Events on Friday, January 2
Friday 1/ 2 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Louise Bourgeois' deeply personal art combines an in-your-face sexuality with disturbing, even terrifying, imagery of trespassed flesh and violated privacy. Yet...
Friday 1/ 2 @ 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...
99¢ Only Calendar Girl Competition
Friday 1/ 2 @ Bootleg Theater
Bargain-hunting beauty queens and dollar store Don Juans convene as Bootleg Theatre pays homage to LA's kitschy holiday headquarters. The 99¢...
Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker
Friday 1/ 2 @ Bob Baker Marionette Theater
In the early '60s, Bob Baker and partner Alton Wood founded a marionette theater, establishing what has become the longest-running children's...
Friday 1/ 2 @ New Image Art
New Image Art stages an imaginative collection of works by the Date Farmers (aka Coachella Valley's Carlos Ramirez and Armando Lerma)....
Friday 1/ 2 @ LA Louver Gallery
Cuban-born artist Enrique Martinez Celaya's oil-and-wax paintings and mixed-media sculptures offer a rare combination of vigorous, pre-Raphaelite style and pensive, academic...
Friday 1/ 2 @ The Company
The economy be damned: amid a spate of gallery closings, it's still full speed ahead for the fearless founders of the...
Friday 1/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Lightbox Gallery
In sacred and profane, Los Angeles-based artist George Stoll expands upon his traditional examination of everyday Americana. Objects such as his...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Playa del Carmen, Mexico
In honor of the second annual BPM Festival, club owners, promoters, and other pro nightlifers flock to the Mexican Caribbean for...
Friday 1/ 2 @ La Luz de Jesus
In Fragments, professional illustrator Mark Todd brings his increasingly abstracted art to La Luz. Bastardizing his signature, comics-based style, Todd's latest...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
In the years bracketing WWII, a great many artists were among those fleeing to US shores from the specter of Nazi...
Friday 1/ 2 @ 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 1/ 2 @ C4 Gallery
Marquetry is an ages-old technique of applying wood veneers to solid surfaces, popular among extremely wealthy Europeans in the time of...
David McDonald, Annie Wharton, and Jason David
Friday 1/ 2 @ Jail Gallery
Essentially three concurrent solo shows, this trio of installations by LA artists shares impulses ranging from gentle mockery to intellectualized deconstruction,...
Friday 1/ 2 @ 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 1/ 2 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick...
Beverly Hills Hi-Def Film Fest
Friday 1/ 2 @ The Fine Arts Theatre
The Fine Arts Theatre plays host to the avant-garde of hi-definition filmmakers, featuring scores of shorts and feature films, across genres...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Art/Works Theatre
For the first half of the 20th century, Le Theatre du Grand Guignol in Paris reigned as the predominant purveyor of...
Friday 1/ 2 @ 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 1/ 2 @ Subliminal Projects
One of the best-known names in street photography, Glen Friedman produces jaunty, richly printed black-and-white portraits of skate, punk, and indie...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Craig Krull Gallery
Photographer Michael Kenna is a technical whiz, a classicist with a flair for the dramatic. His sweeping black-and-white landscapes depict vistas...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Norton Simon Museum
It's not often that Angelenos have the chance to examine an original painting by Dutch Baroque master Johannes Vermeer. His surviving...
Friday 1/ 2 @ 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 1/ 2 @ Applegate Gallery
Applegate Gallery stays up late with a group show featuring a choice selection of gallery artists that includes Mark Hobley, Britt...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Samuel Freeman
Each of the six artists assembled in this Samuel Freeman group exhibition is a master of the watercolor medium. Bucking tradition,...
Friday 1/ 2 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
Written and directed by the Actors' Gang's own Angela Berliner, Scrooge Must Die! offers an X-rated reading of Charles Dickens' classic...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Sandroni Rey
Fascinated by homo-eroticism and inspired by mythology and classic fiction, Miami painter Hernan Bas' tableaux present an enchanted world of roaming...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Norton Simon Museum
When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Benjamin Trigano Gallery
A suite of digitally collaged fantasmagorias from German artist Martin Denker, Citizenoftheplanet shows us what it would be like to see...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Armory Center for the Arts
With At the Brewery Project: 1993-2007: the Finale, the Armory pays its respects to an LA art mainstay. For the past...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Pasadena Central Library
Art Center College of Design students direct their communications prowess towards human rights, presenting 25 emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line...
Friday 1/ 2 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
Johannesburg-based urban geographer and artist Ismail Farouk offers a multimedia overview of his recent work in the second installment of the...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Regen Projects
The first of this winter's pair of Raymond Pettibon exhibitions at Regen Projects focused on early monochromatic, pop-culture infused pen-and-ink drawings....
Friday 1/ 2 @ 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 1/ 2 @ Thinkspace Gallery
Thinkspace Gallery presents new works by artists whose street-based achievements reveal impassioned stratagems on top of fundamental creative impulses. Conceived in...
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Friday 1/ 2 @ The Getty Center
In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
PMCA's Project Room is transformed into a beguiling labyrinth, addressing the elusiveness of memory and the neurobiological basis of thought, via...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Black Maria Gallery
For the fourth year in a row, Atwater's Black Maria Gallery pursues a simple but powerful idea for the holiday season,...
Friday 1/ 2 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
