All events on Saturday February 02

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More Flavor: Festival
Carnaval
Saturday Feb 2 (8pm–2am) @ 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. The annual festival aboard... View details »
Carnaval
Film
Imitation of Life
Saturday Feb 2 (7:30pm) @ 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 of Life, Sirk rakes... View details »
Imitation of Life
Art
Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake
Saturday Feb 2 (4pm) @ Hammer Museum
Free
Three quarks for Muster Mark! A rather arbitrary 126 years since idiomatic Irishman James Joyce was born, the Hammer's celebration reminds of his enduring imprint.... View details »
Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake
Film: Animation
Spirited Away
Saturday Feb 2 (7:30pm) @ 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 Chihiro chances upon an... View details »
Spirited Away
Film
Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink
Saturday Feb 2 (7:30pm) @ 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 do-up Miller's Crossing channels... View details »
Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink
Art
Wynne Greenwood
Saturday Feb 2 (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
Art
Luke Whitlatch
Saturday Feb 2 (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
Music: Rock/Pop
Mere Mortals
Saturday Feb 2 (9pm) @ 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, reverb-heavy pop songs influenced... View details »
Mere Mortals
Music: Rock/Pop
The Bravery
Saturday Feb 2 (8pm) @ Crash Mansion
The Bravery may have come a long way since their Skabba the Hut ska-band college days, but the group still want to be the world's... View details »
The Bravery
Art
David Brady
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–6pm) @ High Energy Constructs More times »
Free
One of Chinatown's most interesting emerging galleries, High Energy Constructs inaugurated its space with an exhibition by David Brady. Two years on, the gallery returns... View details »
David Brady
Art
Nick Walker
Saturday Feb 2 (2–7pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art More times »
Free
Bristol-based street artist Nick Walker — known as the Apish Angel — comes to America, ready to stencil Tinseltown. Like his notorious countryman Banksy, Walker... View details »
Nick Walker
Music: Rock/Pop
The Deadly Syndrome
Saturday Feb 2 (10pm) @ 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 side's indie-rock impresarios. Headliners... View details »
The Deadly Syndrome
Art
Frohawk Two Feathers
Saturday Feb 2 (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
Think Big
Saturday Feb 2 (1–6pm) @ The Hive Gallery & Studios More times »
Free
Global Inheritance and fashionPEACE connect socially minded youth with an international activist community. One of their finest endeavors is TRASHed, a campaign that finds artistic... View details »
Think Big

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Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Saturday Feb 2 @ 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
Saturday Feb 2 @ 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: Architecture/Design
Victor Burgin
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture More times »
The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François de Bastide's 1758 novella... View details »
Victor Burgin
Art
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Saturday Feb 2 (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: Photography
Bill Owens
Saturday Feb 2 (10am–6pm) @ DNJ Gallery More times »
Free
Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic scenes rendered with the... View details »
Bill Owens
Art
Choi Jeong-Hwa
Saturday Feb 2 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture, and ridicules the preciousness... View details »
Choi Jeong-Hwa
Art: Photography
Wunderlust Berlin
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–6pm) @ Paul Kopeikin Gallery More times »
Free
Berlin is in perpetual transition. The enduring fountainhead of Western culture is endlessly fascinating to students of art, architecture, and politics, teeming with creative magic... View details »
Wunderlust Berlin
Art
Ruby Osorio
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–6pm) @ Cherry and Martin More times »
Free
Los Angeles artist Ruby Osorio's collection at Cherry and Martin Gallery was heavily influenced by her recent trip to Athens. Surrounded by such history-rich environs,... View details »
Ruby Osorio
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hamlet
Tuesday Feb 5 @ REDCAT More times »
The Wooster Group has been at the forefront of American experimental theatre, cultivating their own language — a fusion of sophisticated technology and radical interpretation... View details »
Hamlet
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Saturday Feb 2 (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
Art
Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk
Saturday Feb 2 (noon–5pm) @ Lawrence Asher Gallery More times »
Free
The trio of contemporary artists assembled for the first show of the year at the Lawrence Asher Gallery draws inspiration from the physical and emotional... View details »
Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk
Art
Virginia Katz
Saturday Feb 2 (noon–5pm) @ Jancar Gallery More times »
Free
LA's Virginia Katz uses a complex mixed-media process that involves so many layers of hand-worked pigments and liquids, her art can almost be considered geological.... View details »
Virginia Katz
Art
Karen Liebowitz
Saturday Feb 2 (10am–5:30pm) @ Rosamund Felsen Gallery More times »
Free
The empowered female subjects of Karen Liebowitz's paintings exist in a fantasyland encompassing mythology, religious tales, and the contemporary world. For this collection — Liebowitz's... View details »
Karen Liebowitz
Art
Michael Asher
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–8pm) @ 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
Art
Tucker Neel
Saturday Feb 2 (noon–6pm) @ Commissary Arts More times »
Free
Frustrated debutantes, overdressed crocodiles, and bandaged aristocrats parade through Tucker Neel's latest exhibition. The LA artist conjures up witty, intriguing imagery in his delicate ink... View details »
Tucker Neel
Art
Rosson Crow
Saturday Feb 2 (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
Art
First Generation
Saturday Feb 2 (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: Photography
Steve Gullick
Saturday Feb 2 (1–5pm) @ Found Gallery More times »
Free
Steve Gullick
Art: Photography
Masao Yamamoto
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–5:30pm) @ Craig Krull Gallery More times »
Free
In his latest collection of photographs for Santa Monica's Craig Krull Gallery, Japanese artist Masao Yamamoto's work is somber and still, with no loss of... View details »
Masao Yamamoto
Art
Einar & Jamex de la Torre
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–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
Art
Angelika J. Trojnarski
Saturday Feb 2 (noon–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
Born in Poland and educated in Germany, Angelika J. Trojnarski depicts desolate cultural landscapes, dismembered bodies, and the barbwired evidence of human destruction. She channels... View details »
Angelika J. Trojnarski
Art
Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–6pm) @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
Photographer and video artist Tim Sullivan, the highlight of last year's OC Biennial, inserts himself into bizarrely macabre and possibly drug-induced circumstances — an assumption... View details »
Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts
Art
Neil Farber
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–5pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Free
At first glance, Neil Farber's vivid, whimsical drawings seem to capture all the ignorant bliss of childhood, but their darker intentions soon reveal themselves. Touched... View details »
Neil Farber
Art
Poster Renaissance 2
Saturday Feb 2 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art More times »
Free
New Image Art owner Marsea Goldberg remembers when posters were a vehicle for edgy, urban art and illustration — and so do the artists she's... View details »
Poster Renaissance 2
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
Saturday Feb 2 (noon–6pm) @ 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
Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups, "The grand seigneur of... View details »
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Art
Matthew Heller
Saturday Feb 2 (noon–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: Photography
Freeze Frame
Saturday Feb 2 (noon–6pm) @ 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: Theatre
Victory
Saturday Feb 2 (8pm) @ The Fountain Theatre More times »
South African playwright Athol Fugard's work demonstrates the power of theatre to incite social transformation. Fugard's plays have addressed the subject of Apartheid with remarkable... View details »
Victory
Performing Arts: Opera
Tristan und Isolde
Saturday Feb 2 (4am) @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion More times »
Considered one of the world's greatest operas, Richard Wagner's 1857 Tristan und Isolde sprang from the composer's own torrid love life. Wagner composed the piece... View details »
Tristan und Isolde
Performing Arts: Theatre
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Saturday Feb 2 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre More times »
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Center Theatre Group's world-premiere musical, busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by its emo-influenced rock score,... View details »
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Cut
Saturday Feb 2 (8pm) @ Rude Guerrilla Theater Company More times »
British playwright Mark Ravenhill gives theater company Rude Guerilla another opportunity to stage the U.S premieres of his work. Past collaborations have included Shopping and... View details »
The Cut
Art
Girly Group Show
Saturday Feb 2 (noon–5pm) @ Ghettogloss More times »
Free
This exhibition at Silverlake's favorite gallery/alt-culture hangout features the work of Noel ILL, Jenny Mollen, and Jessica Garrison among a sizeable roster of talented lady... View details »
Girly Group Show
Art
Neil Campbell and Peter Schuyff
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–6pm) @ The Balmoral More times »
Free
This Venice Beach gallery's latest endeavor juxtaposes the work of Dutch artist Peter Schuyff and Vancouver-based Neil Campbell. Schuyff's paintings are equal parts Surreal and... View details »
Art
The Imaginary 20th Century
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art presents 2,200 images from... View details »
The Imaginary 20th Century
Art
Alex Steinwiess
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–6pm) @ Robert Berman Gallery More times »
Free
Rocker/designer Kevin Reagan and Juxtapoz's Greg Escalante co-curate this survey of images by Alex Steinweiss. In 1939, the Columbia Records packaging designer revolutionized the music... View details »
Alex Steinwiess
Art
Special Relationship
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–6pm) @ The Scion Installation LA Space More times »
Free
Britain's Scrawl Collective is an emerging group of post-illustration urban romantics. They bring their ramped-up aesthetic energy to the States this week to curate the... View details »
Special Relationship
Art: Photography
Chris Anthony
Saturday Feb 2 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford More times »
Free
Chris Anthony inhabits a strange, haunting world in his new exhibition. Influenced by childhood visions and containing authentically dreamlike narratives, Anthony's dark images use vintage... View details »
Chris Anthony
Art: Photography
Rocky Schenck
Saturday Feb 2 (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
Art
Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
Saturday Feb 2 @ 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
Saturday Feb 2 (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
Art
Sheng Qi
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–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
Art
Modern American Sculpture
Saturday Feb 2 (10am–5:30pm) @ Forum Gallery More times »
Free
Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven Assael to the visceral,... View details »
Modern American Sculpture
Art
Dustin Yellin
Saturday Feb 2 (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
Art
Projection
Saturday Feb 2 @ [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
Art: Photography
Hiromi Tsuchida
Saturday Feb 2 (10am–5pm) @ Michael Dawson Gallery More times »
Free
Renowned Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida has trained his lens on facets of ordinary life throughout his lengthy career. Tsuchida's first solo exhibition in the US... View details »
Hiromi Tsuchida
Art: Photography
(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–5pm) @ Fette's Gallery More times »
Free
Twenty-five photographers working in cities around the world were given a simple task: to take an 11 x 14-inch self-portrait — of someone else. The... View details »
(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]
Art
Callaloo
Saturday Feb 2 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space More times »
Free
Don't call Pounder Koné Art Space a "gallery." Owner CCH Pounder wants you to think of her and her husband's venue as a fount of... View details »
Callaloo
Art
Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–9pm) @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Last Days of Desmond Nani Reese
Saturday Feb 2 (8pm) @ Bang Improv Studio More times »
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 latest one-woman show, The... View details »
The Last Days of Desmond Nani Reese
Art
Rachel Mason
Saturday Feb 2 (11am–6pm) @ Circus Gallery More times »
Free
There's political art; there's the art of political stagecraft; and then there's The Candidate, the new exhibition of sketches, sculptures, and photographs that artist Rachel... View details »
Rachel Mason
More Flavor: City Gem
Vinum Populi
Saturday Feb 2 (5:30pm–1:30am) @ 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