Events on Thursday, August 28
Thursday 8/28 @ Santa Monica Pier
Toots is a legend, and, although you don't need to catch a live show to understand this (just have a listen...
Thursday 8/28 @ Largo at the Coronet Theater
The East Coast funnymen of Human Giant recently decamped to LA (Aziz must've been craving smoother Rollerblading routes); tonight's show is...
Thursday 8/28 @ Safari Sam's
KROQ serves up a swell selection of kitschy, cool indie rock at Safari Sam's during another one of its Locals Only...
Thursday 8/28 @ The Hotel Café
Last year, Rogue Wave — they of the whispering-to-soaring, Pacific Coast anthem — signed with surf troubadour Jack Johnson's label for...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ Western Project
For the second installment of its lively Sculpture series, Culver City gallery Western Projects pushes the 3-D envelope with a collection...
Thursday 8/28 @ Little Bird Gallery
Drawing on her suburban So-Cal roots, Kelly Lynn Jones depicts modern America's decay in sparse, childlike paintings. Using house paint and...
Thursday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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...
Thursday 8/28 @ 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...
Thursday 8/28 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
The baby sibling of up-and-coming indie mixer Newport Beach Film Festival, Cinema Orange features a stellar lineup of films that are...
Thursday 8/28 @ Hammer Museum
The risk-taking John Lautner is often described as an architect's architect, even though some of his designs brought him both criticism...
Thursday 8/28 @ 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...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Thursday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
For California Scenarios — the third installment of Signals, OCMA's ongoing contemporary video-art survey — the museum showcases the vivid work...
Thursday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ Smockshop
For artists who don't yet sustain themselves from their work, there are myriad ways to bring in some income — peddling...
Thursday 8/28 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as...
Thursday 8/28 @ Corey Helford Gallery
This aptly titled exhibition from Los Angeles street artist Buff Monster submerges viewers in a candy-coated, anime-inspired world. His riffs on...
Thursday 8/28 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Contemporary Photography from China
Thursday 8/28 @ DNJ Gallery
In DNJ's latest exhibition, eight artists take their cameras on the road and on rail, underground into mines, onto farms, and...
Thursday 8/28 @ Aero Theatre
The American Cinematheque keeps trumping itself with über-cool event after über-cool event. The latest is Rock Docs, a five-night series that...
Kori Newkirk and Miguel Angel Rios
Thursday 8/28 @ LAXART
Kori Newkirk transforms the mundane into the monumental with his new installation, RANK. The deceptively simple sculpture — an outsized, mirrored...
Thursday 8/28 @ Royal/T
Director of New York's Greene Naftali Gallery, Jay Sanders steps into cafe/shop/gallery Royal/T to curate this group show of works from...
Thursday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art
Video artist Doug Henry and composer/audiophile Joe Potts collaborate in a major new video work honoring the 100-year anniversary of cubism...
Thursday 8/28 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
In this band biopic, Shane West delivers a charismatic, near-perfect performance as the self-inventing, self-immolating, and fatally brilliant Darby Crash, founder...
Thursday 8/28 @ Jancar Gallery
As its subtitle states, Jancar Gallery's Narratives of the Perverse is not open to anyone under the age of 18....
Thursday 8/28 @ AndrewShire Gallery
The five artists brought together for this end-of-summer group show have little in common — except perhaps episodes of childhood trauma...
Thursday 8/28 @ Frank Pictures Gallery
British ex-pat painter David Eddington may have left the grandeur and historical heft of Europe for a life by the Pacific...
Thursday 8/28 @ Honor Fraser
Artist Erik Parker and curator/critic Max Henry put their heads together to gather a group of talented artists for Honor Fraser's...
Thursday 8/28 @ Westin Bonaventure Hotel
Afterall is a joint publishing venture between LA- and London-based arts organizations committed to broadening the scope of art scholarship to...
Thursday 8/28 @ 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...
Thursday 8/28 @ ACE Gallery
Melanie Pullen extends her macabre view of the world in her latest series, Violent Times, which explores the aesthetics of war...
Thursday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ Sabina Lee Gallery
Cambodian artist Aragna Ker can't help but poke and prod at cultural meanings until they fall apart. His elaborate mixed-media installations...
Thursday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
The work of New Zealander Rozi Demant depicts feathered friends, but her birds don't always stand for things like freedom, peace,...
Thursday 8/28 @ Cal State University Northridge Art Gallery
Comprising selections from the nearly 1,000 works that European-native-turned California-great Hans Burkhardt personally donated to Cal State Northridge (where he taught...
Thursday 8/28 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Thursday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
From director Matt Huffman comes a new adaptation of Irwin Shaw's 1936 antiwar masterpiece, Bury the Dead. Shaw, who went on...
Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments
Thursday 8/28 @ 18th Street Arts Center
The 18th Street Art Center continues its tradition of presenting politically and socially engaged visual art with its four-part exhibition series...
Thursday 8/28 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move
When Jenny Mollen-Biggs isn't acting in films and television shows, she is exhibiting paintings that are simultaneously cute and sinister. The...
Thursday 8/28 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show...
Thursday 8/28 @ George Billis Gallery
Just like the A.O.S. song says, history repeats itself. The new exhibition at George Billis Gallery offers a refreshing take on...
Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
Thursday 8/28 @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside
Borrowing a recently coined neologism from Stephen Colbert's faux-conservative lexicon, Truthiness questions the reliability of the visual by featuring artists who...
Thursday 8/28 @ LA Contemporary
Adi Da Samraj's images are products of mashed-together visual strategies, evoking everything from Mondrian's primary-color palette and geometric line work to...
Thursday 8/28 @ Kristi Engle Gallery
Unless you're a goth historian, 19th-century cadavers, Victorian lace, and anatomical illustrations are not often everyday topics of interest. But Canadian...
Thursday 8/28 @ 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 8/28 @ 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...
Thursday 8/28 @ The Getty Center
Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In...
Thursday 8/28 @ Duncan Miller Gallery
During his 40-year career, rock 'n roll photographer Jim Marshall has captured some of Bob Dylan's, John Coltrane's, and Janis Joplin's...
