Events on Thursday, August 13
Thursday 8/13 @ Downtown Gallery District
The Downtown Art Walk has been rolling out new features ever since Bert Green handed over the reins of the monthly...
Thursday 8/13 @ Silverlake Lounge
Aussie indie folk rocker Matt Ellis' third album, Tell The People showcases some sterling collaborations, including Wilco guitarist Nels Cline and...
Laurie Sandell's Ultra-Mysterious Impostor Father
Thursday 8/13 @ Book Soup
Laurie Sandell presents...
Thursday 8/13 @ The Mint
Purple Melon at 11pm, Hard Fall Hearts at 10pm, Bascom Hill at 9pm, Scrappy Jud Newcomb (guitarist with Ian McLagan) at...
Kitten With a Whip & Lonely Lady
Thursday 8/13 @ Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature: KITTEN WITH A WHIP, 1964, Universal, 83 min. Long before sultry young wildcat Ann-Margret proved she could really act,...
Mozart Under the Stars and the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Thursday 8/13 @ Hollywood Bowl
A quintessential Mozart concert at the Bowl – a perfect overture, one of his wondrous piano concertos and a late, great...
Iris Nights: Dan Winters, Periodical Photographs
Thursday 8/13 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
World renowned photographer Dan Winters will talk about his early influences and interest in film and photography on his path to...
Thursday 8/13 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Esteemed as a peacemaker and master player of various Middle Eastern reed instruments, lutes, and percussion, Omar Faruk Tekbilek is one...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 8/13 @ The Crowne Plaza
Fans of mid-century Polynesian pop culture and Angelenos aching for a getaway are invited to a three-day celebration of all things...
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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...
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ Egyptian Theatre
All too often, the quality of cinema is determined by box office numbers and hungry-for-blood critics. So Bad They're Brilliant takes...
Thursday 8/13 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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...
Todd Hebert and Jennifer Nehrbass
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ Sea and Space Explorations
Multipurpose culture zone Sea and Space Explorations doesn't feel the need to respect the boundaries between the senses, with the result...
Kime Buzelli and Suzannah Sinclair
Thursday 8/13 @ New Image Art
New Image Art Gallery presents a pair of very different takes on the feminine mystique as painters Suzannah Sinclair and Kime...
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
Whether your biggest problem with taxidermy hunting trophies is their lack of space-age resins or the rarity of significant anatomical mutations,...
Thursday 8/13 @ Directors Guild of America Theater
A competitive film festival of various short films, the fifth annual HollyShorts Film Festival kicks off with Hollywood stars as well...
Thursday 8/13 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Quebec, Sweden, South America, New Orleans, the Middle East, Mali — these are just some of the farflung places from which...
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ Honor Fraser
Curated by arts critic and writer Emma Gray, Honor Fraser's annual group show features works by 14 female artists based in...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
The Billy Shire Fine Arts gallery brings together the work of three different minds to its Culver City space. While the...
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
Exene Cervenka and Wayne White
Thursday 8/13 @ Western Project
Daring frontwoman of arguably the coolest punk band ever, X, Exene Cervenka has considerable talents off the stage as well, starting...
Thursday 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ 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 8/13 @ The Getty Museum
This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights...
Thursday 8/13 @ Book Soup
We love a good happy hour, especially when the wine is free and the books are 25% off. Every weekday from...
Annie Lapin: Parallel Deliria Iteration
Thursday 8/13 @ 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...
