Events on Friday, August 14

16Bit + Beyond One-Year Anniversary party feat. Kraddy

Music: Electronic

16Bit + Beyond

Friday 8/14 @ Air Conditioned Supper Club, Venice

Broken-beat lovefest 16Bit + Beyond's founding resident DJs Braden, Carlos de la Torre, and Mr. Caparro invite you to blow out... 

<em>La Momia Azteca contra El Robot Human (The Aztec Mummy vs. The Human Robot)</em>

Film

The Aztec Mummy vs. The Human Robot

Friday 8/14 @ Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum

The UCLA Film & Television Archive screenings of '50s Mexploitation films offer a rare chance to catch a taste of life... 

The Octopus Project w/ Make Moon and VOICEsVOICEs

Music

The Octopus Project

Friday 8/14 @ The Troubadour

Indietronica invades the Troubadour tonight when a trio of electronica's most promising new bands shows you a new way to trance.... 

How to Be a Movie Star?  William J. Mann and Elizabeth Taylor Know

Books: Reading

How to Be a Movie Star? William J. Mann and Elizabeth Taylor Know

Friday 8/14 @ Book Soup

William J. Mann presents and signs How To Be A Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood... 

Rock N Roll Summer Circus with Henry Clay People, Fol Chen, Flying Tourbillon Orchestra, Marvelous Toy & More @ Echoplex

Music

Rock N Roll Summer Circus with Henry Clay People, Fol Chen, Flying Tourbillon Orchestra, Marvelous Toy & More @ Echoplex

Friday 8/14 @ The Echo & Echoplex

The Henry Clay People || Listen || Watch
Fol Chen || Listen
The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra || Listen
... 

Virginia and Elaine Madsen: Artists, Poets, Authors

Books: Poetry

Virginia and Elaine Madsen: Artists, Poets, Authors

Friday 8/14 @ Book Soup

 Elaine Madsen and ... 

Tchaikovsky Spectacular with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, plus Fireworks!

Music: Classical

Tchaikovsky Spectacular with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, plus Fireworks!

Friday 8/14 @ Hollywood Bowl

Tchaikovsky and fireworks – the perfect Hollywood Bowl match. Our annual spectacular features the great Russian composer’s beloved Piano Concerto No.... 

From Baroque to Folk: Pastoral Music from France

Music: Classical

From Baroque to Folk: Pastoral Music from France

Friday 8/14 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art

French painting and music have been inspired by pastoral sensibilities, especially in the Baroque era. The French Baroque courts of Louis... 

FAT CITY REPRISE & THOMAS NICHOLAS BAND

Music

FAT CITY REPRISE & THOMAS NICHOLAS BAND

Friday 8/14 @ The Mint

Fat City Reprise at 11:30pm, Thomas Nicholas Band at 10:30pm, Bob Malone at 9pm, BettySoo w/ Charlie Faye & Helena Kim... 

Ongoing Events

Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, and David Lynch present <em>Dark Night of the Soul</em>

Art: Photography

Dark Night of the Soul

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

Tiki Oasis 9: Tiki Surf City

Getaways

Tiki Oasis

Friday 8/14 @ The Crowne Plaza

Fans of mid-century Polynesian pop culture and Angelenos aching for a getaway are invited to a three-day celebration of all things... 

<em>Bitch Is the New Black</em>

Art

Bitch Is the New Black

Friday 8/14 @ Honor Fraser

Curated by arts critic and writer Emma Gray, Honor Fraser's annual group show features works by 14 female artists based in... 

Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution

Art: Photography

Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Friday 8/14 @ Scribble Press

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

Jim Gentry: <em>Never Odd or Even</em> and Leia Jervert: <em>Cut Back</em>

Art

Jim Gentry and Leia Jervert

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

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

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

Serendipity

Performing Arts

Serendipity

Friday 8/14 @ Secret location

Forget Ringling Bros – the real circus rolls into Downtown LA this weekend, and its line-up looks set to shatter senses... 

Cathie Bleck, Don Fritz, and Jenn Porreca

Art

Cathie Bleck

Friday 8/14 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts

The Billy Shire Fine Arts gallery brings together the work of three different minds to its Culver City space. While the... 

Suzannah Sinclair: <em>The Way Things Are Looking</em> and Kime Buzelli: <em>Deep in the Hole I Own You</em>

Art

Kime Buzelli and Suzannah Sinclair

Friday 8/14 @ New Image Art

New Image Art Gallery presents a pair of very different takes on the feminine mystique as painters Suzannah Sinclair and Kime... 

<em>In Focus: Making a Scene</em>

Art: Photography

In Focus: Making a Scene

Friday 8/14 @ The Getty Center

Thirty staged photographs are on view at the Getty Center as part of its In Focus series, a thematic presentation of... 

<em>Rogue Wave: 10 Artists from Los Angeles</em>

Art

Rogue Wave

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

<em>Celestial Ash: Assemblages from Los Angeles</em>

Art

Celestial Ash

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

<em>Sweets & Treats</em>: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum

Special Event

Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

Exene Cervenka and Wayne White: <em>We Are Not the Jet Set</em>

Art

Exene Cervenka and Wayne White

Friday 8/14 @ Western Project

Daring frontwoman of arguably the coolest punk band ever, X, Exene Cervenka has considerable talents off the stage as well, starting... 

The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum presents <em>The Cherry Orchard</em>

Theatre

The Cherry Orchard

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

Friday 8/14 @ Vinum Populi

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

Sea and Space Resort II

Art

Sea and Space Resort

Friday 8/14 @ Sea and Space Explorations

Multipurpose culture zone Sea and Space Explorations doesn't feel the need to respect the boundaries between the senses, with the result... 

Lawrence Weiner: <em>Placed on the Tip of a Wave</em>

Art

Lawrence Weiner

Friday 8/14 @ Regen Projects II

Since his seminal book Statements came out in 1968, Lawrence Weiner has been at the forefront of conceptual art. Using language... 

<em>Sweets & Treats</em>: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum

Art

Wayne Thiebaud

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

Gary Lang: <em>Circles Lines Grids</em> and Jay Mark Johnson: <em>Spacetime</em>

Art

Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

<em>Instruments</em>

Art

Instruments

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

Alonso Duralde presents So Bad, They're Brilliant

Festival: Film

So Bad, They're Brilliant

Friday 8/14 @ Egyptian Theatre

All too often, the quality of cinema is determined by box office numbers and hungry-for-blood critics. So Bad They're Brilliant takes... 

13th Annual DocuWeeks

Festival: Film

DocuWeeks

Friday 8/14 @ Arclight Hollywood

A nonprofit designed to foster nonfiction film and video, the 27-year-old International Documentary Association also hosts the yearly DocuWeeks Theatrical Documentary... 

<em>ModArt Magazine</em>: A Celebration of 20 Issues and All That Lay Ahead

Art

ModArt Magazine

Friday 8/14 @ Thinkspace Gallery

In honor of ModArt's 20th issue, Thinkspace hosts a group show curated by the folks at the revered European art magazine,... 

<em>The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle</em>: Photographic Landscapes of the 1950s and 1960s

Art: Photography

The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

Clayton Brothers: <em>Jumbo Fruit</em>

Art

Clayton Brothers

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

Todd Hebert and Jennifer Nehrbass

Art

Todd Hebert and Jennifer Nehrbass

Friday 8/14 @ Mark Moore Gallery

In his latest body of work, Todd Hebert employs a mix of sharp detail and soft focus, and a dark yet... 

Heather Cantrell: <em>A Study in Portraiture: Act I</em>

Art: Photography

Heather Cantrell

Friday 8/14 @ Kinkead Contemporary

Los Angeles-based photographer Heather Cantrell lays elaborate groundwork for her seemingly fresh and casual portraits. Employing props, costumes, and references to... 

Back to Basics: <em>MatterApp</em>

Art

MatterApp

Friday 8/14 @ Materials & Applications

... 

<em>Kill Me, Deadly</em>

Theatre

Kill Me, Deadly

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

TreePeople presents Once Upon A Canyon Night

Festival

Once Upon A Canyon Night

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

<em>Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art</em>

Special Event

Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

Nicole Cohen: <em>French Connection</em>

Art

Nicole Cohen

Friday 8/14 @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery

In her latest series of photographic and video projections, Nicole Cohen expands upon previous subject matter and technological complexity, constructing layered,... 

Fallen Fruit: <em>United Fruit</em>

Art

Fallen Fruit: United Fruit

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

<em>Diverted Destruction 2</em>

Art

Diverted Destruction 2

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

Barkley L. Hendricks: <em>Birth of the Cool: Paintings, 1964-2007</em>

Art

Barkley L. Hendricks

Friday 8/14 @ 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,... 

Joshua Levine: <em>unNatural History</em>

Art

Joshua Levine

Friday 8/14 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery

Whether your biggest problem with taxidermy hunting trophies is their lack of space-age resins or the rarity of significant anatomical mutations,... 

<em>Lights on LA</em>

Festival: Art

Lights on LA

Friday 8/14 @ Pershing Square

Illuminating the wealth of creative resources within the LA art scene, Tarryn Teresa Gallery's Lights on LA strings up light bulbs... 

Book Soup Happy Hour

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Book Soup Happy Hour

Friday 8/14 @ Book Soup

We love a good happy hour, especially when the wine is free and the books are 25% off.  Every weekday from... 

You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty

Art

You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty

Friday 8/14 @ 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,... 

Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes

Art

Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes

Friday 8/14 @ The Getty Museum

This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights... 

Annie Lapin: <em>Parallel Deliria Iteration</em>

Art

Annie Lapin: Parallel Deliria Iteration

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

The Chimaera of Arezzo

Art

The Chimaera of Arezzo

Friday 8/14 @ The Getty Museum

The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,... 

Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist

Art

Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution

Art

Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution

Friday 8/14 @ The Getty Museum

This exhibition represents an overview of three centuries of French bronze sculpture, when monarchs and private collectors came to embrace bronze... 

TRAFFIC!

Art: Photography

TRAFFIC!

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

Pompeii and the Roman Villa

Special Event

Pompeii and the Roman Villa

Friday 8/14 @ LACMA

Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City

Special Event

Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City

Friday 8/14 @ 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... 

Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum

Special Event

Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum

Friday 8/14 @ 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...