Events on Thursday, June 10

Lina Lecaro: <em>Los Angeles's Best Dive Bars</em> Book Launch and Signing Party

Party

Los Angeles's Best Dive Bars

Thursday 6/10 @ La Luz de Jesus

Native Angeleno and veteran LA Weekly nightlife writer Lina Lecaro has been unearthing some of LA's most dazzling hidden gems, especially... 

Marine Poetry Reading feat. Andrew Maxwell, Sophie Sills, John Tottenham, and Eve Wood

Books: Poetry

Marine Poetry Reading

Thursday 6/10 @ Marine

One silver lining to art-world downsizing is the resurgence of the private salon, made famous by the 19th and 20th century... 

FLUX Screening Series

Film: Shorts

FLUX Screening Series

Thursday 6/10 @ Hammer Museum

FLUX says: Summer awaits you at FLUX Screening Series at the Hammer Museum. Curating quarterly screenings of innovative short films and... 

Timur and the Dime Museum

Music: Experimental

Timur and the Dime Museum

Thursday 6/10 @ Los Angeles Public Library: Central Library

Timur and the Dime Museum's audacious calliope of crooning can be as dizzying as falling in love or massive enough beat... 

Billabong's 4th Annual Design For Humanity

Special Event: Benefit

Design For Humanity

Thursday 6/10 @ Paramount Studios

Electroclash duo Fischerspooner headline the 4th Annual Design For Humanity, a mammoth fashion-music-art block party housed on Paramount Studio's five-acre "New... 

Jesse Malin w/ Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants (of the Foo Fighters)

Music

Jesse Malin w/ Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants (of the Foo Fighters)

Thursday 6/10 @ Bootleg Theater

After three critically acclaimed solo records, dozens of world tours and TV appearances, Jesse Malin found himself back in New York... 

<em>From Here to Eternity</em> (digitally restored)

Film

From Here to Eternity (digitally restored)

Thursday 6/10 @ Egyptian Theatre

Digitally Restored FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, 1953, Sony Repertory, 118 min. Dir. Fred Zinnemann. This 1953 Oscar winner (for Best Picture,... 

An Evening with Brad Neely (feat. <em>Wizard People</em>, <em>Dear Reader</em>)

Film: Animation

An Evening with Brad Neely (feat. Wizard People, Dear Reader)

Thursday 6/10 @ The Cinefamily

VIEW CLIPS

SuperDeluxe.com animation star Brad Neely makes a one-night-only appearance at the Cinefamily to screen favorite selections... 

Tish Cohen: <i>The Truth about Delilah Blue</i>

Books: Reading

Tish Cohen: The Truth about Delilah Blue

Thursday 6/10 @ Book Soup

Tish Cohen presents and signs The Truth about Delilah Blue. Publisher Comments:... 

Ongoing Events

<em>EuroTrash</em>: JR, Vhils, Conor Harrington, and Antony Micallef

Art

EuroTrash

Thursday 6/10 @ Lazarides Gallery Beverly Hills

Lazarides is something of an organized art ring that stretches from London to New York, and lately LA, known for bringing... 

<em>Fierce Beauty: The Art Work of Linda Vallejo</em>

Art

Linda Vallejo

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

Hurley's )( Space Gallery feat. Mike Stilkey

Art

Hurley's )( Space Gallery feat. Mike Stilkey

Thursday 6/10 @ Hurley's )( Space

Mike Stilkey makes art with books — not in the sense of art in book form, but using books themselves as... 

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

Art

The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River

Thursday 6/10 @ 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.... 

Yukinori Dehara: <em>The Jizo</em>

Art

Yukinori Dehara

Thursday 6/10 @ GR2

Giant Robot is proud to host The Jizo, an art show featuring new work by Yukinori Dehara. Dehara's hand-painted clay depictions... 

Tim Hawkinson

Art

Tim Hawkinson

Thursday 6/10 @ Blum & Poe

Blum & Poe says: Tim Hawkinson's practice is known for its sprawling surrealistic self-portraiture in which the body, through intense introspection,... 

Hiroshige: Visions of Japan

Art

Hiroshige: Visions of Japan

Thursday 6/10 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art

Think of iconic Japanese print-maker Hiroshige as a kind of Andy Warhol of his day, crossed with a staff photographer for... 

<em>In the Presence of Paul Caponigro</em>

Art: Photography

Paul Caponigro

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

<em>Darkwave: Eight Artist-Surfers Explore Surfing and the Violence of the City </em> <em> </em>

Art

Darkwave: Surfing and the Violence of the City

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

Ashley Gibbons: <em>Coquettish Modernisms</em>

Art

Ashley Gibbons

Thursday 6/10 @ Edgar Varela Fine Arts

In photographs, and even in person at a slight distance, certain of Ashley Gibbons' images might be mistaken for painting —... 

Dagmara Wyskiel: <em>Between Water and Time</em>

Art: Photography

Dagmara Wyskiel

Thursday 6/10 @ ADC Contemporary Art Gallery

ADC Contemporary Art Gallery says: This exhibition includes a recent production consisting of videos and installations which build a... 

<em>Ring Festival LA</em>

Festival

Ring Festival LA

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

Edward Walton Wilcox: <em>Fanatic</em>

Art

Edward Walton Wilcox

Thursday 6/10 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery

LA painter Edward Walton Wilcox is not afraid of paradox; and his darkly romantic, evasively poignant pictures benefit from this fearlessness.... 

Jim McHugh: <em>Let's Get Lost</em>

Art: Photography

Jim McHugh

Thursday 6/10 @ Timothy Yarger Fine Art

As the grandson of a golden-era Hollywood songwriter, acclaimed photographer Jim McHugh is heir to a particular experience and vision of... 

<em>Micmacs</em>

Film

Micmacs

Thursday 6/10 @ Various Los Angeles theaters

Amélie and Delicatessen director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Micmacs merges slapstick comedy with social conscience and political satire to create a film that’s... 

<em>Booked</em>

Art

Booked

Thursday 6/10 @ Carmichael Gallery

Carmichael Gallery is proud to announce Booked, a group exhibition featuring over 35 of the leading figures in contemporary urban art.... 

Lun*na Menoh: <em>A Ring Around the Collar, Musicians</em>

Art

Lun*na Menoh

Thursday 6/10 @ Track 16 Gallery

Lun*na Menoh's comprehensive body of work includes a standing gig with Japanese art-rock band Seksu Roba, a piece in the Victoria... 

Patrick Graham: <em>fact of the matter</em> and Arshile Gorky: <em>sketchbook drawings</em>

Art

Patrick Graham and Arshile Gorky

Thursday 6/10 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts

Continuing its tradition of illuminating scholarship on modern and contemporary painting, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts presents one of its most ambitious... 

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

Art: Photography

Water: Our Thirsty World

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

<em>Kink: The Seduction of Art</em>

Art

Kink: The Seduction of Art

Thursday 6/10 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery

Aside perhaps from bowls of fruit, no subject matter is more prevalent in fine art than the human body — usually... 

<em>Some Assembly Required: race, gender, and globalization</em>

Art

Some Assembly Required: race, gender, and globalization

Thursday 6/10 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum

A series of events is presented in conjunction with Some Assembly Required, the unique, exuberant, and powerful current exhibition of assemblage... 

Pierre Picot: <em>Collaborations with...</em>

Art

Pierre Picot

Thursday 6/10 @ Jancar Gallery

Los Angeles artist Pierre Picot has called half of his current exhibition at Chinatown's Jancar Gallery Collaborations with... in part because... 

Ojai Music Festival

Festival: Music

Ojai Music Festival

Thursday 6/10 @ Libbey Bowl

Building on a tradition that spans five decades, the legendary Ojai Music Festival is known around the world for its top-notch... 

Jennifer Celio: <em>I wanna be here in my city</em>

Art

Jennifer Celio

Thursday 6/10 @ Phantom Galleries LA: Long Beach

Phantom Galleries says: Phantom Galleries is pleased to present a one-person exhibition of drawings by Long Beach based-artist Jennifer Celio curated... 

Sandy de Lissovoy and David Kelley: <em>Survival-based Camp</em> / Tanya Haden: <em>The Thoughts and Feelings of an Elephant</em> / Beatriz Monteavaro: <em>We Saw Creatures</em>

Art

Sandy de Lissovoy and David Kelley / Tanya Haden / Beatriz Monteavaro

Thursday 6/10 @ Las Cienegas Projects

Las Cienegas Projects says: Sandy de Lissovoy and David Kelley have engaged in a year-long, bi-coastal collaboration ultimately aimed... 

Won Ju Lin: <em>Baroque Pet Shop</em>

Art

Won Ju Lin: Baroque Pet Shop

Thursday 6/10 @ Patrick Painter Gallery

Sculptor and installation artist Won Ju Lin has always had an interest in architecture as an element of her visual art,... 

Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company presents the Wicked Wilde Shakespeare Festival

Theatre

The Wicked Wilde Shakespeare Festival

Thursday 6/10 @ Miles Memorial Playhouse

Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company is renowned for their all-female versions of classic plays, a variation on the Shakespearean practice of... 

<em>Recycled, Reclaimed, and Reinvented: The Neon Art of Bill Concannon</em>

Art

The Neon Art of Bill Concannon

Thursday 6/10 @ Museum of Neon Art

Neon signs, once referred to by Tom Wolfe as a 20th-century American folk art, have long been an obsession of Bill... 

Ori Gersht: Places <em>That Were Not</em>

Art

Ori Gersht

Thursday 6/10 @ Angles Gallery

Angles Gallery says:

Angles Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new photographs by Ori Gersht, Places... 

Scion presents <em>Palate: Food as Muse</em><em> </em>

Art

Palate: Food as Muse

Thursday 6/10 @ The Scion Installation LA Space

For those of you who think hors d'oeuvres are the highlight of the average art exhibit, Scion presents a showcase where... 

Pavilion of Wings

Special Event

Pavilion of Wings

Thursday 6/10 @ Natural History Museum

One of the Natural History Museum's most eagerly anticipated annual events is its Pavilion of Wings — the installation of living,... 

Marie Jager: <em>The Big Nowhere</em>

Art

Marie Jager

Thursday 6/10 @ François Ghebaly Gallery

François Ghebaly says: The exhibition will include paintings, prints and works on paper. In her Pollution Painting series, Marie Jager makes... 

<em>It's a Musical World</em>

Performing Arts: Puppetry

It's a Musical World

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

Michael Underwood: <em>Dispensaries</em>

Art: Photography

Dispensaries

Thursday 6/10 @ The End

In some of the most spectacular examples of adaptive reuse, medical marijuana dispensaries have rapidly cropped up across the Southland, staking... 

LA Opera: <em>The Ring Cycle</em> <em>(Der Ring des Nibelungen)</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

The Ring Cycle

Thursday 6/10 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

"This summer, LA Opera unveils the first complete performances of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen ever presented in Los Angeles... 

West of Rome presents Mike Kelley and Michael Smith: <em>A Voyage of Growth and Discovery</em>

Art

Mike Kelley and Michael Smith

Thursday 6/10 @ The Farley Building

Mike Kelley is one of the most influential artists ever to come out of Los Angeles. Though he works across every... 

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

Art

The Never-Ending Story

Thursday 6/10 @ Royal/T

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

Hacienda Hot Springs

Getaways

Hacienda Hot Springs

Thursday 6/10 @ Hacienda Hot Springs

A mission-style oasis in the Coachella Valley, Hacienda Hot Springs isn't your ordinary spa destination. Between the homemade granola and the... 

Skullphone: <em>Digital Media</em>

Art

Skullphone

Thursday 6/10 @ Subliminal Projects

We just received an intriguing teaser video from Skullphone for his upcoming show this Saturday at Subliminal Projects and wanted to... 

<em>The Alchemy of Things Unknown: a visual meditation on transformation</em>

Art

The Alchemy of Things Unknown

Thursday 6/10 @ Khastoo Gallery

Khastoo Gallery says: "After the cursing comes laughter, so that the soul is saved from the dead. " -Carl Gustav Jung,... 

Shizuko Greenblatt: <em>Japanese Character Series</em> and <em>Fusion Ikebana II </em>

Art

Shizuko Greenblatt

Thursday 6/10 @ Pacific Asia Museum-

The Pacific Asia Museum says:   In this exhibition, Shizuko Greenblatt explores a new mode of calligraphy on canvas as... 

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

Art

Sumi Ink Club: Sumi Room

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

Mark Licari: <em>The Finishes that Stand the Test</em>

Art

Mark Licari

Thursday 6/10 @ Honor Fraser

Honor Fraser Gallery says: Mark Licari is known for his strikingly original vision of worlds in which the ordinary spins playfully... 

<em>Jews on Vinyl</em>

Special Event

Jews on Vinyl

Thursday 6/10 @ Skirball Cultural Center

Jews on Vinyl is an auditory history of the influence of Jewish traditions on American pop culture from 1948, the year... 

Serban Savu: <em>Unimportant Stories</em>

Art

Serban Savu

Thursday 6/10 @ Mihai Nicodim Gallery

Mihai Nicodim Gallery is pleased to present Unimportant Stories, the second solo show in the gallery of the Romanian artist Serban Savu.... 

Orly Cogan: <em>Love Street</em>

Art

Orly Cogan

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

Corpse Flower blossoming

City Gems

Corpse Flower blossoming

Thursday 6/10 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

Every few years the giant corpse flower (Amorphophallus Titanium) blooms into an elegant, impressive flora, and smells like a rotting corpse.... 

<em>Blood Into Wine</em>

Film: Documentary

Blood Into Wine

Thursday 6/10 @ RDM Beverly Center 13

It's no mystery that enigmatic mega-rocker Maynard James Keenan (Tool, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer) has proven his talents in a number... 

Alan Shaffer

Art: Photography

Alan Shaffer

Thursday 6/10 @ Capri Restaurant

Venice Beach is legendary for being home to generations of the most important and/or intriguing artists LA has ever produced, among... 

<em>The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs</em>

Art

The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs

Thursday 6/10 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

American furniture designer Charles Rohlfs (1853–1936) found inspiration in Art Nouveau, Asian, English, German, and Moorish designs, yet his own style... 

<em>Home Lands: How Women Made the West</em>

Art

Home Lands

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

Joel Kyack: <em>Superclogger</em>

Art

Joel Kyack: Superclogger

Thursday 6/10 @ Various locations

LAXART says: Launching June 1st, 2010 with a special showing at LAXART from 7-10pm, Superclogger will mark Los Angeles-based artist Joel... 

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

Special Event

Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

Fang Ling-An: <em>Everything is Stitching Together Simultaneously </em>

Art

Fang Ling-An

Thursday 6/10 @ CB1 Gallery

Chicago-based mixed media sculptor and installation artist Fang Ling-An remixes elements of the traditional and the contemporary, the spiritual and the... 

Monika Rittershaus: <em>LA Ring in Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

LA Ring in Photographs

Thursday 6/10 @ Ruth Bachofner Gallery

Ruth Bachofner Gallery says: Monika's Rittershaus' photographs of LA Opera's first presentation of Richard Wagner's epic masterwork Der Ring Des Nibelungen... 

The Last Chapbook Project

Books: Reading

The Last Chapbook Project

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

Arne Svenson: <em>The Library</em>

Art

Arne Svenson: The Library

Thursday 6/10 @ Western Project

Arne Svenson's latest exhibition draws on his own extensive personal archives of torn-out pages, photographs, scraps, and other sundry paper-best memorabiliac... 

<em>The Curious World of Patent Models</em> and <em>The Future of Objects</em>

Special Event

The Curious World of Patent Models and The Future of Objects

Thursday 6/10 @ Art Center College of Design

As testament of the ceaselessly inventive American mind and geared towards lifestyle improvement, The Curious World of Patent Models produces myriad... 

Ellen de Meutter: <em>Writings on the Wall</em>

Art

Ellen de Meutter

Thursday 6/10 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery

Roberts & Tilton says: Roberts & Tilton is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Belgium based artist Ellen... 

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

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

COLA Individual Artist Fellowships

Art

COLA Individual Artist Fellowships

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

<em>The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen</em>

Art

The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

<em>Over There</em>

Art

Over There

Thursday 6/10 @ Muzeumm

Through various media and means, the artists in Over There traverse themes of movement, journey, and place through straightforward and/or circuitous... 

<em>420: Cannabis as Art</em>

Art

420: Cannabis as Art

Thursday 6/10 @ Antebellum Gallery

The legend goes, 420 first came into existence in 1971 after a group of California high school students met each day... 

Gravity Works

Theatre

Gravity Works

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

<em>Never Very Far Apart</em>

Art

Never Very Far Apart

Thursday 6/10 @ REDCAT

Never Very Far Apart

Curated by Ryan Inouye
... 

George Segal: <em>The Expulsion</em>, feat. photographs of the artist at work by Donald Lokuta

Art

George Segal: The Expulsion, feat. photographs of the artist at work by Donald Lokuta

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

<em>Strange Kozmic Experience</em>

Special Event

Strange Kozmic Experience

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

<em>Chuck Jones: An Animator's Life From A to Z-Z-Z-Z</em>

Art

Chuck Jones: An Animator's Life From A to Z-Z-Z-Z

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Special Event

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

<em>Plants, Flowers and Fruits</em>: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs

Special Event

Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

Ben Weiner : <em>Material and Illusion</em>

Art

Ben Weiner : Material and Illusion

Thursday 6/10 @ Mark Moore Gallery

... 

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity

Art

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

<em>Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books</em>

Special Event

Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books

Thursday 6/10 @ 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... 

Reload Thursdays

Music

Reload Thursdays

Thursday 6/10 @ Cinespace

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