All events on Thursday March 27

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Film
Daniel Lanois
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (6:30pm) @ Vista Theatre
Daniel Lanois is an innovative rock 'n roll producer and a gifted singer/songwriter in his own right — but tonight's screening is all about his... View details »
Daniel Lanois
Music: Rock/Pop
Red Sparowes
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (8:30pm) @ Echoplex
There's some musical overlap between Chicago three-piece Russian Circles and the massively popular Tool — both work with chugging metal influences offset by sprawling, gentler... View details »
Red Sparowes

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Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art More times »
Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments historicizes the "evolution"... View details »
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 @ Various locations More times »
Free
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That, Amir Bar-Lev documents the... View details »
My Kid Could Paint That
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Peterson Automotive Museum More times »
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the need for expressing cultural... View details »
La Vida Lowrider
Art
Michael Asher
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art More times »
Rather than create new spaces and pieces, conceptual mixed-media artist Michael Asher prefers to deconstruct and punctuate extant spaces with found materials, creating a site-specific... View details »
Michael Asher
Art
Rosson Crow
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
Free
In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection of paintings. Despite the... View details »
Rosson Crow
Art
First Generation
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art More times »
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than some great old houses... View details »
First Generation
Art
Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In addition to many gallery-caliber... View details »
Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his films took hundreds of... View details »
Alfred Hitchcock
Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups, "The grand seigneur of... View details »
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Art
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
This year's resurgent Dylanmania — from Todd Haynes' byzantine biopic, I'm Not There, to Murray Lerner's performance-driven documentary, The Other Side of the Mirror —... View details »
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Art: Photography
Freeze Frame
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides shooting spools of film... View details »
Freeze Frame
Art
The Imaginary 20th Century
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (11am–8pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art presents 2,200 images from... View details »
The Imaginary 20th Century
Art: Photography
Hiromi Tsuchida
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Michael Dawson Gallery More times »
Free
Renowned Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida has trained his lens on facets of ordinary life throughout his lengthy career. Tsuchida's first solo exhibition in the US... View details »
Hiromi Tsuchida
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sweeney Todd
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (8pm) @ Ahmanson Theatre More times »
Johnny Depp's acclaimed cinematic stab (ahem) at Mr. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has refreshed our memories on this tale of greed,... View details »
Sweeney Todd
Art
Kara Walker
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (11am–9pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks a tense dialogue between... View details »
Kara Walker
Art
Nathan Mabry
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Cherry and Martin More times »
Free
Spanish conquistadors beware: payback is a bitch. Nathan Mabry exacts Montezuma's revenge with irreverently styled bronze sculptures based on Pre-Columbian Moche ceramics and bedazzled Mixtec... View details »
Nathan Mabry
Art
Make Art/Stop AIDS
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (noon–8pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA More times »
Free
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical awareness that the AIDS... View details »
Art
Alison Saar
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
Free
Though Los Angeles is her stomping ground, provocative painter/sculptress Alison Saar is internationally acclaimed. Daughter of the groundbreaking Betye Saar, whose intensely symbolic mixed-media assemblages... View details »
Alison Saar
Art
California Video
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
As video art's growing reach now extends from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to commuters watching YouTube on their iPhones, the Getty... View details »
California Video
Art: Photography
Tom Servais
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ epOxybOx More times »
Free
Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for his creative documentation of... View details »
Tom Servais
Art
There We Were, Now Here We Are
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery More times »
Free
LA artist Tim Bavington reinvents the once-obsolete "stripe painting" with hometown verve. Bavington incorporates sound into many of his dense compositions, assigning a musical note... View details »
There We Were, Now Here We Are
Art
Angela DeCristofaro
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Commisary Arts More times »
Free
Like fellow Italian Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico, Angela DeCristofaro's paintings obscure reality with dreams and memories. Seemingly unrelated images find their way onto the same... View details »
Angela DeCristofaro
Art
Tony de los Reyes
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Carl Berg Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles-based painter and sculptor Tony de los Reyes has more in common with 19th-century author Herman Melville than most politically savvy, academically trained artists.... View details »
Tony de los Reyes
Performing Arts: Theatre
Carnage, a Comedy
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (8pm) @ The Actors' Gang Theatre More times »
Twenty years after Carnage's wildly successful premiere, the Gang revives Adam Simon and Tim Robbins' play with frightening vitality and acerbic absurdity to spare. The... View details »
Carnage, a Comedy
More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one... View details »
Ugo Wine Bar
Art
Toby Ziegler
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Patrick Painter Gallery More times »
Free
Toby Ziegler's work is full of dichotomies. For his new collection of painting and sculpture in Patrick Painter's West Gallery, the British artist can't decide... View details »
Toby Ziegler
Art
Jeffrey Vallance
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Track 16 Gallery More times »
Free
Extravagance, irony, and ephemera converge in five concurrent exhibitions. The focus is the 30th-anniversary celebration of Jeffery Vallance's performance piece Blinky the Friendly Hen. In... View details »
Jeffrey Vallance
Art
Mindy Shapero
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Anna Helwing Gallery More times »
Free
Bright and brash, Mindy Shapero concocts sculptures with a childlike zeal: always curious and never satisfied. Her works seem like visual experiments in representing the... View details »
Mindy Shapero
Art
Aaron Smith
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery More times »
Free
The history of art may seem an obvious source of inspiration, but a new collection of paintings by LA's Aaron Smith flips the switch on... View details »
Aaron Smith
Art
Las Vegas Diaspora
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Laguna Art Museum More times »
Dave Hickey has one of the most original minds in the contemporary art world. His best-selling collection of critical essays, Air Guitar, built bridges between... View details »
Las Vegas Diaspora
Art: Photography
Tom Atwood
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Farmani Gallery More times »
Free
Portrait photography of celebrities in their own homes is always compelling fare, but Tom Atwood's images of high-profile figures from the gay community take the... View details »
Tom Atwood
Art
Everything But the Kitschen Sync
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (11am–9pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
The type of work that's usually celebrated at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, located inside Wacko (the Costco of kitsch), is usually irreverent, curious, and... View details »
Art
Cal Lane
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman More times »
Free
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 dumpsters and shovels, into... View details »
Cal Lane
Art
Eddie Ruscha
Friday Apr 25, 2008 @ High Energy Constructs More times »
Free
Armageddon looms at Eddie Ruscha Jr.'s debut solo show. The son of the pop-art icon pairs psychedelic works on canvas and paper with a cosmic... View details »
Eddie Ruscha
Art
Good Doll Bad Doll
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Armory Center for the Arts More times »
Free
ArtForum critic and independent curator Michael Duncan encourages childish behavior in Good Doll Bad Doll, an exhibition featuring modern and contemporary artists who use dolls... View details »
Good Doll Bad Doll
Art: Photography
A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (10:30am–6pm) @ Gallery Luisotti More times »
Free
Photographer Catherine Wagner used the Baltimore Museum of Industry's impressive collection of lightbulbs as the inspiration for her latest exhibition, which focuses on the illuminating... View details »
A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
Art
Christopher Chinn
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Overtones Gallery More times »
Free
Upon graduating from art school and relocating to the city, local painter Christopher Chinn was struck by how intrepid artists would often share their Skid... View details »
Christopher Chinn
Film
Very Short Movies Festival
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (6pm) @ Cinespace More times »
As Internet video, indie film, and broadcast TV continue merging in today's new-media world, the Very Short Movies Festival gets in on the action, embracing... View details »
Very Short Movies Festival
Art
KuKula
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery More times »
Free
For Dreamcatcher, KuKula's first solo showing at Thinkspace, the Israeli-born artist paints eerily charming images of little girl dolls, Disney-esque forest creatures, and blossoming flowers.... View details »
KuKula
Art
Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ LAXART More times »
Free
Los Angeles' Anna Sew Hoy takes inspiration from her medical-doctor father in her latest exhibition POW!, which focuses on the theme of physical injury, treatment,... View details »
Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
Performing Arts: Theatre
Varla Jean Merman
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (7:30pm) @ Ultra Suede More times »
Few classically trained opera singers can master the art of pouring a can of Cheez Whiz into their mouths mid-medley, but Varla Jean Merman (the... View details »
Varla Jean Merman
Art
Wayne White
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Western Project More times »
Free
Billed as "punk Mark Twain defiance," Wayne White's latest show features the recent collection of his famous word paintings and sculptures. White uses phrases like... View details »
Wayne White
Art
The Color of Life
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Villa More times »
Free
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only in tones of white... View details »
The Color of Life
Art
Anything Could Happen...
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (2–7pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art More times »
Free
In the group show Anything Could Happen..., five international artists get together to celebrate the vibrancy of contemporary street art. From sobering reflections on inequality... View details »
Anything Could Happen...
Art
Anne-Laure Sacriste
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Chung King Project More times »
Free
For her debut solo bow in the United States, French artist Anne-Laure Sacriste shows new large-scale paintings at Chung King Project. Her haunting paintings are... View details »
Anne-Laure Sacriste
Art
Edgar Heap of Birds
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ See Line Gallery More times »
Free
New York artist Edgar Heap of Birds doesn't use text to support his visual aesthetic — the text is the aesthetic. In his exhibition at... View details »
Edgar Heap of Birds
Art
Sarajo Frieden
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Little Bird Gallery More times »
Free
That Sarajo Frieden's Los Angeles studio is at the nexus of Koreatown, Little Armenia, and Thai Town makes perfect sense after you see her mixed-media... View details »
Sarajo Frieden
Art
Robert Crumb
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 @ David Lawrence Gallery More times »
Free
Since his early days drawing for Zap Comix, Robert Crumb has made quite a name for himself as the comic world's favorite enfant terrible; with... View details »
Robert Crumb
Art
Max Miceli
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Milo Gallery More times »
Free
Two-parts pop to one-part folk, Max Miceli's landscapes and portraits force viewers to examine the relationships between man and beast, industry and nature, and abstraction... View details »
Max Miceli
Art: Photography
Here Is Where You'll Find Me
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ The Lab 101 Gallery More times »
Free
As the much-beloved Polaroid photograph takes its final bow, David Horvitz and Flavorpill editor Ashley Tibbits harness the medium's lo-fi grace for their own artistic... View details »
Here Is Where You'll Find Me
Art: Discussion
Nicole Cohen
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she has something of a... View details »
Nicole Cohen
Art
Immigration Stories
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space More times »
Free
Atwater Village's Pounder-Koné Art Space uses color as the great communicator, gathering work from its favorite underappreciated overseas artists with a homegrown sophistication. The UK's... View details »
Immigration Stories
Art
Panopti(con)
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Bank More times »
Free
Los Angeles multimedia artist Martin Durazo curates this collection of work by 17 artists under the broad thematic umbrella of power and authority. The exhibition's... View details »
Panopti(con)
Art: Photography
Ten Years in Focus
Thursday Mar 27, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition draws parallels between photography... View details »
Ten Years in Focus