Events on Thursday, April 3
Thursday 4/ 3 @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
LA-based performance group My Barbarian offer up a whole heck of a lot more than your average local band. Not only...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 4/ 3 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
In the group show Anything Could Happen..., five international artists get together to celebrate the vibrancy of contemporary street art. From...
Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
Thursday 4/ 3 @ LAXART
Los Angeles' Anna Sew Hoy takes inspiration from her medical-doctor father in her latest exhibition POW!, which focuses on the theme...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ Commisary Arts
Like fellow Italian Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico, Angela DeCristofaro's paintings obscure reality with dreams and memories. Seemingly unrelated images find their...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ Milo Gallery
Two-parts pop to one-part folk, Max Miceli's landscapes and portraits force viewers to examine the relationships between man and beast, industry...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ First Baptist Church
Out of 36 glass panels and multiple tonnage of cracked clay and resin, German artist Anselm Kiefer has created an illusion...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ Hammer Museum
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ SCI-Arc
"Merletti" means lace in Italian; for architects, it refers to the pattern of folds along a watchtower's defensive rims and other...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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,...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ Pounder-Koné Art Space
Atwater Village's Pounder-Koné Art Space uses color as the great communicator, gathering work from its favorite underappreciated overseas artists with a...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ Chung King Project
For her debut solo bow in the United States, French artist Anne-Laure Sacriste shows new large-scale paintings at Chung King Project....
Thursday 4/ 3 @ Overtones Gallery
Upon graduating from art school and relocating to the city, local painter Christopher Chinn was struck by how intrepid artists would...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ Bank
Los Angeles multimedia artist Martin Durazo curates this collection of work by 17 artists under the broad thematic umbrella of power...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ Claremont Museum of Art
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ The Getty Center
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ Cinespace
As Internet video, indie film, and broadcast TV continue merging in today's new-media world, the Very Short Movies Festival gets in...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ The Lab 101 Gallery
As the much-beloved Polaroid photograph takes its final bow, David Horvitz and Flavorpill editor Ashley Tibbits harness the medium's lo-fi grace...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ The Getty Villa
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ Anna Helwing Gallery
Bright and brash, Mindy Shapero concocts sculptures with a childlike zeal: always curious and never satisfied. Her works seem like visual...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ Western Project
Billed as "punk Mark Twain defiance," Wayne White's latest show features the recent collection of his famous word paintings and sculptures....
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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 4/ 3 @ Ahmanson Theatre
Johnny Depp's acclaimed cinematic stab (ahem) at Mr. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has refreshed our memories on...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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,...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ REDCAT
Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ See Line Gallery
New York artist Edgar Heap of Birds doesn't use text to support his visual aesthetic — the text is the aesthetic....
A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
Thursday 4/ 3 @ Gallery Luisotti
Photographer Catherine Wagner used the Baltimore Museum of Industry's impressive collection of lightbulbs as the inspiration for her latest exhibition, which...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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,...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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...
