Events on Friday, January 22
Friday 1/22 @ J-Lounge
A true musical Renaissance man, Philly native Vikter Duplaix gets mad respect for his impeccable production skills, innovative compositions, and incredibly...
Friday 1/22 @ The Wiltern
There is nothing icy about the Cold War Kids. The Fullerton, California natives make the kind of music guaranteed to rid...
Friday 1/22 @ LACMA
Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of a space station orbiting the molten...
Martin Scorsese's RAGING BULL Digital Restoration
Friday 1/22 @ Egyptian Theatre
Digitally Restored! RAGING BULL, 1980, MGM Repertory, 128 min. The 30th anniversary of director Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece. A stunning B&W portrait...
Dana Goodyear presents the USC MPW Reading Series
Friday 1/22 @ Book Soup
Dana Goodyear presents the USC MPW Reading Series. Theme: Lessons Learned: The Wisdom of...
Wendy Darling + The Stone Foxes
Friday 1/22 @ The Mint
9pm The Stone Foxes 10:15pm Wendy Darling Wendy Darling Wendy Darling are a young San Francisco-based indie outfit fronted...
Friday 1/22 @ The Wiltern
A member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour that recently had an acclaimed special on Comedy Central, Iranian/American Maz Jobrani...
Friday 1/22 @ El Rey
2010 Grammy nominated Lalah Hathaway in a vey special evening at the El Rey on January 22nd. Reserved seats and general...
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/22 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Organized by co-curator of 2008's Beautiful Losers, Aaron Rose, Projections: A Festival of Rare and Hard-to-See Films is just what it...
Friday 1/22 @ 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 1/22 @ 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 1/22 @ Cherry and Martin
Daniel Dove's large-scale oil paintings attempt to reconcile the duality of the world outside of the artist's studio that is in...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Friday 1/22 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 1/22 @ 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 1/22 @ 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...
Friday 1/22 @ 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 1/22 @ 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 1/22 @ JAUS
Mexico City-based Anibal Catalan transforms the exterior of the Jaus house with a complex gray-scale mural referencing the incandescent wings of...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Friday 1/22 @ Gallery 1988
By the power of Grayskull, Gallery 1988 is about to honor the power He-Man had on us old schoolers in one...
Friday 1/22 @ 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 1/22 @ 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 1/22 @ Los Angeles Convention Center
The largest art fair on the West Coast takes flight tonight with a gallery ranging from promising (and pocket-friendly) unknowns to...
Friday 1/22 @ 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 1/22 @ HAUS
Surname challenged collaborative art duo Jeff & Gordon—aka Jeff Foye and Gordon Winiemko—push the boundaries between public and personal at HAUS,...
Friday 1/22 @ 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 1/22 @ REDCAT
Unfettered by a male-dominated Asian art scene, Everyday Miracles (Extended) — an offshoot of the Everyday Miracles that debuted at the...
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Friday 1/22 @ Hammer Museum
R. Crumb's interpretation of the Book of Genesis is at once disturbing, sacrilegious, violent, and debauched, but paired with a holy...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
The Women of Women: The Female Form
Friday 1/22 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Curator Yasmine Mohseni takes advantage of the female form's captive powers in The Women of Women, a group exhibition featuring the...
Friday 1/22 @ Arclight Sherman Oaks
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber, Inc.
Friday 1/22 @ 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 1/22 @ A Noise Within
Irish playwright Samuel Beckett's pivotal work Waiting for Godot returns to its A Noise Within for a ten-performance-only run. Directed by...
Friday 1/22 @ Jancar Gallery
Foshee takes her penchant for transforming mundane materials, that might easily be amassed from Staples, to familiar and differentiated dimensions with...
Friday 1/22 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
Street-installation artist Mark Jenkins uses unlikely juxtapositions to shake people loose from their day-to-day expectations. The streets of world cities aren't...
Friday 1/22 @ Armory Center for the Arts
From 1966-2001, legendary artist Robert Rauschenberg partnered with the impressive printmakers at LA's Gemini G.E.L. to produce an astonishing 250-plus groundbreaking...
The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing
Friday 1/22 @ Pacific Design Center
Curated by Art Cinema author Paul Young, The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing examines the span of contemporary global video art,...
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Friday 1/22 @ 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 1/22 @ LACMA
Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:...
J. David Carlson and Michael Dotson
Friday 1/22 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
The dialogue in Playscapes and Architectonic Dreams riffs off paintings inspired by a 1980s video-game aesthetic and intricate diorama sculptures (think...
Friday 1/22 @ Fremont Centre Theatre, 1000 Fremont Ave., South Pasadena, CA 91030
The musical 2116, originally written 55 years ago by legendary author Ray Bradbury, is only now finally seeing its debut, and...
Friday 1/22 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
Owen Smith's use of archetypal characters such as the boxer taking a blow in the ring, men working high in the...
Friday 1/22 @ Royal/T
Jane Glassman's years of work in the art world have seen her not only getting to know a variety of its...
Ingres' Comtesse d'Haussonville from the Frick Collection
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Allison Schulnik: Home for Hobo
Friday 1/22 @ 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 1/22 @ 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 1/22 @ 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 1/22 @ The Landmark
Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina) penned some of the most dramatic stories in modern literature, but if The Last Station is anything...
Friday 1/22 @ 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 1/22 @ [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 1/22 @ 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 1/22 @ 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 1/22 @ New Image Art
Writing in her seminal essay collection On Photography, art and media critic Susan Sontag was adamant concerning the inherent differences women...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Friday 1/22 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Friday 1/22 @ Honor Fraser
Somewhere on the formal continuum between Gordon Matta-Clark's cut-outs and the Ice Hotel in Sweden lie the architectural sculptures and interventions...
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Friday 1/22 @ 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 1/22 @ 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...
Population: Portraits by Ray Turner
Friday 1/22 @ 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 1/22 @ REDCAT
“Raw 21st-century expression... Extraordinarily brilliant." The Guardian Brazilian choreographer Bruno Beltrão and his nine-member Grupo de Rua—all recruited from the...
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Friday 1/22 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
For those who want to experience an immense symphony (the aural equivalent of a major...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 1/22 @ 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...
Friday 1/22 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
