Events on Friday, September 18
VERY BE CAREFUL w/ Andrea Ferraz & D'AGUA + Pilar Diaz
Friday 9/18 @ The Mint
Very Be Careful bring cumbia and vallenato into the 21st century. The Caribbean-by-way-of-LA group expound upon urban grit with jubilant music...
Friday 9/18 @ The Roxy Theatre
With a name inspired by Caligula, British techno singer Little Boots is carving out her own unique legend; the classically-trained singer...
Night Horse with Sea of Air, and Emeralds
Friday 9/18 @ Bootleg Theater
NIGHT HORSE Tradition lies deep in the music of Los Angeles rock and roll group NIGHT HORSE, which features members of...
Bronson (w/ director Nic Refn and star Tom Hardy in person!)
Friday 9/18 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW TRAILER
The Cinefamily presents a special sneak preview of Bronson, the story of Britain’s most violent and...
Matthew Spektor's Summertime Sound
Friday 9/18 @ Book Soup
Matthew Spektor presents and signs That Summertime Sound...
Meat Puppets & Dead Confederate with Ume
Friday 9/18 @ El Rey
The show will be certain to range over the course of performance afforded it by the Puppets' endearingly adventurous career. Some...
Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING with Actor Joe Turkel in person
Friday 9/18 @ Egyptian Theatre
THE SHINING, 1980, Warner Bros., 142 min. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. A brilliant exercise in pure supernatural terror, THE SHINING...
Keistar Productions & Footlong Development Present Soul Slam V - Prince & Michael Jackson @ echoplex
Friday 9/18 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Keistar Productions & Footlong Development Present
SOUL SLAM: PRINCE & MICHAEL JACKSON
Celebrating The Life...
Cigarettes & Alcohol: Eight Films by Hong Sang-soo; Turning Gate (Saenghwalui balgyeon)
Friday 9/18 @ LACMA
In Hong's biggest Korean box-office hit, an out-of-work actor embarks on two consecutively turbulent relationships. The film takes its title from...
Ongoing Events
Friday 9/18 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Whether the product of sheer creative license or shrewd marketing heads, the movie poster has inspired as much debate as the...
Friday 9/18 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
After following Metallica through group therapy in his last film, Some Kind of Monster, Joe Berlinger is back in top form...
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ Regen Projects
Doug Aitken's exhibition at Regen Projects never sleeps. During the day, the darkened indoor gallery displays light boxes comprised of images...
Friday 9/18 @ El Portal Theatre
Luminario Ballet delivers new works and vintage choreography in ballet, modern and aerial classics by Judith FLEX Helle, Bella Lewitzky, Doriana...
Friday 9/18 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
While it's easy to become unhinged in our current economic climate, artist Claire Oswalt takes it to the next level, fashioning...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside
Twenty international artists who explore human interaction with domesticated, imaginary, laboratory, or wild animals contribute work in media from video installation...
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ Bob Baker Marionette Theater
LA's own Bob Baker Marionette Theater hosts a month-long residency featuring local band, Dead Man's Bones. Comprised of duo Ryan Gosling...
Woodstock: The 40th Anniversary
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 9/18 @ PØST
The LA art world mourned the closing of downtown avant-garde exhibition staple PØST a few years ago, but now it's back...
Friday 9/18 @ Western Project
Channeling his inner Duchamp, sculptor Michael Dee combs the florescent-lit aisles of his local 99-cent store in search of plastic cups,...
Friday 9/18 @ West Beach, Santa Barbara
The word bashment is a Caribbean term used to describe a particularly good party, and it happens to be the name...
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ The Getty Center
Thirty staged photographs are on view at the Getty Center as part of its In Focus series, a thematic presentation of...
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Friday 9/18 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
The second most consumed drink next to water, tea has also been frequent theme in art history. Guest curated by tea...
YaYa Chou, Emily De Araújo, Adele Mills, and Shizuko Greenblatt
Friday 9/18 @ Gallery 825
YaYa Chou constructs a room-size sculptural installation in which a collaborative dance and movement piece is to be performed and documented;...
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ Japanese American National Museum
Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda has a lot on his mind — literally. His parallel career as a visual artist often finds...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ Subliminal Projects
Weekend warriors find their more enlightened alter ego in Weekend Pacifists, a group show featuring the work of five artists —...
Friday 9/18 @ Kathryn Brennan Gallery
Bright Young Thing Jeni Spota has her second solo show this September with Kathryn Brennan Gallery, formerly Sister, in Chinatown. Fool's...
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ Honor Fraser
Kenny Scharf's latest one-man show, Barberadise, merges the past and future for a wistfully evocative, pop-culture infused present. The Hollywood native's...
Ultrasonic IV: Fresh Perspectives
Friday 9/18 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Mark Moore Gallery presents its fourth iteration of Ultrasonic, a group exhibition featuring five emerging artists working in various media —...
Friday 9/18 @ David DeSanctis Gallery
David LaChapelle is one of the most well-known and controversial photographers working today, who recently retired from a career in fashion...
Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins
Friday 9/18 @ El Centro Theatre
Seventies hatemonger (and Harvey Milk's old nemesis) Anita Bryant is the anti-heroine in Brian Christopher Williams' gentle coming-of-age comedy. Directed by...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ REDCAT
REDCAT presents Autoconstrucción: The Film by Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas, in which the artist revisits Ajusco, his childhood neighborhood in Mexico...
Friday 9/18 @ Laemmle's Royal Theatre
Environmental documentaries have been popping up at an alarming rate, providing lots of proselytizing, but little action. No Impact Man promises...
Friday 9/18 @ LM Projects
The art in this show rocks and rolls — and gets set on fire, sets off chain reactions, and invites users...
Friday 9/18 @ DNJ Gallery
Two very different photographers take on aspects of growing up in America. Jona Frank extends her intimate yet clinical style of...
Aristophanes' Peace at the Getty Villa
Friday 9/18 @ The Getty Museum
Founded 25 years ago on Cinco de Mayo, Culture Clash still reigns as the foremost Latino performance trio in the US....
Friday 9/18 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
In his first independent exhibition at Roberts & Tilton, Titus Kaphar rewrites history. By slashing, draping, arranging, and painting his work,...
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Despite their beauty, Chris Jordan's photographic prints are visual ecological statements we'd rather not see. Like much of his early work,...
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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...
Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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
Friday 9/18 @ 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...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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...
Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36
Friday 9/18 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
This new exhibition explores the career of legendary film producer Irving Thalberg, Hollywood’s original “Boy Wonder,” and...
A Counterpoint of Tolerance: AH! Interactive Opera No-Opera
Friday 9/18 @ REDCAT
Bringing together an array of robotic and interactive musical technologies, ingenious stagecraft, and flights of phenomenal musicianship, REDCAT is transformed...
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Friday 9/18 @ 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 9/18 @ 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...
Friday 9/18 @ The Getty Museum
Irving Penn was one of the most respected photographers of the 20th century. In a career that began at the premiere...
