Events on Thursday, October 22
Thursday 10/22 @ Largo
Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie and the Postal Service has teamed up with alt-Americana songsmith Jay Farrar of Uncle...
Meshell Ndegeocello w/ J*DaVeY and Garth Trinidad
Thursday 10/22 @ El Rey
After her last album (brilliantly titled The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams), singer/songwriter/bassist Meshell Ndegeocello arrives at...
Thursday 10/22 @ The GRAMMY Museum
Grammy-winner Gloria Gaynor's disco era mega-hit "I Will Survive" is every man, woman, and child's favorite shower-belting anthem of all time....
Written in California Reading Series
Thursday 10/22 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Co-sponsored by neighboring Vroman's Bookstore, the Written in California reading series debuts at the Pasadena Museum of California Art tonight. National...
Iris Nights: Teru Kuwayama, Tribe Against Empire
Thursday 10/22 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
Teru Kuwayama will focus on the ill-defined region now known as “the central front” in the war on terror. This region...
Attack of the 50 Foot Reels Super-8 Showcase
Thursday 10/22 @ Egyptian Theatre
ATTACK OF THE 50-FOOT REELS, approx. 80 min. The Attack of the 50-Foot Reels returns for its...
Thursday 10/22 @ Book Soup
Miles Kreuger and Eric Davis present and sign The Complete Lyrics...
The Oh Sees, The Fresh & Onlys and Dan Melchoir @ Echo
Thursday 10/22 @ The Echo & Echoplex
The Oh Sees || Watch
When bands progress at a dizzying rate, there’s no assurance their loyalists will...
Thursday 10/22 @ The Cinefamily
WATCH TRAILER FOR "DON'T OPEN 'TIL CHRISTMAS"!
My Bloody Valentine (uncut version!)
The name My Bloody Valentine...
Ongoing Events
Tony Philippou, Joshua Mays & Esao Andrews
Thursday 10/22 @ Thinkspace Gallery
In life, as in art, the more the merrier, so the thinkers at Thinkspace regularly present multiple one-person shows. Tonight's trio...
Thursday 10/22 @ Western Project
Channeling his inner Duchamp, sculptor Michael Dee combs the florescent-lit aisles of his local 99-cent store in search of plastic cups,...
Thursday 10/22 @ Wende Museum Site
It's been 20 years since the archaic and divisive Berlin Wall was brought down by fed-up and suppressed citizens. Now, the...
Thursday 10/22 @ Art Center College of Design
Although some of the objects in TOOLS may seem familiar, they are most definitely far from from ordinary. Jointly organized by...
Thursday 10/22 @ LACMA
Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:...
Thursday 10/22 @ Honor Fraser
Kenny Scharf's latest one-man show, Barberadise, merges the past and future for a wistfully evocative, pop-culture infused present. The Hollywood native's...
Thursday 10/22 @ Cella Gallery
The timing may or may not be a coincidence, but the really-for-grown-ups fairy tale Where the Wild Things Are and Mark...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Thursday 10/22 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
In the 1960s, soon-to-be Pop icon Wayne Thiebaud created a series of monochromatic, two-dimensional prints of nine pieces of pie, sufficiently...
Thursday 10/22 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
Given that Tim Robbins founded the Actors Gang in response to a lack of opportunities for independent writers and actors to...
Kiel Johnson: Publish or Perish
Thursday 10/22 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Kiel Johnson's latest body of work examines the value of the painstakingly, unnecessarily hand-wrought in the digital age. Simultaneously examining how...
Thursday 10/22 @ REDCAT
REDCAT presents Autoconstrucción: The Film by Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas, in which the artist revisits Ajusco, his childhood neighborhood in Mexico...
Thursday 10/22 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Los Angeles painter Faris McReynolds uses multiple points of view, a saturated color palette, and an exaggeratedly loose and heavy-handed interaction...
Thursday 10/22 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Curator Jennifer Doyle gets in touch with our emotional side in I Feel Different, a group exhibition featuring multimedia works at...
Thursday 10/22 @ LM Projects
The art in this show rocks and rolls — and gets set on fire, sets off chain reactions, and invites users...
Thursday 10/22 @ DNJ Gallery
Two very different photographers take on aspects of growing up in America. Jona Frank extends her intimate yet clinical style of...
Thursday 10/22 @ Santa Monica Pier
After a meteoric rise in popularity that spawned dozens of touring and resident shows of increasing complexity and pageantry, Cirque du...
Thursday 10/22 @ Overtones Gallery
Through the deft and witty reconfiguration of sentimental objects such as ornate furniture, decorative garlands, household saints, wood, feathers, and hand-knit...
Thursday 10/22 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
Thursday 10/22 @ Marine
One silver lining to art-world downsizing is the resurgence of the private salon, made famous by the 19th and 20th century...
Nate Frizzell and The Kids Are Alright
Thursday 10/22 @ LeBasse Projects
Nate Frizzell combines a dark sophistication with the chaos of youthful imagination in a new series of lush paintings depicting the...
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Thursday 10/22 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
The second most consumed drink next to water, tea has also been frequent theme in art history. Guest curated by tea...
Thursday 10/22 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Thursday 10/22 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
All year photographers have been clicking camera shutters with their lenses pointed toward the action. The 66th annual Pictures of the...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Thursday 10/22 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
Severed heads, skulls and daggers brimming with blood, and cemeteries littered with dismembered corpses may not readily invoke visions of spiritual...
Thursday 10/22 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Brendan Monroe's paintings, sculptures, installation-based works, and publications, despite the differences dictated by mediums, expound the artist's unique interpretation of the...
Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project
Thursday 10/22 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
At Rhizome.org, Mark Tribe supports the creation and dissemination of forward-thinking contemporary art; and LACE is a fixture in LA's anything-goes...
Thursday 10/22 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Whether the product of sheer creative license or shrewd marketing heads, the movie poster has inspired as much debate as the...
Thursday 10/22 @ Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside
Twenty international artists who explore human interaction with domesticated, imaginary, laboratory, or wild animals contribute work in media from video installation...
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
Thursday 10/22 @ ACE Gallery
It's a veritable amusement park for optic nerves at ACE Gallery's Beverly Hills location this month, with a pair of exhibitions...
Thursday 10/22 @ Black Maria Gallery
As any fan of Mad Men can tell you, there used to be a lot more cigarette smoking going on, both...
Thursday 10/22 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
While it's easy to become unhinged in our current economic climate, artist Claire Oswalt takes it to the next level, fashioning...
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Thursday 10/22 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Perhaps no pop artist is as famous for his window shopping as Wayne Thiebaud. Known largely for his pale palette oil...
Thursday 10/22 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Philippa Blair's abstract, collage-based symphonies truly fulfill the classical adage that, "music is an abstract painting executed on a canvas of...
Thursday 10/22 @ POVEVOLVING
"Pop colors" are the theme in curator Yasmine Mohseni's The Pop of Colors at Chinatown's POVevolving. Bright, slightly disconcerting color scripts...
Thursday 10/22 @ David DeSanctis Gallery
David LaChapelle is one of the most well-known and controversial photographers working today, who recently retired from a career in fashion...
The Search for the Visceral Realists
Thursday 10/22 @ Federal Art Project
Independent artist/curator York Chang has spent years researching the elusive history of an obscure, but by all accounts virulent, aesthetic movement...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 10/22 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
The recently opened GRAMMY Museum at Downtown's mammoth entertainment complex LA Live offers visitors a rare, intimate glimpse into the life...
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Thursday 10/22 @ The Getty Museum
This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights...
Thursday 10/22 @ Cinespace
The party Thursday evening is at Cinespace. See why everyone in Hollywood is talking about our new Thursdays. Ladies free before...
Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36
Thursday 10/22 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
This new exhibition explores the career of legendary film producer Irving Thalberg, Hollywood’s original “Boy Wonder,” and...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Thursday 10/22 @ The Getty Museum
Over 180 ancient glass objects from the collection of Erwin Oppenländer are featured in this exhibition. The Oppenländer collection, which the Getty...
Thursday 10/22 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Imagine yourself immersed in a favorite childhood tale. Five years in the making and occupying an 8,000-square-foot gallery, Noah's Ark at...
Population: Portraits by Ray Turner
Thursday 10/22 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
A former painting instructor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, artist Ray Turner fashions a uniquely seductive and engaging...
Thursday 10/22 @ The Getty Museum
Irving Penn was one of the most respected photographers of the 20th century. In a career that began at the premiere...
Gregory Maqoma/Vuyani Dance Theatre: Beautiful Me
Thursday 10/22 @ REDCAT
A global fusion of rousing live music sets the pace for this solo tour de force by exquisite South African dancer...
Thursday 10/22 @ Art Center College of Design
Illustration students from Art Center College of Design currently have their work on display at the Aquarium of the Pacific in...
Range Life presents: Touring Movies Across America
Thursday 10/22 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Range Life Entertainment takes awesome movies, adds awesome parties, plus awesome filmmakers, and then tours them across America. Why? Because we...
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart
Thursday 10/22 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
A leader in the American Printmaking movement, Frances Gearhart’s work was embedded in the time and place of the Arts and...
Thursday 10/22 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
