Events on Saturday, February 9
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Chinatown
Today marks the start of the Year of the Rat — a much more auspicious time than the name implies. The...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Space Island
Tonight, work up a sweat as DJ Heather — known for her dance-floor-igniting sets of jacking Chicago house — and her...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Metro Gallery
AHF (AIDS Healthcare Foundation) provides global medical assistance and support for AIDS patients, regardless of their checking-account balances. Tonight's Silverlake benefit...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Palmer Room
Even a Chicago house legend like Ron Trent needs to incorporate a little fresh blood into his routine after two decades....
Saturday 2/ 9 @ The Wiltern
Recently nominated for Best British Group at this year's Brit Awards, Editors are one of those bands that need to be...
Ongoing Events
Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Landscape paintings from Mexican artist Miguel Osuna have a photographic sensibility. His California landscapes possess all the fleeting romance of a...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Pan-African Film & Arts Festival
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Various locations
This year's Pan-African Film Festival has a little bit of everything, from comedy to spoken word, workshops, panels, a fashion show,...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Neil Campbell and Peter Schuyff
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Forum Gallery
Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Commissary Arts
Frustrated debutantes, overdressed crocodiles, and bandaged aristocrats parade through Tucker Neel's latest exhibition. The LA artist conjures up witty, intriguing imagery...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Samuel Freeman
Dustin Yellin does not suspend exotic crimson seaweed inside his freestanding resin columns — it just looks like it. What he...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Various Chinatown galleries
As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Honor Fraser
In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ The Bike Oven
Cyclists unite for an exhibition featuring the works of artists from all parts of the nation who just happen to also,...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ epOxybOx
Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Bandini Art
In his new series of work, painter Luke Whitlatch offers a meditation on both the emotional events that define human life...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Military Intelligence and You!
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Lest we forget that waging war should be a heavily informed last resort, writer/director Dale Kutzera brings us Military Intelligence and...
The Last Days of Desmond Nani Reese
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Bang Improv Studio
It's Los Angeles circa 2014, and a 108-year-old Echo Park stripper has a lot to get off her chest. Heather Woodbury's...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ DNJ Gallery
Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Regen Projects
German painter Daniel Richter's expressionistic, figurative works are both dark and disarming. With influences that range from Goya to comic books...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Jancar Gallery
LA's Virginia Katz uses a complex mixed-media process that involves so many layers of hand-worked pigments and liquids, her art can...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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....
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
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Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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 —...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Highways Performance Space
Never one to shy away from the deeply personal or intensely provocative, choreographer Victoria Marks has drawn together veterans, artists, and...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Crewest Gallery
Not all of us choose to celebrate the upcoming Hallmark holiday with champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries by a roaring fireplace. Case...
Sideshow: Diane Arbus at Hubert's Museum
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
If legendary photographer Diane Arbus' images of nudist camps, mental institutions, and creepy-looking twins are your cup of tea, then Sideshow...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ The Village at Ed Gould Plaza
Before Amy Winehouse, there was Dusty Springfield. Regarded as one of the first white songstresses to authentically incorporate black soul music...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Claremont Museum of Art
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Found Gallery
Stephen Tompkins is a shockingly versatile artistic chameleon, working in drawing, painting, 3-D digital design, animation, music, and sculpture. His fittingly...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
Born in Poland and educated in Germany, Angelika J. Trojnarski depicts desolate cultural landscapes, dismembered bodies, and the barbwired evidence of...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
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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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Paul Kopeikin Gallery
Berlin is in perpetual transition. The enduring fountainhead of Western culture is endlessly fascinating to students of art, architecture, and politics,...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ DCA Fine Art
Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text....
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Various locations
At this point, calling YouTube a trend would be a gross understatement; DIY filmmaking and broadcasting are as common as your...
