Events on Thursday, February 4
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Largo at the Coronet Theater
This spring, British musician Laura Marling releases the follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut disc, Alas I Cannot Swim, an angsty...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Book Soup
Walter Kirn presents and signs Up in the Air. Jason Retiman discovered Walter Kirn's novel in Book Soup back...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ The Mint
Early in 2006, shortly after the band's formation, Hill and Joyce met a trio of young filmmakers and together they came...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ LACMA
A sneak preview of the new feature documentary, Song of the Dunes. Untouchable caste musicians are trapped at the bottom of...
Night Flight presents: A Tribute To New Wave Theatre
Thursday 2/ 4 @ The Cinefamily
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The opening of this year's Post-Punk Junk fest brings the return of Night Flight to the...
Nuestra Historia: Los Tucanes de Tijuana
Thursday 2/ 4 @ The GRAMMY Museum
Nuestra Historia: Los Tucanes de Tijuana
Thursday, February 4, 2010; 7:30pm
Join as The GRAMMY Museum welcomes world-renowned and...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Skirball Cultural Center
From Toronto, Beyond the Pale is well known for its explosive acoustic sound infused with diverse cross-cultural influences, from klezmer, Balkan,...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 2/ 4 @ The Broad Stage at Santa Monica College
Master puppeteer Basil Twist follows up on his recent success of Arias With a Twist, staging his own quirky version of...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Cowboy, Indian, and Horse wreak havoc in this slapstick stop-motion animation film, based on a cult Belgian TV series distributed by...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ LAXART
Kamrooz Aram and Artemio engage in an unhinging of the standard mechanisms of image-making, challenging social norms in the process. Artemio's...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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,...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Hammer Museum
R. Crumb's interpretation of the Book of Genesis is at once disturbing, sacrilegious, violent, and debauched, but paired with a holy...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber, Inc.
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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 2/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Sam Lee Gallery
Remote warfare, military drones, and other robotic tools of destruction used to be the stuff of science fiction novels but now...
The Women of Women: The Female Form
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ REDCAT
Unfettered by a male-dominated Asian art scene, Everyday Miracles (Extended) — an offshoot of the Everyday Miracles that debuted at the...
J. David Carlson and Michael Dotson
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ HAUS
Surname challenged collaborative art duo Jeff & Gordon—aka Jeff Foye and Gordon Winiemko—push the boundaries between public and personal at HAUS,...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Allison Schulnik: Home for Hobo
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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 2/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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 2/ 4 @ 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 2/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ LACMA
Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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 2/ 4 @ Arclight Sherman Oaks
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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 2/ 4 @ 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 2/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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 2/ 4 @ 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 2/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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 2/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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 2/ 4 @ 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...
