Events on Friday, May 14
Susan Silton & the Crowing Hens
Friday 5/14 @ LAXART
Time was, there was a laundry list of things polite ladies were never supposed to do in public. These included, though...
Friday 5/14 @ California Plaza
If there is such a thing as a formula to LA's culture of the moment, it might look like this: warm...
Friday 5/14 @ Location TBA with RSVP
theLift presents: IAN FRIDAY (LIBATION / TEA PARTY MUSIC - NYC)
resident deejays-hosts-co-creators:
JEREMY SOLE (KCRW...
Friday 5/14 @ Book Soup
Beth Ostrosky Stern presents and signs Oh My Dog: How to Choose, Train, Groom, Nurture, Feed, and Care for Your...
Wavefest 2010 featuring Michael McDonald / Chaka Khan / Poncho Sanchez / Mindi Abair
Friday 5/14 @ Greek Theatre
The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles proudly welcomes the Mercedes-Benz Wavefest to its stage on Friday, May 14. Now in its 14th...
Infra-Man & Godzilla vs. Megalon
Friday 5/14 @ The Cinefamily
Infra-Man - 8:00pm
Japan's hugely successful live-action superhero franchises (Ultraman, Kamen Rider, and its "henshin" ilk) inspired both "Yo Gabba...
Friday 5/14 @ The Echo & Echoplex
“Back to basics, and top form, for South London duo… album five gets back to core values, (and) it retains a...
What’s Opera, Doc? – Animation and Classical Music
Friday 5/14 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino hosts an evening exploring some of the most inspired and memorable uses...
Friday 5/14 @ Downtown Independent Theater
With the emergence of new models of production and distribution comes a new breed of interdependent filmmaker. This unique cinema series...
Ian Graham: Unbillable Hours: A True Story
Friday 5/14 @ Book Soup
Landing a job at a prestigious L.A. law firm, complete with a six figure income, signaled the beginning of the good...
Akira Kurosawa Centennial: RAN in New 35 MM Print
Friday 5/14 @ Egyptian Theatre
Friday, May 14 – 7:30 PM New 35 mm! RAN, 1985, Rialto Pictures, 160 min. In Akira Kurosawa's epic and existential...
Ongoing Events
Friday 5/14 @ La Luz de Jesus
Rogue Taxidermy as a movement of contemporary art is akin to the Radical Craft movement popular in recent years. Just as...
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Friday 5/14 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Jason Shawn Alexander's richly textured, expressively rendered, life-size figure drawings belong to a tradition of psychological fraught portraiture that links Egon...
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ The Land of Odd Gallery
Assemblage has traditionally straddled the blurry line between crafts and fine art. But works by giants like Joseph Cornell and Edward...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Darkwave: Surfing and the Violence of the City
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ Bob Baker Marionette Theater
In a postmodern society with all its ironic trappings, the wholesome and irony-free Bob Baker Marionette Theater still reigns supreme with children's...
Friday 5/14 @ REDCAT
The 2010 graduating class of The Next Dance Company puts on a show directed by site-specific, architectural-inspired dance maestro, Stephan Koplowitz.
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
In the tradition of Paris' Theatre du Grand Guignol, LA's Grand Guignolers combine macabre storytelling with delightful performances. This time, the...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
Friday 5/14 @ Pacific Asia Museum-
The Pacific Asia Museum says: In this exhibition, Shizuko Greenblatt explores a new mode of calligraphy on canvas as...
Friday 5/14 @ Thinkspace Gallery
Thinkspace Gallery says: In this new series Sommers aims to engage with the metaphor of Schlaraffenland, the world of plenty,...
Friday 5/14 @ Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum says: This spring the Hammer Museum presents The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New...
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ Dogtown Station Lofts
Venice has always been a magnet for artists and other beachcombers, chic and scruffy alike, and its recent resurgence as an...
Friday 5/14 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Avant-garde film director and Dogme 95 member Harmony Korine delivers an example of neo-vérité sustainable cinema with his latest film, Trash Humpers, which chronicles the...
The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen
Friday 5/14 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Long before the recent quasi-blockbuster version, there was the original Clash of the Titans, a 1981 tour de force starring Laurence...
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ The Velaslavasay Panorama
The Velaslavasay Panorama says: The Lost Panorama project was never about locating something. It was more about the phenomenon of disappearances...
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
4 x 4: Four Figurative Photographers
Friday 5/14 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Kopeikin Gallery says: Four photographers present four images each.
Alison Brady: This body of work uses staged imagery...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ SCI-Arc
After studying architecture in the '50s, Sir Peter Cook exhibited at ICA (where he later served as director), and co-founded Archigram,...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ Edgar Varela Fine Arts
In photographs, and even in person at a slight distance, certain of Ashley Gibbons' images might be mistaken for painting —...
Friday 5/14 @ Patrick Painter Gallery
Sculptor and installation artist Won Ju Lin has always had an interest in architecture as an element of her visual art,...
Friday 5/14 @ Antebellum Gallery
The legend goes, 420 first came into existence in 1971 after a group of California high school students met each day...
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ Interweb Exclusively
Dublab says: The Dublab Open Wide Proton Drive fundraiser is happening May 11-27th, 2010. Labrat DJs and our extended family of...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Jews on Vinyl is an auditory history of the influence of Jewish traditions on American pop culture from 1948, the year...
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ François Ghebaly Gallery
François Ghebaly says: The exhibition will include paintings, prints and works on paper. In her Pollution Painting series, Marie Jager makes...
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ Location TBA with RSVP
Performed in an actual home listed for sale, Full Disclosure is a standard Chalk Rep enthralling maneuver, placing theatre in environments and capitalizing...
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ Bleicher/Golightly
Schwartz' subtle but saturated palette of pure pigment dried to a thick, earthen, frosting-like crust, follows an internal logic rather than...
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
George Segal: The Expulsion, feat. photographs of the artist at work by Donald Lokuta
Friday 5/14 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Experience George Segal's life-sized sculptural work The Expulsion, the generous gift of the George and Helen Segal Foundation, showcased in its...
Friday 5/14 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Utilizing pop and rock music as his source material, Bavington acts as a translator between the aural and visual. Guitar solos...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Friday 5/14 @ 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 5/14 @ The Echo & Echoplex
When global bass music matriarch Mary Anne Hobbs recently told The Fader “Flying Lotus, for me, is like the Hendrix of...
Chuck Jones: An Animator's Life From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
Friday 5/14 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
An exhibition of the work of Oscar winner and master humorist Chuck Jones, representing his short animated films, features and TV...
Friday 5/14 @ 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...
