Featured Events in Los Angeles in January, 2025(January Updated)

Experience the harmonious blend of music and culture at The Hindley Street Country Club in Long Beach. Taking place at the prestigious Beverly O'Neill Theater within the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center, this event promises a night of unforgettable performances. Mark your calendars for January 18, 2025, and immerse yourself in the magical atmosphere created by talented artists in one of California's most vibrant cities.

Experience the delicious flavors of the 2025 YVES APPLE CINNAMON CRUNCH TOUR IN NORTH AMERICA at Brooklyn Paramount in Brooklyn. Indulge in the mouthwatering combination of apple and cinnamon crunch on January 21, 2025, at 385 Flatbush Ave. Extension, Brooklyn, NY, 11201. Don't miss out on this unique culinary event that promises to tantalize your taste buds and leave you craving for more. Join us for a memorable evening filled with gastronomic delights that are sure to impress even the most discerning food enthusiasts.

Impressions Expo Long Beach 2025 is set to make a splash at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center in sunny California. Mark the calendars, folks- from January 23rd to 25th, the industry's top professionals and enthusiasts will come together for an event that's not to be missed. This expo promises to showcase the latest and greatest in apparel, accessories, and all things related to the fashion industry. With a prime location right in the heart of Long Beach, this event offers an unparalleled opportunity for networking, learning, and, of course, making an impression. Rest assured, this is the place to be for anyone looking to stay ahead of the curve in the ever-evolving fashion world. Don't let the chance to experience Impressions Expo Long Beach 2025 pass by- it's a surefire way to kick off the new year with a bang.

Experience a night of spectacular music at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena with "The Weeknd: Hurry Up Tomorrow - One Night Only" event on January 25, 2025. The Weeknd, a multi-award-winning artist, will be performing live at this iconic venue located at 1001 Rose Bowl Drive. Don't miss this exclusive opportunity to witness a memorable performance by one of the biggest names in the music industry. Get your tickets now for a night you won't forget.

Please note: -- Tickets are non refundable and are not transferable. -- Tickets cannot be re-sold on re-seller platforms. Re-sold ticket will not be honored. -- All ticket holders should be ready to show ID at the event. -- The name(s) you provide during registration will be on a will-call list at the event, where you will check-in and get your ticket to enter the theatre. ---------------------------------------------------------- Join us for an in-person and virtual* Live Talks Los Angeles event: Tuesday, January 28, 2024, 8pm*Virtual event airs on February 2 at 3pm PT/6pm ET An Evening with Eric Idlediscussing his book, The Spamalot DiariesTICKETS: $50 General Admission ticket + signed copy of the book (for pick up at the event)$57 General Admission ticket + signed copy of the book (ships week of Oct 28)$75 Two General Admisison tickets + one sigend book (for pick up at the event)Additional signed books available for purchase at eventFace masks recommendedThe virtual version of this event airs on February 2, 2025, at 3pm PT/6PM ET and is available on video-on-demand for five days.Tickets for the virtual event can be purchased here (includes the signed book)ASL interpreter provided upon request.Free parking at the venueFrom comedy legend Eric Idle, the fascinating inside story of bringingMonty Python and the Holy Grailto Broadway as the unlikely theatrical hitSpamalot. Eric Idle is a comedian, actor, author, and singer-songwriter who found immediate fame on television with the sketch-comedy show Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Following its success, the group began making films that include Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python’s Life of Brian, and Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. Eric wrote, directed, and created The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, the world’s first-ever mockumentary, as well as the Tony Award–winning musical Spamalot. His memoir, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life was a New York Times bestseller. Watch videos of Eric Idle’s three previous appearances at Live Talks Los Angeles — interviewing John Cleese and Alan Zweibel; and interviewed by Bob Saget. “Idle provides a rollicking account of the making of his Broadway musical Spamalot. . . . an irresistible and unfiltered ode to the art of live theater. Fans will love this tantalizing glimpse behind the curtain.”—Publishers Weekly Long before Spamalot was the toast of Broadway and the winner of three Tony awards, it was an idea threatening to fizzle out before it could find its way into existence. In The Spamalot Diaries, Eric Idle shares original journal entries and raw email exchanges that reveal the sometimes bumpy, always entertaining path to the show’s unforgettable run. Financial anxieties, collaborative disputes that tested decades-long friendships, endless rewriting and a broken ankle were just some of the challenges. Idle chronicles every minor mishap and triumph along the way, as well as the creative tension that drove the show to new heights. An unforgettable look behind the curtain of a beloved musical and inside the wickedly entertaining mind of one of our most treasured comic performers. Information Source: Live Talks Los Angeles | eventbrite

Experience the magic of Myles Smith at the "We Were Never Strangers Tour 2025" in Los Angeles. Taking place at The Wiltern on January 29, 2025, this highly anticipated event promises an unforgettable evening filled with soulful melodies and captivating performances. Join music enthusiasts at 3790 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90010, as Myles Smith takes the stage to showcase his incredible talent. Don't miss this opportunity to witness a truly remarkable artist in a stunning venue.

ASIM AZHAR and AUR are set to embark on their highly anticipated World Tour 2025, with a stop in Los Angeles. The event will take place at The Regent Theater located at 448 S. Main St., Los Angeles, CA, 90013 on January 30, 2025. Fans can look forward to an unforgettable night of music and entertainment at this iconic venue. Be sure to mark your calendars for this special occasion as these talented artists bring their electrifying performances to the stage in the heart of Los Angeles.

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A Traveler’s Guide to Mettlach: Villeroy and Boch showcases everyday life in the 1800s Mettlach, Germany. Scenes of everyday life in Mettlach have been documented and celebrated by Villeroy and Boch, a ceramic production company founded in 1836 when Jean François Boch and Nicolas Villeroy merged their ceramic businesses into what is now known as Villeroy and Boch. The workers of the Mettlach factory came from diverse backgrounds, including art studios, archives, and museums. The varied backgrounds of the factory workers contributed to the artistic achievements of the Villeroy and Boch company. The Mettlach collection reflects German cultural experiences, societal interpretations, and mythology. This exhibition shows scenes of love and relationships as well as larger themes of fantasy, offering an all-encompassing snapshot of the myriad facets of human life within Mettlach. A Traveler’s Guide to Mettlach, on view in the Robert and Colette Wilson Gallery through June 2025, presents concepts of life, laughter, relationships, and the day-to-day existence of the German people.

This site-specific work explores the fragility of the Earth’s ecosystem, as well as the destruction of the forest and its potential for regeneration. The sculpture celebrates the beauty of wood in its natural state and emphasizes its potential as a reusable and renewable resource. California-based Japanese American artist Mineo Mizuno’s site-specific sculpture, titled Homage to Nature, is crafted from fallen timber gathered in the forests of the Sierra Nevada, where the artist lives and works. Views of the San Gabriel Mountains in the background will frame the work. The sculpture explores the fragility of the Earth’s ecosystem, as well as the destruction of the forest and its potential for regeneration. Homage to Nature celebrates the beauty of wood in its natural state and emphasizes its potential as a reusable and renewable resource. Using yakisugi (shou sugi), a traditional Japanese method of wood preservation known in the West as burnt timber cladding, the charred surfaces of the reclaimed timber in the sculpture speak not only to fire’s destructive power but also to its ability to reinvigorate the land. As a companion and response to the sculpture, a “fire landscape” will be planted near the sculpture to mimic new growth that occurs naturally after a fire. This new sculpture marks the culmination of a series of installations by the artist designed to reflect on The Huntington’s collections and link the gardens and art galleries. Homage to Nature will be unveiled on May 25, 2024, and will remain on view for five years.

Simone Leigh, a traveling exhibition organized by the ICA Boston and co-presented in Los Angeles by LACMA and the California African American Museum, is the first comprehensive survey of the richly layered work of this celebrated artist. LACMA’s presentation features approximately 20 years of Leigh’s production in ceramic, bronze, video, and installation, as well as works from her 2022 Venice Biennale presentation. Over the past two decades, Leigh has created works exploring questions of Black femme subjectivity and knowledge production. Addressing a wide swath of historical periods, geographies, and traditions, her art references vernacular and hand-made processes from across the African diaspora, as well as forms traditionally associated with African art and architecture. Accompanied by a major monograph, this exhibition offers visitors a timely opportunity to gain a holistic understanding of Leigh’s complex and profoundly moving work.

‘And Then Came the Environment’ presents a range of Gustav Metzger’s scientific works merging art and science from 1961 onward, highlighting his advocacy for environmental awareness and the possibilities for the transformation of society, as well as his latest experimental works, created in 2014. The exhibition title comes from Metzger’s groundbreaking 1992 essay ‘Nature Demised’ wherein he proclaims an urgent need to redefine our understanding of nature in relation to the environment. Metzger explains that the politicized term ‘environment’ creates a disconnect from the natural world, manipulating public perception to obscure pollution and exploitation caused by wars and industrialization, and that it should be renamed ‘Damaged Nature.’

‘And Then Came the Environment’ presents a range of Gustav Metzger’s scientific works merging art and science from 1961 onward, highlighting his advocacy for environmental awareness and the possibilities for the transformation of society, as well as his latest experimental works, created in 2014. The exhibition title comes from Metzger’s groundbreaking 1992 essay ‘Nature Demised’ wherein he proclaims an urgent need to redefine our understanding of nature in relation to the environment. Metzger explains that the politicized term ‘environment’ creates a disconnect from the natural world, manipulating public perception to obscure pollution and exploitation caused by wars and industrialization, and that it should be renamed ‘Damaged Nature.’

In conjunction with Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide, Roberts Projects presents Betye Saar’s monumental altar assemblage, Mojotech. Created in 1987 during the artist’s residency at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), this installation-based work is a testament to the fusion of contemporary technology and the mystique of ancient spirituality.

In September 2024, Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967, Copenhagen; lives and works in Berlin) presents a new site-specific installation made for The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. In line with Eliasson’s career-long exploration of light and color, geometry, and environmental awareness, the installation playfully engages with material and immaterial qualities of the museum’s architecture. A series of large-scale optical devices designed specifically for MOCA Geffen will respond to the building itself, as well as to the everchanging atmosphere of Los Angeles. Visitors will encounter a dazzling range of sensory experiences that harness the laws of geometric optics to address feelings and concepts of embodiment, perception, and participation.

In September 2024, Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967, Copenhagen; lives and works in Berlin) presents a new site-specific installation made for The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. In line with Eliasson’s career-long exploration of light and color, geometry, and environmental awareness, the installation playfully engages with material and immaterial qualities of the museum’s architecture. A series of large-scale optical devices designed specifically for MOCA Geffen will respond to the building itself, as well as to the everchanging atmosphere of Los Angeles. Visitors will encounter a dazzling range of sensory experiences that harness the laws of geometric optics to address feelings and concepts of embodiment, perception, and participation.

Southern California’s iconic art event, PST ART, returns in September 2024 with over 800 artists, 70 exhibits, and 1 amazing theme:Art Meets Science. This “collision” will explore the intersection of art and science, past and present, with organizations presenting exhibits on topics such as ancient cosmology, Indigenous science fiction, environmental justice, and artificial intelligence.

In September 2024, Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967, Copenhagen; lives and works in Berlin) presents a new site-specific installation made for The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. In line with Eliasson’s career-long exploration of light and color, geometry, and environmental awareness, the installation playfully engages with material and immaterial qualities of the museum’s architecture. A series of large-scale optical devices designed specifically for MOCA Geffen will respond to the building itself, as well as to the everchanging atmosphere of Los Angeles. Visitors will encounter a dazzling range of sensory experiences that harness the laws of geometric optics to address feelings and concepts of embodiment, perception, and participation.

In the early decades of the 20th century, automobile ownership saw tremendous growth in the United States—with one motor vehicle per every five Americans by 1929—and a new motoring landscape evolved to accommodate the increase in car travel. For over a century, civil engineers, automotive designers, architects, and graphic artists have worked, often without credit, to create highway systems and the vehicles that traverse them, along with standardized signage and roadside amenities that have become so commonplace that they are largely taken for granted. Modern and contemporary artists, however, have long noticed and been inspired by the world in which the automobile operates and have responded to it in their work. Eyes on the Road brings the often-overlooked “art” of the highway together with artistic representations of this visual culture, highlighting the role of the car in shaping the country’s built environment and drawing new attention to the world around us.

Caldwell founded the KAOS network in 1984, and the exhibition traverses time, geography, history, and memory through Caldwell’s diverse practices of photography, film, video, music, performance, community design, and interactive media.

Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures, created in collaboration with scientists at the Carnegie Observatories and the Griffith Observatory, presents a group of rare and visually stunning artworks from different cultures and time periods to explore the variety of human attempts to explain the universe’s origins, mechanics, and meaning. Nearly every ancient culture has seen the heavens as a mirror of cosmic structure and process, and ancient measurements of time were directly influenced by the movements of heavenly bodies.Mapping the Infinitereveals how, as religions evolved, cultures conceived of and depicted cosmic deities and concepts of time and space through works of art and sacred architecture. The exhibition illuminates this history of cosmologiesaround the globe from the Stone Age to the present, from Neolithic Europe to the present day and including Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, South and Southeast Asia, East Asia,the Islamic Middle East, the Indigenous Americas, Northern Europe, and the United States.

Pace is pleased to present Overview Effect, an exhibition of new paintings by Loie Hollowell, at its Los Angeles gallery. On view from November 9, 2024 to January 18, 2025, this will be the artist’s first solo presentation in Southern California, showcasing six of her largest works to date, each measuring eight by six feet, along with two new, intimately scaled, multi-part nipple paintings. Overview Effect follows Hollowell’s solo exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut—her first museum survey and first museum presentation on the East Coast, now on view at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Institute for Contemporary Art through March 9, 2025—and her recent show at Pace’s New York gallery, Dilation Stage. Her upcoming exhibition in LA takes its title from what astronauts describe as the “overview effect”—the experience of seeing Earth from space. From that vantage point, the planet becomes a unified whole without borders or boundaries, a single system of which humanity is a tiny part. In her new Overview Effect paintings, Hollowell gives viewers a bold first impression: searing our retinas with the force of bright color, extreme lighting, symmetry, and strong geometries that take on larger-than-life proportions. Stare for a while, and you will feel the paintings’ lasting effects as afterimages linger over your field of vision and leave a psychic mark. The limited palette in this body of work, based on primary colors and their combinations, suggests something basic and elemental floating in the cosmic soup.

Marian Goodman Gallery presents the first exhibition with French artist Bernard Frize since announcing representation of him earlier this year, as well as his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles in twenty years. Since the late 1970s, Frize has concentrated his practice on abstract conceptual painting that reflects on what it means to make a painting as well as how a painting can be made. Through a dedicated methodology that is at once playful, mechanical, and spiritual, Frize liberates his work from the self-expressive promise of the painterly gesture through a range of strategies that reflexively question the role and labor of the painter.

Marian Goodman Gallery presents the first exhibition with French artist Bernard Frize since announcing representation of him earlier this year, as well as his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles in twenty years. Since the late 1970s, Frize has concentrated his practice on abstract conceptual painting that reflects on what it means to make a painting as well as how a painting can be made. Through a dedicated methodology that is at once playful, mechanical, and spiritual, Frize liberates his work from the self-expressive promise of the painterly gesture through a range of strategies that reflexively question the role and labor of the painter.

Perrotin Los Angeles presents artist Leslie Hewitt’s solo presentation New Waves. This is the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with Perrotin and her first at the gallery’s Los Angeles location.

David Zwirner is pleased to present Pearl Lines, the gallery’s first exhibition with Brooklyn-based artist Walter Price (b. 1989) since the announcement of his representation earlier this year. Price is known for his richly vibrant paintings and drawings, which bypass strict allegiances to representational or abstract modes. His canvases and works on paper not only experiment freely with color, line, and space, but also reveal emphatic shifts in perspective, suggesting scenes and imagery that the artist ultimately leaves for viewers to absorb and contemplate on their own.

Perrotin Los Angeles presents artist Iván Argote’s solo presentation Impermanent, the artist’s seventh solo exhibition with Perrotin and his first at the gallery’s Los Angeles location.

In his luscious paintings, Ana Segovia (b. 1991, Mexico City, where he lives) twists assumptions of masculinity through a queer lens. Working with an aggressive palette of neon colors, daring compositions, and cinematographic framing and cropping, Segovia undermines the gendered basis of Mexican national identity built around male stereotypes standardized by film. The artist often develops specific display strategies for his paintings, borrowing from the language of installation, theater, dance, and video art to effectively situate them in the exhibition space. MOCA Focus: Ana Segovia will feature a new painting commissioned for the exhibition plus two recent bodies of work, including I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (2023), a suite of eight paintings depicting film stills from a non-existent queer film the artist wished to have seen in his formative years.

The exhibition aims to show the evolution of the Photorealism movement in the 1970s and further explore works related to Photorealism today, presenting works by figurative painters such as Gina Beavers and Serge Gomez.

Ice at Santa Monica is an annual winter event in Los Angeles that brings a touch of winter to the comfortable coastal city. The event takes place at ICE at Santa Monica, an 8,000-square-foot outdoor rink located just blocks from the ocean. From November 26th to January 20th, visitors can enjoy an hour-long skating session for $24, which includes skate rentals. Private parties and cabanas are also available for those seeking a more premium experience. In addition to skating, visitors can indulge in treats for sale and enjoy special themed nights. Don't miss out on this exciting winter event in Santa Monica.