Events on Friday, June 5
Friday 6/ 5 @ Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum's First Fridays series celebrates the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th birthday of On the...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Spaceland
If there's one thing better than LA's most costumed, clown-knickered, salty-sweet punk band the Fuxedos finally playing a hometown set after...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Kohler Arts Center
Compression continues its Planetary Series — a project introducing leading voices in experimental electronic dance and space music from around the...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Vanguard
Project ETHOS, a quarterly showcase of emerging talent in fashion, music, and art, hits the Vanguard tonight with the Lift Off...
Ongoing Events
Friday 6/ 5 @ Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
The City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowships in the Arts, granted by the Department of Cultural Affairs, are distinguished...
League of Imaginary Scientists
Friday 6/ 5 @ Outpost for Contemporary Art
Outpost for Contemporary Art takes its name literally this month, as it presents an offshoot project of Apex Art, a New...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Joseph Cornell's surrealist shadowboxes reconfigured found objects into multidimensional creations, classified as neither sculpture nor collage, but as assemblages. The Craft...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Friday 6/ 5 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre
It's always refreshing to see a work that speaks with such striking originality that it reaffirms the value in taking risks....
Friday 6/ 5 @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles
As a photography student at LA's Occidental College in 1980, Lisa Jack took a series of portraits with a handsome, charismatic...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Charlie James Gallery
Chinatown's Charlie James Gallery becomes more appliance store than art space during Steve Lambert's solo show Everything You Want, Right Now!...
Friday 6/ 5 @ LA Artcore Union Center Gallery
Internationally renowned sculptor Fred Eversley has been a pioneer at every turn in his decades-long career. He's the longest-serving resident of...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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 6/ 5 @ 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 6/ 5 @ Morgane Le Fay
High fashion, fine-art photography, animal protection, and environmental activism meet a love of shameless beauty in the Horse Goddess exhibition. In...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Overtones Gallery
Starting in 1975 as a staff photographer for The Advocate and an employee in the Harvey Milk-owned Castro Camera shop, Daniel...
Friday 6/ 5 @ LA Memorial Coliseum & Exposition Park
Artists, scientists, public-policy makers, and concerned citizens find common ground at unique outdoor art installation Cool Globes. The result of a...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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 6/ 5 @ REDCAT
Dance Camera West always earns high praise for its eclectic programming agenda, presenting dance-related films that allow viewers to experience the...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
Imagine the florid, hyper-decorative seduction of Kehinde Wiley's large-scale portraits of young black men, only rendered with an urban, folk-outsider edge,...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Michael Kohn Gallery
Dark Night of the Soul is a two-pronged project: The visual element, represented here, features psych-noir master David Lynch's photographic interpretations...
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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...
Lizabeth Eva Rossof and David Fokos
Friday 6/ 5 @ Kopeikin Gallery
While much of Lizabeth Eva Rossof's visual art might recall the colorful confectionary treats of our youth, it actually focuses on...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Ahmanson Theatre
Ballet Hispanico is a 13-member company that meshes ballet, modern, and Latin dance against the backdrop of progressive Latino culture. Four...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Seni Contemporary
Art critic Peter Frank and gallerist Delia Cabral want you to see what they've seen. On a recent curatorial reconnaissance trip...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
Billboards and other outdoor advertising methods are a source of contention in every landscape they grace, from the rural to the...
Friday 6/ 5 @ The Company
Curated by Hedi El Kholti and David Jones, this wide-ranging group show uses broken-down stereotypes to reveal the multiplicity of a...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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 6/ 5 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
Spanning the decade between 1976 and 1986, the GRAMMY Museum's first photography exhibition features 30 pictures of rock stars by Israeli-born,...
Friday 6/ 5 @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana
The Grand Central Art Center Gallery at Cal State Fullerton features over 40 original works by the Grammy-winning Creative Director of...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Deborah Martin Gallery
This month's Downtown Art Walk event is ideal for lovers of quirky paintings in all shapes and sizes. Deborah Martin Gallery...
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Friday 6/ 5 @ 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 6/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty
Friday 6/ 5 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Featuring work of five UC Davis faculty members Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Manuel Neri, Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley,...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Friday 6/ 5 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents a selection of artworks donated to the Museum since 2002. Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Friday 6/ 5 @ The Getty Museum
The city of Algiers, on the north coast of Africa, historically sheltered a diverse population. During the Ottoman centuries (1529-1830), this...
Annie Lapin: Parallel Deliria Iteration
Friday 6/ 5 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The PMCA is proud to present Los Angeles painter Annie Lapin's Parallel Deliria Iteration, which the artist describes as "a never-ending...
Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist
Friday 6/ 5 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
This exhibition focuses on the life of Edith Heath and her defining influence on California design through pottery. Popular at dinner...
Friday 6/ 5 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Benny Chan has worked diligently over the past few years to photograph overhead views of Los Angeles freeways during the height...
