Events on Thursday, April 8
Thursday 4/ 8 @ Los Angeles Athletic Club
The newly-formed Los Angeles Visionaries Association (LAVA) extends Downtown LA's cultural and intellectual renaissance with a series of Sunday Salons at...
Thursday 4/ 8 @ Book Soup
Several authors of the celebrated "Noir Series" from Akashic books will be presenting and signing copies of Los Angeles Noir 2:...
"Gothic Noir" Double Feature: SO EVIL MY LOVE and EXPERIMENT PERILOUS
Thursday 4/ 8 @ Egyptian Theatre
Thursday, April 8 – 7:30 PM Gothic Noir Double Feature: SO EVIL MY LOVE, 1948, Universal, 112 min. Dir. Lewis...
Ongoing Events
Jeff Koegel and Gregory Euclide
Thursday 4/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Underground Gallery
Underground Gallery says: Club Med is a solo exhibition by Anne Martens featuring sewn mixed-media sculpture and installation. In Club Med,...
Thursday 4/ 8 @ 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...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Thursday 4/ 8 @ 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....
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Thursday 4/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 8 @ DNJ Gallery
The often-haunting nightscapes of Night Lights reveal how city environments can become both isolating and poetic with the absence of daylight....
4th International Exhibition with Thailand
Thursday 4/ 8 @ 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....
Thursday 4/ 8 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Thomas Adès is one of the brightest stars in the British classical vanguard, but he increasingly finds inspiration and critical appreciation...
Thursday 4/ 8 @ 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...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Thursday 4/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since W.W.II
Thursday 4/ 8 @ 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...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Thursday 4/ 8 @ 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 4/ 8 @ Jancar Gallery
Los Angeles artist Mery Lynn McCorkle exhibits new mixed-media works combining rich, saturated colors with visceral, almost topographic textures, distressed surfaces,...
Thursday 4/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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 4/ 8 @ 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 4/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ CB1 Gallery
The current exhibition — just the second at Downtown's freshly-minted CB1 Gallery — is a three-person show of diverse works in...
Thursday 4/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Thursday 4/ 8 @ 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 4/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Track 16 Gallery
Mike Watt, former bassist of San Pedro '80s punk band Minutemen, debuts his latest turn tonight: photography. The iconic rocker, who...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 4/ 8 @ 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 4/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Britton Tolliver: A Search for the Sky Underneath the Dirt
Thursday 4/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 8 @ Cinespace
The party Thursday evening is at Cinespace. See why everyone in Hollywood is talking about our new Thursdays. Ladies free before...
Thursday 4/ 8 @ Mark Moore Gallery
On the heels of his solo booth at PULSE Contemporary Art Fair (New York), Kim Dorland returns to LA with nearly...
Thursday 4/ 8 @ 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...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Thursday 4/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
