Events on Thursday, February 11
Thursday 2/11 @ Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
Like everywhere else in LA, except more so, the landscape of galleries and alternative exhibition spaces in Downtown is in flux,...
Thursday 2/11 @ The Troubadour
Portland basement-dwellers Hutch and Kathy have a chip on their shoulders. As the Thermals, they assail the usual lefty targets; their...
Thursday 2/11 @ The Wiltern
The Editors' "You Don’t Know Love" is just plain scary: not only does the song feature a techno beat that could...
Alec Ounsworth (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) w/ The Romany Rye and Line and Circle at Bootleg
Thursday 2/11 @ Bootleg Theater
ALEC OUNSWORTH Anti-Records is excited to announce the upcoming release of Mo Beauty from celebrated singer/songwriter Alec Ounsworth. The Philadelphia native,...
Canyon Sam: Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History
Thursday 2/11 @ Book Soup
"Canyon Sam's Sky Train powerfully moves the heart, as it brings to life deep truths about our world today, about Tibet,...
Gallery Discussion: The Art of Looking
Thursday 2/11 @ LACMA
Thursday 2/11 @ The Mint
7:30pm Doors 8:30pm Jonny Burke (formerly of The Dedringers) 9:30pm James McMurtry
Post-Punk Junk Mix Night feat. Car Cemetery
Thursday 2/11 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW CLIP Cinefamily presents a cornucopia of deep cuts and other post-punk junk from around the globe. Want a taste? How...
Decorative Arts and Design Council Lecture: A Case for Wine: From King Tut to Today
Thursday 2/11 @ LACMA
Christopher Monkhouse, Eloise W. Martin Curator and Chairman, Department of European Decorative Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, will...
60s Beach Party Movies w/ Donna Loren in person
Thursday 2/11 @ Egyptian Theatre
MUSCLE BEACH PARTY, 1964, MGM Repertory, 94 min. Dir. William Asher. "When 10,000 Biceps go around 5000 Bikinis, you know what's...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 2/11 @ Sam Lee Gallery
Remote warfare, military drones, and other robotic tools of destruction used to be the stuff of science fiction novels but now...
Thursday 2/11 @ 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 2/11 @ The Fountain Theatre
In a modern-day California gothic tale worthy of something by Raymond Chandler, John Fante, Charles Bukowski, or James Ellroy, the longtime...
J. David Carlson and Michael Dotson
Thursday 2/11 @ 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 2/11 @ Synchronicity Space
Just in time for Valentine's Day, LA-based art and music collective Heard of Elephants participates in a two-week residency at Synchronicity...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Thursday 2/11 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Known most famously for his reign as one of theater's greatest playwrights, British-born Noël Coward wore many other hats: singer, actor,...
Thursday 2/11 @ American Jewish University
Each of the artists in the three-person show, Body and Soul, carries an impressive list of achievements. Featuring work by Kathryn...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Thursday 2/11 @ 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 Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 2/11 @ 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 2/11 @ 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...
Thursday 2/11 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
Scion continues its bid to outpace the NEA with its first big traveling show of 2010. They commissioned ten artists to...
Andres Guerrero and Albert Reyes
Thursday 2/11 @ Subliminal Projects
From two LA artists comes a dual exhibition about the way individuals perceive themselves and the world around them, when nothing...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Thursday 2/11 @ 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 2/11 @ 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 2/11 @ 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 2/11 @ REDCAT
REDCAT's four-year artist-in-residence project with the Wooster Group is one of those gifts that just keeps on giving. Not content with...
Thursday 2/11 @ 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...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Thursday 2/11 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Does having more Best Picture nominations affect the quality of films made? Maybe not. But then again, the last time 10...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Thursday 2/11 @ 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 2/11 @ 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...
Thursday 2/11 @ 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 2/11 @ 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 2/11 @ Pantages Theatre
The story of Celie, a young black woman growing up in a minefield of abuse, racism, poverty, and deceit, who perseveres...
Thursday 2/11 @ LAXART
Kamrooz Aram and Artemio engage in an unhinging of the standard mechanisms of image-making, challenging social norms in the process. Artemio's...
Thursday 2/11 @ 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...
Thursday 2/11 @ 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 2/11 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Thursday 2/11 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Thursday 2/11 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Landmark's Nuart Theatre presents a selection of British Noir double features, released by the go-to distributors of classic reissues, Rialto Pictures....
Thursday 2/11 @ 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 2/11 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Where London has the Victoria and Albert, LA has the Craft and Folk Art Museum; yet, too often, the little institution...
Thursday 2/11 @ Bleicher/Golightly
The current group show at Santa Monica's Bleicher/Golightly Gallery is a celebration of misuse. Nine artists manipulate, rehabilitate, disguise, and deprive...
Thursday 2/11 @ 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...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Thursday 2/11 @ 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 2/11 @ 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...
Thursday 2/11 @ Cinespace
The party Thursday evening is at Cinespace. See why everyone in Hollywood is talking about our new Thursdays. Ladies free before...
Thursday 2/11 @ 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...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Thursday 2/11 @ 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...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Thursday 2/11 @ 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 2/11 @ Egyptian Theatre
IN THE LOOP, 2008, IFC Films, 106 min. Director/writer Armando Iannucci and writer Tony Roche will appear in person at the...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Thursday 2/11 @ 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 2/11 @ 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...
Oscar Nominee IN THE LOOP Limited Engagement
Thursday 2/11 @ Egyptian Theatre
IN THE LOOP, 2008, IFC Films, 106 min. Dir. Armando Iannucci. ...
Thursday 2/11 @ 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...
