Events on Thursday, March 5
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Joseph's Cafe
Dubby, avant-garde dance music rules the air at tonight's installment of Disco Galactic, the roaming party hosted by local leftfield imprint...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Zanzibar
Ghanian reggae sensation Rocky Dawuni is known for riveting live performances with his 11-piece band, the Revelation Project, as well as...
Ongoing Events
Shangri-La: Architecture as a State of Flux
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
Mark Dutcher's first show with Steve Turner Contemporary deftly traverses the space between sculpture and painting, thrusting the artist's traditional oeuvre...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ The Constant Gallery
Bill McMullen's imagery for the likes of everyone from Adidas to the Beastie Boys has become a part of the urban...
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Thursday 3/ 5 @ The Getty Center
In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Founded by artists in an attempt to inject the publishing world with some of the unmediated verve and vigor of the...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Wagnerians of the world unite tonight, at what promises to be LA Opera's exceptional treatment of its first Ring Cycle. Part...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Add to the list of great historical art movements like Impressionism, Cubism, and Abstract Expressionism a brand-new, admittedly less erudite genre:...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Wallace Berman and Richard Prince
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Michael Kohn Gallery
Aside from the landscape, womankind has been art's favorite subject — and few portray femininity quite as impressively or distinctly as...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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,...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Marianne Mueller and Penelope Gottlieb
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Lightbox Gallery
Photographer Marianne Mueller and painter Penelope Gottlieb unite their disparate styles in this visual double bill at the Kim Light/Lightbox Gallery....
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
The Walker Brothers were one of the biggest pop sensations of the 1960s; Scott Walker's shaggy hair and baritone croon made...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Audis Husar Fine Art
Randall Yarbrough's paintings conjure a storybook world of imaginary creatures and fantastic feats. Working with a pastel palette of acrylics on...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Studio 1636
A veneration of global artists on the perimeter, the Engine Collision Festival is an 11-day blowout of performances, films, and multimedia,...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Claremont Museum of Art
The Claremont Museum of Art makes no secret of its mission: the preservation, study, and dissemination of the legacy left by...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Gallery at the End of the World
Altadena's Gallery at the End of the World hosts its quarterly ArtBender Weekend, featuring the works of over 35 artists, plus...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Art Dimensions
Freyda Miller's body of work dates as far back as 1978, developing from her early conceptual photography to the Fertile Dreams...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Jerry Robinson, cartoonist and creator of Batman's iconic villain, the Joker, guest curated ZAP! POW! BAM! The Golden Age of Comic...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Natalia Fabia's multiple personas, ranging from alternative beauty-pageant coordinator to tattooed model, photographer, illustrator, and painter, explosively combine in her new...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ LA Louver Gallery
Rebecca Campbell's paintings, including several large-scale works applying her eerie sense of space and sensitivity to anatomy and gesture, demonstrate advanced...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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 3/ 5 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Dualism is a term easily applied to Rachell Sumpter's series of new paintings, Molten Kin. Gouache, her medium of choice, allows...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ 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 3/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Sherry Frumkin Gallery
With her new book, RIGHT: Portraits from the Evangelical Ivy League, photographer Jona Frank flips the script on the face of...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Fahey/Klein Gallery
Like many photographers, Jeremy Kidd is drawn to sweeping vistas, from the high desert to the ocean floor, and from suburbia...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Norton Simon Museum
The French Fauvist painter Henri Matisse began a simple, 30-lithograph portfolio in 1941, and seven years later transformed it into a...
Thursday 3/ 5 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
