Events on Sunday, February 17
Sunday 2/17 @ The Silent Movie Theatre
Ever the champion of the have-nots, Charlie Chaplin spoofs the inhumanity of industrialization in Modern Times. Reprising his role as the...
Sunday 2/17 @ Aero Theatre
Nathan Juran's classic fantasy The 7th Voyage of Sinbad screens tonight, along with live commentary from an impressive cast of experts....
Sunday 2/17 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Baby Dee has been a freak-show performer (her act involved broken glass and sledgehammers), a Catholic-church organist, a tricycling accordion player,...
Ongoing Events
Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
Sunday 2/17 @ 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...
Sunday 2/17 @ 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....
Sunday 2/17 @ Claremont Museum of Art
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than...
Sunday 2/17 @ Theatre of NOTE
Stadium Devildare is billed as "a tale of future sport... America to the extreme" — and indeed, Ruth Margraff's play pushes...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Sunday 2/17 @ 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...
Sunday 2/17 @ 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,...
Sunday 2/17 @ 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...
Sunday 2/17 @ [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...
Sunday 2/17 @ 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...
Sunday 2/17 @ 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...
Sunday 2/17 @ 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...
Sunday 2/17 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Sunday 2/17 @ 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...
Sunday 2/17 @ 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...
Sunday 2/17 @ 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...
Sunday 2/17 @ 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...
Sunday 2/17 @ 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...
Sunday 2/17 @ 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...
Sunday 2/17 @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College
It's up for debate whether James Turrell is a sculptor, an architect, a light-and-space artist, or an earth-works artist. Whichever he...
Sunday 2/17 @ 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...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Sunday 2/17 @ 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...
Sunday 2/17 @ The Bike Oven
Cyclists unite for an exhibition featuring the works of artists from all parts of the nation who just happen to also,...
Sunday 2/17 @ Various Chinatown galleries
As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art...
Sunday 2/17 @ Crewest Gallery
Not all of us choose to celebrate the upcoming Hallmark holiday with champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries by a roaring fireplace. Case...
Sunday 2/17 @ 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,...
Sunday 2/17 @ 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...
Sunday 2/17 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Sunday 2/17 @ 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...
Sunday 2/17 @ 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...
Sunday 2/17 @ 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...
Pan-African Film & Arts Festival
Sunday 2/17 @ 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,...
Sunday 2/17 @ GR2
GR2 combines the artistic minds of Katherine Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush for a group show of anti-monumental proportions. Discarding...
Sunday 2/17 @ 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...
Sunday 2/17 @ Found Gallery
Stephen Tompkins is a shockingly versatile artistic chameleon, working in drawing, painting, 3-D digital design, animation, music, and sculpture. His fittingly...
Sunday 2/17 @ 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...
