Events on Thursday, May 20
Thursday 5/20 @ Pacific Design Center
Tonight more than half the fine art galleries on the PDC's second floor present opening receptions for new shows, and most...
Thursday 5/20 @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Laughing out loud in a cemetery can be inappropriate, but not in Hollywood. Comedy is Dead presents a talented group straight...
LACE Benefit Art Auction and Party
Thursday 5/20 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions is one of the pillars of brave, new contemporary art and performance-art on the west coast —...
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Thursday 5/20 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
A gang of merry musicians led by former Ima Robot frontman, Edward Sharpe (aka Alex Ebert), folk revival collective Edward Sharpe...
Thursday 5/20 @ The GRAMMY Museum
Join as The GRAMMY Museum welcomes country rock pioneer Chris Hillman to the Museum's state-of-the-art Sound Stage. Before an intimate audience...
Bruce Feiler—The Council of Dads
Thursday 5/20 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Bestselling author Bruce Feiler (Walking the Bible, America's Prophet) was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly...
Desperate Living & Wild At Heart
Thursday 5/20 @ The Cinefamily
Desperate Living - 8:00pm
John Waters’ first film without regular leading lady Divine is also one of his most extreme...
Akira Kurosawa Centennial: Kagemusha
Thursday 5/20 @ Egyptian Theatre
Kagemusha, 1980, 20th Century Fox, 179 min. Dir. Akira Kurosawa. When Lord Shingen Takeda is killed by an enemy sharp-shooter, a...
Elizabeth Eslami: Bone Worship
Thursday 5/20 @ Book Soup
Jasmine Fahroodhi has always been fascinated by her enigmatic Iranian father. With his strange habits and shrouded past, she can't fathom...
Not Just for Decoration: Color and Design in Cinema
Thursday 5/20 @ Egyptian Theatre
Learning how to define character and enhance story through an effective embrace of the design elements of cinema (art direction, color,...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 5/20 @ The Continental Gallery
Eco-conscious thespian and star of Entourage Adrian Grenier co-hosts the Downtown opening of the SHFT Gallery and Pop-Up Shop, a new...
4 x 4: Four Figurative Photographers
Thursday 5/20 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Kopeikin Gallery says: Four photographers present four images each.
Alison Brady: This body of work uses staged imagery...
Thursday 5/20 @ Muzeumm
Through various media and means, the artists in Over There traverse themes of movement, journey, and place through straightforward and/or circuitous...
Thursday 5/20 @ Bob Baker Marionette Theater
In a postmodern society with all its ironic trappings, the wholesome and irony-free Bob Baker Marionette Theater still reigns supreme with children's...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Thursday 5/20 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Thursday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ Antebellum Gallery
The legend goes, 420 first came into existence in 1971 after a group of California high school students met each day...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ Dogtown Station Lofts
Venice has always been a magnet for artists and other beachcombers, chic and scruffy alike, and its recent resurgence as an...
The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen
Thursday 5/20 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Long before the recent quasi-blockbuster version, there was the original Clash of the Titans, a 1981 tour de force starring Laurence...
Thursday 5/20 @ The Comedy Store
Legendary comedian Andy Kaufman's lounge-lizard persona, Tony Clifton, was an insider joke that struck at the very core of showbiz narcissism....
Thursday 5/20 @ François Ghebaly Gallery
François Ghebaly says: The exhibition will include paintings, prints and works on paper. In her Pollution Painting series, Marie Jager makes...
Thursday 5/20 @ Patrick Painter Gallery
Sculptor and installation artist Won Ju Lin has always had an interest in architecture as an element of her visual art,...
COLA Individual Artist Fellowships
Thursday 5/20 @ Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
This year's COLA (City of Los Angeles) Individual Artist Grants cover the visual, literary, and performing arts, carrying on the DCA's...
Thursday 5/20 @ Interweb Exclusively
Dublab says: The Dublab Open Wide Proton Drive fundraiser is happening May 11-27th, 2010. Labrat DJs and our extended family of...
Thursday 5/20 @ Bleicher/Golightly
Schwartz' subtle but saturated palette of pure pigment dried to a thick, earthen, frosting-like crust, follows an internal logic rather than...
Thursday 5/20 @ Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum says: This spring the Hammer Museum presents The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New...
Thursday 5/20 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Avant-garde film director and Dogme 95 member Harmony Korine delivers an example of neo-vérité sustainable cinema with his latest film, Trash Humpers, which chronicles the...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ Edgar Varela Fine Arts
In photographs, and even in person at a slight distance, certain of Ashley Gibbons' images might be mistaken for painting —...
Thursday 5/20 @ Pacific Asia Museum-
The Pacific Asia Museum says: In this exhibition, Shizuko Greenblatt explores a new mode of calligraphy on canvas as...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Thursday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
In the tradition of Paris' Theatre du Grand Guignol, LA's Grand Guignolers combine macabre storytelling with delightful performances. This time, the...
Thursday 5/20 @ CB1 Gallery
The thing about Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia is that, although nearly all his creative projects involve paint at some point, he's not...
Darkwave: Surfing and the Violence of the City
Thursday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ Thinkspace Gallery
Thinkspace Gallery says: In this new series Sommers aims to engage with the metaphor of Schlaraffenland, the world of plenty,...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Thursday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ La Luz de Jesus
Rogue Taxidermy as a movement of contemporary art is akin to the Radical Craft movement popular in recent years. Just as...
Thursday 5/20 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Jews on Vinyl is an auditory history of the influence of Jewish traditions on American pop culture from 1948, the year...
Thursday 5/20 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Thursday 5/20 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Jason Shawn Alexander's richly textured, expressively rendered, life-size figure drawings belong to a tradition of psychological fraught portraiture that links Egon...
Thursday 5/20 @ Plaza de la Raza
Plaza de la Raza says: Plaza de la Raza is pleased to announce a major retrospective of Linda Vallejo's wide-ranging...
Thursday 5/20 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
LA painter Edward Walton Wilcox is not afraid of paradox; and his darkly romantic, evasively poignant pictures benefit from this fearlessness....
Thursday 5/20 @ Cinespace
The party Thursday evening is at Cinespace. See why everyone in Hollywood is talking about our new Thursdays. Ladies free before...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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...
George Segal: The Expulsion, feat. photographs of the artist at work by Donald Lokuta
Thursday 5/20 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Experience George Segal's life-sized sculptural work The Expulsion, the generous gift of the George and Helen Segal Foundation, showcased in its...
Thursday 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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 5/20 @ 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...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
Chuck Jones: An Animator's Life From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
Thursday 5/20 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
An exhibition of the work of Oscar winner and master humorist Chuck Jones, representing his short animated films, features and TV...
Lionel Popkin: There is an Elephant in this Dance
Thursday 5/20 @ REDCAT
The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series presents Lionel Popkin: There is an Elephant in this Dance Los Angeles premiere. "Lovely....
Shout Out Louds w/ Freelance Whales and the Franks
Thursday 5/20 @ El Rey
Shout Out Louds are back at work. It only just dawned on them what the rest of us have known for...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Thursday 5/20 @ 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...
