Events on Friday, April 9
Friday 4/ 9 @ Club Monte Cristo
Vallenato virtuosos Very Be Careful celebrate the release of their sixth studio album, Escape Room, out on Barbès Records this month....
Friday 4/ 9 @ POVEVOLVING
Global Inheritance is a growing network of progressive-minded citizens with well-developed artistic sides, who plan to save the world through art...
Friday 4/ 9 @ Location TBA with RSVP
Nickodemus makes global boogie that reps both New York City's dusty immigrant past and its bright future. The native son named...
Friday 4/ 9 @ Natural History Museum
Primeval Love is my first self-invested and self-produced art show. Without official gallery representation in Los Angeles, I believe that I'm...
Friday 4/ 9 @ The Cinefamily
"If this is a joke, it's the JFK assassination of jokes!" - VICE Magazine
The demand has been...
Lady For A Day + American Madness
Friday 4/ 9 @ The Cinefamily
WATCH EXCERPT FROM "AMERICAN MADNESS"!
Lady For A Day - 8:00pm
A delightful fable of super-slangy gangsters,...
Peter Birkenhead: Gonville: A Memoir
Friday 4/ 9 @ Book Soup
Peter Birkenhead presents and signs Gonville: A Memoir. "Birkenhead's memoir is intensely detailed...and full of the blistering ambivalence...
The Janks w/ Family of the Year at Bootleg
Friday 4/ 9 @ Bootleg Theater
THE JANKS "Los Angeles based group The Janks may be young, but their solid grasp of Americana Rock blended with 60's...
Film Noir Double Feature: THE LOCKET and BODYGUARD
Friday 4/ 9 @ Egyptian Theatre
Friday, April 9 – 7:30 PM Double Feature: THE LOCKET, 1946, Warner Bros., 85 min. Dir. John Brahm. On...
Ongoing Events
Friday 4/ 9 @ Ahmanson Theatre
One of Hubbard Street's greatest strengths is their versatility in style, allowing them to explore myriad choreographic voices from the contemporary...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Underground Gallery
Underground Gallery says: Club Med is a solo exhibition by Anne Martens featuring sewn mixed-media sculpture and installation. In Club Med,...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since W.W.II
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Thomas Adès is one of the brightest stars in the British classical vanguard, but he increasingly finds inspiration and critical appreciation...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Affinity Galleries
Affinity Galleries, previously known as the Circus Gallery, presents an innovative group show that effectively redefines the term "multimedia." Exhibiting photography,...
Friday 4/ 9 @ Laemmle's Music Hall 3
Laemmle's says: In her feature-film debut, renowned visual artist Shirin Neshat offers an exquisitely crafted view of Iran in 1953, when...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ 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...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Espace DbD / Rachel Rosenthal Co.
Having recently celebrated her 83rd birthday with an all-out party, art show, and silent auction, LA-based performance artist Rachel Rosenthal shows...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
Circa 1963, Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek met at UCLA's film school, and the rest is, well, it's kind of a...
Britton Tolliver: A Search for the Sky Underneath the Dirt
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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"...
Jeff Koegel and Gregory Euclide
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ Downtown Independent Theater
9 - 14 April:
showtimes TBD dir. Henrik Ruben Genz
2008, 35mm, 90 min
Robert...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
