Events on Thursday, October 9

Killing Joke w/ Pigmy Love Circus
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Music: Rock/Pop
Killing Joke
@ 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...  View details »
Genghis Tron
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Music: Punk/Metal
Genghis Tron
@ Knitting Factory
Genghis Tron have accumulated an exceptionally diverse array of genre descriptors — grindcore, cybergrind, power noise, and doom industrial, to name...  View details »
Global Drum Project
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Music: Global
Global Drum Project
@ 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...  View details »

Ongoing Events

Alexander Melamid: <em>Holy Hip-Hop!</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Alexander Melamid
@ Forum Gallery
Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Tofer Chin: <em>VIVID</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Tofer Chin
@ Commissary Arts
The "sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll" trifecta holds ample sway in the work of Los Angeles artist Tofer Chin. For...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Within Four Miles: The World of Josh Dorman</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Josh Dorman
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Santa Barbara Off-Axis 2008
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art: Festival
Off-Axis
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Dennis Oppenheim: <em>Cactus Grove</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Dennis Oppenheim
@ ACE Gallery
Dennis Oppenheim first hit the art-world radar in the late 1960s with his Land and Body Art projects, which combined film...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
More Flavor: Fashion
Antonio Pineda
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Cycling Apparati</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Cycling Apparati
@ High Energy Constructs
For many contemporary artists, Warhol is the North Star by which they guide their own emerging views of culture. But for...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Katina and Christa Zinner: <em>Tides of Emotion</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Katina and Christa Zinner
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Elevator Repair Service: <em>The Sound and the Fury: April Seventh, 1928</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
Elevator Repair Service
@ REDCAT
If the idea of staging the first chapter of Faulkner's brooding Southern epic, The Sound and the Fury, in all its...  View details »
Ongoing
Flavorpill 50
<em>No Brow</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
No Brow
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Robert Glenn Ketchum
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art: Photography
Robert Glenn Ketchum
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Park Life</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Park Life
@ Subliminal Projects
Subliminal Projects uses its recent move from Koreatown to the more pastoral environs of Echo Park as the curatorial focus for...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Little Black Dress presents Biagio Black: <em>Junoesque</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
More Flavor: Fashion
Biagio Black
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Mexican Calendar Girls
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>9 to 5: The Musical </em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Theatre
9 to 5
@ Ahmanson Theatre
Based on Collin Higgins' screwball 1980 comedy, 9 to 5: The Musical makes its LA premiere tonight before heading to Broadway...  View details »
Ongoing
Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art: Discussion
Nicole Cohen
@ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>LA25 Half-Life</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
LA25 Half-Life
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
Kyle Field: <em>More Country Questions</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Kyle Field
@ 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),...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French: <em>Massillon</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art: Photography
Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Kerry James Marshall: Portraits, Pin-Ups, and Wistful Romantic Idylls
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Kerry James Marshall
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Pipo Nguyen-Duy: <em>The Garden</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art: Photography
Pipo Nguyen-Duy
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jehad Nga: <em>My Shadow, My Opponent</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art: Photography
Jehad Nga
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Eric Sall: <em>High and Wide</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Eric Sall
@ Acuna-Hansen Gallery
In confronting the vibrating, thickly textured canvases of Eric Sall, one gets the distinct impression that he could survive by eating...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>War as a Way of Life</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art: Photography
War as a Way of Life
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Pasadena Art Weekend
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art: Festival
Pasadena Art Weekend
@ Old Town Pasadena
On Friday, the city's cultural institutions stay open late to kick off Pasadena Art Weekend. A free shuttle circulates from one...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Kristi Lippire: <em>Paradox and Levity, Mergers and Sigmund</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Kristi Lippire
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Yoko Ono: <em>Wish Tree</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Yoko Ono
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>All of This is Melting Away</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
All of This is Melting Away
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Victor Gastelum: <em>Xacto Mundo</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Victor Gastelum
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Elizabeth Turk: <em>Traces</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Elizabeth Turk
@ Bandini Art
From the Department of How Did She Do That? comes a new exhibition of drawings and delicate marble sculptures from chisel-wielding...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Raw Skies</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Raw Skies
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Christopher Pate: <em>Flyover</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Christopher Pate
@ Jail Gallery
Christopher Pate is interested in the relationship between maps and landscapes, as well as the broader discourse between the real quality...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
The Maize Project
@ Torrance Art Museum
The small but influential Torrance Art Museum simultaneously mounts three new solo exhibitions, united by highly stylized explorations of abstraction and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
Other Venice Film Festival
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Film: Festival
Other Venice Film Festival
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
More Flavor: City Gem
Scribble Press
@ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...  View details »
Ongoing
John Bock: <em>Palms</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
John Bock
@ REDCAT
John Bock's unpredictable performances may seem like exercises in artistic capriciousness, but his loud costumes and absurd statements conceal his skill...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
Katie Grinnan: <em>Polaris </em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Katie Grinnan
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Face of the World Festival 2008
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Festival
FOTW 08
@ Los Angeles Theatre Center
For the second year in a row, the New LATC concocts an enthralling admixture of theatre, dance, and performance that brings...  View details »
Ongoing
Yin Zhaoyang: <em>Radiation</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Yin Zhaoyang
@ DF2
Chinese-born Yin Zhaoyang didn't have to look too far for inspiration when creating the work in his latest show at DF2...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Hans Burkhardt
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Hans Burkhardt
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Raymond Pettibon: <em>Seminal Work</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Raymond Pettibon
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Art of War: American Posters from WWI and WWII</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
The Art of War
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Amanda Ross-Ho: <em>Half of What I Say Is Meaningless</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Amanda Ross-Ho
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Freewaves presents <em>Hollywould</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art: Festival
Hollywould
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Hans Burkhardt: Paintings of the 1960s
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Hans Burkhardt
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>CUT: Makings of Removal</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
CUT: Makings of Removal
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Aspects of Mel's Hole: Artists Respond to a Paranormal Land Event Occurring in Radiospace</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Aspects of Mel's Hole
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Fortuna Rising: Gordy Grundy is the Messenger</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Gordy Grundy
@ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Sarah Cromarty: <em>Diamonds and Rust</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Sarah Cromarty
@ Circus Gallery
LA painter Sarah Cromarty has had a big year already; she gained recognition through several group shows and a bit of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
UCLA Live International Theatre Festival: <em>Playboy of the Western World</em> and <em>The Shadow of the Glen</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
UCLA Live International Theatre Festival
@ Freud Playhouse
UCLA Live offers a finely curated nine-month season of performances, with the International Theatre Festival serving as its cornerstone. The event...  View details »
Ongoing
Michael Knowlton: <em>Blackwater Babylon</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Michael Knowlton
@ 01 Gallery
Painter Michael Knowlton doesn't feel the need to choose between beauty and terror. His passionately wrought, deftly composed scenes of the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Ultrasonic International III: <em>Elementary, My Dear Watson</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Ultrasonic International III
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
Deanna Templeton: <em>The Swimming Pool</em> and Hadassah Emmerich: <em>Ghosts 'n Garlands</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art: Photography
Deanna Templeton and Hadassah Emmerich
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Martin Kersels: <em>Heavyweight Champion</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Martin Kersels
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Flavorpill 50
Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Mark Bradford
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art: Architecture/Design
John Lautner
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Sandrine Pelletier: <em>Insekts</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Sandrine Pelletier
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>In Focus: The Landscape</em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art: Photography
In Focus: The Landscape
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>
Month_10 Thursday Day_09
Art
Marcel Duchamp Redux
@ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at...  View details »
Ongoing