Events on Thursday, January 21
Thursday 1/21 @ The Steve Allen Theater
A self-described "hyperdimensional electronic jazz project," including a bevy of smart-set digital music heads, LA's Simplexity is the ideal act to...
Down n Derby Roller Disco @ echoplex
Thursday 1/21 @ 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 1/21 @ Book Soup
John Radanovich presents and signs Wildman of Rhythm. (Note: Author John Radanovich will...
Thursday 1/21 @ The Cinefamily
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"Sick with pastel plastics and cluttered with Enya-era New Agey home décor, Moulton's off-kilter chroma-keyed studio...
The Last 55s w/ Cowgirls and Indians
Thursday 1/21 @ Bootleg Theater
THE LAST 55s The Last 55s are a group of friends who love making music. Christie and Louise Miller (mirror twins...
Music Go Music and Wounded Lion @ Echo
Thursday 1/21 @ The Echo & Echoplex
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Despite their mysterious aliases—band members go by Kamer Maza, Gala Bell,...
Thursday 1/21 @ The Mint
**ALL AGES** 7:30pm Doors 8pm Michael McDermott 9pm Dan Navarro
Imbued early in life with a love...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 1/21 @ 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 1/21 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
Shizu Saldamando takes portraiture personally in her exhibition There is a Place. Using the old adage "draw what you know" as...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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 1/21 @ 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 1/21 @ [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 1/21 @ 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 1/21 @ 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 1/21 @ 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 1/21 @ HAUS
Surname challenged collaborative art duo Jeff & Gordon—aka Jeff Foye and Gordon Winiemko—push the boundaries between public and personal at HAUS,...
Thursday 1/21 @ Honor Fraser
Somewhere on the formal continuum between Gordon Matta-Clark's cut-outs and the Ice Hotel in Sweden lie the architectural sculptures and interventions...
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Thursday 1/21 @ 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 Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Thursday 1/21 @ Hammer Museum
R. Crumb's interpretation of the Book of Genesis is at once disturbing, sacrilegious, violent, and debauched, but paired with a holy...
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Thursday 1/21 @ 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 1/21 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Organized by co-curator of 2008's Beautiful Losers, Aaron Rose, Projections: A Festival of Rare and Hard-to-See Films is just what it...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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 1/21 @ Cherry and Martin
Daniel Dove's large-scale oil paintings attempt to reconcile the duality of the world outside of the artist's studio that is in...
Thursday 1/21 @ Jancar Gallery
Foshee takes her penchant for transforming mundane materials, that might easily be amassed from Staples, to familiar and differentiated dimensions with...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Thursday 1/21 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Thursday 1/21 @ 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 1/21 @ Armory Center for the Arts
From 1966-2001, legendary artist Robert Rauschenberg partnered with the impressive printmakers at LA's Gemini G.E.L. to produce an astonishing 250-plus groundbreaking...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing
Thursday 1/21 @ Pacific Design Center
Curated by Art Cinema author Paul Young, The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing examines the span of contemporary global video art,...
Thursday 1/21 @ The Landmark
Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina) penned some of the most dramatic stories in modern literature, but if The Last Station is anything...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Thursday 1/21 @ Gallery 1988
By the power of Grayskull, Gallery 1988 is about to honor the power He-Man had on us old schoolers in one...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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 1/21 @ 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 1/21 @ Los Angeles Convention Center
The largest art fair on the West Coast takes flight tonight with a gallery ranging from promising (and pocket-friendly) unknowns to...
Thursday 1/21 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Jinks and kinks occur in first-time French director Ursula Meier's comedic debut Home, which chronicles a big disturbance in a small...
Thursday 1/21 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
Owen Smith's use of archetypal characters such as the boxer taking a blow in the ring, men working high in the...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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 1/21 @ REDCAT
Unfettered by a male-dominated Asian art scene, Everyday Miracles (Extended) — an offshoot of the Everyday Miracles that debuted at the...
Allison Schulnik: Home for Hobo
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
The Women of Women: The Female Form
Thursday 1/21 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Curator Yasmine Mohseni takes advantage of the female form's captive powers in The Women of Women, a group exhibition featuring the...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber, Inc.
Thursday 1/21 @ 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 1/21 @ A Noise Within
Irish playwright Samuel Beckett's pivotal work Waiting for Godot returns to its A Noise Within for a ten-performance-only run. Directed by...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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 1/21 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
Street-installation artist Mark Jenkins uses unlikely juxtapositions to shake people loose from their day-to-day expectations. The streets of world cities aren't...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Thursday 1/21 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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 1/21 @ JAUS
Mexico City-based Anibal Catalan transforms the exterior of the Jaus house with a complex gray-scale mural referencing the incandescent wings of...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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 1/21 @ LACMA
Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:...
J. David Carlson and Michael Dotson
Thursday 1/21 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
The dialogue in Playscapes and Architectonic Dreams riffs off paintings inspired by a 1980s video-game aesthetic and intricate diorama sculptures (think...
Thursday 1/21 @ Khastoo Gallery
Now in its 34th year, Los Angeles Filmforum is LA's longest-running organization screening experimental films, and it's teaming up with Khastoo...
Thursday 1/21 @ Royal/T
Jane Glassman's years of work in the art world have seen her not only getting to know a variety of its...
Ingres' Comtesse d'Haussonville from the Frick Collection
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Population: Portraits by Ray Turner
Thursday 1/21 @ 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 1/21 @ REDCAT
“Raw 21st-century expression... Extraordinarily brilliant." The Guardian Brazilian choreographer Bruno Beltrão and his nine-member Grupo de Rua—all recruited from the...
Thursday 1/21 @ Cinespace
Gravity Works is a professional caberet/vaudeville/comedy troupe created by producer/director Russell Boast out of a desire to create a unique performance...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ Cinespace
The party Thursday evening is at Cinespace. See why everyone in Hollywood is talking about our new Thursdays. Ladies free before...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Thursday 1/21 @ 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 1/21 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
For those who want to experience an immense symphony (the aural equivalent of a major...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Thursday 1/21 @ 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...
