All events on Friday February 15

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Music: DJ
DJ Shadow
Friday Feb 15 (9pm) @ The Wiltern
The Bay's turntable baron and Quannum Projects founder DJ Shadow teams up with LA's Cut Chemist — fresh from his Juno cameo — to produce... View details »
DJ Shadow
Film
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Friday Feb 15 (8pm) @ The Silent Movie Theatre
Director Jacques Demy described The Umbrellas of Cherbourg as "a film in song" — every line is sung to Michel Legrand's sublime score, which conforms... View details »
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Film
The Bonnie Delight Burlesque Revue
Friday Feb 15 (7:30pm) @ Egyptian Theatre
Giveaway
At the Bonnie Delight Burlesque Revue, 45 minutes of risqué business begins with a warm-up from emcee Shecky Greenblatt, followed by a colorful slate of... View details »
The Bonnie Delight Burlesque Revue
Music: Rock/Pop
St. Vincent
Friday Feb 15 (8pm) @ Echoplex
Multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) kicks off her new tour at Echoplex, having recently returned from Australia and Japan as a member of... View details »
St. Vincent
Film
The Earrings of Madame de... and Letter from an Unknown Woman
Friday Feb 15 (7:30pm) @ New Beverly Cinema More times »
Mid-century German director Max Ophüls' legacy is scattered on both sides of the Atlantic. Ophüls' French masterpiece, The Earrings of Madame de, fills its frames... View details »
The Earrings of Madame de... and Letter from an Unknown Woman
Film
Laurel and Hardy Festival
Friday Feb 15 @ Old Town Musical Hall More times »
Stan Laurel was the skinny, head-scratching halfwit; Oliver Hardy was the hefty, haughty fella with the pipsqueak moustache. As seen in their Hal Roach-produced heyday,... View details »
Laurel and Hardy Festival
Music
Grand Ole Party
Friday Feb 15 (9pm) @ The Echo
Fronted by fetching drummer Kristin Gundred, the feral head trip known as Grand Ole Party visits the Echo's Club Underground this evening. With sinewy, bluesy... View details »
Grand Ole Party
Music: Rock/Pop
Good on Paper
Friday Feb 15 (8pm) @ Pehrspace
Good on Paper have a familiar-but-elusive sound that draws on decades of naïve pop, from Jonathan Richman to Belle & Sebastian. The coed trio has... View details »
Good on Paper
More Flavor: Fair
Antiquarian Book Fair
Friday Feb 15 @ Hyatt Regency Century Plaza More times »
Bibliophiles, academics, and literary tenderfoots pore over collections from over 200 rare-book institutions this weekend at the International Antiquarian Book Fair. Vintage reads and classic... View details »
Performing Arts: Theatre
Stadium Devildare
Friday Feb 15 (8pm) @ Theatre of NOTE More times »
Stadium Devildare is billed as "a tale of future sport... America to the extreme" — and indeed, Ruth Margraff's play pushes the country's obsessions (fame,... View details »
Stadium Devildare
Performing Arts: Theatre
Robots vs Fake Robots
Friday Feb 15 (8pm) @ Powerhouse Theatre More times »
If you only have time this month to see one dark-comedy dance spectacular about a dystopian future in which sex-craved, man-eating robots rule the world,... View details »
Robots vs Fake Robots

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Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Friday Feb 15 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art More times »
Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments historicizes the "evolution"... View details »
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Friday Feb 15 @ Various locations More times »
Free
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That, Amir Bar-Lev documents the... View details »
My Kid Could Paint That
Art: Architecture/Design
Victor Burgin
Friday Feb 15 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture More times »
The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François de Bastide's 1758 novella... View details »
Victor Burgin
Art
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Friday Feb 15 (10am–10pm) @ Materials & Applications More times »
Free
Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore the artful use of... View details »
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Art: Architecture/Design
Jean Michel Crettaz
Friday Feb 15 (9am–6pm) @ SCI-Arc More times »
Free
Head of the Visual Studies Program at SCI-Arc Jean-Michel Crettaz has plenty of experience, having studied in Switzerland, at the ultra-exclusive Cooper Union school in... View details »
Jean Michel Crettaz
Art
Ruby Osorio
Friday Feb 15 (11am–6pm) @ Cherry and Martin More times »
Free
Los Angeles artist Ruby Osorio's collection at Cherry and Martin Gallery was heavily influenced by her recent trip to Athens. Surrounded by such history-rich environs,... View details »
Ruby Osorio
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Friday Feb 15 (10am–6pm) @ Peterson Automotive Museum More times »
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the need for expressing cultural... View details »
La Vida Lowrider
Art
Michael Asher
Friday Feb 15 (11am–6pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art More times »
Rather than create new spaces and pieces, conceptual mixed-media artist Michael Asher prefers to deconstruct and punctuate extant spaces with found materials, creating a site-specific... View details »
Michael Asher
Art
Tucker Neel
Friday Feb 15 (noon–5pm) @ Commissary Arts More times »
Free
Frustrated debutantes, overdressed crocodiles, and bandaged aristocrats parade through Tucker Neel's latest exhibition. The LA artist conjures up witty, intriguing imagery in his delicate ink... View details »
Tucker Neel
Art
Rosson Crow
Friday Feb 15 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
Free
In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection of paintings. Despite the... View details »
Rosson Crow
Art
First Generation
Friday Feb 15 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art More times »
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than some great old houses... View details »
First Generation
Art: Photography
Masao Yamamoto
Friday Feb 15 (10am–5:30pm) @ Craig Krull Gallery More times »
Free
In his latest collection of photographs for Santa Monica's Craig Krull Gallery, Japanese artist Masao Yamamoto's work is somber and still, with no loss of... View details »
Masao Yamamoto
Art
Einar & Jamex de la Torre
Friday Feb 15 (10am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery More times »
Free
Brothers Einar and Jamex couldn't possibly deny the influence of their heritage — their blown-glass and mixed-media works radiate with the colors, textures, and imagery... View details »
Einar & Jamex de la Torre
Art
Yun Bai
Friday Feb 15 (noon–6pm) @ Art Murmur Gallery More times »
Free
Rising LA artist Yun Bai and her alter ego Yunny Bunny converge in this smashing show. Bai splits herself in two: while the artist is... View details »
Yun Bai
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
Friday Feb 15 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his films took hundreds of... View details »
Alfred Hitchcock
Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Friday Feb 15 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups, "The grand seigneur of... View details »
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Art
Matthew Heller
Friday Feb 15 (11am–5pm) @ DCA Fine Art More times »
Free
Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text. Though at times pained... View details »
Matthew Heller
Art
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Friday Feb 15 @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
This year's resurgent Dylanmania — from Todd Haynes' byzantine biopic, I'm Not There, to Murray Lerner's performance-driven documentary, The Other Side of the Mirror —... View details »
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Art: Photography
Freeze Frame
Friday Feb 15 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides shooting spools of film... View details »
Freeze Frame
Performing Arts: Theatre
Victory
Friday Feb 15 (8pm) @ The Fountain Theatre More times »
South African playwright Athol Fugard's work demonstrates the power of theatre to incite social transformation. Fugard's plays have addressed the subject of Apartheid with remarkable... View details »
Victory
Performing Arts: Theatre
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Friday Feb 15 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre More times »
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Center Theatre Group's world-premiere musical, busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by its emo-influenced rock score,... View details »
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Art
Girly Group Show
Friday Feb 15 (9am–6pm) @ Ghettogloss More times »
Free
This exhibition at Silverlake's favorite gallery/alt-culture hangout features the work of Noel ILL, Jenny Mollen, and Jessica Garrison among a sizeable roster of talented lady... View details »
Girly Group Show
Art
Neil Campbell and Peter Schuyff
Friday Feb 15 (11am–6pm) @ The Balmoral More times »
Free
This Venice Beach gallery's latest endeavor juxtaposes the work of Dutch artist Peter Schuyff and Vancouver-based Neil Campbell. Schuyff's paintings are equal parts Surreal and... View details »
Art
The Imaginary 20th Century
Friday Feb 15 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art presents 2,200 images from... View details »
The Imaginary 20th Century
Art: Photography
Chris Anthony
Friday Feb 15 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford More times »
Free
Chris Anthony inhabits a strange, haunting world in his new exhibition. Influenced by childhood visions and containing authentically dreamlike narratives, Anthony's dark images use vintage... View details »
Chris Anthony
Art: Photography
Rocky Schenck
Friday Feb 15 (10am–5pm) @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles More times »
Free
Known for haunting images that envelop the viewer in an uneasy haze, Rocky Schenck finds beauty in rural landscapes and unremarkable interiors. Using Los Angeles... View details »
Rocky Schenck
Film
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Friday Feb 15 @ Hammer Museum More times »
Free
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 obvious contemporary association, the... View details »
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Art
Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
Friday Feb 15 @ Various Chinatown galleries More times »
Free
As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art galleries, many of which... View details »
Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
Art
Daniel Richter
Friday Feb 15 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects More times »
Free
German painter Daniel Richter's expressionistic, figurative works are both dark and disarming. With influences that range from Goya to comic books and contemporary news media,... View details »
Daniel Richter
Art
Sheng Qi
Friday Feb 15 (10am–5:30pm) @ DF2 More times »
Free
Renowned Chinese artist Sheng Qi lived in exile in Europe for a decade after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Before fleeing China, however, he left a... View details »
Sheng Qi
Art
Dustin Yellin
Friday Feb 15 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman More times »
Free
Dustin Yellin does not suspend exotic crimson seaweed inside his freestanding resin columns — it just looks like it. What he does do is actually... View details »
Dustin Yellin
Art
Projection
Friday Feb 15 @ [delete] More times »
Free
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 probe the idea of... View details »
Projection
Art: Photography
Hiromi Tsuchida
Friday Feb 15 (10am–5pm) @ Michael Dawson Gallery More times »
Free
Renowned Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida has trained his lens on facets of ordinary life throughout his lengthy career. Tsuchida's first solo exhibition in the US... View details »
Hiromi Tsuchida
Art
Wynne Greenwood
Friday Feb 15 (11am–6pm) @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects More times »
Free
"Interdisciplinary" is an understatement when it comes to Brooklyn-based artist Wynne Greenwood: she's known for melding performance, installation, video, and two-dimensional works into outrageous, breathtaking,... View details »
Wynne Greenwood
Art
Luke Whitlatch
Friday Feb 15 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
Free
In his new series of work, painter Luke Whitlatch offers a meditation on both the emotional events that define human life and the craft of... View details »
Luke Whitlatch
Art
David Brady
Friday Feb 15 (11am–6pm) @ High Energy Constructs More times »
Free
One of Chinatown's most interesting emerging galleries, High Energy Constructs inaugurated its space with an exhibition by David Brady. Two years on, the gallery returns... View details »
David Brady
Art
Callaloo
Friday Feb 15 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space More times »
Free
Don't call Pounder Koné Art Space a "gallery." Owner CCH Pounder wants you to think of her and her husband's venue as a fount of... View details »
Callaloo
Art
Artist/Gallerist
Friday Feb 15 (noon–5pm) @ another year in LA More times »
Free
Gallery owners spend the majority of their working lives combing through an ever-growing pile of art, searching for a particular brand of genius. But with... View details »
Artist/Gallerist
Art
Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
Friday Feb 15 (11am–9pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
Hollywood's La Luz sticks to what it knows best with another collection of high-minded lowbrow art. Featured in this month's show are Southern California-born and... View details »
Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
Art
Nick Walker
Friday Feb 15 (3–8pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art More times »
Free
Bristol-based street artist Nick Walker — known as the Apish Angel — comes to America, ready to stencil Tinseltown. Like his notorious countryman Banksy, Walker... View details »
Nick Walker
Art
Frohawk Two Feathers
Friday Feb 15 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles artist Frohawk Two Feathers makes fanciful, avant-folk paintings featuring a cast of singularly imaginative characters. For his latest collection at Taylor de Cordoba,... View details »
Frohawk Two Feathers
Art
Sound in Space
Friday Feb 15 (8pm) @ Sea and Space Explorations More times »
Free
Bask in the explosion of aural-art happenings on offer during Sound in Space. This miraculous monthlong program series explores the variety of the sound-art community... View details »
Art: Architecture/Design
The Austrian Winery Boom
Friday Feb 15 (noon–6pm) @ MODAA gallery More times »
Free
After a 1985 wine scandal (winemakers were discovered to have added an antifreeze component to sweeten their vintages), a red-faced Austria moved toward redefinition. Like... View details »
The Austrian Winery Boom
Art
The Trinity
Friday Feb 15 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery More times »
Free
Hailing from various points in New York City, up-and-coming artists Tony Philippou, Zach Johnsen, and Marion Bolognesi present a conglomeration of new works inspired by... View details »
The Trinity
Art
Rachel Mason
Friday Feb 15 (11am–6pm) @ Circus Gallery More times »
Free
There's political art; there's the art of political stagecraft; and then there's The Candidate, the new exhibition of sketches, sculptures, and photographs that artist Rachel... View details »
Rachel Mason
Performing Arts: Comedy
Scott Thompson
Friday Feb 15 (8pm) @ The Steve Allen Theater More times »
Scott Thompson (of immortally beloved sketch-comedy crew the Kids in the Hall) drops his new one-man show on the Steve Allen stage like a big,... View details »
Scott Thompson
More Flavor: Festival
Pan-African Film & Arts Festival
Friday Feb 15 @ Various locations More times »
This year's Pan-African Film Festival has a little bit of everything, from comedy to spoken word, workshops, panels, a fashion show, and Caribbean music. NAACP... View details »
Pan-African Film & Arts Festival
Art
Tessar Lo and Chris Devera
Friday Feb 15 (noon–6pm) @ project: gallery More times »
Free
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 too far. Lo draws... View details »
Tessar Lo and Chris Devera
Art
Mel Kadel and Travis Millard
Friday Feb 15 (11am–5pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Free
The organic forms that populate Mel Kadel's drawings have begun to grow in scale, creeping toward the edges of the sheet and threatening to break... View details »
Mel Kadel and Travis Millard
Performing Arts: Theatre
Stay Forever
Friday Feb 15 (8pm) @ The Village at Ed Gould Plaza More times »
Before Amy Winehouse, there was Dusty Springfield. Regarded as one of the first white songstresses to authentically incorporate black soul music into her own repertoire,... View details »
Stay Forever
Art: Photography
Tom Servais
Friday Feb 15 (10am–6pm) @ epOxybOx More times »
Free
Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for his creative documentation of... View details »
Tom Servais
Art
Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright
Friday Feb 15 (11am–5pm) @ Lawrence Asher Gallery More times »
Free
Landscape paintings from Mexican artist Miguel Osuna have a photographic sensibility. His California landscapes possess all the fleeting romance of a glimpse through the driver's-side... View details »
Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright
Art
Fatally Yours
Friday Feb 15 (noon–8pm) @ Crewest Gallery More times »
Free
Not all of us choose to celebrate the upcoming Hallmark holiday with champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries by a roaring fireplace. Case in point: gallery/boutique Crewest... View details »
Fatally Yours
Art: Photography
Sideshow: Diane Arbus at Hubert's Museum
Friday Feb 15 (11am–6pm) @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
If legendary photographer Diane Arbus' images of nudist camps, mental institutions, and creepy-looking twins are your cup of tea, then Sideshow is right up your... View details »
Sideshow: Diane Arbus at Hubert's Museum
Art
Think Big
Friday Feb 15 (1–6pm) @ The Hive Gallery & Studios More times »
Free
Global Inheritance and fashionPEACE connect socially minded youth with an international activist community. One of their finest endeavors is TRASHed, a campaign that finds artistic... View details »
Think Big
Art
The Garden of Delight
Friday Feb 15 (9am–6pm) @ Ghettogloss More times »
Free
If a group show of whimsical, freak-folky art at a boutique with punk-rock lingerie, a vending machine that sells beer, and pink cupcakes sounds like... View details »
The Garden of Delight
Performing Arts: Theatre
Carnage, a Comedy
Friday Feb 15 (8pm) @ The Actors' Gang Theatre More times »
Twenty years after Carnage's wildly successful premiere, the Gang revives Adam Simon and Tim Robbins' play with frightening vitality and acerbic absurdity to spare. The... View details »
Carnage, a Comedy
More Flavor: City Gem
Vinum Populi
Friday Feb 15 (5:30pm–1:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Vinum Populi, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one key... View details »
Vinum Populi
Art
Eve Wood
Friday Feb 15 (11am–6pm) @ Western Project More times »
Free
Eve Wood is the toast of Culver City this month with a breakthrough exhibition of mixed-media work on canvas. Wood leaves her former quiet reserve... View details »
Eve Wood