Events on Friday, August 28
Friday 8/28 @ The Roxy Theatre
Don't expect to stay seated — the lineup tonight at the Roxy is jam-packed with soulful, feel-good acts known for making...
Friday 8/28 @ The Troubadour
89.9 KCRW Presents POLLYN w/ Free the Robots, Big Moves, the Frequency, and DJ Michael Barnes
Friday 8/28 @ The Mint
LA-based Pollyn is taking on the big city, indie style – gaining grassroots momentum as word of their memorable live shows...
The Hundred Days w/ Actress & Ballerina Black
Friday 8/28 @ Bootleg Theater
THE HUNDRED DAYS "The bottom line is The Hundred Days write great songs and leave you wanting more." - Performer...
Ape and Super-Ape (1972) - (Series: Nature's Symphony)
Friday 8/28 @ The Cinefamily
Bert Haanstra, a legend in the Netherlands and one of the greatest nature documentarians, delivered his magnum opus with Ape And...
JJ Grey & Mofro with the White Buffalo
Friday 8/28 @ El Rey
From gritty funk and juke joint romps to contemplative country soul and blistering rockers, Grey’s music is in a class by...
Picasso and Scriabin: Master Manipulators of Color
Friday 8/28 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
Spanish painter Pablo Picasso and Russian composer Alexander Scriabin were near-contemporaries who shared an obsession with color. Scriabin, a synesthete, perceived...
Friday 8/28 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Os Mutantes || Watch
The music made by Brazilian psych-pop band Os Mutantes in the late 1960s and early...
Ongoing Events
Friday 8/28 @ Subliminal Projects
Weekend warriors find their more enlightened alter ego in Weekend Pacifists, a group show featuring the work of five artists —...
Friday 8/28 @ Various East Side Venues
Celebrating the spirit of the bicycle through film, art, and music, the Bicycle Film Festival rolls into LA for the sixth...
Friday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ The Gas Company Lofts
Mear One's legendary psychedelic, often graffiti-inspired surrealism and Michael Pukac's baroque, almost classically narrative paintings — and their shared interest in...
Friday 8/28 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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...
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Friday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
In today's volatile political climate, questions abound as to what, if any, limits on free speech and civic protest exist —...
Woodstock: The 40th Anniversary
Friday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ The Landmark
Adapted from Stefan Aust's 1985 publication, The Baader Meinhof Complex chronicles the reckless idealism and hectic resolve of Germany's Red Army...
Friday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 8/28 @ Hollywood Bowl
Relegate Liza, if you must, to the "gays and the grays" set, but those who haven't seen the icon in the...
Friday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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...
Kime Buzelli and Suzannah Sinclair
Friday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ Smooth n Purdy Gallery
Los Angeles artist Michael Hayden arrives at the Smooth n Purdy Gallery in The Complex for a solo exhibition of recent...
Friday 8/28 @ 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...
Exene Cervenka and Wayne White
Friday 8/28 @ Western Project
Daring frontwoman of arguably the coolest punk band ever, X, Exene Cervenka has considerable talents off the stage as well, starting...
Friday 8/28 @ 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...
Friday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Friday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ Malibu Country Mart
Seven Los Angeles-based contemporary art galleries spread their wings and cruise with the Malibu seagulls for the inaugural edition of a...
Friday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Friday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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,...
Friday 8/28 @ Art Center College of Design
Illustration students from Art Center College of Design currently have their work on display at the Aquarium of the Pacific in...
Friday 8/28 @ Downtown Independent Theater
2009 BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL
FRIDAY 28 AUGUST
7:30 PM | PROGRAM 1 - Where are you go...
Annie Lapin: Parallel Deliria Iteration
Friday 8/28 @ 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...
Friday 8/28 @ Book Soup
We love a good happy hour, especially when the wine is free and the books are 25% off. Every weekday from...
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Friday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Friday 8/28 @ 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...
