Thursday Happenings

Nostalgia

The group show ICONOGRAPHIC: analog representations of youth culture in a digital age features art about skateboards, cassette tapes, and Polaroids—images from a youth counter-culture that has been fetishizing its past since its earliest days. (See also Christian Marclay's fantastic cyanotype of punk rock tapes currently on view at the MFA's Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs exhibit.) The four artists, Ashley Capachione,
Lucy Watson, Jimmy Treverton, and Nathan Mondragon, work in a variety of media, from prints to sculpture, and tonight's shindig comes with a soundtrack from DJ Nicky Romance. JP Art Market, 36 South St., Jamaica Plain, 5 p.m. Free.

Free Art

We love when the Izzy G. is free, and it is tonight. It's part of the museum's Neighborhood Nights 2009 series, and tonight's event features stage magicians, tarot readers, and Analog Love in a Digital World, a dance performance. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Free.

Iconography

Boston's International Poster Galery hosts a big shindig celebrating the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. Arnold Skolnick, the man who designed the iconic poster for the event, will answer any and all of your graphic design questions. International Poster Gallery, 205 Newbury St., 5 p.m. Free.

Capoeira

The Brazilian dance/martial art capoeira is always interesting to watch, especially when it's free. Mandingueiros dos Palmare is Boston's 10-year-old capoeira group and one of the foremost Afro-Brazilian cultural preservationists in the Hub. It takes the stage tonight in JP. St. John's Episcopal Church, Revere St. & Roanoke Ave., Jamaica Plain, 7 p.m. Free.

Rock Stars

Paul McCartney isn't the only rock star in town tonight. Interpol's singer Paul Banks may not have a knighthood or millions of dollars, but he is still totally famous among the young people. He's performing solo under the moniker Julian Plenti tonight. Institute of Contemporary Art, 6 p.m. Free.