Events on Wednesday, February 6

<em>Victor Victoria</em> (1982)

Film

Victor Victoria

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Egyptian Theatre

Though more traditional than, say, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Blake Edwards' musical Victor Victoria still displays a similar mentality about... 

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

Flypoet

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Savoy Entertainment Center

Practice your grunts and stomps for this month's installment of Flypoet, as LA's favorite destination for soulful music and red-hot spoken... 

Willoughby w/ Bukka Allen, Lenly, Linda Ortega

Music

Willoughby

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Tangier Restaurant

LA's Willoughby evoke a gin-in-coffee-cups brasserie situated in a lost tropical city, draping dreamy, broken-hearted songs in jazz-infused percussion, raindrop bass,... 

Los Amigos Invisibles w/ Si*S&eacute;

Music

Los Amigos Invisibles

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip

Los Amigos Invisibles take disco to parts unknown, combining Afro-Latin grooves, dirty bass lines, rattling timbales, hip-shaking congas, and Yazz-style organ... 

Gran Ronde w/ Bloodcat Love, War Tapes, and Bigbang

Music

Gran Ronde

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Bordello Bar

Gran Ronde celebrate the release of their new EP — a spark plug of a record that walks the path beaten... 

Ongoing Events

Eva Yerbabuena: <em>Santo y Se&ntilde;a</em>

Dance

Eva Yerbabuena

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall

Spanish entertainer Eva Yerbabuena has been called the preeminent flamenco dancer of her generation; the 37-year-old German-born, Cuban-trained artist frequently sells... 

Rachel Mason: <em>The Candidate</em>

Art

Rachel Mason

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Circus Gallery

There's political art; there's the art of political stagecraft; and then there's The Candidate, the new exhibition of sketches, sculptures, and... 

<em>Projection</em>

Art

Projection

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ [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... 

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

Art

Victor Burgin

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Art

Rosson Crow

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Honor Fraser

In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection... 

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

Art

First Generation

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Claremont Museum of Art

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

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

Art: Photography

Rocky Schenck

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

Alex Steinweiss:<em> Creator of the Album Cover</em>

Art

Alex Steinwiess

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Robert Berman Gallery

Rocker/designer Kevin Reagan and Juxtapoz's Greg Escalante co-curate this survey of images by Alex Steinweiss. In 1939, the Columbia Records packaging... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ The Getty Center

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

<em>(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]</em>

Art: Photography

(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Fette's Gallery

Twenty-five photographers working in cities around the world were given a simple task: to take an 11 x 14-inch self-portrait —... 

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

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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,... 

TRASHed: <em>Think Big</em>

Art

Think Big

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ The Hive Gallery & Studios

Global Inheritance and fashionPEACE connect socially minded youth with an international activist community. One of their finest endeavors is TRASHed, a... 

Bill Owens: <I>Suburbia</i> and <I>Leisure</i>

Art: Photography

Bill Owens

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ DNJ Gallery

Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic... 

<em>Wunderlust Berlin</em>

Art: Photography

Wunderlust Berlin

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Paul Kopeikin Gallery

Berlin is in perpetual transition. The enduring fountainhead of Western culture is endlessly fascinating to students of art, architecture, and politics,... 

Einar and Jamex de la Torre: <em>New Colonies in the New World</em>

Art

Einar & Jamex de la Torre

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery

Brothers Einar and Jamex couldn't possibly deny the influence of their heritage — their blown-glass and mixed-media works radiate with the... 

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

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ DF2

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

Dustin Yellin

Art

Dustin Yellin

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Samuel Freeman

Dustin Yellin does not suspend exotic crimson seaweed inside his freestanding resin columns — it just looks like it. What he... 

<em>Girly Group Show</em>

Art

Girly Group Show

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

The Wooster Group: <em>Hamlet</em>

Theatre

Hamlet

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ REDCAT

The Wooster Group has been at the forefront of American experimental theatre, cultivating their own language — a fusion of sophisticated... 

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

Art

Frohawk Two Feathers

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions

Art

Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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>Artist/Gallerist</em>

Art

Artist/Gallerist

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

Karen Liebowitz: <I>Leviathan</i>

Art

Karen Liebowitz

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Rosamund Felsen Gallery

The empowered female subjects of Karen Liebowitz's paintings exist in a fantasyland encompassing mythology, religious tales, and the contemporary world. For... 

Michael Asher

Art

Michael Asher

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Freeze Frame

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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>The Imaginary 20th Century</em>

Art

The Imaginary 20th Century

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

Luke Whitlatch

Art

Luke Whitlatch

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Bandini Art

In his new series of work, painter Luke Whitlatch offers a meditation on both the emotional events that define human life... 

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

Art

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

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Art

Nick Walker

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Art

Materials & Applications: Density Fields

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Art

Francis Alÿs

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Hammer Museum

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

Masao Yamamoto

Art: Photography

Masao Yamamoto

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Craig Krull Gallery

In his latest collection of photographs for Santa Monica's Craig Krull Gallery, Japanese artist Masao Yamamoto's work is somber and still,... 

Angelika J. Trojnarski: <em>Ricochet<br />
</em>

Art

Angelika J. Trojnarski

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery

Born in Poland and educated in Germany, Angelika J. Trojnarski depicts desolate cultural landscapes, dismembered bodies, and the barbwired evidence of... 

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

Art

Daniel Richter

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Regen Projects

German painter Daniel Richter's expressionistic, figurative works are both dark and disarming. With influences that range from Goya to comic books... 

<em>Special Relationship</em>

Art

Special Relationship

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ The Scion Installation LA Space

Britain's Scrawl Collective is an emerging group of post-illustration urban romantics. They bring their ramped-up aesthetic energy to the States this... 

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

Art

Jean Michel Crettaz

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp

Art

Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

<em>Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson</em>

Theatre

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

Chris Anthony: <em>I'm the Most Normal Person I Know</em>

Art: Photography

Chris Anthony

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Corey Helford Gallery

Chris Anthony inhabits a strange, haunting world in his new exhibition. Influenced by childhood visions and containing authentically dreamlike narratives, Anthony's... 

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

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... 

Ruby Osorio: <em>Looking Through the Blind</em>

Art

Ruby Osorio

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Cherry and Martin

Los Angeles artist Ruby Osorio's collection at Cherry and Martin Gallery was heavily influenced by her recent trip to Athens. Surrounded... 

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

Film

Alfred Hitchcock

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

Matthew Heller: <em>Everything Is a Love Story</em>

Art

Matthew Heller

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ DCA Fine Art

Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text.... 

<em>Modern American Sculpture</em>

Art

Modern American Sculpture

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ Forum Gallery

Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven... 

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

Art

Wynne Greenwood

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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... 

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

Performing Arts: Opera

Tristan und Isolde

Wednesday 2/ 6 @ 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....