Events on Friday, June 4
Peanut Butter Wolf and Neon Indian
Friday 6/ 4 @ Natural History Museum
NHM says: Discussion (630pm): Now Introducing: The Massive Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy, with Dr. Andrea Ghez...
Friday 6/ 4 @ Museum of Neon Art
First Fridays is the Museum of Neon Art's adventurous monthly series of progressive and experimental jazz performances. The venue lends itself...
Friday 6/ 4 @ Avalon Hollywood
Control says: Few can claim to have been as influential to dance music as Paul Oakenfold. From his early days...
Friday 6/ 4 @ McCabe's Guitar Shop
LA Native Mia Doi Todd's ethereal music uses haunting instrumentation to breathe life into thoughtful compositions. Each song is deeply rooted...
Infinity (Journey tribute) w/ Defective Genius
Friday 6/ 4 @ Bootleg Theater
Infinity is a female-fronted, mustachioed, punk rock tribute to the world's greatest rock band, Journey. Featuring members of the Muffs, the...
Trisha R. Thomas: Un-Nappily in Love
Friday 6/ 4 @ Book Soup
Trisha R. Thomas presents and signs Un-Nappily in Love. Publisher Comments:
Ring Festival LA Screening: Apocalypse Now Redux
Friday 6/ 4 @ Egyptian Theatre
APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX, 1979, American Zoetrope, 202 min. Reluctant assassin Martin Sheen leads a motley crew of soldiers upriver to find...
LCD Soundsystem w/ Holy Ghost!
Friday 6/ 4 @ Hollywood Palladium
The King of Disco-Punk. The Godfather of the Remix. The Supreme Eminent Archon of Dance. I don't know who any of...
Ongoing Events
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ The Brick Building
About Stoked: Co-founded in 2005 by Steve Larosiliere and Sal Masekela, Stoked is a unique nonprofit organization based in New York...
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Pacific Asia Museum-
The Pacific Asia Museum says: In this exhibition, Shizuko Greenblatt explores a new mode of calligraphy on canvas as...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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 6/ 4 @ Highways Performance Space
Highways says: New York-Based interdisciplinary artist Caleb Hammond's Premiere Production in Los Angeles, a collaboration with an ensemble of L.A.-based performers...
The Curious World of Patent Models and The Future of Objects
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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 6/ 4 @ 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 6/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Blum & Poe
Blum & Poe says: Tim Hawkinson's practice is known for its sprawling surrealistic self-portraiture in which the body, through intense introspection,...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum says: This spring the Hammer Museum presents The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New...
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Roberts & Tilton says: Roberts & Tilton is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Belgium based artist Ellen...
Friday 6/ 4 @ RDM Beverly Center 13
It's no mystery that enigmatic mega-rocker Maynard James Keenan (Tool, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer) has proven his talents in a number...
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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 6/ 4 @ 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...
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Friday 6/ 4 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Disney Hall says: Internationally recognized as one of the greatest choreographers to have ever lived, Merce Cunningham was a visionary...
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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 6/ 4 @ Thinkspace Gallery
Thinkspace Gallery says: In this new series Sommers aims to engage with the metaphor of Schlaraffenland, the world of plenty,...
The Neon Art of Bill Concannon
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Capri Restaurant
Venice Beach is legendary for being home to generations of the most important and/or intriguing artists LA has ever produced, among...
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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...
Patrick Graham and Arshile Gorky
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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 6/ 4 @ 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...
Some Assembly Required: race, gender, and globalization
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ REDCAT
Dance Camera West always earns high praise for its eclectic programming agenda, presenting dance-related films that allow viewers to experience the...
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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 6/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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 6/ 4 @ Antebellum Gallery
The legend goes, 420 first came into existence in 1971 after a group of California high school students met each day...
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
4 x 4: Four Figurative Photographers
Friday 6/ 4 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Kopeikin Gallery says: Four photographers present four images each.
Alison Brady: This body of work uses staged imagery...
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Muzeumm
Through various media and means, the artists in Over There traverse themes of movement, journey, and place through straightforward and/or circuitous...
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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"...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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...
Chuck Jones: An Animator's Life From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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...
Rich Fulcher live: An Evening with Eleanor the Tour Whore (US premiere)
Friday 6/ 4 @ The Cinefamily
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Cinefamily's 2nd Annual Comedy Festival kicks off with the U.S. premiere of the new...
George Segal: The Expulsion, feat. photographs of the artist at work by Donald Lokuta
Friday 6/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
