Events on Friday, August 29
Friday 8/29 @ The Getty Center
LA traffic might be bad enough to make you contemplate swapping your Mazda for a Metro pass, but tonight there's a...
Friday 8/29 @ The Silent Movie Theatre
Although there's barely been a peep from Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay since she made her shatteringly gorgeous 2002 film, Morvern Callar,...
Friday 8/29 @ Key Club
Picking up where 2005's The Minstrel Show left off, Phonte and Big Pooh take Little Brother through all the growing pains...
Friday 8/29 @ The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Topanga Canyon native Inara George brings it back home with a show at Theatricum Botanicum. George sings vocals for the electro-pop...
Ongoing Events
Friday 8/29 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show...
Friday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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...
Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
Friday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as...
Friday 8/29 @ Crisp London Los Angeles
Pawn Shop Gallery reinvents itself as the LA half of the new venture Crisp London Los Angeles with an inaugural exhibition...
Friday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ The Getty Center
Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In...
Kori Newkirk and Miguel Angel Rios
Friday 8/29 @ LAXART
Kori Newkirk transforms the mundane into the monumental with his new installation, RANK. The deceptively simple sculpture — an outsized, mirrored...
Friday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ Aero Theatre
The American Cinematheque keeps trumping itself with über-cool event after über-cool event. The latest is Rock Docs, a five-night series that...
Friday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Friday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ Smockshop
For artists who don't yet sustain themselves from their work, there are myriad ways to bring in some income — peddling...
Friday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ Corey Helford Gallery
This aptly titled exhibition from Los Angeles street artist Buff Monster submerges viewers in a candy-coated, anime-inspired world. His riffs on...
Friday 8/29 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 8/29 @ The Steve Allen Theater
Grab your best buds — or just someone you can hide behind — as the Steve Allen Theater's homemade drive-in combines...
Friday 8/29 @ 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...
Contemporary Photography from China
Friday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ Laemmle's Royal Theatre
Screenwriter/director Jirí Menzel translates this tale of a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and Communist regimes from a novel...
Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments
Friday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ Jancar Gallery
As its subtitle states, Jancar Gallery's Narratives of the Perverse is not open to anyone under the age of 18....
Friday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ Kristi Engle Gallery
Unless you're a goth historian, 19th-century cadavers, Victorian lace, and anatomical illustrations are not often everyday topics of interest. But Canadian...
Friday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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...
Friday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ ACE Gallery
Melanie Pullen extends her macabre view of the world in her latest series, Violent Times, which explores the aesthetics of war...
Friday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ Cal State University Northridge Art Gallery
Comprising selections from the nearly 1,000 works that European-native-turned California-great Hans Burkhardt personally donated to Cal State Northridge (where he taught...
Friday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move
When Jenny Mollen-Biggs isn't acting in films and television shows, she is exhibiting paintings that are simultaneously cute and sinister. The...
