Events on Friday, July 31
Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite
Friday 7/31 @ Synchronicity Space
Tonight, Synchronicity Space screens Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite, a multimedia video mash-up curated by Ben Bigelow and incorporating works...
Friday 7/31 @ The Troubadour
It's been a minute since NYC's Stellastarr* have been around, with their last album, Harmonies for the Haunted, dropping in 2005....
A Night at Earl Carroll's & The Big TNT Show
Friday 7/31 @ Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature: A NIGHT AT EARL CARROLL'S, 1940, Universal, 62 min. Dir. Kurt Neumann. The Wayback Machine now takes you back...
Ongoing Events
Friday 7/31 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
LA-based art and action collective Fallen Fruit uses the visual arts (specifically photography, installation, and performance-oriented actions) to examine the imbalance...
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Friday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ S. Mark Taper Foundation Amphitheatre
Working to restore greenery to the southland for over 30 years, TreePeople helps communities foster tree growth, provides environmental education, and...
Smile 'Til It Hurts: The Up With People Story
Friday 7/31 @ Arclight Hollywood
As hippies dodged the draft in the 1960s and more and more Americans embraced flower-power, free-love, and psychedelics, the corn-fed, deliriously...
Friday 7/31 @ Regen Projects II
Since his seminal book Statements came out in 1968, Lawrence Weiner has been at the forefront of conceptual art. Using language...
Friday 7/31 @ 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,...
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
Friday 7/31 @ ACE Gallery
It's a veritable amusement park for optic nerves at ACE Gallery's Beverly Hills location this month, with a pair of exhibitions...
Friday 7/31 @ Deborah Martin Gallery
Opening in conjunction with the Downtown Art Walk, RE: materialization features 35 works, narrowed down from over 200 submissions, in an...
Friday 7/31 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Three very different artists enter into a dialogue about the persistence of memory and how recollections are formed, contorted, stored, and...
Friday 7/31 @ Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside
Lovers of the tableau vivant ("living picture") revel in earnest replicas of treasures of art history, typically versions of the Venus...
Friday 7/31 @ another year in LA
Fallen Fruit — the artist collective formed by David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young — has typically been known more...
The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle
Friday 7/31 @ Take My Picture Gary Leonard
Ever since taking a photograph of the Dodgers as a little boy in 1959, Gary Leonard has documented the mercurial landscape...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Friday 7/31 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
All year photographers have been clicking camera shutters with their lenses pointed toward the action. The 66th annual Pictures of the...
Friday 7/31 @ Patrick Painter Gallery
Rob and Christian Clayton's first hometown exhibition in over half a decade, Jumbo Fruit represents the culmination of six months' worth...
Friday 7/31 @ Theatre of NOTE
Theatre of Note's current "Season of the Passion Plays" continues with this original noir production of Kill Me, Deadly! Loaded with...
Friday 7/31 @ SolwayJones Gallery
Solway Jones Gallery's summer group show takes on the celebrated cross-pollination of music and art, with an exhibition of mostly sculptural...
Friday 7/31 @ Gallery Skart
Beyond Björk and ice hotels, most Americans don't have a lot of familiarity with Iceland — but the eerie beauty of...
Kime Buzelli and Suzannah Sinclair
Friday 7/31 @ New Image Art
New Image Art Gallery presents a pair of very different takes on the feminine mystique as painters Suzannah Sinclair and Kime...
Exene Cervenka and Wayne White
Friday 7/31 @ Western Project
Daring frontwoman of arguably the coolest punk band ever, X, Exene Cervenka has considerable talents off the stage as well, starting...
Friday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ Black Maria Gallery
Taking a cue from those masters of capturing the youthful zeitgeist, the Who, The Kids Are Alright showcases a new generation...
Friday 7/31 @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery
In her latest series of photographic and video projections, Nicole Cohen expands upon previous subject matter and technological complexity, constructing layered,...
New Original Works Festival 2009: Program Two
Friday 7/31 @ REDCAT
Jennifer the Leopard is the logical outcome of four hot, hard-working female filmmaker/artists getting together to "perform a band." J-Lep navigate...
Friday 7/31 @ 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...
Friday 7/31 @ The Loft at Liz's
A diverse group of emerging LA artists join forces to give your garbage a new lease on life. Work in the...
Friday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ La Luz de Jesus
Born Bradley Stewart, Gidget Gein merged the name of an icon with that of grave-robber/murderer Ed Gein during his days as...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Friday 7/31 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
In the 1960s, soon-to-be Pop icon Wayne Thiebaud created a series of monochromatic, two-dimensional prints of nine pieces of pie, sufficiently...
Friday 7/31 @ Pershing Square
Illuminating the wealth of creative resources within the LA art scene, Tarryn Teresa Gallery's Lights on LA strings up light bulbs...
Friday 7/31 @ Norton Simon Museum
In the 1960s, soon-to-be Pop icon Wayne Thiebaud created a series of monochromatic, two-dimensional prints of nine pieces of pie, sufficiently...
Friday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ Honor Fraser
Curated by arts critic and writer Emma Gray, Honor Fraser's annual group show features works by 14 female artists based in...
Friday 7/31 @ Los Angeles State Historic Park
Cirque Berzerk at Downtown's LA State Historic Park features a custom-built Italian big top, seven new alt-circus acts, and a midway...
Andrew Schoultz and Hank Willis Thomas
Friday 7/31 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Bay Area artist Andrew Schoultz crafts expansive murals and other large-scale paintings from innumerable individual lines and details. His densely swirled,...
Friday 7/31 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 7/31 @ Thinkspace Gallery
The paintings of Brooklyn-based artist Stella Im Hultberg combine the sultry, gilded romance and elongated, mannerist lines of Gustav Klimt with...
Friday 7/31 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Los Angeles-based photographer Heather Cantrell lays elaborate groundwork for her seemingly fresh and casual portraits. Employing props, costumes, and references to...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 7/31 @ 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 7/31 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
The thirteenth annual LA Shorts Fest features over 280 short films, commercials, and music videos in the largest festival of its...
Friday 7/31 @ Kristi Engle Gallery
Throughout the '70s, technical artist and service-manual author Dave Christensen fleshed out a series of bodacious and bawdy graphics for pinball...
Friday 7/31 @ The Getty Center
Thirty staged photographs are on view at the Getty Center as part of its In Focus series, a thematic presentation of...
Todd Hebert and Jennifer Nehrbass
Friday 7/31 @ Mark Moore Gallery
In his latest body of work, Todd Hebert employs a mix of sharp detail and soft focus, and a dark yet...
Friday 7/31 @ LA Louver Gallery
Following three previous incarnations, the Rogue Wave group show returns to Venice's LA Louver with ten Angelenos redefining regionalism. Co-curated by...
Friday 7/31 @ Synchronicity Space
LA indie art and music collective Heard of Elephants celebrates its first anniversary with a party so big, it takes up...
Friday 7/31 @ Happy
There's no excuse to feel glum when you're at Happy, a home and lifestyle nook in Los Feliz that features well-designed...
Vice Magazine Photography Exhibition
Friday 7/31 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
In conjunction with Vice's annual photo issue, the ninth annual Vice Photo Show features work by contributors Jamie Lee Curtis Taete,...
Friday 7/31 @ The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
In the '50s, blacklisted actor Will Geer opened a theater on his Topanga property for fellow performers ostracized during the McCarthy...
New Original Works Festival 2009: Program Two
Friday 7/31 @ REDCAT
The annual three-week NOW Festival launches new works by Los Angeles dance, theater, music and multimedia performance artists....
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Friday 7/31 @ 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...
Friday 7/31 @ 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...
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Friday 7/31 @ The Getty Museum
This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights...
Friday 7/31 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty
Friday 7/31 @ 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,...
Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Friday 7/31 @ The Getty Museum
This exhibition represents an overview of three centuries of French bronze sculpture, when monarchs and private collectors came to embrace bronze...
Annie Lapin: Parallel Deliria Iteration
Friday 7/31 @ 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...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Friday 7/31 @ 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...
Guys and Dolls in Concert with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
Friday 7/31 @ Hollywood Bowl
Combine the pizzazz of Damon Runyon's now-legendary characters with a dazzling score by Frank Loesser and a brilliant book by Jo...
Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist
Friday 7/31 @ 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...
