Events on Tuesday, February 19
Tuesday 2/19 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Beloved by the New Wave, Nicholas Ray possessed that rare director's talent of making every story, however stale, entirely engrossing. He...
Tuesday 2/19 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Rebel Without a Cause, director Nicholas Ray's hell-raising horse (James Dean) and carriage (alienated youth), is best summarized by Dean's immortal...
Tuesday 2/19 @ The Wiltern
Exuberant Swedish garage rockers the Hives, fronted by the egomaniacal Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, don their matching black-and-white suits at the Wiltern...
Tuesday 2/19 @ Art Center College of Design
Walton Ford's paintings revive a particular kind of 19th-century sensibility, encompassing not only the hyper-detail of Victorian scientific illustration, but also...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ [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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ The Bike Oven
Cyclists unite for an exhibition featuring the works of artists from all parts of the nation who just happen to also,...
Tuesday 2/19 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Tuesday 2/19 @ GR2
GR2 combines the artistic minds of Katherine Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush for a group show of anti-monumental proportions. Discarding...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright
Tuesday 2/19 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Landscape paintings from Mexican artist Miguel Osuna have a photographic sensibility. His California landscapes possess all the fleeting romance of a...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ MODAA gallery
After a 1985 wine scandal (winemakers were discovered to have added an antifreeze component to sweeten their vintages), a red-faced Austria...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ Claremont Museum of Art
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than...
Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ Various Chinatown galleries
As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ Crewest Gallery
Not all of us choose to celebrate the upcoming Hallmark holiday with champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries by a roaring fireplace. Case...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ Samuel Freeman
Dustin Yellin does not suspend exotic crimson seaweed inside his freestanding resin columns — it just looks like it. What he...
Tuesday 2/19 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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,...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ Honor Fraser
In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ Regen Projects
German painter Daniel Richter's expressionistic, figurative works are both dark and disarming. With influences that range from Goya to comic books...
Tuesday 2/19 @ Bandini Art
In his new series of work, painter Luke Whitlatch offers a meditation on both the emotional events that define human life...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Sideshow: Diane Arbus at Hubert's Museum
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
There We Were, Now Here We Are
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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,...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/19 @ DCA Fine Art
Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text....
Tuesday 2/19 @ epOxybOx
Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for...
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Tuesday 2/19 @ 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...























































