Events on Thursday, September 4
Ongoing Events
Thursday 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
Katie Grinnan has made a career out of walking the fine line between the second and third dimensions. Grinnan takes architectural...
Kori Newkirk and Miguel Angel Rios
Thursday 9/ 4 @ LAXART
Kori Newkirk transforms the mundane into the monumental with his new installation, RANK. The deceptively simple sculpture — an outsized, mirrored...
Thursday 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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:...
Contemporary Photography from China
Thursday 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ Catalina Bar & Grill
Three distinct musical personalities make up the Bad Plus. Drummer David King drives syncopated, rough-around-the-edges rhythms, while Ethan Iverson's piano provides...
Thursday 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ Vincent Price Art Museum
The 17 young and emerging artists included in this ambitious group show follow diverse strategies in making work, but the organizing...
Dennis Hopper and Wendy Burton
Thursday 9/ 4 @ Craig Krull Gallery
Craig Krull Gallery pulls out the big guns for its season opener, with concurrent solo exhibitions from two of its most...
Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
Thursday 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ ACE Gallery
Melanie Pullen extends her macabre view of the world in her latest series, Violent Times, which explores the aesthetics of war...
Thursday 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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...
Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments
Thursday 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Austrian artist Mercedes Helnwein's darkly beautiful pencil drawings are equal parts Tim Burton fairy tale, Cindy Sherman photograph, and girlish fantasy....
Thursday 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ Laemmle's Royal Theatre
Screenwriter/director Jirí Menzel translates this tale of a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and Communist regimes from a novel...
Thursday 9/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ Smockshop
For artists who don't yet sustain themselves from their work, there are myriad ways to bring in some income — peddling...
Thursday 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Thursday 9/ 4 @ 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 9/ 4 @ 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...
