Events on Thursday, July 10

Downtown Art Walk

Art

Downtown Art Walk

Thursday 7/10 @ Bert Green Fine Art

The Downtown Gallery District gets bigger all the time, with new art spaces popping up at an alarming rate. This month's... 

The Deadly Syndrome w/ Miss Derringer

Music

Deadly Syndrome

Thursday 7/10 @ Hammer Museum

In traditional French country cuisine, an ortolan is a tiny bird that's force-fed, drowned alive in Armagnac, roasted, and finally eaten... 

Tilly & the Wall

Music

Tilly & the Wall

Thursday 7/10 @ Echoplex

Despite two albums of joyous indie pop, Omaha's Tilly & the Wall will likely always be known as "that band with... 

Comedy Walk

Comedy

Comedy Walk

Thursday 7/10 @ The New LATC

After art-walking to your heart's content, lace up your laughing shoes and shuffle over to July's installment of the Comedy Walk.... 

Gutter Twins w/ Ed Harcourt

Music

Gutter Twins

Thursday 7/10 @ The Roxy Theatre

Calling themselves the "Satanic Everly Brothers," the Gutter Twins' Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli are both longstanding alt-rock heroes. (Lanegan fronted... 

King Khan and the Shrines w/ Jacuzzi Boys

Music

King Khan and the Shrines

Thursday 7/10 @ The Echo & Echoplex

All hail King Khan. The recent Vice Records signee and his nine-piece psychedelic garage-soul band storm into the Echo tonight like... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Flaunt</em>

Art

Flaunt

Thursday 7/10 @ Junc Gallery

This annual exhibition at Junc typically features new work by both its most promising emerging talents and good-old standbys. The 2008... 

<em>Contradictions & Complexities: Contemporary Art from India</em>

Art

Contemporary Art from India

Thursday 7/10 @ d.e.n. contemporary art

A single definition of Indian contemporary art is tricky to pin down, as one might expect when funneling the widely varying... 

Mondongo: <em>Gaslighting</em>

Art

Mondongo

Thursday 7/10 @ Track 16 Gallery

As students of cultural iconoclasm, the members of Argentinian art collective Mondongo — Juliana Laffitte, Manuel Mendanha, and Agustina Picasso —... 

Art

COLA Artist Fellowships

Thursday 7/10 @ Barnsdall Art Park

The Cultural Affairs Department recently issued a statement to declare its unprecedented satisfaction with the state's arts budget — proof that... 

Sophia Allison & York Chang: <em>Automatic Enigmatic</em>

Art

Sophia Allison & York Chang

Thursday 7/10 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

The title of this two-person exhibition refers to the artists' different approaches to dependence on media and consumerism. For collagist Sophia... 

<em>Darkness Will Find You</em>

Art

Darkness Will Find You

Thursday 7/10 @ Jail Gallery

Sculptor, video artist, and (increasingly often) independent curator Michael Dee is something of a conceptual punster; his own work in plastic... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Thursday 7/10 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... 

Marlene Dumas: <em>Measuring Your Own Grave</em>

Art

Marlene Dumas

Thursday 7/10 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

The first stateside exhibit of French/South African/Dutch artist Marlene Dumas' work, Measuring Your Own Grave is a prodding collection of sketches... 

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

Thursday 7/10 @ 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... 

LA Art Girls Art Fair Biennale LA 2008

Art

LA Art Girls

Thursday 7/10 @ Pacific Electric Lofts

The LA Art Girls began four years ago, when a vibrant group of women working in painting, photography, video, and performance... 

Peter Saul

Art

Peter Saul

Thursday 7/10 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

Peter Saul, who hit his artistic stride mid-century during America's pop-art movement, has become best known of late as a creator... 

<em>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Thursday 7/10 @ 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... 

Haegue Yang: <em>Asymmetric Equality</em>

Art

Haegue Yang

Thursday 7/10 @ REDCAT

REDCAT continues to be a beacon for cutting-edge contemporary art, featuring the first solo show of Haegue Yang in the US.... 

Dennis Koch & Claudia Nieto

Art

Dennis Koch & Claudia Nieto

Thursday 7/10 @ High Energy Constructs

Angelinos Dennis Koch and Claudia Nieto work on the same plane — the flat one. Utilizing the simplest of all media,... 

Kori Newkirk:<em> 1997-2007</em>

Art

Kori Newkirk

Thursday 7/10 @ 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:... 

Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason

Art

Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason

Thursday 7/10 @ La Luz de Jesus

Though painters Caia Koopman and Mark Gleason take vastly different approaches, both make the human/animal relationship a cornerstone of their work.... 

Carlos Ramos: <em>Natural History Museum Part I</em>

Art

Carlos Ramos

Thursday 7/10 @ Corey Helford Gallery

In this collection of 24 large-scale paintings, Carlos Ramos recalls the deep impressions that realistic-looking dioramas had on him as a... 

<em>Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera</em>

Art: Photography

Ten Years in Focus

Thursday 7/10 @ The Getty Center

In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition... 

<em>Broadway Bound</em>

Theatre

Broadway Bound

Thursday 7/10 @ Skirball Cultural Center

Neil Simon has authored some of the most popular American plays of the last century, including the much-loved Eugene Trilogy, which... 

<em>The Puppet Show</em>

Art

The Puppet Show

Thursday 7/10 @ 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... 

Corbin Smith:<em> Venice Boulevard: Close Encounters </em>

Art: Photography

Corbin Smith

Thursday 7/10 @ MODAA gallery

Photographer Corbin Smith's initial impressions of LA seemed to buy into into Baudrillard's description of Los Angeles as an illusion, "the... 

<em>Ginger</em>

Art

Ginger

Thursday 7/10 @ New Image Art

New Image Art's latest group exhibition packs a powerhouse list of participants. Vets of the gallery — including indie-rock man-of-the-moment Devendra... 

Matt Dangler's <em>Treehouse</em>

Art

Matt Dangler

Thursday 7/10 @ 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... 

<em>Chris & Don</em>

Film

Chris & Don

Thursday 7/10 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

The remarkable tale at the center of Chris & Don opens on a Malibu beach 50 years ago, when British writer... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Thursday 7/10 @ Norton Simon Museum

This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at... 

<em>Cover Version: A Summer Reading List</em>

Art

Cover Version

Thursday 7/10 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery

Thematic summer shows are as de rigueur in the art world as summer reading lists were in high school — and... 

<em>Rebel Legacy: The Abstract in Latino Art </em>

Art

Rebel Legacy

Thursday 7/10 @ Pharmaka

Hot on the heels of LACMA's controversial Phantom Sightings exhibition, Pharmaka Gallery tackles the issue of contemporary Chicano art with Rebel... 

<em>This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in LA Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

This Side of Paradise

Thursday 7/10 @ 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... 

<em>Gravity & Transformation</em>

Art

Gravity & Transformation

Thursday 7/10 @ Kristi Engle Gallery

The world of art is one place where the laws of physics do not apply, and LA-based artist Suzanne Adelman assembles... 

Andy Warhol: Photographs

Art: Photography

Andy Warhol

Thursday 7/10 @ Michael Kohn Gallery

The quintessential pop artist was much more than a factory for silkscreens of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's soup cans. In fact,... 

Eric Bogosian's <em>Talk Radio</em>

Theatre

Talk Radio

Thursday 7/10 @ 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... 

HK Zamani: <em>Shelter from the Storm</em>

Art

HK Zamani

Thursday 7/10 @ SolwayJones Gallery

HK Zamani is best known to LA art lovers as Habib Kheradyar, the peripatetic multimedia artist, one-time owner of Post Gallery,... 

Cadence Pearson: <em>Disjointed</em>

Art

Cadence Pearson

Thursday 7/10 @ 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... 

<em>Against the Grain</em>

Art

Against the Grain

Thursday 7/10 @ 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... 

<em>In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor</em>

Art

The Juxtapoz Factor

Thursday 7/10 @ Laguna Art Museum

To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as... 

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Art: Photography

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Thursday 7/10 @ 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... 

Antonio Ballester Moreno: <em>Hunter House & Bear Suit Number Two</em>

Art

Antonio Ballester Moreno

Thursday 7/10 @ Peres Projects

Antonio Ballester Moreno's first solo show in America explodes in vibrant colors and playful forms. His bold palette recalls the traditions... 

<em>Party Favors</em>

Art

Party Favors

Thursday 7/10 @ Bonelli Contemporary

An ambitious undertaking by art critic and curator Holly Myers, this month-long celebration of interactive visual and performance art promises to... 

Jerome Witkin: <em>Revelations in Drawing</em>

Art

Jerome Witkin

Thursday 7/10 @ 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... 

<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Thursday 7/10 @ 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... 

The Art Directors Guild presents <em>MiniWorX</em>

Art

MiniWorX

Thursday 7/10 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

The Art Directors Guild IA Local 800 is a deliriously talented group of production designers, art directors, and scenic, title, and... 

<em>Hand to Hand: Witnessing the War</em>

Art

Witnessing the War

Thursday 7/10 @ Carol Henry Studio

An overstuffed white glove might bring to mind images of a Mickey Mouse cartoon, but for artist and curator Cecelia Kane,... 

<em>Politics as Usual: As Seen by Harry Benson</em>

Art: Photography

Harry Benson

Thursday 7/10 @ David Gallery

As the Beatles greeted New York City's cold winter weather for the first time in 1964, looming in their shadows was... 

Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>

Art

Mark Bradford

Thursday 7/10 @ 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... 

<em>Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs

Thursday 7/10 @ 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.... 

Ami Tallman: <em>When the Sun Shines, It Does not Need Proof</em>

Art

Ami Tallman

Thursday 7/10 @ See Line Gallery

Ami Tallman's Fauvist palette, her love of extreme decor, and her penchant for historical research each feed into her interiors and... 

Robert A. Nelson: <em>Common Ground</em>

Art

Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground

Thursday 7/10 @ 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,... 

Victoria Reynolds: <em>Drawn and Rendered</em>

Art

Victoria Reynolds

Thursday 7/10 @ Richard Heller Gallery

Living in Sweden proved to be an invaluable influence on Victoria Reynolds' artwork. Not only does she emulate the painstakingly naturalistic... 

Misato Suzuki: <em>Unknown Quantities</em>

Art

Misato Suzuki

Thursday 7/10 @ 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... 

<em>Two Madmen: The Art of Clive Barker and Myron Dyal</em>

Art

Two Madmen

Thursday 7/10 @ Otis College of Art and Design

Clive Barker is a successful author, director, screenwriter, playwright, and poet; Myron Dyal is a classical musician. But both artists also... 

<em>Eleven Missing Days </em>

Dance

Eleven Missing Days

Thursday 7/10 @ Unknown Theater

Meg Wolfe's relentless creative spirit knows no bounds. Her energy produced the offbeat dance zine Itch Journal, the experimental series Anatomy... 

<em>Vexing: Female Voices from East LA Punk</em>

Art

Vexing

Thursday 7/10 @ Claremont Museum of Art

In the early '80s, the Vex was an all-ages music club located in Self Help Graphics and Art, a Chicano landmark... 

<em>LA Nude X </em>

Art: Photography

LA Nude X

Thursday 7/10 @ 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...