Events on Friday, August 21
Friday 8/21 @ dtox day spa
Dtox Day Spa, Atwater's local relaxation spot, celebrates its third birthday this month with another round of mini spa treatments and...
Los Campesinos! w/ Ramona Falls and Girls
Friday 8/21 @ El Rey
Declaring a band "darlings" is one of the music press' more backhanded compliments. But really, there's no better way to describe...
Downtown Film Festival - Music Series
Friday 8/21 @ The GRAMMY Museum
Downtown Film Festival–Los Angeles and The GRAMMY Museum announce the first-ever music film festival at the Museum, running seven consecutive nights...
Active Arts® at the Music Center – Dance Downtown featuring Argentine Tango
Friday 8/21 @ Music Center
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Friday 8/21 @ The Mint
Jason Boland & The Stragglers at 9:30pm, Sugarwall at 11:30pm, Goodbye To Pretty at 8pm KBH Presents:
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Euro Thrillers Triple Feature Including WEREWOLF IN A GIRLS DORMITORY
Friday 8/21 @ Egyptian Theatre
Rare Archival 35mm Print! TERROR CREATURES FROM THE GRAVE, 1965, 85 min. "They rise from dank coffins in the dead of...
Ongoing Events
Friday 8/21 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
The brainchild of RESfest founder Jonathan Wells and designer, gallerist, and writer Meg Wells, Flux has been providing culture-lovers with a...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Kime Buzelli and Suzannah Sinclair
Friday 8/21 @ New Image Art
New Image Art Gallery presents a pair of very different takes on the feminine mystique as painters Suzannah Sinclair and Kime...
The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Friday 8/21 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
The second most consumed drink next to water, tea has also been frequent theme in art history. Guest curated by tea...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Friday 8/21 @ 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
Friday 8/21 @ Western Project
Daring frontwoman of arguably the coolest punk band ever, X, Exene Cervenka has considerable talents off the stage as well, starting...
Friday 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery
In her latest series of photographic and video projections, Nicole Cohen expands upon previous subject matter and technological complexity, constructing layered,...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
Friday 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Diana Krall & the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Friday 8/21 @ Hollywood Bowl
Inspired by the bossa nova records of the 1960s, Diana Krall's lush new album, Quiet Nights takes viewers on a hazy,...
Friday 8/21 @ 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,...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ Thinkspace Gallery
In honor of ModArt's 20th issue, Thinkspace hosts a group show curated by the folks at the revered European art magazine,...
Friday 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ Corey Helford Gallery
LA native and CalArts alum Carlos Ramos merges his background in character animation with the art of classic poster design in...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ The Getty Center
Thirty staged photographs are on view at the Getty Center as part of its In Focus series, a thematic presentation of...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Woodstock: The 40th Anniversary
Friday 8/21 @ Duncan Miller Gallery
Lens legends Jim Marshall, Baron Wolman, Henry Diltz, and Lisa Law contribute their world-class snaps of the original Woodstock festival on...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Friday 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 8/21 @ 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,...
Annie Lapin: Parallel Deliria Iteration
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Friday 8/21 @ The Getty Museum
This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights...
Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist
Friday 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Friday 8/21 @ The Getty Museum
This exhibition represents an overview of three centuries of French bronze sculpture, when monarchs and private collectors came to embrace bronze...
Friday 8/21 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Imagine yourself immersed in a favorite childhood tale. Five years in the making and occupying an 8,000-square-foot gallery, Noah's Ark at...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Friday 8/21 @ 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 8/21 @ Book Soup
We love a good happy hour, especially when the wine is free and the books are 25% off. Every weekday from...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Friday 8/21 @ 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...
You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty
Friday 8/21 @ 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,...
