Events on Thursday, February 28

The Poor Excuses w/ Light FM and Tigers Can Bite You

Music

The Poor Excuses

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

Film: Animation

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,... 

<em>Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid</em> (1973)

Film

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

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

<em>Artist/Gallerist</em>

Art

Artist/Gallerist

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... 

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

Art

Eve Wood

Thursday 2/28 @ 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>My Blueberry Nights</em>

Film

My Blueberry Nights

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... 

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

Art

Sylvia Ji

Thursday 2/28 @ 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... 

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

Film

Alfred Hitchcock

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... 

<em>The Imaginary 20th Century</em>

Art

The Imaginary 20th Century

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... 

Hiromi Tsuchida: <em>Photographs 1969-2004 </em>

Art: Photography

Hiromi Tsuchida

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... 

<em>Victory</em>

Theatre

Victory

Thursday 2/28 @ 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... 

Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp

Art

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... 

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

Art

Jean Michel Crettaz

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... 

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

Art

Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge

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... 

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

Art

Adam Janes

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... 

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

Performing Arts: Opera

Otello

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... 

Art

Make Art/Stop AIDS

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: <em>Density Fields</em>

Art

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... 

Michael Asher

Art

Michael Asher

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... 

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

Art: Photography

Rocky Schenck

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... 

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

Art

Wynne Greenwood

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... 

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

Art

Julian Schnabel

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... 

<em>Carnage, a Comedy</em>

Theatre

Carnage, a Comedy

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... 

Mel Kadel and Travis Millard

Art

Mel Kadel and Travis Millard

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... 

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

Art

Bob Dylan's American Journey

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... 

Yun Bai: <em>Who's That Girl?</em>

Art

Yun Bai

Thursday 2/28 @ Art Murmur Gallery

Rising LA artist Yun Bai and her alter ego Yunny Bunny converge in this smashing show. Bai splits herself in two:... 

Evan Hecox: <em>DF</em>

Art

Evan Hecox

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... 

<em>Projection</em>

Art

Projection

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... 

<em>Fatally Yours</em>

Art

Fatally Yours

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... 

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

Art

Rosson Crow

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... 

<em>Lights! Camera! Glamour!</em>

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

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,... 

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

Art

Sheng Qi

Thursday 2/28 @ DF2

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

David Brady: <em>Genesis</em>

Art

David Brady

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... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

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... 

Tony Philippou, Zach Johnsen, and Marion Bolognesi: <em>The Trinity</em>

Art

The Trinity

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... 

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

Art

Julie Davidow

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... 

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

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

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,... 

<em>The Austrian Winery Boom</em>

Art

The Austrian Winery Boom

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... 

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

Art

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,... 

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

Art

Overgrowth

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... 

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

Art: Photography

Freeze Frame

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... 

Dustin Yellin

Art

Dustin Yellin

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... 

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

Art: Photography

Tom Servais

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... 

Art

Sound in Space

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... 

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

Art

Frohawk Two Feathers

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... 

<em>The Garden of Delight</em>

Art

The Garden of Delight

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... 

Tucker Neel: <em>Confabulations</em>

Art

Tucker Neel

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... 

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

Art

David Touster

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... 

Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions

Art

Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions

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... 

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

Art

Tessar Lo and Chris Devera

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... 

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

Art

La Vida Lowrider

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... 

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

Art

First Generation

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... 

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

Art

Daniel Richter

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... 

Luke Whitlatch

Art

Luke Whitlatch

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... 

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

Art

Toby Ziegler

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... 

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

Art

Here, There, and Everywhere

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

Art

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... 

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

Art

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...