Events on Thursday, January 10

Spaceland on Ice feat. the Chapin Sisters

Music

The Chapin Sisters

Thursday 1/10 @ Pershing Square

Spawned by the legendary Chapin family, these three sisters perform their sweet melodies tonight at the Pershing Square skating rink. Their... 

<I>Jazz on a Summer's Day</i> (1960)

Film: Documentary

Jazz on a Summer's Day

Thursday 1/10 @ The Silent Movie Theatre

A breezy beeline to a bygone time, Jazz on a Summer's Day is a dreamy document of the legendary lineup at... 

Six Organs of Admittance

Music

Six Organs of Admittance

Thursday 1/10 @ The Echo & Echoplex

Indie rock, psych folk, noise rock — if there's a form of progressive, experimental, guitar-based sound-making, chances are Ben Chasny has... 

Ongoing Events

Neil Farber: <em>New Works</em>

Art

Neil Farber

Thursday 1/10 @ Richard Heller Gallery

At first glance, Neil Farber's vivid, whimsical drawings seem to capture all the ignorant bliss of childhood, but their darker intentions... 

<I>The Violin</i>

Film

The Violin

Thursday 1/10 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

With a tender musical motif that recalls Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (1985), Francisco Vargas' astute debut, The Violin, tracks a... 

<em>The Cut</em>

Theatre

The Cut

Thursday 1/10 @ Rude Guerrilla Theater Company

British playwright Mark Ravenhill gives theater company Rude Guerilla another opportunity to stage the U.S premieres of his work. Past collaborations... 

Richard Deacon

Art

Richard Deacon

Thursday 1/10 @ 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... 

Choi Jeong-Hwa: <I>Truth</i>

Art

Choi Jeong-Hwa

Thursday 1/10 @ REDCAT

Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,... 

Serena Mitnik-Miller: <I>Quiver</I>

Art: Photography

Serena Mitnik-Miller

Thursday 1/10 @ Mollusk Surf Shop

Serena Mitnik-Miller doesn't take the usual kind of surf photography, and Venice's freshly opened Mollusk Surf Shop isn't the usual kind... 

Victor Burgin: <I>The Little House</i>

Art

Victor Burgin

Thursday 1/10 @ 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... 

Gardar Eide Einarsson: <I>All My Friends Are Dead</i>

Art

Gardar Eide Einarsson

Thursday 1/10 @ Honor Fraser

Gardar Eide Einarsson's latest series features nine massive plywood panels, printed with graphics from a '60s police manual. As the officers... 

Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk

Art

Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk

Thursday 1/10 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

The trio of contemporary artists assembled for the first show of the year at the Lawrence Asher Gallery draws inspiration from... 

<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>

Art

SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s

Thursday 1/10 @ 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... 

<em>Under the Influence: A Tribute to Stan Lee</em>

Art

Under the Influence

Thursday 1/10 @ Gallery 1988

Looking through Gallery 1988's roster of artists, it's easy to spot the legacy of the giants of alt-culture illustration and progressive... 

<em>Os Brasilieros Part I</em>

Art

Os Brasilieros

Thursday 1/10 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art

You've probably never heard of any of the over 40 artists included in this multimedia dragnet of a group show —... 

Los Angeles Art Association Open Show

Art

LAAA Open Show

Thursday 1/10 @ 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... 

Virginia Katz: <I>Deliberations Through Practice... piecing things together</i>

Art

Virginia Katz

Thursday 1/10 @ Jancar Gallery

LA's Virginia Katz uses a complex mixed-media process that involves so many layers of hand-worked pigments and liquids, her art can... 

<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Thursday 1/10 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... 

<i>Generalized Anxiety Disorder</i>

Art

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Thursday 1/10 @ Walter Maciel Gallery

Curator Kristine Bowen brings together 16 artists who channel the contemporary American spirit of fear and, as the show title suggests,... 

Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Thursday 1/10 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... 

Tim Sullivan: <em>Perfect Entrance </em>and Colin Roberts: <em>The Inscrutable Immutable</em>

Art

Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts

Thursday 1/10 @ Steve Turner Contemporary

Photographer and video artist Tim Sullivan, the highlight of last year's OC Biennial, inserts himself into bizarrely macabre and possibly drug-induced... 

<i>Steep</i>

Film

Steep

Thursday 1/10 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

Like Werner Herzog's slo-mo documentary on ski-flying The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974), Steep conveys the breathless exhilaration of an... 

<em>Love Loves a Pornographer</em>

Theatre

Love Loves a Pornographer

Thursday 1/10 @ The Ford Theater

Circle X Theatre Company cordially invites you to attend its wicked Victorian farce about adultery, blackmail, and teacakes, set against the... 

Materials & Applications: <em>Density Fields</em>

Art

Materials & Applications: Density Fields

Thursday 1/10 @ 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... 

<em>SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating</em>

Art

SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating

Thursday 1/10 @ 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... 

Jill Greenberg: <I>Ursine</i> & <I>Performance</i>

Art: Photography

Jill Greenberg

Thursday 1/10 @ 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... 

Henry Lewis &amp; Regino Gonzales: <em>Burning at Both Ends</em>

Art

Henry Lewis & Regino Gonzales

Thursday 1/10 @ Corey Helford Gallery

Individual series and a set of collaborative works from prodigal SoCal tattoo artists Regino Gonzales and Henry Lewis showcase the profound... 

Karen Liebowitz: <I>Leviathan</i>

Art

Karen Liebowitz

Thursday 1/10 @ Rosamund Felsen Gallery

The empowered female subjects of Karen Liebowitz's paintings exist in a fantasyland encompassing mythology, religious tales, and the contemporary world. For... 

David Sandlin:  <i>Swamp Preacher</i> & Martha Rich: <I>Imitation Snakeskin Superstore</i>

Art

David Sandlin & Martha Rich

Thursday 1/10 @ La Luz de Jesus

While gallery owner Billy Shire's other endeavor, upscale Culver City salon Billy Shire Fine Arts, exhibits a collection of David Sandlin's... 

Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues Art Exhibition

Art

Giant Robot Biennale

Thursday 1/10 @ 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,... 

<em>Lights! Camera! Glamour!</em>

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Thursday 1/10 @ California Heritage Museum

George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups,... 

Golden Globe Foreign-Language Nominee Series

Film

Golden Globe Foreign-Language Nominee Series

Thursday 1/10 @ Aero Theatre

The Aero's four-night bill of Golden Globe foreign-language nominees begins with The Kite Runner, which negotiates decades, continents, and languages in... 

Bill Owens: <I>Suburbia</i> and <I>Leisure</i>

Art: Photography

Bill Owens

Thursday 1/10 @ DNJ Gallery

Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic... 

Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto: <I>Organic/Structure</i>

Art

Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto

Thursday 1/10 @ Commissary Arts

While Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto are both Los Angeles-based artists working in the medium of drawing, the juxtaposition of their... 

<I>Julius Shulman's Los Angeles</i>

Art: Photography

Julius Shulman

Thursday 1/10 @ 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 —... 

Francis Al&#255;s: <I>Politics of Rehearsal</I>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Thursday 1/10 @ Hammer Museum

Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never... 

<em>Modern American Sculpture</em>

Art

Modern American Sculpture

Thursday 1/10 @ Forum Gallery

Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven... 

Julia Schwartz, Gary Polonsky, and Stephanie Visser

Art

Julia Schwartz

Thursday 1/10 @ The Artists' Gallery

The Artists' Gallery (TAG) is one of the best membership-based art galleries in LA, in part due to the talent of... 

<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Thursday 1/10 @ 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,... 

<em>Don't Fence Me In</em>

Art

Don't Fence Me In

Thursday 1/10 @ Bandini Art

The female artists showing their work at Bandini Art most definitely know how to have fun. For starters, there's Castillo's whimsical,... 

<em>Poster Renaissance 2</em>

Art

Poster Renaissance 2

Thursday 1/10 @ New Image Art

New Image Art owner Marsea Goldberg remembers when posters were a vehicle for edgy, urban art and illustration — and so... 

Matthew Barney: <I>Drawing from Guardian of the Veil</i>

Art

Matthew Barney

Thursday 1/10 @ Regen Projects

Matthew Barney, iconic multimedia rainmaker and Björk's baby daddy, shows drawings relating to his newest multimedia work, Guardian of the Veil.... 

Modern Aboriginal Art + Australian Architecture

Art

Aboriginal Art

Thursday 1/10 @ MODAA gallery

Wallace Berman: <i>Photography and Other Works of Art 1950-1976</i>

Art

Wallace Berman

Thursday 1/10 @ 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,... 

Cassandra C. Jones: <I>Photos Taken</i>

Art

Cassandra C. Jones

Thursday 1/10 @ 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... 

<I>Treasures from the Vault</i>

Special Event

Treasures from the Vault

Thursday 1/10 @ 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...