Events on Thursday, November 12
Thursday 11/12 @ Downtown Gallery District
Highlights of this month's Downtown Art Walk (aka LA's largest Ped-Xing culture staple) include lyrical mixed media abstractions by painter Fumiko...
Thursday 11/12 @ Mayan Theater
Diplo's not the only one who can play the international tastemaker game — move over carioca, and make way for kuduro....
Al Gore: Our Choice (at the Saban Theatre) TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR!!!
Thursday 11/12 @ Book Soup
If Al Gore was just a conservation policy wonk, or just a Nobel Peace Prize-winner, that would elicit one kind of...
Thursday 11/12 @ The Mandrake
Pamela August Russell takes the poetry establishment head-on in her new book of deliberately "bad" verse. In truth, only a gifted...
Thursday 11/12 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Fuck Buttons || Listen || Watch
Listening to the 7" version of the opening track from...
The Orange Peels with Pearl Harbor, and Eleni Mandell Jazz Combo
Thursday 11/12 @ Bootleg Theater
THE ORANGE PEELS "If you’re hooked by the sweeping catchiness of the Doves or the sunnier songs from early on in...
Chris Barron (lead singer of the SPIN DOCTORS)
Thursday 11/12 @ The Mint
9:00pm Chris Barron Chris Barron is best known as the lead singer for the Grammy nominated band, Spin Doctors, who...
Thursday 11/12 @ Downtown Independent Theater
ART WALK!
Come join us for the final screening of DIED YOUNG, STAYED PRETTY with showtimes at 3:00,...
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Thursday 11/12 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW CLIP
Come see yesterday's tomorrows -- today! Tonight, we'll sift through the last 40 years of big...
Production, Distribution, Festivals: The Complete Guide for the Short Filmmaker
Thursday 11/12 @ Egyptian Theatre
[Spielberg Theatre] PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION AND FESTIVALS: THE COMPLETE GUIDE FOR THE SHORT FILMMAKER. Uncover a wealth of information on short...
Dead Meadow, Imaad Wasif, The Growlers, Useless Keys @ Echoplex
Thursday 11/12 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Dead Meadow || Listen || Watch
Stoner-rock avatars Dead Meadow have slimmed down to a power...
Blaxploitation Classics: DOLEMITE & PETEY WHEATSTRAW
Thursday 11/12 @ Egyptian Theatre
Larry Karaszewski Presents: A Salute to Rudy Ray Moore - Double Feature: DOLEMITE, 1975, Xenon, 90 min. Super soul...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ 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...
Thursday 11/12 @ HVW8 Art + Design Gallery
Three friends, fellow CalArts alums, and working artists join forces to explore the finer side in an exhibit at HVW8 Art...
Thursday 11/12 @ Galerie Anais
Los Angeles painter and poet Matthew Heller has hit a stride with his latest exhibition at Galerie Anaïs, Bergamot's newest tenant....
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Thursday 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ Honor Fraser
Tomoo Gokita's new body of work reveals an artistic practice that walks the tightrope between abstraction and representation. Rendered only in...
Thursday 11/12 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Not much has changed since 1975 when New Topographics first opened at the George Eastman House. The state of the world...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 11/12 @ 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...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Thursday 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Commercial photographer Susan Anderson crosses over to a fine-art career with her striking portraits from child beauty pageants. Shooting "tarted-up tots"...
Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project
Thursday 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ Laguna Art Museum
Works by regional and national artists come together at the Laguna Art Museum's Collecting California, which reflects the long history of...
Thursday 11/12 @ LACMA
Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:...
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
Thursday 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ Substrate Gallery
Known for his invaluable contributions to the UK music scene — he first came to fame as both the sometime drummer...
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Thursday 11/12 @ Hammer Museum
R. Crumb's interpretation of the Book of Genesis is at once disturbing, sacrilegious, violent, and debauched, but paired with a holy...
Thursday 11/12 @ 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...
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Thursday 11/12 @ 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...
The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing
Thursday 11/12 @ Pacific Design Center
Curated by Art Cinema author Paul Young, The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing examines the span of contemporary global video art,...
Thursday 11/12 @ LM Projects
The art in this show rocks and rolls — and gets set on fire, sets off chain reactions, and invites users...
Thursday 11/12 @ Regen Projects
Fresh from a year of acclaimed exhibitions in Europe and NYC and the opening spot on Madonna's recent tour, Marilyn Minter...
Thursday 11/12 @ Japanese American National Museum
In 2007, Giant Robot launched its first biennale celebrating 15 years as a magazine and a pop culture phenomenon. For its...
Thursday 11/12 @ Subliminal Projects
If you believe the prophecies of Nostradamus, the 2012 gang, and other would-be seers (you know, the ones about how the...
Thursday 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ 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...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Thursday 11/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Recently, Art Center College of Design students directed their communications prowess towards human rights, yielding emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line...
Thursday 11/12 @ 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...
Thursday 11/12 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Thursday 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
The Yes Men's new documentary chronicles the subversive duo's elaborate, politically progressive hoaxes. Using cheap suits, aliases, and "straight" talk, Andy...
Ingres' Comtesse d'Haussonville from the Frick Collection
Thursday 11/12 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
This beguiling portrait occupies a privileged position at the threshold between French Romanticism and the early hints of modernity. Its impossibly...
Thursday 11/12 @ MAK Center Schindler House
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture hosts an exhibition in honor of Austrian sociologist, political scientist, intellectual, and author Otto...
Thursday 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ 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...
Thursday 11/12 @ Royal/T
Hello Kitty is turning 35, and there's no better venue for her birthday party than Royal/T, Culver City's own art space,...
Thursday 11/12 @ Santa Monica Pier
After a meteoric rise in popularity that spawned dozens of touring and resident shows of increasing complexity and pageantry, Cirque du...
The Search for the Visceral Realists
Thursday 11/12 @ 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...
Thursday 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Anna Halprin and Anne Collard, with Morton Subotnick: parades & changes, replays
Thursday 11/12 @ REDCAT
Improvising around a set of movement and music scores, dancers dress and undress, carry out everyday tasks, invent gestures, and...
Partner Event: "Bleeding Through"
Thursday 11/12 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Conservancy is proud to partner with theater company About...Productions on an exciting new event. Bleeding Through is a theatrical layering...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Thursday 11/12 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
In conjunction with the installation of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's stunning Comtesse d’Haussonville, 1845, on loan from The Frick Collection in New...
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart
Thursday 11/12 @ 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...
Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36
Thursday 11/12 @ 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...
Thursday 11/12 @ Cinespace
The party Thursday evening is at Cinespace. See why everyone in Hollywood is talking about our new Thursdays. Ladies free before...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Thursday 11/12 @ 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 11/12 @ The Getty Museum
Irving Penn was one of the most respected photographers of the 20th century. In a career that began at the premiere...
Thursday 11/12 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs (1964) is a song cycle containing 11 arrangements of folk music from...
Thursday 11/12 @ 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...
