Events on Tuesday, February 26

CoisC&eacute;im Dance Theatre presents <em>Knots</em>

Dance

Knots

Tuesday 2/26 @ Irvine Barclay Theatre

Knots uses a confrontational blend of seemingly reckless, contact-based dance and theatrical wordplay to... 

The Helio Sequence w/ the Builders and the Butchers

Music

The Helio Sequence

Tuesday 2/26 @ Spaceland

The Helio Sequence's new Sub Pop record, Keep Your Eyes Ahead, is an electro-folk knockout. Former Modest Mouse member Benjamin Weikel... 

Venice Rocks presents the New Hotness w/ the Mulhollands

Music

The New Hotness

Tuesday 2/26 @ Air Conditioned Supper Club, Venice

Though the band's name sounds like something that might tumble out of Paris Hilton's mouth when asked to describe a just-opened... 

Ongoing Events

Evan Hecox: <em>DF</em>

Art

Evan Hecox

Tuesday 2/26 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery

In 2001, Colorado-based artist Evan Hecox inaugurated Culver City's Kinsey/DesForges gallery. Now he returns in a show that highlights how they... 

<em>My Blueberry Nights</em>

Film

My Blueberry Nights

Tuesday 2/26 @ 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... 

<em>Artist/Gallerist</em>

Art

Artist/Gallerist

Tuesday 2/26 @ 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... 

Rosson Crow: <em>Night at the Palomino</em>

Art

Rosson Crow

Tuesday 2/26 @ Honor Fraser

In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection... 

<em>Overgrowth</em>: Katherine  Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush

Art

Overgrowth

Tuesday 2/26 @ GR2

GR2 combines the artistic minds of Katherine Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush for a group show of anti-monumental proportions. Discarding... 

Sheng Qi: <em>History in Black and Red</em>

Art

Sheng Qi

Tuesday 2/26 @ DF2

Renowned Chinese artist Sheng Qi lived in exile in Europe for a decade after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Before fleeing China,... 

Luke Whitlatch

Art

Luke Whitlatch

Tuesday 2/26 @ Bandini Art

In his new series of work, painter Luke Whitlatch offers a meditation on both the emotional events that define human life... 

Jean Michel Crettaz: <em>Quasar</em>

Art

Jean Michel Crettaz

Tuesday 2/26 @ SCI-Arc

Head of the Visual Studies Program at SCI-Arc Jean-Michel Crettaz has plenty of experience, having studied in Switzerland, at the ultra-exclusive... 

Julie Davidow: <em>The New Strain</em>

Art

Julie Davidow

Tuesday 2/26 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery

Miami-based painter and self-proclaimed "frustrated scientist" Julie Davidow presents a series of new works that embody the interactions between man and... 

LA Opera presents Giuseppe Verdi's<em> Otello</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Otello

Tuesday 2/26 @ 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... 

Tim Bavington: <em>There We Were, Now Here We Are</em>

Art

There We Were, Now Here We Are

Tuesday 2/26 @ Mark Moore Gallery

LA artist Tim Bavington reinvents the once-obsolete "stripe painting" with hometown verve. Bavington incorporates sound into many of his dense compositions,... 

Tessar Lo and Chris Devera: <em>something to cry for</em>

Art

Tessar Lo and Chris Devera

Tuesday 2/26 @ project: gallery

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... 

<em>Freeze Frame: Five Decades of Photographs by Douglas Kirkland</em>

Art: Photography

Freeze Frame

Tuesday 2/26 @ 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... 

<em>First Generation: Art in Claremont 1907-1957</em>

Art

First Generation

Tuesday 2/26 @ Claremont Museum of Art

Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than... 

Julian Schnabel: <em>Christ's Last Day</em>

Art

Julian Schnabel

Tuesday 2/26 @ Gagosian Gallery

Neo-expressionist aesthete and, most recently, award-winning feature-film director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) takes a break from the... 

Frohawk Two Feathers: <em> In the Court of the Crimson King </em>

Art

Frohawk Two Feathers

Tuesday 2/26 @ 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... 

<em>Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966</em>

Art

Bob Dylan's American Journey

Tuesday 2/26 @ 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... 

David Touster: <em>Private Pictures</em>

Art

David Touster

Tuesday 2/26 @ Milo Gallery

With leaked sex tapes and nude photos of celebrities comprising a billion-dollar industry, David Touster's new work couldn't be more humorous... 

<em>Projection</em>

Art

Projection

Tuesday 2/26 @ [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... 

<em>Two Lines Align</em>: Drawings by Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge

Art

Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge

Tuesday 2/26 @ REDCAT

Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In... 

<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Tuesday 2/26 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... 

Sylvia Ji: <em>Por Vida</em>

Art

Sylvia Ji

Tuesday 2/26 @ Corey Helford Gallery

San Francisco native Sylvia Ji's paintings simultaneously depict the drama of the Pre-Raphaelites, the romantic sensuality of Mucha, and the allure... 

Daniel Richter: <em>Rock Und Polizei</em>

Art

Daniel Richter

Tuesday 2/26 @ Regen Projects

German painter Daniel Richter's expressionistic, figurative works are both dark and disarming. With influences that range from Goya to comic books... 

Wynne Greenwood: <em>Face It</em>

Art

Wynne Greenwood

Tuesday 2/26 @ 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... 

Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Tuesday 2/26 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... 

Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright

Art

Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright

Tuesday 2/26 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

Landscape paintings from Mexican artist Miguel Osuna have a photographic sensibility. His California landscapes possess all the fleeting romance of a... 

<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Tuesday 2/26 @ 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,... 

Eve Wood: <em>No Other Word for Love</em>

Art

Eve Wood

Tuesday 2/26 @ Western Project

Eve Wood is the toast of Culver City this month with a breakthrough exhibition of mixed-media work on canvas. Wood leaves... 

<em>The Austrian Winery Boom</em>

Art

The Austrian Winery Boom

Tuesday 2/26 @ MODAA gallery

After a 1985 wine scandal (winemakers were discovered to have added an antifreeze component to sweeten their vintages), a red-faced Austria... 

<em>Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film</em>

Film

Alfred Hitchcock

Tuesday 2/26 @ 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... 

Michael Asher

Art

Michael Asher

Tuesday 2/26 @ 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... 

Tom Servais: <em>el&middot;e&middot;men&middot;tal</em>

Art: Photography

Tom Servais

Tuesday 2/26 @ epOxybOx

Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for... 

Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp

Art

Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp

Tuesday 2/26 @ 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... 

<em>The Garden of Delight</em>

Art

The Garden of Delight

Tuesday 2/26 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

If a group show of whimsical, freak-folky art at a boutique with punk-rock lingerie, a vending machine that sells beer, and... 

Adam Janes: <em>Don't Sweat the Small Stuff at 50%</em>

Art

Adam Janes

Tuesday 2/26 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery

With the creative ingenuity of a mad doctor and the unwieldy imagination of a five-year old, installation artist Adam Janes unveils... 

Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions

Art

Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions

Tuesday 2/26 @ Various Chinatown galleries

As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art... 

<em>Here, There, and Everywhere</em>

Art

Here, There, and Everywhere

Tuesday 2/26 @ The Bike Oven

Cyclists unite for an exhibition featuring the works of artists from all parts of the nation who just happen to also,... 

Materials & Applications: <em>Density Fields</em>

Art

Materials & Applications: Density Fields

Tuesday 2/26 @ 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... 

<em>Fatally Yours</em>

Art

Fatally Yours

Tuesday 2/26 @ Crewest Gallery

Not all of us choose to celebrate the upcoming Hallmark holiday with champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries by a roaring fireplace. Case... 

Rocky Schenck: <em>Los Angeles</em>

Art: Photography

Rocky Schenck

Tuesday 2/26 @ 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... 

Dustin Yellin

Art

Dustin Yellin

Tuesday 2/26 @ Samuel Freeman

Dustin Yellin does not suspend exotic crimson seaweed inside his freestanding resin columns — it just looks like it. What he... 

Toby Ziegler: <em>The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse</em>

Art

Toby Ziegler

Tuesday 2/26 @ Patrick Painter Gallery

Toby Ziegler's work is full of dichotomies. For his new collection of painting and sculpture in Patrick Painter's West Gallery, the... 

Mel Kadel and Travis Millard

Art

Mel Kadel and Travis Millard

Tuesday 2/26 @ Richard Heller Gallery

The organic forms that populate Mel Kadel's drawings have begun to grow in scale, creeping toward the edges of the sheet... 

<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>

Art

SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s

Tuesday 2/26 @ 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...