Events on Friday, December 4
Friday 12/ 4 @ Air Conditioned Supper Club
Tonight's aggregation of progressive house, long, shimmering trance mixes, and experiments in beat alchemy are exactly what Venice's A/C Club was...
Little Dragon w/ Hecuba and DJ Aaron Byrd
Friday 12/ 4 @ El Rey
If Yukimi Nagano's breathy voice and enigmatic presence aren't enough to lure you into Little Dragon's den, the foursome's cinematic arrangements...
Friday 12/ 4 @ Avalon Hollywood
While some men may be sporting the moustache for fashion, others choose to look that way for Movember, the month when...
Friday 12/ 4 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Named after a particularly odious cloud in Don DeLillo's postmodern novel White Noise, the Airborne Toxic Event befit the book's poetic...
Friday 12/ 4 @ Book Soup
Robert Lacey presents and signs Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle...
Club Underground and Echo Present The Shys / Castledoor / Black Hollies @ echo
Friday 12/ 4 @ The Echo & Echoplex
The Shys || Listen || Watch
The Shys have taken the crunchy guitars and heavy, fuzz-filled...
Ongoing Events
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
Friday 12/ 4 @ Overtones Gallery
In case you haven't heard, America is gripped with fear of a little something called the Swine Flu at the moment....
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Friday 12/ 4 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Friday 12/ 4 @ REDCAT
Unfettered by a male-dominated Asian art scene, Everyday Miracles (Extended) — an offshoot of the Everyday Miracles that debuted at the...
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Royal/T
Jane Glassman's years of work in the art world have seen her not only getting to know a variety of its...
Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
Anderle, Immer, McGrath, and Potocki
Friday 12/ 4 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
Four contemporary artists converge at Billy Shire Fine Arts to interpret similar themes in vastly different ways. Legendary record producer-turned-artist David...
Friday 12/ 4 @ Junc Gallery
Combining an anniversary party with a comeback, Junc Gallery hosts an exhibition featuring the expanded registry of artists whose work adorns...
West Coast, Left Coast: Kronos Quartet
Friday 12/ 4 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
In their 30 years together, the Kronos Quartet have single-handedly maintained the string quartet's cultural relevance. The San Francisco ensemble's dossier...
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 4 @ Galerie Anais
Los Angeles painter and poet Matthew Heller has hit a stride with his latest exhibition at Galerie Anaïs, Bergamot's newest tenant....
Friday 12/ 4 @ Egyptian Theatre
The Artivist Film Festival celebrates six years of fostering filmmaking among artistic advocates, and this year, it hosts a brand-new lineup...
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Hunky Santa and the Candy Cane Girls
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Ingres' Comtesse d'Haussonville from the Frick Collection
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Robert Berman Gallery
Alejandro Gehry is back with another fresh and frisky series of paintings that combine a nostalgia for the blazing palette and...
Joey Arias and Basil Twist: Arias with a Twist
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Subliminal Projects
If you believe the prophecies of Nostradamus, the 2012 gang, and other would-be seers (you know, the ones about how the...
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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 12/ 4 @ 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 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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...
The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing
Friday 12/ 4 @ Pacific Design Center
Curated by Art Cinema author Paul Young, The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing examines the span of contemporary global video art,...
Friday 12/ 4 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Following up on last year's inaugural Zero Film Festival, this year's version promises almost a week's worth of all-new self-financed films...
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Leonardo da Vinci and Bill Viola
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Downtown Independent Theater
This year's program offers films from six continents, ranging in content from Polar Bears eating Nikon cameras to films shot on-location...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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...
Charlie Hunter featuring Eric Kalb and Alan Ferber : TONIGHT!
Friday 12/ 4 @ The Mint
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Population: Portraits by Ray Turner
Friday 12/ 4 @ 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...
