Events on Thursday, July 30
Thursday 7/30 @ The Hotel Café
Aussie alt-country rockers the Audreys made their Los Angeles debut a few days ago at Spaceland; tonight the Adelaide five-piece bring...
Thursday 7/30 @ Zanzibar
In the perfect storm of music and activism, weekly Afro-boogie dance party Afro-Funke' plays host to a night of deep-soul jams,...
Shaham Plays Beethoven with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Thursday 7/30 @ Hollywood Bowl
Bowl favorite Gil Shaham returns to perform Beethoven's epic Violin Concerto with conductor Marin Alsop in an evening that also features...
Thursday 7/30 @ Egyptian Theatre
Giant Monsters and Japanese Sci-Fi Night! GODZILLA, MOTHRA & KING GHIDORAH: GIANT MONSTERS ALL-OUT ATTACK, 2001, Sony Repertory, 105 min. Acclaimed...
Thursday 7/30 @ Skirball Cultural Center
L.A. premiere! Led by accordionist Mélanie Bergeron and also featuring violin, mandolin, clarinet, guitar, double bass, and percussion, this beloved Quebec-based...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 7/30 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
The thirteenth annual LA Shorts Fest features over 280 short films, commercials, and music videos in the largest festival of its...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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...
The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle
Thursday 7/30 @ 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...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ Patrick Painter Gallery
Rob and Christian Clayton's first hometown exhibition in over half a decade, Jumbo Fruit represents the culmination of six months' worth...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ Gallery Skart
Beyond Björk and ice hotels, most Americans don't have a lot of familiarity with Iceland — but the eerie beauty of...
Thursday 7/30 @ Thinkspace Gallery
The paintings of Brooklyn-based artist Stella Im Hultberg combine the sultry, gilded romance and elongated, mannerist lines of Gustav Klimt with...
Exene Cervenka and Wayne White
Thursday 7/30 @ Western Project
Daring frontwoman of arguably the coolest punk band ever, X, Exene Cervenka has considerable talents off the stage as well, starting...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery
In her latest series of photographic and video projections, Nicole Cohen expands upon previous subject matter and technological complexity, constructing layered,...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
Thursday 7/30 @ La Luz de Jesus
Born Bradley Stewart, Gidget Gein merged the name of an icon with that of grave-robber/murderer Ed Gein during his days as...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside
Lovers of the tableau vivant ("living picture") revel in earnest replicas of treasures of art history, typically versions of the Venus...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ Honor Fraser
Curated by arts critic and writer Emma Gray, Honor Fraser's annual group show features works by 14 female artists based in...
New Original Works Festival 2009: Program Two
Thursday 7/30 @ REDCAT
Jennifer the Leopard is the logical outcome of four hot, hard-working female filmmaker/artists getting together to "perform a band." J-Lep navigate...
Andrew Schoultz and Hank Willis Thomas
Thursday 7/30 @ 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,...
Thursday 7/30 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Los Angeles-based photographer Heather Cantrell lays elaborate groundwork for her seemingly fresh and casual portraits. Employing props, costumes, and references to...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 7/30 @ 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...
Thursday 7/30 @ another year in LA
Fallen Fruit — the artist collective formed by David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young — has typically been known more...
Thursday 7/30 @ The Getty Center
Thirty staged photographs are on view at the Getty Center as part of its In Focus series, a thematic presentation of...
Todd Hebert and Jennifer Nehrbass
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Quebec, Sweden, South America, New Orleans, the Middle East, Mali — these are just some of the farflung places from which...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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...
Kime Buzelli and Suzannah Sinclair
Thursday 7/30 @ New Image Art
New Image Art Gallery presents a pair of very different takes on the feminine mystique as painters Suzannah Sinclair and Kime...
Vice Magazine Photography Exhibition
Thursday 7/30 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
In conjunction with Vice's annual photo issue, the ninth annual Vice Photo Show features work by contributors Jamie Lee Curtis Taete,...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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...
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Thursday 7/30 @ 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....
Thursday 7/30 @ Black Maria Gallery
Taking a cue from those masters of capturing the youthful zeitgeist, the Who, The Kids Are Alright showcases a new generation...
Thursday 7/30 @ Regen Projects II
Since his seminal book Statements came out in 1968, Lawrence Weiner has been at the forefront of conceptual art. Using language...
Thursday 7/30 @ 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,...
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
Thursday 7/30 @ ACE Gallery
It's a veritable amusement park for optic nerves at ACE Gallery's Beverly Hills location this month, with a pair of exhibitions...
Thursday 7/30 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Three very different artists enter into a dialogue about the persistence of memory and how recollections are formed, contorted, stored, and...
You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty
Thursday 7/30 @ 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,...
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Thursday 7/30 @ The Getty Museum
This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights...
Annie Lapin: Parallel Deliria Iteration
Thursday 7/30 @ 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...
Thursday 7/30 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist
Thursday 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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 7/30 @ 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...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Thursday 7/30 @ 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...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Thursday 7/30 @ 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...
