Events on Sunday, February 3

Fowler OutSpoken Panel: The Word in L.A.

Special Event

The Word in L.A.

Sunday 2/ 3 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

Elizabeth Harney, curator of the Fowler's African art exhibition Inscribing Meaning, hosts a talk with LA artists Robbie Conal, Alexandra Grant,... 

Squaregirls feat. Murder Mystery w/ the Tartans and Maria

Music

Murder Mystery

Sunday 2/ 3 @ The Scene

Bearing a stamp of approval from Radio Free Silverlake, this new monthly rock-club night helps to secure the Scene Bar's latest... 

<em>The Happiness of the Katakuris</em> (2001) and <em>Visitor Q</em> (2001)

Film

The Happiness of the Katakuris and Visitor Q

Sunday 2/ 3 @ The Silent Movie Theatre

The nuclear family is drizzled with dysfunction and served raw in this Takashi Miike double feature. Opening is The Happiness of... 

Erik Penny presents the Brendan Hines w/ Julianna Raye

Music

The Brendan Hines

Sunday 2/ 3 @ Air Conditioned Supper Club, Venice

Scruffy, harmonica-wielding, soulful (and occasionally potty-mouthed) troubadour Brendan Hines — correction, the Brendan Hines — blasts through the singer/songwriter genre with... 

Ongoing Events

Steve Gullick: <em>Tenebrous</em>

Art: Photography

Steve Gullick

Sunday 2/ 3 @ Found Gallery

<em>Projection</em>

Art

Projection

Sunday 2/ 3 @ [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>Freeze Frame: Five Decades of Photographs by Douglas Kirkland</em>

Art: Photography

Freeze Frame

Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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

Sunday 2/ 3 @ Claremont Museum of Art

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

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

Art

Materials & Applications: Density Fields

Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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>Artist/Gallerist</em>

Art

Artist/Gallerist

Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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... 

Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp

Art

Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp

Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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... 

Art

Neil Campbell and Peter Schuyff

Sunday 2/ 3 @ The Balmoral

This Venice Beach gallery's latest endeavor juxtaposes the work of Dutch artist Peter Schuyff and Vancouver-based Neil Campbell. Schuyff's paintings are... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Sunday 2/ 3 @ The Getty Center

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

Nick Walker: <em>Pretty Decorating</em>

Art

Nick Walker

Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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... 

Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions

Art

Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions

Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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>Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film</em>

Film

Alfred Hitchcock

Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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... 

Francis Al&#255;s: <I>Politics of Rehearsal</I>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Sunday 2/ 3 @ Hammer Museum

Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never... 

James Turrell: <em>Dividing the Light</em>

Art

James Turrell

Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Callaloo: Visions of the Black Atlantic</em>

Art

Callaloo

Sunday 2/ 3 @ Pounder-Koné Art Space

Don't call Pounder Koné Art Space a "gallery." Owner CCH Pounder wants you to think of her and her husband's venue... 

<em>Girly Group Show</em>

Art

Girly Group Show

Sunday 2/ 3 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

This exhibition at Silverlake's favorite gallery/alt-culture hangout features the work of Noel ILL, Jenny Mollen, and Jessica Garrison among a sizeable... 

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

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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,... 

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

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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>Victory</em>

Theatre

Victory

Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson</em>

Theatre

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Sunday 2/ 3 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Center Theatre Group's world-premiere musical, busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by... 

Choi Jeong-Hwa: <I>Truth</i>

Art

Choi Jeong-Hwa

Sunday 2/ 3 @ REDCAT

Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,... 

Victor Burgin: <I>The Little House</i>

Art

Victor Burgin

Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Imaginary 20th Century

Sunday 2/ 3 @ 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... 

LA Opera presents Wagner's <em>Tristan und Isolde</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Tristan und Isolde

Sunday 2/ 3 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Considered one of the world's greatest operas, Richard Wagner's 1857 Tristan und Isolde sprang from the composer's own torrid love life....