Events on Friday, October 30
Friday 10/30 @ The Viper Room
Grammy-winning tastemaker and one of the movie industry's recent superstars, Zach Braff has taken notice and blogged about the Crash Kings,...
Friday 10/30 @ Avalon Hollywood
Hot Chip bridged the gaps between indie rockers, dance music snobs, and pop music fans in 2004 with the release of...
Friday 10/30 @ The Echo & Echoplex
with resident DJs spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam
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Friday 10/30 @ LACMA
Love in the Afternoon, Wilder's long awaited tribute to his idol Ernst Lubitsch, is based on a French novel and tells...
Friday Night Sing-Along -- Halloween
Friday 10/30 @ Music Center
A SPOOKTACULAR evening of your favorite Halloween songs! Join hundreds of fellow song lovers and belt out spooky and kooky...
Friday 10/30 @ Cinespace
Join us for a night to remember. Twisted Fairy Tale Friday is Cinespace's official Halloween party and features Vinyl Soul, Letron...
Bouncing Souls with Bayside, Broadway Calls
Friday 10/30 @ El Rey
There's been plenty of positive words written about the Bouncing Souls over the years. I asked a friend not too long...
Built to Spill and Disco Doom @ Echoplex
Friday 10/30 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Built To Spill || Listen || Watch
When Built To Spill wanted to find out what...
Friday 10/30 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Art isn't just paintings on walls.
It is science, and nature and human experience.
Come...
Halloween JamFest Featuring: Check In The Dark, Chris Mouch Band, and Revolutionary Side Effects
Friday 10/30 @ The Mint
11:00pm Check In The Dark 10:00pm Chris Mouch Band 9:00pm Revolutionary Side Effects 8:00pm Ghostwriters Check in the Dark blends...
Embodiment of Evil (2008) + Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind (1978)
Friday 10/30 @ The Cinefamily
WATCH TRAILER!
“Higher than God. Lower than Satan.” Marins’ demonically anticipated, decades-delayed finale to the "Zé do Caixão"...
Inga Swearingen celebrates Johnny Mercer
Friday 10/30 @ LACMA
Vocalist Inga Swearingen presents a special evening celebrating Johnny Mercer’s 100th anniversary. Swearingen is best known from her work...
The Growlers with Pocahaunted - Halloween Dress-Up Party!!!
Friday 10/30 @ Bootleg Theater
THE GROWLERS
The Twilight Zone 50th Anniversary Celebration
Friday 10/30 @ Egyptian Theatre
50th Anniversary! "The Twilight Zone," 1959-1964, approx. 3 hours. October marks the 50th anniversary of the debut of...
Ongoing Events
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Friday 10/30 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Recently, Art Center College of Design students directed their communications prowess towards human rights, yielding emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line...
Friday 10/30 @ Japanese American National Museum
In 2007, Giant Robot launched its first biennale celebrating 15 years as a magazine and a pop culture phenomenon. For its...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ Shrine Expo Hall
Halloween gets hard and heavy tonight and tomorrow night at the HARD Haunted Mansion, a two-day, two-stage dance party at the...
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
Friday 10/30 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Not much has changed since 1975 when New Topographics first opened at the George Eastman House. The state of the world...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ REDCAT
REDCAT presents Autoconstrucción: The Film by Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas, in which the artist revisits Ajusco, his childhood neighborhood in Mexico...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ Drkrm
For 15 years, in an old house on a sleepy hillside outside LA, a phalanx of residents, researchers, and TV producers...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ Black Maria Gallery
As any fan of Mad Men can tell you, there used to be a lot more cigarette smoking going on, both...
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Tony Philippou, Joshua Mays & Esao Andrews
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Kiel Johnson: Publish or Perish
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Nate Frizzell and The Kids Are Alright
Friday 10/30 @ LeBasse Projects
Nate Frizzell combines a dark sophistication with the chaos of youthful imagination in a new series of lush paintings depicting the...
Friday 10/30 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and now Antichrist: Lars von Trier goes to every emotional and cinematographic extreme to...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ The Echo & Echoplex
In case you haven't heard, Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson, Lars and the Real Girl, The United States of Leland) has a...
The Search for the Visceral Realists
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ 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,...
Ingres' Comtesse d'Haussonville from the Frick Collection
Friday 10/30 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
This beguiling portrait occupies a privileged position at the threshold between French Romanticism and the early hints of modernity. Its impossibly...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Commercial photographer Susan Anderson crosses over to a fine-art career with her striking portraits from child beauty pageants. Shooting "tarted-up tots"...
Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ LACMA
Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ Santa Monica Pier
After a meteoric rise in popularity that spawned dozens of touring and resident shows of increasing complexity and pageantry, Cirque du...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ Regen Projects
Fresh from a year of acclaimed exhibitions in Europe and NYC and the opening spot on Madonna's recent tour, Marilyn Minter...
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Friday 10/30 @ Hammer Museum
R. Crumb's interpretation of the Book of Genesis is at once disturbing, sacrilegious, violent, and debauched, but paired with a holy...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ Marine
One silver lining to art-world downsizing is the resurgence of the private salon, made famous by the 19th and 20th century...
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ LM Projects
The art in this show rocks and rolls — and gets set on fire, sets off chain reactions, and invites users...
Friday 10/30 @ 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"...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ DNJ Gallery
Two very different photographers take on aspects of growing up in America. Jona Frank extends her intimate yet clinical style of...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ The Getty Museum
Irving Penn was one of the most respected photographers of the 20th century. In a career that began at the premiere...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Friday 10/30 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
In conjunction with the installation of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's stunning Comtesse d’Haussonville, 1845, on loan from The Frick Collection in New...
The Golem feat. Live Score by Brian LeBarton
Friday 10/30 @ REDCAT
Celebrate Halloween with one of the earliest and surely creepiest horror films in cinema history, the 1920 touchstone of Expressionism...
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Partner Event: "Bleeding Through"
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Population: Portraits by Ray Turner
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Friday 10/30 @ The Getty Museum
This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
A poem about an overpowering spring night became the starting point for Szymanowski’s Concerto, fascinating in its...
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
