Events on Sunday, February 24

Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Performing Arts: Spoken Word
Rhapsodomancy
@ Good Luck Bar
The reading is alive in LA — and it's in the back room of Los Feliz's chinois-noir Good Luck Bar. The...  View details »
Oscar Night with the Cinefamily
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Film
Oscar Night with the Cinefamily
@ The Silent Movie Theatre
Whether your personal picks are based on media hearsay, a desire to provoke, or actual pleasure, your Oscar night is best...  View details »
Pat Metheny Trio
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Music: Jazz/Blues
Pat Metheny Trio
@ The Wiltern
Pat Metheny's legend began when the freshman guitar major dropped out of college — only to be offered a teaching post...  View details »
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<em>Lights! Camera! Glamour!</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
State Ballet of Georgia: <em>Giselle</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Performing Arts: Dance
Giselle
@ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
Having graced stages everywhere from New York City to St. Petersburg, Nina Ananiashvili now applies her vision as an artistic director...  View details »
Ongoing
Materials & Applications: <em>Density Fields</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>
Month_02 Monday Day_25
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Tony Philippou, Zach Johnsen, and Marion Bolognesi: <em>The Trinity</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Art
The Trinity
@ Thinkspace Gallery
Hailing from various points in New York City, up-and-coming artists Tony Philippou, Zach Johnsen, and Marion Bolognesi present a conglomeration of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Two Lines Align</em>: Drawings by Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Art
Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
@ REDCAT
Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In...  View details »
Ongoing
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<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>
Month_02 Monday Day_25
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>My Blueberry Nights</em>
Month_02 Monday Day_25
Film
My Blueberry Nights
@ The Landmark
Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights is undeniably, embarrassingly cheesy. Replete with slow-motion shots and blue-lit greasy spoons, it truly leaves...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Stadium Devildare </em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Performing Arts: Theatre
Stadium Devildare
@ Theatre of NOTE
Stadium Devildare is billed as "a tale of future sport... America to the extreme" — and indeed, Ruth Margraff's play pushes...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Garden of Delight</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Art
The Garden of Delight
@ Ghettogloss
If a group show of whimsical, freak-folky art at a boutique with punk-rock lingerie, a vending machine that sells beer, and...  View details »
Ongoing
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Nick Walker: <em>Pretty Decorating</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>First Generation: Art in Claremont 1907-1957</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Art
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 »
Ongoing
James Turrell: <em>Dividing the Light</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Art
James Turrell
@ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College
It's up for debate whether James Turrell is a sculptor, an architect, a light-and-space artist, or an earth-works artist. Whichever he...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Artist/Gallerist</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Art
Artist/Gallerist
@ another year in LA
Gallery owners spend the majority of their working lives combing through an ever-growing pile of art, searching for a particular brand...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Here, There, and Everywhere</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Art
Here, There, and Everywhere
@ The Bike Oven
Cyclists unite for an exhibition featuring the works of artists from all parts of the nation who just happen to also,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Projection</em>
Month_02 Monday Day_25
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Freeze Frame: Five Decades of Photographs by Douglas Kirkland</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
Free
LA Opera presents Giuseppe Verdi's<em> Otello</em>
Month_02 Monday Day_25
Performing Arts: Opera
Otello
@ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Racism, jealousy, and betrayal form the backdrop of Shakespeare's penultimate tragedy, Othello. The stakes of the story are set even higher...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Stay Forever: The Life and Music of Dusty Springfield</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Performing Arts: Theatre
Stay Forever
@ The Village at Ed Gould Plaza
Before Amy Winehouse, there was Dusty Springfield. Regarded as one of the first white songstresses to authentically incorporate black soul music...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Fatally Yours</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Art
Fatally Yours
@ Crewest Gallery
Not all of us choose to celebrate the upcoming Hallmark holiday with champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries by a roaring fireplace. Case...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Carnage, a Comedy</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Performing Arts: Theatre
Carnage, a Comedy
@ The Actors' Gang Theatre
Twenty years after Carnage's wildly successful premiere, the Gang revives Adam Simon and Tim Robbins' play with frightening vitality and acerbic...  View details »
Ongoing
Victor Burgin: <I>The Little House</i>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
<em>The Imaginary 20th Century</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Art
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Victory</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
Month_02 Monday Day_25
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Stephen Tompkins: <em>Transmogrifications</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Art
Stephen Tompkins
@ Found Gallery
Stephen Tompkins is a shockingly versatile artistic chameleon, working in drawing, painting, 3-D digital design, animation, music, and sculpture. His fittingly...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Film
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966</em>
Month_02 Monday Day_25
Art
Bob Dylan's American Journey
@ Skirball Cultural Center
This year's resurgent Dylanmania — from Todd Haynes' byzantine biopic, I'm Not There, to Murray Lerner's performance-driven documentary, The Other Side...  View details »
Ongoing
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Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Art
Make Art/Stop AIDS
@ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Ben Karlin's <em>Things I've Learned from Women Who've Dumped Me</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Performing Arts: Comedy
Ben Karlin
@ The Steve Allen Theater
Comedian and writer Ben Karlin is best known as the longtime producer of The Daily Show — and, like his fellow...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Robots vs Fake Robots </em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Performing Arts: Theatre
Robots vs Fake Robots
@ Powerhouse Theatre
If you only have time this month to see one dark-comedy dance spectacular about a dystopian future in which sex-craved, man-eating...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Overgrowth</em>: Katherine  Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush
Month_02 Sunday Day_24
Art
Overgrowth
@ GR2
GR2 combines the artistic minds of Katherine Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush for a group show of anti-monumental proportions. Discarding...  View details »
Ongoing
Free