Events on Thursday, April 30

Venice Art Walk presents Donut Jamboree

Party

Donut Jamboree

Thursday 4/30 @ Laddie John Dill Studio

Long before the first Downtown Art Walk, the Venice Art Walk & Auctions took art lovers on mouthwatering tours of galleries... 

Ben Lee w/ Low vs. Diamond and Annie Stela

Music

Ben Lee

Thursday 4/30 @ The Troubadour

Aussie indie-rocker Ben Lee has spent over half his life involved in the music industry, amassing seven albums of solo material... 

Ongoing Events

<em>L8S ANG3LES</em>: 11 LA Photographers

Art: Photography

L8S ANG3LES

Thursday 4/30 @ Annenberg Space for Photography

John Baldessari, Catherine Opie, Douglas Kirkland, Lauren Greenfield and Julius Shulman are a few of the world-class photographers whose images are... 

<em>Ain't Misbehavin'</em>

Theatre

Ain't Misbehavin'

Thursday 4/30 @ Ahmanson Theatre

The joint is jumpin' at the Ahmanson Theatre's revival of the 1978 off-Broadway musical Ain't Misbehavin'. Based on the life and... 

Lizabeth Eva Rossof and David Fokos

Art

Lizabeth Eva Rossof and David Fokos

Thursday 4/30 @ Kopeikin Gallery

While much of Lizabeth Eva Rossof's visual art might recall the colorful confectionary treats of our youth, it actually focuses on... 

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

Thursday 4/30 @ Vinum Populi

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

Alan Aldridge: <em>Trippin' the Art Fantastic</em>

Art

Alan Aldridge

Thursday 4/30 @ Mr. Musichead Gallery

Alan Aldridge was a legend in the world of psychedelic illustration even before he created his landmark 1969 book, The Beatles... 

Drink Green

Food/Wine

Drink Green

Thursday 4/30 @ Bottle Rock

Every day has resembled Earth Day lately, so now's an appropriate time to toast those forward-thinking folks, activist John McConnell and... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Thursday 4/30 @ Scribble Press

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

Steve Lambert: <em>Everything You Want, Right Now!</em>

Art

Steve Lambert

Thursday 4/30 @ Charlie James Gallery

Chinatown's Charlie James Gallery becomes more appliance store than art space during Steve Lambert's solo show Everything You Want, Right Now!... 

<em>ICONS of Mutt</em> by Macky

Art

ICONS of Mutt by Macky

Thursday 4/30 @ DAP Studios

Thomas "Macky" McNamara has been looking for a way to earn a living as an artist since handcrafting toys as an... 

<em>Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA</em>

Art

Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA

Thursday 4/30 @ Hammer Museum

Exploring the idea of reinvention, Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA illuminates the creative undercurrent of a city that has long... 

<em>All Under One Roof: A Selection of LA Artists</em>

Art

All Under One Roof

Thursday 4/30 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery

Guest curated by Iranian-American arts writer Yasmine Mohseni, All Under One Roof features a range of creations by ten artists who... 

Parra: <em>Is That a Gun My Friend?</em>

Art

Parra

Thursday 4/30 @ HVW8 Art + Design Gallery

Amsterdam's Parra drops his second LA solo show this month, showing a series of bright, bold, and ballsy graphics that are... 

Yassi Mazandi & Michael Wilson: <em>Architectonic</em>

Art

Architectonic

Thursday 4/30 @ JF Chen

JF Chen is one of LA's most respected dealers of the kind of Art Deco and Modernist design that people call... 

Phung Huynh: <em>Disorientation</em>

Art

Phung Huynh

Thursday 4/30 @ Sam Lee Gallery

For artist Phung Huynh, a keen awareness of her Vietnamese culture's long memory and claim on her affections combines with an... 

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

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Thursday 4/30 @ 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... 

Fernando Sanchez: <em>With Blood, Guts, a Stiff Lust</em>

Art

Fernando Sanchez

Thursday 4/30 @ De Soto Gallery

The performances and video, audio, and sculptural installations of LA-based artist Fernando Sanchez are often as sparse and DIY as it... 

South-East European Film Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

South-East European Film Festival

Thursday 4/30 @ Goethe-Institut Los Angeles

The only festival in the USA to showcase films from the Balkans and surrounding countries, the fourth annual South-East European Film... 

Kehinde Wiley: <em>The World Stage: Brazil</em>

Art

Kehinde Wiley

Thursday 4/30 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery

For the third installment of his World Stage series (the first two spotlighted China and Africa, respectively), Harlem's hip-hop-styled conceptualist painter... 

<em>Photograph 51</em>

Theatre

Photograph 51

Thursday 4/30 @ The Fountain Theatre

In the early '50s, British biophysicist Rosalind Franklin labored in a King's College London lab to unravel the structure of DNA.... 

<em>James Hueter: A Retrospective</em>

Art

James Hueter

Thursday 4/30 @ 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... 

Vahid Sharifian: <em>My father is a democrat and through his chimney there are always hearts flying to the sky</em> and Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar

Art

Vahid Sharifian and Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar

Thursday 4/30 @ Khastoo Gallery

Two Iranian artists share the rooms at Khastoo Gallery this month, as Vahid Sharifian and Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar — both of... 

Zadok Ben-David: <em>Blackfield</em>

Art

Zadok Ben-David

Thursday 4/30 @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery

Every once in a while, an art exhibition comes along that defies expectation, blows stodgy rules apart, and gets right to... 

Edward Walton Wilcox

Art

Edward Walton Wilcox

Thursday 4/30 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery

Painter and sculptural-installation artist Edward Walton Wilcox manifests an unforgettable hybrid vision. His work is torn between the edgy urban modernism... 

<em>Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet</em>

Art

Cool Globes

Thursday 4/30 @ LA Memorial Coliseum & Exposition Park

Artists, scientists, public-policy makers, and concerned citizens find common ground at unique outdoor art installation Cool Globes. The result of a... 

<em>Celestial Ash: Assemblages from Los Angeles</em>

Art

Celestial Ash

Thursday 4/30 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum

Joseph Cornell's surrealist shadowboxes reconfigured found objects into multidimensional creations, classified as neither sculpture nor collage, but as assemblages. The Craft... 

Lori Larusso, Deborah Faas, Jenny Kanzler, Abbie Zuidema, and Ralph Massey: <em>The Sweet Show</em>

Art

The Sweet Show

Thursday 4/30 @ Phyllis Stein Art

In the hands of gallerist Phyllis Stein and the artists in this exhibition, the notion of sweetness gets a humorous, and... 

Boxi: <em>Grey Area</em>

Art

Boxi

Thursday 4/30 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art

UK graffiti artist Boxi's professionally rendered visions extend onto a variety of media, yielding socially charged pieces imbued with everyday poignancy.... 

Paul Outerbridge: <em>Command Performance</em> and Jo Ann Callis: <em>Woman Twirling</em>

Art: Photography

Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis

Thursday 4/30 @ The Getty Center

Over 100 prints by prolific New York photographer Paul Outerbridge (1896-1958) are on view at the Getty Center through August 9.... 

<em>Matisse's Amours: Illustrations of Pierre de Ronsard's Love Poems</em>

Art

Matisse's Amours

Thursday 4/30 @ 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... 

<em>Screwball Asses</em>

Art

Screwball Asses

Thursday 4/30 @ The Company

Curated by Hedi El Kholti and David Jones, this wide-ranging group show uses broken-down stereotypes to reveal the multiplicity of a... 

Month of Photography LA: Events & Lectures

Art: Photography

MOPLA Events & Lectures

Thursday 4/30 @ Pier 59 Studios West

In its quest to extol the many forms of photography, the Lucie Foundation curated numerous events and gallery shows for Month... 

<em>Bukowski & Burroughs</em>

Art

Bukowski & Burroughs

Thursday 4/30 @ Track 16 Gallery

After documenting the Great Depression in San Francisco, Sam Cherry photographed the seeds of the Beat Generation at the city's Black... 

<em>PAPERSHAPERS</em>

Art

PAPERSHAPERS

Thursday 4/30 @ The Scion Installation LA Space

Taking the ancient craft of origami to a new extreme, Giant Robot invited artists and the art-minded to cut, tear, sew,... 

<em>ZAP! POW! BAM!</em><em> The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books, 1938-1950</em>

Art

ZAP! POW! BAM!

Thursday 4/30 @ 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... 

Marc Camille Chaimowicz: <em>We Chose Our Words With Care, That Neon-Moonlit Evening; It Was as If We Were, Party to a Wonderful Alchemy</em>

Art

Marc Camille Chaimowicz

Thursday 4/30 @ Overduin and Kite

In his first US solo exhibition, UK artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz presents four-dimensional spacial poetry realized in the form of a... 

Chaka

Art

Chaka

Thursday 4/30 @ Mid-City Arts Gallery

Longtime Southland residents likely recall seeing Chaka's moniker on thousands of LA street signs, overpasses, and any other public space the... 

Month of Photography LA

Art: Photography

MOPLA

Thursday 4/30 @ Frank Pictures Gallery

The visionary photography mavens behind the annual Lucie Awards are LA natives (though the awards are presented in NYC), and this... 

Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum

Special Event

Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum

Thursday 4/30 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art

The Norton Simon Museum presents a selection of artworks donated to the Museum since 2002. Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the...