Events on Thursday, January 14
Blood of a Poet (w/ world premiere of new live score by Steven Severin)
Thursday 1/14 @ The Cinefamily
Before the talkies there was Jean Cocteau's debut 1930 silent masterpiece Blood Of A Poet, a sensual avant-garde piece of cinema...
Thursday 1/14 @ Central Los Angeles High School #9
Taking place during the second annual LA Arts Month, this evening's dialogue goes beyond mere aesthetics to tackle the white elephant...
Thursday 1/14 @ Aero Theatre
A fictional cinematic biography that weaves fantasy with universal themes of identity and alienation, Broken Embraces might be Pedro Almodóvar's most...
Thursday 1/14 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Rising from her one-woman YouTube dorm room performances where she sang accompanied by a simple ukelele, Julia Nunes has achieved cult...
Gallery Discussion: The Art of Looking
Thursday 1/14 @ LACMA
Educator Mary Lenihan will lead a tour and discussion of European art.
Thursday 1/14 @ Book Soup
Robert Crais presents and signs The First Rule. "Crais plants each twist carefully and detonates it expertly....Righteous...
Thursday 1/14 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
As part of I Feel Different, join I Feel Different artist Lezley Saar and curator Jennifer Doyle as they...
Thursday 1/14 @ Bootleg Theater
CREEDLE Creedle, an avant-jazz-punk-art-damaged band based in San Diego, California was formed in 1992 and released three full length albums on...
Thursday 1/14 @ Downtown Independent Theater
The theme for our first art walk of this decade is TV PART_A!
Featuring local artist Yvonne Martinez....
Focus on Female Directors Short Film Showcase, with giveaways and directors in person!
Thursday 1/14 @ Egyptian Theatre
5th Annual Focus on Female Directors: This shorts program celebrates cinema pioneers, Oscar nominees, music video helmers,...
Ongoing Events
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Thursday 1/14 @ 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...
Allison Schulnik: Home for Hobo
Thursday 1/14 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Using claymation techniques and heavy impasto to achieve a hyper-visceral effect, artist Allison Schulnik's series Home for Hobo is striking portraiture...
Thursday 1/14 @ Arclight Sherman Oaks
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
Thursday 1/14 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Recently, Art Center College of Design students directed their communications prowess towards human rights, yielding emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line...
Thursday 1/14 @ Laguna Art Museum
Works by regional and national artists come together at the Laguna Art Museum's Collecting California, which reflects the long history of...
Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber, Inc.
Thursday 1/14 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Members of Winnipeg's Royal Art Lodge, a prolific and cheeky artists collective which disbanded in 2008, this pair of artistic co-conspirators...
Thursday 1/14 @ Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside
Twenty international artists who explore human interaction with domesticated, imaginary, laboratory, or wild animals contribute work in media from video installation...
Thursday 1/14 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
LA painter Kenny Harris is a modern update on the archetype of the peripatetic plein air school, an artist whose frequent...
Thursday 1/14 @ [do not use] Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles
Adapted from Stefan Aust's 1985 publication, The Baader Meinhof Complex chronicles the reckless idealism and hectic resolve of Germany's Red Army...
Thursday 1/14 @ HAUS
Surname challenged collaborative art duo Jeff & Gordon—aka Jeff Foye and Gordon Winiemko—push the boundaries between public and personal at HAUS,...
Thursday 1/14 @ REDCAT
Unfettered by a male-dominated Asian art scene, Everyday Miracles (Extended) — an offshoot of the Everyday Miracles that debuted at the...
Thursday 1/14 @ MAK Center Schindler House
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture hosts an exhibition in honor of Austrian sociologist, political scientist, intellectual, and author Otto...
Thursday 1/14 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Curator Jennifer Doyle gets in touch with our emotional side in I Feel Different, a group exhibition featuring multimedia works at...
Thursday 1/14 @ Circus Gallery
Curated by Emma Gray and mischievously inspired by an '80s New Age guru's best-selling self-help book, You Can Heal Your Life...
Thursday 1/14 @ Skirball Cultural Center
An Idea Called Tomorrow offers meditations on what should/could/would make for a peaceable and sustainable future — culturally, environmentally, and socially...
Thursday 1/14 @ Art/Works Theatre
In the tradition of Paris' Theatre du Grand Guignol, LA's Grand Guignolers combine macabre storytelling with delightful performances. This time, the...
Thursday 1/14 @ Japanese American National Museum
In 2007, Giant Robot launched its first biennale celebrating 15 years as a magazine and a pop culture phenomenon. For its...
Thursday 1/14 @ Clark Oshin Gallery
Clark Oshin Gallery shows off Frank W. Ockenfels 3's astonishing creative range with an exhibition of photographs and drawings at the...
Thursday 1/14 @ New Image Art
Writing in her seminal essay collection On Photography, art and media critic Susan Sontag was adamant concerning the inherent differences women...
Thursday 1/14 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
The Annenberg Space for Photography brings the entire genius of its well-appointed exhibition areas and NASA-quality digital-media resources to bear on...
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Thursday 1/14 @ Various Los Angeles theaters
Terry Gilliam's visually rich follow-up to such cult gems as Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and Fear and...
Thursday 1/14 @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
Curated by Flavorpill's own Heather Jeno Silva (who moonlights as the curator of the CAF's monthly Forum Lounge public conversations, among...
Thursday 1/14 @ [delete] TAG (The Artists Gallery)
Bergamot Station's newest tenant and a long-standing pillar of the independent art community in Los Angeles, TAG (The Artists Gallery) is...
Thursday 1/14 @ LACMA
Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:...
Thursday 1/14 @ Royal/T
Jane Glassman's years of work in the art world have seen her not only getting to know a variety of its...
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) w/ Uli Edel and Bernd Eichinger in person
Thursday 1/14 @ Egyptian Theatre
Adapted from Stefan Aust's 1985 publication, The Baader Meinhof Complex chronicles the reckless idealism and hectic resolve of Germany's Red Army...
Ingres' Comtesse d'Haussonville from the Frick Collection
Thursday 1/14 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
This beguiling portrait occupies a privileged position at the threshold between French Romanticism and the early hints of modernity. Its impossibly...
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Thursday 1/14 @ Hammer Museum
R. Crumb's interpretation of the Book of Genesis is at once disturbing, sacrilegious, violent, and debauched, but paired with a holy...
Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project
Thursday 1/14 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
At Rhizome.org, Mark Tribe supports the creation and dissemination of forward-thinking contemporary art; and LACE is a fixture in LA's anything-goes...
Thursday 1/14 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
Shizu Saldamando takes portraiture personally in her exhibition There is a Place. Using the old adage "draw what you know" as...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Thursday 1/14 @ Skirball Cultural Center
The subject of an engaging exhibition and lavishly appended new book, Eric Etheridge's contemporary photographic portraits of this group of American...
Thursday 1/14 @ Skirball Cultural Center
American playwright and protester Clifford Odets penned plays that centered around themes of class, injustice, and the Great Depression. His first...
Thursday 1/14 @ Sam Lee Gallery
There is sometimes a disconnect between one's idea of a place and one's actual experience. Artist Jeff Gambill works precisely in this...
Thursday 1/14 @ Anaheim Convention Center
In the music business, it's all about getting your name out there to be seen and heard, and there's no better...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Thursday 1/14 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 1/14 @ 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...
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Thursday 1/14 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Perhaps no pop artist is as famous for his window shopping as Wayne Thiebaud. Known largely for his pale palette oil...
The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing
Thursday 1/14 @ Pacific Design Center
Curated by Art Cinema author Paul Young, The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing examines the span of contemporary global video art,...
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Thursday 1/14 @ Gallery 1988
By the power of Grayskull, Gallery 1988 is about to honor the power He-Man had on us old schoolers in one...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Thursday 1/14 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Recently, Art Center College of Design students directed their communications prowess towards human rights, yielding emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Thursday 1/14 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Thursday 1/14 @ Club Nokia
For many of us, Pee-wee Herman has been a demented-yet-diverting fixture of youth. The architect of such childhood classics as Pee-wee's...
Thursday 1/14 @ Jancar Gallery
Foshee takes her penchant for transforming mundane materials, that might easily be amassed from Staples, to familiar and differentiated dimensions with...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Thursday 1/14 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Making its West Coast debut at the Skirball, Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968 features more than...
Thursday 1/14 @ Cinespace
The party Thursday evening is at Cinespace. See why everyone in Hollywood is talking about our new Thursdays. Ladies free before...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Thursday 1/14 @ The Getty Museum
Over 180 ancient glass objects from the collection of Erwin Oppenländer are featured in this exhibition. The Oppenländer collection, which the Getty...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Thursday 1/14 @ The Getty Museum
Telling the differenc between drawings by Rembrandt and his pupils is a centuries-old problem. A popular teacher with more than 50...
Thursday 1/14 @ 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...
Population: Portraits by Ray Turner
Thursday 1/14 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
A former painting instructor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, artist Ray Turner fashions a uniquely seductive and engaging...
Thursday 1/14 @ 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...
Thursday 1/14 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart
Thursday 1/14 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
A leader in the American Printmaking movement, Frances Gearhart’s work was embedded in the time and place of the Arts and...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Thursday 1/14 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
In conjunction with the installation of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's stunning Comtesse d’Haussonville, 1845, on loan from The Frick Collection in New...
