Events on Tuesday, February 12
Tuesday 2/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Elia Kazan's adaptation of John Steinbeck's timeless Cain-and-Abel variation, East of Eden, isn't one of the director's best films — but...
Tuesday 2/12 @ The Viper Room
Local mope-rockers Low vs Diamond take some time off from mixing their new record for a little show at the Viper...
Tuesday 2/12 @ La Cita
Dublab and Part Time Punks host an emo convention this evening, encouraging the broken-hearted to indulge in musical melancholia and a...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Hammer Museum
Anaïs Nin's diaries depicted a woman delighting in self-discovery, full of poignant, writerly nuggets like, "We write to taste life twice,...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Safari Sam's
RoMak & the Space Pirates may seem like a fanciful moniker, but in truth, it's a pretty straight-up description of the...
Tuesday 2/12 @ USC Alfred Newman Recital Hall
The player piano may be the antique jukebox of days gone by, but tonight's affair is more a romp through the...
Tuesday 2/12 @ The Wiltern
Before Rufus Wainwright put out Release the Stars, the enfant terrible half-joked that the record would be his last serious attempt...
Ongoing Events
Pan-African Film & Arts Festival
Tuesday 2/12 @ Various locations
This year's Pan-African Film Festival has a little bit of everything, from comedy to spoken word, workshops, panels, a fashion show,...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Chris Anthony inhabits a strange, haunting world in his new exhibition. Influenced by childhood visions and containing authentically dreamlike narratives, Anthony's...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
Brothers Einar and Jamex couldn't possibly deny the influence of their heritage — their blown-glass and mixed-media works radiate with the...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
Rather than create new spaces and pieces, conceptual mixed-media artist Michael Asher prefers to deconstruct and punctuate extant spaces with found...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
"Interdisciplinary" is an understatement when it comes to Brooklyn-based artist Wynne Greenwood: she's known for melding performance, installation, video, and two-dimensional...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center
This year's resurgent Dylanmania — from Todd Haynes' byzantine biopic, I'm Not There, to Murray Lerner's performance-driven documentary, The Other Side...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Richard Heller Gallery
The organic forms that populate Mel Kadel's drawings have begun to grow in scale, creeping toward the edges of the sheet...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Various Chinatown galleries
As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Tuesday 2/12 @ MODAA gallery
After a 1985 wine scandal (winemakers were discovered to have added an antifreeze component to sweeten their vintages), a red-faced Austria...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides...
Tuesday 2/12 @ DCA Fine Art
Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text....
Tuesday 2/12 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
Tuesday 2/12 @ La Luz de Jesus
Hollywood's La Luz sticks to what it knows best with another collection of high-minded lowbrow art. Featured in this month's show...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Various locations
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That,...
Sideshow: Diane Arbus at Hubert's Museum
Tuesday 2/12 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
If legendary photographer Diane Arbus' images of nudist camps, mental institutions, and creepy-looking twins are your cup of tea, then Sideshow...
Military Intelligence and You!
Tuesday 2/12 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Lest we forget that waging war should be a heavily informed last resort, writer/director Dale Kutzera brings us Military Intelligence and...
Tuesday 2/12 @ The Bike Oven
Cyclists unite for an exhibition featuring the works of artists from all parts of the nation who just happen to also,...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Craig Krull Gallery
In his latest collection of photographs for Santa Monica's Craig Krull Gallery, Japanese artist Masao Yamamoto's work is somber and still,...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Crewest Gallery
Not all of us choose to celebrate the upcoming Hallmark holiday with champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries by a roaring fireplace. Case...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Regen Projects
German painter Daniel Richter's expressionistic, figurative works are both dark and disarming. With influences that range from Goya to comic books...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Samuel Freeman
Dustin Yellin does not suspend exotic crimson seaweed inside his freestanding resin columns — it just looks like it. What he...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move
This exhibition at Silverlake's favorite gallery/alt-culture hangout features the work of Noel ILL, Jenny Mollen, and Jessica Garrison among a sizeable...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Circus Gallery
There's political art; there's the art of political stagecraft; and then there's The Candidate, the new exhibition of sketches, sculptures, and...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Hammer Museum
Johan Grimonprez's foreboding documentary Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y explores the press' constantly shifting obsession with airplane hijackings. With nods to the phenomenon's most...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Tuesday 2/12 @ Materials & Applications
Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore...
Tuesday 2/12 @ another year in LA
Gallery owners spend the majority of their working lives combing through an ever-growing pile of art, searching for a particular brand...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Claremont Museum of Art
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than...
Tuesday 2/12 @ epOxybOx
Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Bandini Art
In his new series of work, painter Luke Whitlatch offers a meditation on both the emotional events that define human life...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Tuesday 2/12 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California...
Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright
Tuesday 2/12 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Landscape paintings from Mexican artist Miguel Osuna have a photographic sensibility. His California landscapes possess all the fleeting romance of a...
Tuesday 2/12 @ [delete]
This private-residence-turned-gallery's latest offering, Projection, interprets the titular concept both literally and figuratively in an ambitious multimedia group show. The works...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Honor Fraser
In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection...
Tuesday 2/12 @ project: gallery
This Valentine's Day, project: gallery presents Tessar Lo and Chris Devera, two illustrator/artists whose imagination-gone-wild paintings never hesitate to take things...
Tuesday 2/12 @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles
Known for haunting images that envelop the viewer in an uneasy haze, Rocky Schenck finds beauty in rural landscapes and unremarkable...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Robert Berman Gallery
Rocker/designer Kevin Reagan and Juxtapoz's Greg Escalante co-curate this survey of images by Alex Steinweiss. In 1939, the Columbia Records packaging...
Tuesday 2/12 @ SCI-Arc
Head of the Visual Studies Program at SCI-Arc Jean-Michel Crettaz has plenty of experience, having studied in Switzerland, at the ultra-exclusive...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Los Angeles artist Frohawk Two Feathers makes fanciful, avant-folk paintings featuring a cast of singularly imaginative characters. For his latest collection...
Tuesday 2/12 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Center Theatre Group's world-premiere musical, busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by...
