Events on Thursday, July 16
Thursday 7/16 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Miracle Mile's Craft and Folk Art Museum hosts a party celebrating India's rich cultural legacy, with a full buffet spread of...
Thursday 7/16 @ M-Bar
With its unique brand of satire and wit, Heeb magazine provides a forum for savvy and sardonic young tribe-members. Tonight, the...
The Germs with Agent Orange, Spider Problem
Thursday 7/16 @ El Rey
The Germs are a classic American punk rock band formed in 1977, disbanded in 1980, and reformed in 2005. Their fast...
Bravo Beethoven! with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Thursday 7/16 @ Hollywood Bowl
What better way to hear Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto than at the hands of young British pianist Paul Lewis, who earned...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 7/16 @ Deborah Martin Gallery
Opening in conjunction with the Downtown Art Walk, RE: materialization features 35 works, narrowed down from over 200 submissions, in an...
Thursday 7/16 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
Soul Power documents the Zaire '74 all-star concert that set the stage for Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's legendary Rumble in...
The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle
Thursday 7/16 @ Take My Picture Gary Leonard
Ever since taking a photograph of the Dodgers as a little boy in 1959, Gary Leonard has documented the mercurial landscape...
Thursday 7/16 @ Kristi Engle Gallery
Throughout the '70s, technical artist and service-manual author Dave Christensen fleshed out a series of bodacious and bawdy graphics for pinball...
Thursday 7/16 @ LA Louver Gallery
Following three previous incarnations, the Rogue Wave group show returns to Venice's LA Louver with ten Angelenos redefining regionalism. Co-curated by...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Thursday 7/16 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
In the 1960s, soon-to-be Pop icon Wayne Thiebaud created a series of monochromatic, two-dimensional prints of nine pieces of pie, sufficiently...
Thursday 7/16 @ The Geffen Playhouse
Westwood's Geffen Playhouse presents a timely hybrid of Survivor, West Wing, and The Hills, outlining the value of loyalty and the...
Thursday 7/16 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Three very different artists enter into a dialogue about the persistence of memory and how recollections are formed, contorted, stored, and...
Thursday 7/16 @ LOOK Gallery
Curated by Coagula Art Journal publisher Mat Gleason, Locals Only features works by nine artists who reflect the Southland's inherent multiplicity....
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Thursday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
LA-based art and action collective Fallen Fruit uses the visual arts (specifically photography, installation, and performance-oriented actions) to examine the imbalance...
Thursday 7/16 @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery
In her latest series of photographic and video projections, Nicole Cohen expands upon previous subject matter and technological complexity, constructing layered,...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Thursday 7/16 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
All year photographers have been clicking camera shutters with their lenses pointed toward the action. The 66th annual Pictures of the...
Thursday 7/16 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Thursday 7/16 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Quebec, Sweden, South America, New Orleans, the Middle East, Mali — these are just some of the farflung places from which...
Andrew Schoultz and Hank Willis Thomas
Thursday 7/16 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Bay Area artist Andrew Schoultz crafts expansive murals and other large-scale paintings from innumerable individual lines and details. His densely swirled,...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ Pershing Square
Illuminating the wealth of creative resources within the LA art scene, Tarryn Teresa Gallery's Lights on LA strings up light bulbs...
Thursday 7/16 @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles
As a photography student at LA's Occidental College in 1980, Lisa Jack took a series of portraits with a handsome, charismatic...
Thursday 7/16 @ another year in LA
Fallen Fruit — the artist collective formed by David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young — has typically been known more...
Thursday 7/16 @ Honor Fraser
Curated by arts critic and writer Emma Gray, Honor Fraser's annual group show features works by 14 female artists based in...
Thursday 7/16 @ Los Angeles State Historic Park
Cirque Berzerk at Downtown's LA State Historic Park features a custom-built Italian big top, seven new alt-circus acts, and a midway...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
The Wiz (1978) and Return to Oz (1985)
Thursday 7/16 @ New Beverly Cinema
A Wizard of Oz for the Sesame Street set, The Wiz stars Diana Ross as Dorothy, who never ventures "south of...
Thursday 7/16 @ Happy
There's no excuse to feel glum when you're at Happy, a home and lifestyle nook in Los Feliz that features well-designed...
Thursday 7/16 @ Thinkspace Gallery
The paintings of Brooklyn-based artist Stella Im Hultberg combine the sultry, gilded romance and elongated, mannerist lines of Gustav Klimt with...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ The Getty Center
Thirty staged photographs are on view at the Getty Center as part of its In Focus series, a thematic presentation of...
Thursday 7/16 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
Spanning the decade between 1976 and 1986, the GRAMMY Museum's first photography exhibition features 30 pictures of rock stars by Israeli-born,...
Thursday 7/16 @ The Loft at Liz's
A diverse group of emerging LA artists join forces to give your garbage a new lease on life. Work in the...
Thursday 7/16 @ Bootleg Theater
Stranger has the look, sound, and feel of everything glorious about the old west — and its classy, interpretive design ropes...
Thursday 7/16 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
Imagine the florid, hyper-decorative seduction of Kehinde Wiley's large-scale portraits of young black men, only rendered with an urban, folk-outsider edge,...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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 7/16 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Los Angeles-based photographer Heather Cantrell lays elaborate groundwork for her seemingly fresh and casual portraits. Employing props, costumes, and references to...
Thursday 7/16 @ Various
Outfest returns for its annual spotlight on emerging LGBT film and filmmakers, featuring old-school faves, outdoor screenings (two words: Funny Girl),...
Thursday 7/16 @ Michael Kohn Gallery
Dark Night of the Soul is a two-pronged project: The visual element, represented here, features psych-noir master David Lynch's photographic interpretations...
Thursday 7/16 @ Norton Simon Museum
In the 1960s, soon-to-be Pop icon Wayne Thiebaud created a series of monochromatic, two-dimensional prints of nine pieces of pie, sufficiently...
Thursday 7/16 @ Regen Projects II
Since his seminal book Statements came out in 1968, Lawrence Weiner has been at the forefront of conceptual art. Using language...
Todd Hebert and Jennifer Nehrbass
Thursday 7/16 @ Mark Moore Gallery
In his latest body of work, Todd Hebert employs a mix of sharp detail and soft focus, and a dark yet...
Thursday 7/16 @ Gallery Skart
Beyond Björk and ice hotels, most Americans don't have a lot of familiarity with Iceland — but the eerie beauty of...
Thursday 7/16 @ Macha Theatre
Erik Patterson's provocative play He Asked for It explores the dark underbelly of one-night stands: the HIV-indifferent behavior of "bug chasers."...
Thursday 7/16 @ SolwayJones Gallery
Solway Jones Gallery's summer group show takes on the celebrated cross-pollination of music and art, with an exhibition of mostly sculptural...
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Thursday 7/16 @ The Getty Museum
The city of Algiers, on the north coast of Africa, historically sheltered a diverse population. During the Ottoman centuries (1529-1830), this...
Annie Lapin: Parallel Deliria Iteration
Thursday 7/16 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The PMCA is proud to present Los Angeles painter Annie Lapin's Parallel Deliria Iteration, which the artist describes as "a never-ending...
Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist
Thursday 7/16 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
This exhibition focuses on the life of Edith Heath and her defining influence on California design through pottery. Popular at dinner...
Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Thursday 7/16 @ The Getty Museum
This exhibition represents an overview of three centuries of French bronze sculpture, when monarchs and private collectors came to embrace bronze...
Thursday 7/16 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Benny Chan has worked diligently over the past few years to photograph overhead views of Los Angeles freeways during the height...
Thursday 7/16 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Thursday 7/16 @ 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...
You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty
Thursday 7/16 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Featuring work of five UC Davis faculty members Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Manuel Neri, Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley,...
