Events on Friday, March 19
Friday 3/19 @ El Rey
Famous for folk masterpieces like Mellow Yellow and Sunshine Superman, iconic Scotsman Donovan returns to the stage tonight as headliner at...
Friday 3/19 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
With his warm, soulful vocals, Hawaii’s most popular and multi-talented performer intoxicates us with his enthralling look...
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Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Portraiture for the Silicon Enlightenment
Friday 3/19 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Curated by Angela Dufresne, the Fuckheads group show features artists who challenge traditional ways of seeing, moving away from portraiture aligned...
Friday 3/19 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Friday 3/19 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ SCI-Arc
After studying architecture in the '50s, Sir Peter Cook exhibited at ICA (where he later served as director), and co-founded Archigram,...
Friday 3/19 @ Jancar Gallery
Los Angeles artist Mery Lynn McCorkle exhibits new mixed-media works combining rich, saturated colors with visceral, almost topographic textures, distressed surfaces,...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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"...
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ The Last Bookstore
While we certainly wish them all the luck in the world, we hope that the Last Bookstore's name proves un-prophetic. A...
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
How Many Billboards? Art in Stead
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Friday 3/19 @ 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,...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Friday 3/19 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Friday 3/19 @ DNJ Gallery
The often-haunting nightscapes of Night Lights reveal how city environments can become both isolating and poetic with the absence of daylight....
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ SolwayJones Gallery
In this dual-venue mini-retrospective of works mainly from the mid-'70s and early '80s, SolwayJones and Kunsthalle L.A. set up an intriguing...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ Downtown Center East/West Gallery
Michael Salerno has been a pillar of the artistic community of writers and painters that has made Downtown LA the epicenter...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ Affinity Galleries
Affinity Galleries, previously known as the Circus Gallery, presents an innovative group show that effectively redefines the term "multimedia." Exhibiting photography,...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Friday 3/19 @ Various LA Theatres
In the Scandivanian cinema storytelling tradition of greats such as Ingmar Bergman and Lars von Trier, The Girl With the Dragon...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since W.W.II
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ LAXART
Kamrooz Aram and Artemio engage in an unhinging of the standard mechanisms of image-making, challenging social norms in the process. Artemio's...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Exciting young British conductor Robin Ticciati, who counts Simon Rattle and Colin Davis as mentors, takes over...
Friday 3/19 @ Egyptian Theatre
Critic's Buzz Special Screenings: RED RIDING: 1974, 2009, IFC Films, 105 min. Dir. Julian Jarrold. Inspired by the novels of David...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 3/19 @ 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 3/19 @ Art Center College of Design
Four Pasadena homes and their art treasurers will be on tour for a special two-day fundraising event as part of Art...
Friday 3/19 @ Downtown Independent Theater
digital, 90 min, 2009
dir. Bill Ross, IV
45365 explores the congruities of daily life in an...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
