Events on Thursday, February 18
Thursday 2/18 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Kenneth Anger protégé Brian Butler has produced several of the renowned occultist filmmaker's most recent works, and is responsible for bringing...
RuPaul: Workin' It: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style
Thursday 2/18 @ Book Soup
RuPaul’s reality television hit Drag Race takes viewers on a bumpy ride through the competitive and colorful world of drag. And...
Thursday 2/18 @ UCB Theatre
Kobe Bryant gets a lot of mail, and, as difficult as it might be for Lakers-obsessed Angelenos to comprehend, not all...
Thursday 2/18 @ The Hotel Café
Pete Bernhard is better known as the source of the rough-around-the-edges harmonies that have made the Devil Makes Three's raucous punk...
Athens, GA: Inside Out w/ filmmakers in-person
Thursday 2/18 @ The Cinefamily
The B-52s immortalized the spirit of Athens, Georgia in their 1990 hit Deadbeat Club, a paean to their porch-filled days in...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
Andres Guerrero and Albert Reyes
Thursday 2/18 @ Subliminal Projects
From two LA artists comes a dual exhibition about the way individuals perceive themselves and the world around them, when nothing...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Thursday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Sumi Ink Club represents a new ethos in the art world, one that builds on the playful spirit of artists like...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ LAXART
Kamrooz Aram and Artemio engage in an unhinging of the standard mechanisms of image-making, challenging social norms in the process. Artemio's...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Thursday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ Sherman Gallery
Cannibal Flower and Thinkspace are staples of the East Side/Downtown independent art scene, favoring a certain kind of edgy, urban romanticism...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ Coast Playhouse
A "bone"-ified smash. With "organ" accompaniment. Now that that's out of the way, yes, Puppetry of the Penis is exactly what...
The Women of Women: The Female Form
Thursday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Thursday 2/18 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The Los Angeles River has been having a comeback, if you can argue that it was ever popular to begin with....
Thursday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
J. David Carlson and Michael Dotson
Thursday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Thursday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ Pantages Theatre
The story of Celie, a young black woman growing up in a minefield of abuse, racism, poverty, and deceit, who perseveres...
Josh Azzarella: Untitled #100 (Fantasia)
Thursday 2/18 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Known for his video and photography manipulations of monumental news imagery, including the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center,...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Thursday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Kim Rugg: Please Remain Calmand Josh Azzarella: Untitled #100 (Fantasia)
Thursday 2/18 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 13, 5-7p On View February 13 – March 13, 2010 Featuring DJ MoreDillon...
Thursday 2/18 @ Downtown Independent Theater
WAITING FOR ARMAGEDDON
2009, 35mm, color, 74min
"Evangelicals need to see this movie to understand the...
Thursday 2/18 @ Cinespace
The party Thursday evening is at Cinespace. See why everyone in Hollywood is talking about our new Thursdays. Ladies free before...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ Egyptian Theatre
THE HURT LOCKER, 2009, Summit Entertainment, 131 min. Acclaimed director Kathryn Bigelow brings together realistic action and intimate human drama in...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Thursday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
