes aim at the recent phenomenon of authors seeking...
Friday 4/18 @ La Luz de Jesus
Japanese artist Yumiko Kayukawa's work is a fine example of what happens when East meets West. In Kayukawa's world, young women...
Friday 4/18 @ Agnes B.
Filmmaker Harmony Korine's newest movie, Mister Lonely, follows a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living in a remote French castle with...
Friday 4/18 @ Commisary Arts
Like fellow Italian Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico, Angela DeCristofaro's paintings obscure reality with dreams and memories. Seemingly unrelated images find their...
A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
Friday 4/18 @ Gallery Luisotti
Photographer Catherine Wagner used the Baltimore Museum of Industry's impressive collection of lightbulbs as the inspiration for her latest exhibition, which...
Friday 4/18 @ The Lab 101 Gallery
As the much-beloved Polaroid photograph takes its final bow, David Horvitz and Flavorpill editor Ashley Tibbits harness the medium's lo-fi grace...
Friday 4/18 @ The Getty Villa
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only...
Friday 4/18 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art...
Friday 4/18 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Friday 4/18 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
Tonight's UCLA Live concert commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Ash Grove, the legendary folk-music club that defined '50s- and '60s-era...
Friday 4/18 @ See Line Gallery
New York artist Edgar Heap of Birds doesn't use text to support his visual aesthetic — the text is the aesthetic....
Friday 4/18 @ Various locations
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That,...
Friday 4/18 @ Subliminal Projects
Blek le Rat is known as the Parisian forefather of stencil and graffiti art. Nearly three decades ago, he plastered the...
Friday 4/18 @ 18th Street Arts Center
For the next installment of Future of Nations exhibition series 100% Other, curator Tyler Stallings asked artists Matthew Bryant, Cheryl Gilge,...
Friday 4/18 @ Overtones Gallery
Upon graduating from art school and relocating to the city, local painter Christopher Chinn was struck by how intrepid artists would...
Friday 4/18 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Friday 4/18 @ First Baptist Church
Out of 36 glass panels and multiple tonnage of cracked clay and resin, German artist Anselm Kiefer has created an illusion...
Friday 4/18 @ Patrick Painter Gallery
Salomón Huerta is one of LA's most popular painters — although personally, he seems somewhat reserved. His best-known works are smallish,...
Friday 4/18 @ Laguna Art Museum
Dave Hickey has one of the most original minds in the contemporary art world. His best-selling collection of critical essays, Air...
Friday 4/18 @ The Getty Center
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition...
Friday 4/18 @ Diavolo Dance Theatre
Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company is a repertory on a mission. The troupe offers workshops and classes as well as a...
Friday 4/18 @ Materials & Applications
M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents...
