Events on Friday, April 3
Friday 4/ 3 @ Echoplex
They may be from Japan, but when Acid Mothers Temple visit North America's most psychedelic city, it always feels like a...
Ongoing Events
Friday 4/ 3 @ Outhouse of the Apocalypse
Located in the deepest reaches of Devendra Banhart's wet dreams, the freak-folk forest's famed fridge is the best place to keep...
Friday 4/ 3 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
We first heard about Plato's Retreat from a small cameo in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam. Years later, we didn't need...
Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA
Friday 4/ 3 @ Hammer Museum
Exploring the idea of reinvention, Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA illuminates the creative undercurrent of a city that has long...
Martha Rich and Robert Pasternak
Friday 4/ 3 @ La Luz de Jesus
There's realism, and then there's reality. For Canadian artist and designer Robert Pasternak (aka Nak), both concepts are fluid and subject...
Friday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Friday 4/ 3 @ The Getty Center
Over 100 prints by prolific New York photographer Paul Outerbridge (1896-1958) are on view at the Getty Center through August 9....
Friday 4/ 3 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Both Luke Chueh's art and the artist himself represent unlikely juxtapositions. As a Chinese-American from Philly transplanted to Fresno, Chueh dealt...
Friday 4/ 3 @ LOOK Gallery
In 2006, unscrupulous real-estate developers painted over one of the city's most beloved pieces of public art, a portrait of Ed...
Friday 4/ 3 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
John Baldessari, Catherine Opie, Douglas Kirkland, Lauren Greenfield and Julius Shulman are a few of the world-class photographers whose images are...
Friday 4/ 3 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Brooklyn-based watercolorist Rebecca Bird takes an unlikely, poetic approach to her considerations of destruction. In this series of explosions, based on...
Friday 4/ 3 @ Various locations
Chalk Repertory burst out of the gate with its inaugural production of The Three Sisters in February. Its follow-up delivers a...
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Friday 4/ 3 @ The Getty Center
In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and...
Friday 4/ 3 @ 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,...
Friday 4/ 3 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Taking cues from Montreal's Mutek festival and Berlin's Transmediale, LACE (itself a noted institution on the international avant-garde performance-art map for...
Friday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 3 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
The titular allusion of Matt Tyrnauer's warts-and-all portrait of Italian couturier Valentino Garavani to Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 epic is an apt...
Friday 4/ 3 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Founded by artists in an attempt to inject the publishing world with some of the unmediated verve and vigor of the...
Matthew Feyld and David MacDowell
Friday 4/ 3 @ Thinkspace Gallery
Matthew Feyld combines fantasy, reality, and optically operative patterning into a new series of super-flat, cartoonish paintings that could easily be...
Friday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Ala Ebtekar and Taravat Talepasand
Friday 4/ 3 @ Charlie James Gallery
For a Chung King Road gallery showing, the idea of an exhibition celebrating the Chinese New Year might not be that...
Friday 4/ 3 @ Multiple venues throughout Los Angeles
For the second annual Los Angeles Art Weekend, ForYourArt and BlackFrame single out the city's vast cultural resources with a four-day...
Friday 4/ 3 @ Sam Lee Gallery
For artist Phung Huynh, a keen awareness of her Vietnamese culture's long memory and claim on her affections combines with an...
Friday 4/ 3 @ Cerasoli Gallery
LA native Tofer Chin's large-format paintings explore the impact of LSD, including its ability to prolong and exaggerate the effects of...
Friday 4/ 3 @ Freud Playhouse
It's been more than a few years since David Roussève has taken his company, Reality, on the road. Roussève seamlessly blends...
Friday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 3 @ Bottle Rock
Every day has resembled Earth Day lately, so now's an appropriate time to toast those forward-thinking folks, activist John McConnell and...
Friday 4/ 3 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 4/ 3 @ Synchronicity Space
Psychic healer Kieran Sala curated Within Heaven's Earshot after guests were asked to bring offbeat records to a ModCom Christmas party....
Friday 4/ 3 @ Standard Downtown Rooftop
Postopolis! takes over the rooftop of the Downtown Standard for a five-day series of confabs about architecture and its related disciplines,...
Friday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 3 @ 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 4/ 3 @ The Company
Sigrid Sandström's new works embrace a constant reconsideration (and re-reconsideration) of the role of illusion in painting. As the pieces speak...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 4/ 3 @ 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...
