Events on Friday, May 28
Friday 5/28 @ The Roxy Theatre
100 Monkeys shy away from band member Jackson Rathbone's extracurricular meanderings as Jasper Hale in the Twilight saga, opting instead to...
Friday 5/28 @ Location TBA with RSVP
Friends to the End says:
It's that time again, kids. After the overwhelming, sidesplitting success of last...
Fran Yariv and Barbara Pokras: Feeding Mrs. Moskowitz and The Caregiver
Friday 5/28 @ Book Soup
Fran Yariv and Barbara Pokras present and sign Feeding Mrs. Moskowitz and The Caregiver.
A Benefit for Theart Project feat. acoustic set by Saint Motel w/ Jeffertitti's Nile
Friday 5/28 @ Bootleg Theater
An acoustic performance by SAINT MOTEL w/ Tyler Steele, The Moody, and Jeffertitti's Nile "Along with a penchant for combining elements...
Robert Aldrich Double Feature: The Dirty Dozen / Attack
Friday 5/28 @ Egyptian Theatre
Robert Aldrich Double Feature: The Dirty Dozen, 1967, Warner Bros., 149 min. Dir. Robert Aldrich. Lee Marvin whips a group of...
Mondo Kroftt-O (feat. Pufnstuf)
Friday 5/28 @ The Cinefamily
"Land of The Lost". "Lidsville". "The Bugaloos" and more! With their day-glo landscapes, cardboard set pieces, and colorful cavalry of life-size...
Casual Friday: Rachlin plays Sibelius
Friday 5/28 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Julian Rachlin is one of the most charismatic and exciting violinists of his generation. He has performed with most of the...
Ongoing Events
Friday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ Timothy Yarger Fine Art
As the grandson of a golden-era Hollywood songwriter, acclaimed photographer Jim McHugh is heir to a particular experience and vision of...
Friday 5/28 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
Friday 5/28 @ Capri Restaurant
Venice Beach is legendary for being home to generations of the most important and/or intriguing artists LA has ever produced, among...
Friday 5/28 @ The Farley Building
Mike Kelley is one of the most influential artists ever to come out of Los Angeles. Though he works across every...
Friday 5/28 @ Pacific Asia Museum-
The Pacific Asia Museum says: In this exhibition, Shizuko Greenblatt explores a new mode of calligraphy on canvas as...
Friday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
For those of you who think hors d'oeuvres are the highlight of the average art exhibit, Scion presents a showcase where...
Friday 5/28 @ Odyssey Theatre Ensemble
For two nights, the Odyssey Theatre sets the stage for the site of an infamous American defeat: the Alamo. Brand-new, self-described...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Friday 5/28 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Friday 5/28 @ Muzeumm
Through various media and means, the artists in Over There traverse themes of movement, journey, and place through straightforward and/or circuitous...
Friday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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...
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
Friday 5/28 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
American furniture designer Charles Rohlfs (1853–1936) found inspiration in Art Nouveau, Asian, English, German, and Moorish designs, yet his own style...
Friday 5/28 @ Blum & Poe
Blum & Poe says: Tim Hawkinson's practice is known for its sprawling surrealistic self-portraiture in which the body, through intense introspection,...
Friday 5/28 @ Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum says: This spring the Hammer Museum presents The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New...
Some Assembly Required: race, gender, and globalization
Friday 5/28 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
A series of events is presented in conjunction with Some Assembly Required, the unique, exuberant, and powerful current exhibition of assemblage...
Friday 5/28 @ Oak Canyon Ranch
The Do Lab have been producing epic, unforgettable festival experiences for over ten years. Lightning in a Bottle is their most imaginative and ambitious...
Friday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
The Wicked Wilde Shakespeare Festival
Friday 5/28 @ Miles Memorial Playhouse
Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company is renowned for their all-female versions of classic plays, a variation on the Shakespearean practice of...
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
COLA Individual Artist Fellowships
Friday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ Thinkspace Gallery
Thinkspace Gallery says: In this new series Sommers aims to engage with the metaphor of Schlaraffenland, the world of plenty,...
Friday 5/28 @ Western Project
Arne Svenson's latest exhibition draws on his own extensive personal archives of torn-out pages, photographs, scraps, and other sundry paper-best memorabiliac...
Friday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ Various Los Angeles theaters
Loosely based on true events, Holy Rollers follows a young Hasidic man on his journey from budding rabbi to professional ecstasy...
Friday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
LA painter Edward Walton Wilcox is not afraid of paradox; and his darkly romantic, evasively poignant pictures benefit from this fearlessness....
Patrick Graham and Arshile Gorky
Friday 5/28 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Continuing its tradition of illuminating scholarship on modern and contemporary painting, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts presents one of its most ambitious...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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...
Darkwave: Surfing and the Violence of the City
Friday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ François Ghebaly Gallery
François Ghebaly says: The exhibition will include paintings, prints and works on paper. In her Pollution Painting series, Marie Jager makes...
The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen
Friday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ Hacienda Hot Springs
A mission-style oasis in the Coachella Valley, Hacienda Hot Springs isn't your ordinary spa destination. Between the homemade granola and the...
Friday 5/28 @ Jancar Gallery
Los Angeles artist Pierre Picot has called half of his current exhibition at Chinatown's Jancar Gallery Collaborations with... in part because...
Friday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ Antebellum Gallery
The legend goes, 420 first came into existence in 1971 after a group of California high school students met each day...
The Neon Art of Bill Concannon
Friday 5/28 @ Museum of Neon Art
Neon signs, once referred to by Tom Wolfe as a 20th-century American folk art, have long been an obsession of Bill...
Friday 5/28 @ Honor Fraser
Honor Fraser Gallery says: Mark Licari is known for his strikingly original vision of worlds in which the ordinary spins playfully...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Friday 5/28 @ 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....
4 x 4: Four Figurative Photographers
Friday 5/28 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Kopeikin Gallery says: Four photographers present four images each.
Alison Brady: This body of work uses staged imagery...
Friday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Roberts & Tilton says: Roberts & Tilton is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Belgium based artist Ellen...
Friday 5/28 @ Regency South Coast Village - Santa Ana/Costa Mesa
British kitchen-sink realist Ken Loach diverges from his usual social and political critique in Looking for Eric, a story that is...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Chuck Jones: An Animator's Life From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
Friday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs
Friday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Utilizing pop and rock music as his source material, Bavington acts as a translator between the aural and visual. Guitar solos...
George Segal: The Expulsion, feat. photographs of the artist at work by Donald Lokuta
Friday 5/28 @ 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...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Friday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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...
