Events on Friday, April 4

Fridays Off the 405 feat. King Britt and Power Douglas

Music: DJ

King Britt

Friday 4/ 4 @ The Getty Center

As the sun sets this evening, the Getty Center transforms its courtyard into a party promenade, attracting a lively crowd of... 

Autechre w/ Rob Hall and Massonix

Music: Electronic

Autechre

Friday 4/ 4 @ Echoplex

Experimental legends Autechre hit LA tonight in support of their ninth studio album, Quaristice, out on Warp Records. Known for their... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Immigration Stories</em>

Art

Immigration Stories

Friday 4/ 4 @ Pounder-Koné Art Space

Atwater Village's Pounder-Koné Art Space uses color as the great communicator, gathering work from its favorite underappreciated overseas artists with a... 

Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy

Art

Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy

Friday 4/ 4 @ LAXART

Los Angeles' Anna Sew Hoy takes inspiration from her medical-doctor father in her latest exhibition POW!, which focuses on the theme... 

Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>

Art

Mark Bradford

Friday 4/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Good Doll Bad Doll </em>

Art

Good Doll Bad Doll

Friday 4/ 4 @ 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... 

Max Miceli: <em>Hard Icing</em>

Art

Max Miceli

Friday 4/ 4 @ 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... 

Anselm Kiefer: <em>Palmsonntag</em>

Art

Anselm Kiefer

Friday 4/ 4 @ First Baptist Church

Out of 36 glass panels and multiple tonnage of cracked clay and resin, German artist Anselm Kiefer has created an illusion... 

<em>Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film</em>

Film

Alfred Hitchcock

Friday 4/ 4 @ 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... 

Kara Walker: <em>My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love</em>

Art

Kara Walker

Friday 4/ 4 @ Hammer Museum

Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks... 

Elena Manferdini: <em>Merletti</em>

Art

Elena Manferdini

Friday 4/ 4 @ SCI-Arc

"Merletti" means lace in Italian; for architects, it refers to the pattern of folds along a watchtower's defensive rims and other... 

Yumiko Kayukawa: Extinction

Art

Yumiko Kayukawa

Friday 4/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art from the Neon Homeland</em>

Art

Las Vegas Diaspora

Friday 4/ 4 @ 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... 

<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Friday 4/ 4 @ 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,... 

Art

Make Art/Stop AIDS

Friday 4/ 4 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical... 

Anne-Laure Sacriste

Art

Anne-Laure Sacriste

Friday 4/ 4 @ Chung King Project

For her debut solo bow in the United States, French artist Anne-Laure Sacriste shows new large-scale paintings at Chung King Project.... 

<em>Gravity Art </em>

Art

Gravity Art

Friday 4/ 4 @ Telic Arts Exchange

More laboratory than art gallery, Telic Arts Exchange stages collaborative multimedia projects that invite curious audiences along for the ride. Its... 

<em>Panopti(con)</em>

Art

Panopti(con)

Friday 4/ 4 @ Bank

Los Angeles multimedia artist Martin Durazo curates this collection of work by 17 artists under the broad thematic umbrella of power... 

<em>First Generation: Art in Claremont 1907-1957</em>

Art

First Generation

Friday 4/ 4 @ Claremont Museum of Art

Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than... 

Alison Saar: <em>Hither</em>

Art

Alison Saar

Friday 4/ 4 @ LA Louver Gallery

Though Los Angeles is her stomping ground, provocative painter/sculptress Alison Saar is internationally acclaimed. Daughter of the groundbreaking Betye Saar, whose... 

Ani DiFranco

Music

Ani DiFranco

Friday 4/ 4 @ Orpheum Theatre

Ani DiFranco's latest disc, Canon (the singer/songwriter's first retrospective recording), showcases the new mother's contribution to music — an influential career... 

Tony de los Reyes: <em>Ahab's America</em>

Art

Tony de los Reyes

Friday 4/ 4 @ Carl Berg Gallery

Los Angeles-based painter and sculptor Tony de los Reyes has more in common with 19th-century author Herman Melville than most politically... 

<em>Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera</em>

Art: Photography

Ten Years in Focus

Friday 4/ 4 @ The Getty Center

In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition... 

KuKula: <em>Dreamcatcher</em>

Art

KuKula

Friday 4/ 4 @ Thinkspace Gallery

For Dreamcatcher, KuKula's first solo showing at Thinkspace, the Israeli-born artist paints eerily charming images of little girl dolls, Disney-esque forest... 

Eddie Ruscha: <em>THIS IS IT!</em>

Art

Eddie Ruscha

Friday 4/ 4 @ 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... 

Robert Crumb: <em>Cr&egrave;me de la Crumb</em>

Art

Robert Crumb

Friday 4/ 4 @ David Lawrence Gallery

Since his early days drawing for Zap Comix, Robert Crumb has made quite a name for himself as the comic world's... 

Ben Pruskin

Art

Ben Pruskin

Friday 4/ 4 @ PawnShop Gallery

Traditionally, bust portraiture has been a means of honoring those with wealth, power, and status; Ben Pruskin, however, believes that such... 

Sarajo Frieden: <em>Another Green World</em>

Art

Sarajo Frieden

Friday 4/ 4 @ Little Bird Gallery

That Sarajo Frieden's Los Angeles studio is at the nexus of Koreatown, Little Armenia, and Thai Town makes perfect sense after... 

<em>Here Is Where You'll Find Me</em>: Small Photographs by Ashley Tibbits & David Horvitz

Art: Photography

Here Is Where You'll Find Me

Friday 4/ 4 @ 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... 

<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Friday 4/ 4 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... 

<em>The Imaginary 20th Century</em>

Art

The Imaginary 20th Century

Friday 4/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present </em>

Art

The Color of Life

Friday 4/ 4 @ The Getty Villa

Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only... 

La La La Human Steps: <em>Amjad</em>

Dance

La La La Human Steps

Friday 4/ 4 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall

Édouard Lock's souped-up, punk-infused choreography mixes intoxicating sweetness with freneticism to create dizzying tableaux of on-the-edge, gut-punch dance. La La La... 

Mindy Shapero

Art

Mindy Shapero

Friday 4/ 4 @ Anna Helwing Gallery

Bright and brash, Mindy Shapero concocts sculptures with a childlike zeal: always curious and never satisfied. Her works seem like visual... 

<em>Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966</em>

Art

Bob Dylan's American Journey

Friday 4/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Two Lines Align</em>: Drawings by Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge

Art

Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge

Friday 4/ 4 @ REDCAT

Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In... 

Wayne White: <em>Drop the Country Boy Act</em>

Art

Wayne White

Friday 4/ 4 @ Western Project

Billed as "punk Mark Twain defiance," Wayne White's latest show features the recent collection of his famous word paintings and sculptures.... 

Christopher Chinn: <em>On the Row</em>

Art

Christopher Chinn

Friday 4/ 4 @ Overtones Gallery

Upon graduating from art school and relocating to the city, local painter Christopher Chinn was struck by how intrepid artists would... 

<em>Toys</em>

Art

Toys

Friday 4/ 4 @ Gallery 1988

Watching kids fry their eyeballs playing video games can make some of us feel old. There was a time when board... 

Michael Asher

Art

Michael Asher

Friday 4/ 4 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art

Rather than create new spaces and pieces, conceptual mixed-media artist Michael Asher prefers to deconstruct and punctuate extant spaces with found... 

<em>Freeze Frame: Five Decades of Photographs by Douglas Kirkland</em>

Art: Photography

Freeze Frame

Friday 4/ 4 @ 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... 

Nathan Mabry

Art

Nathan Mabry

Friday 4/ 4 @ Cherry and Martin

Spanish conquistadors beware: payback is a bitch. Nathan Mabry exacts Montezuma's revenge with irreverently styled bronze sculptures based on Pre-Columbian Moche... 

Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Friday 4/ 4 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... 

Faith47, Johnny Yanok, Joulu, Mike Kershnar, and Misery: <em>Anything Could Happen...</em>

Art

Anything Could Happen...

Friday 4/ 4 @ 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... 

Cal Lane: <em>Sweet Crude</em>

Art

Cal Lane

Friday 4/ 4 @ Samuel Freeman

The beauty of Canadian-born, New York-based artist Cal Lane's work is in its remarkable juxtapositions. Lane transforms anything-but-delicate objects, such as... 

<em>California Video </em>

Art

California Video

Friday 4/ 4 @ 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,... 

Angela DeCristofaro: <em>Wake</em>&nbsp;

Art

Angela DeCristofaro

Friday 4/ 4 @ Commisary Arts

Like fellow Italian Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico, Angela DeCristofaro's paintings obscure reality with dreams and memories. Seemingly unrelated images find their... 

Edgar Heap of Birds: <em>Moving With the Storm</em>

Art

Edgar Heap of Birds

Friday 4/ 4 @ See Line Gallery

New York artist Edgar Heap of Birds doesn't use text to support his visual aesthetic — the text is the aesthetic.... 

<em>HEF</em>

Art

HEF

Friday 4/ 4 @ Jail Gallery

Hef. The single syllable alone conjures up images of smoking jackets and decadent mansion parties. Exploring that imagery, a group of... 

<em>A Narrative History of the Light Bulb</em>

Art: Photography

A Narrative History of the Light Bulb

Friday 4/ 4 @ Gallery Luisotti

Photographer Catherine Wagner used the Baltimore Museum of Industry's impressive collection of lightbulbs as the inspiration for her latest exhibition, which... 

<em>Lights! Camera! Glamour!</em>

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Friday 4/ 4 @ 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,... 

Aaron Smith: <em>Estofada</em>

Art

Aaron Smith

Friday 4/ 4 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery

The history of art may seem an obvious source of inspiration, but a new collection of paintings by LA's Aaron Smith... 

<em>Sweeney Todd</em>

Theatre

Sweeney Todd

Friday 4/ 4 @ Ahmanson Theatre

Johnny Depp's acclaimed cinematic stab (ahem) at Mr. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has refreshed our memories on... 

Jeffrey Vallance w/ James Goodwin, Laurie Hassold, Marjan Hormozi, Dave Shulman, and Scotty Vera

Art

Jeffrey Vallance

Friday 4/ 4 @ Track 16 Gallery

Extravagance, irony, and ephemera converge in five concurrent exhibitions. The focus is the 30th-anniversary celebration of Jeffery Vallance's performance piece Blinky... 

<em>MFA #2</em>

Art

MFA #2

Friday 4/ 4 @ New Wight Gallery, UCLA

Each year, the stellar Fine Arts Department at UCLA stages multi-part exhibitions of its final-year MFA students, and this year's second...