Events on Thursday, August 5
Thursday 8/ 5 @ LAUNCH_LA
Tonight's event benefits LAUNCH, a new non-profit dedicated to unearthing the best in local contemporary art. Featuring original artwork by Fumiko...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Santa Monica Pier
Music legend and former local resident (she lived on Westminster Ave in Venice during a pivotal time in her early career),...
Rob Reiner In Person! STAND BY ME & THE PRINCESS BRIDE
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature: STAND BY ME, 1986, Sony Repertory, 89 min. One of the most classic and quotable coming-of-age films ever made,...
Sunset Concert: Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Skirball Cultural Center
A multiple Grammy Award-nominated band, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys share irresistibly danceable and heartfelt performances of Cajun French music...
Out of This World: The Science of Space Movies
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
A fun and educational night using physics concepts to analyze famous scenes from films like Apollo 13, Contact and Star Trek,...
KCRW presents... Everest w/ Mini Mansions and Pacific Hurt
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Bootleg Theater
EVEREST While one can draw some clues from the folks they've toured with - Neil Young, Wilco, My Morning Jacket -...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Book Soup
Synopsis:
Fifteen years ago, Anna Mayhew won an Oscar for Best Actress. Rich, famous, and beautiful, she had the world...
Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines And Mystery Of Raymond Scott
Thursday 8/ 5 @ The Cinefamily
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Deconstructing Dad... - 8:00pm
One of the true enigmas of 20th-century music, Harry Warnow --...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Jews on Vinyl is an auditory history of the influence of Jewish traditions on American pop culture from 1948, the year...
Patrick Graham and Arshile Gorky
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Hammer Museum
It's already too late to drop your plants off at the Hammer Museum for Machine Project and artist Lisa Anne Auerbach's...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ 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...
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Thursday 8/ 5 @ Celebration Theatre
Part Glee, part A Star Is Born, [title of show] tells the story of two unemployed New Yorkers writing and directing...
Some Assembly Required: race, gender, and globalization
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ 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...
The Curious World of Patent Models and The Future of Objects
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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....
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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....
New Original Works Festival 2010: Program Three
Thursday 8/ 5 @ REDCAT
The third and final installment of the 2010 New Original Works Festival offers a triple bill of work by figures already...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ Carmichael Gallery
Carmichael Gallery says: Carmichael Gallery is pleased to present THE UNCOVERING, a powerful cross section of new photography by Serbian native...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ Huntington Beach Surf Stadium
US Open of Surfing says: 2010 U.S. OPEN OF SURFING is ramping up to a new level this year delivering NINE...
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ 1642
Members of old-timey folk ensemble Triple Chicken Foot live within stumbling distance of Echo Park's 1642, and as dutiful purveyors of...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ HVW8 Art + Design Gallery
Bill McMullen's new exhibition, Checks Cashed, relates to his previous LA show Hype, Hustle, Rip-Off, but then takes things to a...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ Pershing Square
Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles is meant to be the literal and symbolic center of the city; and while that's...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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...
The Neon Art of Bill Concannon
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ Hold Up Art
The premise of Hold Up Art's next group show is both powerful and a little bit wistful, as the curators of...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Arena 1
By turns whimsical and ominous, the work of the 16 artists curated into Signs of the Forest share little in the...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ 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...
The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ Theatre Asylum
Theatre Asylum says: The 1st annual Hollywood Fringe Festival has ended, but we at Theatre Asylum are not willing to let...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ 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...
Vicious Circle and Surface Tension
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Chad Person: Surviving the End of Your World
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ Subliminal Projects
Subliminal Projects says: Subliminal Projects is pleased to present The Homebody, a solo exhibition of new original works by Jim Houser....
Thursday 8/ 5 @ Samuel Freeman
Samuel Freeman Gallery says: A group show featuring works by Cassandra Glessner, Maggie Mull, Hedi Sorger, Michelle Wiener, and Jennifer Wolf,...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Not Content: Unnatural Acts Taking its name from the historic collaborative writing marathons led by Bernadette Mayer...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Chuck Jones: An Animator's Life From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Saturday High and Art Center for Kids Weeklong Summer Workshops
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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...
George Segal: The Expulsion, feat. photographs of the artist at work by Donald Lokuta
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ Cinespace
The party Thursday evening is at Cinespace. See why everyone in Hollywood is talking about our new Thursdays. Ladies free before...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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...
Thursday 8/ 5 @ 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 8/ 5 @ 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...
