Events on Friday, March 12
Friday 3/12 @ Hotel Angeleno
LA's RAW: natural born artists celebrates its first anniversary as an independent arts showcase that's as eclectic as life really is....
Adolescents / Youth Brigade / Blockage
Friday 3/12 @ El Rey
Punk rock may have started in the big cities but it was made for the suburbs. It was a lifeline for...
The Bed Sitting Room shown with A Boy And His Dog
Friday 3/12 @ The Cinefamily
Two screenings: The Bed Sitting Room (Dir. Richard Lester, 1969, 35mm, 90 min) & A Boy And His Dog (Dir. L.Q....
Sleepy Sun and Slang Chickens @ echo
Friday 3/12 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Their debut album, Embrace, dispenses its earth-quaking riffage in such carefully measured, perfectly spaced-out rations, it tricks you into thinking the...
World Premiere of GONE WITH THE POPE + MASSACRE MAFIA STYLE
Friday 3/12 @ Egyptian Theatre
World Premiere: GONE WITH THE POPE, 1976, Grindhouse Releasing, 83 min. Writer-director-producer Duke Mitchell stars as Paul, a criminal with an...
Holly Miranda w/ Big Moves at Bootleg
Friday 3/12 @ Bootleg Theater
HOLLY MIRANDA “She's a bona-fide singer-songwriter who can and will simply sell a song around just her voice and the sound...
Ongoing Events
Friday 3/12 @ New Beverly Cinema
Even if you've ingested a lifetime's worth of gleeful J-horror violence or knowing, Raimi-style bloodletting, nothing quite prepares you for House,...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Friday 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Curated by Angela Dufresne, the Fuckheads group show features artists who challenge traditional ways of seeing, moving away from portraiture aligned...
Friday 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Friday 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ Art Center College of Design
Rightfully entitled DreamWorlds, this short exhibition at the Williamson Gallery features the work of the Dreamworks animation artists that help bring...
Josh Azzarella: Untitled #100 (Fantasia)
Friday 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ The Continental Gallery
Between their individual projects and their extensive collaborative undertakings, the six artists in Focus Daily operate in photography, painting, fashion, video,...
Friday 3/12 @ Affinity Galleries
Affinity Galleries, previously known as the Circus Gallery, presents an innovative group show that effectively redefines the term "multimedia." Exhibiting photography,...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Friday 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Friday 3/12 @ Crewest Gallery
The Cool 5, better known as TC-5, were responsible for the graffiti, fashion, and all-around scene-making that made the NYC outdoor...
Friday 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ 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...
How Many Billboards? Art in Stead
Friday 3/12 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
In New York, street art is tagged on the sides of buildings and pasted on empty storefronts. In Los Angeles, a...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ LeBasse Projects
Yoshitaka Amano is something of a living legend in his native Japan, being one of the most influential and prolific artists,...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Friday 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ Echoplex
Following "Dylan-esque acoustic stuff" on Howl (2005), Black Rebel Motorcycle Club veered off in a heavy direction with Baby 81 (2007),...
Friday 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ Mr. Musichead Gallery
For over 30 years, music-industry photography vet Jay Blakesberg has made a career of shooting tripped-out rock icons such as Jerry...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since W.W.II
Friday 3/12 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Art Against Empire, culled from the extensive holdings of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, offers over 100 selected...
Friday 3/12 @ Michael Benevento Los Angeles
Updegraff's debut exhibition with Michael Benevento is an elegant evolution of the artist's exploration of the power-play between subject and author,...
Friday 3/12 @ Charlie James Gallery
Travis Somerville is one of the west coast's fastest-rising art stars, first coming to national attention as the winner of the...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ Various Los Angeles theaters
A compelling polemic by Philly-based Don Argott, The Art of the Steal looks at the bitter, decades-long fight over the Barnes...
Friday 3/12 @ Jeanie Madsen Gallery
A 79-year old society hairdresser, New York photographer Victor Friedman has been moonlighting as a photojournalist for 45 years. Now, he...
Friday 3/12 @ Edward Cella Art + Architecture
At a time when the country of Chile is foremost in the world's thoughts for tragic reasons, Mary Heebner's long-planned exhibition...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Friday 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ Khastoo Gallery
Khastoo goes from art gallery to temporary pop-up shop, teaming up with Stor and Quentin Smith's Smithshop to sell not just...
Friday 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ 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...
de Waart Conducts Elgar and Strauss
Friday 3/12 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Although Elgar’s Cello Concerto had a disastrous premiere, it is now considered among his greatest masterpieces. Truls...
Friday 3/12 @ Downtown Independent Theater
CHILDREN OF INVENTION
dir. Tze Chun
2009, 35mm, color
March 12th - 18th
Fri....
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Friday 3/12 @ 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 3/12 @ 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...
Kim Rugg: Please Remain Calmand Josh Azzarella: Untitled #100 (Fantasia)
Friday 3/12 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 13, 5-7p On View February 13 – March 13, 2010 Featuring DJ MoreDillon...
Friday 3/12 @ 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...
