Events on Thursday, August 20
Thursday 8/20 @ 7+FIG
Held in conjunction with the Downtown Film Festival, Sustainable LA hits 7+Fig's Ernst & Young Plaza for an "all-day green event,"...
Down & Derby Roller Disco & Skate Lessons with Coach Blade @ Echoplex
Thursday 8/20 @ The Echo & Echoplex
National skating outfit Down & Derby has been tearing up roller rinks in NYC, Pittsburgh, and Las Vegas, and tonight, it's...
Thursday 8/20 @ Heath Ceramics
Tonight's event is pretty straightforward: an opportunity for members of the melted dairy, fired ceramic, and SoCal kitsch camps to finally...
Thursday 8/20 @ Largo
Lately, Margaret Cho has been testing her new project — a rock/folk album scheduled for 2010 — to petri-dish crowds at...
Jedi Mind Tricks - the Hell Awaits Tour with MC Esoteric, Reef the Lost Cauze
Thursday 8/20 @ El Rey
Over the past 12+ years, the name Jedi Mind Tricks has become synonymous with raw, gritty underground hip-hop. Jedi’s signature style...
Robert Rave Knows the Importance of Spin
Thursday 8/20 @ Book Soup
Robert Rave presents and signs Spin: A Novel...
Thomas Hampson Sings Mahler with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Thursday 8/20 @ Hollywood Bowl
Superstar American baritone Thomas Hampson returns to the Bowl for Mahler’s poignant early song cycle, and Maestro Tovey conducts Dvorak’s melodic...
Thursday 8/20 @ Egyptian Theatre
Ten Year Anniversary Screening THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, 1999, Lionsgate, 86 min. Directors Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick started a new...
Thursday 8/20 @ The Mint
Trevor Menear at 10pm, Jennifer Appelquist at 9pm, Matt Duke at 8pm “The next guitar legend on the verge of...
Iris Nights: Michael Robinson Chávez, Photographing A Shrinking World
Thursday 8/20 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
Michael Robinson Chávez will discuss taking photographs locally and abroad, and the connection between stories and people. He will present his...
Echo & Folk Yeah present J Tillman (Fleet Foxes), Evan Way (Parson Red Heads), Big Search @ Echo
Thursday 8/20 @ The Echo & Echoplex
J. Tillman || Watch || Listen
Carving out a darkly brooding persona with roots in Neil Young's early '70s...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ Thinkspace Gallery
In honor of ModArt's 20th issue, Thinkspace hosts a group show curated by the folks at the revered European art magazine,...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ Corey Helford Gallery
LA native and CalArts alum Carlos Ramos merges his background in character animation with the art of classic poster design in...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ King King
Classic French variety cabaret gets a 21st-century makeover at King King with L'effleur des Sens, helmed by Parisian creator and director...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Thursday 8/20 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
Severed heads, skulls and daggers brimming with blood, and cemeteries littered with dismembered corpses may not readily invoke visions of spiritual...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Woodstock: The 40th Anniversary
Thursday 8/20 @ Duncan Miller Gallery
Lens legends Jim Marshall, Baron Wolman, Henry Diltz, and Lisa Law contribute their world-class snaps of the original Woodstock festival on...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
The brainchild of RESfest founder Jonathan Wells and designer, gallerist, and writer Meg Wells, Flux has been providing culture-lovers with a...
Kime Buzelli and Suzannah Sinclair
Thursday 8/20 @ New Image Art
New Image Art Gallery presents a pair of very different takes on the feminine mystique as painters Suzannah Sinclair and Kime...
The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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...
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Thursday 8/20 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
The second most consumed drink next to water, tea has also been frequent theme in art history. Guest curated by tea...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ Western Project
Daring frontwoman of arguably the coolest punk band ever, X, Exene Cervenka has considerable talents off the stage as well, starting...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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...
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Thursday 8/20 @ 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 8/20 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Imagine yourself immersed in a favorite childhood tale. Five years in the making and occupying an 8,000-square-foot gallery, Noah's Ark at...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ Book Soup
We love a good happy hour, especially when the wine is free and the books are 25% off. Every weekday from...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty
Thursday 8/20 @ 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,...
Annie Lapin: Parallel Deliria Iteration
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Thursday 8/20 @ The Getty Museum
This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights...
Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
