Events on Friday, July 2
Friday 7/ 2 @ Avalon Hollywood
British breakbeat dons Dominic Butler and Marc Yardley, aka Stanton Warriors, have been churning out electro-tinged nu breaks for ten years,...
Friday 7/ 2 @ Egyptian Theatre
THE SHINING, 1980, Warner Bros., 142 min. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. Jack Nicholson takes a job as winter caretaker at an enormous...
Friday 7/ 2 @ The Echo & Echoplex
After a FANTASTIC debut party in May, Bearracuda returns to LA for another night of fun, furry dancing! Our last party...
MATES OF STATE / FREE ENERGY / NICK THUNE @ echo
Friday 7/ 2 @ The Echo & Echoplex
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Billy Jack + Born Losers (w/ Tom Laughlin in person!)
Friday 7/ 2 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW CLIPS! Co-presented by Process Media
Billy Jack - 8:00pm
Billy Jack is by far the...
Ongoing Events
COLA Individual Artist Fellowships
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
Sweden's The Swimsuit Issue is neither a documentary about Sports Illustrated's annual cheesecake edition nor an angst-laden drama traditionally produced by...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ Otis College of Art and Design
From the Otis College of Art and Design comes the summer's first blockbuster art show — actually, an inspired pairing of...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Roberts & Tilton says: Roberts & Tilton is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Belgium based artist Ellen...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
Co-founded by Robert De Niro, Tribeca Film Festival has served as New York's equivalent of our own Los Angeles Film Festival....
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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"...
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ PØST
The plan for July at beloved experimental art space PØST is as simple as the results are mercurial and eclectic. Thirty-one...
The Neon Art of Bill Concannon
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ La Luz de Jesus
The go-to store for modern-day kitsch, offbeat literature, and other forms of esoterica, Wacko also harbors a pair of healthy-sized art...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ Theatre Asylum
Theatre Asylum says: The 1st annual Hollywood Fringe Festival has ended, but we at Theatre Asylum are not willing to let...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 2 @ Khastoo Gallery
Khastoo Gallery says: "After the cursing comes laughter, so that the soul is saved from the dead. " -Carl Gustav Jung,...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
John Baldessari is much more than a well-known LA art-world figure. He's one of the most honored and acclaimed visual artists...
Friday 7/ 2 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
Aside perhaps from bowls of fruit, no subject matter is more prevalent in fine art than the human body — usually...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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....
Some Assembly Required: race, gender, and globalization
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ Gallery Brown
Not only has John Lurie starred in a string of Jim Jarmusch films in the '80s, he's written and directed the...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Friday 7/ 2 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
The Trotsky chronicles the misadventures of a young man whose whose mundane existence is transformed into the 21st century counterpart to...
Patrick Graham and Arshile Gorky
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ Subliminal Projects
We just received an intriguing teaser video from Skullphone for his upcoming show this Saturday at Subliminal Projects and wanted to...
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
Friday 7/ 2 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Julien Nitzberg's documentary The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia is something like an amusing, feature-length episode of A&E's Intervention....
The Curious World of Patent Models and The Future of Objects
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ ADC Contemporary Art Gallery
ADC Contemporary Art Gallery says: This exhibition includes a recent production consisting of videos and installations which build a...
Friday 7/ 2 @ Pershing Square
Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles is meant to be the literal and symbolic center of the city; and while that's...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Sandy de Lissovoy and David Kelley / Tanya Haden / Beatriz Monteavaro
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ Capri Restaurant
Venice Beach is legendary for being home to generations of the most important and/or intriguing artists LA has ever produced, among...
Art from the Ashes to benefit Deukmejian Wilderness Park
Friday 7/ 2 @ Art from the Ashes Gallery
Art from the Ashes says: ART from the ashes is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization of independent artists and volunteers who contribute...
Friday 7/ 2 @ Honor Fraser
Honor Fraser Gallery says: Mark Licari is known for his strikingly original vision of worlds in which the ordinary spins playfully...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ LeBasse Projects
With stylistic influences that range from the sublime, dreamy, and sometimes violent imagery of Ukiyo-e (literally, "the floating world") to the...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
July 4th Fireworks Spectacular w/ Vince Gill
Friday 7/ 2 @ Hollywood Bowl
The inspiring, stirring patriotic music; a special guest like country superstar singer/guitarist Vince Gill with his many hits; and the Bowl’s...
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
George Segal: The Expulsion, feat. photographs of the artist at work by Donald Lokuta
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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...
Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 7/ 2 @ 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...
The Completely Different Late Show
Friday 7/ 2 @ 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 &...
