Events on Friday, January 9
Plants and Animals w/ the Little Ones
Friday 1/ 9 @ Natural History Museum
The Little Ones play the kind of pop music LA does best: no rock posturing or fake tales of hard knocks...
Friday 1/ 9 @ The Smell
The Beats Up festival does just that, pummeling eardrums with a packed line-up capped by UK techno-punk club killers Teeth. Also...
Friday 1/ 9 @ The Hotel Café
Greg Laswell returns from a cross-continental gigging escapade to perform at Hotel Café, the site of his LA residency. The Vanguard...
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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 1/ 9 @ Gallery 1988
Gallery 1988 hits '09 running with the second installment of its Under the Influence series, this year paying homage to the...
99¢ Only Calendar Girl Competition
Friday 1/ 9 @ 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¢...
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Friday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Santa Monica Air Center, Barker Hangar
The LA International Photographic Art Expo (aka photoLA) hits Barker Hanger for its 18th-annual three-day jubilee. Over 70 worldwide galleries and...
Friday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Self-Portraits in the Age of MyFaceSpaceBook
Friday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 9 @ 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,...
Friday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
James Naccarato, Erik Alos, and Lauren Bergman
Friday 1/ 9 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Experts in the unexpected, James Naccarato, Erik Alos, and Lauren Bergman all employ the stylistic underpinnings found in pop surrealism, combining...
Friday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Samuel Freeman
Each of the six artists assembled in this Samuel Freeman group exhibition is a master of the watercolor medium. Bucking tradition,...
Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker
Friday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ C4 Gallery
Marquetry is an ages-old technique of applying wood veneers to solid surfaces, popular among extremely wealthy Europeans in the time of...
Friday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
