Events on Friday, July 4
Friday 7/ 4 @ Hollywood Bowl
While Randy Newman's recent end-of-empire parable "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country" took a pretty dark turn, the husky-throated...
Friday 7/ 4 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Spaghetti-Western psych-rockers Spindrift were born for a gig in the back-room saloon in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (or...
Ongoing Events
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Various locations
New York's loss is Los Angeles' gain with the arrival of Stephan Koplowitz, one of the country's most intriguing interdisciplinary artists....
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 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...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 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...
Friday 7/ 4 @ CBS News Studios
Mr. Brainwash, or MBW, is a documentary filmmaker turned street artist who fell in with the renowned circle of renegade activists,...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
The remarkable tale at the center of Chris & Don opens on a Malibu beach 50 years ago, when British writer...
Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 4 @ Egyptian Theatre
Mods and rockers both worshiped bands, rode scooters, and cultivated impossibly hip hairstyles. But the two UK groups had a distinct...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 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...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Little Bird Gallery
Blame it on her traditional Southern upbringing, but Mariah Anne Johnson (born and raised in Arkansas) has an affinity for her...
Friday 7/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
