Events on Friday, April 30
Friday 4/30 @ The Echo & Echoplex
In the past year, San Francisco-based Sugar & Gold have opened for pop mavens such as of Montreal and !!!; now,...
Jillian Lauren: Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
Friday 4/30 @ Book Soup
Jillian Lauren presents and signs Some Girls: My Life in a Harem. Publisher Comments:...
Gift Horse Project Benefit for Silverlake Conservatory of Music
Friday 4/30 @ Bootleg Theater
Gift Horse Project is a group of rotating musicians and visual artists. Conceived of by artists, to help artists in crisis....
Time Travel Double Feature: Star Trek: First Contact & Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Friday 4/30 @ Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature: STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT, 1996, Paramount Pictures, 111 min. Dir. Jonathan Frakes. Calling all Trekkers! Don’t miss this terrific...
Friday 4/30 @ El Rey
How do you capture the power and spirit of your live show when going from a sweaty, fan-filled club to a...
Friday 4/30 @ Greek Theatre
The Performing Arts Academy of John Marshall High School will present a display of youthful exuberance with Bach, Rock & Shakespeare...
Heartless Bastards w/ Hacienda and Amy Cook @ echoplex
Friday 4/30 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Erika Wennerstrom’s enormous voice typically dominates discussion of this Ohio trio, and for good reason. Hers is a mighty blues holler,...
Cosmic Dance of Shiva: Art, Science and Dance Perspectives on Nataraja
Friday 4/30 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Chola bronze icons of Tamil Nadu, created during the 10th to 13th centuries, represent one of the world’s great statuary...
It Happened One Night & Platinum Blonde
Friday 4/30 @ The Cinefamily
It Happened One Night - 8:00pm
It Happened One Night is the saucy and sizzling pre-code classic that launched Capra...
Ongoing Events
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Friday 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Friday 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ 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...
Friday 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ Antebellum Gallery
The legend goes, 420 first came into existence in 1971 after a group of California high school students met each day...
Britton Tolliver: A Search for the Sky Underneath the Dirt
Friday 4/30 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Tolliver's vivid paintings engage a successful and intense marriage of abstraction and geometric rendering, and at times his forms seem to...
Dirty Hands: The Art & Crimes of David Choe
Friday 4/30 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
Watching Harry Kim's documentary on puckish artist David Choe is a lot like being trapped with Choe in an elevator for...
Friday 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ CB1 Gallery
The thing about Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia is that, although nearly all his creative projects involve paint at some point, he's not...
Friday 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum says: This spring the Hammer Museum presents The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New...
Friday 4/30 @ 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...
Friday 4/30 @ Bonhams & Butterfields
It's nice to know that "California art" can mean more than David Hockney or coastal landscapes. The most established auction house...
Friday 4/30 @ 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...
Gronk: Live-Action Mural Painting
Friday 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ Natural History Museum
One of the Natural History Museum's most eagerly anticipated annual events is its Pavilion of Wings — the installation of living,...
Friday 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ Santa Monica Air Center, Barker Hangar
Specializing in antique posters that have been dutifully preserved, expertly mounted on linen, and primed for re-use in the living rooms...
4 x 4: Four Figurative Photographers
Friday 4/30 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Kopeikin Gallery says: Four photographers present four images each.
Alison Brady: This body of work uses staged imagery...
Friday 4/30 @ Arclight Hollywood
To the common channel-flipper, Mexico onscreen is either some "aye-dios-mio" melodrama or an epic starring a few trim Zapata moustaches. Founded...
Friday 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Friday 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ Charlie James Gallery
When Orly Cogan's work first gained international attention, it wasn't only for pressing the traditionally crafts-associated medium of embroidery into the...
Darkwave: Surfing and the Violence of the City
Friday 4/30 @ USC Institute for Genetic Medicine Art Gallery
This expanded and recontextualized exhibition builds on last year's installation at Black Cat Gallery, to now involve the experiences of the...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Friday 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 4/30 @ 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...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 4/30 @ 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...
South-East European Film Festival
Friday 4/30 @ Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
The only festival in the USA to showcase films from the Balkans and surrounding countries, the fifth annual South-East European Film...
Friday 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ Regen Projects
Photographer and UCLA faculty member Catherine Opie displays her new series of time-sensitive images taken from the deck of a container...
Friday 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ Electric Lodge
Forget Amsterdam, Oaksterdam, and the Rastafarians. Where else could you catch the world premiere of a musical about pot than in...
Friday 4/30 @ 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....
Friday 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 4/30 @ 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 4/30 @ 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...
Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs
Friday 4/30 @ 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...
Friday 4/30 @ Downtown Independent Theater
"Ross manages to capture and present wrenching sorrow jutted up against the playfulness of youth." - LA Times
The...
Americas and Americans: Dudamel Conducts Estévez
Friday 4/30 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Antonio Estévez’ atmospheric, folk-inspired Cantata Criolla, will be designed and staged by renowned filmmaker Alberto Arvelo...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Friday 4/30 @ 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...
Friday 4/30 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Utilizing pop and rock music as his source material, Bavington acts as a translator between the aural and visual. Guitar solos...
