Events on Friday, February 15

<em>Gypsy </em>(1962) and the Bonnie Delight Burlesque Revue

Film

The Bonnie Delight Burlesque Revue

Friday 2/15 @ Egyptian Theatre

At the Bonnie Delight Burlesque Revue, 45 minutes of risqué business begins with a warm-up from emcee Shecky Greenblatt, followed by... 

<em>The Umbrellas of Cherbourg </em>(1964)

Film

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

stepsonday w/ Good on Paper and the Health Club

Music

Good on Paper

Friday 2/15 @ Pehrspace

Good on Paper have a familiar-but-elusive sound that draws on decades of naïve pop, from Jonathan Richman to Belle & Sebastian.... 

Club Underground feat. Grand Ole Party and Love Grenades

Music

Grand Ole Party

Friday 2/15 @ The Echo & Echoplex

Fronted by fetching drummer Kristin Gundred, the feral head trip known as Grand Ole Party visits the Echo's Club Underground this... 

St. Vincent w/ Foreign Born

Music

St. Vincent

Friday 2/15 @ Echoplex

Multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) kicks off her new tour at Echoplex, having recently returned from Australia and Japan... 

DJ Shadow w/ Cut Chemist

Music: DJ

DJ Shadow

Friday 2/15 @ The Wiltern

The Bay's turntable baron and Quannum Projects founder DJ Shadow teams up with LA's Cut Chemist — fresh from his Juno... 

Ongoing Events

Tessar Lo and Chris Devera: <em>something to cry for</em>

Art

Tessar Lo and Chris Devera

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

Rosson Crow: <em>Night at the Palomino</em>

Art

Rosson Crow

Friday 2/15 @ Honor Fraser

In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection... 

Festival: Fair

Antiquarian Book Fair

Friday 2/15 @ Hyatt Regency Century Plaza

Bibliophiles, academics, and literary tenderfoots pore over collections from over 200 rare-book institutions this weekend at the International Antiquarian Book Fair.... 

<em>First Generation: Art in Claremont 1907-1957</em>

Art

First Generation

Friday 2/15 @ Claremont Museum of Art

Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than... 

Rocky Schenck: <em>Los Angeles</em>

Art: Photography

Rocky Schenck

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

<em>Carnage, a Comedy</em>

Theatre

Carnage, a Comedy

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

Dustin Yellin

Art

Dustin Yellin

Friday 2/15 @ Samuel Freeman

Dustin Yellin does not suspend exotic crimson seaweed inside his freestanding resin columns — it just looks like it. What he... 

Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Friday 2/15 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... 

<em>Callaloo: Visions of the Black Atlantic</em>

Art

Callaloo

Friday 2/15 @ Pounder-Koné Art Space

Don't call Pounder Koné Art Space a "gallery." Owner CCH Pounder wants you to think of her and her husband's venue... 

Frohawk Two Feathers: <em> In the Court of the Crimson King </em>

Art

Frohawk Two Feathers

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>

Art

SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

Chris Anthony: <em>I'm the Most Normal Person I Know</em>

Art: Photography

Chris Anthony

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

Eve Wood: <em>No Other Word for Love</em>

Art

Eve Wood

Friday 2/15 @ Western Project

Eve Wood is the toast of Culver City this month with a breakthrough exhibition of mixed-media work on canvas. Wood leaves... 

<em>Projection</em>

Art

Projection

Friday 2/15 @ [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... 

Victor Burgin: <I>The Little House</i>

Art

Victor Burgin

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

Einar and Jamex de la Torre: <em>New Colonies in the New World</em>

Art

Einar & Jamex de la Torre

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

Art

Sound in Space

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

Matthew Heller: <em>Everything Is a Love Story</em>

Art

Matthew Heller

Friday 2/15 @ DCA Fine Art

Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text.... 

Sheng Qi: <em>History in Black and Red</em>

Art

Sheng Qi

Friday 2/15 @ DF2

Renowned Chinese artist Sheng Qi lived in exile in Europe for a decade after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Before fleeing China,... 

<em>Robots vs Fake Robots </em>

Theatre

Robots vs Fake Robots

Friday 2/15 @ Powerhouse Theatre

If you only have time this month to see one dark-comedy dance spectacular about a dystopian future in which sex-craved, man-eating... 

Luke Whitlatch

Art

Luke Whitlatch

Friday 2/15 @ Bandini Art

In his new series of work, painter Luke Whitlatch offers a meditation on both the emotional events that define human life... 

<em>Girly Group Show</em>

Art

Girly Group Show

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

TRASHed: <em>Think Big</em>

Art

Think Big

Friday 2/15 @ The Hive Gallery & Studios

Global Inheritance and fashionPEACE connect socially minded youth with an international activist community. One of their finest endeavors is TRASHed, a... 

Mel Kadel and Travis Millard

Art

Mel Kadel and Travis Millard

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

<em>Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson</em>

Theatre

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

<em>The Austrian Winery Boom</em>

Art

The Austrian Winery Boom

Friday 2/15 @ MODAA gallery

After a 1985 wine scandal (winemakers were discovered to have added an antifreeze component to sweeten their vintages), a red-faced Austria... 

<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Friday 2/15 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... 

Laurel and Hardy Festival

Film

Laurel and Hardy Festival

Friday 2/15 @ Old Town Musical Hall

Stan Laurel was the skinny, head-scratching halfwit; Oliver Hardy was the hefty, haughty fella with the pipsqueak moustache. As seen in... 

Michael Asher

Art

Michael Asher

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

<em>Freeze Frame: Five Decades of Photographs by Douglas Kirkland</em>

Art: Photography

Freeze Frame

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

<em>Stay Forever: The Life and Music of Dusty Springfield</em>

Theatre

Stay Forever

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

<em>The Imaginary 20th Century</em>

Art

The Imaginary 20th Century

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

Tom Servais: <em>el&middot;e&middot;men&middot;tal</em>

Art: Photography

Tom Servais

Friday 2/15 @ epOxybOx

Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for... 

Nick Walker: <em>Pretty Decorating</em>

Art

Nick Walker

Friday 2/15 @ 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

Art

Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

<em>Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966</em>

Art

Bob Dylan's American Journey

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

Yun Bai: <em>Who's That Girl?</em>

Art

Yun Bai

Friday 2/15 @ Art Murmur Gallery

Rising LA artist Yun Bai and her alter ego Yunny Bunny converge in this smashing show. Bai splits herself in two:... 

<em>Sideshow: Diane Arbus at Hubert's Museum </em>

Art: Photography

Sideshow: Diane Arbus at Hubert's Museum

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions

Art

Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions

Friday 2/15 @ Various Chinatown galleries

As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art... 

<em>Fatally Yours</em>

Art

Fatally Yours

Friday 2/15 @ Crewest Gallery

Not all of us choose to celebrate the upcoming Hallmark holiday with champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries by a roaring fireplace. Case... 

Masao Yamamoto

Art: Photography

Masao Yamamoto

Friday 2/15 @ 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,... 

<em>Victory</em>

Theatre

Victory

Friday 2/15 @ The Fountain Theatre

South African playwright Athol Fugard's work demonstrates the power of theatre to incite social transformation. Fugard's plays have addressed the subject... 

<em>Lights! Camera! Glamour!</em>

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Friday 2/15 @ 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,... 

Daniel Richter: <em>Rock Und Polizei</em>

Art

Daniel Richter

Friday 2/15 @ Regen Projects

German painter Daniel Richter's expressionistic, figurative works are both dark and disarming. With influences that range from Goya to comic books... 

<em>Stadium Devildare </em>

Theatre

Stadium Devildare

Friday 2/15 @ Theatre of NOTE

Stadium Devildare is billed as "a tale of future sport... America to the extreme" — and indeed, Ruth Margraff's play pushes... 

Wynne Greenwood: <em>Face It</em>

Art

Wynne Greenwood

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

Jean Michel Crettaz: <em>Quasar</em>

Art

Jean Michel Crettaz

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

Tony Philippou, Zach Johnsen, and Marion Bolognesi: <em>The Trinity</em>

Art

The Trinity

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

Rachel Mason: <em>The Candidate</em>

Art

Rachel Mason

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Friday 2/15 @ 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,... 

<em>Artist/Gallerist</em>

Art

Artist/Gallerist

Friday 2/15 @ 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: <em>Density Fields</em>

Art

Materials & Applications: Density Fields

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

Pan-African Film &amp; Arts Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Pan-African Film & Arts Festival

Friday 2/15 @ 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,... 

Ruby Osorio: <em>Looking Through the Blind</em>

Art

Ruby Osorio

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

<em>Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film</em>

Film

Alfred Hitchcock

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

Scott Thompson: <em>Scottastrophe</em>

Comedy

Scott Thompson

Friday 2/15 @ The Steve Allen Theater

Scott Thompson (of immortally beloved sketch-comedy crew the Kids in the Hall) drops his new one-man show on the Steve Allen... 

Art

Neil Campbell and Peter Schuyff

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

Hiromi Tsuchida: <em>Photographs 1969-2004 </em>

Art: Photography

Hiromi Tsuchida

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

<em>The Earrings of Madame de... </em>(1953) and <em>Letter from an Unknown Woman </em>(1948)

Film

The Earrings of Madame de... and Letter from an Unknown Woman

Friday 2/15 @ New Beverly Cinema

Mid-century German director Max Ophüls' legacy is scattered on both sides of the Atlantic. Ophüls' French masterpiece, The Earrings of Madame... 

David Brady: <em>Genesis</em>

Art

David Brady

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

<em>The Garden of Delight</em>

Art

The Garden of Delight

Friday 2/15 @ 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... 

Tucker Neel: <em>Confabulations</em>

Art

Tucker Neel

Friday 2/15 @ 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

Art

Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright

Friday 2/15 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

Landscape paintings from Mexican artist Miguel Osuna have a photographic sensibility. His California landscapes possess all the fleeting romance of a... 

Johan Grimonprez: <em>Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y</em>

Film

Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

Friday 2/15 @ 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...