Events on Friday, December 11
Friday 12/11 @ ROB|B OPI Concept Salon
Nails and naughty toys come together for the season at online spa-guide's ChillOut LA one-day winter outpost, the ROB|B OPI Concept...
Friday 12/11 @ TS2
A Renaissance man of underground music, Ewan Pearson is fully immersed in global dance culture. Between making records for mammoth labels...
Qween Kwong w/ Dante Vs. Zombies, and Echoes De Luxe Tonight at Bootleg
Friday 12/11 @ Bootleg Theater
QUEEN KWONG Queen Kwong is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and award winning cat handler (sort of) Carré Callaway, who...
Friday 12/11 @ LACMA
The Host (Gwoemul)
December 11 | 7:30 pm
From his...
Weekend Series: Barking Dogs Never Bite
Friday 12/11 @ LACMA
Barking Dogs Never Bite (Peullandaseu-ui Gae)
December 11 | 9:40 pm
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Friday 12/11 @ The Mint
7:30pm DOORS 9:00pm Chris Parish CD Release 10:00pm Curtis Peoples
Curtis Peoples, a songwriter with a defined understanding...
Keaton Simons w/ Curtis Peoples and Chris Parish
Friday 12/11 @ The Mint
11pm Keaton Simons 10pm Curtis Peoples 9pm Chris Parish CD Release When considering the roll call of rock’s most influential...
Funny or Die presents The Internet 3.0
Friday 12/11 @ Egyptian Theatre
The American Cinematheque Blows Up the Internet: Websodes on the Big Screen Since its launch in 2007 with the now-classic video...
Friday 12/11 @ El Rey
After opting to put Son Volt aside for five years in order to undertake a series of solo projects, Farrar is...
Ongoing Events
Friday 12/11 @ LACMA
Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:...
Friday 12/11 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
Hunky Santa and the Candy Cane Girls
Friday 12/11 @ Beverly Center
The Beverly Center's aerial-and-floor extravaganza is the perfect relief from holiday shopping, featuring choreography by Brenda Hamilton and Tania Pierce, centered...
Friday 12/11 @ 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...
Leonardo da Vinci and Bill Viola
Friday 12/11 @ Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles
"I don't know why they are called Old Masters," notes renowned da Vinci scholar Carlo Pedretti, "when in fact, they were...
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Friday 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ 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...
Friday 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
Curated by Flavorpill's own Heather Jeno Silva (who moonlights as the curator of the CAF's monthly Forum Lounge public conversations, among...
Friday 12/11 @ Arclight Hollywood
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
Friday 12/11 @ Skirball Cultural Center
An Idea Called Tomorrow offers meditations on what should/could/would make for a peaceable and sustainable future — culturally, environmentally, and socially...
Friday 12/11 @ 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...
Friday 12/11 @ Phantom Galleries LA: Long Beach
In a modern update on the urban tradition of extravagant seasonal shop-window decorations, Phantom Galleries' Long Beach phalanx offers nearly 30...
Friday 12/11 @ The Spurgeon Building, Santa Ana
Most cities define the holiday spirit by decking the halls, stringing a few lights, and covering the streets with humdrum holiday...
Friday 12/11 @ Jancar Gallery
Annie Buckley has what one might call a diverse artistic practice; one that includes photography, collage, digital and text-based works, curatorial...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Straddling a fine art line between sculpture and painting, Cordy Ryman flirts with both media but never really commits. Ryman is...
Friday 12/11 @ Royal/T
Jane Glassman's years of work in the art world have seen her not only getting to know a variety of its...
Friday 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
As creator of the popular Edible Estates project and host of the eco-art workshop the Sundown Schoolhouse, architect Fritz Haeg has...
Friday 12/11 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Canadian fans can delight in Cripple Creek, a group show featuring five artists from our neighbor to the north and their illustration-inspired works....
Friday 12/11 @ Art/Works Theatre
In the tradition of Paris' Theatre du Grand Guignol, LA's Grand Guignolers combine macabre storytelling with delightful performances. This time, the...
Friday 12/11 @ Beverly Center
After following Metallica through group therapy in his last film, Some Kind of Monster, Joe Berlinger is back in top form...
Friday 12/11 @ Santa Monica Pier
After a meteoric rise in popularity that spawned dozens of touring and resident shows of increasing complexity and pageantry, Cirque du...
Friday 12/11 @ Overtones Gallery
In case you haven't heard, America is gripped with fear of a little something called the Swine Flu at the moment....
Friday 12/11 @ Honor Fraser
Tomoo Gokita's new body of work reveals an artistic practice that walks the tightrope between abstraction and representation. Rendered only in...
Friday 12/11 @ REDCAT
Unfettered by a male-dominated Asian art scene, Everyday Miracles (Extended) — an offshoot of the Everyday Miracles that debuted at the...
Friday 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ Clark Oshin Gallery
Clark Oshin Gallery shows off Frank W. Ockenfels 3's astonishing creative range with an exhibition of photographs and drawings at the...
Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project
Friday 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ Galerie Anais
Los Angeles painter and poet Matthew Heller has hit a stride with his latest exhibition at Galerie Anaïs, Bergamot's newest tenant....
Joey Arias and Basil Twist: Arias with a Twist
Friday 12/11 @ REDCAT
Created by third-generation puppeteer Basil Twist and drag icon Joey Arias, Arias with a Twist merges the visionary direction and production...
Friday 12/11 @ 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...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Friday 12/11 @ Skirball Cultural Center
The subject of an engaging exhibition and lavishly appended new book, Eric Etheridge's contemporary photographic portraits of this group of American...
Friday 12/11 @ Various Los Angeles theaters
It was just a matter of time before the classic concert film genre embraced Digital 3D, and as audiences, we can...
Friday 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ Junc Gallery
Combining an anniversary party with a comeback, Junc Gallery hosts an exhibition featuring the expanded registry of artists whose work adorns...
Friday 12/11 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
The Annenberg Space for Photography brings the entire genius of its well-appointed exhibition areas and NASA-quality digital-media resources to bear on...
Friday 12/11 @ g727
The Los Angeles River has often endured continuous criticism for being a useless eyesore, yielding foot-high sludge instead of flowing water....
Friday 12/11 @ Kopeikin Gallery
There's an inherent splendor in Mark Edward Harris' photography that relates both to his experience crafting film stills and the intrigue...
Friday 12/11 @ Vida Verde
Sydney Walsh's warm and human collages are rendered on reclaimed wood, paper and canvas, and are at once resonant, gentle, and...
Friday 12/11 @ 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...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Friday 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ Kristi Engle Gallery
Michael Arata is one of LA's best known "artist's artists," a man with serious chops as a curator as well as...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Friday 12/11 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Ingres' Comtesse d'Haussonville from the Frick Collection
Friday 12/11 @ 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 Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Friday 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 12/11 @ 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...
The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing
Friday 12/11 @ Pacific Design Center
Curated by Art Cinema author Paul Young, The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing examines the span of contemporary global video art,...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ Celebration Theatre
Writer/Director Justin Tanner's semi-autobiographical account of horror tales in a small-town local theater scene (read: LA) is as funny as it...
Friday 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ Various Los Angeles theaters
A fictional cinematic biography that weaves fantasy with universal themes of identity and alienation, Broken Embraces might be Pedro Almodóvar's most...
Friday 12/11 @ The Lyric Hyperion Theatre
In Jason Moyer's gay tweaking of Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale, A Christmas Carol, penny-pinching Scrooge is a world-famous designer for...
Friday 12/11 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Friday 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Beethoven’s Third is a watershed moment in the history of Western music: the epic work is about...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Friday 12/11 @ The Getty Museum
Telling the differenc between drawings by Rembrandt and his pupils is a centuries-old problem. A popular teacher with more than 50...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 12/11 @ 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...
Population: Portraits by Ray Turner
Friday 12/11 @ 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...
LACE Holiday Sale - Now Extended!
Friday 12/11 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
LACE has extended the store sale to make your holiday shopping experience a pleasant one. Stop by LACE to purchase holiday...
Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36
Friday 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ 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 12/11 @ 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...
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart
Friday 12/11 @ 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...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Friday 12/11 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Making its West Coast debut at the Skirball, Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968 features more than...
