Events on Thursday, February 14
Thursday 2/14 @ Bert Green Fine Art
The highlights of this month's Downtown Art Walk include Megan Geckler's arresting window installation for Bert Green Fine Art, a translucent,...
Thursday 2/14 @ Echoplex
This Valentine's Day, celebrate the sensual and the steamy at local indie-label Echo Park Records' anniversary party. The venture is the...
Thursday 2/14 @ The Mountain Bar
Leave it to Party Scammers to throw a Valentine's bash that's all sexy tunes and no-nonsense romance. With brassy electro rock...
Thursday 2/14 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Valentine's Day dates can be hard to figure out, but spending the night with a bunch of art lovers at Los...
Thursday 2/14 @ Aero Theatre
Louise Lawler's influential work in the '80s excoriated the shallow and oppressive depictions of feminine icons in film and other media....
Best of ATA Film & Video Festival
Thursday 2/14 @ Echo Park Film Center
The ATA Film & Video Festival's shorts recall misshapen vinyl spinning in refreshingly erratic circles, with an anything-goes spirit running tonight's...
Thursday 2/14 @ El Rey
In 1971 Lester Bangs published an essay called James Taylor Marked for Death, in which he heralded the Troggs as the...
Marques Wyatt and Pimps of Joytime
Thursday 2/14 @ Air Conditioned Supper Club, Venice
This special loved-up edition of Funky in the Middle features LA turntable icon and founder of DEEP LA, Marques Wyatt, who's...
Thursday 2/14 @ The Silent Movie Theatre
Valentine's Day is about L-O-V-E, and tonight, the Cinefamily offers up a romantic doubleheader to stoke that tender feeling. First up...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 2/14 @ MODAA gallery
After a 1985 wine scandal (winemakers were discovered to have added an antifreeze component to sweeten their vintages), a red-faced Austria...
Thursday 2/14 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Pan-African Film & Arts Festival
Thursday 2/14 @ 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,...
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
Thursday 2/14 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art...
Thursday 2/14 @ epOxybOx
Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for...
Thursday 2/14 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
Bristol-based street artist Nick Walker — known as the Apish Angel — comes to America, ready to stencil Tinseltown. Like his...
Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
Sideshow: Diane Arbus at Hubert's Museum
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
Thursday 2/14 @ Various Chinatown galleries
As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art...
Thursday 2/14 @ Crewest Gallery
Not all of us choose to celebrate the upcoming Hallmark holiday with champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries by a roaring fireplace. Case...
Thursday 2/14 @ 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,...
Thursday 2/14 @ California Heritage Museum
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups,...
Thursday 2/14 @ Regen Projects
German painter Daniel Richter's expressionistic, figurative works are both dark and disarming. With influences that range from Goya to comic books...
Thursday 2/14 @ The Village at Ed Gould Plaza
Before Amy Winehouse, there was Dusty Springfield. Regarded as one of the first white songstresses to authentically incorporate black soul music...
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
Thursday 2/14 @ Thinkspace Gallery
Hailing from various points in New York City, up-and-coming artists Tony Philippou, Zach Johnsen, and Marion Bolognesi present a conglomeration of...
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
Thursday 2/14 @ 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,...
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
Military Intelligence and You!
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
Thursday 2/14 @ Cherry and Martin
Los Angeles artist Ruby Osorio's collection at Cherry and Martin Gallery was heavily influenced by her recent trip to Athens. Surrounded...
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
Neil Campbell and Peter Schuyff
Thursday 2/14 @ The Balmoral
This Venice Beach gallery's latest endeavor juxtaposes the work of Dutch artist Peter Schuyff and Vancouver-based Neil Campbell. Schuyff's paintings are...
Thursday 2/14 @ Michael Dawson Gallery
Renowned Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida has trained his lens on facets of ordinary life throughout his lengthy career. Tsuchida's first solo...
Thursday 2/14 @ The Bike Oven
Cyclists unite for an exhibition featuring the works of artists from all parts of the nation who just happen to also,...
Thursday 2/14 @ High Energy Constructs
One of Chinatown's most interesting emerging galleries, High Energy Constructs inaugurated its space with an exhibition by David Brady. Two years...
Thursday 2/14 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move
If a group show of whimsical, freak-folky art at a boutique with punk-rock lingerie, a vending machine that sells beer, and...
Thursday 2/14 @ Commissary Arts
Frustrated debutantes, overdressed crocodiles, and bandaged aristocrats parade through Tucker Neel's latest exhibition. The LA artist conjures up witty, intriguing imagery...
Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright
Thursday 2/14 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Landscape paintings from Mexican artist Miguel Osuna have a photographic sensibility. His California landscapes possess all the fleeting romance of a...
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
Thursday 2/14 @ Honor Fraser
In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection...
Thursday 2/14 @ Claremont Museum of Art
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than...
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
Thursday 2/14 @ Sea and Space Explorations
Bask in the explosion of aural-art happenings on offer during Sound in Space. This miraculous monthlong program series explores the variety...
Thursday 2/14 @ Samuel Freeman
Dustin Yellin does not suspend exotic crimson seaweed inside his freestanding resin columns — it just looks like it. What he...
Thursday 2/14 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
Thursday 2/14 @ [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...
Thursday 2/14 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François...
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
Thursday 2/14 @ DCA Fine Art
Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text....
Thursday 2/14 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
Twenty years after Carnage's wildly successful premiere, the Gang revives Adam Simon and Tim Robbins' play with frightening vitality and acerbic...
Thursday 2/14 @ Bandini Art
In his new series of work, painter Luke Whitlatch offers a meditation on both the emotional events that define human life...
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
Thursday 2/14 @ 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...
