Events on Thursday, December 13
Thursday 12/13 @ Various locations
This month's installment of the Downtown Art Walk features the usual cheap-wine minefield, but, along with the latest Trader Joe's special,...
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
Thursday 12/13 @ Echo Park Film Center
Nestled in the desert east of Los Angeles, the Salton Sea is an ecological disaster of escalating urgency. Chris Metzler and...
Ongoing Events
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
Thursday 12/13 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
One of three new exhibitions on view this fall at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, vinyl-obsessed group show Beyond Ultraman...
Thursday 12/13 @ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling is MCASD's response to MOCA's 2005 exhibition Visual Music, a survey of the influence and/or direct...
Thursday 12/13 @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
Sandow Birk's Depravities of War examines its titular subject's social, political, and aesthetic constructs. Birk's precursor was 17th-century printmaker Jacques Callot,...
Thursday 12/13 @ Black Maria Gallery
Forget Wii, kid-sized Escalades, and paintball guns. Atwater Village's Black Maria Gallery shares its nostalgia (and collector's fetish) for old-time toys...
Thursday 12/13 @ LA Louver Gallery
Venice's premier art space reminds us that sculpture can be one of the most thrilling creative media with the debut of...
Thursday 12/13 @ LAXART
A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last...
Thursday 12/13 @ Los Angeles Public Library: Central Library
Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else —...
Thursday 12/13 @ Theatre of NOTE
Set over the course of two balmy days in August, theatre of NOTE's latest production revolves around the emotional cyclones stirred...
Thursday 12/13 @ SolwayJones Gallery
LA painter Cherie Benner Davis sees the world in layered transparencies — crisp geometric shapes overlaying expressive, devotional elements of the...
Thursday 12/13 @ Natural History Museum
Whether you cherish the memory of dueling dino skeletons from long-ago field trips, or a more recent late-night music show amongst...
Thursday 12/13 @ REDCAT
Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,...
Thursday 12/13 @ Los Angeles Opera
Giacomo Puccini's four-act opera La Bohème has been immortalized in more films, songs, and remakes than any other work of its...
Thursday 12/13 @ De Soto Gallery
If LA-based video artist Pascual Sisto had been born a century earlier, he and Salvador Dalí would have been best buds....
Thursday 12/13 @ Bonsorte Studio
Filmmakers, peace activists, and multimedia artists Antoine Bonsorte and Abram Zinberg have created a unique visual experience. Their short film and...
Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
Thursday 12/13 @ DCA Fine Art
Alejandro Gehry may be the son of uber-architect Frank, but it's his co-exhibitor, Brian Biedul, whose work really focuses on spatiality....
Thursday 12/13 @ Gallery 825
Gallery 825, the La Cienega Boulevard location of LA's oldest artists cooperative, presents this year's Open Show. An annual highlight of...
Thursday 12/13 @ Cavern Club Theater
Labeled by its creators as a cross between a Perry Como Christmas special and Pee-wee's Playhouse, the Fruitcake Follies have one...
Thursday 12/13 @ Milo Gallery
Don't call Joan Tucker another Rothko wannabe. While her exploratory, painterly abstractions are obviously influenced by the forefathers of abstract expressionism,...
Thursday 12/13 @ Michael Kohn Gallery
Even though Wallace Berman exhibited his work at the highly influential Ferus Gallery within years of Andy Warhol's first solo show,...
Thursday 12/13 @ New Image Art
Bay Area artist Alex Kopps' undeniably beautiful work has been endorsed by Target, Home Depot, and Taco Bell — but don't...
Thursday 12/13 @ La Luz de Jesus
Brooklyn-based illustrator and mixed-media painter Jordin Isip uses collage as his primary medium. This eclectic approach serves both as a literal...
Thursday 12/13 @ Bert Green Fine Art
Clive Barker is known for creating some pretty frightening characters — Candyman, Pinhead, and the army of monsters in Nightbreed. The...
Thursday 12/13 @ Gallery C
Hyperrealist painter Kenny Harris showcases his recent paintings inspired by a trip to South America. While Harris' interiors hardly show direct...
Thursday 12/13 @ Pomona College Museum of Art
Victor Hugo once said that, in contrast to the sublime, the grotesque is the richest material that nature can offer art....
Thursday 12/13 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Whether reading between the lines or blurring them entirely, ubiquitous designer Shepard Fairey mines the deep vein of irony running through...
Thursday 12/13 @ Sandroni Rey
From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her...
Thursday 12/13 @ Hammer Museum
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never...
Thursday 12/13 @ Spin Gallery
Venice's brand-new Spin Gallery merges fine and automotive art, showcasing promising new visual talents alongside rare and beautiful cars. Its latest...
Thursday 12/13 @ The New LATC
In this important and timely work, conceived and directed by Peter DiMuro, award-winning dance pioneer Liz Lerman examines accepted definitions of...
Thursday 12/13 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating
Thursday 12/13 @ Pounder-Koné Art Space
When not hurting bad guys on FX's The Shield, actress CCH Pounder works alongside her husband Boubacar Koné, developing the Boribana...
Thursday 12/13 @ Western Project
Carole Caroompas' fantastically imaginative paintings and drawings are a melting pot of pop-culture imagery. For Caroompas' latest collection at Western Project,...
Thursday 12/13 @ Various locations
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That,...
Thursday 12/13 @ project: gallery
To celebrate the first anniversary of its move to Culver City, project: gallery collaborates with Juxtapoz magazine on an exhibition in...
Thursday 12/13 @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai
Don't let the title fool you: for her second solo effort at Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Cassandra C. Jones isn't just...
Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto
Thursday 12/13 @ Commissary Arts
While Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto are both Los Angeles-based artists working in the medium of drawing, the juxtaposition of their...
Thursday 12/13 @ DNJ Gallery
Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic...
Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann
Thursday 12/13 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Three newcomers to the LA art scene — Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann — open individual mini-exhibitions tonight at...
Thursday 12/13 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Thursday 12/13 @ Art/Works Theatre
Channeling the Chaplins and Keatons of Hollywood yesteryear, LAPT's inaugural festival salutes the not-so-subtle, yet supremely precise art of physical theatre....
Thursday 12/13 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
Beautiful and sublime, paintings by Seattle-based artist Robert Hardgrave boast slick, slippery, intestinal arabesques, quivering flora, and mysterious corpuscular floaters. Channeling...
Thursday 12/13 @ Japanese American National Museum
Pop-culture empire Giant Robot began way back in 1994 as a zine, and has since grown to include a glossy magazine,...
Thursday 12/13 @ Skirball Cultural Center
In Of All the People in All the World: The Americas, UK theatre company Stan's Cafe collects 300 million grains of...
Thursday 12/13 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
East meets West (coast, that is) in this exhibition of 14 NYC-based up-and-comers. Independent curator and New York gallerist Amy Smith-Stewart...
Thursday 12/13 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
A genre-bending thriller, Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva (1982) was among the first French films to herald the Cinéma du Look — the...
Brandi Milne: Sugar and Silence
Thursday 12/13 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Los Angeles' illustrative It-girl, Brandi Milne, joins forces with whimsical Chicago-based artist Jeremiah Ketner to transform this Culver City gallery into...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Thursday 12/13 @ Materials & Applications
Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore...
Thursday 12/13 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François...
Thursday 12/13 @ Fahey/Klein Gallery
Jokes about working with children and animals aside, LA-based photographer Jill Greenberg has built an internationally acclaimed fine-art career by doing...
Thursday 12/13 @ Ark Theatre
Dickens' "Please sir, may I have some more?" meets Animal House's "Thank you sir, may I have another?" in A Christmas...
Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario
Thursday 12/13 @ Richard Heller Gallery
LA painter Jacob Magraw's gouache-on-paper works are improvisational landscapes composed of layers of Skittles-worthy colors. His latest batch of works at...
Thursday 12/13 @ Honor Fraser
Gardar Eide Einarsson's latest series features nine massive plywood panels, printed with graphics from a '60s police manual. As the officers...
Thursday 12/13 @ Thinkspace Gallery
At Thinkspace Gallery's Snow Angels, audiences would be forgiven for thinking that a fleet of muses had landed in Sunset Junction,...
Thursday 12/13 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
For Ellen de Meutter's first US solo exhibition, the Belgian painter displays her signature childlike aesthetic, juxtaposing bright, expressionist imagery with...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Thursday 12/13 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California...
