Events on Friday, July 23
Books that Matter for People Who Care
Friday 7/23 @ The Getty Center
An icon in the world of independent publishing, David R. Godine has invested 40 years in the production, dissemination, and appreciation...
Friday 7/23 @ Los Angeles Zoo
The Los Angeles Zoo continues their Music in the LA Zoo series with Classic Rock Night. In a rare opportunity to...
Jackson Browne w/ David Lindley
Friday 7/23 @ Greek Theatre
One of rock's most underrated musicians and dedicated political activists returns to the Greek tonight with "maxi-instrumentalist" David Lindley. Jackson, whose...
Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner In Person: Your Show of Shows & Enter Laughing
Friday 7/23 @ Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature: 10 FROM YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS, 1973, 92 min., Dir. Max Liebman. A compilation of sketches from the comedy-variety...
Delta Spirit w/ David Vandervelde and Romany Rye
Friday 7/23 @ El Rey
"There's a scene in Murray Lerner's film ("Festival"), about the 1963 Newport Music Festival, where Peter, Paul and Mary are shown...
Night Tide + Tracks w/ Director Henry Jaglom in person
Friday 7/23 @ The Cinefamily
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Night Tide - 7:30pm
Hopper has never been more...
Friday 7/23 @ Bootleg Theater
"As one of South America's best-regarded young MCs, male or female, the prodigiously loquacious Tijoux is seldom at a loss for...
Author Marina Anderson @ Book Soup (David Carradine: The Eye of My Tornado)
Friday 7/23 @ Book Soup
Marina Anderson presents and sign David Carradine: The Eye of My Tornado.
Ongoing Events
Friday 7/23 @ Khastoo Gallery
Khastoo Gallery says: "After the cursing comes laughter, so that the soul is saved from the dead. " -Carl Gustav Jung,...
Friday 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
Songs & Dances of Imaginary Lands
Friday 7/23 @ The Songs & Dances Warehouse
Overtones Industries says: The show follows Tom and Sue as they search for their lost identities by visiting imaginary places that...
Friday 7/23 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The Pasadena Museum of California Art has been a longtime supporter of our state's bountiful design legacy, and its biennial recognizes...
Friday 7/23 @ LA Louver Gallery
Perhaps the easiest way to think of the work of iconic LA artist Tony Berlant, is to imagine a painter of...
Friday 7/23 @ Carmichael Gallery
Carmichael Gallery says: Carmichael Gallery is pleased to present THE UNCOVERING, a powerful cross section of new photography by Serbian native...
Friday 7/23 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Sting's slow-dance staple "Every Breath You Take" has inspired Kenneth Anger's surveillance-themed homo-erotic 2007 flick I'll Be Watching You and now,...
Friday 7/23 @ Pacific Design Center
The miniature, indoor gallery district on the Blue Whale's second, and now third, floors welcomes new shows from original residents and...
Friday 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ Various Pasadena locations
Old Pasadena Film Festival says:
Old Pasadena Management presents the Old Pasadena Film Festival, a free three-week movie series that...
Friday 7/23 @ Eclectic Company Theatre
Hurricane Season is Eclectic Company's 7th annual new-plays festival and playwrights competition in original one-acts. They have begun to gain a...
The Neon Art of Bill Concannon
Friday 7/23 @ 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...
Patrick Graham and Arshile Gorky
Friday 7/23 @ 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...
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Friday 7/23 @ Celebration Theatre
Part Glee, part A Star Is Born, [title of show] tells the story of two unemployed New Yorkers writing and directing...
Art from the Ashes to benefit Deukmejian Wilderness Park
Friday 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ New Image Art
Ohio-born Kime Buzzelli is the woman behind Echo Park's art boutique and vintage couturier Show Pony, but not only does the...
Chad Person: Surviving the End of Your World
Friday 7/23 @ Mark Moore Gallery
New Mexico-based multimedia artist Chad Person creates beautifully crafted, ironic indictments of society's most dangerous flaws. In TaxCut, Person shreds US...
Friday 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ 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...
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
Friday 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Friday 7/23 @ Theatre Asylum
Theatre Asylum says: The 1st annual Hollywood Fringe Festival has ended, but we at Theatre Asylum are not willing to let...
Friday 7/23 @ Pershing Square
As we move into July and August, the program of free summer movies in Pershing Square takes a turn away from...
Friday 7/23 @ Bert Green Fine Art
Bert Green Fine Art says: David Hollen constructs sculpture from industrial materials such as metal, wood, wire, rubber, and synthetic materials....
Friday 7/23 @ Luis de Jesus Los Angeles
South Carolina-based artist Karen Ann Myers paints pictures of the beauty women desire, often at the expense of their own sanity....
Out of the Closet and Into the Street
Friday 7/23 @ ONE Archives Gallery and Museum
Center for the Study of Political Graphics says: Despite decades of affirmation and positive role models engendered by the LGBTQ liberation...
Friday 7/23 @ Arena 1
By turns whimsical and ominous, the work of the 16 artists curated into Signs of the Forest share little in the...
Friday 7/23 @ Natural History Museum
One of the Natural History Museum's most eagerly anticipated annual events is its Pavilion of Wings — the installation of living,...
Some Assembly Required: race, gender, and globalization
Friday 7/23 @ 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...
The Curious World of Patent Models and The Future of Objects
Friday 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ 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...
The Grand Moving Mirror of California
Friday 7/23 @ The Velaslavasay Panorama
Located at the prewar Union Theater in historic West Adams, the Velaslavasay Panorama reinvigorates the lost tradition of panoramic painting —...
Alternative Press: 25th Anniversary Show
Friday 7/23 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Art by and about rock stars is nothing new. Rock and roll has always had its share of musicians who have...
Friday 7/23 @ Country Club LA
Country Club says: Country Club Los Angeles is pleased to announce that Kori Newkirk will be the next artist in the...
Friday 7/23 @ Subliminal Projects
Subliminal Projects says: Subliminal Projects is pleased to present The Homebody, a solo exhibition of new original works by Jim Houser....
Friday 7/23 @ GR2
Buff Monster's candy-coated, anime-inspired world riffing on the "Superflat" style is populated by kaiju-esque characters occupying quasi-geometric environments rendered in a...
Friday 7/23 @ A&I Hollywood
Digital photography is one of the most small-D democratic art forms in the world, providing access to a truly universal means...
Friday 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ The Farley Building
Mike Kelley is one of the most influential artists ever to come out of Los Angeles. Though he works across every...
The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen
Friday 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ The Hi-Lite
Multi-talent Reuben Cox is truly old school: he recently opened a Silverlake guitar store called Old Style, and when not making...
Friday 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ Crewest Gallery
Are your lady friends always saying that you need more culture? Well, prepare to get in touch with your inner female...
Friday 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ PØST
The plan for July at beloved experimental art space PØST is as simple as the results are mercurial and eclectic. Thirty-one...
Friday 7/23 @ 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...
Vicious Circle and Surface Tension
Friday 7/23 @ Young Projects at the Pacific Design Center
Young Projects at the Pacific Design Center presents a pair of divergent exhibits that both challenge the boundaries of video art...
Friday 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ Samuel Freeman
Samuel Freeman Gallery says: A group show featuring works by Cassandra Glessner, Maggie Mull, Hedi Sorger, Michelle Wiener, and Jennifer Wolf,...
Friday 7/23 @ 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...
New Original Works Festival 2010: Program One
Friday 7/23 @ REDCAT
The fundamental idea of the New Original Works Festival, which kicks off its annual three-weekend engagement this week at REDCAT, is...
Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs
Friday 7/23 @ 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...
Saturday High and Art Center for Kids Weeklong Summer Workshops
Friday 7/23 @ Art Center College of Design
Saturday High and Art Center for Kids offer an expanded series of five-day classes in the summer, designed to give young...
The Completely Different Late Show
Friday 7/23 @ 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 &...
Chuck Jones: An Animator's Life From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
Friday 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ Hollywood Bowl
Spectacular footage from the celebrated BBC television series Planet Earth is shown in stunning high-definition on the Bowl’s big screen, accompanied...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Friday 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ 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...
Friday 7/23 @ 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 7/23 @ 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...
George Segal: The Expulsion, feat. photographs of the artist at work by Donald Lokuta
Friday 7/23 @ 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...
