Events on Friday, November 13

Echo & Tilt present Thunderheist and Winter Gloves @ echoplex

Music

Echo & Tilt present Thunderheist and Winter Gloves @ echoplex

Friday 11/13 @ The Echo & Echoplex

Thunderheist's brand of sexually suggestive, electro-tinged club rap doesn’t just heat up the dance floor: it cuts like fire through the... 

LOVE[break] and Hot Biscuit present Thomas Bullock (Rub-N-Tug, NYC) with TK Disko

Music: DJ

Thomas (Rub-N-Tug)

Friday 11/13 @ Venue announced day of show. Call 310.405.6930.

The rave heyday is over and LA clubs that play dance music are generally hit-or-miss. There are few parties where diehard... 

Afro Punk Tour feat. Saul Williams

Music: Experimental

Saul Williams

Friday 11/13 @ The Roxy Theatre

Saul Williams walks a fine, marvelous line between poet and punk, setting intricately constructed anti-establishment lyrics to highly syncopated beats and... 

Loudon Wainwright III and Richard Thompson

Music

Loud & Rich

Friday 11/13 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall

If you haven't spent a night with Loudon Wainwright, put it on your list. The natural born showpony (and pop to... 

New Silver Bear Thriller!

Books: Reading

New Silver Bear Thriller!

Friday 11/13 @ Book Soup

 spanJohn G. Avildsen double feature: Rocky (1976) + Joe (1970) -- with director in person!

Film: Double Feature

John G. Avildsen double feature: Rocky (1976) + Joe (1970) -- with director in person!

Friday 11/13 @ The Cinefamily

VIEW TRAILER

John G. Avildsen doesn't just love scrappy dreamers -- he is one. One of the undisputed... 

Keller Williams

Music: Experimental

Keller Williams

Friday 11/13 @ El Rey

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Keller Williams is literally a one-man jam band. His fascinating live shows feature him solo on-stage with... 

<em>My Fair Lady</em>

Film

My Fair Lady

Friday 11/13 @ LACMA

Having acquired the longest running Broadway musical as a prestigious property for his studio, Jack Warner immediately cast Audrey Hepburn over... 

Grand Archives (Seattle) with Sara Lov, and S

Music

Grand Archives (Seattle) with Sara Lov, and S

Friday 11/13 @ Bootleg Theater

…Illumination and warmth suffuse the self-titled debut from Emerald City quintet Grand Archives. Dark times do not necessarily call for dark... 

Echo, Club Underground and KCRW present Bomba Estereo @ Echo

Music

Echo, Club Underground and KCRW present Bomba Estereo @ Echo

Friday 11/13 @ The Echo & Echoplex

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Cumbia sicodélica is hardly a genre that overtly appeals to the mainstream.... 

Jackopierce

Music

Jackopierce

Friday 11/13 @ The Mint

Creede Williams at 8pm Jackopierce  at 9pm Smith & Pyle at 11pm   Jackopierce Releases NEW CD, "Promise of Summer"- Their... 

Dudamel and Upshaw (Casual Friday)

Music: Classical

Dudamel and Upshaw (Casual Friday)

Friday 11/13 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

Ongoing Events

<em>Blood is the New Black</em>: 5-Year Anniversary Exhibition

Art

Blood is the New Black

Friday 11/13 @ Junc Gallery

Combining an anniversary party with a comeback, Junc Gallery hosts an exhibition featuring the expanded registry of artists whose work adorns... 

Faris McReynolds: <em>The Primitive Electric</em>

Art

Faris McReynolds

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

<em>Michael, Kevin & Geoff</em>

Art

Michael, Kevin & Geoff

Friday 11/13 @ HVW8 Art + Design Gallery

Three friends, fellow CalArts alums, and working artists join forces to explore the finer side in an exhibit at HVW8 Art... 

<em>TOOLS</em>

Art

TOOLS

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

<em>Giant Robot Biennale 2: 15 Years</em>

Art

Giant Robot Biennale

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

The Eclectic Theatre presents <em>The Trials & Tribulations of Vicky Vixen</em>

Theatre

The Trials & Tribulations of Vicky Vixen

Friday 11/13 @ Eclectic Company Theatre

This fund-raiser by the ever-clever Eclectic Theatre company is done in a farcical soap-opera style where the actors are given a... 

WTF?! Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

WTF?! Festival

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

<em>Steeped in History: The Art of Tea</em>

Art

Steeped in History: The Art of Tea

Friday 11/13 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

The second most consumed drink next to water, tea has also been frequent theme in art history. Guest curated by tea... 

Tomoo Gokita: <em>Heaven</em>

Art

Tomoo Gokita

Friday 11/13 @ Honor Fraser

Tomoo Gokita's new body of work reveals an artistic practice that walks the tightrope between abstraction and representation. Rendered only in... 

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

Friday 11/13 @ Vinum Populi

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

Kiel Johnson: <em>Publish or Perish</em>

Art

Kiel Johnson: Publish or Perish

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

<em>Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy</em>

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

Ingres' <em>Comtesse d'Haussonville</em> from the Frick Collection

Art

Ingres' Comtesse d'Haussonville from the Frick Collection

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

The MAK Center presents Otto Neurath: <em>Gypsy Urbanism</em>

Art

Otto Neurath

Friday 11/13 @ MAK Center Schindler House

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture hosts an exhibition in honor of Austrian sociologist, political scientist, intellectual, and author Otto... 

Mark Tribe: <em>Port Huron Project</em>

Art

Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

<em>Collecting California</em>

Art

Collecting California

Friday 11/13 @ Laguna Art Museum

Works by regional and national artists come together at the Laguna Art Museum's Collecting California, which reflects the long history of... 

<em>Heroes and Villains: The Battle for Good in India's Comics</em>

Art

The Battle for Good

Friday 11/13 @ LACMA

Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:... 

Gary Lang: <em>Circles Lines Grids</em> and Jay Mark Johnson: <em>Spacetime</em>

Art

Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

Black Dahlia Theatre and Chalk Repertory Theatre presents <em>Stray</em>

Theatre

Stray

Friday 11/13 @ Black Dahlia Theatre

The Black Dahlia Theatre and Chalk Repertory come together to present Stray, an award-winning contemporary dramatic play about international child adoption... 

<em>When Smoking Was Cool</em>

Art

When Smoking Was Cool

Friday 11/13 @ Black Maria Gallery

As any fan of Mad Men can tell you, there used to be a lot more cigarette smoking going on, both... 

WK Interact: <em>How to Blow Yourself Up</em>

Art

WK Interact

Friday 11/13 @ Subliminal Projects

If you believe the prophecies of Nostradamus, the 2012 gang, and other would-be seers (you know, the ones about how the... 

Brendan Monroe: <em>Places Between Here and Here</em>

Art

Brendan Monroe

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

The Berlin Wall Project

Art

The Berlin Wall Project

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

Matthew Heller: <em>The Great</em>

Art

Matthew Heller

Friday 11/13 @ Galerie Anais

Los Angeles painter and poet Matthew Heller has hit a stride with his latest exhibition at Galerie Anaïs, Bergamot's newest tenant.... 

Nova Jiang, Len Lye, Robert Rauschenberg, Jacob Tonski, Fischli & Weiss: <em>Cause & Effect</em>

Art

Cause & Effect

Friday 11/13 @ LM Projects

The art in this show rocks and rolls — and gets set on fire, sets off chain reactions, and invites users... 

Marilyn Minter

Art: Photography

Marilyn Minter

Friday 11/13 @ Regen Projects

Fresh from a year of acclaimed exhibitions in Europe and NYC and the opening spot on Madonna's recent tour, Marilyn Minter... 

<em>The Dirty Show</em>

Art

The Dirty Show

Friday 11/13 @ City Center Motel

More than 100 visual artists from the global erotic diaspora converge on the East Wing of the motor court at Downtown's... 

<em>New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape</em>

Art: Photography

New Topographics

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

<em>Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art</em>

Special Event

Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

Susan Anderson: <em>High Glitz</em>, Edwina White: <em>In Rehearsal</em>

Art: Photography

Susan Anderson

Friday 11/13 @ 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"... 

<em>Human Rights: Student Voices</em>

Art

Human Rights: Student Voices

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

<em>Darkwave</em>

Art

Darkwave

Friday 11/13 @ Black Cat Gallery

Darkwave is a group exhibition of local painters and sculptors who are more than just friends and neighbors — they are... 

<em>Whatever Happened to Busty Jane?</em>

Performing Arts

Whatever Happened to Busty Jane?

Friday 11/13 @ Cavern Club Theater

Tweaking the Bette Davis classic creepfest, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, Jackie Beat's rib-tickling new play revisits the '80s heyday of... 

IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices

Special Event

IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

<em>Parade</em>

Theatre

Parade

Friday 11/13 @ Mark Taper Forum

The Donmar Warehouse production of Parade currently playing at Mark Taper isn't conventional music theater. Like Tony Kushner's Caroline or Change,... 

Mark Gleason: <em>Persona</em>

Art

Mark Gleason

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Friday 11/13 @ Scribble Press

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

Cirque du Soleil: <em>Kooza</em>

Performing Arts: Acrobatics

Cirque du Soleil

Friday 11/13 @ Santa Monica Pier

After a meteoric rise in popularity that spawned dozens of touring and resident shows of increasing complexity and pageantry, Cirque du... 

The Hammer Museum Presents <em>The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb's Book of Genesis</em>

Art

The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis

Friday 11/13 @ Hammer Museum

R. Crumb's interpretation of the Book of Genesis is at once disturbing, sacrilegious, violent, and debauched, but paired with a holy... 

<em>The Yes Men Fix the World</em>

Film: Documentary

The Yes Men Fix the World

Friday 11/13 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5

The Yes Men's new documentary chronicles the subversive duo's elaborate, politically progressive hoaxes. Using cheap suits, aliases, and "straight" talk, Andy... 

<em>Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting</em>

Art

Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

<em>The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing</em>

Art

The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing

Friday 11/13 @ Pacific Design Center

Curated by Art Cinema author Paul Young, The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing examines the span of contemporary global video art,... 

<em>I Feel Different</em>

Art

I Feel Different

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

<em>Art of the Movie Poster</em>

Art

Art of the Movie Poster

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

<em>Intelligent Design: Interspecies Art</em>

Art

Intelligent Design

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

Hello Kitty's 35th Anniversary: <em>Three Apples</em>

Art

Three Apples

Friday 11/13 @ 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,... 

Henry Jaglom's <em>Just 45 Minutes from Broadway</em>

Theatre

Just 45 Minutes from Broadway

Friday 11/13 @ 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"... 

<em>The Search for the Visceral Realists</em>

Art

The Search for the Visceral Realists

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

Population: Portraits by Ray Turner

Art

Population: Portraits by Ray Turner

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

The Chimaera of Arezzo

Art

The Chimaera of Arezzo

Friday 11/13 @ The Getty Museum

The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,... 

Anna Halprin and Anne Collard, with Morton Subotnick: parades & changes, replays

Dance

Anna Halprin and Anne Collard, with Morton Subotnick: parades & changes, replays

Friday 11/13 @ REDCAT

  Improvising around a set of movement and music scores, dancers dress and undress, carry out everyday tasks, invent gestures, and... 

<em>Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres</em>

Art

Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Special Event

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart

Art

Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart

Friday 11/13 @ 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

Art

Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

Partner Event: "Bleeding Through"

Theatre

Partner Event: "Bleeding Through"

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity

Art

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity

Friday 11/13 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Irving Penn: Small Trades

Friday 11/13 @ The Getty Museum

Irving Penn was one of the most respected photographers of the 20th century. In a career that began at the premiere... 

Dudamel and Upshaw

Music: Classical

Dudamel and Upshaw

Friday 11/13 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs (1964) is a song cycle containing 11 arrangements of folk music from... 

<em>Inspired by the Ocean</em>

Art

Inspired by the Ocean

Friday 11/13 @ 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...