Events on Saturday, February 2
Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Hammer Museum
Three quarks for Muster Mark! A rather arbitrary 126 years since idiomatic Irishman James Joyce was born, the Hammer's celebration reminds...
Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Egyptian Theatre
Joel and Ethan Coen's back-to-back films Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink are ingenious tributes to genres and generations hence. Dashiell Hammett...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Spaceland
Tonight at Spaceland, shimmery shoegaze pop collides with brooding, riff-heavy rock. Mere Mortals, fronted by German-born, London-bred Alex Steuerwald, craft refined,...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Aero Theatre
Spirited Away is Hayao Miyazaki's inimitable masterpiece. Traveling with her parents (soon to be transformed into pigs), premonitory and morose ten-year-old...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Crash Mansion
The Bravery may have come a long way since their Skabba the Hut ska-band college days, but the group still want...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ The Scene
The Scene in Glendale was recently remodeled, just in time for this week's Club Place-n-Time, a house-packing haven for the east...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ The Silent Movie Theatre
Douglas Sirk's melodramas are visual vortexes of societal and domestic issues spun to heartbreaking effect. For his final Hollywood outing, Imitation...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ The Queen Mary
Those who can't make it to Rio for Carnaval should consider a short schlep to another Mardi Gras mecca: Long Beach....
Ongoing Events
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Jancar Gallery
LA's Virginia Katz uses a complex mixed-media process that involves so many layers of hand-worked pigments and liquids, her art can...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Samuel Freeman
Dustin Yellin does not suspend exotic crimson seaweed inside his freestanding resin columns — it just looks like it. What he...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ [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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
The Last Days of Desmond Nani Reese
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
Photographer and video artist Tim Sullivan, the highlight of last year's OC Biennial, inserts himself into bizarrely macabre and possibly drug-induced...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Forum Gallery
Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Robert Berman Gallery
Rocker/designer Kevin Reagan and Juxtapoz's Greg Escalante co-curate this survey of images by Alex Steinweiss. In 1939, the Columbia Records packaging...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
Born in Poland and educated in Germany, Angelika J. Trojnarski depicts desolate cultural landscapes, dismembered bodies, and the barbwired evidence of...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Bandini Art
In his new series of work, painter Luke Whitlatch offers a meditation on both the emotional events that define human life...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Chris Anthony inhabits a strange, haunting world in his new exhibition. Influenced by childhood visions and containing authentically dreamlike narratives, Anthony's...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Claremont Museum of Art
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Honor Fraser
In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
The trio of contemporary artists assembled for the first show of the year at the Lawrence Asher Gallery draws inspiration from...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Various Chinatown galleries
As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ DCA Fine Art
Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text....
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Saturday 2/ 2 @ Fette's Gallery
Twenty-five photographers working in cities around the world were given a simple task: to take an 11 x 14-inch self-portrait —...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Paul Kopeikin Gallery
Berlin is in perpetual transition. The enduring fountainhead of Western culture is endlessly fascinating to students of art, architecture, and politics,...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ DNJ Gallery
Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Regen Projects
German painter Daniel Richter's expressionistic, figurative works are both dark and disarming. With influences that range from Goya to comic books...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Commissary Arts
Frustrated debutantes, overdressed crocodiles, and bandaged aristocrats parade through Tucker Neel's latest exhibition. The LA artist conjures up witty, intriguing imagery...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Rosamund Felsen Gallery
The empowered female subjects of Karen Liebowitz's paintings exist in a fantasyland encompassing mythology, religious tales, and the contemporary world. For...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Richard Heller Gallery
At first glance, Neil Farber's vivid, whimsical drawings seem to capture all the ignorant bliss of childhood, but their darker intentions...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ REDCAT
Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
Britain's Scrawl Collective is an emerging group of post-illustration urban romantics. They bring their ramped-up aesthetic energy to the States this...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ New Image Art
New Image Art owner Marsea Goldberg remembers when posters were a vehicle for edgy, urban art and illustration — and so...
Neil Campbell and Peter Schuyff
Saturday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 2 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Considered one of the world's greatest operas, Richard Wagner's 1857 Tristan und Isolde sprang from the composer's own torrid love life....
