Events on Thursday, September 2
United: Trailblazing Women Artists
Thursday 9/ 2 @ Art Share LA
A pillar of the Downtown Arts District and a powerful champion of grounding community service in the arts, Art Share LA...
Bitches Brew: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Miles Davis' Masterpiece
Thursday 9/ 2 @ The GRAMMY Museum
Join us for a very special evening at the GRAMMY Museum to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of Miles Davis' jazz-funk-rock masterpiece...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ The Cinefamily
The Circus finds The Tramp running afoul of the law and hiding out within the confines of a travelling three-ring operation;...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ Taste of Beverly Hills
Los Angeles Times has the Celebration of Food and Wine, so it makes sense Food and Wine magazine should have its...
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Thursday 9/ 2 @ Celebration Theatre
Part Glee, part A Star Is Born, [title of show] tells the story of two unemployed New Yorkers writing and directing...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ Hammer Museum
If you haven't gotten your invitation, the bad news is, you aren't likely to; but just so you know, conceptual art...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ Natural History Museum
One of the Natural History Museum's most eagerly anticipated annual events is its Pavilion of Wings — the installation of living,...
The Neon Art of Bill Concannon
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ Edgar Varela Fine Arts
A simple idea combines beauty with a hint of social commentary, as Edgar Varela Fine Arts hosts a twist on the...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ Various Los Angeles theaters
Mesrine: Killer Instinct is based on the autobiography of Jacques Mesrine, the legendary French gangster of the 1960s and 1970s who...
Some Assembly Required: race, gender, and globalization
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Neighbors: A Play with Cartoons
Thursday 9/ 2 @ The Matrix Theatre Company
Have you seen the new neighbors? Richard Patterson is an upwardly mobile African-American academic. The family of black actors who has...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ Rio Hondo College Art Gallery
In her latest series of photographic and video projections, Nicole Cohen expands upon previous subject matter and technological complexity, constructing layered,...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
The California State University Long Beach Fine Arts Round Table (FARt) begins this academic year with a group exhibition featuring work...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ Various Downtown locations
The Bicycle Film Festival gears up for its second year in LA and tenth anniversary internationally with five days of film,...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ Elephant Space
Parasite Drag is a powerful, lacerating drama with dark humor and storm warnings — both meteorological and emotional. Repressed Gene, about to...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ Project Space
What do the Who and LL Cool J have in common? Besides helping shape the street fashion, art, and even politics...
The Art of Ancient Greek Theater
Thursday 9/ 2 @ The Getty Villa
This exhibition explores the many ways Greek drama was interpreted by ancient Greek artists, whose works are frequently the only surviving...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ Various Los Angeles theaters
Following his mother's heroin overdose, 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody (James Frecheville) is unwittingly thrust into the core of a criminal underworld...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ The Downtown Standard Hotel
In recent years, the Standard, Downtown LA has fashioned itself as a bit of an adult playground. Well, if you've gotten your...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ LAUNCH_LA
Miracle Mile's newest art space hosts a solo show from Los Angeles artist Lola del Fresno, whose haunting, modern figurative paintings...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ Royal/T
Royal/T is going from Japanese-inspired gallery, store, and café to sushi bar — at least temporarily. Its Sushi Pop Art dinner...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ 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...
How the West Was Worn by... Michael Jackson
Thursday 9/ 2 @ The Autry National Center of the American West
Since much of Michael Jackson's enduring legacy and pop-culture influence is based on a "wild west" aesthetic, it should come as...
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ CB1 Gallery
August is traditionally summer group-show month at fine art galleries—among those that aren't shuttered for the muggy duration at least—and the...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ 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...
George Segal: The Expulsion, feat. photographs of the artist at work by Donald Lokuta
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ 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 9/ 2 @ Cinespace
The party Thursday evening is at Cinespace. See why everyone in Hollywood is talking about our new Thursdays. Ladies free before...
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Thursday 9/ 2 @ 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...
