Events on Friday, April 23
Friday 4/23 @ Laemmle's Music Hall 3
Written, produced, designed, and animated by filmmaker and Parsons professor Nina Paley, Sita Sings the Blues showcases visionary animation choreographed to...
Friday 4/23 @ Herbert Zipper Concert Hall
Inspired by the sculptor Alexander Calder and his monumentally jovial aesthetic, the Calder Quartet blends the skill and repertoire of classical...
Friday 4/23 @ Spaceland
It's hard to describe LA/SF post-punk band the Fuxedos without resorting to hyperbole — they are truly one of the strangest,...
High on Fire w/ Priestess, Black Cobra, and BISON b.c.
Friday 4/23 @ El Rey
If the metal resurgence hasn't already jumped the shark, it's getting uncomfortably mainstream, and dyed-in-the-wool headbangers are retreating into increasingly esoteric...
Friday 4/23 @ Book Soup
Writer Amanda Montei and Special Guest Contributors present an evening of readings from the forthcoming OnwardAwkward magazine, a literary...
Titans of Graphic Novel: Harvey Pekar and Alison Bechdel
Friday 4/23 @ Book Soup
UCLA Live presents American Splendor author Harvey Pekar and Fun Home author Alison...
Glasser w/ The Samps at Bootleg
Friday 4/23 @ Bootleg Theater
GLASSER (True Panther Sounds) “In the era of GarageBand, selecting the coed bedroom-pop outfit that's right for you can be difficult....
Friday 4/23 @ The Cinefamily
Ladies of Leisure - 8:00pm
Barbara Stanwyck -- in her first of many roles for Capra -- plays a "party...
Ongoing Events
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Friday 4/23 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Friday 4/23 @ The Autry National Center of the American West
The terminus of Manifest Destiny has produced an unparalleled convergence of cultures, and by using methodologies such as cultural, social, and...
Friday 4/23 @ 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"...
Gronk: Live-Action Mural Painting
Friday 4/23 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
The Fowler Museum says: Visit the Fowler Museum to meet celebrated Chicano artist Gronk, and watch him create a site-specific...
Friday 4/23 @ The Cravens Estate
The artistry and innovation of the designers, landscapers, and artisans involved in this year's Pasadena Showcase House is as inspirational and...
Paved Paradise: The Art of Joni Mitchell
Friday 4/23 @ The Renberg Theatre
Acclaimed, award-winning performance artist John Kelly has a voice that's eerie in its elasticity, able to bend between genders and spirits...
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ The Hive Gallery & Studios
The Hive Gallery is the artistic home to over 25 resident studio visionaries based in Southern California. In honor of its...
Britton Tolliver: A Search for the Sky Underneath the Dirt
Friday 4/23 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Tolliver's vivid paintings engage a successful and intense marriage of abstraction and geometric rendering, and at times his forms seem to...
Friday 4/23 @ Various LA locations
"More than a century ago, composer Richard Wagner conceived his epic four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen as a festival event...
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Friday 4/23 @ Track 16 Gallery
Mike Watt, former bassist of San Pedro '80s punk band Minutemen, debuts his latest turn tonight: photography. The iconic rocker, who...
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ Eclectic Company Theatre
Written by Jeff Folschinsky, Eclectic's original Turkey Day has the pitch-perfect couple, Bruce and Buffy, being forced to survive their imperfect...
Friday 4/23 @ 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...
Friday 4/23 @ 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...
New: An Experimental Rock Opera
Friday 4/23 @ Million Dollar Theater
Downtown's historic Million Dollar Theater opens its doors for two nights to a homegrown art production that features live music by...
Friday 4/23 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Chris Natrop is an installation artist by nature, known for his labor-intensive, room-engulfing sculptural environments constructed of cut and painted elements....
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ Peter Fetterman Gallery
A survey spanning several decades of Caponigro's innovative classicism in still life and landscape, this is quite simply one of the...
Friday 4/23 @ Arclight Hollywood
Directed by the notorious Banksy himself, Exit Through the Gift Shop takes viewers on a wild ride through the illicit world...
Friday 4/23 @ SCI-Arc
After studying architecture in the '50s, Sir Peter Cook exhibited at ICA (where he later served as director), and co-founded Archigram,...
Jeff Koegel and Gregory Euclide
Friday 4/23 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Jeff Koegel and Gregory Euclide each examine the complexities of humanity's interactions with nature. Koegel's paintings, while not immediately seeming to...
Friday 4/23 @ Natural History Museum
One of the Natural History Museum's most eagerly anticipated annual events is its Pavilion of Wings — the installation of living,...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Friday 4/23 @ Mark Taper Forum
It's always refreshing to see a work that speaks with such striking originality; it reaffirms the value in taking risks. Playwright...
Friday 4/23 @ 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...
Collage Dance Theatre: Laundromatinee
Friday 4/23 @ Spin Cycle Laundry
Collage Dance Theatre says: Collage Dance Theatre will present its and critically-acclaimed show Laundromatinee in Historic Filipinotown in Los Angeles on...
Friday 4/23 @ Los Angeles Convention Center
THC Expose says: THC EXPO was the first trade show presented by World War Thirteen, Inc. THC EXPOSE is the second....
Friday 4/23 @ Various Hollywood theaters
America's beloved commercial-free cable network, Turner Classic Movies broadcasts everything from silent-era two-reelers and vintage travelogues to rare film noirs, golden-era...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ Otis College of Art and Design
Otis College continues to churn out the serious artists and designers, with an eclectic alumni list whose influences have been felt...
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ Lazarides Gallery Beverly Hills
On the eve of the release of the new biographical documentary on his life so far, David Choe takes on the...
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum says: This spring the Hammer Museum presents The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ Antebellum Gallery
The legend goes, 420 first came into existence in 1971 after a group of California high school students met each day...
Friday 4/23 @ Edward Cella Art + Architecture
Edward Cella Gallery wears its worldview on its sleeve, or at least its nameplate, being dedicated to investigating the myriad ways...
No One Knows About Persian Cats
Friday 4/23 @ Landmark Westside Pavilion
Under normal circumstances, most Americans over 30 wouldn't rush to see the latest independent quasi-documentary feature about a bunch of city...
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ Western Project
Being just the second exhibition at its freshly-opened (aka expensively renovated) Culver City location (new from a previous CC place a...
Friday 4/23 @ The Geffen Playhouse
Almost immediately after William Lindsay Gresham's Nightmare Alley was first published in 1946, quintessential Hollywood hunk, Tyrone Power, bought the movie...
Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ Downtown Independent Theater
The artists featured in the documentary Beautiful Losers were hardly the first to root their work in street art, but they...
Friday 4/23 @ Electric Lodge
Forget Amsterdam, Oaksterdam, and the Rastafarians. Where else could you catch the world premiere of a musical about pot than in...
Friday 4/23 @ Santa Monica Air Center, Barker Hangar
Los Angeles Antiques Show says: LOS ANGELES ANTIQUES SHOW FEATURES 65 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITORS, LECTURES, BENEFITS P.S. ARTS
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Friday 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ 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 4/23 @ The GRAMMY Museum
The GRAMMY Museum's third major special exhibit, Strange Kozmic Experience explores the innovations, legacies, and continual impact of the artists who...
Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs
Friday 4/23 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents an exhibition of twenty lithographs of botanical subjects by American artist Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923). Though...
Americas and Americans: Dudamel Conducts Bernstein
Friday 4/23 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Composed almost all on the road, Bernstein's Symphony No. 2 (subtitled after W.H. Auden's poem) is a...
Friday 4/23 @ Downtown Independent Theater
23 - 29 April
dir. Faythe Levine
2009, digital, 90 min
Handmade Nation documents a movement...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 4/23 @ 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...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Friday 4/23 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Showcasing more than 100 illustrations and texts from time-honored classics and popular favorites, this new exhibition guides audiences through the colorful...
Carl Hancock Rux: Poesia Negra: Race, Sex and the Myth of the American Mytopia
Friday 4/23 @ REDCAT
"Phenomenal charisma." The Village Voice "Mr. Rux's ideas have the urgency and passion of actions." The New York Times ...
