Events on Friday, January 29
Friday 1/29 @ Book Soup
Though she famously penned the brilliant line, "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine," godmother of punk Patti Smith was...
Friday 1/29 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Seeing that it's a few months until True Blood is back on TV, tonight's event might be just the ticket to...
Friday 1/29 @ LACMA
Tarkovsky’s first production outside the USSR takes him to the majestic Italian countryside where a Soviet musicologist retraces the...
Hawaii Night at The GRAMMY Museum
Friday 1/29 @ The GRAMMY Museum
Celebrate the rich cultural heritage of Hawaiian music with The GRAMMY...
Friday 1/29 @ Bootleg Theater
GPKISM GPKISM is the manifestation of baroque essence fused with electro/industrial sound, creating a unique world both decadent and sublime. GPKISM...
Friday 1/29 @ LACMA
Friday 1/29 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Backed by piano, bass and drums, Alpert’s warm, expressive trumpet complements Hall’s sensual, emotional voice for a...
Sergio Leone: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Digitally Restored
Friday 1/29 @ Egyptian Theatre
Digitally Restored! THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (IL BUONO, IL BRUTTO, IL CATTIVO), 1966, MGM Repertory, 161 min. Sergio...
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber, Inc.
Friday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Where London has the Victoria and Albert, LA has the Craft and Folk Art Museum; yet, too often, the little institution...
Friday 1/29 @ New Image Art
Writing in her seminal essay collection On Photography, art and media critic Susan Sontag was adamant concerning the inherent differences women...
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Friday 1/29 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing
Friday 1/29 @ Pacific Design Center
Curated by Art Cinema author Paul Young, The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing examines the span of contemporary global video art,...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Friday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ Arclight Sherman Oaks
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
Friday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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...
J. David Carlson and Michael Dotson
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Friday 1/29 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Friday 1/29 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Does having more Best Picture nominations affect the quality of films made? Maybe not. But then again, the last time 10...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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...
The Women of Women: The Female Form
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Friday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ [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 1/29 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Cowboy, Indian, and Horse wreak havoc in this slapstick stop-motion animation film, based on a cult Belgian TV series distributed by...
Bride of Wildenstein: The Musical
Friday 1/29 @ The Velaslavasay Panorama
LA-based nonprofit Automata is teaming up with Ibex Puppetry at the Velaslavasay Panorama for a program starring puppeteer, singer, and "high-art...
Friday 1/29 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
Scion continues its bid to outpace the NEA with its first big traveling show of 2010. They commissioned ten artists to...
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Friday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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...
Friday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ LACMA
Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:...
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Friday 1/29 @ HAUS
Surname challenged collaborative art duo Jeff & Gordon—aka Jeff Foye and Gordon Winiemko—push the boundaries between public and personal at HAUS,...
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Allison Schulnik: Home for Hobo
Friday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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...
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Friday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ Jancar Gallery
Foshee takes her penchant for transforming mundane materials, that might easily be amassed from Staples, to familiar and differentiated dimensions with...
Friday 1/29 @ LAXART
Kamrooz Aram and Artemio engage in an unhinging of the standard mechanisms of image-making, challenging social norms in the process. Artemio's...
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Friday 1/29 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Known most famously for his reign as one of theater's greatest playwrights, British-born Noël Coward wore many other hats: singer, actor,...
Friday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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...
Friday 1/29 @ Pacific Design Center
Dozens of international galleries temporarily set up shop at the Pacific Design Center as part of the inaugural three-day Art Los...
Friday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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...
The Posters Came From The Walls (LA premiere)
Friday 1/29 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW CLIP
Co-presented by Art Los Angeles Contemporary in association with Gavin Brown's enterprise
A...
Friday 1/29 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) presents CLOSER 104.7, a radio collaboration with artist Jeff Cain, as part of the Art Los...
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart
Friday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ Downtown Independent Theater
BRONSON
Dir. Nicholas Winding Refn
Starring Tom Hardy, Hugh Ross
2008, 35mm, color, 92min
Playing...
Friday 1/29 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Young Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko, whose tutors included Esa-Pekka Salonen, was the youngest to be appointed principal...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Friday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Wagatail Presents: Tim Reynolds & TR3 (2 Nights)
Friday 1/29 @ The Mint
1/29 7:30pm Doors 9pm Check in the Dark 11pm Tim Reynolds & TR3 1/30 7:30pm Doors 9:30pm Jerry Joseph...
Friday 1/29 @ 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 1/29 @ 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...
Population: Portraits by Ray Turner
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
