All events on Thursday February 21

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Art
Julian Schnabel
Thursday Feb 21 (10am–5:30pm) @ Gagosian Gallery More times »
Free
Neo-expressionist aesthete and, most recently, award-winning feature-film director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) takes a break from the red carpet with a... View details »
Julian Schnabel
Music: Rock/Pop
West Indian Girl
Thursday Feb 21 (8pm) @ The Troubadour
Appropriately, indie-rock band West Indian Girl were named after a potent strain of acid briefly popular in the mid-'60s, and their slow-build harmonies are almost... View details »
West Indian Girl
Music: Rock/Pop
Pinback
Thursday Feb 21 (8:30pm) @ Avalon Hollywood
Giveaway
The Avalon hosts a double bill of hype and harmony tonight, set off by Adult Swim superstar MC Chris, a helium-voiced rapper whose endearingly geeky... View details »
Pinback
More Flavor: Party
A Sadie Hawkin's Dance Extravaganza
Thursday Feb 21 (8:30pm–2am) @ The Airliner
The ladies of Less Jack More Jill throw tonight's swanky, downtown soirée in honor of Sadie Hawkins, the beloved patron saint of awkward "girls ask... View details »
A Sadie Hawkin's Dance Extravaganza

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SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Thursday Feb 21 @ 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
Thursday Feb 21 @ 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
Thursday Feb 21 (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
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Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Thursday Feb 21 (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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Tucker Neel
Thursday Feb 21 (noon–5pm) @ 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
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Rosson Crow
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Thursday Feb 21 (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
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Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
Thursday Feb 21 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In addition to many gallery-caliber... View details »
Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
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Einar & Jamex de la Torre
Thursday Feb 21 (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
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Yun Bai
Thursday Feb 21 (noon–6pm) @ Art Murmur Gallery More times »
Free
Rising LA artist Yun Bai and her alter ego Yunny Bunny converge in this smashing show. Bai splits herself in two: while the artist is... View details »
Yun Bai
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Thursday Feb 21 (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!
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Matthew Heller
Thursday Feb 21 (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
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Bob Dylan's American Journey
Thursday Feb 21 @ 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
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Thursday Feb 21 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Victory
Thursday Feb 21 (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
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The Imaginary 20th Century
Thursday Feb 21 (11am–8pm) @ 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: Photography
Rocky Schenck
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Thursday Feb 21 @ 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
Thursday Feb 21 @ 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
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Thursday Feb 21 @ [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
Thursday Feb 21 (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
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Wynne Greenwood
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Thursday Feb 21 (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
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David Brady
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Callaloo
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Artist/Gallerist
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Art
Nick Walker
Thursday Feb 21 (3–8pm) @ 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
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Frohawk Two Feathers
Thursday Feb 21 (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
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Sound in Space
Thursday Feb 21 (8pm) @ Sea and Space Explorations More times »
Free
Bask in the explosion of aural-art happenings on offer during Sound in Space. This miraculous monthlong program series explores the variety of the sound-art community... View details »
Art: Architecture/Design
The Austrian Winery Boom
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Art
The Trinity
Thursday Feb 21 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery More times »
Free
Hailing from various points in New York City, up-and-coming artists Tony Philippou, Zach Johnsen, and Marion Bolognesi present a conglomeration of new works inspired by... View details »
The Trinity
Art
Tessar Lo and Chris Devera
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Art
Mel Kadel and Travis Millard
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Stay Forever
Thursday Feb 21 (8pm) @ The Village at Ed Gould Plaza More times »
Before Amy Winehouse, there was Dusty Springfield. Regarded as one of the first white songstresses to authentically incorporate black soul music into her own repertoire,... View details »
Stay Forever
Art: Photography
Tom Servais
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Art
Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Art
Fatally Yours
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Art
Here, There, and Everywhere
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Art
Think Big
Thursday Feb 21 (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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There We Were, Now Here We Are
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Thursday Feb 21 (9am–11pm) @ 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
Art
Julie Davidow
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Art
Adam Janes
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Art
Overgrowth
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Thursday Feb 21 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Carnage, a Comedy
Thursday Feb 21 (8pm) @ The Actors' Gang Theatre More times »
Twenty years after Carnage's wildly successful premiere, the Gang revives Adam Simon and Tim Robbins' play with frightening vitality and acerbic absurdity to spare. The... View details »
Carnage, a Comedy
More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Thursday Feb 21 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one... View details »
Ugo Wine Bar
Art
Eve Wood
Thursday Feb 21 (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