Events on Friday, March 13

Compression feat. François K and John Tejada

Music: DJ

François K and John Tejada

Friday 3/13 @ King King

A DJ, producer, remixer, label owner, and host of legendary NYC soirees Body & Soul and the still-going-strong Deep Space, François... 

Ongoing Events

2008 California Biennial

Art

2008 California Biennial

Friday 3/13 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick... 

Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>

Art

Mark Bradford

Friday 3/13 @ Steve Turner Contemporary

Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious... 

<em>Beautiful/Decay A to Z</em>

Art

Beautiful/Decay A to Z

Friday 3/13 @ Kopeikin Gallery

Founded by artists in an attempt to inject the publishing world with some of the unmediated verve and vigor of the... 

New Dance at Saint Joseph Ballet

Dance

Saint Joseph Ballet

Friday 3/13 @ Saint Joseph Ballet

Saint Joseph Ballet is well-known for its wildly successful arts-based youth programs, helping to cultivate self-esteem, confidence, and leadership through dancemaking... 

MAK Center Residents: Final Projects, Group XXVII

Art

MAK Center Residents: Final Projects

Friday 3/13 @ MAK Center Schindler House

The latest crop of participants in the MAK Center's noted six-month residency program for international emerging artists holds its Final Projects... 

<em>ZAP! POW! BAM!</em><em> The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books, 1938-1950</em>

Art

ZAP! POW! BAM!

Friday 3/13 @ Skirball Cultural Center

Jerry Robinson, cartoonist and creator of Batman's iconic villain, the Joker, guest curated ZAP! POW! BAM! The Golden Age of Comic... 

Jeremy Kidd: <em>Fictional Realities</em>

Art: Photography

Jeremy Kidd

Friday 3/13 @ Fahey/Klein Gallery

Like many photographers, Jeremy Kidd is drawn to sweeping vistas, from the high desert to the ocean floor, and from suburbia... 

<em>Nat King Cole Re:Generations</em>

Art

Nat King Cole Re:Generations

Friday 3/13 @ Crewest Gallery

Forty-four years after his death, legendary pianist and baritone Nat King Cole continues to inspire artists, from painters to poets and,... 

Eddy Sykes: <em>Yakuza Lou</em>

Art

Eddy Sykes

Friday 3/13 @ Materials & Applications

First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &... 

Robert Dowd: <em>Pop Art Money</em>

Art

Robert Dowd

Friday 3/13 @ Pepperdine University, Weisman Museum of Art

The Weisman Museum at Pepperdine's Malibu campus launches one of its most important exhibitions to date with this long-overdue survey of... 

<em>Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA</em>

Art

Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA

Friday 3/13 @ Hammer Museum

Exploring the idea of reinvention, Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA illuminates the creative undercurrent of a city that has long... 

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

Friday 3/13 @ Vinum Populi

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

Elias Sime: <em>Eye of the Needle, Eye of the  Heart</em> and Arnold Mesches: <em>Coming Attractions</em>

Art

Elias Sime and Arnold Mesches

Friday 3/13 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art

East meets West on many levels as the Santa Monica Museum of Art welcomes octogenarian lion of painting Arnold Mesches to... 

Jona Frank: <em>Church and State</em>

Art: Photography

Jona Frank

Friday 3/13 @ Sherry Frumkin Gallery

With her new book, RIGHT: Portraits from the Evangelical Ivy League, photographer Jona Frank flips the script on the face of... 

Rebecca Campbell: <em>Poltergeist</em>

Art

Rebecca Campbell

Friday 3/13 @ LA Louver Gallery

Rebecca Campbell's paintings, including several large-scale works applying her eerie sense of space and sensitivity to anatomy and gesture, demonstrate advanced... 

<em>Matisse's Amours: Illustrations of Pierre de Ronsard's Love Poems</em>

Art

Matisse's Amours

Friday 3/13 @ Norton Simon Museum

The French Fauvist painter Henri Matisse began a simple, 30-lithograph portfolio in 1941, and seven years later transformed it into a... 

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

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Friday 3/13 @ 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... 

Freyda Miller: <em>Fertile Dreams</em>

Art

Freyda Miller

Friday 3/13 @ Art Dimensions

Freyda Miller's body of work dates as far back as 1978, developing from her early conceptual photography to the Fertile Dreams... 

Ken Roht's 99c Only Calendar Girl Competition

Performing Arts

Ken Roht's 99c Only Calendar Girl Competition

Friday 3/13 @ Bootleg Theater

<em>S&atilde;o Paolo</em>

Art

São Paolo

Friday 3/13 @ The Scion Installation LA Space

Forget art school: in São Paulo, Brazil, all the action's outside, where skaters, tattooists, graffiti artists, illustrators, rockers, and hip-hoppers commingle... 

Bill McMullen: <em>Hype, Hustle, Rip-Off</em>

Art

Bill McMullen

Friday 3/13 @ The Constant Gallery

Bill McMullen's imagery for the likes of everyone from Adidas to the Beastie Boys has become a part of the urban... 

<em>Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde</em>

Art

Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde

Friday 3/13 @ The Getty Center

In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and... 

Collecting Abraham Lincoln

Special Event

Collecting Abraham Lincoln

Friday 3/13 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

In honor of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday, the newly renovated Huntington Library digs into its massive reservoir of Lincolniana. The letters,... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Friday 3/13 @ Scribble Press

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

<em>Paper Cuts</em>: 200 Years of Black Paper Dolls

Art

Paper Cuts

Friday 3/13 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum

Where London has the Victoria and Albert, LA has the Craft and Folk Art Museum; yet, too often, the little institution... 

Rachell Sumpter: <em>Molten Kin</em>

Art

Rachell Sumpter

Friday 3/13 @ Richard Heller Gallery

Dualism is a term easily applied to Rachell Sumpter's series of new paintings, Molten Kin. Gouache, her medium of choice, allows... 

BOXeight Fashion Week

Fashion/Style

BOXeight Fashion Week

Friday 3/13 @ The Los Angeles Theatre

Even the most runway-savvy among us need a little help navigating the tsunami of taste-making that is Fashion Week in Los... 

Melissa Manfull: <em>Tesseracts</em>

Art

Melissa Manfull

Friday 3/13 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery

Add to the list of great historical art movements like Impressionism, Cubism, and Abstract Expressionism a brand-new, admittedly less erudite genre:... 

<em>Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda</em>

Fashion/Style

Antonio Pineda

Friday 3/13 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show... 

KAWS: <em>The Long Way Home</em>

Art

KAWS

Friday 3/13 @ Honor Fraser

Brooklyn-based artist, graffiti icon, and designer KAWS is already a master of multiple media, with a mini-empire that includes painting, sculpture,... 

<em>Within Heaven's Earshot</em>: Religious Album Covers

Special Event

Within Heaven's Earshot

Friday 3/13 @ Synchronicity Space

Psychic healer Kieran Sala curated Within Heaven's Earshot after guests were asked to bring offbeat records to a ModCom Christmas party.... 

Theatre

Pippin

Friday 3/13 @ Mark Taper Forum

Wicked maestro Stephen Schwartz revives his '70s rock opera Pippin as the opening production of the Mark Taper 2009 season. A... 

<em>Shangri-La</em>: Architecture as a State of Flux

Art

Shangri-La: Architecture as a State of Flux

Friday 3/13 @ 18th Street Arts Center

English author James Hilton first coined the term "Shangri-La" in his 1933 novel Lost Horizon; since then, the name has morphed... 

Mark Dutcher: <em>Havilah</em>

Art

Mark Dutcher

Friday 3/13 @ Steve Turner Contemporary

Mark Dutcher's first show with Steve Turner Contemporary deftly traverses the space between sculpture and painting, thrusting the artist's traditional oeuvre... 

Matthew Feyld: <em>New Work</em> and David MacDowell: <em>The Sins of Atticus Finch</em>

Art

Matthew Feyld and David MacDowell

Friday 3/13 @ Thinkspace Gallery

Matthew Feyld combines fantasy, reality, and optically operative patterning into a new series of super-flat, cartoonish paintings that could easily be... 

<em>James Hueter: A Retrospective</em>

Art

James Hueter

Friday 3/13 @ Claremont Museum of Art

The Claremont Museum of Art makes no secret of its mission: the preservation, study, and dissemination of the legacy left by... 

Natalia Fabia: <em>Hooker DreamEscape</em>

Art

Natalia Fabia

Friday 3/13 @ Corey Helford Gallery

Natalia Fabia's multiple personas, ranging from alternative beauty-pageant coordinator to tattooed model, photographer, illustrator, and painter, explosively combine in her new... 

Ruth Weisberg

Art

Ruth Weisberg

Friday 3/13 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts

Ruth Weisberg is hailed in some quarters as a living legend of contemporary figurative painting. Her delicate, yet dense depictions of...