Events on Thursday, September 3
Thursday 9/ 3 @ Daydream Republic
Every month, the progressive art, design, and production people of Daydream Republic host Rabbit Hole, a kind of show-and-tell for independent...
Thursday 9/ 3 @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
Performance artist Daniel Barrow weaves inventive storytelling with old-fashioned "manual animation" in his piece Every Time I See Your Picture I...
Thursday 9/ 3 @ City Hall
30 Years & Growing celebrates three decades of Southland farmers markets with an outsize version on LA's picturesque City Hall lawn....
Thursday 9/ 3 @ Greek Theatre
Rocker Chrissie Hynde has resurfaced grandly, guest-appearing on the upcoming Sandra Bernhard release, dueting with Willie Nelson, campaigning effectively for PETA,...
Mississippi Man with Last American Buffalo, The Outline and Get Back Loretta
Thursday 9/ 3 @ Bootleg Theater
MISSISSIPPI MAN “American infused…earnest folk-pop” - Buzzbands LA "The Snake Oil Salesman is solid barroom roots rock elevated by a few...
Russian Romantics with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Thursday 9/ 3 @ Hollywood Bowl
“She blended Romantic flair with musicianly elegance. Her virtuosity and command were never in doubt.” That’s how the New York Times...
Thursday 9/ 3 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Lily & The Ladies
Lily Marlene (Lily and the Ladies) debuted a new backing band, which lived up...
Iris Nights: David Hume Kennerly, Behind the Scenes of History
Thursday 9/ 3 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
David Hume Kennerly has been on the front lines of history for four decades. His presentation, illustrated with his photographs, will...
Melvin Van Peebles: Confessions of a Ex-Doofus Itchyfooted Mutha
Thursday 9/ 3 @ Book Soup
Melvin Van Peebles presents and signs Confessions of a Ex-Doofus...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ Venues in nine area codes
Following up on the wildly popular 777 and 888 projects, Stones Throw Records patriarch Peanut Butter Wolf continues his lauding of...
Kime Buzelli and Suzannah Sinclair
Thursday 9/ 3 @ New Image Art
New Image Art Gallery presents a pair of very different takes on the feminine mystique as painters Suzannah Sinclair and Kime...
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
Thursday 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ Japanese American National Museum
Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda has a lot on his mind — literally. His parallel career as a visual artist often finds...
Thursday 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Thursday 9/ 3 @ PØST
The LA art world mourned the closing of downtown avant-garde exhibition staple PØST a few years ago, but now it's back...
Woodstock: The 40th Anniversary
Thursday 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ The Landmark
Adapted from Stefan Aust's 1985 publication, The Baader Meinhof Complex chronicles the reckless idealism and hectic resolve of Germany's Red Army...
Thursday 9/ 3 @ Subliminal Projects
Weekend warriors find their more enlightened alter ego in Weekend Pacifists, a group show featuring the work of five artists —...
Thursday 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ New Wight Gallery, UCLA
The third exhibition of its kind (and already an anticipated yearly event), the UCLA Department of Art Staff Biennial invites Chris...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Thursday 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ 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...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Thursday 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ The Grand Del Mar San Diego
The three-day art fair Beyond the Border features 40 national and international exhibitors. Created by BTB-Art, an estimated 3,000...
Thursday 9/ 3 @ Smooth n Purdy Gallery
Los Angeles artist Michael Hayden arrives at the Smooth n Purdy Gallery in The Complex for a solo exhibition of recent...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Thursday 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ 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...
Exene Cervenka and Wayne White
Thursday 9/ 3 @ Western Project
Daring frontwoman of arguably the coolest punk band ever, X, Exene Cervenka has considerable talents off the stage as well, starting...
Thursday 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ The Gas Company Lofts
Mear One's legendary psychedelic, often graffiti-inspired surrealism and Michael Pukac's baroque, almost classically narrative paintings — and their shared interest in...
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Thursday 9/ 3 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
The second most consumed drink next to water, tea has also been frequent theme in art history. Guest curated by tea...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Annie Lapin: Parallel Deliria Iteration
Thursday 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ Cinespace
The party Thursday evening is at Cinespace. See why everyone in Hollywood is talking about our new Thursdays. Ladies free before...
Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Thursday 9/ 3 @ The Getty Museum
This exhibition represents an overview of three centuries of French bronze sculpture, when monarchs and private collectors came to embrace bronze...
Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist
Thursday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 3 @ Art Center College of Design
Illustration students from Art Center College of Design currently have their work on display at the Aquarium of the Pacific in...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Thursday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Thursday 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ Book Soup
We love a good happy hour, especially when the wine is free and the books are 25% off. Every weekday from...
Thursday 9/ 3 @ 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...
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Thursday 9/ 3 @ The Getty Museum
This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights...
You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty
Thursday 9/ 3 @ 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,...
