Events on Thursday, October 9

Genghis Tron

Music

Genghis Tron

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Knitting Factory

Genghis Tron have accumulated an exceptionally diverse array of genre descriptors — grindcore, cybergrind, power noise, and doom industrial, to name... 

Global Drum Project

Music: Global

Global Drum Project

Thursday 10/ 9 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall

Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart's long career has given him legitimate icon status. Continuing to beat skins beyond his Dead... 

Killing Joke w/ Pigmy Love Circus

Music

Killing Joke

Thursday 10/ 9 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip

One of post-punk's thorniest acts, Killing Joke, return after a long silence for a night at the House of Blues. With... 

Ongoing Events

<em>CUT: Makings of Removal</em>

Art

CUT: Makings of Removal

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Cycling Apparati</em>

Art

Cycling Apparati

Thursday 10/ 9 @ High Energy Constructs

For many contemporary artists, Warhol is the North Star by which they guide their own emerging views of culture. But for... 

Other Venice Film Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Other Venice Film Festival

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Electric Lodge

In a world rife with indie film festivals (that's a good thing), this annual weekend juggernaut of alt-culture cinema, music, and... 

Little Black Dress presents Biagio Black: <em>Junoesque</em>

Fashion/Style

Biagio Black

Thursday 10/ 9 @ The Sunset

Once just a single-night charity event dedicated to a fashion staple, the Little Black Dress party has grown into a four-week... 

Dennis Oppenheim: <em>Cactus Grove</em>

Art

Dennis Oppenheim

Thursday 10/ 9 @ ACE Gallery

Dennis Oppenheim first hit the art-world radar in the late 1960s with his Land and Body Art projects, which combined film... 

Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed

Art

Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed

Thursday 10/ 9 @ George Billis Gallery

Modern mix-masters Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed are art historians of sorts: all three borrow imagery from recycled sources... 

Yin Zhaoyang: <em>Radiation</em>

Art

Yin Zhaoyang

Thursday 10/ 9 @ DF2

Chinese-born Yin Zhaoyang didn't have to look too far for inspiration when creating the work in his latest show at DF2... 

Deanna Templeton: <em>The Swimming Pool</em> and Hadassah Emmerich: <em>Ghosts 'n Garlands</em>

Art: Photography

Deanna Templeton and Hadassah Emmerich

Thursday 10/ 9 @ New Image Art

Deanna Templeton didn't need to stray far from her SoCal roots to find inspiration for her engaging photographs. A product of... 

<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French: <em>Massillon</em>

Art: Photography

Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Robert Berman Gallery

Dreamlike, sensual, and ominous, the black-and-white photography of Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French is like a surrealist's take on a Nathaniel... 

<em>The Art of War: American Posters from WWI and WWII</em>

Art

The Art of War

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Within Four Miles: The World of Josh Dorman</em>

Art

Josh Dorman

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Thursday 10/ 9 @ The Landmark

In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's... 

<em>No Brow</em>

Art

No Brow

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Black Maria Gallery

Not unlike impressionism, "low brow" was a label with initially negative connotations affixed to a group of artists reacting against then-mainstream... 

Alexander Melamid: <em>Holy Hip-Hop!</em>

Art

Alexander Melamid

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Forum Gallery

Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered... 

Hans Burkhardt

Art

Hans Burkhardt

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Scribble Press

Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with... 

UCLA Live International Theatre Festival: <em>Playboy of the Western World</em> and <em>The Shadow of the Glen</em>

Theatre

UCLA Live International Theatre Festival

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Freud Playhouse

UCLA Live offers a finely curated nine-month season of performances, with the International Theatre Festival serving as its cornerstone. The event... 

Elizabeth Turk: <em>Traces</em>

Art

Elizabeth Turk

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Bandini Art

From the Department of How Did She Do That? comes a new exhibition of drawings and delicate marble sculptures from chisel-wielding... 

<em>All of This is Melting Away</em>

Art

All of This is Melting Away

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>LA25 Half-Life</em>

Art

LA25 Half-Life

Thursday 10/ 9 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)

Rising stars Annie Lapin, Jeff Sheng, Cal Crawford, and Brenna Youngblood are among the 25 juror-selected artists that make up LA25... 

Martin Kersels: <em>Heavyweight Champion</em>

Art

Martin Kersels

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Freewaves presents <em>Hollywould</em>

Festival: Performing Arts

Hollywould

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Hollywood Blvd between Cahuenga and Orange

The 11th Freewaves media-arts festival, dubbed "Hollywould," is a kind of triple-dog dare to Tinseltown boulevardiers, challenging them to engage with... 

<em>Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda</em>

Fashion/Style

Antonio Pineda

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>War as a Way of Life</em>

Art: Photography

War as a Way of Life

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>

Art

Mark Bradford

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Christopher Pate: <em>Flyover</em>

Art

Christopher Pate

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Jail Gallery

Christopher Pate is interested in the relationship between maps and landscapes, as well as the broader discourse between the real quality... 

Jehad Nga: <em>My Shadow, My Opponent</em>

Art: Photography

Jehad Nga

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Kristi Lippire: <em>Paradox and Levity, Mergers and Sigmund</em>

Art

Kristi Lippire

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>In Focus: The Landscape</em>

Art: Photography

In Focus: The Landscape

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Park Life</em>

Art

Park Life

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Subliminal Projects

Subliminal Projects uses its recent move from Koreatown to the more pastoral environs of Echo Park as the curatorial focus for... 

Art

The Maize Project

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Torrance Art Museum

The small but influential Torrance Art Museum simultaneously mounts three new solo exhibitions, united by highly stylized explorations of abstraction and... 

Sandrine Pelletier: <em>Insekts</em>

Art

Sandrine Pelletier

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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.... 

Tofer Chin: <em>VIVID</em>

Art

Tofer Chin

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Commissary Arts

The "sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll" trifecta holds ample sway in the work of Los Angeles artist Tofer Chin. For... 

Kyle Field: <em>More Country Questions</em>

Art

Kyle Field

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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),... 

<em>Fortuna Rising: Gordy Grundy is the Messenger</em>

Art

Gordy Grundy

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Western Project

The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website... 

Victor Gastelum: <em>Xacto Mundo</em>

Art

Victor Gastelum

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Ultrasonic International III: <em>Elementary, My Dear Watson</em>

Art

Ultrasonic International III

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Norton Simon Museum

This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at... 

Hans Burkhardt: Paintings of the 1960s

Art

Hans Burkhardt

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Elevator Repair Service: <em>The Sound and the Fury: April Seventh, 1928</em>

Theatre

Elevator Repair Service

Thursday 10/ 9 @ REDCAT

If the idea of staging the first chapter of Faulkner's brooding Southern epic, The Sound and the Fury, in all its... 

Sarah Cromarty: <em>Diamonds and Rust</em>

Art

Sarah Cromarty

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Circus Gallery

LA painter Sarah Cromarty has had a big year already; she gained recognition through several group shows and a bit of... 

Kerry James Marshall: Portraits, Pin-Ups, and Wistful Romantic Idylls

Art

Kerry James Marshall

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

John Bock: <em>Palms</em>

Art

John Bock

Thursday 10/ 9 @ REDCAT

John Bock's unpredictable performances may seem like exercises in artistic capriciousness, but his loud costumes and absurd statements conceal his skill... 

<em>Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner</em>

Art

John Lautner

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Santa Barbara Off-Axis 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

Off-Axis

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Eric Sall: <em>High and Wide</em>

Art

Eric Sall

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Acuna-Hansen Gallery

In confronting the vibrating, thickly textured canvases of Eric Sall, one gets the distinct impression that he could survive by eating... 

Amanda Ross-Ho: <em>Half of What I Say Is Meaningless</em>

Art

Amanda Ross-Ho

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Yoko Ono: <em>Wish Tree</em>

Art

Yoko Ono

Thursday 10/ 9 @ One Colorado

It has been nearly 28 years since John Lennon's passing, but his quest for world peace lives on. Lennon's widow, noted... 

Michael Knowlton: <em>Blackwater Babylon</em>

Art

Michael Knowlton

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 01 Gallery

Painter Michael Knowlton doesn't feel the need to choose between beauty and terror. His passionately wrought, deftly composed scenes of the... 

Raymond Pettibon: <em>Seminal Work</em>

Art

Raymond Pettibon

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Aspects of Mel's Hole: Artists Respond to a Paranormal Land Event Occurring in Radiospace</em>

Art

Aspects of Mel's Hole

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Thursday 10/ 9 @ The Getty Center

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

<em>Raw Skies</em>

Art

Raw Skies

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art

Seven is a lucky number at Carmichael Gallery this month, as the curators carry out another dazzling, high-octane international group exhibition.... 

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Art: Photography

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>9 to 5: The Musical </em>

Theatre

9 to 5

Thursday 10/ 9 @ Ahmanson Theatre

Based on Collin Higgins' screwball 1980 comedy, 9 to 5: The Musical makes its LA premiere tonight before heading to Broadway... 

Pipo Nguyen-Duy: <em>The Garden</em>

Art: Photography

Pipo Nguyen-Duy

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Katie Grinnan: <em>Polaris </em>

Art

Katie Grinnan

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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... 

Katina and Christa Zinner: <em>Tides of Emotion</em>

Art

Katina and Christa Zinner

Thursday 10/ 9 @ 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...