Events on Thursday, February 12

Downtown Art Walk

Art

Downtown Art Walk

Thursday 2/12 @ Downtown Gallery District

This time around, the locals have the Downtown Art Walk all sewn up. Downtown LA-based Deborah Martin gets her first solo... 

The Garden Party

Party

The Garden Party

Thursday 2/12 @ Edgar Varela Fine Arts

The art, fashion, and music worlds mix it up in the Downtown art district, as Edgar Varela Fine Arts unwraps the... 

Ongoing Events

J. Bennett Fitts: <em>Landscape[ing]</em> and Bas Louter: <em>Dust</em>

Art

J. Bennett Fitts and Bas Louter

Thursday 2/12 @ Kopeikin Gallery

Paul Kopeikin Gallery inaugurates its new West Hollywood digs with a pair of solo exhibitions underscoring its central place in the... 

Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>

Art

Mark Bradford

Thursday 2/12 @ 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... 

Asgar/Gabriel: <em>Bucolica Obscura</em>

Art

Asgar/Gabriel

Thursday 2/12 @ Mark Moore Gallery

Collaborative painters Daryoush Asgar and Elisabeth Gabriel make no attempt at seamlessness or illusion. The scars of their clashing styles is... 

Martha Cooper: <em>Street Shots</em>

Art: Photography

Martha Cooper

Thursday 2/12 @ Subliminal Projects

Photojournalist Martha Cooper literally wrote the book — several books actually — on the co-emergent graffiti and hip-hop scenes in New... 

Jeremy Kidd: <em>Fictional Realities</em>

Art: Photography

Jeremy Kidd

Thursday 2/12 @ Fahey/Klein Gallery

Like many photographers, Jeremy Kidd is drawn to sweeping vistas, from the high desert to the ocean floor, and from suburbia... 

Rebekah Bogard: <em>Twilight</em>

Art

Rebekah Bogard: Twilight

Thursday 2/12 @ Vincent Price Art Museum

Nevada-based artist Rebekah Bogard turns the VPAM into a glazed forest of approachable yet baffling imagined creatures. Handcrafted, life-sized ceramic renderings... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Thursday 2/12 @ Scribble Press

Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with... 

Lisa Adams: <em>The Future of Paradise Past</em>

Art

Lisa Adams

Thursday 2/12 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

LA painter Lisa Adams is something of a riddle. Her work is almost violently sweet, with a dulcet, wafting quality to... 

Art

The Art of Blake Edwards

Thursday 2/12 @ Pacific Design Center

Blake Edwards has established a lasting role in an otherwise fickle entertainment industry, directing gems like Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Party,... 

Harley-Davidson presents <em>The Art of Rebellion</em>

Art

The Art of Rebellion

Thursday 2/12 @ Robert Berman Gallery

Forty years after Easy Rider hit the silver screen, Harley-Davidson's out to prove the rebel is alive and well. Commissioning 11... 

Susanne Zottl: <em>A Styrofoam Lover with (E)motions of Concrete</em>

Art

Susanne Zottl

Thursday 2/12 @ SCI-Arc

Austrian architect and SCI-Arc alum Susanne Zottl seeks out man-made environments and historic structures, fusing the world's existing space with her... 

<em>Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda</em>

Fashion/Style

Antonio Pineda

Thursday 2/12 @ 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... 

Yuval Pudik: <em>Come Back and Hunt Me</em>

Art

Yuval Pudik

Thursday 2/12 @ Angles Gallery

Israeli-born, LA-based artist Yuval Pudik executes remarkable graphite drawings on paper that defy the laws of anatomy, narrative, romance, and even... 

Kim Abeles: <em>Carbon Studies</em>

Art

Kim Abeles

Thursday 2/12 @ Phantom Galleries at the Continental Building

Kim Abeles makes work in a variety of alternative media, with a special fondness for maps, both topographical and environmental, as... 

<em>All of This is Melting Away</em>

Art

All of This is Melting Away

Thursday 2/12 @ 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... 

Marianne Mueller: <em>DREAM-US-09</em> and Penelope Gottlieb: <em>No $ Down</em>

Art

Marianne Mueller and Penelope Gottlieb

Thursday 2/12 @ Lightbox Gallery

Photographer Marianne Mueller and painter Penelope Gottlieb unite their disparate styles in this visual double bill at the Kim Light/Lightbox Gallery.... 

<em>Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy</em>

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Thursday 2/12 @ 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... 

Elias Sime: <em>Eye of the Needle, Eye of the  Heart</em> and Arnold Mesches: <em>Coming Attractions</em>

Art

Elias Sime and Arnold Mesches

Thursday 2/12 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art

East meets West on many levels as the Santa Monica Museum of Art welcomes octogenarian lion of painting Arnold Mesches to... 

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

Thursday 2/12 @ Vinum Populi

Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie... 

<em>SHE</em>: Images of Women by Wallace Berman and Richard Prince

Art: Photography

Wallace Berman and Richard Prince

Thursday 2/12 @ Michael Kohn Gallery

Aside from the landscape, womankind has been art's favorite subject — and few portray femininity quite as impressively or distinctly as... 

Jona Frank: <em>Church and State</em>

Art: Photography

Jona Frank

Thursday 2/12 @ Sherry Frumkin Gallery

With her new book, RIGHT: Portraits from the Evangelical Ivy League, photographer Jona Frank flips the script on the face of... 

Ruth Weisberg

Art

Ruth Weisberg

Thursday 2/12 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts

Ruth Weisberg is hailed in some quarters as a living legend of contemporary figurative painting. Her delicate, yet dense depictions of... 

<em>Paper Cuts</em>: 200 Years of Black Paper Dolls

Art

Paper Cuts

Thursday 2/12 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum

Where London has the Victoria and Albert, LA has the Craft and Folk Art Museum; yet, too often, the little institution... 

Theatre

Pippin

Thursday 2/12 @ Mark Taper Forum

Wicked maestro Stephen Schwartz revives his '70s rock opera Pippin as the opening production of the Mark Taper 2009 season. A... 

<em>Shangri-La</em>: Architecture as a State of Flux

Art

Shangri-La: Architecture as a State of Flux

Thursday 2/12 @ 18th Street Arts Center

English author James Hilton first coined the term "Shangri-La" in his 1933 novel Lost Horizon; since then, the name has morphed... 

<em>Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde</em>

Art

Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde

Thursday 2/12 @ The Getty Center

In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and... 

Chris Stain: <em>Up on the Roof Countin' Pigeons</em>

Art

Chris Stain

Thursday 2/12 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art

Baltimore-born artist Chris Stain makes his West Coast solo-show debut with this exhibition — but he's starting at the top. Including... 

Derek Buckner: <em>Marshmallows</em>

Art

Derek Buckner

Thursday 2/12 @ George Billis Gallery

In an inspired mashup of childhood comfort, adult-onset ADHD, and modern-art history, Brooklyn-based painter Derek Buckner delivers luminous, refined oil paintings... 

Collecting Abraham Lincoln

Special Event

Collecting Abraham Lincoln

Thursday 2/12 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

In honor of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday, the newly renovated Huntington Library digs into its massive reservoir of Lincolniana. The letters,... 

Ian O'Phelan: <em>Hothouse Flowers</em>

Art

Ian O'Phelan

Thursday 2/12 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

Sharing its title with a children's book, an '84 Wynton Marsalis album, and an early '90s band, Hothouse Flowers beautifies advertisements... 

Robert Dowd: <em>Pop Art Money</em>

Art

Robert Dowd

Thursday 2/12 @ Pepperdine University, Weisman Museum of Art

The Weisman Museum at Pepperdine's Malibu campus launches one of its most important exhibitions to date with this long-overdue survey of... 

BMW Art Cars

Art

BMW Art Cars

Thursday 2/12 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

BMWs get rock-star parking at LACMA this month — that is, those BMWs fortunate enough to have played canvas to some... 

Freyda Miller: <em>Fertile Dreams</em>

Art

Freyda Miller

Thursday 2/12 @ Art Dimensions

Freyda Miller's body of work dates as far back as 1978, developing from her early conceptual photography to the Fertile Dreams... 

<em>Battle Hymn</em>

Theatre

Battle Hymn

Thursday 2/12 @ The Ford Theater

Chronicling the misadventures of feisty, forward-thinking Martha, Battle Hymn is a touching, comedic, and thoughtful survey of American history, as seen... 

Moira Hahn: <em>Night Vision</em>

Art

Moira Hahn

Thursday 2/12 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery

Moira Hahn is known for conceptually complex, masterfully rendered mash-up paintings in which wild and domestic animals play the roles of... 

At the Brewery Project 1993-2007: the Finale

Art

At the Brewery Project

Thursday 2/12 @ Armory Center for the Arts

With At the Brewery Project: 1993-2007: the Finale, the Armory pays its respects to an LA art mainstay. For the past... 

<em>Raised in Craftivity</em>

Art

Raised in Craftivity

Thursday 2/12 @ Wignall Museum/Gallery at Chaffey College

From psychedelic ceramics to custom-knitted army-tank cozies, the Arts and Crafts movement is thriving at Chaffey College's Wignall Museum in Rancho... 

2008 California Biennial

Art

2008 California Biennial

Thursday 2/12 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick... 

Eddy Sykes: <em>Yakuza Lou</em>

Art

Eddy Sykes

Thursday 2/12 @ Materials & Applications

First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...