Events on Friday, May 21
Friday 5/21 @ Hairroin Salon
Fit to Rock says: Amie Nicole knows a thing or two about fit, rockin' bodies — from being personal training manager...
35th Anniversary Screening of Tommy
Friday 5/21 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Once famously critiqued by Hollywood for its over-the-top theatricality, '70s rock-opera juggernaut Tommy is actually a bold piece of filmmaking for...
Friday 5/21 @ TS2
Veteran producers Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani take to the decks as Metro Area, embracing their R&B, boogie, and disco background,...
Attica Locke: Black Water Rising: A Novel
Friday 5/21 @ Book Soup
Jay Porter has long since made peace with not living the American Dream. He runs his fledgling law practice out of...
Friday 5/21 @ The Cinefamily
Unseen for decades, the 1969 made-for-TV Christmas kids' special J.T. is fiercely and fondly remembered by all those who originally happened...
Friday 5/21 @ Bootleg Theater
Shadow Shadow Shade is a Los Angeles-based septet that occupies a psychedelic space somewhere between a mass spectacle, marching band, and...
Akira Kurosawa Centennial: Rashomon / The Hidden Fortress
Friday 5/21 @ Egyptian Theatre
Rashomon, 1950, Janus Films, 88 min. A tragic event involving a husband, wife and local bandit (Toshiro Mifune) is recounted by...
Friday 5/21 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Everything about Francis Farewell Starlite, leader of synth-pop throwbacks Francis and the Lights, is insanely meticulous. Sipping on Orangina in his...
Ongoing Events
Friday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Friday 5/21 @ 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...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Friday 5/21 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Friday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Marilyn Monroe Theater at the Lee Strasberg Creative Center
Rebellious Los Angeles teenager Bethany, misunderstood by her parents and frustrated with the superficiality of life in Los Angeles, goes to...
Friday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Pacific Asia Museum-
The Pacific Asia Museum says: In this exhibition, Shizuko Greenblatt explores a new mode of calligraphy on canvas as...
Friday 5/21 @ Antebellum Gallery
The legend goes, 420 first came into existence in 1971 after a group of California high school students met each day...
Friday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
Starring comic musician Mike O'Connell as K. Roth Binew, The Living Wake tells the story of an obnoxious intellectual as he...
Friday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Saban Theatre
LA Weekly's annual "Best of LA People" issue profiles dozens of fascinating Angelenos, and is one of the publication's most anticipated...
Friday 5/21 @ CB1 Gallery
The thing about Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia is that, although nearly all his creative projects involve paint at some point, he's not...
Darkwave: Surfing and the Violence of the City
Friday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Muzeumm
Through various media and means, the artists in Over There traverse themes of movement, journey, and place through straightforward and/or circuitous...
Friday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Friday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Plaza de la Raza
Plaza de la Raza says: Plaza de la Raza is pleased to announce a major retrospective of Linda Vallejo's wide-ranging...
Friday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
LA painter Edward Walton Wilcox is not afraid of paradox; and his darkly romantic, evasively poignant pictures benefit from this fearlessness....
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Kopeikin Gallery says: Four photographers present four images each.
Alison Brady: This body of work uses staged imagery...
Friday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Thinkspace Gallery
Thinkspace Gallery says: In this new series Sommers aims to engage with the metaphor of Schlaraffenland, the world of plenty,...
Friday 5/21 @ 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...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Friday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Laemmle's Music Hall 3
Director Darko Lungulov says: I was born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia. When the civil war broke out in 1991, I...
Friday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Jews on Vinyl is an auditory history of the influence of Jewish traditions on American pop culture from 1948, the year...
The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen
Friday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Patrick Painter Gallery
Sculptor and installation artist Won Ju Lin has always had an interest in architecture as an element of her visual art,...
COLA Individual Artist Fellowships
Friday 5/21 @ Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
This year's COLA (City of Los Angeles) Individual Artist Grants cover the visual, literary, and performing arts, carrying on the DCA's...
Friday 5/21 @ Interweb Exclusively
Dublab says: The Dublab Open Wide Proton Drive fundraiser is happening May 11-27th, 2010. Labrat DJs and our extended family of...
Friday 5/21 @ The Continental Gallery
Eco-conscious thespian and star of Entourage Adrian Grenier co-hosts the Downtown opening of the SHFT Gallery and Pop-Up Shop, a new...
Friday 5/21 @ Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum says: This spring the Hammer Museum presents The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New...
Friday 5/21 @ The Comedy Store
Legendary comedian Andy Kaufman's lounge-lizard persona, Tony Clifton, was an insider joke that struck at the very core of showbiz narcissism....
Friday 5/21 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Utilizing pop and rock music as his source material, Bavington acts as a translator between the aural and visual. Guitar solos...
Friday 5/21 @ Downtown Independent Theater
In search of wisdom found in unlikely places, The Philosopher Kings takes us on a journey through the halls of the...
Friday 5/21 @ 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...
Shout Out Louds w/ Freelance Whales and the Franks
Friday 5/21 @ El Rey
Shout Out Louds are back at work. It only just dawned on them what the rest of us have known for...
Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs
Friday 5/21 @ 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...
Chuck Jones: An Animator's Life From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
Friday 5/21 @ 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...
George Segal: The Expulsion, feat. photographs of the artist at work by Donald Lokuta
Friday 5/21 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 5/21 @ 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...
Lionel Popkin: There is an Elephant in this Dance
Friday 5/21 @ REDCAT
The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series presents Lionel Popkin: There is an Elephant in this Dance Los Angeles premiere. "Lovely....
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Friday 5/21 @ 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...
Plácido Domingo Conducts Opera Highlights and Zarzuela
Friday 5/21 @ The Broad Stage
The incomparable Plácido Domingo crosses town to conduct the LA Opera Orchestra and Domingo-Thornton Young Artists in a program of Zarzuela....
Friday 5/21 @ 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...
