Events on Friday, January 30

Friends to the End and Incognito present Inside Out feat. Android Cartel and Kazell

Music: Electronic

Inside Out feat. Android Cartel and Kazell

Friday 1/30 @ King King

A veteran DJ of the infamous Liquefied and Spundae parties, UK transplant Kazell has put down deep roots in his adopted... 

Ongoing Events

Lisa Adams: <em>The Future of Paradise Past</em>

Art

Lisa Adams

Friday 1/30 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

LA painter Lisa Adams is something of a riddle. Her work is almost violently sweet, with a dulcet, wafting quality to... 

Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>

Art

Mark Bradford

Friday 1/30 @ 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... 

Ken Roht's 99&cent; Only Calendar Girl Competition

Theatre

99¢ Only Calendar Girl Competition

Friday 1/30 @ 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¢... 

Elias Sime: <em>Eye of the Needle, Eye of the  Heart</em> and Arnold Mesches: <em>Coming Attractions</em>

Art

Elias Sime and Arnold Mesches

Friday 1/30 @ 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... 

Martha Cooper: <em>Street Shots</em>

Art: Photography

Martha Cooper

Friday 1/30 @ Subliminal Projects

Photojournalist Martha Cooper literally wrote the book — several books actually — on the co-emergent graffiti and hip-hop scenes in New... 

Moira Hahn: <em>Night Vision</em>

Art

Moira Hahn

Friday 1/30 @ 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... 

<em>Self-Portaits in the Age of MyFaceSpaceBook</em>

Art

Self-Portraits in the Age of MyFaceSpaceBook

Friday 1/30 @ 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... 

Yuval Pudik: <em>Come Back and Hunt Me</em>

Art

Yuval Pudik

Friday 1/30 @ 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... 

<em>Paper Cuts</em>: 200 Years of Black Paper Dolls

Art

Paper Cuts

Friday 1/30 @ 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... 

<em>Fortuna Rising: Gordy Grundy is the Messenger</em>

Art

Gordy Grundy

Friday 1/30 @ Western Project

The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website... 

Julia Meltzer + David Thorne: <em>In Possession of a Picture</em>

Art: Photography

Julia Meltzer + David Thorne

Friday 1/30 @ Steve Turner Contemporary

In previous collaborations between Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, audiences have been offered printed manifestos, photographic projects on public billboards, and... 

<em>Battle Hymn</em>

Theatre

Battle Hymn

Friday 1/30 @ 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... 

Asgar/Gabriel: <em>Bucolica Obscura</em>

Art

Asgar/Gabriel

Friday 1/30 @ Mark Moore Gallery

Collaborative painters Daryoush Asgar and Elisabeth Gabriel make no attempt at seamlessness or illusion. The scars of their clashing styles is... 

Vermeer's <em>A Lady Writing</em>

Art

Vermeer's A Lady Writing

Friday 1/30 @ 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... 

<em>SHE</em>: Images of Women by Wallace Berman and Richard Prince

Art: Photography

Wallace Berman and Richard Prince

Friday 1/30 @ Michael Kohn Gallery

Aside from the landscape, womankind has been art's favorite subject — and few portray femininity quite as impressively or distinctly as... 

<em>Shut Up and Keep Swimming</em>

Art

Shut Up and Keep Swimming

Friday 1/30 @ 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... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Friday 1/30 @ Scribble Press

Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with... 

Mark Todd, <em>Fragments</em> and Alan Forbes, <em>Unmanned Vessel</em>

Art

Mark Todd and Alan Forbes

Friday 1/30 @ 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... 

Art

The Art of Blake Edwards

Friday 1/30 @ 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,... 

A Grand Guignol Children's Show *not for children

Performing Arts

Grand Guignol

Friday 1/30 @ Art/Works Theatre

For the first half of the 20th century, Le Theatre du Grand Guignol in Paris reigned as the predominant purveyor of... 

J. Bennett Fitts: <em>Landscape[ing]</em> and Bas Louter: <em>Dust</em>

Art

J. Bennett Fitts and Bas Louter

Friday 1/30 @ Kopeikin Gallery

Paul Kopeikin Gallery inaugurates its new West Hollywood digs with a pair of solo exhibitions underscoring its central place in the... 

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

Friday 1/30 @ Vinum Populi

Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie... 

Susanne Zottl: <em>A Styrofoam Lover with (E)motions of Concrete</em>

Art

Susanne Zottl

Friday 1/30 @ 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... 

At the Brewery Project 1993-2007: the Finale

Art

At the Brewery Project

Friday 1/30 @ 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... 

Derek Buckner: <em>Marshmallows</em>

Art

Derek Buckner

Friday 1/30 @ 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... 

2008 California Biennial

Art

2008 California Biennial

Friday 1/30 @ 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... 

Eddy Sykes: <em>Yakuza Lou</em>

Art

Eddy Sykes

Friday 1/30 @ Materials & Applications

First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &... 

Robert Dowd: <em>Pop Art Money</em>

Art

Robert Dowd

Friday 1/30 @ 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... 

Theatre

West Fest 2009

Friday 1/30 @ 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... 

<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Friday 1/30 @ 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... 

<em>Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda</em>

Fashion/Style

Antonio Pineda

Friday 1/30 @ 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... 

William Tunberg

Art

William Tunberg

Friday 1/30 @ C4 Gallery

Marquetry is an ages-old technique of applying wood veneers to solid surfaces, popular among extremely wealthy Europeans in the time of... 

Jona Frank: <em>Church and State</em>

Art: Photography

Jona Frank

Friday 1/30 @ Sherry Frumkin Gallery

With her new book, RIGHT: Portraits from the Evangelical Ivy League, photographer Jona Frank flips the script on the face of... 

<em>Raised in Craftivity</em>

Art

Raised in Craftivity

Friday 1/30 @ 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... 

WinterWaterColorLand

Art

WinterWaterColorLand

Friday 1/30 @ Samuel Freeman

Each of the six artists assembled in this Samuel Freeman group exhibition is a master of the watercolor medium. Bucking tradition,... 

Theatre

Pippin

Friday 1/30 @ Mark Taper Forum

Wicked maestro Stephen Schwartz revives his '70s rock opera Pippin as the opening production of the Mark Taper 2009 season. A... 

Marianne Mueller: <em>DREAM-US-09</em> and Penelope Gottlieb: <em>No $ Down</em>

Art

Marianne Mueller and Penelope Gottlieb

Friday 1/30 @ Lightbox Gallery

Photographer Marianne Mueller and painter Penelope Gottlieb unite their disparate styles in this visual double bill at the Kim Light/Lightbox Gallery.... 

Mystic

Special Event

Mystic

Friday 1/30 @ Electric Lodge

Members of Blue Man Group, Lucent Dossier, Rabbit in the Moon, Mixology, and Mass Ensemble combine their avant-garde performance skills in... 

<em>Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde</em>

Art

Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde

Friday 1/30 @ The Getty Center

In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and... 

<em>Human Resources</em>

Art

Human Resources

Friday 1/30 @ The Company

The economy be damned: amid a spate of gallery closings, it's still full speed ahead for the fearless founders of the... 

Jeremy Kidd: <em>Fictional Realities</em>

Art: Photography

Jeremy Kidd

Friday 1/30 @ Fahey/Klein Gallery

Like many photographers, Jeremy Kidd is drawn to sweeping vistas, from the high desert to the ocean floor, and from suburbia... 

David E. Stone: <em>Unanticipated Despair (Despite Prior Naive Optimism)</em>

Art

David E. Stone

Friday 1/30 @ Charlie James Gallery

Los Angeles artist David E. Stone practices a surreal brand of punsterism, often producing exhibitions in serial form that build upon... 

<em>All of This is Melting Away</em>

Art

All of This is Melting Away

Friday 1/30 @ 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...