Events on Thursday, February 23
Thursday 2/23 @ Location TBA with registration
The seventh-annual Palm Springs Modernism Week is an extended celebration of mid-century American style. With clean lines and a distinctive form,...
Thursday 2/23 @ Barnes & Noble
This debut memoir from local journalist Claire Bidwell Smith was chosen as part of Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers...
The Director's Series: Michael Govan and Rocco Landesman
Thursday 2/23 @ LACMA
LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan talks with National Endowment for the Arts chairman Rocco Landesman about the NEA's...
Thursday 2/23 @ House of Blues Anaheim
Ariana Joan Grande(born June 26, 1993) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. After playing her first Broadway role at age...
Thursday 2/23 @ Skirball Cultural Center
This inspiring documentary by Gayle Ferraro follows Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Muhammad Yunus as he brings his unique and revolutionary...
Thursday 2/23 @ Egyptian Theatre
Duck , You Sucker aka A Fistful Of Dynamite (Giu La Testa), 1971, 138 min. In the last - and least-seen - of Sergio...
Cinematic Tapestry: Creating Unforgettable Characters
Thursday 2/23 @ Egyptian Theatre
Cinematic Tapestry:Creating Unforgettable Characters , 180 min. If a picture is worth a thousand words, why do most movie characters talk so...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 2/23 @ LACMA
While their male counterparts' focus was diverted with masturbatory hallucinations of women as objects, the female Surrealists delved freely into the...
Thursday 2/23 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Ruth Weisberg: Now and Then presents paintings and works on paper by one of Los Angeles' most celebrated figurative artists since...
Thursday 2/23 @ Palm Springs, CA
The seventh-annual Palm Springs Modernism Week is an extended celebration of mid-century American style. With clean lines and a distinctive form,...
Thursday 2/23 @ Palm Springs Art Museum
In conjunction with the Getty's Pacific Standard Time initiative, the Palm Springs Art Museum presents a comprehensive visual survey of swimming-pool...
Thursday 2/23 @ Cliff's Edge
Silver Lake's gorgeous Cliff's Edge has been enlivened with the recent addition of a new chef, Frenchman Benjamin Bailly. 29-year-old Bailly...
Thursday 2/23 @ Yujean Kang
With an elegant, creative take on Chinese cuisine, Yujean Kang's has been a Pasadena institution for 20 years. Kang was born...
Thursday 2/23 @ Cliff's Edge
While Cliff's Edge in Silver Lake is renowned for the excellent food served on its gorgeous terraced patio, the interior, now...
Thursday 2/23 @ Various LA locations
Take a trip into Hollywood's Golden Age with a tour celebrating 100 years of Tinseltown. The Felix in Hollywood Tour Company...
Critters & People: and Things of That Sort
Thursday 2/23 @ WWA Gallery
WWA gallery is giving everyone a great reason to come out of hibernation this February with the breakout show Critters &...
Test Kitchen: Shanghai-São Paulo
Thursday 2/23 @ Zengo
Zengo is Richard Sandoval's Latin-Asian fusion restaurant in Santa Monica. Each season Zengo unveils a few new recipes revealing the influences...
Thursday 2/23 @ Corey Helford Gallery
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Art of Motion Picture Costume Design
Thursday 2/23 @ FIDM Museum
FIDM Museum and Galleries' yearly salute to the artistry of costume design is back. Over 100 outfits from the films of...
Monica Nouwens and Jason Trucco
Thursday 2/23 @ Annie Wharton Los Angeles
LA-Based Dutch photographer Monica Nouwens’ work examines the noir starkness of Los Angeles’ utopian dreams on the verge of collapse or...
Navitat Canopy Adventures Zipline Tour
Thursday 2/23 @ Nativat Canopy Adventures
SoCal adrenaline junkies celebrate a new source of thrills: Wrightwood's Navitat Canopy Tour. Zipline in a harness along ten aerial lines...
Thursday 2/23 @ Caña Rum Bar
Caña Rum Bar is a glamorous throwback to 1930s Havana. Secreted within the historic Petroleum Building, with an entrance hidden in...
Thursday 2/23 @ Komida
Komida, the new, casual fusion-taco restaurant at Hollywood and Highland, is led by Brock Kleweno, the executive chef who recently updated...
Thursday 2/23 @ Drago Centro
Downtown's Drago Centro has a sleek décor, featuring floor-to-ceiling windows, stone walls, and a glass wine cellar in the center of...
California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way
Thursday 2/23 @ LACMA
Five years in the making, Living in a Modern Way vividly illustrates how California designers of the midcentury helped shape the...
Thursday 2/23 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Kenneth Anger is usually associated with his scandalous Hollywood Babylon oeuvre, but while the books are legendary, his filmic eye is...
Thursday 2/23 @ Urban Masala
Urban Masala is a new casual Indian restaurant in the heart of Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Opened by three gents from...
Thursday 2/23 @ The Getty Museum
Part of the Getty's ongoing series that highlights photographs from the museum's permanent collection, In Focus: Los Angeles, 1945–1980 is the last...
Thursday 2/23 @ Salt Fine Art
Saltfineart is proud to present its most daring and intense show to date ¡CUBA! featuring 11 artists living and working within...
Zes and Retna: Excavated Revelations
Thursday 2/23 @ Known Gallery
LA graffiti artists Zes and Retna are longtime friends and linchpins of the renowned MSK graffiti crew. Highly influential on both...
Thursday 2/23 @ NextSpace Culver City
After photographing celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Michael Cera, Paris Hilton, Joe Jonas, and Giada De Laurentiis, photojournalist and editorial photographer...
Thursday 2/23 @ Greenway Court Theatre
I Love Lucy Live on Stage, a tribute to the most popular sitcom of all time, is back for a second...
Thursday 2/23 @ ANN 330 Gallery
ANN 330 Gallery showcases this group photography show delving into the theme of saudade, a deep, melancholic sense of loss or...
Thursday 2/23 @ Il Tramezzino
Joseph Lopez's photo series, Nightwork, embodies the under-appreciated elements of our (and possibly any) city and presents it to us in...
Thursday 2/23 @ Public School 612
The latest addition to Downtown's burgeoning bar scene is Public School 612, a traditional-meets-contemporary gastropub soft opening March 8 in the...
Thursday 2/23 @ La Luz de Jesus
Danni Shinya Luo's sensual sketches and watercolors of the female form are often sweet, but always fraught with tension. A former...
Thursday 2/23 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Maximo González recycles materials such as devalued currency, vintage aluminum household items, and plastic kitchen items to create new modes of...
Thursday 2/23 @ Santa Monica Pier
Every step of Cirque d Soleil's new "Grand Chapiteau" is designed to enthrall L.A. From the star-laced walk (both figuratively and...
Thursday 2/23 @ Drkrm
Ansel Adams was famous for his signature series of landscapes, spindling trees, ominous clouds and cliffs, but he also had bills...
Thursday 2/23 @ Royal/T
Royal/T in Culver City features an art gallery, Japanese-style cosplay café, and one of LA's best gift shops of pop-culture treasures....
Thursday 2/23 @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
The exhibition features twenty-eight photographs from [Rhona] Bitner's ongoing Listen series, a striking body of work devoted to the continued exploration...
Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles
Thursday 2/23 @ The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Seminal photographer Weegee did the same thing in mid-20th century Los Angeles that paparazzi do today: he documented the shocking and...
Thursday 2/23 @ Palmilla Cocina y Tequila
Palmilla Cocina y Tequila is a sophisticated departure for Hermosa Beach. Featuring a glamorous décor designed by Gulla Jonsdottir, famed for...
The Cacophony Society Zone Show
Thursday 2/23 @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana
The Cacophony Society Zone Show is a retrospective look at the Cacophony Society, a national collective of guerrilla artists, dada pranksters,...
College Art Association's 100th Annual Conference
Thursday 2/23 @ Los Angeles Convention Center
The College Art Association’s 100th Annual Conference, taking place February 22–25 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, brings together thousands of...
Thursday 2/23 @ Various LA Theatres
Haywire is a well-woven extravaganza of ass-kicking. Director Steven Soderbergh made the inspired decision to cast MMA champ Gina Carano as...
Thursday 2/23 @ Michael's Restaurant
Michael's Restaurant in Santa Monica, a much-lauded pioneer of California cuisine, has a new executive chef at the helm, John-Carlos Kuramoto....
Thursday 2/23 @ Catalina Zip Line Eco Tour
Take in the beauty of the Pacific Ocean and Catalina Island’s terrain while hurtling through the air at speeds of up...
Billy's Fish Fry & Community Social
Thursday 2/23 @ La Luz de Jesus
"A salon for the 21st century" is what Wacko and La Luz de Jesus owner Billy Shire intends to bring to...
Thursday 2/23 @ Naya Sunset
"Naya," the Sanskrit word for "new," befits the new incarnation of the Silver Lake Indian restaurant previously known as Tantra. The...
Thursday 2/23 @ Veggie Grill
Veggie Grill has ably filled a void with their delicious, affordable vegan comfort food that appeals to vegans and meat-eaters alike....
Thursday 2/23 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Deconstructing Perestroika is CAFAM's exploration, in poster form, of the cultural and political events that led to the collapse of the...
Thursday 2/23 @ La Sandia
La Sandia, Richard Sandoval's elegant Mexican restaurant at Santa Monica Place, offers four special month-long festivals a year, each celebrating a...
Thursday 2/23 @ LACMA
Metropolis II is an intense and a complex kinetic sculpture, modeled after a fast paced, frenetic modern city. Steel beams form...
Thursday 2/23 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Experience a groundbreaking new exhibition inspired by the critically acclaimed book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,...
46 N. Los Robles: A History of the Pasadena Art Museum
Thursday 2/23 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Since 1924, the Chinese-inspiried building at 46 N. Los Robles Avenue in Pasadena has been a Southern California landmark and a...
Mariano Pensotti: The Past Is A Grotesque Animal (El pasado es un animal grotesco)
Thursday 2/23 @ REDCAT
“Blisteringly funny...a compelling portrait of the self-obsession of his own generation that achieves that rare feat of profoundly moving an audience.” Plays...
The Original Print: An Introduction to Printmaking in the Postwar Period
Thursday 2/23 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents The Original Print: An Introduction to Printmaking in the Postwar Period, an exhibition that looks at...
Hans Memling's Portrait of a Man, on Loan from The Frick Collection, New York
Thursday 2/23 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents a special installation of Hans Memling's Portrait of a Man, c. 1470–75, on loan from The...
Obstacleism: Paintings by Farr Ligvani
Thursday 2/23 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Born in Tehran and educated in California, Ligvani focuses his art on ideas of life and evolution. As the artist wrestled...
Thursday 2/23 @ CENTRAL S.A.P.C
DANCEiSM/GottaDanceDirty present The VS (Versus) Party ft. very special guest DJs.
Thursday 2/23 @ REDCAT
Opening reception: Saturday, February 4 | 6-9pm For his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Ming Wong creates a series of...
Thursday 2/23 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Designed with a lunch-hour audience in mind, instructor Jill Zepezauer's instruction of Hatha yoga is uniquely accessible. Beginners always welcome!
Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California
Thursday 2/23 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California, an exhibition that explores the significance of printmaking...
Thursday 2/23 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Meiji: Japan Rediscovered explores the connection of Japan and the West in the mid to late 19th century through the early...
Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings
Thursday 2/23 @ LACMA
American artist Ellsworth Kelly is universally recognized as one of the most important purveyors of American abstraction. Born in Newburgh, New...
Auspicious Beauty: Korean Folk Painting
Thursday 2/23 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Pacific Asia Museum is pleased to present the special exhibition Auspicious Beauty: Korean Folk Painting. Korean folk painting during the Joseon...
