Events on Friday, October 23
Friday 10/23 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Dress up in your best ghoulish, but fashionable, frock as you must be positively trannylicious to party with Hostess Heklina and...
Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard w/ John Roderick
Friday 10/23 @ El Rey
Friday 10/23 @ UCB Theatre
Stripped Stories hosts Giulia Rozzi and Margot Leitman have been swapping tales of sexual foibles ever since they found themselves in...
Friday 10/23 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Dragonette || Listen || Watch
The musical fruit of this encounter between Dan Kurtz and Martina Sorbara was...
Ryan Montbleau Band + Jonah Smith
Friday 10/23 @ The Mint
Ryan Montbleau Band @ 10:30pm, Jonah Smith @ 9:00pm and Jacob Jeffries Band @ 8:00pm
Friday 10/23 @ Book Soup
Viktor Mayer-Scho'nberger presents and signs Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting...
Friday 10/23 @ LACMA
Private detectives Gazzara and Ritter follow two women (Stratten in her first starring role, and Hepburn in her last) suspected of...
Heart with special guest The Bangles
Friday 10/23 @ Greek Theatre
Rock and roll legends Heart will be performing at the Greek Theatre on Friday, October 23 with The Bangles supporting and...
Coffin Joe "Psychedelic" double feature: Awakening of the Beast (1970)/End Of Man (1971)
Friday 10/23 @ The Cinefamily
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Awakening Of The Beast
Banned for almost 20 years, this surreal and insane catalogue of...
Friday 10/23 @ LACMA
Cloistered in a Roman palace on a brief state visit and yearning for a taste of la dolce vita, a young...
Castledoor with We Barbarians, and The Fall Trees
Friday 10/23 @ Bootleg Theater
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Ongoing Events
Friday 10/23 @ REDCAT
REDCAT presents Autoconstrucción: The Film by Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas, in which the artist revisits Ajusco, his childhood neighborhood in Mexico...
Friday 10/23 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Los Angeles painter Faris McReynolds uses multiple points of view, a saturated color palette, and an exaggeratedly loose and heavy-handed interaction...
Friday 10/23 @ Wende Museum Site
It's been 20 years since the archaic and divisive Berlin Wall was brought down by fed-up and suppressed citizens. Now, the...
Friday 10/23 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Curator Jennifer Doyle gets in touch with our emotional side in I Feel Different, a group exhibition featuring multimedia works at...
Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins
Friday 10/23 @ El Centro Theatre
Seventies hatemonger (and Harvey Milk's old nemesis) Anita Bryant is the anti-heroine in Brian Christopher Williams' gentle coming-of-age comedy. Directed by...
Friday 10/23 @ LM Projects
The art in this show rocks and rolls — and gets set on fire, sets off chain reactions, and invites users...
Friday 10/23 @ DNJ Gallery
Two very different photographers take on aspects of growing up in America. Jona Frank extends her intimate yet clinical style of...
Friday 10/23 @ Overtones Gallery
Through the deft and witty reconfiguration of sentimental objects such as ornate furniture, decorative garlands, household saints, wood, feathers, and hand-knit...
Friday 10/23 @ Santa Monica Pier
After a meteoric rise in popularity that spawned dozens of touring and resident shows of increasing complexity and pageantry, Cirque du...
Nate Frizzell and The Kids Are Alright
Friday 10/23 @ LeBasse Projects
Nate Frizzell combines a dark sophistication with the chaos of youthful imagination in a new series of lush paintings depicting the...
Friday 10/23 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
Given that Tim Robbins founded the Actors Gang in response to a lack of opportunities for independent writers and actors to...
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Friday 10/23 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
The second most consumed drink next to water, tea has also been frequent theme in art history. Guest curated by tea...
Friday 10/23 @ David DeSanctis Gallery
David LaChapelle is one of the most well-known and controversial photographers working today, who recently retired from a career in fashion...
Friday 10/23 @ Music Center
Mix one part Stretch Armstrong, one part Nadia Comaneci and one part hallucination, and you've got yourself the ingredients for a...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Friday 10/23 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
All year photographers have been clicking camera shutters with their lenses pointed toward the action. The 66th annual Pictures of the...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 10/23 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
The recently opened GRAMMY Museum at Downtown's mammoth entertainment complex LA Live offers visitors a rare, intimate glimpse into the life...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 10/23 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
Severed heads, skulls and daggers brimming with blood, and cemeteries littered with dismembered corpses may not readily invoke visions of spiritual...
Friday 10/23 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Brendan Monroe's paintings, sculptures, installation-based works, and publications, despite the differences dictated by mediums, expound the artist's unique interpretation of the...
Friday 10/23 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematographic extreme to...
Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project
Friday 10/23 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
At Rhizome.org, Mark Tribe supports the creation and dissemination of forward-thinking contemporary art; and LACE is a fixture in LA's anything-goes...
Friday 10/23 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Whether the product of sheer creative license or shrewd marketing heads, the movie poster has inspired as much debate as the...
Friday 10/23 @ Bootleg Theater
Through the use of projection, masks, puppetry, dance, and music, Rogue Artists Ensemble redefines the traditional theatre company. The collective's latest...
Friday 10/23 @ Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside
Twenty international artists who explore human interaction with domesticated, imaginary, laboratory, or wild animals contribute work in media from video installation...
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
Friday 10/23 @ ACE Gallery
It's a veritable amusement park for optic nerves at ACE Gallery's Beverly Hills location this month, with a pair of exhibitions...
Friday 10/23 @ Black Maria Gallery
As any fan of Mad Men can tell you, there used to be a lot more cigarette smoking going on, both...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Friday 10/23 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
In the 1960s, soon-to-be Pop icon Wayne Thiebaud created a series of monochromatic, two-dimensional prints of nine pieces of pie, sufficiently...
Friday 10/23 @ 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 10/23 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
While it's easy to become unhinged in our current economic climate, artist Claire Oswalt takes it to the next level, fashioning...
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Friday 10/23 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Perhaps no pop artist is as famous for his window shopping as Wayne Thiebaud. Known largely for his pale palette oil...
Friday 10/23 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Philippa Blair's abstract, collage-based symphonies truly fulfill the classical adage that, "music is an abstract painting executed on a canvas of...
Friday 10/23 @ NoHo Arts Center
One can easily imagine that this comedy (with music) about the midlife urge to glorify and recapture the lost promise of...
Friday 10/23 @ POVEVOLVING
"Pop colors" are the theme in curator Yasmine Mohseni's The Pop of Colors at Chinatown's POVevolving. Bright, slightly disconcerting color scripts...
Friday 10/23 @ Royal/T
Hello Kitty is turning 35, and there's no better venue for her birthday party than Royal/T, Culver City's own art space,...
Friday 10/23 @ Edgemar Center for the Arts
Henry Jaglom's father was a wealthy Russian businessman, and one of the few Jews Heinrich Himmler offered make an "honorary Aryan"...
The Search for the Visceral Realists
Friday 10/23 @ Federal Art Project
Independent artist/curator York Chang has spent years researching the elusive history of an obscure, but by all accounts virulent, aesthetic movement...
Tony Philippou, Joshua Mays & Esao Andrews
Friday 10/23 @ Thinkspace Gallery
In life, as in art, the more the merrier, so the thinkers at Thinkspace regularly present multiple one-person shows. Tonight's trio...
Friday 10/23 @ Western Project
Channeling his inner Duchamp, sculptor Michael Dee combs the florescent-lit aisles of his local 99-cent store in search of plastic cups,...
Friday 10/23 @ Marine
One silver lining to art-world downsizing is the resurgence of the private salon, made famous by the 19th and 20th century...
Friday 10/23 @ Art Center College of Design
Although some of the objects in TOOLS may seem familiar, they are most definitely far from from ordinary. Jointly organized by...
Friday 10/23 @ LACMA
Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:...
Friday 10/23 @ Honor Fraser
Kenny Scharf's latest one-man show, Barberadise, merges the past and future for a wistfully evocative, pop-culture infused present. The Hollywood native's...
Friday 10/23 @ Electric Lodge
Gulu Monteiro and Clara Bellar's Ipanema Theater Troupe's adaptation of 17th-century French playwright Molière's The Doctor Despite Himself regales with its...
Friday 10/23 @ Cella Gallery
The timing may or may not be a coincidence, but the really-for-grown-ups fairy tale Where the Wild Things Are and Mark...
Friday 10/23 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Kiel Johnson: Publish or Perish
Friday 10/23 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Kiel Johnson's latest body of work examines the value of the painstakingly, unnecessarily hand-wrought in the digital age. Simultaneously examining how...
Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36
Friday 10/23 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
This new exhibition explores the career of legendary film producer Irving Thalberg, Hollywood’s original “Boy Wonder,” and...
Friday 10/23 @ Art Center College of Design
Illustration students from Art Center College of Design currently have their work on display at the Aquarium of the Pacific in...
Friday 10/23 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Imagine yourself immersed in a favorite childhood tale. Five years in the making and occupying an 8,000-square-foot gallery, Noah's Ark at...
Boreyko Conducts Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky
Friday 10/23 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Noted for his adventurous programming, Andrey Boreyko is one of the more exciting and dynamic conductors to...
Population: Portraits by Ray Turner
Friday 10/23 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
A former painting instructor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, artist Ray Turner fashions a uniquely seductive and engaging...
Friday 10/23 @ The Getty Museum
Irving Penn was one of the most respected photographers of the 20th century. In a career that began at the premiere...
Gregory Maqoma/Vuyani Dance Theatre: Beautiful Me
Friday 10/23 @ REDCAT
A global fusion of rousing live music sets the pace for this solo tour de force by exquisite South African dancer...
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart
Friday 10/23 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
A leader in the American Printmaking movement, Frances Gearhart’s work was embedded in the time and place of the Arts and...
Friday 10/23 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 10/23 @ The Getty Museum
Over 180 ancient glass objects from the collection of Erwin Oppenländer are featured in this exhibition. The Oppenländer collection, which the Getty...
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Friday 10/23 @ The Getty Museum
This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights...
Partner Event: "Bleeding Through"
Friday 10/23 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Conservancy is proud to partner with theater company About...Productions on an exciting new event. Bleeding Through is a theatrical layering...
Range Life presents: Touring Movies Across America
Friday 10/23 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Range Life Entertainment takes awesome movies, adds awesome parties, plus awesome filmmakers, and then tours them across America. Why? Because we...
