Events on Friday, March 26
Friday 3/26 @ Hollywood Palladium
Metric doesn't rely on any extraneous instrumentation to win you over, bucking indie rock's trend toward overindulgent "growers" in favor of...
Friday 3/26 @ Egyptian Theatre
MAD MAX, 1979, MGM Repertory, 88 min. Dir. George Miller. Mel Gibson stars in the nihilistic road-rage sci-fi action film about...
Gabrielle Burton: Impatient with Desire
Friday 3/26 @ Book Soup
Gabrielle Burton presents and signs Impatient with Desire. "Told through fictional letters and diary entries written by Tamsen Donner, Impatient...
Big Sam's Funky Nation (CD Release Party)
Friday 3/26 @ The Mint
Big Sam's Funky Nation This is a 21+ show. A New...
The Paper Chase (Kill Rock Stars) w/ Kiss Kiss, and A Decent Animal at Bootleg
Friday 3/26 @ Bootleg Theater
THE PAPER CHASE The Dallas quartet doesn't easily fit into any one musical genre or style. Previous attempts to assign the...
Copeland w/ I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business, person L, and Deas Vail
Friday 3/26 @ El Rey
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Triple Feature: The Last Man On Earth, Night of The Comet, The Omega Man
Friday 3/26 @ The Cinefamily
Last Man presents Vincent Price as Robert Morgan, a former scientist surviving amidst a plague of vampire-like zombies. Dirs. Ubaldo Ragona...
Ongoing Events
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ Affinity Galleries
Affinity Galleries, previously known as the Circus Gallery, presents an innovative group show that effectively redefines the term "multimedia." Exhibiting photography,...
Friday 3/26 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Friday 3/26 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Friday 3/26 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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...
Friday 3/26 @ Pacific Design Center
This week's confluence of West Week, the Avenues, and tonight's kaleidoscope of new art exists in perfect synergy, with most PDC...
Friday 3/26 @ Long Beach Convention Center
The Health Freedom Expo in Long Beach brings awareness to the issues of alternative medicine, holistic healthcare, and patients' rights. The...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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,...
Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since W.W.II
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ François Ghebaly Gallery
Although he was born in New York and lives and works in Berlin, there is something about David Levine's long-term found-photo...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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...
How Many Billboards? Art in Stead
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ CB1 Gallery
The current exhibition — just the second at Downtown's freshly-minted CB1 Gallery — is a three-person show of diverse works in...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ Mark Moore Gallery
On the heels of his solo booth at PULSE Contemporary Art Fair (New York), Kim Dorland returns to LA with nearly...
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
Friday 3/26 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Showing March 26th - April 1st
Fri 26th: 4:40, 6:30, 8:20*, 10:10
Sat 27th: 1:00, 2:50, 4:40, 6:30,...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Showing March 26th - April 1st
Fri 26th: 4:40, 6:30, 8:20*, 10:10
Sat 27th: 1:00, 2:50, 4:40,...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
