Events on Thursday, December 3
Alex Steinweiss, Inventor of the Modern Album Cover
Thursday 12/ 3 @ The TASCHEN Store
Beverly Hills's TASCHEN outpost hosts a book signing for Alex Steinweiss, Inventor of the Modern Album Cover by Kevin Reagan. Drawing...
Dear Andy Kaufman, I Hate Your Guts!
Thursday 12/ 3 @ The Cinefamily
Dear Andy Kaufman: I Hate Your Guts! is a collection of letters written to the legendary comic at the height of...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Fred Segal
Leave it to Fred Segal to offer up the antidote to Black Friday, with what might better be called Good Karma...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Hyperion Tavern
Liz Pappademas plays the Hyperion Tavern tonight, bringing tunes from her forthcoming concept album, Television City. The new tracks tell...
Bobby Long + Audra Mae : TONIGHT!
Thursday 12/ 3 @ The Mint
7:00pm DOORS 7:45pm Jer Coons 9:00pm Bobby Long 11:00pm Audra Mae *$10 for audra mae Bobby Moved to London from the...
The Uncensored Story of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Book Soup
David Bianculli presents and signs Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy...
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band / Dirt Dress / Spirit Vine / Allah Las @ echo
Thursday 12/ 3 @ The Echo & Echoplex
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On Saturday night, Seattle indie rockers Mt. St. Helens...
Who the F*** Is Martin Eisenstadt?
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Book Soup
The publisher for I Am Martin Eisenstadt explains: "In the days after the 2008 presidential election, we heard that Sarah...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Skirball Cultural Center
An Idea Called Tomorrow offers meditations on what should/could/would make for a peaceable and sustainable future — culturally, environmentally, and socially...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Art/Works Theatre
In the tradition of Paris' Theatre du Grand Guignol, LA's Grand Guignolers combine macabre storytelling with delightful performances. This time, the...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Jancar Gallery
Annie Buckley has what one might call a diverse artistic practice; one that includes photography, collage, digital and text-based works, curatorial...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
The Annenberg Space for Photography brings the entire genius of its well-appointed exhibition areas and NASA-quality digital-media resources to bear on...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ g727
The Los Angeles River has often endured continuous criticism for being a useless eyesore, yielding foot-high sludge instead of flowing water....
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
Curated by Flavorpill's own Heather Jeno Silva (who moonlights as the curator of the CAF's monthly Forum Lounge public conversations, among...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
West Coast, Left Coast: Kronos Quartet
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
In their 30 years together, the Kronos Quartet have single-handedly maintained the string quartet's cultural relevance. The San Francisco ensemble's dossier...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ LACMA
Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ REDCAT
Unfettered by a male-dominated Asian art scene, Everyday Miracles (Extended) — an offshoot of the Everyday Miracles that debuted at the...
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
As creator of the popular Edible Estates project and host of the eco-art workshop the Sundown Schoolhouse, architect Fritz Haeg has...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Following up on last year's inaugural Zero Film Festival, this year's version promises almost a week's worth of all-new self-financed films...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Skirball Cultural Center
The subject of an engaging exhibition and lavishly appended new book, Eric Etheridge's contemporary photographic portraits of this group of American...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Canadian fans can delight in Cripple Creek, a group show featuring five artists from our neighbor to the north and their illustration-inspired works....
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Director/actor Jacques Tati's M. Hulot's Holiday has been an art-house favorite for more than 50 years, regularly topping critics' all-time-best polls....
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Santa Monica Pier
After a meteoric rise in popularity that spawned dozens of touring and resident shows of increasing complexity and pageantry, Cirque du...
Anderle, Immer, McGrath, and Potocki
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
Four contemporary artists converge at Billy Shire Fine Arts to interpret similar themes in vastly different ways. Legendary record producer-turned-artist David...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ 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...
Leonardo da Vinci and Bill Viola
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles
"I don't know why they are called Old Masters," notes renowned da Vinci scholar Carlo Pedretti, "when in fact, they were...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ Galerie Anais
Los Angeles painter and poet Matthew Heller has hit a stride with his latest exhibition at Galerie Anaïs, Bergamot's newest tenant....
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Joey Arias and Basil Twist: Arias with a Twist
Thursday 12/ 3 @ REDCAT
Created by third-generation puppeteer Basil Twist and drag icon Joey Arias, Arias with a Twist merges the visionary direction and production...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Kristi Engle Gallery
Michael Arata is one of LA's best known "artist's artists," a man with serious chops as a curator as well as...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Thursday 12/ 3 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Ingres' Comtesse d'Haussonville from the Frick Collection
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Straddling a fine art line between sculpture and painting, Cordy Ryman flirts with both media but never really commits. Ryman is...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Royal/T
Jane Glassman's years of work in the art world have seen her not only getting to know a variety of its...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ Robert Berman Gallery
Alejandro Gehry is back with another fresh and frisky series of paintings that combine a nostalgia for the blazing palette and...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Kopeikin Gallery
There's an inherent splendor in Mark Edward Harris' photography that relates both to his experience crafting film stills and the intrigue...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Arclight Hollywood
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ Overtones Gallery
In case you haven't heard, America is gripped with fear of a little something called the Swine Flu at the moment....
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Honor Fraser
Tomoo Gokita's new body of work reveals an artistic practice that walks the tightrope between abstraction and representation. Rendered only in...
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ 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"...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Clark Oshin Gallery
Clark Oshin Gallery shows off Frank W. Ockenfels 3's astonishing creative range with an exhibition of photographs and drawings at the...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ Egyptian Theatre
The Artivist Film Festival celebrates six years of fostering filmmaking among artistic advocates, and this year, it hosts a brand-new lineup...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ 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...
Population: Portraits by Ray Turner
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ Downtown Independent Theater
This year's program offers films from six continents, ranging in content from Polar Bears eating Nikon cameras to films shot on-location...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Thursday 12/ 3 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Making its West Coast debut at the Skirball, Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968 features more than...
Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36
Thursday 12/ 3 @ 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 12/ 3 @ Cinespace
The party Thursday evening is at Cinespace. See why everyone in Hollywood is talking about our new Thursdays. Ladies free before...
