Events on Thursday, November 6
Michael Govan in Conversation with Chris Burden
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Bing Theater
Chris Burden — often associated with provocative and controversial art — speaks with LACMA Director & CEO Michael Govan about his...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
Getting its roots from LA folk, country legend Linda Ronstadt's discography has taken us everywhere from the pastoral landscapes of "Blue...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
No matter your drug of choice, you can fashion a corresponding ensemble at MoCA's costume workshop, hosted by LA-based artist collective...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ The Viper Room
You'd think Halloween (along with Día de los Muertos) would be the kind of mainstream holiday David Lynch could get behind,...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ The Wiltern
TV on the Radio have returned from Cookie Mountain, and they brought back one of the best albums of the year....
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Woodbury Hollywood Exhibitions
Woodbury University goes Hollywood — or at least goes to Hollywood — by inaugurating its new off-campus gallery space with Analytic...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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...
Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Angles Gallery
Linda Besemer produces the kind of art that provokes people to solve the mystery of how she does it. Without divulging...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Mark Taper Forum
Peter Whelan's latest work, The School of Night, cleverly glides between the modes of traditional murder mystery and avant-garde theatre. As...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ See Line Gallery
Any viewer beholding Surface Sounding without background information would likely believe all the art was selected by a single gatekeeper, so...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Quiksilver SiteLA
True to its name, the Sumi Ink Club is a drawing collective that encourages autodidacts to explore the miracles of sumi...
Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
In the '60s and '70s, the Beatles led an exuberant parade East, inspiring throngs of Westerners to follow in a search...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Louise Bourgeois' deeply personal art combines an in-your-face sexuality with disturbing, even terrifying, imagery of trespassed flesh and violated privacy. Yet...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Influenced by Dutch vanitas of the 16th and 17th centuries, Belgian artist Cindy Wright creates excruciatingly detailed, large-scale portraits and still-lifes...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Bandini Art
Overtaking every nook and cranny of Bandini Art's box space — including the ceiling — Jennifer Vanderpool's recent, large-scale installation features...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Guy Hepner Contemporary
In his previous life as a principal at a "Hollywood creative firm," Neal Spector was instrumental in enabling LA's obsession with...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Various locations
Brainy prog-rock demigod Maynard James Keenan has gone from fronting Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer to his latest, somewhat quieter...
Richard Amend and Christopher Martin Hoff
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Considering the precision and mastery of detail in the work of Richard Amend and Christopher Martin Hoff, it should come as...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
For her second exhibition at Culver City's Billy Shire Fine Arts, Santa Monica-based artist Miriam Wosk once again creates her trademark...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Paper Mag Pop-Up Space
Fashion capitals collide as Paper magazine returns to the City of Angels for its 4th Annual Los Angeles Project. This week,...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Sandroni Rey
Anthony Goicolea let his family albums guide his latest exhibition, Related III. The Cuban artist's photographs, drawings, and installations are spun...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
Steve Turner Contemporary on the Miracle Mile lets its hair down this month, showing new work by James Gobel, portraying portly,...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Christopher Grimes Gallery
Marco Brambilla's newest video pieces live up to his reputation for supersaturated maximalism, combining, recombining, randomizing, and manipulating found and sampled...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ New Image Art
San Diego artist Kelsey Brookes' recent work resembles the slashed daydreams of a flower child: bright swathes of colors splash onto...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art
New landscapes and seascapes from LA-based painter Takako Yamaguchi combine the stylized organic geometry of op art with the sensual smoothness...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Ahmanson Theatre
It's easy to see why Spring Awakening snagged eight Tony Awards last year, marking what has been heralded as the new...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Pharmaka
Berlin has always been notorious for cultivating the avant garde, but its conceptual art scene has flourished since the fall of...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Regen Projects
Wolfgang Tillmans is like the Madonna of the art world: never afraid to change directions, reinvent himself, or throw in a...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
Cynthia Ettinger acts as more of an editor/troupe leader than a writer/director in the Actors Gang's ongoing workshop production of its...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Track 16 Gallery
Even Robbie Conal's most fervent admirers tend to see his work primarily through their car windows. His trademark posters — featuring...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Charlie Roberts is a consummate collector of images, with an organizational system resembling the interior of a Whitman's Sampler. He perceives...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Jail Gallery
Christopher Pate is interested in the relationship between maps and landscapes, as well as the broader discourse between the real quality...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Arclight Hollywood
The AFI Fest continues its yearly assault on the Arclight with a truly impressive lineup for 2008. Among the highlights are...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
PMCA's Project Room is transformed into a beguiling labyrinth, addressing the elusiveness of memory and the neurobiological basis of thought, via...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Otis College of Art and Design
Entering Mark Dean Veca's site-specific installation at Otis College's Ben Maltz Gallery is like stepping into a psychedelic playhouse filled with...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Hana wa no ni aruyouni (Flowers as they are in the field) is Japanese artist Ai Yamaguchi's second solo exhibition at...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
Carmichael Gallery assembles an international gang of five figurative painters whose obsessive magic realism reads like an alt-culture Forum Gallery exhibition....
Asad Faulwell and Annie Buckley
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Carl Berg Gallery
This Miracle Mile-situated gallery's latest exhibition joins two artists with radically different approaches to the aesthetic of assemblage. Asad Faulwell, recent...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ 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 11/ 6 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
Johannesburg-based urban geographer and artist Ismail Farouk offers a multimedia overview of his recent work in the second installment of the...
Thursday 11/ 6 @ Edgar Varela Fine Arts
Los Angeles photographer Grace Oh first grew passionate about capturing nudes when she began actively pursuing photography in her early twenties....
