Events on Thursday, February 28
Thursday 2/28 @ Three Clubs
The Three Clubs may be best remembered as the bar that was "dead anyway" in the 1996 film Swingers, but it's...
Animation Nite: From Halifax with Love
Thursday 2/28 @ Echo Park Film Center
Given the surroundings of picturesque Nova Scotia, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Halifax is a burgeoning visual-arts hub. Tonight,...
Thursday 2/28 @ Skirball Cultural Center
"Ain't that many of us left," mourns a dying outlaw to his killer. This admission sums up the state of the...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ REDCAT
Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ [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...
Thursday 2/28 @ Crewest Gallery
Not all of us choose to celebrate the upcoming Hallmark holiday with champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries by a roaring fireplace. Case...
Thursday 2/28 @ Honor Fraser
In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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,...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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,...
Thursday 2/28 @ MODAA gallery
After a 1985 wine scandal (winemakers were discovered to have added an antifreeze component to sweeten their vintages), a red-faced Austria...
There We Were, Now Here We Are
Thursday 2/28 @ 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,...
Thursday 2/28 @ GR2
GR2 combines the artistic minds of Katherine Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush for a group show of anti-monumental proportions. Discarding...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ Samuel Freeman
Dustin Yellin does not suspend exotic crimson seaweed inside his freestanding resin columns — it just looks like it. What he...
Thursday 2/28 @ epOxybOx
Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for...
Thursday 2/28 @ Sea and Space Explorations
Bask in the explosion of aural-art happenings on offer during Sound in Space. This miraculous monthlong program series explores the variety...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ Commissary Arts
Frustrated debutantes, overdressed crocodiles, and bandaged aristocrats parade through Tucker Neel's latest exhibition. The LA artist conjures up witty, intriguing imagery...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ Various Chinatown galleries
As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Thursday 2/28 @ Claremont Museum of Art
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than...
Thursday 2/28 @ Regen Projects
German painter Daniel Richter's expressionistic, figurative works are both dark and disarming. With influences that range from Goya to comic books...
Thursday 2/28 @ Bandini Art
In his new series of work, painter Luke Whitlatch offers a meditation on both the emotional events that define human life...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ The Bike Oven
Cyclists unite for an exhibition featuring the works of artists from all parts of the nation who just happen to also,...
Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright
Thursday 2/28 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Landscape paintings from Mexican artist Miguel Osuna have a photographic sensibility. His California landscapes possess all the fleeting romance of a...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
