Events on Thursday, March 6

First Thursday ArtsWalk

Art

ArtsWalk

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside

Downtown Riverside's charming, historic main drag is the latest LA ex-burb to go public with its contemporary-art ambitions — it's home... 

Van Hunt

Music

Van Hunt

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Little Temple

Grammy award-winning musician Van Hunt is known for deep, dirty grooves à la Prince or Sly & the Family Stone, but... 

Ongoing Events

Yun Bai: <em>Who's That Girl?</em>

Art

Yun Bai

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Art Murmur Gallery

Rising LA artist Yun Bai and her alter ego Yunny Bunny converge in this smashing show. Bai splits herself in two:... 

Tom Atwood: <em>Kings in their Castles</em><em> </em>

Art: Photography

Tom Atwood

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>My Blueberry Nights</em>

Film

My Blueberry Nights

Thursday 3/ 6 @ The Landmark

Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights is undeniably, embarrassingly cheesy. Replete with slow-motion shots and blue-lit greasy spoons, it truly leaves... 

<em>Overgrowth</em>: Katherine  Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush

Art

Overgrowth

Thursday 3/ 6 @ GR2

GR2 combines the artistic minds of Katherine Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush for a group show of anti-monumental proportions. Discarding... 

Rosson Crow: <em>Night at the Palomino</em>

Art

Rosson Crow

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Honor Fraser

In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection... 

Wynne Greenwood: <em>Face It</em>

Art

Wynne Greenwood

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

"Interdisciplinary" is an understatement when it comes to Brooklyn-based artist Wynne Greenwood: she's known for melding performance, installation, video, and two-dimensional... 

Julian Schnabel: <em>Christ's Last Day</em>

Art

Julian Schnabel

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

Nathan Mabry

Art

Nathan Mabry

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

Jean Michel Crettaz: <em>Quasar</em>

Art

Jean Michel Crettaz

Thursday 3/ 6 @ SCI-Arc

Head of the Visual Studies Program at SCI-Arc Jean-Michel Crettaz has plenty of experience, having studied in Switzerland, at the ultra-exclusive... 

<em>Here, There, and Everywhere</em>

Art

Here, There, and Everywhere

Thursday 3/ 6 @ The Bike Oven

Cyclists unite for an exhibition featuring the works of artists from all parts of the nation who just happen to also,... 

David Touster: <em>Private Pictures</em>

Art

David Touster

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Milo Gallery

With leaked sex tapes and nude photos of celebrities comprising a billion-dollar industry, David Touster's new work couldn't be more humorous... 

Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions

Art

Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Various Chinatown galleries

As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art... 

Art

Make Art/Stop AIDS

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical... 

Art

MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Exhibition

Thursday 3/ 6 @ MAK Center Schindler House

MAK Center residents Sabine Müller and Andreas Quednau, Hank Schmidt in der Beek, Bernhard Eder and Theresa Krenn, and Johann Neumeister... 

<em>First Generation: Art in Claremont 1907-1957</em>

Art

First Generation

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Claremont Museum of Art

Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than... 

<em>Freeze Frame: Five Decades of Photographs by Douglas Kirkland</em>

Art: Photography

Freeze Frame

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

David Brady: <em>Genesis</em>

Art

David Brady

Thursday 3/ 6 @ High Energy Constructs

One of Chinatown's most interesting emerging galleries, High Energy Constructs inaugurated its space with an exhibition by David Brady. Two years... 

Aaron Smith: <em>Estofada</em>

Art

Aaron Smith

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Silver for Gold </em>

Theatre

Silver for Gold

Thursday 3/ 6 @ [delete] The Met Theatre

Before her untimely death at the tragic age of 28, socialite, heiress, and fledgling film star Edie Sedgwick was Andy Warhol's... 

Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright

Art

Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

Landscape paintings from Mexican artist Miguel Osuna have a photographic sensibility. His California landscapes possess all the fleeting romance of a... 

<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>

Art

SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Two Lines Align</em>: Drawings by Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge

Art

Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge

Thursday 3/ 6 @ REDCAT

Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In... 

Mindy Shapero

Art

Mindy Shapero

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Anna Helwing Gallery

Bright and brash, Mindy Shapero concocts sculptures with a childlike zeal: always curious and never satisfied. Her works seem like visual... 

<em>Chicago 10</em>

Film

Chicago 10

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

In the revolution-rich year of 1968, the French had a tough May; the US, in turn, had one heck of an... 

Sylvia Ji: <em>Por Vida</em>

Art

Sylvia Ji

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Corey Helford Gallery

San Francisco native Sylvia Ji's paintings simultaneously depict the drama of the Pre-Raphaelites, the romantic sensuality of Mucha, and the allure... 

<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... 

<em>The Imaginary 20th Century</em>

Art

The Imaginary 20th Century

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

Tom Servais: <em>el&middot;e&middot;men&middot;tal</em>

Art: Photography

Tom Servais

Thursday 3/ 6 @ epOxybOx

Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for... 

Kara Walker: <em>My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love</em>

Art

Kara Walker

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Hammer Museum

Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Thursday 3/ 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... 

<em>Concrete Folk Variations</em>: <em>Chapter One: Death of a Sugar Daddy</em>

Theatre

Death of a Sugar Daddy

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

Adam Janes: <em>Don't Sweat the Small Stuff at 50%</em>

Art

Adam Janes

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

LA Opera presents Giuseppe Verdi's<em> Otello</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Otello

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Racism, jealousy, and betrayal form the backdrop of Shakespeare's penultimate tragedy, Othello. The stakes of the story are set even higher... 

<em>The Austrian Winery Boom</em>

Art

The Austrian Winery Boom

Thursday 3/ 6 @ MODAA gallery

After a 1985 wine scandal (winemakers were discovered to have added an antifreeze component to sweeten their vintages), a red-faced Austria... 

Eve Wood: <em>No Other Word for Love</em>

Art

Eve Wood

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Western Project

Eve Wood is the toast of Culver City this month with a breakthrough exhibition of mixed-media work on canvas. Wood leaves... 

Michael Asher

Art

Michael Asher

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film</em>

Film

Alfred Hitchcock

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

Luke Whitlatch

Art

Luke Whitlatch

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Bandini Art

In his new series of work, painter Luke Whitlatch offers a meditation on both the emotional events that define human life... 

Toby Ziegler: <em>The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse</em>

Art

Toby Ziegler

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Victory</em>

Theatre

Victory

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

Mel Kadel and Travis Millard

Art

Mel Kadel and Travis Millard

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Richard Heller Gallery

The organic forms that populate Mel Kadel's drawings have begun to grow in scale, creeping toward the edges of the sheet... 

<em>Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966</em>

Art

Bob Dylan's American Journey

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

Tony Philippou, Zach Johnsen, and Marion Bolognesi: <em>The Trinity</em>

Art

The Trinity

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Thinkspace Gallery

Hailing from various points in New York City, up-and-coming artists Tony Philippou, Zach Johnsen, and Marion Bolognesi present a conglomeration of... 

Evan Hecox: <em>DF</em>

Art

Evan Hecox

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Projection</em>

Art

Projection

Thursday 3/ 6 @ [delete]

This private-residence-turned-gallery's latest offering, Projection, interprets the titular concept both literally and figuratively in an ambitious multimedia group show. The works... 

Tessar Lo and Chris Devera: <em>something to cry for</em>

Art

Tessar Lo and Chris Devera

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

Tim Bavington: <em>There We Were, Now Here We Are</em>

Art

There We Were, Now Here We Are

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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,... 

<em>Lights! Camera! Glamour!</em>

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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,... 

Hiromi Tsuchida: <em>Photographs 1969-2004 </em>

Art: Photography

Hiromi Tsuchida

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

Frohawk Two Feathers: <em> In the Court of the Crimson King </em>

Art

Frohawk Two Feathers

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery

Los Angeles artist Frohawk Two Feathers makes fanciful, avant-folk paintings featuring a cast of singularly imaginative characters. For his latest collection... 

<em>The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present </em>

Art

The Color of Life

Thursday 3/ 6 @ The Getty Villa

Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only... 

<em>Carnage, a Comedy</em>

Theatre

Carnage, a Comedy

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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... 

Julie Davidow: <em>The New Strain</em>

Art

Julie Davidow

Thursday 3/ 6 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery

Miami-based painter and self-proclaimed "frustrated scientist" Julie Davidow presents a series of new works that embody the interactions between man and... 

<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Thursday 3/ 6 @ 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,...