Events on Thursday, December 31
Thursday 12/31 @ [delete] Bigfoot Lodge
Atwater's prized watering hole – the rustic, woodland-themed Bigfoot Lodge – invites you to ring in the new year and bid...
Thursday 12/31 @ Playhouse Hollywood
Experience all that the Big Apple has to offer, from Times Square and Central Park to the Brooklyn Bridge, without getting...
Thursday 12/31 @ Club Nokia
Montreal-based duo Chromeo deliver trademark synth-pop and electro-funk at Club Nokia's New Year's Eve bash tonight, along with a stellar lineup...
Mark E. Quark and Travis "TK" Disko
Thursday 12/31 @ The Basement
Ring in 2010 with your favorite sleazy disco crew, Double Fisted, bringing you an intimate NYE soirée with everything you need...
Thursday 12/31 @ h.wood
The LA-based Lucent Dossier have been delighting crowds, both large and small, since they first came on the scene back in...
Thursday 12/31 @ Spaceland
Indie-rock Mecca Spaceland, joining forces with Aquarium Drunkard and Web In Front, presents a New Year's Eve celebration boasting a ticket...
Thursday 12/31 @ Angel's Piano Bar
Angel's brings Moulin Rouge to Santa Monica for a night of posh mayhem in celebration of its first annual New Year's...
Thursday 12/31 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip
For the last few years, neo-soul priestess Erykah Badu has been off the pop-music grid, choosing to focus on her other...
Thursday 12/31 @ Loft 265
When rough times come calling this New Year's Eve, the tough will no doubt be shaking their bon-bons at Good Hard...
KCRW presents Dengue Fever + Pollyn
Thursday 12/31 @ The Mint
Dengue Fever and Pollyn hold it down at the Mint tonight, bringing irresistible jams to ring in the New Year. Pairing...
Thursday 12/31 @ Echoplex
Quickly becoming a worldwide staple in any major city's nightlife landscape, LA's edition of the monthly Bootie Mashup Bootleg Party has...
Thursday 12/31 @ Montalbán Theatre
Hosted by Rodney Bingenheimer (Rodney on the ROQ), New Year's Nation simultaneously takes place in ten cities and four time zones,...
Bootie LA's New Years Eve Bootleg Ball
Thursday 12/31 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Quickly becoming a worldwide staple in any major city's nightlife landscape, LA's edition of the monthly Bootie Mashup Bootleg Party has...
Thursday 12/31 @ Viceroy Santa Monica
89.9 KCRW and OM Records team up with Santa Monica's favorite lush lounge, the Cameo Bar at the Viceroy Hotel, for...
Thursday 12/31 @ Westin Bonaventure Hotel
Mega-party producer Giant returns to the scene of their epic 2003 New Year's Eve party, giving two massive ballrooms at Downtown...
Thursday 12/31 @ Cinespace
$60 for Premium Open Bar 8PM - 2AM. Tickets are going fast. Call 323 817 3456 to place your order. Join...
New Year's Eve with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Thursday 12/31 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Fabulous swing music in Walt Disney Concert Hall makes for the perfect...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 12/31 @ Subliminal Projects
This evening celebrates two storytelling achievements centered around music and social justice. Author Antonino D'Ambrosio's book A Heartbeat & A Guitar...
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Thursday 12/31 @ Hammer Museum
R. Crumb's interpretation of the Book of Genesis is at once disturbing, sacrilegious, violent, and debauched, but paired with a holy...
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Thursday 12/31 @ Various Los Angeles theaters
Terry Gilliam's visually rich follow-up to such cult gems as Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and Fear and...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Thursday 12/31 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ Vida Verde
Sydney Walsh's warm and human collages are rendered on reclaimed wood, paper and canvas, and are at once resonant, gentle, and...
Ingres' Comtesse d'Haussonville from the Frick Collection
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ One Colorado
Storefronts in the One Colorado block of Pasadena become canvases for an ambitious and awe-inspiring video-art installation courtesy of the husband-and-wife...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ Phantom Galleries LA: Long Beach
In a modern update on the urban tradition of extravagant seasonal shop-window decorations, Phantom Galleries' Long Beach phalanx offers nearly 30...
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ Sam Lee Gallery
There is sometimes a disconnect between one's idea of a place and one's actual experience. Artist Jeff Gambill works precisely in this...
Thursday 12/31 @ Arclight Hollywood
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ LACMA
Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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...
Thursday 12/31 @ REDCAT
Unfettered by a male-dominated Asian art scene, Everyday Miracles (Extended) — an offshoot of the Everyday Miracles that debuted at the...
Thursday 12/31 @ Galerie Anais
Los Angeles painter and poet Matthew Heller has hit a stride with his latest exhibition at Galerie Anaïs, Bergamot's newest tenant....
Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Thursday 12/31 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Thursday 12/31 @ 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...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Thursday 12/31 @ The Getty Museum
Telling the differenc between drawings by Rembrandt and his pupils is a centuries-old problem. A popular teacher with more than 50...
Thursday 12/31 @ Cinespace
The party Thursday evening is at Cinespace. See why everyone in Hollywood is talking about our new Thursdays. Ladies free before...
Population: Portraits by Ray Turner
Thursday 12/31 @ 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 12/31 @ 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...
Thursday 12/31 @ The Getty Museum
Irving Penn was one of the most respected photographers of the 20th century. In a career that began at the premiere...
