Events on Friday, July 11
Friday 7/11 @ Spaceland
Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr. kicks off an international tour tonight with a set of his trademark super-poppy licks and crunchy...
Friday 7/11 @ The Roxy Theatre
DJ and founder of the genre-leading Hyperdub label, Kode9 is the UK's most tireless ambassador of dubstep. The illegitimate spawn of...
Friday 7/11 @ The Getty Center
With apologies to No Age, Dan Deacon is the strangest performer ever to grace the Fridays Off the 405 stage. Known...
Friday 7/11 @ Safari Sam's
The premise here is straightforward and old-school: gritty, loud rock music, drinking, and cabaret-punk-style striptease dancing. Some of the hottest lingerie-clad...
Friday 7/11 @ Hollywood Bowl
Wistful singer Chris Isaak takes the stage for a two-night rendezvous with conductor Thomas Wilkins and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. First,...
Friday 7/11 @ The Ford Theater
Urban LA youths get their close-up with Free Style, a one-night-only event that partners 15 high-school students with some of Broadway...
Ongoing Events
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Friday 7/11 @ 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 7/11 @ 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...
Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground
Friday 7/11 @ 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,...
Friday 7/11 @ Peres Projects
Antonio Ballester Moreno's first solo show in America explodes in vibrant colors and playful forms. His bold palette recalls the traditions...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ Unknown Theater
Meg Wolfe's relentless creative spirit knows no bounds. Her energy produced the offbeat dance zine Itch Journal, the experimental series Anatomy...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ 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 7/11 @ David Gallery
As the Beatles greeted New York City's cold winter weather for the first time in 1964, looming in their shadows was...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ Barnsdall Art Park
The Cultural Affairs Department recently issued a statement to declare its unprecedented satisfaction with the state's arts budget — proof that...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ Jail Gallery
Sculptor, video artist, and (increasingly often) independent curator Michael Dee is something of a conceptual punster; his own work in plastic...
Friday 7/11 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Living in Sweden proved to be an invaluable influence on Victoria Reynolds' artwork. Not only does she emulate the painstakingly naturalistic...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ REDCAT
REDCAT continues to be a beacon for cutting-edge contemporary art, featuring the first solo show of Haegue Yang in the US....
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
The remarkable tale at the center of Chris & Don opens on a Malibu beach 50 years ago, when British writer...
Friday 7/11 @ 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:...
Friday 7/11 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
The title of this two-person exhibition refers to the artists' different approaches to dependence on media and consumerism. For collagist Sophia...
Friday 7/11 @ Corey Helford Gallery
In this collection of 24 large-scale paintings, Carlos Ramos recalls the deep impressions that realistic-looking dioramas had on him as a...
Friday 7/11 @ 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 7/11 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Neil Simon has authored some of the most popular American plays of the last century, including the much-loved Eugene Trilogy, which...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at...
Friday 7/11 @ High Energy Constructs
Angelinos Dennis Koch and Claudia Nieto work on the same plane — the flat one. Utilizing the simplest of all media,...
Friday 7/11 @ Pharmaka
Hot on the heels of LACMA's controversial Phantom Sightings exhibition, Pharmaka Gallery tackles the issue of contemporary Chicano art with Rebel...
Friday 7/11 @ La Luz de Jesus
Though painters Caia Koopman and Mark Gleason take vastly different approaches, both make the human/animal relationship a cornerstone of their work....
Friday 7/11 @ Pacific Electric Lofts
The LA Art Girls began four years ago, when a vibrant group of women working in painting, photography, video, and performance...
Friday 7/11 @ 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 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ 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 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Thematic summer shows are as de rigueur in the art world as summer reading lists were in high school — and...
Friday 7/11 @ Bonelli Contemporary
An ambitious undertaking by art critic and curator Holly Myers, this month-long celebration of interactive visual and performance art promises to...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
Friday 7/11 @ Michael Kohn Gallery
The quintessential pop artist was much more than a factory for silkscreens of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's soup cans. In fact,...
Friday 7/11 @ Carol Henry Studio
An overstuffed white glove might bring to mind images of a Mickey Mouse cartoon, but for artist and curator Cecelia Kane,...
Friday 7/11 @ 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...
