Events on Friday, June 18
Friday 6/18 @ Hollywood Bowl
True Southern Californian music fans understand the impact of performing at the Hollywood Bowl, and tonight's 89th opening celebrates three acts...
Friday 6/18 @ The Queen Mary
One of the most truly refreshing of the current crop of Pepsi Refresh contestants, Long Beach/Los Angeles' homegrown art showcase, RAW:...
COLA Individual Artist Fellowships: Performing & Literary Arts
Friday 6/18 @ Grand Performances
This three-course auteur meal includes innovative artists and writers Fernando D. Castro sharing his poetry, maRia Bodmann performing authentic Balinese shadow...
Friday 6/18 @ The Cinefamily
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The most discussed and anticipated avian-based disaster film since the The Birds, Birdemic is equal parts...
Steve McQueen Tribute: The Sand Pebbles
Friday 6/18 @ Egyptian Theatre
From his escape-artist anti-heroes in PAPILLON and THE GREAT ESCAPE to his hardboiled loners in THE CINCINNATI KID and JUNIOR BONNER,...
Sloane Crosley: How Did You Get This Number: Essays
Friday 6/18 @ Book Soup
Sloane Crosley presents and signs How Did You Get This Number: Essays.
Jeannie Berlin Double Feature: The Heartbreak Kid + Bone
Friday 6/18 @ The Cinefamily
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The Heartbreak Kid - 8:00pm
Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid is easily the most artistically...
Friday 6/18 @ Bootleg Theater
ACTIVE CHILD "Active Child is Pat Grossi, an L.A.-based songwriter who layers his keening, unearthly voice over diffuse waves of keyboards....
Ongoing Events
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ Angles Gallery
Angles Gallery says:
Angles Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new photographs by Ori Gersht, Places...
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ LeBasse Projects
With stylistic influences that range from the sublime, dreamy, and sometimes violent imagery of Ukiyo-e (literally, "the floating world") to the...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ The End
In some of the most spectacular examples of adaptive reuse, medical marijuana dispensaries have rapidly cropped up across the Southland, staking...
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Friday 6/18 @ Los Angeles, CA to Tombstone, AZ
Whether you're renting a car, borrowing one, or just putting mileage on your own, there are few more memorable ways to...
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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...
The Neon Art of Bill Concannon
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ Honor Fraser
Honor Fraser Gallery says: Mark Licari is known for his strikingly original vision of worlds in which the ordinary spins playfully...
Some Assembly Required: race, gender, and globalization
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Darkwave: Surfing and the Violence of the City
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ ADC Contemporary Art Gallery
ADC Contemporary Art Gallery says: This exhibition includes a recent production consisting of videos and installations which build a...
Friday 6/18 @ The TASCHEN Store
Attention art and book lovers: TASCHEN bookstores from coast to coast (and on line) are having a giant warehouse sale this...
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ Subliminal Projects
We just received an intriguing teaser video from Skullphone for his upcoming show this Saturday at Subliminal Projects and wanted to...
Friday 6/18 @ Khastoo Gallery
Khastoo Gallery says: "After the cursing comes laughter, so that the soul is saved from the dead. " -Carl Gustav Jung,...
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ Various Hollywood theaters
A festival as ambitious and eclectic as this can be hard to get your arms around. The website is actually very...
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ Edgar Varela Fine Arts
In photographs, and even in person at a slight distance, certain of Ashley Gibbons' images might be mistaken for painting —...
The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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...
Sandy de Lissovoy and David Kelley / Tanya Haden / Beatriz Monteavaro
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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...
Hurley's )( Space Gallery feat. Mike Stilkey
Friday 6/18 @ Hurley's )( Space
Mike Stilkey makes art with books — not in the sense of art in book form, but using books themselves as...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 72andSunny Gallery
Jim Riswold's spirited compositions evoke child's play, with unlikely subjects selling subversive ideals while playfully mocking modern life. His intentionally dubious...
The Curious World of Patent Models and The Future of Objects
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ The Steve Allen Theater
Mary Lynn Rajskub (24, Julie & Julia) takes on her most challenging role to date, as her one-woman show jabs at...
COLA Individual Artist Fellowships
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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...
Green Wave Happy Hour Fundraiser
Friday 6/18 @ Pourtal Wine Tasting Bar
When it comes to having a blast while doing good works, locally-based charity NextAid has set the bar pretty high with...
Patrick Graham and Arshile Gorky
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ Various Downtown locations
The qualifying festival for Film Independent's Spirit Awards, Los Angeles Film Festival screens hundreds of feature-length narratives, documentaries, music videos, and...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
Aside perhaps from bowls of fruit, no subject matter is more prevalent in fine art than the human body — usually...
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Roberts & Tilton says: Roberts & Tilton is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Belgium based artist Ellen...
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
"This summer, LA Opera unveils the first complete performances of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen ever presented in Los Angeles...
Friday 6/18 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Forget Amsterdam, Oaksterdam, and the Rastafarians. Following the smash success of its world premiere in Venice Beach — and just in...
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ Patrick Painter Gallery
Sculptor and installation artist Won Ju Lin has always had an interest in architecture as an element of her visual art,...
The Wicked Wilde Shakespeare Festival
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
The Completely Different Late Show
Friday 6/18 @ The Groundlings Theatre
Looking to avoid another average weekend? Of course you are. Start your weekend off right with this hilarious hybrid of short-form improv &...
George Segal: The Expulsion, feat. photographs of the artist at work by Donald Lokuta
Friday 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ 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 6/18 @ Egyptian Theatre
WAH DO DEM, 2009, 76 min. The debut collaboration from young filmmakers Ben Chace and Sam Fleischner is believable, beautiful, uplifting...
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
Chuck Jones: An Animator's Life From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
Friday 6/18 @ 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...
