Events on Thursday, March 20

Low vs Diamond w/ Eskimohunter
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Music: Rock/Pop
Low vs Diamond
@ The Troubadour
In the wake of buzz-building SXSW showcases for NME and Filter, local post-punk crew Low vs Diamond hit the Troubadour tonight...  View details »
KCRW presents Kraak & Smaak
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Music: DJ
Kraak & Smaak
@ Echoplex
Funky Dutchmen Kraak & Smaak took their name from an old Dutch proverb, "kraak noch smaak," which translates to "no crunch,...  View details »
Willoughby
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Music: Rock/Pop
Willoughby
@ Bordello Bar
Willoughby is a quiet band — but "quiet" as in the old saw about watching out for the quiet ones. Their...  View details »
Mike Kelley and Dian Hanson: <em>Sex to Sexty: The Most Vulgar Magazine Ever Made</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
More Flavor: Lecture
Mike Kelley and Dian Hanson
@ The TASCHEN Store
Iconic LA bad-boy artist Mike Kelley and TASCHEN editor Dian Hanson fête their recently published book Sex to Sexty: The Most...  View details »
Free
Bon Iver w/ Phosphorescent and White Hinterland
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Music: Rock/Pop
Bon Iver
@ The Echo
Following the breakup of his old band, DeYarmond Edison, Justin Vernon, the humble genius behind one-man band Bon Iver, holed up...  View details »
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Ongoing Events

Eddie Ruscha: <em>THIS IS IT!</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Eddie Ruscha
@ High Energy Constructs
Armageddon looms at Eddie Ruscha Jr.'s debut solo show. The son of the pop-art icon pairs psychedelic works on canvas and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>
Month_03 Friday Day_21
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
@ Various locations
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present </em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
The Color of Life
@ The Getty Villa
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Christopher Chinn: <em>On the Row</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Christopher Chinn
@ Overtones Gallery
Upon graduating from art school and relocating to the city, local painter Christopher Chinn was struck by how intrepid artists would...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Lights! Camera! Glamour!</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
@ California Heritage Museum
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups,...  View details »
Ongoing
Sarajo Frieden: <em>Another Green World</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Sarajo Frieden
@ Little Bird Gallery
That Sarajo Frieden's Los Angeles studio is at the nexus of Koreatown, Little Armenia, and Thai Town makes perfect sense after...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Victory</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Performing Arts: Theatre
Victory
@ The Fountain Theatre
South African playwright Athol Fugard's work demonstrates the power of theatre to incite social transformation. Fugard's plays have addressed the subject...  View details »
Ongoing
Nathan Mabry
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Nathan Mabry
@ Cherry and Martin
Spanish conquistadors beware: payback is a bitch. Nathan Mabry exacts Montezuma's revenge with irreverently styled bronze sculptures based on Pre-Columbian Moche...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
@ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Concrete Folk Variations</em>: <em>Chapter One: Death of a Sugar Daddy</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Performing Arts: Theatre
Death of a Sugar Daddy
@ The Manual Archives
Puppet theatre is back with a vengeance, and Susan Simpson, director/designer/writer of Concrete Folk Variations, turns the genre on its little...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Freeze Frame: Five Decades of Photographs by Douglas Kirkland</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art: Photography
Freeze Frame
@ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
KuKula: <em>Dreamcatcher</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
KuKula
@ Thinkspace Gallery
For Dreamcatcher, KuKula's first solo showing at Thinkspace, the Israeli-born artist paints eerily charming images of little girl dolls, Disney-esque forest...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Evan Hecox: <em>DF</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Evan Hecox
@ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
In 2001, Colorado-based artist Evan Hecox inaugurated Culver City's Kinsey/DesForges gallery. Now he returns in a show that highlights how they...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art from the Neon Homeland</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Las Vegas Diaspora
@ Laguna Art Museum
Dave Hickey has one of the most original minds in the contemporary art world. His best-selling collection of critical essays, Air...  View details »
Ongoing
Tom Servais: <em>el&middot;e&middot;men&middot;tal</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art: Photography
Tom Servais
@ epOxybOx
Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Make Art/Stop AIDS
@ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Cal Lane: <em>Sweet Crude</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Cal Lane
@ Samuel Freeman
The beauty of Canadian-born, New York-based artist Cal Lane's work is in its remarkable juxtapositions. Lane transforms anything-but-delicate objects, such as...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>
Month_03 Friday Day_21
Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
@ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California...  View details »
Ongoing
Aaron Smith: <em>Estofada</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Aaron Smith
@ Koplin del Rio Gallery
The history of art may seem an obvious source of inspiration, but a new collection of paintings by LA's Aaron Smith...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Good Doll Bad Doll </em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Good Doll Bad Doll
@ Armory Center for the Arts
ArtForum critic and independent curator Michael Duncan encourages childish behavior in Good Doll Bad Doll, an exhibition featuring modern and contemporary...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>First Generation: Art in Claremont 1907-1957</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
First Generation
@ Claremont Museum of Art
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than...  View details »
Ongoing
Wayne White: <em>Drop the Country Boy Act</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Wayne White
@ Western Project
Billed as "punk Mark Twain defiance," Wayne White's latest show features the recent collection of his famous word paintings and sculptures....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Robert Crumb: <em>Cr&egrave;me de la Crumb</em>
Month_03 Friday Day_21
Art
Robert Crumb
@ David Lawrence Gallery
Since his early days drawing for Zap Comix, Robert Crumb has made quite a name for himself as the comic world's...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Kara Walker: <em>My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Kara Walker
@ Hammer Museum
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks...  View details »
Ongoing
Tim Bavington: <em>There We Were, Now Here We Are</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
There We Were, Now Here We Are
@ Mark Moore Gallery
LA artist Tim Bavington reinvents the once-obsolete "stripe painting" with hometown verve. Bavington incorporates sound into many of his dense compositions,...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Carnage, a Comedy</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Performing Arts: Theatre
Carnage, a Comedy
@ The Actors' Gang Theatre
Twenty years after Carnage's wildly successful premiere, the Gang revives Adam Simon and Tim Robbins' play with frightening vitality and acerbic...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
@ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Very Short Movies Festival
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Film
Very Short Movies Festival
@ Cinespace
As Internet video, indie film, and broadcast TV continue merging in today's new-media world, the Very Short Movies Festival gets in...  View details »
Ongoing
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Adam Janes: <em>Don't Sweat the Small Stuff at 50%</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Adam Janes
@ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
With the creative ingenuity of a mad doctor and the unwieldy imagination of a five-year old, installation artist Adam Janes unveils...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Alison Saar: <em>Hither</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Alison Saar
@ LA Louver Gallery
Though Los Angeles is her stomping ground, provocative painter/sculptress Alison Saar is internationally acclaimed. Daughter of the groundbreaking Betye Saar, whose...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Yun Bai: <em>Who's That Girl?</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Yun Bai
@ Art Murmur Gallery
Rising LA artist Yun Bai and her alter ego Yunny Bunny converge in this smashing show. Bai splits herself in two:...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Mindy Shapero
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Mindy Shapero
@ Anna Helwing Gallery
Bright and brash, Mindy Shapero concocts sculptures with a childlike zeal: always curious and never satisfied. Her works seem like visual...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Everything But the Kitschen Sync
@ La Luz de Jesus
The type of work that's usually celebrated at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, located inside Wacko (the Costco of kitsch), is...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966</em>
Month_03 Friday Day_21
Art
Bob Dylan's American Journey
@ Skirball Cultural Center
This year's resurgent Dylanmania — from Todd Haynes' byzantine biopic, I'm Not There, to Murray Lerner's performance-driven documentary, The Other Side...  View details »
Ongoing
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Toby Ziegler: <em>The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Toby Ziegler
@ Patrick Painter Gallery
Toby Ziegler's work is full of dichotomies. For his new collection of painting and sculpture in Patrick Painter's West Gallery, the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Angela DeCristofaro: <em>Wake</em>&nbsp;
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Angela DeCristofaro
@ Commisary Arts
Like fellow Italian Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico, Angela DeCristofaro's paintings obscure reality with dreams and memories. Seemingly unrelated images find their...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
@ LAXART
Los Angeles' Anna Sew Hoy takes inspiration from her medical-doctor father in her latest exhibition POW!, which focuses on the theme...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>California Video </em>
Month_03 Friday Day_21
Art
California Video
@ The Getty Center
As video art's growing reach now extends from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to commuters watching YouTube on their iPhones,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
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
Michael Asher
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Michael Asher
@ Santa Monica Museum of Art
Rather than create new spaces and pieces, conceptual mixed-media artist Michael Asher prefers to deconstruct and punctuate extant spaces with found...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>The Imaginary 20th Century</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
The Imaginary 20th Century
@ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>A Narrative History of the Light Bulb</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art: Photography
A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
@ Gallery Luisotti
Photographer Catherine Wagner used the Baltimore Museum of Industry's impressive collection of lightbulbs as the inspiration for her latest exhibition, which...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Sweeney Todd</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sweeney Todd
@ Ahmanson Theatre
Johnny Depp's acclaimed cinematic stab (ahem) at Mr. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has refreshed our memories on...  View details »
Ongoing
Rosson Crow: <em>Night at the Palomino</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Rosson Crow
@ Honor Fraser
In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Varla Jean Merman Loves a Foreign Tongue</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Performing Arts: Theatre
Varla Jean Merman
@ Ultra Suede
Few classically trained opera singers can master the art of pouring a can of Cheez Whiz into their mouths mid-medley, but...  View details »
Ongoing
Tony de los Reyes: <em>Ahab's America</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Tony de los Reyes
@ Carl Berg Gallery
Los Angeles-based painter and sculptor Tony de los Reyes has more in common with 19th-century author Herman Melville than most politically...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Hiromi Tsuchida: <em>Photographs 1969-2004 </em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art: Photography
Hiromi Tsuchida
@ Michael Dawson Gallery
Renowned Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida has trained his lens on facets of ordinary life throughout his lengthy career. Tsuchida's first solo...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Two Lines Align</em>: Drawings by Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
@ REDCAT
Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In...  View details »
Ongoing
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Jeffrey Vallance w/ James Goodwin, Laurie Hassold, Marjan Hormozi, Dave Shulman, and Scotty Vera
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Jeffrey Vallance
@ Track 16 Gallery
Extravagance, irony, and ephemera converge in five concurrent exhibitions. The focus is the 30th-anniversary celebration of Jeffery Vallance's performance piece Blinky...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Tom Atwood: <em>Kings in their Castles</em><em> </em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art: Photography
Tom Atwood
@ Farmani Gallery
Portrait photography of celebrities in their own homes is always compelling fare, but Tom Atwood's images of high-profile figures from the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Julian Schnabel: <em>Christ's Last Day</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Julian Schnabel
@ Gagosian Gallery
Neo-expressionist aesthete and, most recently, award-winning feature-film director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) takes a break from the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Tessar Lo and Chris Devera: <em>something to cry for</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_20
Art
Tessar Lo and Chris Devera
@ project: gallery
This Valentine's Day, project: gallery presents Tessar Lo and Chris Devera, two illustrator/artists whose imagination-gone-wild paintings never hesitate to take things...  View details »
Ongoing
Free