Events on Friday, February 19
Friday 2/19 @ Air Conditioned Supper Club, Venice
Broken-beat lovefest 16Bit + Beyond's founding resident DJs, Braden, Carlos de la Torre, and Mr. Caparro, have the mojo to jumpstart...
Friday 2/19 @ LACMA
Friday 2/19 @ LACMA
Friday 2/19 @ Book Soup
"Little Bee will blow you away... In restrained, diamond-hard prose, Cleave alternates between these two characters' points of view as he...
Glen and Randa( w/ director Jim McBride in person) + The End of August at the Hotel Ozone
Friday 2/19 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW CLIP Glen And Randa - 8:00pm
"The city’s far, far away, over the mountains," the magician told him. "I...
I Coulda Been a Contender: Man on a Tightrope & On the Waterfront
Friday 2/19 @ Egyptian Theatre
MAN ON A TIGHTROPE, 1953, 20th Century Fox, 105 min. Dir. Elia Kazan. Frederic March, Adolphe Menjou, Terry Moore and the...
Teenage Divorcée and Honky Tonk Nights
Friday 2/19 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW CLIP Teenage Divorcee - 8:00pm
Hard to believe that as early as 1971, there would already be nostalgia...
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/19 @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Known for putting theatre up in unique locations, Ovation Award-winning Chalk Repertory Theatre is set to bring cross-dressing, mistaken identity, general...
Friday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
Andres Guerrero and Albert Reyes
Friday 2/19 @ Subliminal Projects
From two LA artists comes a dual exhibition about the way individuals perceive themselves and the world around them, when nothing...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Sumi Ink Club represents a new ethos in the art world, one that builds on the playful spirit of artists like...
Friday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ LAXART
Kamrooz Aram and Artemio engage in an unhinging of the standard mechanisms of image-making, challenging social norms in the process. Artemio's...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Friday 2/19 @ REDCAT
REDCAT's four-year artist-in-residence project with the Wooster Group is one of those gifts that just keeps on giving. Not content with...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ The Fountain Theatre
In a modern-day California gothic tale worthy of something by Raymond Chandler, John Fante, Charles Bukowski, or James Ellroy, the longtime...
The Women of Women: The Female Form
Friday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ Alpert Jewish Community Center
Billed by its organizers as the "Jewish Coachella," but with an ever so slightly more professional and civic focus in addition...
Friday 2/19 @ Synchronicity Space
Just in time for Valentine's Day, LA-based art and music collective Heard of Elephants participates in a two-week residency at Synchronicity...
Friday 2/19 @ La Luz de Jesus
Multimedia artist, photographer, and journalist Ruby Ray may not be a household name, but with a body of work like hers,...
Friday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Friday 2/19 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The Los Angeles River has been having a comeback, if you can argue that it was ever popular to begin with....
Friday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ Pantages Theatre
The story of Celie, a young black woman growing up in a minefield of abuse, racism, poverty, and deceit, who perseveres...
J. David Carlson and Michael Dotson
Friday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ Bleicher/Golightly
The current group show at Santa Monica's Bleicher/Golightly Gallery is a celebration of misuse. Nine artists manipulate, rehabilitate, disguise, and deprive...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Friday 2/19 @ 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,...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Friday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ American Jewish University
Each of the artists in the three-person show, Body and Soul, carries an impressive list of achievements. Featuring work by Kathryn...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Friday 2/19 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Friday 2/19 @ 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"...
Josh Azzarella: Untitled #100 (Fantasia)
Friday 2/19 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Known for his video and photography manipulations of monumental news imagery, including the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center,...
Friday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ Coast Playhouse
A "bone"-ified smash. With "organ" accompaniment. Now that that's out of the way, yes, Puppetry of the Penis is exactly what...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Friday 2/19 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Friday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ Sherman Gallery
Cannibal Flower and Thinkspace are staples of the East Side/Downtown independent art scene, favoring a certain kind of edgy, urban romanticism...
Friday 2/19 @ Espace DbD / Rachel Rosenthal Co.
Having recently celebrated her 83rd birthday with an all-out party, art show, and silent auction, LA-based performance artist Rachel Rosenthal shows...
Friday 2/19 @ Sam Lee Gallery
Remote warfare, military drones, and other robotic tools of destruction used to be the stuff of science fiction novels but now...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Friday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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...
Kim Rugg: Please Remain Calmand Josh Azzarella: Untitled #100 (Fantasia)
Friday 2/19 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 13, 5-7p On View February 13 – March 13, 2010 Featuring DJ MoreDillon...
Friday 2/19 @ Egyptian Theatre
THE HURT LOCKER, 2009, Summit Entertainment, 131 min. Acclaimed director Kathryn Bigelow brings together realistic action and intimate human drama in...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Friday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ Downtown Independent Theater
A self-confessed war profiteer, Fidelis Cloer always had an on eye on growth opportunities and found the perfect war when the...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Dutoit Conducts Ravel and Stravinsky
Friday 2/19 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Older brother of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, Paul was a concert pianist until he lost his right arm...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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...
