Events on Friday, October 9
Friday 10/ 9 @ California Science Center, Wallis Annenberg Building
Hang ten to Exposition Park tonight for the Surfrider Foundation's 25th anniversary gala, celebrating a quarter century of marine and coastal...
Friday 10/ 9 @ Book Soup
Writer Margaret Atwood is a petite, gray-topped Canadian woman. What she puts on paper, despite forays into politics and economics, is...
Friday 10/ 9 @ Art Center College of Design
ArtNight is a free event and an ongoing partnership among many cultural institutions and the Cultural Affairs Division of the City...
Pieter-Dirk Uys: Elections and Erections
Friday 10/ 9 @ REDCAT
Afrikaner socialite Evita Bezuidenhout, “the most famous white woman in South Africa,” is now hoping to follow in the footsteps...
In Space No One Can Hear You Scream: ALIEN & ALIENS on the Big Screen
Friday 10/ 9 @ Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature: 30th Anniversary! ALIEN, 1979, 20th Century Fox, 117 min. From its cool, sinister textures to its (literally)...
Janu and the Whalesharks with Red Arrow Messenger
Friday 10/ 9 @ Bootleg Theater
JANU AND THE WHALESHARKS
John Doe & Exene with special guest Kid Congo Powers @ Echoplex
Friday 10/ 9 @ The Echo & Echoplex
John Doe & Exene
John and Exene, who took the stage in simple, black-and-white outfits, looked a little...
Friday 10/ 9 @ Book Soup
Peter Gadol presents and signs Silver Lake Two architects, two men turning forty who...
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964) + This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967)
Friday 10/ 9 @ The Cinefamily
WATCH TRAILER!
In a feat of pure will and cinematic street smarts, first-time director Marins took a few...
Ongoing Events
Friday 10/ 9 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Despite their beauty, Chris Jordan's photographic prints are visual ecological statements we'd rather not see. Like much of his early work,...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ REDCAT
REDCAT presents Autoconstrucción: The Film by Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas, in which the artist revisits Ajusco, his childhood neighborhood in Mexico...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 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 10/ 9 @ Robert Berman Gallery
Mac and Retna are a pair of artists who regularly collaborate on monumental outdoor murals and other graffiti-based public art installations....
Friday 10/ 9 @ LM Projects
The art in this show rocks and rolls — and gets set on fire, sets off chain reactions, and invites users...
Friday 10/ 9 @ DNJ Gallery
Two very different photographers take on aspects of growing up in America. Jona Frank extends her intimate yet clinical style of...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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,...
Dublab 10th Anniversary Exploration
Friday 10/ 9 @ Various LA venues
Dublab turns ten this October, and it's celebrating by co-hosting ten events, appropriately scheduled from 10/01 to 10/10. A party for...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ The Getty Center
Thirty staged photographs are on view at the Getty Center as part of its In Focus series, a thematic presentation of...
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Regen Projects
Doug Aitken's exhibition at Regen Projects never sleeps. During the day, the darkened indoor gallery displays light boxes comprised of images...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
In his first independent exhibition at Roberts & Tilton, Titus Kaphar rewrites history. By slashing, draping, arranging, and painting his work,...
Friday 10/ 9 @ Jeanie Madsen Gallery
The Save L'Aquila Project launches a week of fundraising events for the rebuilding of L'Aquila, the Italian city devastated by an...
Friday 10/ 9 @ Kathryn Brennan Gallery
Bright Young Thing Jeni Spota has her second solo show this September with Kathryn Brennan Gallery, formerly Sister, in Chinatown. Fool's...
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
The Search for the Visceral Realists
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 10/ 9 @ NoHo Arts Center
One can easily imagine that this comedy (with music) about the midlife urge to glorify and recapture the lost promise of...
Tony Philippou, Joshua Mays & Esao Andrews
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ POVEVOLVING
"Pop colors" are the theme in curator Yasmine Mohseni's The Pop of Colors at Chinatown's POVevolving. Bright, slightly disconcerting color scripts...
YaYa Chou, Emily De Araújo, Adele Mills, and Shizuko Greenblatt
Friday 10/ 9 @ Gallery 825
YaYa Chou constructs a room-size sculptural installation in which a collaborative dance and movement piece is to be performed and documented;...
Ultrasonic IV: Fresh Perspectives
Friday 10/ 9 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Mark Moore Gallery presents its fourth iteration of Ultrasonic, a group exhibition featuring five emerging artists working in various media —...
Population: Portraits by Ray Turner
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 9 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Friday 10/ 9 @ The Getty Museum
The city of Algiers, on the north coast of Africa, historically sheltered a diverse population. During the Ottoman centuries (1529-1830), this...
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ The Getty Museum
Irving Penn was one of the most respected photographers of the 20th century. In a career that began at the premiere...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
