Events on Thursday, April 22
Japandroids w/ Nobunny and All Leather @ echoplex
Thursday 4/22 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Armed with a guitar and a drum set, and fueled by leftover teenage angst and rave reviews, Vancouver's Japandroids have spent...
Thursday 4/22 @ The Roxy Theatre
With a backstory worthy of American legend, but a devil-be-damned 'tude that's too much for country, Alabama singer Shelby Lynne is...
Thursday 4/22 @ Art Center College of Design
Le Switch w/ The Mallard (SF) and Los Baby Fools at Bootleg
Thursday 4/22 @ Bootleg Theater
LE SWITCH “Honky-tonk keyboards and fiddle ablaze, Le Switch give alt-country a riotous ragtime rip. Formed in 2006, the group has...
Thursday 4/22 @ The Cinefamily
The Idiots - 8:00pm
The Idiots is an incredibly provocative film that works on the basest and purest of emotional...
Thursday 4/22 @ Art Center College of Design
As we celebrate 80 years of art and design education, Art Center College of Design’s Board of Trustees invites...
Thursday 4/22 @ Book Soup
Bill Guttentag presents and signs Boulevard.
Thursday 4/22 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Cast and crew members from Oscar-winning films Avatar and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button discuss how acting has been impacted...
Bonobo (live set) w/ Yppah and DJ Jeremy Sole
Thursday 4/22 @ El Rey
It never fails to amaze how swiftly a moment of fortune can so easily become a noose round the neck. Especially...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ Santa Monica Air Center, Barker Hangar
Los Angeles Antiques Show says: LOS ANGELES ANTIQUES SHOW FEATURES 65 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITORS, LECTURES, BENEFITS P.S. ARTS
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Thursday 4/22 @ Arclight Hollywood
Directed by the notorious Banksy himself, Exit Through the Gift Shop takes viewers on a wild ride through the illicit world...
Thursday 4/22 @ Antebellum Gallery
The legend goes, 420 first came into existence in 1971 after a group of California high school students met each day...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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 4/22 @ Otis College of Art and Design
Otis College continues to churn out the serious artists and designers, with an eclectic alumni list whose influences have been felt...
Jeff Koegel and Gregory Euclide
Thursday 4/22 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Jeff Koegel and Gregory Euclide each examine the complexities of humanity's interactions with nature. Koegel's paintings, while not immediately seeming to...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ Various Hollywood theaters
America's beloved commercial-free cable network, Turner Classic Movies broadcasts everything from silent-era two-reelers and vintage travelogues to rare film noirs, golden-era...
Thursday 4/22 @ Edward Cella Art + Architecture
Edward Cella Gallery wears its worldview on its sleeve, or at least its nameplate, being dedicated to investigating the myriad ways...
Thursday 4/22 @ DNJ Gallery
The often-haunting nightscapes of Night Lights reveal how city environments can become both isolating and poetic with the absence of daylight....
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ Western Project
Being just the second exhibition at its freshly-opened (aka expensively renovated) Culver City location (new from a previous CC place a...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Thursday 4/22 @ Mark Taper Forum
It's always refreshing to see a work that speaks with such striking originality; it reaffirms the value in taking risks. Playwright...
Thursday 4/22 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Chris Natrop is an installation artist by nature, known for his labor-intensive, room-engulfing sculptural environments constructed of cut and painted elements....
Thursday 4/22 @ Laemmle's Music Hall 3
Laemmle's says: In her feature-film debut, renowned visual artist Shirin Neshat offers an exquisitely crafted view of Iran in 1953, when...
Thursday 4/22 @ The Hive Gallery & Studios
The Hive Gallery is the artistic home to over 25 resident studio visionaries based in Southern California. In honor of its...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Thursday 4/22 @ 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 4/22 @ 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 4/22 @ The Autry National Center of the American West
The terminus of Manifest Destiny has produced an unparalleled convergence of cultures, and by using methodologies such as cultural, social, and...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ The Cravens Estate
The artistry and innovation of the designers, landscapers, and artisans involved in this year's Pasadena Showcase House is as inspirational and...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ Underground Gallery
Underground Gallery says: Club Med is a solo exhibition by Anne Martens featuring sewn mixed-media sculpture and installation. In Club Med,...
New: An Experimental Rock Opera
Thursday 4/22 @ Million Dollar Theater
Downtown's historic Million Dollar Theater opens its doors for two nights to a homegrown art production that features live music by...
Britton Tolliver: A Search for the Sky Underneath the Dirt
Thursday 4/22 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Tolliver's vivid paintings engage a successful and intense marriage of abstraction and geometric rendering, and at times his forms seem to...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Thursday 4/22 @ 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 4/22 @ 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 4/22 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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,...
Gronk: Live-Action Mural Painting
Thursday 4/22 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
The Fowler Museum says: Visit the Fowler Museum to meet celebrated Chicano artist Gronk, and watch him create a site-specific...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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 4/22 @ The Geffen Playhouse
Almost immediately after William Lindsay Gresham's Nightmare Alley was first published in 1946, quintessential Hollywood hunk, Tyrone Power, bought the movie...
Thursday 4/22 @ Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum says: This spring the Hammer Museum presents The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New...
Thursday 4/22 @ Various LA locations
"More than a century ago, composer Richard Wagner conceived his epic four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen as a festival event...
Thursday 4/22 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
LA Opera's presentation of The Stigmatized, considered one of opera's most obscure acts, makes a worthy return to the spotlight. As...
Thursday 4/22 @ Peter Fetterman Gallery
A survey spanning several decades of Caponigro's innovative classicism in still life and landscape, this is quite simply one of the...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Thursday 4/22 @ 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 4/22 @ SCI-Arc
After studying architecture in the '50s, Sir Peter Cook exhibited at ICA (where he later served as director), and co-founded Archigram,...
Thursday 4/22 @ Track 16 Gallery
Mike Watt, former bassist of San Pedro '80s punk band Minutemen, debuts his latest turn tonight: photography. The iconic rocker, who...
Thursday 4/22 @ Natural History Museum
One of the Natural History Museum's most eagerly anticipated annual events is its Pavilion of Wings — the installation of living,...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 4/22 @ 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...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Thursday 4/22 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Showcasing more than 100 illustrations and texts from time-honored classics and popular favorites, this new exhibition guides audiences through the colorful...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Thursday 4/22 @ 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 4/22 @ 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...
Thursday 4/22 @ 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 4/22 @ Cinespace
The party Thursday evening is at Cinespace. See why everyone in Hollywood is talking about our new Thursdays. Ladies free before...
Thursday 4/22 @ The GRAMMY Museum
The GRAMMY Museum's third major special exhibit, Strange Kozmic Experience explores the innovations, legacies, and continual impact of the artists who...
Americas and Americans: Dudamel Conducts Bernstein
Thursday 4/22 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Composed almost all on the road, Bernstein's Symphony No. 2 (subtitled after W.H. Auden's poem) is a...
Carl Hancock Rux: Poesia Negra: Race, Sex and the Myth of the American Mytopia
Thursday 4/22 @ REDCAT
"Phenomenal charisma." The Village Voice "Mr. Rux's ideas have the urgency and passion of actions." The New York Times ...
