All events on Thursday January 31

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Film
The Moon Is Blue and The Man with the Golden Arm
Thursday Jan 31 (7:30pm) @ Egyptian Theatre
Director Otto Preminger tried to destroy Hollywood's obsolete Production Code in the '50s by inserting drug use and "deviant" sexuality into his films. Without the... View details »
The Moon Is Blue and The Man with the Golden Arm
Film: Documentary
Mingus and The Universal Mind of Bill Evans
Thursday Jan 31 (8pm) @ The Silent Movie Theatre
Mingus is a bopping hour of music and musing from Charles Mingus, the "Angry Man of Jazz." Thomas Reichman's 1968 documentary follows Mingus in the... View details »
Mingus and The Universal Mind of Bill Evans
Film: Documentary
The 11th Hour
Thursday Jan 31 (6:30pm) @ Korn Hall, UCLA
The 11th Hour is a consciousness-raising contribution to the trump topic in the game-of-life shuffle: global ecological disaster. With scientific facts, doom-informed news footage, and... View details »
The 11th Hour
Art
Callaloo
Thursday Jan 31 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space More times »
Free
Don't call Pounder Koné Art Space a "gallery." Owner CCH Pounder wants you to think of her and her husband's venue as a fount of... View details »
Callaloo
Music: Rock/Pop
Culver City Dub Collective
Thursday Jan 31 (9pm) @ Air Conditioned Supper Club, Venice
Chill out to the slow-burn instrumental abstractions of the Culver City Dub Collective. The combined sounds of reggae, bossa nova, jazz, electronic, and, of course,... View details »
Culver City Dub Collective

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Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Thursday Jan 31 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art More times »
Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments historicizes the "evolution"... View details »
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Thursday Jan 31 @ Various locations More times »
Free
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That, Amir Bar-Lev documents the... View details »
My Kid Could Paint That
Art: Architecture/Design
Victor Burgin
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture More times »
The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François de Bastide's 1758 novella... View details »
Victor Burgin
Art
Francis Alÿs
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–9pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never quite strips: these are... View details »
Francis Alÿs
Art
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Thursday Jan 31 (10am–10pm) @ Materials & Applications More times »
Free
Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore the artful use of... View details »
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Art: Photography
Bill Owens
Thursday Jan 31 (10am–6pm) @ DNJ Gallery More times »
Free
Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic scenes rendered with the... View details »
Bill Owens
Art
Choi Jeong-Hwa
Thursday Jan 31 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture, and ridicules the preciousness... View details »
Choi Jeong-Hwa
Art: Architecture/Design
Jean Michel Crettaz
Thursday Jan 31 (9am–6pm) @ SCI-Arc More times »
Free
Head of the Visual Studies Program at SCI-Arc Jean-Michel Crettaz has plenty of experience, having studied in Switzerland, at the ultra-exclusive Cooper Union school in... View details »
Jean Michel Crettaz
Art: Photography
Wunderlust Berlin
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–6pm) @ Paul Kopeikin Gallery More times »
Free
Berlin is in perpetual transition. The enduring fountainhead of Western culture is endlessly fascinating to students of art, architecture, and politics, teeming with creative magic... View details »
Wunderlust Berlin
Art
Ruby Osorio
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–6pm) @ Cherry and Martin More times »
Free
Los Angeles artist Ruby Osorio's collection at Cherry and Martin Gallery was heavily influenced by her recent trip to Athens. Surrounded by such history-rich environs,... View details »
Ruby Osorio
Film
Steep
Thursday Jan 31 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre More times »
Like Werner Herzog's slo-mo documentary on ski-flying The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974), Steep conveys the breathless exhilaration of an extreme sport: big-mountain skiing.... View details »
Steep
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hamlet
Tuesday Feb 5 @ REDCAT More times »
The Wooster Group has been at the forefront of American experimental theatre, cultivating their own language — a fusion of sophisticated technology and radical interpretation... View details »
Hamlet
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Thursday Jan 31 (10am–6pm) @ Peterson Automotive Museum More times »
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the need for expressing cultural... View details »
La Vida Lowrider
Art
Cassandra C. Jones
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–6pm) @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai More times »
Free
... n't let the title fool you: for her second solo effort at Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Cassandra C. Jones isn't just offering viewers another photography... View details »
Cassandra C. Jones
Art
Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–5pm) @ Lawrence Asher Gallery More times »
Free
The trio of contemporary artists assembled for the first show of the year at the Lawrence Asher Gallery draws inspiration from the physical and emotional... View details »
Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk
Art
Virginia Katz
Thursday Jan 31 (noon–5pm) @ Jancar Gallery More times »
Free
LA's Virginia Katz uses a complex mixed-media process that involves so many layers of hand-worked pigments and liquids, her art can almost be considered geological.... View details »
Virginia Katz
Art
Karen Liebowitz
Thursday Jan 31 (10am–5:30pm) @ Rosamund Felsen Gallery More times »
Free
The empowered female subjects of Karen Liebowitz's paintings exist in a fantasyland encompassing mythology, religious tales, and the contemporary world. For this collection — Liebowitz's... View details »
Karen Liebowitz
Art
Michael Asher
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–6pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art More times »
Rather than create new spaces and pieces, conceptual mixed-media artist Michael Asher prefers to deconstruct and punctuate extant spaces with found materials, creating a site-specific... View details »
Michael Asher
Art
Tucker Neel
Thursday Jan 31 (noon–5pm) @ Commissary Arts More times »
Free
Frustrated debutantes, overdressed crocodiles, and bandaged aristocrats parade through Tucker Neel's latest exhibition. The LA artist conjures up witty, intriguing imagery in his delicate ink... View details »
Tucker Neel
Art
Rosson Crow
Thursday Jan 31 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
Free
In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection of paintings. Despite the... View details »
Rosson Crow
Art
First Generation
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art More times »
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than some great old houses... View details »
First Generation
Art: Photography
Masao Yamamoto
Thursday Jan 31 (10am–5:30pm) @ Craig Krull Gallery More times »
Free
In his latest collection of photographs for Santa Monica's Craig Krull Gallery, Japanese artist Masao Yamamoto's work is somber and still, with no loss of... View details »
Masao Yamamoto
Art
Einar & Jamex de la Torre
Thursday Jan 31 (10am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery More times »
Free
Brothers Einar and Jamex couldn't possibly deny the influence of their heritage — their blown-glass and mixed-media works radiate with the colors, textures, and imagery... View details »
Einar & Jamex de la Torre
Art
Angelika J. Trojnarski
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
Born in Poland and educated in Germany, Angelika J. Trojnarski depicts desolate cultural landscapes, dismembered bodies, and the barbwired evidence of human destruction. She channels... View details »
Angelika J. Trojnarski
Art
Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–6pm) @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
Photographer and video artist Tim Sullivan, the highlight of last year's OC Biennial, inserts himself into bizarrely macabre and possibly drug-induced circumstances — an assumption... View details »
Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts
Art
Neil Farber
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–5pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Free
At first glance, Neil Farber's vivid, whimsical drawings seem to capture all the ignorant bliss of childhood, but their darker intentions soon reveal themselves. Touched... View details »
Neil Farber
Art
Poster Renaissance 2
Thursday Jan 31 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art More times »
Free
New Image Art owner Marsea Goldberg remembers when posters were a vehicle for edgy, urban art and illustration — and so do the artists she's... View details »
Poster Renaissance 2
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
Thursday Jan 31 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his films took hundreds of... View details »
Alfred Hitchcock
Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups, "The grand seigneur of... View details »
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Art
Under the Influence
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–6pm) @ Gallery 1988 More times »
Free
Looking through Gallery 1988's roster of artists, it's easy to spot the legacy of the giants of alt-culture illustration and progressive comics, and perhaps none... View details »
Under the Influence
Art
Matthew Heller
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–5pm) @ DCA Fine Art More times »
Free
Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text. Though at times pained... View details »
Matthew Heller
Art: Photography
Freeze Frame
Thursday Jan 31 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides shooting spools of film... View details »
Freeze Frame
Performing Arts: Theatre
Victory
Thursday Jan 31 (8pm) @ The Fountain Theatre More times »
South African playwright Athol Fugard's work demonstrates the power of theatre to incite social transformation. Fugard's plays have addressed the subject of Apartheid with remarkable... View details »
Victory
Performing Arts: Opera
Tristan und Isolde
Thursday Jan 31 (4am) @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion More times »
Considered one of the world's greatest operas, Richard Wagner's 1857 Tristan und Isolde sprang from the composer's own torrid love life. Wagner composed the piece... View details »
Tristan und Isolde
Performing Arts: Theatre
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Thursday Jan 31 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre More times »
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Center Theatre Group's world-premiere musical, busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by its emo-influenced rock score,... View details »
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Cut
Thursday Jan 31 (8pm) @ Rude Guerrilla Theater Company More times »
British playwright Mark Ravenhill gives theater company Rude Guerilla another opportunity to stage the U.S premieres of his work. Past collaborations have included Shopping and... View details »
The Cut
Art
Girly Group Show
Thursday Jan 31 (9am–6pm) @ Ghettogloss More times »
Free
This exhibition at Silverlake's favorite gallery/alt-culture hangout features the work of Noel ILL, Jenny Mollen, and Jessica Garrison among a sizeable roster of talented lady... View details »
Girly Group Show
Art
Neil Campbell and Peter Schuyff
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–6pm) @ The Balmoral More times »
Free
This Venice Beach gallery's latest endeavor juxtaposes the work of Dutch artist Peter Schuyff and Vancouver-based Neil Campbell. Schuyff's paintings are equal parts Surreal and... View details »
Art
The Imaginary 20th Century
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–8pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art presents 2,200 images from... View details »
The Imaginary 20th Century
Art
Alex Steinwiess
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–6pm) @ Robert Berman Gallery More times »
Free
Rocker/designer Kevin Reagan and Juxtapoz's Greg Escalante co-curate this survey of images by Alex Steinweiss. In 1939, the Columbia Records packaging designer revolutionized the music... View details »
Alex Steinwiess
Art
Special Relationship
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–6pm) @ The Scion Installation LA Space More times »
Free
Britain's Scrawl Collective is an emerging group of post-illustration urban romantics. They bring their ramped-up aesthetic energy to the States this week to curate the... View details »
Special Relationship
Art: Photography
Chris Anthony
Thursday Jan 31 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford More times »
Free
Chris Anthony inhabits a strange, haunting world in his new exhibition. Influenced by childhood visions and containing authentically dreamlike narratives, Anthony's dark images use vintage... View details »
Chris Anthony
Art: Photography
Rocky Schenck
Thursday Jan 31 (10am–5pm) @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles More times »
Free
Known for haunting images that envelop the viewer in an uneasy haze, Rocky Schenck finds beauty in rural landscapes and unremarkable interiors. Using Los Angeles... View details »
Rocky Schenck
Art
Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
Thursday Jan 31 @ Various Chinatown galleries More times »
Free
As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art galleries, many of which... View details »
Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
Art
Daniel Richter
Thursday Jan 31 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects More times »
Free
German painter Daniel Richter's expressionistic, figurative works are both dark and disarming. With influences that range from Goya to comic books and contemporary news media,... View details »
Daniel Richter
Art
Sheng Qi
Thursday Jan 31 (10am–5:30pm) @ DF2 More times »
Free
Renowned Chinese artist Sheng Qi lived in exile in Europe for a decade after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Before fleeing China, however, he left a... View details »
Sheng Qi
Art
Modern American Sculpture
Thursday Jan 31 (10am–5:30pm) @ Forum Gallery More times »
Free
Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven Assael to the visceral,... View details »
Modern American Sculpture
Art
Dustin Yellin
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman More times »
Free
Dustin Yellin does not suspend exotic crimson seaweed inside his freestanding resin columns — it just looks like it. What he does do is actually... View details »
Dustin Yellin
Art
Projection
Thursday Jan 31 @ [delete] More times »
Free
This private-residence-turned-gallery's latest offering, Projection, interprets the titular concept both literally and figuratively in an ambitious multimedia group show. The works probe the idea of... View details »
Projection
Art: Photography
Hiromi Tsuchida
Thursday Jan 31 (10am–5pm) @ Michael Dawson Gallery More times »
Free
Renowned Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida has trained his lens on facets of ordinary life throughout his lengthy career. Tsuchida's first solo exhibition in the US... View details »
Hiromi Tsuchida
Art: Photography
(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–5pm) @ Fette's Gallery More times »
Free
Twenty-five photographers working in cities around the world were given a simple task: to take an 11 x 14-inch self-portrait — of someone else. The... View details »
(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]
Art
Rachel Mason
Thursday Jan 31 (11am–6pm) @ Circus Gallery More times »
Free
There's political art; there's the art of political stagecraft; and then there's The Candidate, the new exhibition of sketches, sculptures, and photographs that artist Rachel... View details »
Rachel Mason
More Flavor: City Gem
Vinum Populi
Thursday Jan 31 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Vinum Populi, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one key... View details »
Vinum Populi