Events on Friday, February 26
Friday 2/26 @ The Mint
Very Be Careful's heavy accordion input and Spanish vocals form the base for music capable of rousing concert halls and street...
Gaze: Portraits of Artists and Composers
Friday 2/26 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
As Jawlensky, Klee and other artists challenged tradition with their unique approaches to portrait painting, composers such as Scriabin and Hindemith...
Friday 2/26 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Trannyshack LA returns, once again at Echoplex, our new home, and our biggest and best venue yet. With a line-up of...
Friday 2/26 @ LACMA
Drugs, alcohol, race, and racism were lifelong companions to alto-sax player Charlie Parker, defining the ups and downs of this gifted...
The Soundtrack of Our Lives w/ Nico Vega
Friday 2/26 @ El Rey
The greatest living, six-piece, space rock'n roll band in the history of the eardrum. Started in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1995 from...
Friday 2/26 @ Book Soup
Eileen C. Moore presents and signs Race Results. A decade-by-decade comparison of Hollywood films and Supreme Court decisions, and how...
KXLU Presents PYCO at the Downtown Independent
Friday 2/26 @ Downtown Independent Theater
KXLU Presents PYCO at the Downtown Independent. A night of live music and visuals. Performances by Kid Infinity, SIGNALS, Verbs, and...
Friday 2/26 @ Bootleg Theater
ERIC JOHNSON “When he’s not singing and playing as James Mercer’s trusted right-hand man in the Shins, Portland, Oregon vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Eric...
Friday 2/26 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
“Mr. Bell doesn’t stand in anyone’s shadow.” - The New York Times
Stop-Motion Animation: Jason and the Argonauts & Jack the Giant Killer
Friday 2/26 @ Egyptian Theatre
JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS, 1963, Sony Repertory, 104 min. Dir. Don Chaffey. Hercules, harpies, the bronze giant Talos and an army...
Game Show Models and The Boob Tube
Friday 2/26 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW CLIP Game Show Models - 8:00pm Having started off life as the off-kilter AFI-funded art film The Seventh Dwarf, Game...
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
Portraiture for the Silicon Enlightenment
Friday 2/26 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Curated by Angela Dufresne, the Fuckheads group show features artists who challenge traditional ways of seeing, moving away from portraiture aligned...
Friday 2/26 @ 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...
Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ 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,...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 2/26 @ 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...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ 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...
Josh Azzarella: Untitled #100 (Fantasia)
Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
To the Hollywood films that portray women as ball-busters, constantly demanding commitment from aloof men, director Kyle Patrick Alvarez's first feature...
Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ LeBasse Projects
Yoshitaka Amano is something of a living legend in his native Japan, being one of the most influential and prolific artists,...
Friday 2/26 @ 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...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Friday 2/26 @ 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 Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
It's no mystery that enigmatic mega-rocker Maynard James Keenan (Tool, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer) has proven his talents in a number...
Friday 2/26 @ Track 16 Gallery
Courtesy of the freshly re-opened Track 16 Gallery and curated by Elizabeta Betinski of the recently closed and much-missed Overtones Gallery,...
Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ 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...
Friday 2/26 @ 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...
Andres Guerrero and Albert Reyes
Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ 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...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Friday 2/26 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Teatro en el Blanco: Diciembre
Friday 2/26 @ REDCAT
Leap forward to Christmas Eve 2014 and into the mind of Chilean writer-director Guillermo Calderón, who, along with a cast of...
Friday 2/26 @ Saban Theatre
If there's one thing that will get Lost fans and Gleeks off the couch, it's PaleyFest. Going on its 27th year,...
Friday 2/26 @ Pantages Theatre
The story of Celie, a young black woman growing up in a minefield of abuse, racism, poverty, and deceit, who perseveres...
Friday 2/26 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Photographer, painter, installation artist, and skate legend Ed Templeton is a natural documentarian, first coming to the art world's attention with...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ Sam Lee Gallery
Remote warfare, military drones, and other robotic tools of destruction used to be the stuff of science fiction novels but now...
Friday 2/26 @ Downtown Independent Theater
ZOMBIE GIRL: THE MOVIE chronicles the creative passion of Emily Hagins, an extraordinary pre-teen girl following her filmmaking dreams.
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ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Friday 2/26 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Special introduction by the director via Skype
Do you know what happens when you drink the water?
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Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ 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...
Kim Rugg: Please Remain Calmand Josh Azzarella: Untitled #100 (Fantasia)
Friday 2/26 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 13, 5-7p On View February 13 – March 13, 2010 Featuring DJ MoreDillon...
Friday 2/26 @ 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...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ 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...
