Events on Friday, June 11
Richard Wirick: Kicking In: Stories
Friday 6/11 @ Book Soup
Richard Wirick presents and signs Kicking In: Stories. Publisher Comments:
Kentucky Fried Movie + Amazon Women on the Moon
Friday 6/11 @ The Cinefamily
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Kentucky Fried Movie - 8:00pm
It's difficult to craft a superlative boob joke for the...
Cranky George w/ Sons of August
Friday 6/11 @ Bootleg Theater
Cranky George's music is tipped from the bucket that dredges the confluence of the Danube, the Shannon and the Missouri. Cranky...
Ongoing Events
Friday 6/11 @ Track 16 Gallery
Lun*na Menoh's comprehensive body of work includes a standing gig with Japanese art-rock band Seksu Roba, a piece in the Victoria...
Friday 6/11 @ Ruth Bachofner Gallery
Ruth Bachofner Gallery says: Monika's Rittershaus' photographs of LA Opera's first presentation of Richard Wagner's epic masterwork Der Ring Des Nibelungen...
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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...
The Curious World of Patent Models and The Future of Objects
Friday 6/11 @ Art Center College of Design
As testament of the ceaselessly inventive American mind and geared towards lifestyle improvement, The Curious World of Patent Models produces myriad...
Friday 6/11 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Roberts & Tilton says: Roberts & Tilton is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Belgium based artist Ellen...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Jancar Gallery
Los Angeles artist Pierre Picot has called half of his current exhibition at Chinatown's Jancar Gallery Collaborations with... in part because...
The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Antebellum Gallery
The legend goes, 420 first came into existence in 1971 after a group of California high school students met each day...
Sandy de Lissovoy and David Kelley / Tanya Haden / Beatriz Monteavaro
Friday 6/11 @ Las Cienegas Projects
Las Cienegas Projects says: Sandy de Lissovoy and David Kelley have engaged in a year-long, bi-coastal collaboration ultimately aimed...
Friday 6/11 @ 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...
Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle
Friday 6/11 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Murderer Gary Gilmore does the Texas two-step, Master Masons experience spiritual transcendence in the Chrysler building, and satyrs compete in motorcycle...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Friday 6/11 @ 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 Neon Art of Bill Concannon
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
Think of iconic Japanese print-maker Hiroshige as a kind of Andy Warhol of his day, crossed with a staff photographer for...
Friday 6/11 @ 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...
Darkwave: Surfing and the Violence of the City
Friday 6/11 @ 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...
Rachel Rosenthal w/ George Herms
Friday 6/11 @ Espace DbD / Rachel Rosenthal Co.
Rachel Rosenthal's The DbD Experience: Chance Knows What It’s Doing breaks down the artist's improv formula, "doing by doing," in a...
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ ADC Contemporary Art Gallery
ADC Contemporary Art Gallery says: This exhibition includes a recent production consisting of videos and installations which build a...
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Freeman's Vader Project Los Angeles
What could be more artistically inspiring than one of cinema's most magnetic yet menacing villains, Darth Vader? If this collection of...
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Various locations
LAXART says: Launching June 1st, 2010 with a special showing at LAXART from 7-10pm, Superclogger will mark Los Angeles-based artist Joel...
Friday 6/11 @ Khastoo Gallery
Khastoo Gallery says: "After the cursing comes laughter, so that the soul is saved from the dead. " -Carl Gustav Jung,...
Patrick Graham and Arshile Gorky
Friday 6/11 @ 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...
Friday 6/11 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
Aside perhaps from bowls of fruit, no subject matter is more prevalent in fine art than the human body — usually...
Some Assembly Required: race, gender, and globalization
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Phantom Galleries LA: Long Beach
Phantom Galleries says: Phantom Galleries is pleased to present a one-person exhibition of drawings by Long Beach based-artist Jennifer Celio curated...
Friday 6/11 @ Muzeumm
Through various media and means, the artists in Over There traverse themes of movement, journey, and place through straightforward and/or circuitous...
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Patrick Painter Gallery
Sculptor and installation artist Won Ju Lin has always had an interest in architecture as an element of her visual art,...
Hurley's )( Space Gallery feat. Mike Stilkey
Friday 6/11 @ Hurley's )( Space
Mike Stilkey makes art with books — not in the sense of art in book form, but using books themselves as...
Friday 6/11 @ CB1 Gallery
Chicago-based mixed media sculptor and installation artist Fang Ling-An remixes elements of the traditional and the contemporary, the spiritual and the...
Friday 6/11 @ Angles Gallery
Angles Gallery says:
Angles Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new photographs by Ori Gersht, Places...
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
Take four musicians clad in black, add one lovably flighty celebu-chef, stir in a surly, line-dancing prison warden, combine all on...
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ The End
In some of the most spectacular examples of adaptive reuse, medical marijuana dispensaries have rapidly cropped up across the Southland, staking...
COLA Individual Artist Fellowships
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Friday 6/11 @ Subliminal Projects
We just received an intriguing teaser video from Skullphone for his upcoming show this Saturday at Subliminal Projects and wanted to...
Friday 6/11 @ Pacific Asia Museum-
The Pacific Asia Museum says: In this exhibition, Shizuko Greenblatt explores a new mode of calligraphy on canvas as...
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky
Friday 6/11 @ Various Los Angeles theaters
You gotta love movies where people smoke during love-making and cut their corsets off with scissors. Henry & June meets Immortal...
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ GR2
Giant Robot is proud to host The Jizo, an art show featuring new work by Yukinori Dehara. Dehara's hand-painted clay depictions...
Friday 6/11 @ Honor Fraser
Honor Fraser Gallery says: Mark Licari is known for his strikingly original vision of worlds in which the ordinary spins playfully...
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Mihai Nicodim Gallery
Mihai Nicodim Gallery is pleased to present Unimportant Stories, the second solo show in the gallery of the Romanian artist Serban Savu....
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
Every few years the giant corpse flower (Amorphophallus Titanium) blooms into an elegant, impressive flora, and smells like a rotting corpse....
Friday 6/11 @ Libbey Bowl
Building on a tradition that spans five decades, the legendary Ojai Music Festival is known around the world for its top-notch...
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
LA painter Edward Walton Wilcox is not afraid of paradox; and his darkly romantic, evasively poignant pictures benefit from this fearlessness....
Friday 6/11 @ 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...
The Wicked Wilde Shakespeare Festival
Friday 6/11 @ 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...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 6/11 @ 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...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Friday 6/11 @ 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...
George Segal: The Expulsion, feat. photographs of the artist at work by Donald Lokuta
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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...
Chuck Jones: An Animator's Life From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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...
