Events on Thursday, April 29
Thursday 4/29 @ The Troubadour
Jamie Lidell has released a new video ahead of his album Compass (out May 17), which not only unveils his new...
Thursday 4/29 @ Largo at the Coronet Theater
One-woman band Emily Wells marries classical composition to hip-hop and jazz, using her loop pedal to cement the union. Wells has...
Burden of Dreams & Fitzcarraldo
Thursday 4/29 @ The Cinefamily
The Cinefamily hosts a double feature around the work of Werner Herzog, but this time, the guest of honor is Les...
Thursday 4/29 @ El Rey
You may think you know Rogue Wave inside and out, but nothing will prepare even the most attentive fan for the...
Sarah Silverman: The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
Thursday 4/29 @ Book Soup
Sarah Silverman presents and signs The Bedwetter. Whether coming clean about why a good fart joke makes her happy or explaining...
Time Travel Double Feature: Planet of the Apes & Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Thursday 4/29 @ Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature: PLANET OF THE APES, 1968, 20th Century Fox, 119 min. Dir. Franklin Schaffner. One of the greatest modern sci-fi...
His Name Is Alive w/ Pepper Rabbit and Arrows at Bootleg
Thursday 4/29 @ Bootleg Theater
HIS NAME IS ALIVE “A gorgeous accomplishment, pulling threads of American music-- folk, blues, r&b, gospel-- together with synthesizers and obsessive...
Seminar: Beyond Film Festivals
Thursday 4/29 @ Egyptian Theatre
Thursday, April 29 – 7:30 PM [Spielberg Theatre] BEYOND FILM FESTIVALS, 180 min. Do you dream...
Ongoing Events
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Thursday 4/29 @ 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...
South-East European Film Festival
Thursday 4/29 @ Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
The only festival in the USA to showcase films from the Balkans and surrounding countries, the fifth annual South-East European Film...
Thursday 4/29 @ SCI-Arc
After studying architecture in the '50s, Sir Peter Cook exhibited at ICA (where he later served as director), and co-founded Archigram,...
Jeff Koegel and Gregory Euclide
Thursday 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ Regen Projects
Photographer and UCLA faculty member Catherine Opie displays her new series of time-sensitive images taken from the deck of a container...
Thursday 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ Arclight Hollywood
To the common channel-flipper, Mexico onscreen is either some "aye-dios-mio" melodrama or an epic starring a few trim Zapata moustaches. Founded...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Thursday 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ 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...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Thursday 4/29 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Thursday 4/29 @ 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...
Thursday 4/29 @ Lazarides Gallery Beverly Hills
On the eve of the release of the new biographical documentary on his life so far, David Choe takes on the...
Thursday 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ Antebellum Gallery
The legend goes, 420 first came into existence in 1971 after a group of California high school students met each day...
Britton Tolliver: A Search for the Sky Underneath the Dirt
Thursday 4/29 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Tolliver's vivid paintings engage a successful and intense marriage of abstraction and geometric rendering, and at times his forms seem to...
Thursday 4/29 @ Arclight Hollywood
Directed by the notorious Banksy himself, Exit Through the Gift Shop takes viewers on a wild ride through the illicit world...
Thursday 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ CB1 Gallery
The thing about Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia is that, although nearly all his creative projects involve paint at some point, he's not...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Thursday 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum says: This spring the Hammer Museum presents The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New...
Thursday 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ 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...
Gronk: Live-Action Mural Painting
Thursday 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ 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...
Thursday 4/29 @ Downtown Independent Theater
The artists featured in the documentary Beautiful Losers were hardly the first to root their work in street art, but they...
4 x 4: Four Figurative Photographers
Thursday 4/29 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Kopeikin Gallery says: Four photographers present four images each.
Alison Brady: This body of work uses staged imagery...
No One Knows About Persian Cats
Thursday 4/29 @ Landmark Westside Pavilion
Under normal circumstances, most Americans over 30 wouldn't rush to see the latest independent quasi-documentary feature about a bunch of city...
Thursday 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Thursday 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ 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,...
Thursday 4/29 @ Charlie James Gallery
When Orly Cogan's work first gained international attention, it wasn't only for pressing the traditionally crafts-associated medium of embroidery into the...
Darkwave: Surfing and the Violence of the City
Thursday 4/29 @ USC Institute for Genetic Medicine Art Gallery
This expanded and recontextualized exhibition builds on last year's installation at Black Cat Gallery, to now involve the experiences of the...
Thursday 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ 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...
Thursday 4/29 @ Cinespace
The party Thursday evening is at Cinespace. See why everyone in Hollywood is talking about our new Thursdays. Ladies free before...
Thursday 4/29 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Utilizing pop and rock music as his source material, Bavington acts as a translator between the aural and visual. Guitar solos...
Thursday 4/29 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Thursday 4/29 @ 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 4/29 @ 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...
Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs
Thursday 4/29 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents an exhibition of twenty lithographs of botanical subjects by American artist Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923). Though...
Americas and Americans: Dudamel Conducts Estévez
Thursday 4/29 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Antonio Estévez’ atmospheric, folk-inspired Cantata Criolla, will be designed and staged by renowned filmmaker Alberto Arvelo...
Thursday 4/29 @ 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...
