Events on Friday, August 7
Friday 8/ 7 @ Farmlab
The invitation "Want to come over and watch my slideshow?" doesn't typically generate mass enthusiasm, unless it's being extended by Americana...
Friday 8/ 7 @ Trust Ranch
Grammy-nominated docu-musical-narrative 1 Giant Leap celebrated the interconnectivity of humankind, lauding art and questioning consumerism through visually crafted scenes paired with...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 99 High Art Collective
Venice-based photographer Dean Chamberlain has enjoyed decades of critical and popular acclaim, a compendium of exhibitions and publications, and a high...
Friday 8/ 7 @ Avalon Hollywood
It's a good night to dance until dawn, as Angelenos the Polyamorous Affair, a costume drama in the form of an...
Friday 8/ 7 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip
Even if you don't know a word of Spanish, it's safe to say you'll enjoy the smooth switches of Los Amigos...
Friday 8/ 7 @ The Stronghold
Just how far would you go for love — across town or halfway around the world? To save yourself the trouble...
Friday 8/ 7 @ Bootleg Theater
Springfield, Missouri quartet Ha Ha Tonka recall the mountain folklore of the Ozark state park for which they were named, blending...
Friday 8/ 7 @ The Mint
Presiding over his Funky Nation is Big Sam, formerly the trombonist for the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, who blows the funk...
Douglas Brinkley presents and signs Wilderness Warrior
Friday 8/ 7 @ Book Soup
Douglas Brinkley presents and signs Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, 1858-1919 ...
Irregular Wine Tasting @ Echoplex
Friday 8/ 7 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Get thee to the Echoplex, aka the Julius Shulman Memorial Hall, this night for the forty-third edition of Irregular Wine Tasting,...
Ongoing Events
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Regen Projects II
Since his seminal book Statements came out in 1968, Lawrence Weiner has been at the forefront of conceptual art. Using language...
Todd Hebert and Jennifer Nehrbass
Friday 8/ 7 @ Mark Moore Gallery
In his latest body of work, Todd Hebert employs a mix of sharp detail and soft focus, and a dark yet...
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Highways Performance Space
Not all peep shows are filled with tawdry strippers exposing skin for a quick buck. At Highways Performance Space's Big Gay...
Friday 8/ 7 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Three very different artists enter into a dialogue about the persistence of memory and how recollections are formed, contorted, stored, and...
Footsteps in Africa: A Nomadic Journey
Friday 8/ 7 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Director Kathi von Koerber has created a visual love letter to the nomadic Tuareg people's way of life. Following a community...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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...
The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
Exene Cervenka and Wayne White
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery
In her latest series of photographic and video projections, Nicole Cohen expands upon previous subject matter and technological complexity, constructing layered,...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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...
Kime Buzelli and Suzannah Sinclair
Friday 8/ 7 @ New Image Art
New Image Art Gallery presents a pair of very different takes on the feminine mystique as painters Suzannah Sinclair and Kime...
Friday 8/ 7 @ Directors Guild of America Theater
A competitive film festival of various short films, the fifth annual HollyShorts Film Festival kicks off with Hollywood stars as well...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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...
New Original Works Festival 2009: Program Three
Friday 8/ 7 @ REDCAT
The third and final week of the 2009 NOW Festival — REDCAT's commitment to supporting alternative visions of contemporary visual and...
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Vice Magazine Photography Exhibition
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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 8/ 7 @ 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...
You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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: Parallel Deliria Iteration
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Herbie Hancock & Lang Lang with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Friday 8/ 7 @ Hollywood Bowl
From vastly different musical worlds, two undisputed titans of the keyboard – jazz legend Herbie Hancock and Chinese prodigy Lang Lang...
Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Friday 8/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 8/ 7 @ Book Soup
We love a good happy hour, especially when the wine is free and the books are 25% off. Every weekday from...
