Events on Thursday, July 29
Thursday 7/29 @ Skirball Cultural Center
KCRW favorite Natacha Atlas is on the sexy, progressive edge of the re-emergent world music genre. She sets a high bar...
Thursday 7/29 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
LACMA says: Special Screening
1992/color/123 min. | Scr: Michael Tolkin; dir: Robert Altman; w/ Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward,...
Thursday 7/29 @ V Lounge
V Lounge hosts this fundraiser and musical benefit concert to raise awareness and support for the victims of the Nashville floods...
A Conversation with Petro Vlahos
Thursday 7/29 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Cooley High & The Last Dragon w/ Michael Schultz In Person
Thursday 7/29 @ Egyptian Theatre
After beginning his career as a theater director, Michael Schultz turned to film and television in an age when African-American directors...
Nite Jewel w/ Memoryhouse and Kisses (DJ set) @ The Echoplex
Thursday 7/29 @ The Echo & Echoplex
The Echoplex says: Nite Jewel || Listen || Watch It's an El Niño year, and clots of kidney-colored rain clouds are...
Target Video presents So Cal Punk Rockers
Thursday 7/29 @ The Cinefamily
WATCH CLIP
Co-presented by Part Time Punks
In 1977, San Francisco-based artist Joe Rees founded...
Author Jonathan Tropper @ Book Soup (This Is Where I Leave You)
Thursday 7/29 @ Book Soup
In-Store Event
Jonathan Tropper presents and signs This is Where I Leave You
Date: July...
Nathaniel Rateliff w/ Pearly Gate Music and Horse Thieves @ The Echo
Thursday 7/29 @ The Echo & Echoplex
The Echo says: Nathaniel Ratecliff || Listen It had been rough on all of their bodies, there’s no doubt about...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 7/29 @ Khastoo Gallery
Khastoo Gallery says: "After the cursing comes laughter, so that the soul is saved from the dead. " -Carl Gustav Jung,...
Thursday 7/29 @ 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 7/29 @ Staples Center
X-Games 16 says: X GAMES 16 starts this Thursday, July 29 - August 1, Live in Los Angeles! You don't want...
Thursday 7/29 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The Pasadena Museum of California Art has been a longtime supporter of our state's bountiful design legacy, and its biennial recognizes...
Thursday 7/29 @ Country Club LA
Country Club says: Country Club Los Angeles is pleased to announce that Kori Newkirk will be the next artist in the...
Thursday 7/29 @ PØST
The plan for July at beloved experimental art space PØST is as simple as the results are mercurial and eclectic. Thirty-one...
Thursday 7/29 @ GR2
Buff Monster's candy-coated, anime-inspired world riffing on the "Superflat" style is populated by kaiju-esque characters occupying quasi-geometric environments rendered in a...
Thursday 7/29 @ Pacific Design Center
The miniature, indoor gallery district on the Blue Whale's second, and now third, floors welcomes new shows from original residents and...
Thursday 7/29 @ La Luz de Jesus
The go-to store for modern-day kitsch, offbeat literature, and other forms of esoterica, Wacko also harbors a pair of healthy-sized art...
The Curious World of Patent Models and The Future of Objects
Thursday 7/29 @ 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...
The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen
Thursday 7/29 @ 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 7/29 @ Various Pasadena locations
Old Pasadena Film Festival says:
Old Pasadena Management presents the Old Pasadena Film Festival, a free three-week movie series that...
The Neon Art of Bill Concannon
Thursday 7/29 @ 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...
Thursday 7/29 @ Otis College of Art and Design
From the Otis College of Art and Design comes the summer's first blockbuster art show — actually, an inspired pairing of...
Thursday 7/29 @ Subliminal Projects
Subliminal Projects says: Subliminal Projects is pleased to present The Homebody, a solo exhibition of new original works by Jim Houser....
Thursday 7/29 @ 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...
Thursday 7/29 @ 72andSunny Gallery
Jim Riswold's spirited compositions evoke child's play, with unlikely subjects selling subversive ideals while playfully mocking modern life. His intentionally dubious...
Thursday 7/29 @ 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...
Thursday 7/29 @ Samuel Freeman
Samuel Freeman Gallery says: A group show featuring works by Cassandra Glessner, Maggie Mull, Hedi Sorger, Michelle Wiener, and Jennifer Wolf,...
Thursday 7/29 @ 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...
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
Thursday 7/29 @ 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...
Thursday 7/29 @ 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...
Thursday 7/29 @ Theatre Asylum
Theatre Asylum says: The 1st annual Hollywood Fringe Festival has ended, but we at Theatre Asylum are not willing to let...
Thursday 7/29 @ Bert Green Fine Art
Bert Green Fine Art says: David Hollen constructs sculpture from industrial materials such as metal, wood, wire, rubber, and synthetic materials....
Thursday 7/29 @ LA Louver Gallery
Perhaps the easiest way to think of the work of iconic LA artist Tony Berlant, is to imagine a painter of...
Thursday 7/29 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Sting's slow-dance staple "Every Breath You Take" has inspired Kenneth Anger's surveillance-themed homo-erotic 2007 flick I'll Be Watching You and now,...
Thursday 7/29 @ 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 7/29 @ Pershing Square
Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles is meant to be the literal and symbolic center of the city; and while that's...
Patrick Graham and Arshile Gorky
Thursday 7/29 @ 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...
New Original Works Festival 2010: Program Two
Thursday 7/29 @ REDCAT
Following the explosive, standing-room only success of Program One, the New Original Works Festival changes the mood a bit; the second...
Thursday 7/29 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
John Baldessari is much more than a well-known LA art-world figure. He's one of the most honored and acclaimed visual artists...
Thursday 7/29 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
Hangin' Together assembles a divergent group of new-kids-on-the-block and art-world veterans for a cool summer show at Koplin del Rio. Curated...
Thursday 7/29 @ Carmichael Gallery
Carmichael Gallery says: Carmichael Gallery is pleased to present THE UNCOVERING, a powerful cross section of new photography by Serbian native...
Chad Person: Surviving the End of Your World
Thursday 7/29 @ Mark Moore Gallery
New Mexico-based multimedia artist Chad Person creates beautifully crafted, ironic indictments of society's most dangerous flaws. In TaxCut, Person shreds US...
Thursday 7/29 @ A&I Hollywood
Digital photography is one of the most small-D democratic art forms in the world, providing access to a truly universal means...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 7/29 @ 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...
Thursday 7/29 @ The Farley Building
Mike Kelley is one of the most influential artists ever to come out of Los Angeles. Though he works across every...
Thursday 7/29 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Thursday 7/29 @ The Hi-Lite
Multi-talent Reuben Cox is truly old school: he recently opened a Silverlake guitar store called Old Style, and when not making...
Thursday 7/29 @ Crewest Gallery
Are your lady friends always saying that you need more culture? Well, prepare to get in touch with your inner female...
Thursday 7/29 @ Luis de Jesus Los Angeles
South Carolina-based artist Karen Ann Myers paints pictures of the beauty women desire, often at the expense of their own sanity....
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Thursday 7/29 @ Celebration Theatre
Part Glee, part A Star Is Born, [title of show] tells the story of two unemployed New Yorkers writing and directing...
Thursday 7/29 @ Arena 1
By turns whimsical and ominous, the work of the 16 artists curated into Signs of the Forest share little in the...
Vicious Circle and Surface Tension
Thursday 7/29 @ Young Projects at the Pacific Design Center
Young Projects at the Pacific Design Center presents a pair of divergent exhibits that both challenge the boundaries of video art...
Thursday 7/29 @ New Image Art
Ohio-born Kime Buzzelli is the woman behind Echo Park's art boutique and vintage couturier Show Pony, but not only does the...
Some Assembly Required: race, gender, and globalization
Thursday 7/29 @ 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...
Thursday 7/29 @ 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 7/29 @ Gallery Brown
Not only has John Lurie starred in a string of Jim Jarmusch films in the '80s, he's written and directed the...
Thursday 7/29 @ 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...
Thursday 7/29 @ Cinespace
The party Thursday evening is at Cinespace. See why everyone in Hollywood is talking about our new Thursdays. Ladies free before...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Thursday 7/29 @ 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...
Saturday High and Art Center for Kids Weeklong Summer Workshops
Thursday 7/29 @ Art Center College of Design
Saturday High and Art Center for Kids offer an expanded series of five-day classes in the summer, designed to give young...
Thursday 7/29 @ The Groundlings Theatre
Since 1992 The Groundlings Main Company, Alumni and Sunday Companies have played together every Thursday night in the all-improv explosion that...
Thursday 7/29 @ 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...
Thursday 7/29 @ 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...
Thursday 7/29 @ 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...
George Segal: The Expulsion, feat. photographs of the artist at work by Donald Lokuta
Thursday 7/29 @ 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...
Chuck Jones: An Animator's Life From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
Thursday 7/29 @ 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...
Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs
Thursday 7/29 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Thursday 7/29 @ 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...
