All events on Monday February 18
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- Chinatown
- Monday Feb 18 (7:30pm) @ Arclight Sherman Oaks
- "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown," says a detective with weary nonchalance in director Roman Polanski's hard-boiled masterpiece Chinatown. Those lingering last words embody the film's... View details »
- Film
- PTTV 25-Year Anniversary
- Monday Feb 18 (8pm) @ REDCAT
- Public-access programs can be quite boring, save for the occasional crank caller. But Paper Tiger Television isn't your average Q&A about local interests. Standing apart... View details »
- Music
- Colorforms
- Monday Feb 18 (8:30pm) @ The Viper Room
- Check One Two host Mark Sovel throws together another eclectic bill tonight, courting the best in local talent for his much-venerated Viper Room weekly. A... View details »
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- Art
- SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
- Monday Feb 18 @ 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- My Kid Could Paint That
- Monday Feb 18 @ 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 »
- Art
- Materials & Applications: Density Fields
- Monday Feb 18 (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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Jean Michel Crettaz
- Monday Feb 18 (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 »
- Art
- Bob Dylan's American Journey
- Monday Feb 18 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- Otello
- Monday Feb 18 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion More times »
- Racism, jealousy, and betrayal form the backdrop of Shakespeare's penultimate tragedy, Othello. The stakes of the story are set even higher in this powerful staging... View details »
- Film
- Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
- Monday Feb 18 @ 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 »
- Art
- Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
- Monday Feb 18 @ 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 »
- Art
- Projection
- Monday Feb 18 @ [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 »
- Art
- Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
- Monday Feb 18 (11am–7pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- The Austrian Winery Boom
- Monday Feb 18 (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 »
- Art
- BCAM
- Monday Feb 18 (11am–8pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art More times »
- Free
- With the much-anticipated opening of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum on the LACMA campus, LA now has the most museum space dedicated to contemporary art... View details »
- More Flavor: Festival
- Pan-African Film & Arts Festival
- Monday Feb 18 @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Tom Servais
- Monday Feb 18 (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 »
- Art
- Here, There, and Everywhere
- Monday Feb 18 (7–10pm) @ The Bike Oven More times »
- Free
- Cyclists unite for an exhibition featuring the works of artists from all parts of the nation who just happen to also, you know, ride bicycles.... View details »
- Art
- There We Were, Now Here We Are
- Monday Feb 18 (10am–6pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery More times »
- Free
- LA artist Tim Bavington reinvents the once-obsolete "stripe painting" with hometown verve. Bavington incorporates sound into many of his dense compositions, assigning a musical note... View details »
- Art
- The Garden of Delight
- Monday Feb 18 (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 »
- Art
- James Turrell
- Monday Feb 18 (10am–8pm) @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College More times »
- Free
- 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 is, the transcendent, full-body... View details »
- Art
- Overgrowth
- Monday Feb 18 (11:30am–8pm) @ GR2 More times »
- Free
- GR2 combines the artistic minds of Katherine Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush for a group show of anti-monumental proportions. Discarding their individual pursuits for... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Vinum Populi
- Monday Feb 18 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ 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 »
