Events on Saturday, February 16

Soul Exploration feat. Bilal, Sa-Ra Creative Partners and Orgone
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Music
Soul Exploration
@ Crash Mansion
Soul Exploration is a night of live music and DJ sets for the ears, body, and spirit, presented by ArtDontSleep, in...  View details »
Year Long Disaster w/ Bullets and Octane
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Music: Rock/Pop
Year Long Disaster
@ The Roxy Theatre
Year Long Disaster are an exceptionally loud rock band — a trio of young men who elicit catchy melodies from their...  View details »
The Do Lab presents Lucent L'Amour
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Music
Lucent L'Amour
@ Downtown LA Warehouse
The Do Lab lights up alt-culture art and music festivals around the world, via such vehicles as the extraordinary Misting Oasis...  View details »
<em>The Texas Chainsaw Massacre  </em>(1974)
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Film
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
@ Aero Theatre
After Hollywood's recent horror-film diet of regurgitated conceits, half-baked remakes, and cookie-cutter copies, a screening of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre...  View details »
Neon Cruise feat. Mike the PoeT
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Performing Arts: Spoken Word
Mike the PoeT
@ Broadway Bar
Author and performer Mike the PoeT hosts another edition of his Neon Cruise bus tour of the watering holes and neon...  View details »
<em>Edges and Boundaries </em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Edges and Boundaries
@ Jancar Gallery
Edges and Boundaries is part group show, part happening — it's hung, celebrated, and de-installed in a single day. The exhibition...  View details »
Free

Ongoing Events

David Brady: <em>Genesis</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
David Brady
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Nick Walker: <em>Pretty Decorating</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Nick Walker
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Julie Davidow: <em>The New Strain</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Julie Davidow
@ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
Miami-based painter and self-proclaimed "frustrated scientist" Julie Davidow presents a series of new works that embody the interactions between man and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Yun Bai: <em>Who's That Girl?</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Yun Bai
@ Art Murmur Gallery
Rising LA artist Yun Bai and her alter ego Yunny Bunny converge in this smashing show. Bai splits herself in two:...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Rocky Schenck: <em>Los Angeles</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art: Photography
Rocky Schenck
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright
@ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Landscape paintings from Mexican artist Miguel Osuna have a photographic sensibility. His California landscapes possess all the fleeting romance of a...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>
Month_02 Sunday Day_17
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Michael Asher
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Michael Asher
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Pan-African Film &amp; Arts Festival
Month_02 Sunday Day_17
More Flavor: Festival
Pan-African Film & Arts Festival
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Sheng Qi: <em>History in Black and Red</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Sheng Qi
@ DF2
Renowned Chinese artist Sheng Qi lived in exile in Europe for a decade after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Before fleeing China,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Carnage, a Comedy</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Performing Arts: Theatre
Carnage, a Comedy
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Broad Contemporary Art Museum Opening Weekend
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
BCAM
@ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
With the much-anticipated opening of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum on the LACMA campus, LA now has the most museum space...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Stephen Tompkins: <em>Transmogrifications</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Stephen Tompkins
@ Found Gallery
Stephen Tompkins is a shockingly versatile artistic chameleon, working in drawing, painting, 3-D digital design, animation, music, and sculpture. His fittingly...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Eve Wood: <em>No Other Word for Love</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Eve Wood
@ Western Project
Eve Wood is the toast of Culver City this month with a breakthrough exhibition of mixed-media work on canvas. Wood leaves...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Freeze Frame: Five Decades of Photographs by Douglas Kirkland</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art: Photography
Freeze Frame
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Tom Servais: <em>el&middot;e&middot;men&middot;tal</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art: Photography
Tom Servais
@ epOxybOx
Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Overgrowth</em>: Katherine  Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Overgrowth
@ GR2
GR2 combines the artistic minds of Katherine Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush for a group show of anti-monumental proportions. Discarding...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_17
Performing Arts: Theatre
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Einar and Jamex de la Torre: <em>New Colonies in the New World</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Einar & Jamex de la Torre
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Victory</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Performing Arts: Theatre
Victory
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Luke Whitlatch
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Luke Whitlatch
@ Bandini Art
In his new series of work, painter Luke Whitlatch offers a meditation on both the emotional events that define human life...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Earrings of Madame de... </em>(1953) and <em>Letter from an Unknown Woman </em>(1948)
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Film
The Earrings of Madame de... and Letter from an Unknown Woman
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Sideshow: Diane Arbus at Hubert's Museum </em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art: Photography
Sideshow: Diane Arbus at Hubert's Museum
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Tucker Neel: <em>Confabulations</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Tucker Neel
@ Commissary Arts
Frustrated debutantes, overdressed crocodiles, and bandaged aristocrats parade through Tucker Neel's latest exhibition. The LA artist conjures up witty, intriguing imagery...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Rosson Crow: <em>Night at the Palomino</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Rosson Crow
@ Honor Fraser
In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Tessar Lo and Chris Devera: <em>something to cry for</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Tessar Lo and Chris Devera
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>
Month_02 Sunday Day_17
Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Ruby Osorio: <em>Looking Through the Blind</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Ruby Osorio
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Projection</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_17
Art
Projection
@ [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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Imaginary 20th Century</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
The Imaginary 20th Century
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Stay Forever: The Life and Music of Dusty Springfield</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Performing Arts: Theatre
Stay Forever
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Frohawk Two Feathers: <em> In the Court of the Crimson King </em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Frohawk Two Feathers
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Tony Philippou, Zach Johnsen, and Marion Bolognesi: <em>The Trinity</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
The Trinity
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
David Touster: <em>Private Pictures</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
David Touster
@ Milo Gallery
With leaked sex tapes and nude photos of celebrities comprising a billion-dollar industry, David Touster's new work couldn't be more humorous...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Matthew Heller: <em>Everything Is a Love Story</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Matthew Heller
@ DCA Fine Art
Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
LA Opera presents Giuseppe Verdi's<em> Otello</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_17
Performing Arts: Opera
Otello
@ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Racism, jealousy, and betrayal form the backdrop of Shakespeare's penultimate tragedy, Othello. The stakes of the story are set even higher...  View details »
Ongoing
Hiromi Tsuchida: <em>Photographs 1969-2004 </em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art: Photography
Hiromi Tsuchida
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Garden of Delight</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
The Garden of Delight
@ Ghettogloss
If a group show of whimsical, freak-folky art at a boutique with punk-rock lingerie, a vending machine that sells beer, and...  View details »
Ongoing
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Masao Yamamoto
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art: Photography
Masao Yamamoto
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_02 Sunday Day_17
More Flavor: Fair
Antiquarian Book Fair
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
Wynne Greenwood: <em>Face It</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Wynne Greenwood
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Robots vs Fake Robots </em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Performing Arts: Theatre
Robots vs Fake Robots
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Mel Kadel and Travis Millard
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Mel Kadel and Travis Millard
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
TRASHed: <em>Think Big</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Think Big
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
@ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...  View details »
Ongoing
Chris Anthony: <em>I'm the Most Normal Person I Know</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art: Photography
Chris Anthony
@ Corey Helford
Chris Anthony inhabits a strange, haunting world in his new exhibition. Influenced by childhood visions and containing authentically dreamlike narratives, Anthony's...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Victor Burgin: <I>The Little House</i>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art: Architecture/Design
Victor Burgin
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
Month_02 Sunday Day_17
Art
Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
@ Various Chinatown galleries
As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Neil Campbell and Peter Schuyff
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Sound in Space
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Callaloo: Visions of the Black Atlantic</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Callaloo
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Adam Janes: <em>Don't Sweat the Small Stuff at 50%</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Adam Janes
@ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
With the creative ingenuity of a mad doctor and the unwieldy imagination of a five-year old, installation artist Adam Janes unveils...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Daniel Richter: <em>Rock Und Polizei</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Daniel Richter
@ Regen Projects
German painter Daniel Richter's expressionistic, figurative works are both dark and disarming. With influences that range from Goya to comic books...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Fatally Yours</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Fatally Yours
@ Crewest Gallery
Not all of us choose to celebrate the upcoming Hallmark holiday with champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries by a roaring fireplace. Case...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_17
Art
Bob Dylan's American Journey
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>First Generation: Art in Claremont 1907-1957</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
First Generation
@ Claremont Museum of Art
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than...  View details »
Ongoing
Laurel and Hardy Festival
Month_02 Sunday Day_17
Film
Laurel and Hardy Festival
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Dustin Yellin
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Dustin Yellin
@ Samuel Freeman
Dustin Yellin does not suspend exotic crimson seaweed inside his freestanding resin columns — it just looks like it. What he...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Stadium Devildare </em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Performing Arts: Theatre
Stadium Devildare
@ Theatre of NOTE
Stadium Devildare is billed as "a tale of future sport... America to the extreme" — and indeed, Ruth Margraff's play pushes...  View details »
Ongoing
Rachel Mason: <em>The Candidate</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Rachel Mason
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Here, There, and Everywhere</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Here, There, and Everywhere
@ The Bike Oven
Cyclists unite for an exhibition featuring the works of artists from all parts of the nation who just happen to also,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Materials & Applications: <em>Density Fields</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Girly Group Show</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
Girly Group Show
@ Ghettogloss
This exhibition at Silverlake's favorite gallery/alt-culture hangout features the work of Noel ILL, Jenny Mollen, and Jessica Garrison among a sizeable...  View details »
Ongoing
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Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art: Discussion
Nicole Cohen
@ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Tim Bavington: <em>There We Were, Now Here We Are</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art
There We Were, Now Here We Are
@ Mark Moore Gallery
LA artist Tim Bavington reinvents the once-obsolete "stripe painting" with hometown verve. Bavington incorporates sound into many of his dense compositions,...  View details »
Ongoing
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Johan Grimonprez: <em>Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_17
Film
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Lights! Camera! Glamour!</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Last Days of Desmond Nani Reese</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_16
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Last Days of Desmond Nani Reese
@ Bang Improv Studio
It's Los Angeles circa 2014, and a 108-year-old Echo Park stripper has a lot to get off her chest. Heather Woodbury's...  View details »
Ongoing