Events on Friday, January 15
Friday 1/15 @ Theatre of NOTE
Local thespians sharpen their claws at the 15th Annual Hollywood Performance Marathon, an "act-off" to benefit Theatre of Note. The first...
Friday 1/15 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Now that all the hobnobbing and networking is nearly over with, everyone can get down to the hard part of the...
Friday 1/15 @ El Rey
State Radio takes the stage at the El Rey tonight, serving up music from their latest LP, Let It Go....
GZA, Curtains & DJ Dark Alley @ Echoplex
Friday 1/15 @ The Echo & Echoplex
GZA
True genius can not be rushed. In the case of the legendary lyricist GZA, time has always...
Strike TV: The Cinematheque Blows Up the Internet
Friday 1/15 @ Egyptian Theatre
The American Cinematheque Blows Up the Internet: Webisodes on the Big Screen! STRIKE TV: Strike TV was created by screenwriters during...
Friday 1/15 @ Downtown Independent Theater
FRIENDLY INTEGRATION, Electronic Creatives and Droid Behavior presents WHAM BAM THANK YOU NAMM AFTER HOURS :: NAMM convention inspired future...
Mount Righteous w/ Seasons at Bootleg
Friday 1/15 @ Bootleg Theater
MOUNT RIGHTEOUS "Mount Righteous is one of the niftiest, oddest, yet wonderful, eclectically mixed bands you can find these days. A...
Spotlight Series: Mississippi Mermaid
Friday 1/15 @ LACMA
In his book on Hitchcock, Truffaut comments that "Vertigo unfolds at a deliberate pace, with a contemplative rhythm that...
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/15 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Curator Jennifer Doyle gets in touch with our emotional side in I Feel Different, a group exhibition featuring multimedia works at...
Friday 1/15 @ Circus Gallery
Curated by Emma Gray and mischievously inspired by an '80s New Age guru's best-selling self-help book, You Can Heal Your Life...
Friday 1/15 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
Friday 1/15 @ Skirball Cultural Center
An Idea Called Tomorrow offers meditations on what should/could/would make for a peaceable and sustainable future — culturally, environmentally, and socially...
Friday 1/15 @ Paley Center LA
Aussie artists Mark & Jay O'Shea headline the Paley Center rooftop this weekend as part of the week long G'day Australia festival....
Friday 1/15 @ Club Nokia
For many of us, Pee-wee Herman has been a demented-yet-diverting fixture of youth. The architect of such childhood classics as Pee-wee's...
Friday 1/15 @ Jancar Gallery
Foshee takes her penchant for transforming mundane materials, that might easily be amassed from Staples, to familiar and differentiated dimensions with...
Friday 1/15 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
LA painter Kenny Harris is a modern update on the archetype of the peripatetic plein air school, an artist whose frequent...
Friday 1/15 @ New Image Art
Writing in her seminal essay collection On Photography, art and media critic Susan Sontag was adamant concerning the inherent differences women...
Allison Schulnik: Home for Hobo
Friday 1/15 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Using claymation techniques and heavy impasto to achieve a hyper-visceral effect, artist Allison Schulnik's series Home for Hobo is striking portraiture...
Friday 1/15 @ Japanese American National Museum
In 2007, Giant Robot launched its first biennale celebrating 15 years as a magazine and a pop culture phenomenon. For its...
Friday 1/15 @ JAUS
Mexico City-based Anibal Catalan transforms the exterior of the Jaus house with a complex gray-scale mural referencing the incandescent wings of...
Friday 1/15 @ [delete] TAG (The Artists Gallery)
Bergamot Station's newest tenant and a long-standing pillar of the independent art community in Los Angeles, TAG (The Artists Gallery) is...
Friday 1/15 @ LACMA
Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:...
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) w/ Uli Edel and Bernd Eichinger in person
Friday 1/15 @ Egyptian Theatre
Adapted from Stefan Aust's 1985 publication, The Baader Meinhof Complex chronicles the reckless idealism and hectic resolve of Germany's Red Army...
Friday 1/15 @ HAUS
Surname challenged collaborative art duo Jeff & Gordon—aka Jeff Foye and Gordon Winiemko—push the boundaries between public and personal at HAUS,...
Friday 1/15 @ Clark Oshin Gallery
Clark Oshin Gallery shows off Frank W. Ockenfels 3's astonishing creative range with an exhibition of photographs and drawings at the...
Ingres' Comtesse d'Haussonville from the Frick Collection
Friday 1/15 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
This beguiling portrait occupies a privileged position at the threshold between French Romanticism and the early hints of modernity. Its impossibly...
Friday 1/15 @ MAK Center Schindler House
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture hosts an exhibition in honor of Austrian sociologist, political scientist, intellectual, and author Otto...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project
Friday 1/15 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
At Rhizome.org, Mark Tribe supports the creation and dissemination of forward-thinking contemporary art; and LACE is a fixture in LA's anything-goes...
Friday 1/15 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
Shizu Saldamando takes portraiture personally in her exhibition There is a Place. Using the old adage "draw what you know" as...
Friday 1/15 @ Arclight Sherman Oaks
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Friday 1/15 @ Skirball Cultural Center
The subject of an engaging exhibition and lavishly appended new book, Eric Etheridge's contemporary photographic portraits of this group of American...
Friday 1/15 @ Art/Works Theatre
In the tradition of Paris' Theatre du Grand Guignol, LA's Grand Guignolers combine macabre storytelling with delightful performances. This time, the...
Friday 1/15 @ Sam Lee Gallery
There is sometimes a disconnect between one's idea of a place and one's actual experience. Artist Jeff Gambill works precisely in this...
Friday 1/15 @ Royal/T
Jane Glassman's years of work in the art world have seen her not only getting to know a variety of its...
Friday 1/15 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
The Annenberg Space for Photography brings the entire genius of its well-appointed exhibition areas and NASA-quality digital-media resources to bear on...
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Friday 1/15 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Perhaps no pop artist is as famous for his window shopping as Wayne Thiebaud. Known largely for his pale palette oil...
Friday 1/15 @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
Curated by Flavorpill's own Heather Jeno Silva (who moonlights as the curator of the CAF's monthly Forum Lounge public conversations, among...
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Friday 1/15 @ Various Los Angeles theaters
Terry Gilliam's visually rich follow-up to such cult gems as Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and Fear and...
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Friday 1/15 @ Gallery 1988
By the power of Grayskull, Gallery 1988 is about to honor the power He-Man had on us old schoolers in one...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Friday 1/15 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Recently, Art Center College of Design students directed their communications prowess towards human rights, yielding emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line...
Friday 1/15 @ Edgemar Center for the Arts
Henry Jaglom's father was a wealthy Russian businessman, and one of the few Jews Heinrich Himmler offered make an "honorary Aryan"...
Friday 1/15 @ Anaheim Convention Center
In the music business, it's all about getting your name out there to be seen and heard, and there's no better...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Friday 1/15 @ Hammer Museum
R. Crumb's interpretation of the Book of Genesis is at once disturbing, sacrilegious, violent, and debauched, but paired with a holy...
Friday 1/15 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Recently, Art Center College of Design students directed their communications prowess towards human rights, yielding emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line...
Friday 1/15 @ Laguna Art Museum
Works by regional and national artists come together at the Laguna Art Museum's Collecting California, which reflects the long history of...
Friday 1/15 @ The Landmark
Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina) penned some of the most dramatic stories in modern literature, but if The Last Station is anything...
Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber, Inc.
Friday 1/15 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Members of Winnipeg's Royal Art Lodge, a prolific and cheeky artists collective which disbanded in 2008, this pair of artistic co-conspirators...
Friday 1/15 @ Skirball Cultural Center
American playwright and protester Clifford Odets penned plays that centered around themes of class, injustice, and the Great Depression. His first...
Friday 1/15 @ 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...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Friday 1/15 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Friday 1/15 @ [do not use] Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles
Adapted from Stefan Aust's 1985 publication, The Baader Meinhof Complex chronicles the reckless idealism and hectic resolve of Germany's Red Army...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Friday 1/15 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Friday 1/15 @ REDCAT
Unfettered by a male-dominated Asian art scene, Everyday Miracles (Extended) — an offshoot of the Everyday Miracles that debuted at the...
The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing
Friday 1/15 @ Pacific Design Center
Curated by Art Cinema author Paul Young, The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing examines the span of contemporary global video art,...
Friday 1/15 @ 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 1/15 @ 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...
Population: Portraits by Ray Turner
Friday 1/15 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
A former painting instructor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, artist Ray Turner fashions a uniquely seductive and engaging...
Friday 1/15 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
When Richard Strauss composed his controversial opera Salome, he based it not on the Biblical account but on the more lurid...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Friday 1/15 @ The Getty Museum
Telling the differenc between drawings by Rembrandt and his pupils is a centuries-old problem. A popular teacher with more than 50...
Friday 1/15 @ Downtown Independent Theater
THE MESSENGER
Dir. Oren Moverman
Starring: Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, and Jena Malone
2009, color,...
Art Center at Night Spring Registration
Friday 1/15 @ Art Center College of Design
Art Center's continuing studies program—Art Center at Night—is ideal for students, adult learners and practicing professionals who want to refine existing...
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart
Friday 1/15 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
A leader in the American Printmaking movement, Frances Gearhart’s work was embedded in the time and place of the Arts and...
Friday 1/15 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 1/15 @ The Getty Museum
Over 180 ancient glass objects from the collection of Erwin Oppenländer are featured in this exhibition. The Oppenländer collection, which the Getty...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Friday 1/15 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Making its West Coast debut at the Skirball, Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968 features more than...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Friday 1/15 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
In conjunction with the installation of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's stunning Comtesse d’Haussonville, 1845, on loan from The Frick Collection in New...
