Events on Thursday, October 2
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
As an art form, interventions are essentially more confrontational versions of old-school happenings, in which artists (and enthusiastic amateurs) turned ordinary...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
The legendary McCabe's Guitar Shop celebrates a half century of hosting some of rock history's biggest names — from John Lee...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Greek Theatre
Icelandic sprites Sigur Rós grace the Greek Theatre stage with an atmospheric set that includes selections from the enigmatic group's sixth...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 10/ 2 @ 01 Gallery
Painter Michael Knowlton doesn't feel the need to choose between beauty and terror. His passionately wrought, deftly composed scenes of the...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Elementary, My Dear Watson is the Mark Moore Gallery's third installment of its annual Ultrasonic International series. The group show features...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Richard Heller Gallery
In tandem with the release of his book, 73 Funshine, San Francisco-based artist Jason Jägel exhibits a collection of music-inspired work....
Thursday 10/ 2 @ d.e.n. contemporary art
Kristi Lippire cobbles together images from a mind-boggling array of sources, then fashions them into large-scale works. Using plywood and other...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles
Daring photographer Jehad Nga has previously documented poverty and violence from Darfur to Iraq — now, he takes his camera into...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Orange County Performing Arts Center
Fall for Dance is the OC Performing Arts Center's gift to the dance-loving masses, bringing ten international companies spanning contemporary, classical,...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ G2 Gallery
Photographer and environmentalist Robert Glenn Ketchum makes landscape images, but this isn't Ansel Adams we're talking about here. The 38-year-old UCLA...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ The Getty Center
Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Norton Simon Museum
When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Overtones Gallery
Victor Gastelum upholds the grand California tradition of elevating street-art tropes to gallery-level heights with the spray-paint stencil multiples in Xacto...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Cherry and Martin
Amanda Ross-Ho returns to Cherry and Martin with her latest exhibition of mixed-media sculptural installation, Half of What I Say Is...
Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
Thursday 10/ 2 @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside
Borrowing a recently coined neologism from Stephen Colbert's faux-conservative lexicon, Truthiness questions the reliability of the visual by featuring artists who...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Forum Gallery
Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Hollywood Bowl
Known to some as the "Jewish Elvis," Neil Diamond is a master of reinvention, having succeeded as a folk troubadour, leisure-suited...
Bob Biggs, Doug Edge, and Kate Harding
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Track 16 Gallery
Track 16 opens the fall season with three concurrent solo exhibitions. Venice stalwart Doug Edge is known for the fluidity and...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
In the years bracketing WWII, a great many artists were among those fleeing to US shores from the specter of Nazi...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ California Heritage Museum
Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall has shown internationally to great acclaim, and now will show for the sixth time with Koplin...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
Katie Grinnan has made a career out of walking the fine line between the second and third dimensions. Grinnan takes architectural...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
Although our neighbor to the north is typically known for its stellar views and celebrity mansions, Santa Barbara has a stash...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Little Bird Gallery
For the past year, this traveling exhibition has showcased artists and graphic designers who were asked to apply their experience with...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ High Energy Constructs
For many contemporary artists, Warhol is the North Star by which they guide their own emerging views of culture. But for...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana
Beloved radio host Art Bell is a cross between Jean Shepherd and Fox Mulder, and a man whose paranormality-themed broadcasts were...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Regen Projects II
Seminal Work features a selection of pieces from the much-lauded Raymond Pettibon, all completed between 1978 and 1988. Keeping true to...
UCLA Live International Theatre Festival
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Freud Playhouse
UCLA Live offers a finely curated nine-month season of performances, with the International Theatre Festival serving as its cornerstone. The event...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Bandini Art
From the Department of How Did She Do That? comes a new exhibition of drawings and delicate marble sculptures from chisel-wielding...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Commissary Arts
The "sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll" trifecta holds ample sway in the work of Los Angeles artist Tofer Chin. For...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Hammer Museum
The risk-taking John Lautner is often described as an architect's architect, even though some of his designs brought him both criticism...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Royal/T
Director of New York's Greene Naftali Gallery, Jay Sanders steps into cafe/shop/gallery Royal/T to curate this group show of works from...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
From Brandon Boyd's paintings to Scion and ill-Studios' curatorial collaboration and Alexander Melamid's hip-hop portraits, music-related art has been blanketing LA's...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at...
Dennis Hopper and Wendy Burton
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Craig Krull Gallery
Craig Krull Gallery pulls out the big guns for its season opener, with concurrent solo exhibitions from two of its most...
Lou Reed (new late show added 10.2)
Thursday 10/ 2 @ REDCAT
Lou Reed has created spot-on doo-wop parodies and purported to write the Great American Novel (in album form); his guitar playing...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
The brilliantly brash British phenom Ian Francis returns to Kinsey/DesForges for his second solo show. Once again, the artist presents visceral,...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ ACE Gallery
Dennis Oppenheim first hit the art-world radar in the late 1960s with his Land and Body Art projects, which combined film...
The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Regent Showcase
Lured by the lucrative business of Internet pornography, "ladyboy" Raquela longs to escape her native Philippines for a new life in...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Torrance Art Museum
The small but influential Torrance Art Museum simultaneously mounts three new solo exhibitions, united by highly stylized explorations of abstraction and...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ DF2
Chinese-born Yin Zhaoyang didn't have to look too far for inspiration when creating the work in his latest show at DF2...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
The Santa Monica Museum of Art hosts LA artist Martin Kersels' first retrospective, Heavyweight Champion, drawing from 13 years of his...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Fette's Gallery
International-artist-friendly Fette's Gallery rings in its fall season with Insekts, an installation of new works by Swiss mixed-media artist/embroiderer Sandrine Pelletier....
Thursday 10/ 2 @ 18th Street Arts Center
18th Street wraps up its yearlong, four-part examination of sociopolitical issues with War as a Way of Life. The exhibit includes...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Cal State University Northridge Art Gallery
Comprising selections from the nearly 1,000 works that European-native-turned California-great Hans Burkhardt personally donated to Cal State Northridge (where he taught...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ LA Louver Gallery
Nancy Reddin Kienholz may be familiar to some because of her lifelong collaboration with late husband Ed Kienholz, one of the...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Shoegaze progenitors My Bloody Valentine regroup after more than 15 years of Barrett-esque reclusive behavior, all of which followed their mind-altering...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Circus Gallery
LA painter Sarah Cromarty has had a big year already; she gained recognition through several group shows and a bit of...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Sam Lee Gallery
Sam Lee Gallery follows up its dynamic group exhibition I AM I A KILLER with Pipo Nguyen-Duy's cyclical photography project, The...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Laguna Art Museum
To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Vincent Price Art Museum
The 17 young and emerging artists included in this ambitious group show follow diverse strategies in making work, but the organizing...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
For his second go-round at Taylor De Cordoba, San Franciscan artist/musican Kyle Field (he's a member of the band Little Wings),...
Thursday 10/ 2 @ James Coleman Gallery
The mother-daughter relationship is fraught with emotion and drama, and what better venue for exploring that tension than a two-woman exhibition...
