All events on Thursday February 28

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Film
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center in Brentwood
"Ain't that many of us left," mourns a dying outlaw to his killer. This admission sums up the state of the Old West in Sam... View details »
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Film: Animation
Animation Nite: From Halifax with Love
Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ Echo Park Film Center in Echo Park
Given the surroundings of picturesque Nova Scotia, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Halifax is a burgeoning visual-arts hub. Tonight, animator Siloën Daley assembles... View details »
Animation Nite: From Halifax with Love
Music
The Poor Excuses
Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ Three Clubs in Hollywood
Free
The Three Clubs may be best remembered as the bar that was "dead anyway" in the 1996 film Swingers, but it's alive and kicking tonight... View details »
The Poor Excuses

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Art
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Thursday Feb 28 (10am–10pm) @ Materials & Applications in Silver Lake 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
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Thursday Feb 28 @ 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
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Thursday Feb 28 @ 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
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Thursday Feb 28 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum in Santa Monica 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!
More Flavor: City Gem
Vinum Populi
Thursday Feb 28 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi in Culver City More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Vinum Populi, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one key... View details »
Vinum Populi
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Freeze Frame
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Art
Tucker Neel
Thursday Feb 28 (noon–5pm) @ Commissary Arts in Venice 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
Art
The Imaginary 20th Century
Thursday Feb 28 (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: Architecture/Design
Jean Michel Crettaz
Thursday Feb 28 (9am–6pm) @ SCI-Arc in Downtown 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
Michael Asher
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Victory
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Art
Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
Thursday Feb 28 @ Various Chinatown galleries in Chinatown 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: Photography
Hiromi Tsuchida
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Art
Rosson Crow
Thursday Feb 28 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser in Culver City 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
Art: Photography
Rocky Schenck
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Art
Daniel Richter
Thursday Feb 28 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects in W Hollywood 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
Art
Sheng Qi
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Art
Dustin Yellin
Thursday Feb 28 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman in Santa Monica 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 28 @ [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
First Generation
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Art
Artist/Gallerist
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Art
Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
Thursday Feb 28 (11am–9pm) @ La Luz de Jesus in Hollywood 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
Wynne Greenwood
Thursday Feb 28 (11am–6pm) @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects in Culver City 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
Art
Luke Whitlatch
Thursday Feb 28 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art in Culver City 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
Art
David Brady
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Frohawk Two Feathers
Thursday Feb 28 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery in Culver City 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
Art
Sound in Space
Thursday Feb 28 (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 »
Performing Arts: Theatre
Carnage, a Comedy
Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ The Actors' Gang Theatre in Culver City 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
Art
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Thursday Feb 28 @ Skirball Cultural Center in Brentwood 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: Architecture/Design
The Austrian Winery Boom
Thursday Feb 28 (noon–6pm) @ MODAA gallery in Culver City 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 28 (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 28 (noon–6pm) @ project: gallery in Culver City 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 28 (11am–5pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica 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
Art: Photography
Tom Servais
Thursday Feb 28 (10am–6pm) @ epOxybOx in Venice 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 28 (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 28 (noon–7pm) @ Crewest Gallery in Downtown 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 28 (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
Eve Wood
Thursday Feb 28 (11am–6pm) @ Western Project in Culver City 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
Art
Yun Bai
Thursday Feb 28 (noon–6pm) @ Art Murmur Gallery in Downtown 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
Art
The Garden of Delight
Thursday Feb 28 (9am–11pm) @ Ghettogloss in Silverlake 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
Performing Arts: Opera
Otello
Thursday Feb 28 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Downtown 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
Art
There We Were, Now Here We Are
Thursday Feb 28 (10am–6pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica 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
Art
Julie Davidow
Thursday Feb 28 (11am–5pm) @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery in Santa Monica 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 28 (11am–6pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery in Culver City 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 28 (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
Art
David Touster
Thursday Feb 28 (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
Art
Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
Thursday Feb 28 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT in Downtown 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
Art
Julian Schnabel
Thursday Feb 28 (10am–5:30pm) @ Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills 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
Film
My Blueberry Nights
Thursday Feb 28 @ The Landmark More times »
Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights is undeniably, embarrassingly cheesy. Replete with slow-motion shots and blue-lit greasy spoons, it truly leaves no US coming-of-age travelogue... View details »
My Blueberry Nights
Art
Make Art/Stop AIDS
Thursday Feb 28 (noon–8pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA More times »
Free
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical awareness that the AIDS... View details »
Art
Toby Ziegler
Thursday Feb 28 (10am–6pm) @ Patrick Painter Gallery in Santa Monica More times »
Free
Toby Ziegler's work is full of dichotomies. For his new collection of painting and sculpture in Patrick Painter's West Gallery, the British artist can't decide... View details »
Toby Ziegler
Art
Sylvia Ji
Thursday Feb 28 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford in Culver City More times »
Free
San Francisco native Sylvia Ji's paintings simultaneously depict the drama of the Pre-Raphaelites, the romantic sensuality of Mucha, and the allure of a pin-up poster.... View details »
Sylvia Ji
Art
Evan Hecox
Thursday Feb 28 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery in Culver City More times »
Free
In 2001, Colorado-based artist Evan Hecox inaugurated Culver City's Kinsey/DesForges gallery. Now he returns in a show that highlights how they have each evolved. In... View details »
Evan Hecox