Events on Thursday, April 1

Tom Schiller's NOTHING LASTS FOREVER and "SNL" Shorts from SCHILLER'S REEL

Film

Tom Schiller's NOTHING LASTS FOREVER and "SNL" Shorts from SCHILLER'S REEL

Thursday 4/ 1 @ Egyptian Theatre

Thursday, April 1 – 7:30 PM NOTHING LASTS FOREVER, 1984, Warner Bros., 82 min. Dir. Tom Schiller. Aspiring... 

Out Of Our Minds (A New Film from Melissa Auf der Maur!)

Film: Shorts

Out Of Our Minds (A New Film from Melissa Auf der Maur!)

Thursday 4/ 1 @ The Cinefamily

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"In only 28 minutes, the spectacle of this film toppled almost all of the features... 

Out Of Our Minds (a new film from Melissa Auf der Maur, of Hole and Smashing Pumpkins!)

Film: Shorts

Out Of Our Minds (a new film from Melissa Auf der Maur, of Hole and Smashing Pumpkins!)

Thursday 4/ 1 @ The Cinefamily

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Out Of Our Minds is the bloody, brash and berserk new brainchild of Melissa Auf der... 

Ongoing Events

<em>How Many Billboards? Art in Stead</em>

Art

How Many Billboards? Art in Stead

Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Sheila Callaghan's <em>Lascivious Something</em>

Theatre

Lascivious Something

Thursday 4/ 1 @ The Ford Theater

Lascivious Something is a marked departure from Sheila Callaghan's work as a writer on Showtime's The United States of Tara. Presented... 

Mary Heebner: <em>Intimacies/Intimisimos</em>

Art

Mary Heebner

Thursday 4/ 1 @ Edward Cella Art + Architecture

At a time when the country of Chile is foremost in the world's thoughts for tragic reasons, Mary Heebner's long-planned exhibition... 

<em>Breach of Peace</em>: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge

Special Event

Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge

Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward</em>

Special Event

Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward

Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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,... 

Travis Somerville: <em>...A Portion of that Field</em>

Art

Travis Somerville

Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>London Eight</em>

Art

London Eight

Thursday 4/ 1 @ SCI-Arc

After studying architecture in the '50s, Sir Peter Cook exhibited at ICA (where he later served as director), and co-founded Archigram,... 

4th International Exhibition with Thailand

Art

4th International Exhibition with Thailand

Thursday 4/ 1 @ LA Artcore Union Center Gallery

LA Artcore hosts a dual-venue exhibition co-produced by the Thai Art Council and the Office of National Culture Commission of Thailand.... 

<em>Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy</em>

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>The Fool's Journey: The History and Symbolism of the Tarot</em>

Art

The Fool's Journey

Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Victor Friedman: <em>Captured and Constructed</em>

Art: Photography

Victor Friedman

Thursday 4/ 1 @ Jeanie Madsen Gallery

A 79-year old society hairdresser, New York photographer Victor Friedman has been moonlighting as a photojournalist for 45 years. Now, he... 

The Last Chapbook Project

Books: Reading

The Last Chapbook Project

Thursday 4/ 1 @ The Last Bookstore

While we certainly wish them all the luck in the world, we hope that the Last Bookstore's name proves un-prophetic. A... 

Sumi Ink Club: <em>Sumi Room</em>

Art

Sumi Ink Club: Sumi Room

Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Body and Soul</em>

Art

Body and Soul

Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Mery Lynn McCorkle: <em>Silence</em>

Art

Mery Lynn McCorkle

Thursday 4/ 1 @ Jancar Gallery

Los Angeles artist Mery Lynn McCorkle exhibits new mixed-media works combining rich, saturated colors with visceral, almost topographic textures, distressed surfaces,... 

Michael Salerno: <em>Selected Works 1992-2009</em>

Art

Michael Salerno

Thursday 4/ 1 @ Downtown Center East/West Gallery

Michael Salerno has been a pillar of the artistic community of writers and painters that has made Downtown LA the epicenter... 

Anne Martens: <em>Club Med</em>

Art

Anne Martens

Thursday 4/ 1 @ Underground Gallery

Underground Gallery says: Club Med is a solo exhibition by Anne Martens featuring sewn mixed-media sculpture and installation. In Club Med,... 

<em>The Ballad of Emmett Till</em>

Theatre

The Ballad of Emmett Till

Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Fractured Perspectives</em>

Art

Fractured Perspectives

Thursday 4/ 1 @ Affinity Galleries

Affinity Galleries, previously known as the Circus Gallery, presents an innovative group show that effectively redefines the term "multimedia." Exhibiting photography,... 

The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943

Art

The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943

Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Nick Cave: <em>Meet Me at the Center of the Earth</em>

Art

Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth

Thursday 4/ 1 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found... 

<em>Night Lights</em>

Art: Photography

Night Lights

Thursday 4/ 1 @ DNJ Gallery

The often-haunting nightscapes of Night Lights reveal how city environments can become both isolating and poetic with the absence of daylight.... 

Timothy Nolan, Jaime Scholnick, and Osvaldo Trujillo: <em>Axis Mundi</em>

Art

Axis Mundi

Thursday 4/ 1 @ CB1 Gallery

The current exhibition — just the second at Downtown's freshly-minted CB1 Gallery — is a three-person show of diverse works in... 

DreamWorlds

Art

DreamWorlds

Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Water: Our Thirsty World</em>

Art: Photography

Water: Our Thirsty World

Thursday 4/ 1 @ Annenberg Space for Photography

National Geographic puts a new spin on a classic subject, using cutting-edge photographic technology to build a sweeping portfolio of the... 

Channa Horwitz: <em>Sequences and Systems</em>

Art

Channa Horwitz

Thursday 4/ 1 @ SolwayJones Gallery

In this dual-venue mini-retrospective of works mainly from the mid-'70s and early '80s, SolwayJones and Kunsthalle L.A. set up an intriguing... 

<em>The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River</em>

Art

The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River

Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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.... 

<em>Migrations of the Mind</em>: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection

Art

Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection

Thursday 4/ 1 @ The Getty Museum

Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past... 

David Levine: <em>Hopeful</em>

Art: Photography

David Levine

Thursday 4/ 1 @ François Ghebaly Gallery

Although he was born in New York and lives and works in Berlin, there is something about David Levine's long-term found-photo... 

Miller Updegraff

Art

Miller Updegraff

Thursday 4/ 1 @ Michael Benevento Los Angeles

Updegraff's debut exhibition with Michael Benevento is an elegant evolution of the artist's exploration of the power-play between subject and author,... 

Mike Watt: <em>Eye-Gifts from Pedro</em>

Art: Photography

Mike Watt

Thursday 4/ 1 @ Track 16 Gallery

Mike Watt, former bassist of San Pedro '80s punk band Minutemen, debuts his latest turn tonight: photography. The iconic rocker, who... 

<em>Chloe</em>

Film

Chloe

Thursday 4/ 1 @ Arclight Hollywood

Atom Egoyan's new thriller explores themes of consuming jealousy and passion with a smart European sensibility that puts an exciting spin... 

Ed Templeton: <em>The Seconds Pass</em>

Art

Ed Templeton

Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art</em>

Special Event

Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art

Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Britton Tolliver: <em>A Search for the Sky Underneath the Dirt</em>

Art

Britton Tolliver: A Search for the Sky Underneath the Dirt

Thursday 4/ 1 @ Kinkead Contemporary

Tolliver's vivid paintings engage a successful and intense marriage of abstraction and geometric rendering, and at times his forms seem to... 

<em>Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since W.W.II</em>

Art

Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since W.W.II

Thursday 4/ 1 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)

Art Against Empire, culled from the extensive holdings of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, offers over 100 selected... 

<em>The Never-Ending Story: Fairytale, Fantasy, Obsession</em>

Art

The Never-Ending Story

Thursday 4/ 1 @ Royal/T

It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the... 

Lola: <em>Ipsum Factum</em>

Art

Lola

Thursday 4/ 1 @ Corey Helford Gallery

Taking its name from a Latin axiom that means "truth itself is constructed," Ipsum Factum is Lola's second solo exhibition at... 

Kim Dorland: <em>1991</em>

Art

Kim Dorland: 1991

Thursday 4/ 1 @ Mark Moore Gallery

On the heels of his solo booth at PULSE Contemporary Art Fair (New York), Kim Dorland returns to LA with nearly... 

Reload Thursdays

Music

Reload Thursdays

Thursday 4/ 1 @ Cinespace

The party Thursday evening is at Cinespace. See why everyone in Hollywood is talking about our new Thursdays. Ladies free before... 

<em>Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres</em>

Art

Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres

Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Special Event

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Gravity Works

Theatre

Gravity Works

Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Bychkov Conducts Mahler's 5th

Music: Classical

Bychkov Conducts Mahler's 5th

Thursday 4/ 1 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

“He doesn't simply conduct this music; he lives... 

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity

Art

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity

Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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...