Events on Thursday, April 9
Thursday 4/ 9 @ The Echo & Echoplex
More Björk than Cher, quirky-smart anti-diva Mirah's voice has a little-kid quality to it; her halting pace and soft-sweet vocal textures...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
We first heard about Plato's Retreat from a small cameo in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam. Years later, we didn't need...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Brooklyn-based watercolorist Rebecca Bird takes an unlikely, poetic approach to her considerations of destruction. In this series of explosions, based on...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Both Luke Chueh's art and the artist himself represent unlikely juxtapositions. As a Chinese-American from Philly transplanted to Fresno, Chueh dealt...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ LOOK Gallery
In 2006, unscrupulous real-estate developers painted over one of the city's most beloved pieces of public art, a portrait of Ed...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Founded by artists in an attempt to inject the publishing world with some of the unmediated verve and vigor of the...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ REDCAT
Big Art Group's hallucinatory theatrical happenings create immersive environments through real-time film projections. As the action unfolds, a forest of technology...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ Synchronicity Space
Psychic healer Kieran Sala curated Within Heaven's Earshot after guests were asked to bring offbeat records to a ModCom Christmas party....
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Every once in a while, an art exhibition comes along that defies expectation, blows stodgy rules apart, and gets right to...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
The titular allusion of Matt Tyrnauer's warts-and-all portrait of Italian couturier Valentino Garavani to Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 epic is an apt...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ Cerasoli Gallery
LA native Tofer Chin's large-format paintings explore the impact of LSD, including its ability to prolong and exaggerate the effects of...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Grammy-nominated docu-musical-narrative 1 Giant Leap celebrated the interconnectivity of humankind, lauding art and questioning consumerism through visually crafted scenes paired with...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Thursday 4/ 9 @ The Getty Center
In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and...
Ala Ebtekar and Taravat Talepasand
Thursday 4/ 9 @ Charlie James Gallery
For a Chung King Road gallery showing, the idea of an exhibition celebrating the Chinese New Year might not be that...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ Phyllis Stein Art
In the hands of gallerist Phyllis Stein and the artists in this exhibition, the notion of sweetness gets a humorous, and...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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....
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ Frank Pictures Gallery
The visionary photography mavens behind the annual Lucie Awards are LA natives (though the awards are presented in NYC), and this...
Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA
Thursday 4/ 9 @ Hammer Museum
Exploring the idea of reinvention, Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA illuminates the creative undercurrent of a city that has long...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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....
Martha Rich and Robert Pasternak
Thursday 4/ 9 @ La Luz de Jesus
There's realism, and then there's reality. For Canadian artist and designer Robert Pasternak (aka Nak), both concepts are fluid and subject...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ The Company
Sigrid Sandström's new works embrace a constant reconsideration (and re-reconsideration) of the role of illusion in painting. As the pieces speak...
Thursday 4/ 9 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
