Events on Thursday, March 4
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Book Soup
Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn present and sign You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up. "A...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ The Cinefamily
Radical, hilarious and influential, "Top Value Television" was an ad hoc collective of documentarians whose pioneering use of portable, low-tech video...
Gin Hammond in Returning the Bones
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Acclaimed Seattle-based actress and playwright Gin Hammond presents her original, one-woman play Returning the Bones, based on the life and times...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ El Rey
With the release of their sixth album, From the Corner to the Block, the five-man group GALACTIC - drummer Stanton Moore,...
BRANDAID Haiti Benefit w/ GIFT HORSE - Rain Phoenix, Luke Rathborne, Antony Langdon + more
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Bootleg Theater
Gift Horse Project is a group of rotating musicians and visual artists. Conceived of by artists, to help artists in crisis....
Leslie & The Lys plus Christopher The Conquered @ Echoplex
Thursday 3/ 4 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Leslie and The Lys || Listen || Watch For the rest of this review, body glitter = sweat. Iowa’s mainframe...
Ongoing Events
Josh Azzarella: Untitled #100 (Fantasia)
Thursday 3/ 4 @ 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,...
How Many Billboards? Art in Stead
Thursday 3/ 4 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
In New York, street art is tagged on the sides of buildings and pasted on empty storefronts. In Los Angeles, a...
Andres Guerrero and Albert Reyes
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Subliminal Projects
From two LA artists comes a dual exhibition about the way individuals perceive themselves and the world around them, when nothing...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Affinity Galleries
Affinity Galleries, previously known as the Circus Gallery, presents an innovative group show that effectively redefines the term "multimedia." Exhibiting photography,...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Thursday 3/ 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...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Thursday 3/ 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...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Thursday 3/ 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 3/ 4 @ Khastoo Gallery
Khastoo goes from art gallery to temporary pop-up shop, teaming up with Stor and Quentin Smith's Smithshop to sell not just...
Thursday 3/ 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...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ 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 3/ 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...
Portraiture for the Silicon Enlightenment
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Curated by Angela Dufresne, the Fuckheads group show features artists who challenge traditional ways of seeing, moving away from portraiture aligned...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Thursday 3/ 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 3/ 4 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Thursday 3/ 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...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Art Center College of Design
Rightfully entitled DreamWorlds, this short exhibition at the Williamson Gallery features the work of the Dreamworks animation artists that help bring...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
To the Hollywood films that portray women as ball-busters, constantly demanding commitment from aloof men, director Kyle Patrick Alvarez's first feature...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Mr. Musichead Gallery
For over 30 years, music-industry photography vet Jay Blakesberg has made a career of shooting tripped-out rock icons such as Jerry...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Thursday 3/ 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,...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ 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 3/ 4 @ Charlie James Gallery
Travis Somerville is one of the west coast's fastest-rising art stars, first coming to national attention as the winner of the...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 3/ 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 3/ 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...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Thursday 3/ 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 3/ 4 @ LeBasse Projects
Yoshitaka Amano is something of a living legend in his native Japan, being one of the most influential and prolific artists,...
Thursday 3/ 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...
Thursday 3/ 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 3/ 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...
Thursday 3/ 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 3/ 4 @ Saban Theatre
If there's one thing that will get Lost fans and Gleeks off the couch, it's PaleyFest. Going on its 27th year,...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Photographer, painter, installation artist, and skate legend Ed Templeton is a natural documentarian, first coming to the art world's attention with...
Thursday 3/ 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...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Thursday 3/ 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...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Thursday 3/ 4 @ 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 3/ 4 @ Manifest Equality
Brought to you by the team responsible for the Manifest Hope art shows during the '08 campaign, and the follow-up book...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Track 16 Gallery
Courtesy of the freshly re-opened Track 16 Gallery and curated by Elizabeta Betinski of the recently closed and much-missed Overtones Gallery,...
Shrinebuilder (members of Melvins, Neurosis & Om) & Storm of Light @ Echo
Thursday 3/ 4 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Shrinebuilder When this collaboration between Neurosis’ Scott Kelly, Melvins’ Dale Crover, Om’s Al Cisneros and Scott ‘Wino’ Weinrich was announced,...
Thursday 3/ 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 3/ 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...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Cinespace
The party Thursday evening is at Cinespace. See why everyone in Hollywood is talking about our new Thursdays. Ladies free before...
Kim Rugg: Please Remain Calmand Josh Azzarella: Untitled #100 (Fantasia)
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 13, 5-7p On View February 13 – March 13, 2010 Featuring DJ MoreDillon...
Thursday 3/ 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...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Thursday 3/ 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...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Thursday 3/ 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 3/ 4 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Just out of her teens, French pianist Lise de la Salle has made a tremendous impact on...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Thursday 3/ 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...
Thursday 3/ 4 @ Downtown Independent Theater
A self-confessed war profiteer, Fidelis Cloer always had an on eye on growth opportunities and found the perfect war when the...
