Events on Thursday, July 3

Constantines w/ Ladyhawk

Music

Constantines

Thursday 7/ 3 @ The Troubadour

Over the last few years, Canada has been a breeding ground for innovation, from the post-rock rambling of Godspeed You! Black... 

The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra

Music

The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra

Thursday 7/ 3 @ The Echo & Echoplex

The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra's members change regularly, which might explain the collective's constant deluge of fresh tunes. FTO's sound is lush... 

Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys 5th Anniversary Show

Performing Arts

Janet Klein

Thursday 7/ 3 @ The Steve Allen Theater

It takes a special talent to simultaneously celebrate and lampoon the cherished art forms of bygone days. For five years now,... 

<em>The Wrecking Crew </em>

Film: Documentary

The Wrecking Crew

Thursday 7/ 3 @ The Silent Movie Theatre

At the root of western-music mythology stands the Wrecking Crew, a legendary and ultra-prolific group of LA session musicians, lovingly portrayed... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art: Photography

Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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.... 

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

Art: Photography

Harry Benson

Thursday 7/ 3 @ David Gallery

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

Stephan Koplowitz's TaskForce presents <em>Liquid Landscapes</em>

Art

Liquid Landscapes

Thursday 7/ 3 @ Various locations

New York's loss is Los Angeles' gain with the arrival of Stephan Koplowitz, one of the country's most intriguing interdisciplinary artists.... 

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

Art

Kori Newkirk

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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:... 

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

Art

Ami Tallman

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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... 

Mariah Anne Johnson: <em>We Are All Well and Fine</em>

Art

Mariah Anne Johnson

Thursday 7/ 3 @ Little Bird Gallery

Blame it on her traditional Southern upbringing, but Mariah Anne Johnson (born and raised in Arkansas) has an affinity for her... 

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

Art: Photography

This Side of Paradise

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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>Eleven Missing Days </em>

Dance

Eleven Missing Days

Thursday 7/ 3 @ Unknown Theater

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

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

Art

Marlene Dumas

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Flaunt</em>

Art

Flaunt

Thursday 7/ 3 @ Junc Gallery

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

Piot Brehmer

Art

Piot Brehmer

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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... 

Mods & Rockers

Festival: Performing Arts

Mods & Rockers

Thursday 7/ 3 @ Egyptian Theatre

Mods and rockers both worshiped bands, rode scooters, and cultivated impossibly hip hairstyles. But the two UK groups had a distinct... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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>Contradictions & Complexities: Contemporary Art from India</em>

Art

Contemporary Art from India

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

Rebel Legacy

Thursday 7/ 3 @ Pharmaka

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

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

Art

Sophia Allison & York Chang

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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... 

The Actors' Gang presents <em>1984</em>

Theatre

1984

Thursday 7/ 3 @ REDCAT

George Orwell wrote 1984 in the bloody wake of WWII, when anti-totalitarian screeds and fear of Communism were at a fever... 

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

Art

Carlos Ramos

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

Jerome Witkin

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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>Hand to Hand: Witnessing the War</em>

Art

Witnessing the War

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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>The Puppet Show</em>

Art

The Puppet Show

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

Haegue Yang

Thursday 7/ 3 @ REDCAT

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

Peter Saul

Art

Peter Saul

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Thursday 7/ 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... 

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Art: Photography

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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... 

Dennis Koch & Claudia Nieto

Art

Dennis Koch & Claudia Nieto

Thursday 7/ 3 @ High Energy Constructs

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

<em>Darkness Will Find You</em>

Art

Darkness Will Find You

Thursday 7/ 3 @ Jail Gallery

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

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

Art

Victoria Reynolds

Thursday 7/ 3 @ Richard Heller Gallery

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

The Who's <em>Tommy</em>

Theatre

Tommy

Thursday 7/ 3 @ Montalbán Theatre

The idea that a young man would become "deaf, dumb, and blind" and then discover that he's a pinball genius was... 

<em>Gravity & Transformation</em>

Art

Gravity & Transformation

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

Two Madmen

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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... 

Amy Sol: <em>Karmic Magic</em>

Art

Amy Sol

Thursday 7/ 3 @ Thinkspace Gallery

Karmic Magic, Las Vegas artist Amy Sol's solo show with the Silverlake gem Thinkspace, features doe-eyed females, furry creatures, and sweetly... 

Art

Juan Uslé

Thursday 7/ 3 @ LA Louver Gallery

The life and experiences of Spanish painter Juan Uslé meet his vision of abstraction in this new series of paintings. Including... 

Cadence Pearson: <em>Disjointed</em>

Art

Cadence Pearson

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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>Newer Topographics: Photographs of Digitally Altered Urban Landscapes</em>

Art: Photography

Newer Topographics

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

Matt Dangler

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Cover Version

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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>Party Favors</em>

Art

Party Favors

Thursday 7/ 3 @ Bonelli Contemporary

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

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Thursday 7/ 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... 

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

Theatre

Talk Radio

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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>Against the Grain</em>

Art

Against the Grain

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

HK Zamani

Thursday 7/ 3 @ SolwayJones Gallery

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

<em>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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... 

Art

COLA Artist Fellowships

Thursday 7/ 3 @ Barnsdall Art Park

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

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

Art

The Juxtapoz Factor

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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... 

Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso: <em>Lullabies for the Dark Ages</em>

Art

Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

Antonio Ballester Moreno

Thursday 7/ 3 @ Peres Projects

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

A Chorus Line

Theatre

A Chorus Line

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

Misato Suzuki

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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>Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera</em>

Art: Photography

Ten Years in Focus

Thursday 7/ 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... 

<em>Ginger</em>

Art

Ginger

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

Vexing

Thursday 7/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...