Events on Friday, February 5
Friday 2/ 5 @ Avalon Hollywood
The "Blank" in rapper Amanda Blank's name is appropriate, as the Philly-based performer has been branded a "nasty-mouthed MC" by the...
Friday 2/ 5 @ REDCAT
Crafting a quality musical instrument is like building a beautiful piece of furniture that needs to sound beautiful, too. Since founder...
Friday 2/ 5 @ The Viper Room
The Sunset Strip sizzles tonight with two of its favorite bands. Made up of former members from Poets and Pornstars, Run Devil...
Friday 2/ 5 @ Largo at the Coronet Theater
Emily Wells seduces the crowd at Largo tonight with her signature blend of folk and hip-hop-inspired tunes that defy categorization, except...
Friday 2/ 5 @ The Troubadour
A Texan at heart, Austin-bred rocker Rhett Miller sticks close to his Lone Star State roots. There's no rush to his...
Friday 2/ 5 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Daedelus, the alter-ego of Alfred Darlington, launches the Magical Properties tour, and his new label, on his home turf of SoCal....
Ivy Pochoda: The Art of Disappearing
Friday 2/ 5 @ Book Soup
Ivy Pochoda presents and signs The Art of Disappearing. "A terrific page-turner about a stage magician and a traveling textile...
Casual Fridays: Blomstedt Conducts Beethoven
Friday 2/ 5 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Eminent veteran conductor Herbert Blomstedt was music director of the San Francisco Symphony for 10 years, during...
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
Friday 2/ 5 @ LACMA
Through film clips, journal entries, and personal musings, renowned French filmmaker Chris Marker pays homage to his friend and colleague Andrei...
Friday 2/ 5 @ The Wiltern
Comedy Central's 2006 Comedian of the Year, Gabriel Iglesias has become one of America's most popular comics thanks to his high...
Friday 2/ 5 @ The Mint
7:30pm Doors 8:30pm Big Organ Trio 10pm DJ Quickie Mart 10:30pm Zigaboo Modeliste
Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste...
Dave Davies w/ Year Long Disaster
Friday 2/ 5 @ El Rey
Dave created a revolutionary guitar sound in the early 60's that turned rock 'n roll guitar playing...
Friday 2/ 5 @ LACMA
As a Swedish family celebrates the birthday of their patriarch—Bergman fixture Erland Josephson—on their windswept Baltic island, the celebratory moods dissipates...
Poor Pretty Eddie + The Loners
Friday 2/ 5 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW CLIP Poor Pretty Eddie - 8:00pm
"There is a buffet of loathsomeness here." - The Video Vacuum
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Ongoing Events
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber, Inc.
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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 2/ 5 @ 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 2/ 5 @ 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 2/ 5 @ 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 2/ 5 @ 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 2/ 5 @ 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 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
The Women of Women: The Female Form
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Landmark's Nuart Theatre presents a selection of British Noir double features, released by the go-to distributors of classic reissues, Rialto Pictures....
Friday 2/ 5 @ REDCAT
Unfettered by a male-dominated Asian art scene, Everyday Miracles (Extended) — an offshoot of the Everyday Miracles that debuted at the...
J. David Carlson and Michael Dotson
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ HAUS
Surname challenged collaborative art duo Jeff & Gordon—aka Jeff Foye and Gordon Winiemko—push the boundaries between public and personal at HAUS,...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Allison Schulnik: Home for Hobo
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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 2/ 5 @ 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 2/ 5 @ 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 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ LACMA
Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing
Friday 2/ 5 @ Pacific Design Center
Curated by Art Cinema author Paul Young, The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing examines the span of contemporary global video art,...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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 2/ 5 @ 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 2/ 5 @ 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 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ The Broad Stage at Santa Monica College
Master puppeteer Basil Twist follows up on his recent success of Arias With a Twist, staging his own quirky version of...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ LAXART
Kamrooz Aram and Artemio engage in an unhinging of the standard mechanisms of image-making, challenging social norms in the process. Artemio's...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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,...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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"...
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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 2/ 5 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
