Events on Friday, April 2
Friday 4/ 2 @ Museum of Neon Art
First Fridays is the Museum of Neon Art’s adventurous monthly series of avant-garde jazz performances. The venue lends itself to a...
Film Noir w/ Rhonda Fleming and Richard Erdman In Person: CRY DANGER and TIGHT SPOT
Friday 4/ 2 @ Egyptian Theatre
Friday, April 2 – 7:30 PM Bill Bowers Tribute Double Feature: New 35mm Restored Print! CRY DANGER, 1951, Paramount, 79...
Friday 4/ 2 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Doors at 8pm
dir. David Lynch
2006, 35mm, R,...
Friday 4/ 2 @ The Wiltern
Lebowski Fest is a celebration of all things related to the 1998 Coen brothers cult comedy, "The Big Lebowski." Fans of...
RoboCop-A-Thon!: RoboCop + RoboCop 2 + RoboCop 3 triple feature
Friday 4/ 2 @ The Cinefamily
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What's better than a dystopian future cyborg policeman movie? Three dystopian future cyborg policeman movies, of...
Moon Kana w/ DJ SiSeN (Japan) at Bootleg
Friday 4/ 2 @ Bootleg Theater
MOON KANA Kana is a Japanese pop and rock singer. She is also a toy designer, illustrator, and a fashion designer....
Gram Rabbit / Andy Clockwise / Crooked Cowboy / The Californian @ echoplex
Friday 4/ 2 @ The Echo & Echoplex
They’ve gone from strange to stranger, those Joshua Tree denizens known as Gram Rabbit. On their third album, RadioAngel and the...
Ongoing Events
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ Electric Lodge
Forget Amsterdam, Oaksterdam, and the Rastafarians. Where else could you catch the world premiere of a musical about pot than in...
Friday 4/ 2 @ Affinity Galleries
Affinity Galleries, previously known as the Circus Gallery, presents an innovative group show that effectively redefines the term "multimedia." Exhibiting photography,...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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....
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ DNJ Gallery
The often-haunting nightscapes of Night Lights reveal how city environments can become both isolating and poetic with the absence of daylight....
4th International Exhibition with Thailand
Friday 4/ 2 @ LA Artcore Union Center Gallery
LA Artcore hosts a dual-venue exhibition co-produced by the Thai Art Council and the Office of National Culture Commission of Thailand....
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
National Geographic puts a new spin on a classic subject, using cutting-edge photographic technology to build a sweeping portfolio of the...
How Many Billboards? Art in Stead
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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...
Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since W.W.II
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ The Ford Theater
Lascivious Something is a marked departure from Sheila Callaghan's work as a writer on Showtime's The United States of Tara. Presented...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Britton Tolliver: A Search for the Sky Underneath the Dirt
Friday 4/ 2 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Tolliver's vivid paintings engage a successful and intense marriage of abstraction and geometric rendering, and at times his forms seem to...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Friday 4/ 2 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Friday 4/ 2 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ Highways Performance Space
Arianne MacBean, Ilaan Egeland Mazzini, Carmela Hermann, and Keith Glassman achieve fascinating and unique performances, each expressing a personalized life view,...
Friday 4/ 2 @ Underground Gallery
Underground Gallery says: Club Med is a solo exhibition by Anne Martens featuring sewn mixed-media sculpture and installation. In Club Med,...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ Track 16 Gallery
Mike Watt, former bassist of San Pedro '80s punk band Minutemen, debuts his latest turn tonight: photography. The iconic rocker, who...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ 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...
Sumi Ink Club Drawing Event Series
Friday 4/ 2 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
For the first phase of their residence at PMCA, Sumi Ink Club will hold drawing events to gradually cover the walls...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
“He doesn't simply conduct this music; he lives...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 4/ 2 @ 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 4/ 2 @ Mark Moore Gallery
On the heels of his solo booth at PULSE Contemporary Art Fair (New York), Kim Dorland returns to LA with nearly...
