Events on Saturday, February 2
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- Film: Animation
- Spirited Away
- @ 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... View details »
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- Carnaval
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Imitation of Life
- @ 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... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Mere Mortals
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink
- @ 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... View details »
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- Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake
- @ Hammer Museum
- Three quarks for Muster Mark! A rather arbitrary 126 years since idiomatic Irishman James Joyce was born, the Hammer's celebration reminds... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Deadly Syndrome
- @ 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... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Bravery
- @ Crash Mansion
- The Bravery may have come a long way since their Skabba the Hut ska-band college days, but the group still want... View details »
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- Wynne Greenwood
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Last Days of Desmond Nani Reese
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Discussion
- Nicole Cohen
- @ The Getty Center
- Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... View details »
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- Michael Asher
- @ 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... View details »
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- Ruby Osorio
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- (Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]
- @ 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 —... View details »
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- Poster Renaissance 2
- @ New Image Art
- New Image Art owner Marsea Goldberg remembers when posters were a vehicle for edgy, urban art and illustration — and so... View details »
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- Einar & Jamex de la Torre
- @ 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... View details »
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- Rachel Mason
- @ 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... View details »
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- Choi Jeong-Hwa
- @ REDCAT
- Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- La Vida Lowrider
- @ Petersen Automotive Museum
- The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... View details »
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- Virginia Katz
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Lights! Camera! Glamour!
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- My Kid Could Paint That
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Alex Steinwiess
- @ 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... View details »
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- Projection
- @ [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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Rocky Schenck
- @ 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... View details »
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- Alfred Hitchcock
- @ 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... View details »
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- Dustin Yellin
- @ Samuel Freeman
- Dustin Yellin does not suspend exotic crimson seaweed inside his freestanding resin columns — it just looks like it. What he... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Cut
- @ Rude Guerrilla Theater Company
- British playwright Mark Ravenhill gives theater company Rude Guerilla another opportunity to stage the U.S premieres of his work. Past collaborations... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Hiromi Tsuchida
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Chris Anthony
- @ Corey Helford
- Chris Anthony inhabits a strange, haunting world in his new exhibition. Influenced by childhood visions and containing authentically dreamlike narratives, Anthony's... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Wunderlust Berlin
- @ Paul Kopeikin Gallery
- Berlin is in perpetual transition. The enduring fountainhead of Western culture is endlessly fascinating to students of art, architecture, and politics,... View details »
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- David Brady
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Steve Gullick
- @ Found Gallery
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- Art: Photography
- Masao Yamamoto
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Frohawk Two Feathers
- @ 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... View details »
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- Think Big
- @ The Hive Gallery & Studios
- Global Inheritance and fashionPEACE connect socially minded youth with an international activist community. One of their finest endeavors is TRASHed, a... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Bill Owens
- @ DNJ Gallery
- Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic... View details »
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- Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk
- @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
- The trio of contemporary artists assembled for the first show of the year at the Lawrence Asher Gallery draws inspiration from... View details »
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- Neil Farber
- @ 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... View details »
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- SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
- @ 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... View details »
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- Rosson Crow
- @ Honor Fraser
- In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection... View details »
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- Angelika J. Trojnarski
- @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
- Born in Poland and educated in Germany, Angelika J. Trojnarski depicts desolate cultural landscapes, dismembered bodies, and the barbwired evidence of... View details »
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- The Imaginary 20th Century
- @ 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... View details »
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- Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
- @ Various Chinatown galleries
- As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art... View details »
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- Sheng Qi
- @ DF2
- Renowned Chinese artist Sheng Qi lived in exile in Europe for a decade after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Before fleeing China,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Victory
- @ The Fountain Theatre
- South African playwright Athol Fugard's work demonstrates the power of theatre to incite social transformation. Fugard's plays have addressed the subject... View details »
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- Modern American Sculpture
- @ Forum Gallery
- Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Freeze Frame
- @ 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... View details »
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- Luke Whitlatch
- @ Bandini Art
- In his new series of work, painter Luke Whitlatch offers a meditation on both the emotional events that define human life... View details »
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- Nick Walker
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Opera
- Tristan und Isolde
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Victor Burgin
- @ 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... View details »
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- First Generation
- @ Claremont Museum of Art
- Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than... View details »
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- Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
- @ 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... View details »
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- Callaloo
- @ Pounder-Koné Art Space
- Don't call Pounder Koné Art Space a "gallery." Owner CCH Pounder wants you to think of her and her husband's venue... View details »
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- Materials & Applications: Density Fields
- @ 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... View details »
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- Girly Group Show
- @ Ghettogloss
- This exhibition at Silverlake's favorite gallery/alt-culture hangout features the work of Noel ILL, Jenny Mollen, and Jessica Garrison among a sizeable... View details »
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- Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts
- @ 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... View details »
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- Karen Liebowitz
- @ 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... View details »
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- Tucker Neel
- @ Commissary Arts
- Frustrated debutantes, overdressed crocodiles, and bandaged aristocrats parade through Tucker Neel's latest exhibition. The LA artist conjures up witty, intriguing imagery... View details »
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- Neil Campbell and Peter Schuyff
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
- @ 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... View details »
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- Special Relationship
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Hamlet
- @ REDCAT
- The Wooster Group has been at the forefront of American experimental theatre, cultivating their own language — a fusion of sophisticated... View details »
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- Daniel Richter
- @ Regen Projects
- German painter Daniel Richter's expressionistic, figurative works are both dark and disarming. With influences that range from Goya to comic books... View details »
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- Matthew Heller
- @ DCA Fine Art
- Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text.... View details »
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