Events on Thursday, June 19
Thursday 6/19 @ The Troubadour
Hollywood has its Baldwins and Barrymores; politics has its Clintons and Kennedys; music, meanwhile, has made a dynasty of the Wainwright...
Thursday 6/19 @ UCB Theatre
Half Absolutely Fabulous and half Coffee Talk, the two women behind the All Jew Revue masterfully tap into the middle-aged, best...
Thursday 6/19 @ The Echo & Echoplex
When drone druids Boris and Sunn O))) reined in their feedback on 2006 collaboration Altar's "The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep)," it...
Thursday 6/19 @ The Derby
LA band From Leaf to Feather are, on CD and onstage, something of a paradox. Just as wont to throw down...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 6/19 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
Serving up buckets of undead breasts and extra-slimy special sauce, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead keeps Troma Entertainment's traditions of...
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
Thursday 6/19 @ LAXART
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo, both making their solo debuts in Los Angeles, meditate on the meaning of objects in human...
Thursday 6/19 @ Various locations
Though it packs 200 new films into 11 days, the LA Film Festival offers more than just screenings. There are poolside...
Thursday 6/19 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Known for its progressive, boundary-pushing performances and interdisciplinary bravado, LACE's lofty space transforms into a clean, white gallery for Against the...
Thursday 6/19 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
Tiffany Bozic's paintings and drawings are interpretations of the natural world — as seen through a warped microscope, in brilliant color,...
Thursday 6/19 @ Barnsdall Art Park
The Cultural Affairs Department recently issued a statement to declare its unprecedented satisfaction with the state's arts budget — proof that...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ Black Maria Gallery
Russian-born artist Oksana Badrak creates worlds where disparate mediums and settings collide, merging traditional with modern, Eastern with Western, and so...
Thursday 6/19 @ Peres Projects
Anyone who can sell his own bodily fluids for thousands of dollars on the art market has "made it" as an...
Thursday 6/19 @ Sam Lee Gallery
Misato Suzuki is acutely aware of nature's palette and geometry. With soothing shades of yellow, orange, brown, and blue, she paints...
Thursday 6/19 @ Materials & Applications
M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents...
Thursday 6/19 @ Pounder-Koné Art Space
Afrobeat pioneer and revolutionary activist Fela Kuti has influenced generations of progressives, from his native Nigeria to South Central LA, with...
Thursday 6/19 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
SMMoA gathers an eclectic array of work by 30 impressive artists — from Kara Walker to Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Nauman, and...
Thursday 6/19 @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside
This exhibition juxtaposes the work of idealist photographers Jeremy Kidd and Eric Curry, both of whom use digital manipulation in arresting...
Thursday 6/19 @ 01 Gallery
Back in the late 1970s, Steve Olson became a celebrity in the world of professional skateboarding for his vertical-shredding ability. He's...
Thursday 6/19 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Many art critics and scholars consider Jerome Witkin to be America's greatest living figurative painter. His portraits and landscapes combine an...
Thursday 6/19 @ Pharmaka
Hot on the heels of LACMA's controversial Phantom Sightings exhibition, Pharmaka Gallery tackles the issue of contemporary Chicano art with Rebel...
Thursday 6/19 @ Natural History Museum
Pavilion of Wings returns to the Natural History Museum for the exhibition's tenth anniversary. Now, anyone jealous of the Shins' experience...
Thursday 6/19 @ Aero Theatre
As Dance Camera West's 2008 program winds down this week, the focus shifts toward classicism with a behind-the-scenes peek at the...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ Various locations
The Israel Film Festival, an annual two-week movie marathon, celebrates Israel and — l'chaim! — independent film. Festival highlights include Lynn...
Thursday 6/19 @ CBS News Studios
Mr. Brainwash, or MBW, is a documentary filmmaker turned street artist who fell in with the renowned circle of renegade activists,...
Thursday 6/19 @ Morono Kiang Gallery
As Internet galleries and portfolio sites make it increasingly easy to navigate the deep waters of the international emerging art scene,...
Thursday 6/19 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
If only our cracked sidewalks, classic homes, sprawling hills, and endless streets could talk. But even if objects can't, camera lenses...
Thursday 6/19 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Kori Newkirk first came to national attention thanks to his contribution to the Studio Museum in Harlem's daring group show Freestyle:...
Thursday 6/19 @ Richard Heller Gallery
In New Jersey-based artist Jon Rappleye's world, eyeless horned owls flit around a cluster of vultures, deer, and snakes while, in...
Thursday 6/19 @ Ahmanson Theatre
Director and co-choreographer Michael Bennett spins this well-loved tale of Broadway gypsies and would-be stars who lay their souls on the...
Thursday 6/19 @ Little Bird Gallery
Blame it on her traditional Southern upbringing, but Mariah Anne Johnson (born and raised in Arkansas) has an affinity for her...
Thursday 6/19 @ Kara Wily Pilates
When dancer and art enthusiast Kara Wily wanted to open her own Pilates studio (having learned the ropes from the movement's...
Thursday 6/19 @ Bandini Art
Co-curated by Patrick Painter Gallery's Heather Harmon and Bandini's own Ashley McLean Emenegger, Blood & Glitter is a group exhibition about...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Thursday 6/19 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs looks at Israel's female citizenry as a reflection of the state's 60-year history of independence....
Thursday 6/19 @ Samuel Freeman
Piot Brehmer's hyperrealist-inspired paintings at Samuel Freeman may owe a nod to painters like Philip Pearlstein and Eric Fischl, but there's...
Thursday 6/19 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia's meticulously planned pictures look as effortless as Polaroids. Most of his works feature a single person — who...
Thursday 6/19 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground
Thursday 6/19 @ another year in LA
In Robert A. Nelson's exhibition Common Ground, viewers are treated to a new side of the '60s experimental filmmaker. Nelson's offbeat,...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ The MET Theatre
Eric Bogosian made the leap from sputtering performance artist to Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright with his fiery, rant-filled Talk Radio. Known for...
Thursday 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ 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 6/19 @ Gallery 1988
Artist Matt Dangler is a wee young thing to be garnering such art-world acclaim. The 24-year-old's spooky and fantastical paintings are...
Thursday 6/19 @ Honor Fraser
Painter Tillman Kaiser invokes the legacy of dadaist Marcel Duchamp, who famously flipped a ceramic urinal on its side, signed it...
Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
Thursday 6/19 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Like the Catholic-raised Mexican artist himself, Tino Rodriguez's gender-defying, allegorical paintings are torn between sensuality and conservative tradition. Inspired by the...
Thursday 6/19 @ A&I Hollywood
LA's most industry-beloved photo lab, Photo Impact, officially closed when its owner went in with A&I, but the group show LA...
