Events on Friday, August 15
Friday 8/15 @ SALT
Photographer Deborah Glusker brought plenty of film with her on a recent trip to the enchanting West African nation of Mali...
Friday 8/15 @ Knitting Factory
Brothers Matt, Eli, and Josh Caterer — the core members of the pop-punk foursome Smoking Popes — burst onto the Chicago...
Friday 8/15 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Directed by Richard Quine, Bell, Book and Candle finds James Stewart and Kim Novak on-screen together for the second time, and...
Friday 8/15 @ Medusa Lounge
This election year we're offered a choice between two presidential candidates (three, if you count Paris Hilton) with vastly different platforms....
Ongoing Events
Friday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ The Landmark
In 1968, a French teen named Philippe Petit sat in a dentist's office reading a magazine that featured the plans for...
Friday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Louis Stern Fine Arts
What do submerged nudes, fire-ravaged landscapes, and monstrous energy towers have in common? Not much at first glance, but they're all...
Friday 8/15 @ REDCAT
REDCAT continues to be a beacon for cutting-edge contemporary art, featuring the first solo show of Haegue Yang in the US....
Friday 8/15 @ Duncan Miller Gallery
During his 40-year career, rock 'n roll photographer Jim Marshall has captured some of Bob Dylan's, John Coltrane's, and Janis Joplin's...
Friday 8/15 @ ACE Gallery
Melanie Pullen extends her macabre view of the world in her latest series, Violent Times, which explores the aesthetics of war...
Friday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Western Project
For the second installment of its lively Sculpture series, Culver City gallery Western Projects pushes the 3-D envelope with a collection...
Friday 8/15 @ Little Bird Gallery
Drawing on her suburban So-Cal roots, Kelly Lynn Jones depicts modern America's decay in sparse, childlike paintings. Using house paint and...
Friday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Los Angeles Convention Center
SIGGRAPH may not ring a bell for those outside the computer-graphics world, but if you enjoy the brain-melting explosions and sinking...
Friday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Honor Fraser
Artist Erik Parker and curator/critic Max Henry put their heads together to gather a group of talented artists for Honor Fraser's...
Friday 8/15 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
From director Matt Huffman comes a new adaptation of Irwin Shaw's 1936 antiwar masterpiece, Bury the Dead. Shaw, who went on...
Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments
Friday 8/15 @ 18th Street Arts Center
The 18th Street Art Center continues its tradition of presenting politically and socially engaged visual art with its four-part exhibition series...
Friday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
For California Scenarios — the third installment of Signals, OCMA's ongoing contemporary video-art survey — the museum showcases the vivid work...
Friday 8/15 @ 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...
Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
Friday 8/15 @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside
Borrowing a recently coined neologism from Stephen Colbert's faux-conservative lexicon, Truthiness questions the reliability of the visual by featuring artists who...
Friday 8/15 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
The work of New Zealander Rozi Demant depicts feathered friends, but her birds don't always stand for things like freedom, peace,...
Friday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 8/15 @ Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), a Downtown Gallery District staple, gets the whole neighborhood involved this week when...
Friday 8/15 @ Sacred Fools Theater
Known as one of America's most loved — and most banned — writers of young-adult fiction, Judy Blume has tackled a...
Friday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ 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...
Kori Newkirk and Miguel Angel Rios
Friday 8/15 @ LAXART
Kori Newkirk transforms the mundane into the monumental with his new installation, RANK. The deceptively simple sculpture — an outsized, mirrored...
Contemporary Photography from China
Friday 8/15 @ DNJ Gallery
In DNJ's latest exhibition, eight artists take their cameras on the road and on rail, underground into mines, onto farms, and...
Friday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art
Video artist Doug Henry and composer/audiophile Joe Potts collaborate in a major new video work honoring the 100-year anniversary of cubism...
Friday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Jancar Gallery
As its subtitle states, Jancar Gallery's Narratives of the Perverse is not open to anyone under the age of 18....
Friday 8/15 @ AndrewShire Gallery
The five artists brought together for this end-of-summer group show have little in common — except perhaps episodes of childhood trauma...
Friday 8/15 @ Fette's Gallery
Every day, at least one new drawing posts to the online magazine/gallery Frédéric. Founded in 2004 by Isabelle Boinot, Frédéric Fleury,...
Friday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Skylight Theatre
Commissioned as part of South Coast Repertory's Pacific Playwrights Festival, David Lindsay-Abaire's wrenching drama won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize and kick-started...
Friday 8/15 @ Hammer Museum
The risk-taking John Lautner is often described as an architect's architect, even though some of his designs brought him both criticism...
Friday 8/15 @ Regen Projects
This dual exhibition from British artist Gillian Wearing begins with Pin-Ups, displayed at the Regen Projects' Almont Drive location. For her...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Friday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Sabina Lee Gallery
Cambodian artist Aragna Ker can't help but poke and prod at cultural meanings until they fall apart. His elaborate mixed-media installations...
Friday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Smockshop
For artists who don't yet sustain themselves from their work, there are myriad ways to bring in some income — peddling...
Insiders, Outsiders, & the Middle
Friday 8/15 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
With the help of Giant Robot, Scion Installation LA presents this group show featuring three different "schools" of artists. Adrian Johnson...
Friday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Frank Pictures Gallery
British ex-pat painter David Eddington may have left the grandeur and historical heft of Europe for a life by the Pacific...
Friday 8/15 @ Daniel Weinberg Gallery
Before Williamsburg was Williamsburg (in other words, when taking the L train to Brooklyn was a perilous undertaking devoid of glossy...
Friday 8/15 @ Orpheum Theatre
According to local legend (and pictorial evidence), Downtown Los Angeles was once a vibrant metropolis overflowing with entertainment, culture, and men...
Friday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
While Mike Stilkey's fanciful-yet-edgy works draw comparisons to Egon Schiele, Modigliani, and Aubrey Beardsley, their contemporary illustrative twists give the Los...
Friday 8/15 @ LA Louver Gallery
A participant in LA Louver's group show Rogue Wave '07, Sarabia proves that his work is dynamic enough to stand on...
Friday 8/15 @ 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 8/15 @ Royal/T
Director of New York's Greene Naftali Gallery, Jay Sanders steps into cafe/shop/gallery Royal/T to curate this group show of works from...
Friday 8/15 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
During this solo show, Dave McKean leaves no medium unexplored. McKean is a prolific artist who dabbles in — among other...
Friday 8/15 @ LA Contemporary
Adi Da Samraj's images are products of mashed-together visual strategies, evoking everything from Mondrian's primary-color palette and geometric line work to...
Friday 8/15 @ George Billis Gallery
Just like the A.O.S. song says, history repeats itself. The new exhibition at George Billis Gallery offers a refreshing take on...
