Events on Tuesday, March 4

Film: Documentary

Four Stones for Kanemitsu

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

LACMA may be getting bigger and better, but some things have stayed the same — like the museum's active interest in... 

Jim Bianco

Music

Jim Bianco

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ The Hotel Café

LA singer/songwriter and piano-bar philosopher Jim Bianco has a way of making stalkers seem like doe-eyed poets and drunken fools appear... 

The Moth StorySLAM

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

The Moth StorySLAM

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Tangier Restaurant

Reality TV pales in comparison to the opportunity to sip $3 cosmos, listen to live, raucously funny tales, and then vote... 

The Raveonettes w/ Be Your Own Pet

Music

The Raveonettes

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ El Rey

Owing as much to the Ronettes and the Everly Brothers as to electronica and shoegaze, Danish duo the Raveonettes play '50s-style... 

Ongoing Events

David Touster: <em>Private Pictures</em>

Art

David Touster

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Milo Gallery

With leaked sex tapes and nude photos of celebrities comprising a billion-dollar industry, David Touster's new work couldn't be more humorous... 

<em>My Blueberry Nights</em>

Film

My Blueberry Nights

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ The Landmark

Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights is undeniably, embarrassingly cheesy. Replete with slow-motion shots and blue-lit greasy spoons, it truly leaves... 

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

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

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

Tessar Lo and Chris Devera: <em>something to cry for</em>

Art

Tessar Lo and Chris Devera

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

Julian Schnabel: <em>Christ's Last Day</em>

Art

Julian Schnabel

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Gagosian Gallery

Neo-expressionist aesthete and, most recently, award-winning feature-film director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) takes a break from the... 

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

Art

Wynne Greenwood

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>The Garden of Delight</em>

Art

The Garden of Delight

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

If a group show of whimsical, freak-folky art at a boutique with punk-rock lingerie, a vending machine that sells beer, and... 

Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright

Art

Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

Landscape paintings from Mexican artist Miguel Osuna have a photographic sensibility. His California landscapes possess all the fleeting romance of a... 

Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions

Art

Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Various Chinatown galleries

As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art... 

Mindy Shapero

Art

Mindy Shapero

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Anna Helwing Gallery

Bright and brash, Mindy Shapero concocts sculptures with a childlike zeal: always curious and never satisfied. Her works seem like visual... 

<em>Here, There, and Everywhere</em>

Art

Here, There, and Everywhere

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ The Bike Oven

Cyclists unite for an exhibition featuring the works of artists from all parts of the nation who just happen to also,... 

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

Film

Alfred Hitchcock

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Overgrowth</em>: Katherine  Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush

Art

Overgrowth

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ GR2

GR2 combines the artistic minds of Katherine Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush for a group show of anti-monumental proportions. Discarding... 

Aaron Smith: <em>Estofada</em>

Art

Aaron Smith

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery

The history of art may seem an obvious source of inspiration, but a new collection of paintings by LA's Aaron Smith... 

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

Art

Frohawk Two Feathers

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

Adam Janes: <em>Don't Sweat the Small Stuff at 50%</em>

Art

Adam Janes

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery

With the creative ingenuity of a mad doctor and the unwieldy imagination of a five-year old, installation artist Adam Janes unveils... 

<em>Chicago 10</em>

Film

Chicago 10

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

In the revolution-rich year of 1968, the French had a tough May; the US, in turn, had one heck of an... 

Tim Bavington: <em>There We Were, Now Here We Are</em>

Art

There We Were, Now Here We Are

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Mark Moore Gallery

LA artist Tim Bavington reinvents the once-obsolete "stripe painting" with hometown verve. Bavington incorporates sound into many of his dense compositions,... 

<em>The Austrian Winery Boom</em>

Art

The Austrian Winery Boom

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ MODAA gallery

After a 1985 wine scandal (winemakers were discovered to have added an antifreeze component to sweeten their vintages), a red-faced Austria... 

Tom Servais: <em>el&middot;e&middot;men&middot;tal</em>

Art: Photography

Tom Servais

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ epOxybOx

Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for... 

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

Art

First Generation

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Claremont Museum of Art

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

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

Art

Jean Michel Crettaz

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

Mel Kadel and Travis Millard

Art

Mel Kadel and Travis Millard

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

LA Opera presents Giuseppe Verdi's<em> Otello</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Otello

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Racism, jealousy, and betrayal form the backdrop of Shakespeare's penultimate tragedy, Othello. The stakes of the story are set even higher... 

Evan Hecox: <em>DF</em>

Art

Evan Hecox

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery

In 2001, Colorado-based artist Evan Hecox inaugurated Culver City's Kinsey/DesForges gallery. Now he returns in a show that highlights how they... 

The Mountain Goats w/ Jeffrey Lewis & the Jitters

Music

The Mountain Goats

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ The Troubadour

Indie darlings the Mountain Goats play the first of two shows at the Troubadour tonight in support of their new album,... 

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

Art

Rosson Crow

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Honor Fraser

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

Sylvia Ji: <em>Por Vida</em>

Art

Sylvia Ji

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Corey Helford Gallery

San Francisco native Sylvia Ji's paintings simultaneously depict the drama of the Pre-Raphaelites, the romantic sensuality of Mucha, and the allure... 

Toby Ziegler: <em>The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse</em>

Art

Toby Ziegler

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Patrick Painter Gallery

Toby Ziegler's work is full of dichotomies. For his new collection of painting and sculpture in Patrick Painter's West Gallery, the... 

Luke Whitlatch

Art

Luke Whitlatch

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Bandini Art

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

<em>Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966</em>

Art

Bob Dylan's American Journey

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

Julie Davidow: <em>The New Strain</em>

Art

Julie Davidow

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery

Miami-based painter and self-proclaimed "frustrated scientist" Julie Davidow presents a series of new works that embody the interactions between man and... 

<em>Projection</em>

Art

Projection

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ [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... 

Eve Wood: <em>No Other Word for Love</em>

Art

Eve Wood

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Western Project

Eve Wood is the toast of Culver City this month with a breakthrough exhibition of mixed-media work on canvas. Wood leaves... 

<em>Two Lines Align</em>: Drawings by Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge

Art

Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ REDCAT

Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In... 

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

Art: Photography

Freeze Frame

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

Michael Asher

Art

Michael Asher

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ The Getty Center

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

Kara Walker: <em>My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love</em>

Art

Kara Walker

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ Hammer Museum

Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks... 

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

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Tuesday 3/ 4 @ 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,...