Events on Friday, September 25
Echo & Club Underground present Rain Machine @ Echo
Friday 9/25 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Kyp Malone's anticipated solo project Rain Machine is more experimental than anything his band TV on the Radio have put out....
Friday 9/25 @ Book Soup
Amy Sohn presents and signs Prospect Park West BROOKLYN'S FAMED PARK SLOPE neighborhood has...
SOMEDAY WE WILL GET MARRIED...Premiere Screening!
Friday 9/25 @ Downtown Independent Theater
You are invited to the Premiere Screening of SOMEDAY WE WILL GET MARRIED - the...
The Long Good Friday (1980) + The Krays (1990)
Friday 9/25 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW TRAILER FOR "THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY!"
Stark and sizzling, boozed to the gills and bursting with energy,...
Friday 9/25 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Om || Listen || Watch
You've got to be pretty heavy to get away with an album title...
Friday 9/25 @ Treepeople, Coldwater Canyon Park
1 script, 12 actors, 69 characters – and a whole evening of fun. By popular demand (and you know who you...
Dave Gonzalez and the Stone River Boys
Friday 9/25 @ The Mint
Friday 9/25 @ El Rey
Blending electronic machine-mashing with basic punk-rock beats and dreamy vocals, drummer Carla Azar and bandmates Eugene Goreshter and Greg Edwards keep...
Ongoing Events
Friday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ Marine
One silver lining to art-world downsizing is the resurgence of the private salon, made famous by the 19th and 20th century...
Friday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Friday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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...
Friday 9/25 @ Bootleg Theater
Through the use of projection, masks, puppetry, dance, and music, Rogue Artists Ensemble redefines the traditional theatre company. The collective's latest...
Friday 9/25 @ 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...
Friday 9/25 @ Various Los Angeles theaters
Audrey Tautou (aka Amélie) stars as Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel in this visually stunning French film about the...
Friday 9/25 @ REDCAT
REDCAT presents Autoconstrucción: The Film by Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas, in which the artist revisits Ajusco, his childhood neighborhood in Mexico...
Friday 9/25 @ 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...
Friday 9/25 @ DNJ Gallery
Two very different photographers take on aspects of growing up in America. Jona Frank extends her intimate yet clinical style of...
Woodstock: The 40th Anniversary
Friday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins
Friday 9/25 @ 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...
Friday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Over ten years in the making, We Live in Public documents the life of Internet visionary and "Warhol of the Web"...
Friday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
The second most consumed drink next to water, tea has also been frequent theme in art history. Guest curated by tea...
Friday 9/25 @ Regen Projects
Doug Aitken's exhibition at Regen Projects never sleeps. During the day, the darkened indoor gallery displays light boxes comprised of images...
Aristophanes' Peace at the Getty Villa
Friday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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...
An Evening Without Monty Python
Friday 9/25 @ Montalbán Theatre
All-new players enact the classic sketch bits of Monty Python's Flying Circus, under the keen and expert eye of directors Eric...
Friday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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...
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
Friday 9/25 @ 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...
Ultrasonic IV: Fresh Perspectives
Friday 9/25 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Mark Moore Gallery presents its fourth iteration of Ultrasonic, a group exhibition featuring five emerging artists working in various media —...
Friday 9/25 @ Los Angeles Convention Center
Let's face it, finding the right pair of jeans is like trying to find the right guy (or gal—or both, if...
Friday 9/25 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Billed as the first bel canto production from LA Opera in six years, The Elixir of Love features a big gun:...
Friday 9/25 @ LM Projects
The art in this show rocks and rolls — and gets set on fire, sets off chain reactions, and invites users...
YaYa Chou, Emily De Araújo, Adele Mills, and Shizuko Greenblatt
Friday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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...
Friday 9/25 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
In his first independent exhibition at Roberts & Tilton, Titus Kaphar rewrites history. By slashing, draping, arranging, and painting his work,...
Friday 9/25 @ M Bar, 1253 Vine St., Hollywood, CA 90038
Dedicated to celebrating laughably bad videos rescued from garbage bins, garage sales, thrift stores, and warehouses across the country, the Found...
Friday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Meg Stuart and Philipp Gehmacher: Maybe Forever
Friday 9/25 @ REDCAT
Two of Europe's most engaging and eloquent choreographers come together capturing the whirling passions, fears and anxieties of true love that...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Friday 9/25 @ 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...
Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36
Friday 9/25 @ 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...
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Friday 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ 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 9/25 @ The Getty Museum
Irving Penn was one of the most respected photographers of the 20th century. In a career that began at the premiere...
