All events on Tuesday February 19

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Film
Party Girl
Tuesday Feb 19 (1pm) @ 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 invigorates standard turnaround tale... View details »
Party Girl
Film
Rebel Without a Cause
Tuesday Feb 19 (1:30pm) @ 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 howl: "You're tearing me... View details »
Rebel Without a Cause
Music: Rock/Pop
Keren Ann
Tuesday Feb 19 (7:45pm) @ El Rey
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Bundle up in melodic layers tonight as Brooklyn duo Dean & Britta's sleek twang gets paired with French chanteuse Keren Ann's masterful torch-song tristesse. Formerly... View details »
Keren Ann
Music: Rock/Pop
The Hives
Tuesday Feb 19 (8pm) @ The Wiltern
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Exuberant Swedish garage rockers the Hives, fronted by the egomaniacal Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, don their matching black-and-white suits at the Wiltern tonight in support of... View details »
The Hives
Music: Rock/Pop
Van Hunt
Tuesday Feb 19 (8:30pm) @ Temple Bar
Giveaway
Singer/songwriter Van Hunt lets flow the kind of neo-soul music that prompts candlelit smooch sessions and the wearing of edible underwear, so his pairing with... View details »
Van Hunt
More Flavor: Lecture
Walton Ford
Tuesday Feb 19 (7:30pm) @ Art Center
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Walton Ford's paintings revive a particular kind of 19th-century sensibility, encompassing not only the hyper-detail of Victorian scientific illustration, but also the fabulist, mythological traces... View details »
Walton Ford

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Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Tuesday Feb 19 @ 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 »
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Tuesday Feb 19 @ 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 »
My Kid Could Paint That
Art
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Tuesday Feb 19 (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 »
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Art: Architecture/Design
Jean Michel Crettaz
Tuesday Feb 19 (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 »
Jean Michel Crettaz
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Tuesday Feb 19 (10am–6pm) @ Peterson Automotive Museum More times »
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the need for expressing cultural... View details »
La Vida Lowrider
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Michael Asher
Tuesday Feb 19 (11am–6pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art More times »
Rather than create new spaces and pieces, conceptual mixed-media artist Michael Asher prefers to deconstruct and punctuate extant spaces with found materials, creating a site-specific... View details »
Michael Asher
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Rosson Crow
Tuesday Feb 19 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
Free
In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection of paintings. Despite the... View details »
Rosson Crow
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First Generation
Tuesday Feb 19 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art More times »
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than some great old houses... View details »
First Generation
Art
Einar & Jamex de la Torre
Tuesday Feb 19 (10am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery More times »
Free
Brothers Einar and Jamex couldn't possibly deny the influence of their heritage — their blown-glass and mixed-media works radiate with the colors, textures, and imagery... View details »
Einar & Jamex de la Torre
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
Tuesday Feb 19 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his films took hundreds of... View details »
Alfred Hitchcock
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Matthew Heller
Tuesday Feb 19 (11am–5pm) @ DCA Fine Art More times »
Free
Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text. Though at times pained... View details »
Matthew Heller
Art
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Tuesday Feb 19 @ 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 »
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Art: Photography
Freeze Frame
Tuesday Feb 19 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides shooting spools of film... View details »
Freeze Frame
Performing Arts: Opera
Otello
Tuesday Feb 19 @ 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 »
Otello
Art: Photography
Rocky Schenck
Tuesday Feb 19 (10am–5pm) @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles More times »
Free
Known for haunting images that envelop the viewer in an uneasy haze, Rocky Schenck finds beauty in rural landscapes and unremarkable interiors. Using Los Angeles... View details »
Rocky Schenck
Film
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Tuesday Feb 19 @ 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 »
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Art
Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
Tuesday Feb 19 @ 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 »
Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
Art
Daniel Richter
Tuesday Feb 19 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects More times »
Free
German painter Daniel Richter's expressionistic, figurative works are both dark and disarming. With influences that range from Goya to comic books and contemporary news media,... View details »
Daniel Richter
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Sheng Qi
Tuesday Feb 19 (10am–5:30pm) @ DF2 More times »
Free
Renowned Chinese artist Sheng Qi lived in exile in Europe for a decade after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Before fleeing China, however, he left a... View details »
Sheng Qi
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Dustin Yellin
Tuesday Feb 19 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman More times »
Free
Dustin Yellin does not suspend exotic crimson seaweed inside his freestanding resin columns — it just looks like it. What he does do is actually... View details »
Dustin Yellin
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Projection
Tuesday Feb 19 @ [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 »
Projection
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Wynne Greenwood
Tuesday Feb 19 (11am–6pm) @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects More times »
Free
"Interdisciplinary" is an understatement when it comes to Brooklyn-based artist Wynne Greenwood: she's known for melding performance, installation, video, and two-dimensional works into outrageous, breathtaking,... View details »
Wynne Greenwood
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Luke Whitlatch
Tuesday Feb 19 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
Free
In his new series of work, painter Luke Whitlatch offers a meditation on both the emotional events that define human life and the craft of... View details »
Luke Whitlatch
Art
Artist/Gallerist
Tuesday Feb 19 (noon–5pm) @ another year in LA More times »
Free
Gallery owners spend the majority of their working lives combing through an ever-growing pile of art, searching for a particular brand of genius. But with... View details »
Artist/Gallerist
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Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
Tuesday Feb 19 (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 »
Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
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Frohawk Two Feathers
Tuesday Feb 19 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles artist Frohawk Two Feathers makes fanciful, avant-folk paintings featuring a cast of singularly imaginative characters. For his latest collection at Taylor de Cordoba,... View details »
Frohawk Two Feathers
Art: Architecture/Design
The Austrian Winery Boom
Tuesday Feb 19 (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 »
The Austrian Winery Boom
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Tessar Lo and Chris Devera
Tuesday Feb 19 (noon–6pm) @ project: gallery More times »
Free
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 too far. Lo draws... View details »
Tessar Lo and Chris Devera
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Mel Kadel and Travis Millard
Tuesday Feb 19 (11am–5pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Free
The organic forms that populate Mel Kadel's drawings have begun to grow in scale, creeping toward the edges of the sheet and threatening to break... View details »
Mel Kadel and Travis Millard
Art: Photography
Tom Servais
Tuesday Feb 19 (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 »
Tom Servais
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Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright
Tuesday Feb 19 (11am–5pm) @ Lawrence Asher Gallery More times »
Free
Landscape paintings from Mexican artist Miguel Osuna have a photographic sensibility. His California landscapes possess all the fleeting romance of a glimpse through the driver's-side... View details »
Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright
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Fatally Yours
Tuesday Feb 19 (noon–7pm) @ Crewest Gallery More times »
Free
Not all of us choose to celebrate the upcoming Hallmark holiday with champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries by a roaring fireplace. Case in point: gallery/boutique Crewest... View details »
Fatally Yours
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Here, There, and Everywhere
Tuesday Feb 19 (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 »
Here, There, and Everywhere
Art: Photography
Sideshow: Diane Arbus at Hubert's Museum
Tuesday Feb 19 (11am–6pm) @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
If legendary photographer Diane Arbus' images of nudist camps, mental institutions, and creepy-looking twins are your cup of tea, then Sideshow is right up your... View details »
Sideshow: Diane Arbus at Hubert's Museum
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There We Were, Now Here We Are
Tuesday Feb 19 (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 »
There We Were, Now Here We Are
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The Garden of Delight
Tuesday Feb 19 (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 »
The Garden of Delight
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Julie Davidow
Tuesday Feb 19 (11am–5pm) @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery More times »
Free
Miami-based painter and self-proclaimed "frustrated scientist" Julie Davidow presents a series of new works that embody the interactions between man and nature, biology and pathology.... View details »
Julie Davidow
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Adam Janes
Tuesday Feb 19 (11am–6pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery More times »
Free
With the creative ingenuity of a mad doctor and the unwieldy imagination of a five-year old, installation artist Adam Janes unveils Don't Sweat the Small... View details »
Adam Janes
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Overgrowth
Tuesday Feb 19 (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 »
Overgrowth
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David Touster
Tuesday Feb 19 (11am–5pm) @ Milo Gallery More times »
Free
With leaked sex tapes and nude photos of celebrities comprising a billion-dollar industry, David Touster's new work couldn't be more humorous or timely. Private Pictures... View details »
David Touster
More Flavor: City Gem
Vinum Populi
Tuesday Feb 19 (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 »
Vinum Populi
Art
Eve Wood
Tuesday Feb 19 (11am–6pm) @ Western Project More times »
Free
Eve Wood is the toast of Culver City this month with a breakthrough exhibition of mixed-media work on canvas. Wood leaves her former quiet reserve... View details »
Eve Wood