Events on Friday, September 17
Friday 9/17 @ Exchange LA
The sexy brain-geeks wanted a bigger party so they moved it to Friday night and a sparkly new venue. The night's...
Marina and the Diamonds w/ Young the Giant
Friday 9/17 @ El Rey
Under the Marina and the Diamonds moniker, Welsh songstress Marina Diamandis brings quirk back to pop music in an epic way....
Escape from New York and Escape from LA with John Carpernter in Person
Friday 9/17 @ Egyptian Theatre
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, 1981, Studio Canal, 99 min. Dir. John Carpenter. Kurt Russell delivers one of cinema’s most legendary performances...
The Silver Lake Chorus and Rose Rossi
Friday 9/17 @ Bootleg Theater
THE SILVER LAKE CHORUS The Silver Lake Chorus is the brainchild of Sam Rader, who dared to imagine a world in...
Friday 9/17 @ The Cinefamily
Trafic brings "Mr. Hulot" back front-and-center in a rollicking road-comedy satire of automotive mischief: our hero is now a beleaguered auto inventor,...
Ongoing Events
Friday 9/17 @ New Image Art
Off the back of the Japanese based exhibition entitled NOW I REMEMBER, New Image Art, Los Angeles brings this awesome exhibition...
Friday 9/17 @ La Luz de Jesus
Nathan Ota's art is both highly refined and hyper-realistic, with imaginary, hybrid creatures blending into vignettes that are part landscape, part...
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ Five Star Bar
Spirit Vine occupy the inner circle of LA's east side indie rock scene, a tight-knit network of attention-grabbing bands — many...
The Neon Art of Bill Concannon
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Ingmar Bergman: Truth and Lies
Friday 9/17 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman examined the terrain of human emotion more thoroughly than most directors. The son of a minister, he...
Friday 9/17 @ Mark Taper Forum
There are several compelling reasons you should check out Mark Taper's new adaptation of Tennessee Williams' classic, The Glass Menagerie. Director...
Friday 9/17 @ Arena 1
One of the most consistently ambitious of LA's independent galleries, the Arena 1 space at the Santa Monica Airport never shies...
Friday 9/17 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Jordi Alcaraz uses the shadowcast patterns and dimensional topographies of bent, pierced, and layered glass as a painter deploys the drawn...
Don Giovanni Tonight, Don Carlo Tomorrow
Friday 9/17 @ Sacred Fools Theater
Just ask Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd — there's nothing more conducive to hilarious musical-theatre satire than conventional opera. With its...
Friday 9/17 @ Charlie James Gallery
Through a steady and impressive career that has incorporated sculpture, photography, fashion, and installation, Ala Ebtekar has continually returned to his...
Neighbors: A Play with Cartoons
Friday 9/17 @ The Matrix Theatre Company
Have you seen the new neighbors? Richard Patterson is an upwardly mobile African-American academic. The family of black actors who has...
Friday 9/17 @ Hammer Museum
If you haven't gotten your invitation, the bad news is, you aren't likely to; but just so you know, conceptual art...
Friday 9/17 @ 323 Projects
Mathew Timmons is a hard-core collaborator with no regard for traditional boundaries when it comes to mixing media and even entire...
Friday 9/17 @ ACME.
Primarily known as a photographer, popular Los Angeles-based artists Carlee Fernandez exhibits new sculptural work involving taxidermy, beauty, and dark humor....
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ Fahey/Klein Gallery
Widely known for his black-and-white portraits of celebrities, which have graced the pages of Interview, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair,...
Friday 9/17 @ East West Theatre
The East West Theatre Company is more than an acclaimed repertory theater company, producing original works that not only satisfy Angelenos'...
Friday 9/17 @ Pedersen Projects
Prophecy is central to the work of the four artists that comprise Prelude to an Apocalypse: Landscape in an Era of...
The Art of Ancient Greek Theater
Friday 9/17 @ The Getty Villa
This exhibition explores the many ways Greek drama was interpreted by ancient Greek artists, whose works are frequently the only surviving...
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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...
Out of the Closet and Into the Street
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ Samuel Freeman
We are pleased to present the first Solo Exhibition in the United States by renowned German artist Ewerdt Hilgemann. His stainless...
Friday 9/17 @ Country Club LA
Get ready to have your mind blown by young art stars Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman, whose current installation...
Friday 9/17 @ Elephant Space
Parasite Drag is a powerful, lacerating drama with dark humor and storm warnings — both meteorological and emotional. Repressed Gene, about to...
Friday 9/17 @ LAUNCH_LA
Miracle Mile's newest art space hosts a solo show from Los Angeles artist Lola del Fresno, whose haunting, modern figurative paintings...
Friday 9/17 @ Gallery 825
The Los Angeles Art Association is proud to continue our 85th Anniversary programming with Measure for Measure, an unprecedented all-media exhibition...
Friday 9/17 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Part of one of California's most illustrious art-making families, Lezley Saar (daughter of Bettye and sister of Alison — currently enjoying...
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ Subliminal Projects
What else is there to add to the volume of words dedicated to the art, commerce, and character of iconic American...
Friday 9/17 @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
The exhibition explores the delimitations we experience in our every day environment, an investigation that has been crucial to Ochoa's practice....
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
How the West Was Worn by... Michael Jackson
Friday 9/17 @ The Autry National Center of the American West
Since much of Michael Jackson's enduring legacy and pop-culture influence is based on a "wild west" aesthetic, it should come as...
Friday 9/17 @ Crewest Gallery
Paredes is an artist who combines the exhilarating sense of New York City's graffiti art with skill and perceptiveness. Growing up...
Michael C. McMillen and Alison Saar
Friday 9/17 @ LA Louver Gallery
Michael C. McMillen's ambitious, labor-intensive, evocative sculptural (and, increasingly, video-based) installations have produced some of the most memorable gallery experiences in...
Friday 9/17 @ Marilyn Monroe Theater at the Lee Strasberg Creative Center
Dear Harvey, by Patricia Loughrey and with original music by Thomas Hodges, is based on the writings of Harvey Milk, first...
Friday 9/17 @ Sam Lee Gallery
Carrie Yury's two most recent series, Suits and First Ladies, both examine the women's role in American politics. In each of...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ R&R Gallery
Bill Murray is a unique entity in Hollywood: while highly successful in mainstream movies, he's also an iconoclast so unconventional, he...
The 3G Show: Ghostbusters, Goonies, and Gremlins
Friday 9/17 @ Gallery 1988
There's not a child of the '80s who didn't grow up loving the Ghostbusters, Goonies, and Gremlins movies. Now these classics...
Friday 9/17 @ CB1 Gallery
Daniel Aksten's images, despite their intense visual crispness, blur the lines between several kinds of modern and contemporary painting conventions. He...
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ Edward Cella Art + Architecture
LA artist Deborah Aschheim is fascinated with architecture as a site of humanity's creativity, history, experience, identity; its mechanisms of control,...
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ Edgar Varela Fine Arts
A simple idea combines beauty with a hint of social commentary, as Edgar Varela Fine Arts hosts a twist on the...
Friday 9/17 @ Regen Projects
Lari Pittman is one of the better known of LA's successful art-world exports; achieving national (read: New York) and international attention...
Friday 9/17 @ The Company
New York's Jen DeNike's first solo show in LA expands upon a dance-based work she premiered at MoMA earlier this year,...
Friday 9/17 @ The Downtown Standard Hotel
In recent years, the Standard, Downtown LA has fashioned itself as a bit of an adult playground. Well, if you've gotten your...
Friday 9/17 @ Ruskin Group Theatre
A stunning moral conflict resurfaces in this Tony Award winning play, as crimes from the past threaten the future of two...
Friday 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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 9/17 @ 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 &...
Up From the Vault: 85 Years of Treasures from the Warner Bros. Photo Lab
Friday 9/17 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
A free exhibition of photography from the Warner Bros. Photo Lab featuring more than 150 images of iconic stars from the...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 9/17 @ 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...
Sardono Dance Theater and Jennifer Tipton: Rain Coloring Forest
Friday 9/17 @ REDCAT
Evocative movement and music emanate from a lush visual environment in this world premiere performance created during a REDCAT residency by...
