Events on Friday, January 30

Friends to the End and Incognito present Inside Out feat. Android Cartel and Kazell
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Music: Electronic
Inside Out feat. Android Cartel and Kazell
@ King King
A veteran DJ of the infamous Liquefied and Spundae parties, UK transplant Kazell has put down deep roots in his adopted...  View details »

Ongoing Events

<em>Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
More Flavor: Fashion
Antonio Pineda
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
Mexican Calendar Girls
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
@ The Getty Center
In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>
Month_01 Saturday Day_31
Art
Mark Bradford
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Self-Portaits in the Age of MyFaceSpaceBook</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
Self-Portraits in the Age of MyFaceSpaceBook
@ I-5 Gallery
Self-Portraits in the Age of MyFaceSpaceBook is a big, fat group show that delivers just what its title promises: an unwieldy...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Asgar/Gabriel: <em>Bucolica Obscura</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
Asgar/Gabriel
@ Mark Moore Gallery
Collaborative painters Daryoush Asgar and Elisabeth Gabriel make no attempt at seamlessness or illusion. The scars of their clashing styles is...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
Month_01 Saturday Day_31
Art
The Art of Blake Edwards
@ Pacific Design Center
Blake Edwards has established a lasting role in an otherwise fickle entertainment industry, directing gems like Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Party,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
David E. Stone: <em>Unanticipated Despair (Despite Prior Naive Optimism)</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
David E. Stone
@ Charlie James Gallery
Los Angeles artist David E. Stone practices a surreal brand of punsterism, often producing exhibitions in serial form that build upon...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Mark Todd, <em>Fragments</em> and Alan Forbes, <em>Unmanned Vessel</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
Mark Todd and Alan Forbes
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jeremy Kidd: <em>Fictional Realities</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art: Photography
Jeremy Kidd
@ Fahey/Klein Gallery
Like many photographers, Jeremy Kidd is drawn to sweeping vistas, from the high desert to the ocean floor, and from suburbia...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Ken Roht's 99&cent; Only Calendar Girl Competition
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Performing Arts: Theatre
99¢ Only Calendar Girl Competition
@ 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¢...  View details »
Ongoing
Flavorpill 50
Julia Meltzer + David Thorne: <em>In Possession of a Picture</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art: Photography
Julia Meltzer + David Thorne
@ Steve Turner Contemporary
In previous collaborations between Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, audiences have been offered printed manifestos, photographic projects on public billboards, and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Raised in Craftivity</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
Raised in Craftivity
@ Wignall Museum/Gallery at Chaffey College
From psychedelic ceramics to custom-knitted army-tank cozies, the Arts and Crafts movement is thriving at Chaffey College's Wignall Museum in Rancho...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Mystic
Month_01 Friday Day_30
More Flavor: Spectacle
Mystic
@ Electric Lodge
Members of Blue Man Group, Lucent Dossier, Rabbit in the Moon, Mixology, and Mass Ensemble combine their avant-garde performance skills in...  View details »
Ongoing
Martha Cooper: <em>Street Shots</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art: Photography
Martha Cooper
@ Subliminal Projects
Photojournalist Martha Cooper literally wrote the book — several books actually — on the co-emergent graffiti and hip-hop scenes in New...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Elias Sime: <em>Eye of the Needle, Eye of the  Heart</em> and Arnold Mesches: <em>Coming Attractions</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
Elias Sime and Arnold Mesches
@ Santa Monica Museum of Art
East meets West on many levels as the Santa Monica Museum of Art welcomes octogenarian lion of painting Arnold Mesches to...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
At the Brewery Project 1993-2007: the Finale
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
At the Brewery Project
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Paper Cuts</em>: 200 Years of Black Paper Dolls
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
Paper Cuts
@ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Where London has the Victoria and Albert, LA has the Craft and Folk Art Museum; yet, too often, the little institution...  View details »
Ongoing
Moira Hahn: <em>Night Vision</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
Moira Hahn
@ Koplin del Rio Gallery
Moira Hahn is known for conceptually complex, masterfully rendered mash-up paintings in which wild and domestic animals play the roles of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Fortuna Rising: Gordy Grundy is the Messenger</em>
Month_01 Saturday Day_31
Art
Gordy Grundy
@ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Shut Up and Keep Swimming</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
Shut Up and Keep Swimming
@ Jail Gallery
While it's certainly true that things are finally looking up in this country, the premise of curator Claressinka Anderson's latest parfait...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
WinterWaterColorLand
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
WinterWaterColorLand
@ Samuel Freeman
Each of the six artists assembled in this Samuel Freeman group exhibition is a master of the watercolor medium. Bucking tradition,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>SHE</em>: Images of Women by Wallace Berman and Richard Prince
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art: Photography
Wallace Berman and Richard Prince
@ Michael Kohn Gallery
Aside from the landscape, womankind has been art's favorite subject — and few portray femininity quite as impressively or distinctly as...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
A Grand Guignol Children's Show *not for children
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Grand Guignol
@ Art/Works Theatre
For the first half of the 20th century, Le Theatre du Grand Guignol in Paris reigned as the predominant purveyor of...  View details »
Ongoing
Robert Dowd: <em>Pop Art Money</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
Robert Dowd
@ Pepperdine University, Weisman Museum of Art
The Weisman Museum at Pepperdine's Malibu campus launches one of its most important exhibitions to date with this long-overdue survey of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Yuval Pudik: <em>Come Back and Hunt Me</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
Yuval Pudik
@ Angles Gallery
Israeli-born, LA-based artist Yuval Pudik executes remarkable graphite drawings on paper that defy the laws of anatomy, narrative, romance, and even...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Battle Hymn</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Performing Arts: Theatre
Battle Hymn
@ The Ford Theater
Chronicling the misadventures of feisty, forward-thinking Martha, Battle Hymn is a touching, comedic, and thoughtful survey of American history, as seen...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>All of This is Melting Away</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
All of This is Melting Away
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
The Downtown Edison's Soup Kitchen Cocktail Hour
Month_01 Friday Day_30
More Flavor: City Gem
Soup Kitchen Cocktail Hour
@ The Edison
Every Friday, the Edison Lounge transforms itself into a soup kitchen to, in their words, "maintain perspective through this financial crisis...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
J. Bennett Fitts: <em>Landscape[ing]</em> and Bas Louter: <em>Dust</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
J. Bennett Fitts and Bas Louter
@ Kopeikin Gallery
Paul Kopeikin Gallery inaugurates its new West Hollywood digs with a pair of solo exhibitions underscoring its central place in the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Human Resources</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
Human Resources
@ The Company
The economy be damned: amid a spate of gallery closings, it's still full speed ahead for the fearless founders of the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
2008 California Biennial
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
2008 California Biennial
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Susanne Zottl: <em>A Styrofoam Lover with (E)motions of Concrete</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art: Architecture/Design
Susanne Zottl
@ SCI-Arc
Austrian architect and SCI-Arc alum Susanne Zottl seeks out man-made environments and historic structures, fusing the world's existing space with her...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Eddy Sykes: <em>Yakuza Lou</em>
Month_01 Saturday Day_31
Art: Architecture/Design
Eddy Sykes
@ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jona Frank: <em>Church and State</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art: Photography
Jona Frank
@ Sherry Frumkin Gallery
With her new book, RIGHT: Portraits from the Evangelical Ivy League, photographer Jona Frank flips the script on the face of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
William Tunberg
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
William Tunberg
@ C4 Gallery
Marquetry is an ages-old technique of applying wood veneers to solid surfaces, popular among extremely wealthy Europeans in the time of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_01 Saturday Day_31
Performing Arts: Theatre
Pippin
@ Mark Taper Forum
Wicked maestro Stephen Schwartz revives his '70s rock opera Pippin as the opening production of the Mark Taper 2009 season. A...  View details »
Ongoing
Vermeer's <em>A Lady Writing</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
Vermeer's A Lady Writing
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Lisa Adams: <em>The Future of Paradise Past</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
Lisa Adams
@ Lawrence Asher Gallery
LA painter Lisa Adams is something of a riddle. Her work is almost violently sweet, with a dulcet, wafting quality to...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Derek Buckner: <em>Marshmallows</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
Derek Buckner
@ George Billis Gallery
In an inspired mashup of childhood comfort, adult-onset ADHD, and modern-art history, Brooklyn-based painter Derek Buckner delivers luminous, refined oil paintings...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Performing Arts: Theatre
West Fest 2009
@ Theatre West
Hollywood's Theatre West has been providing challenging workshops, staging world-class performances, and giving back to the community for 47 years. LA's...  View details »
Ongoing
Month_01 Friday Day_30
More Flavor: City Gem
Scribble Press
@ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...  View details »
Ongoing
Ugo Wine Bar
Month_01 Friday Day_30
More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
@ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Marianne Mueller: <em>DREAM-US-09</em> and Penelope Gottlieb: <em>No $ Down</em>
Month_01 Friday Day_30
Art
Marianne Mueller and Penelope Gottlieb
@ Lightbox Gallery
Photographer Marianne Mueller and painter Penelope Gottlieb unite their disparate styles in this visual double bill at the Kim Light/Lightbox Gallery....  View details »
Ongoing
Free