Events on Friday, November 6
RUPA & THE APRIL FISHES @ The Mint
Friday 11/ 6 @ The Mint
Locals Rupa and the April Fishes swirl together a mélange of musical traditions—tango, klezmar, and even...
Friday 11/ 6 @ Echoplex
The latest Gorillaz incarnation includes beat-man Tony Allen, Mos Def, and tonight's headliner at the Echoplex, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. Featuring eight...
Beware of Safety with Woolen (formerly Pride of Kenya)
Friday 11/ 6 @ Bootleg Theater
BEWARE OF SAFETY “… an LA-based ambient/psychedelic band on The Mylene Sheath label. Their instrumental album Dogs is a trance meditation...
Friday 11/ 6 @ LACMA
The 2009 Friday Night Jazz series closes with the nine-piece Monktet. Originally founded by arranger/composer/saxophonist John Magruder in the early eighties,...
Friday 11/ 6 @ The Echo & Echoplex
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HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE || Listen || Watch
MIGUEL ATWOOD-FERGUSON QUINTET
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The Road: Sneak Preview with Filmmakers In Person
Friday 11/ 6 @ Egyptian Theatre
Sneak Preview! THE ROAD, 2009, The Weinstein Co., 119 min. Dir. John Hillcoat. Based on Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize...
Club Underground presents Fitz & the Tantrums @ echo
Friday 11/ 6 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Fitz and The Tantrums || Watch
You can practically hear the record needle drop on the...
Friday 11/ 6 @ Book Soup
Hulk Hogan presents and signs My Life Outside the Ring No Memorabilia, Please....
Friday 11/ 6 @ LACMA
In his hit Broadway play Wait Until Dark (Lee Remick was the lead on stage) Frederick Knott, the screenwriter of Hitchcock’s...
Irvin Kershner double feature: Loving (1970) + Up The Sandbox (1972)
Friday 11/ 6 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW CLIP FROM "LOVING"
"You know everything a Hollywood director is supposed to know, but you're not Hollywood,"...
Ongoing Events
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Greenway Court Theatre
Not so long ago, you couldn't pass a coffeehouse without hearing someone professing their private joys or fears to a willing...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ LM Projects
The art in this show rocks and rolls — and gets set on fire, sets off chain reactions, and invites users...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Overtones Gallery
Through the deft and witty reconfiguration of sentimental objects such as ornate furniture, decorative garlands, household saints, wood, feathers, and hand-knit...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Marine
One silver lining to art-world downsizing is the resurgence of the private salon, made famous by the 19th and 20th century...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ NoHo Arts Center
One can easily imagine that this comedy (with music) about the midlife urge to glorify and recapture the lost promise of...
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ REDCAT
REDCAT presents Autoconstrucción: The Film by Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas, in which the artist revisits Ajusco, his childhood neighborhood in Mexico...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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"...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Whatever Happened to Busty Jane?
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ DNJ Gallery
Two very different photographers take on aspects of growing up in America. Jona Frank extends her intimate yet clinical style of...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Black Maria Gallery
As any fan of Mad Men can tell you, there used to be a lot more cigarette smoking going on, both...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Friday 11/ 6 @ Hammer Museum
R. Crumb's interpretation of the Book of Genesis is at once disturbing, sacrilegious, violent, and debauched, but paired with a holy...
Nate Frizzell and The Kids Are Alright
Friday 11/ 6 @ LeBasse Projects
Nate Frizzell combines a dark sophistication with the chaos of youthful imagination in a new series of lush paintings depicting the...
Friday 11/ 6 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
It's been 12 long years since DV8 Physical Theatre has been to Los Angeles with their remarkable Enter Achilles, and...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Regen Projects
Fresh from a year of acclaimed exhibitions in Europe and NYC and the opening spot on Madonna's recent tour, Marilyn Minter...
The Search for the Visceral Realists
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Ingres' Comtesse d'Haussonville from the Frick Collection
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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...
The Trials & Tribulations of Vicky Vixen
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 and Jay Mark Johnson
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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: Publish or Perish
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ REDCAT
An ensemble of 25 gamelan players and 14 dancers enacts an exquisite Balinese adaptation of the Ramayana, the ancient Hindu dance...
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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...
Dudamel Conducts Verdi's Requiem
Friday 11/ 6 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Not just a touchstone of Western music that everyone should hear live at least once, this masterpiece...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Documentary on Underground Indie-Rock Posters
"Raw -- an outlaw movie about outlaw artists"- Peter Rainer, NPR
"Punk...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Magnolia Memoir with Eleni Mandell Jazz Combo
Friday 11/ 6 @ Bootleg Theater
MAGNOLIA MEMOIR “How many times do you hear someone from the first moment and know they are going to be around...
Population: Portraits by Ray Turner
Friday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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...
