Events on Friday, June 27

Hearts of Palm UK w/ Health Club, WEAVE!, and Fol Chen

Music

Hearts of Palm UK

Friday 6/27 @ Pehrspace

Despite being nearly electrocuted by her equipment last month (and not for the first time), Hearts of Palm UK frontwoman Erica... 

Grand Archives

Music

Grand Archives

Friday 6/27 @ The Echo & Echoplex

Seattle-based Grand Archives use quietly strummed guitar, horns, piano, and whistlin' lips to lay down melodies that are equal parts folk,... 

Fresh Rhymes and Videotape feat. Dilated Peoples w/ the Alchemist, Aceyalone, and 88-Keys

Music: Hip-Hop

Fresh Rhymes and Videotape

Friday 6/27 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip

NYC multimedia powerhouse and indie label Decon brings its first multi-city hip-hop tour to the left coast, with not only rhymes... 

Droog presents Martin Landsky

Music: Electronic

Martin Landsky

Friday 6/27 @ The Room

Berlin-based DJ and producer Martin Landsky is the sort of dance-music lifer that breathes techno. Landsky made a name for himself... 

Fridays Off the 405 feat. No Age w/ DJ King Shade

Music

No Age

Friday 6/27 @ The Getty Center

Armed with little more than a massively fuzzed-up guitar and ferociously pounded drum kit, No Age's sloppy, restless sound is true... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Against the Grain</em>

Art

Against the Grain

Friday 6/27 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)

Known for its progressive, boundary-pushing performances and interdisciplinary bravado, LACE's lofty space transforms into a clean, white gallery for Against the... 

Piot Brehmer

Art

Piot Brehmer

Friday 6/27 @ Samuel Freeman

Piot Brehmer's hyperrealist-inspired paintings at Samuel Freeman may owe a nod to painters like Philip Pearlstein and Eric Fischl, but there's... 

Los Angeles Film Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

LA Film Festival

Friday 6/27 @ Various locations

Though it packs 200 new films into 11 days, the LA Film Festival offers more than just screenings. There are poolside... 

Art

COLA Artist Fellowships

Friday 6/27 @ Barnsdall Art Park

The Cultural Affairs Department recently issued a statement to declare its unprecedented satisfaction with the state's arts budget — proof that... 

<em>Contradictions & Complexities: Contemporary Art from India</em>

Art

Contemporary Art from India

Friday 6/27 @ d.e.n. contemporary art

A single definition of Indian contemporary art is tricky to pin down, as one might expect when funneling the widely varying... 

<em>Party Favors</em>

Art

Party Favors

Friday 6/27 @ Bonelli Contemporary

An ambitious undertaking by art critic and curator Holly Myers, this month-long celebration of interactive visual and performance art promises to... 

<em>Rebel Legacy: The Abstract in Latino Art </em>

Art

Rebel Legacy

Friday 6/27 @ Pharmaka

Hot on the heels of LACMA's controversial Phantom Sightings exhibition, Pharmaka Gallery tackles the issue of contemporary Chicano art with Rebel... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Friday 6/27 @ The Getty Center

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

The Who's <em>Tommy</em>

Theatre

Tommy

Friday 6/27 @ Montalbán Theatre

The idea that a young man would become "deaf, dumb, and blind" and then discover that he's a pinball genius was... 

<em>BANG! Fully Loaded</em>

Art

BANG! Fully Loaded

Friday 6/27 @ Remy's on Temple

BANG! Fully Loaded sits at the intersection of the group art show, the modern penchant for excavating problematic historical/cultural symbols, and... 

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

Friday 6/27 @ 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... 

Amy Sol: <em>Karmic Magic</em>

Art

Amy Sol

Friday 6/27 @ Thinkspace Gallery

Karmic Magic, Las Vegas artist Amy Sol's solo show with the Silverlake gem Thinkspace, features doe-eyed females, furry creatures, and sweetly... 

<em>The Puppet Show</em>

Art

The Puppet Show

Friday 6/27 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art

SMMoA gathers an eclectic array of work by 30 impressive artists — from Kara Walker to Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Nauman, and... 

Mods & Rockers

Festival: Performing Arts

Mods & Rockers

Friday 6/27 @ Egyptian Theatre

Mods and rockers both worshiped bands, rode scooters, and cultivated impossibly hip hairstyles. But the two UK groups had a distinct... 

<em>Newer Topographics: Photographs of Digitally Altered Urban Landscapes</em>

Art: Photography

Newer Topographics

Friday 6/27 @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside

This exhibition juxtaposes the work of idealist photographers Jeremy Kidd and Eric Curry, both of whom use digital manipulation in arresting... 

Peter Saul

Art

Peter Saul

Friday 6/27 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

Peter Saul, who hit his artistic stride mid-century during America's pop-art movement, has become best known of late as a creator... 

Steve Olson: <em>Art Attack</em>

Art

Steve Olson

Friday 6/27 @ 01 Gallery

Back in the late 1970s, Steve Olson became a celebrity in the world of professional skateboarding for his vertical-shredding ability. He's... 

Dennis Koch & Claudia Nieto

Art

Dennis Koch & Claudia Nieto

Friday 6/27 @ High Energy Constructs

Angelinos Dennis Koch and Claudia Nieto work on the same plane — the flat one. Utilizing the simplest of all media,... 

Sunset Strip Music Festival feat. Hot Hot Heat, Louis XIV, and Camper Van Beethoven

Music

Sunset Strip Music Festival

Friday 6/27 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip

The Sunset Strip has long been a mecca for mischief. Prohibition-era poker tourneys gave way to the '60s art rock of... 

<em>Darkness Will Find You</em>

Art

Darkness Will Find You

Friday 6/27 @ Jail Gallery

Sculptor, video artist, and (increasingly often) independent curator Michael Dee is something of a conceptual punster; his own work in plastic... 

Tillman Kaiser: <em>Don't Worry About the Motion on the Ocean</em>

Art

Tillman Kaiser

Friday 6/27 @ Honor Fraser

Painter Tillman Kaiser invokes the legacy of dadaist Marcel Duchamp, who famously flipped a ceramic urinal on its side, signed it... 

Haegue Yang: <em>Asymmetric Equality</em>

Art

Haegue Yang

Friday 6/27 @ REDCAT

REDCAT continues to be a beacon for cutting-edge contemporary art, featuring the first solo show of Haegue Yang in the US.... 

Marlene Dumas: <em>Measuring Your Own Grave</em>

Art

Marlene Dumas

Friday 6/27 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

The first stateside exhibit of French/South African/Dutch artist Marlene Dumas' work, Measuring Your Own Grave is a prodding collection of sketches... 

Corbin Smith:<em> Venice Boulevard: Close Encounters </em>

Art: Photography

Corbin Smith

Friday 6/27 @ MODAA gallery

Photographer Corbin Smith's initial impressions of LA seemed to buy into into Baudrillard's description of Los Angeles as an illusion, "the... 

<em>Flaunt</em>

Art

Flaunt

Friday 6/27 @ Junc Gallery

This annual exhibition at Junc typically features new work by both its most promising emerging talents and good-old standbys. The 2008... 

Art

Juan Uslé

Friday 6/27 @ LA Louver Gallery

The life and experiences of Spanish painter Juan Uslé meet his vision of abstraction in this new series of paintings. Including... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Friday 6/27 @ 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... 

Art

Culmination

Friday 6/27 @ Morono Kiang Gallery

As Internet galleries and portfolio sites make it increasingly easy to navigate the deep waters of the international emerging art scene,... 

Matt Dangler's <em>Treehouse</em>

Art

Matt Dangler

Friday 6/27 @ Gallery 1988

Artist Matt Dangler is a wee young thing to be garnering such art-world acclaim. The 24-year-old's spooky and fantastical paintings are... 

Robert A. Nelson: <em>Common Ground</em>

Art

Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground

Friday 6/27 @ another year in LA

In Robert A. Nelson's exhibition Common Ground, viewers are treated to a new side of the '60s experimental filmmaker. Nelson's offbeat,... 

<em>This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in LA Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

This Side of Paradise

Friday 6/27 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

If only our cracked sidewalks, classic homes, sprawling hills, and endless streets could talk. But even if objects can't, camera lenses... 

A Chorus Line

Theatre

A Chorus Line

Friday 6/27 @ Ahmanson Theatre

Director and co-choreographer Michael Bennett spins this well-loved tale of Broadway gypsies and would-be stars who lay their souls on the... 

Misato Suzuki: <em>Unknown Quantities</em>

Art

Misato Suzuki

Friday 6/27 @ Sam Lee Gallery

Misato Suzuki is acutely aware of nature's palette and geometry. With soothing shades of yellow, orange, brown, and blue, she paints... 

<em>Two Madmen: The Art of Clive Barker and Myron Dyal</em>

Art

Two Madmen

Friday 6/27 @ Otis College of Art and Design

Clive Barker is a successful author, director, screenwriter, playwright, and poet; Myron Dyal is a classical musician. But both artists also... 

<em>Ginger</em>

Art

Ginger

Friday 6/27 @ New Image Art

New Image Art's latest group exhibition packs a powerhouse list of participants. Vets of the gallery — including indie-rock man-of-the-moment Devendra... 

<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Friday 6/27 @ California Heritage Museum

Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The... 

Cadence Pearson: <em>Disjointed</em>

Art

Cadence Pearson

Friday 6/27 @ Kara Wily Pilates

When dancer and art enthusiast Kara Wily wanted to open her own Pilates studio (having learned the ropes from the movement's... 

<em>Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs

Friday 6/27 @ 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.... 

HK Zamani: <em>Shelter from the Storm</em>

Art

HK Zamani

Friday 6/27 @ SolwayJones Gallery

HK Zamani is best known to LA art lovers as Habib Kheradyar, the peripatetic multimedia artist, one-time owner of Post Gallery,... 

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Art: Photography

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Friday 6/27 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia's meticulously planned pictures look as effortless as Polaroids. Most of his works feature a single person — who... 

<em>In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor</em>

Art

The Juxtapoz Factor

Friday 6/27 @ Laguna Art Museum

To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as... 

The Actors' Gang presents <em>1984</em>

Theatre

1984

Friday 6/27 @ REDCAT

George Orwell wrote 1984 in the bloody wake of WWII, when anti-totalitarian screeds and fear of Communism were at a fever... 

Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso: <em>Lullabies for the Dark Ages</em>

Art

Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso

Friday 6/27 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery

Like the Catholic-raised Mexican artist himself, Tino Rodriguez's gender-defying, allegorical paintings are torn between sensuality and conservative tradition. Inspired by the... 

Jerome Witkin: <em>Revelations in Drawing</em>

Art

Jerome Witkin

Friday 6/27 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts

Many art critics and scholars consider Jerome Witkin to be America's greatest living figurative painter. His portraits and landscapes combine an... 

Eric Bogosian's <em>Talk Radio</em>

Theatre

Talk Radio

Friday 6/27 @ The MET Theatre

Eric Bogosian made the leap from sputtering performance artist to Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright with his fiery, rant-filled Talk Radio. Known for... 

<em>Gravity & Transformation</em>

Art

Gravity & Transformation

Friday 6/27 @ Kristi Engle Gallery

The world of art is one place where the laws of physics do not apply, and LA-based artist Suzanne Adelman assembles... 

The Art Directors Guild presents <em>MiniWorX</em>

Art

MiniWorX

Friday 6/27 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

The Art Directors Guild IA Local 800 is a deliriously talented group of production designers, art directors, and scenic, title, and... 

Mr. Brainwash: <em>Life Is Beautiful</em>

Art

Mr. Brainwash

Friday 6/27 @ CBS News Studios

Mr. Brainwash, or MBW, is a documentary filmmaker turned street artist who fell in with the renowned circle of renegade activists,... 

<em>Vexing: Female Voices from East LA Punk</em>

Art

Vexing

Friday 6/27 @ Claremont Museum of Art

In the early '80s, the Vex was an all-ages music club located in Self Help Graphics and Art, a Chicano landmark... 

<em>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Friday 6/27 @ 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... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Friday 6/27 @ Norton Simon Museum

This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at... 

<em>Politics as Usual: As Seen by Harry Benson</em>

Art: Photography

Harry Benson

Friday 6/27 @ David Gallery

As the Beatles greeted New York City's cold winter weather for the first time in 1964, looming in their shadows was... 

Kori Newkirk:<em> 1997-2007</em>

Art

Kori Newkirk

Friday 6/27 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art

Kori Newkirk first came to national attention thanks to his contribution to the Studio Museum in Harlem's daring group show Freestyle:... 

Ami Tallman: <em>When the Sun Shines, It Does not Need Proof</em>

Art

Ami Tallman

Friday 6/27 @ See Line Gallery

Ami Tallman's Fauvist palette, her love of extreme decor, and her penchant for historical research each feed into her interiors and... 

Moving Arts presents Beginnings & Endings One-Act Play Festival

Theatre

One-Act Play Festival

Friday 6/27 @ Studio/Stage

Those suffering from art attention-deficit disorder should appreciate Moving Arts' 14th Annual One-Act Play Festival, a yearly roundup of short 'n... 

Mariah Anne Johnson: <em>We Are All Well and Fine</em>

Art

Mariah Anne Johnson

Friday 6/27 @ Little Bird Gallery

Blame it on her traditional Southern upbringing, but Mariah Anne Johnson (born and raised in Arkansas) has an affinity for her... 

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

Art: Photography

Ten Years in Focus

Friday 6/27 @ 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 Night Jazz

Music

Friday Night Jazz

Friday 6/27 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

On Fridays, the art jumps off the wall and into the ears of LACMA visitors with the museum's beloved outdoor summer-concert... 

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

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Friday 6/27 @ 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,... 

<em>LA Nude X </em>

Art: Photography

LA Nude X

Friday 6/27 @ A&I Hollywood

LA's most industry-beloved photo lab, Photo Impact, officially closed when its owner went in with A&I, but the group show LA...