All events on Tuesday February 05

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Film
The Decay of Fiction
Tuesday Feb 5 (8pm) @ The Silent Movie Theatre
The Myron Hunt-designed Ambassador Hotel was an infamous Los Angeles landmark until its demolition two years ago. Tonight, the Versailles of Hollywood royalty is revisited... View details »
The Decay of Fiction
Music: Rock/Pop
Dead Meadow
Tuesday Feb 5 (8pm) @ Echoplex
Los Angeles-based psychedelic-rock outfit Dead Meadow celebrate the release of a new album and kick off a tour of the US and Europe with a... View details »
Dead Meadow
Music: Rock/Pop
Black Mountain
Tuesday Feb 5 (8pm) @ The Troubadour
Vancouver-based rockers Black Mountain create a simulacrum of classic rock that worships the idea of 1970, yet can't help but live in 2008. Touring in... View details »
Black Mountain
Music: DJ
DJ Rekha
Tuesday Feb 5 (9pm) @ The Roxy Theatre
Giveaway
Long before Jay-Z appeared on Panjabi MC's "Beware of the Boys" or MIA sampled Bollywood soundtracks, DJ Rekha started her internationally celebrated Basement Bhangra DJ... View details »
DJ Rekha

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Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Tuesday Feb 5 @ 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
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Tuesday Feb 5 @ 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
Francis Alÿs
Tuesday Feb 5 (11am–7pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never quite strips: these are... View details »
Francis Alÿs
Art
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Tuesday Feb 5 (10am–10pm) @ Materials & Applications 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
Art: Photography
Bill Owens
Tuesday Feb 5 (10am–6pm) @ DNJ Gallery More times »
Free
Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic scenes rendered with the... View details »
Bill Owens
Art: Architecture/Design
Jean Michel Crettaz
Tuesday Feb 5 (9am–6pm) @ SCI-Arc 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: Photography
Wunderlust Berlin
Tuesday Feb 5 (11am–6pm) @ Paul Kopeikin Gallery More times »
Free
Berlin is in perpetual transition. The enduring fountainhead of Western culture is endlessly fascinating to students of art, architecture, and politics, teeming with creative magic... View details »
Wunderlust Berlin
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hamlet
Tuesday Feb 5 @ REDCAT More times »
Opening
The Wooster Group has been at the forefront of American experimental theatre, cultivating their own language — a fusion of sophisticated technology and radical interpretation... View details »
Hamlet
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Tuesday Feb 5 (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
Karen Liebowitz
Tuesday Feb 5 (10am–5:30pm) @ Rosamund Felsen Gallery More times »
Free
The empowered female subjects of Karen Liebowitz's paintings exist in a fantasyland encompassing mythology, religious tales, and the contemporary world. For this collection — Liebowitz's... View details »
Karen Liebowitz
Art
Michael Asher
Tuesday Feb 5 (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
Art
Rosson Crow
Tuesday Feb 5 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser 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
First Generation
Tuesday Feb 5 (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: Photography
Masao Yamamoto
Tuesday Feb 5 (10am–5:30pm) @ Craig Krull Gallery More times »
Free
In his latest collection of photographs for Santa Monica's Craig Krull Gallery, Japanese artist Masao Yamamoto's work is somber and still, with no loss of... View details »
Masao Yamamoto
Art
Einar & Jamex de la Torre
Tuesday Feb 5 (10am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery More times »
Free
Brothers Einar and Jamex couldn't possibly deny the influence of their heritage — their blown-glass and mixed-media works radiate with the colors, textures, and imagery... View details »
Einar & Jamex de la Torre
Art
Angelika J. Trojnarski
Tuesday Feb 5 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
Born in Poland and educated in Germany, Angelika J. Trojnarski depicts desolate cultural landscapes, dismembered bodies, and the barbwired evidence of human destruction. She channels... View details »
Angelika J. Trojnarski
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
Tuesday Feb 5 (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
Matthew Heller
Tuesday Feb 5 (11am–5pm) @ DCA Fine Art More times »
Free
Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text. Though at times pained... View details »
Matthew Heller
Art: Photography
Freeze Frame
Tuesday Feb 5 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Tuesday Feb 5 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre More times »
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Center Theatre Group's world-premiere musical, busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by its emo-influenced rock score,... View details »
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Art
Girly Group Show
Tuesday Feb 5 (9am–6pm) @ Ghettogloss More times »
Free
This exhibition at Silverlake's favorite gallery/alt-culture hangout features the work of Noel ILL, Jenny Mollen, and Jessica Garrison among a sizeable roster of talented lady... View details »
Girly Group Show
Art
Alex Steinwiess
Tuesday Feb 5 (11am–6pm) @ Robert Berman Gallery More times »
Free
Rocker/designer Kevin Reagan and Juxtapoz's Greg Escalante co-curate this survey of images by Alex Steinweiss. In 1939, the Columbia Records packaging designer revolutionized the music... View details »
Alex Steinwiess
Art: Photography
Chris Anthony
Tuesday Feb 5 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford More times »
Free
Chris Anthony inhabits a strange, haunting world in his new exhibition. Influenced by childhood visions and containing authentically dreamlike narratives, Anthony's dark images use vintage... View details »
Chris Anthony
Art: Photography
Rocky Schenck
Tuesday Feb 5 (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
Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
Tuesday Feb 5 @ Various Chinatown galleries 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
Daniel Richter
Tuesday Feb 5 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects 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
Tuesday Feb 5 (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
Modern American Sculpture
Tuesday Feb 5 (10am–5:30pm) @ Forum Gallery More times »
Free
Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven Assael to the visceral,... View details »
Modern American Sculpture
Art
Dustin Yellin
Tuesday Feb 5 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman 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
Tuesday Feb 5 @ [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
Wynne Greenwood
Tuesday Feb 5 (11am–6pm) @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects 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
Tuesday Feb 5 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art 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
Artist/Gallerist
Tuesday Feb 5 (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
Tuesday Feb 5 (11am–7pm) @ La Luz de Jesus 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
Frohawk Two Feathers
Tuesday Feb 5 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery 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
Rachel Mason
Tuesday Feb 5 (11am–6pm) @ Circus Gallery More times »
Free
There's political art; there's the art of political stagecraft; and then there's The Candidate, the new exhibition of sketches, sculptures, and photographs that artist Rachel... View details »
Rachel Mason
More Flavor: City Gem
Vinum Populi
Tuesday Feb 5 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi 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