Events on Monday, February 23

Moth StorySlam Westside: <em>Blunders</em>

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

Moth StorySlam Westside

Monday 2/23 @ Air Conditioned Supper Club, Venice

The Moth StorySlams are building such a following in Los Angeles that they're spilling over to the other side of the... 

KROQ Locals Only and <em>Citizen LA</em> present Local Natives, Union Line, Love Grenades, and You, Me & Iowa

Music

Love Grenades

Monday 2/23 @ Silverlake Lounge

Silverlake-via-the-OC collective Local Natives continue with their Echoplex residency, bringing three more buzzworthy bands into the Fold; the vocal, retro-harmonic outfit... 

T.C. Boyle: <em>The Women</em>

Books: Reading

T.C. Boyle

Monday 2/23 @ Skylight Books

T.C. Boyle hits Los Feliz's Skylight Books tonight to ham it up about the latest installment in his self-described "egomaniacs of... 

826LA presents Tiny Vaudeville

Special Event: Benefit

Tiny Vaudeville

Monday 2/23 @ Echoplex

Joel Spence and Marc Evan Jackson host tonight's incarnation of Tiny Vaudeville, 826LA's recently launched variety show at the Echoplex. Billed... 

Ongoing Events

Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>

Art

Mark Bradford

Monday 2/23 @ Steve Turner Contemporary

Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious... 

Rebekah Bogard: <em>Twilight</em>

Art

Rebekah Bogard: Twilight

Monday 2/23 @ Vincent Price Art Museum

Nevada-based artist Rebekah Bogard turns the VPAM into a glazed forest of approachable yet baffling imagined creatures. Handcrafted, life-sized ceramic renderings... 

Susanne Zottl: <em>A Styrofoam Lover with (E)motions of Concrete</em>

Art

Susanne Zottl

Monday 2/23 @ SCI-Arc

Austrian architect and SCI-Arc alum Susanne Zottl seeks out man-made environments and historic structures, fusing the world's existing space with her... 

Eddy Sykes: <em>Yakuza Lou</em>

Art

Eddy Sykes

Monday 2/23 @ Materials & Applications

First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &... 

<em>Matisse's Amours: Illustrations of Pierre de Ronsard's Love Poems</em>

Art

Matisse's Amours

Monday 2/23 @ Norton Simon Museum

The French Fauvist painter Henri Matisse began a simple, 30-lithograph portfolio in 1941, and seven years later transformed it into a... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Monday 2/23 @ 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... 

<em>Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy</em>

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Monday 2/23 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live

The recently opened GRAMMY Museum at Downtown's mammoth entertainment complex LA Live offers visitors a rare, intimate glimpse into the life... 

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

Monday 2/23 @ Vinum Populi

Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie... 

Randall Yarbrough: <em>Escapism</em>

Art

Randall Yarbrough

Monday 2/23 @ Audis Husar Fine Art

Randall Yarbrough's paintings conjure a storybook world of imaginary creatures and fantastic feats. Working with a pastel palette of acrylics on... 

Ian O'Phelan: <em>Hothouse Flowers</em>

Art

Ian O'Phelan

Monday 2/23 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

Sharing its title with a children's book, an '84 Wynton Marsalis album, and an early '90s band, Hothouse Flowers beautifies advertisements... 

Collecting Abraham Lincoln

Special Event

Collecting Abraham Lincoln

Monday 2/23 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

In honor of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday, the newly renovated Huntington Library digs into its massive reservoir of Lincolniana. The letters,... 

<em>Raised in Craftivity</em>

Art

Raised in Craftivity

Monday 2/23 @ Wignall Museum/Gallery at Chaffey College

From psychedelic ceramics to custom-knitted army-tank cozies, the Arts and Crafts movement is thriving at Chaffey College's Wignall Museum in Rancho... 

BMW Art Cars

Art

BMW Art Cars

Monday 2/23 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

BMWs get rock-star parking at LACMA this month — that is, those BMWs fortunate enough to have played canvas to some... 

<em>The Sting</em> (1973) and <em>The Man Who Would Be King</em> (1975)

Film: Double Feature

The Sting and The Man Who Would Be King

Monday 2/23 @ New Beverly Cinema

If Oscar-winning actors playing unscrupulous anti-heroes, undergoing extreme makeovers and adopting false identities, falling in love with inconvenient women, and inspiring... 

<em>Shangri-La</em>: Architecture as a State of Flux

Art

Shangri-La: Architecture as a State of Flux

Monday 2/23 @ 18th Street Arts Center

English author James Hilton first coined the term "Shangri-La" in his 1933 novel Lost Horizon; since then, the name has morphed... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Monday 2/23 @ Scribble Press

Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...