Events on Friday, February 27

Sextus w/ the Fuxedos, Valiant, and Jody Whitesides

Music

Sextus w/ the Fuxedos

Friday 2/27 @ The Joint

The Fuxedos kidnap rock music and beat the crap out of it onstage; their sexy/creepy clownish cavorting and costumed speed-punk shows... 

Kool Keith: Dr. Octagon vs. Dr. Dooom

Music: Hip-Hop

Kool Keith: Dr. Octagon vs. Dr. Dooom

Friday 2/27 @ El Rey

Kool Keith returns with a big, crazy chip on his shoulder. Stung by the unauthorized release of 2006's Return of Dr.... 

Music: DJ

Christian Martin and J. Phlip

Friday 2/27 @ King King

Home to global tech-house trendsetter Claude VonStroke and funky deep-house disciple Justin Martin, future-minded SF dance imprint Dirtybird Records is known... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Beautiful/Decay A to Z</em>

Art

Beautiful/Decay A to Z

Friday 2/27 @ Kopeikin Gallery

Founded by artists in an attempt to inject the publishing world with some of the unmediated verve and vigor of the... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Friday 2/27 @ 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... 

<em>Battle Hymn</em>

Theatre

Battle Hymn

Friday 2/27 @ The Ford Theater

Chronicling the misadventures of feisty, forward-thinking Martha, Battle Hymn is a touching, comedic, and thoughtful survey of American history, as seen... 

Elias Sime: <em>Eye of the Needle, Eye of the  Heart</em> and Arnold Mesches: <em>Coming Attractions</em>

Art

Elias Sime and Arnold Mesches

Friday 2/27 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art

East meets West on many levels as the Santa Monica Museum of Art welcomes octogenarian lion of painting Arnold Mesches to... 

<em>Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda</em>

Fashion/Style

Antonio Pineda

Friday 2/27 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show... 

<em>SHE</em>: Images of Women by Wallace Berman and Richard Prince

Art: Photography

Wallace Berman and Richard Prince

Friday 2/27 @ Michael Kohn Gallery

Aside from the landscape, womankind has been art's favorite subject — and few portray femininity quite as impressively or distinctly as... 

Collecting Abraham Lincoln

Special Event

Collecting Abraham Lincoln

Friday 2/27 @ 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,... 

Ruth Weisberg

Art

Ruth Weisberg

Friday 2/27 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts

Ruth Weisberg is hailed in some quarters as a living legend of contemporary figurative painting. Her delicate, yet dense depictions of... 

Marianne Mueller: <em>DREAM-US-09</em> and Penelope Gottlieb: <em>No $ Down</em>

Art

Marianne Mueller and Penelope Gottlieb

Friday 2/27 @ Lightbox Gallery

Photographer Marianne Mueller and painter Penelope Gottlieb unite their disparate styles in this visual double bill at the Kim Light/Lightbox Gallery.... 

Conferences

College Art Association Conference

Friday 2/27 @ Los Angeles Convention Center

The College Art Association holds its 97th Annual Conference at the LA Convention Center, anticipating upward of 4,000 arts professionals at... 

Randall Yarbrough: <em>Escapism</em>

Art

Randall Yarbrough

Friday 2/27 @ 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... 

Engine Collision Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Engine Collision Festival

Friday 2/27 @ Studio 1636

A veneration of global artists on the perimeter, the Engine Collision Festival is an 11-day blowout of performances, films, and multimedia,... 

<em>Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde</em>

Art

Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde

Friday 2/27 @ The Getty Center

In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and... 

<em>Self-Portaits in the Age of MyFaceSpaceBook</em>

Art

Self-Portraits in the Age of MyFaceSpaceBook

Friday 2/27 @ I-5 Gallery

Self-Portraits in the Age of MyFaceSpaceBook is a big, fat group show that delivers just what its title promises: an unwieldy... 

<em>Raised in Craftivity</em>

Art

Raised in Craftivity

Friday 2/27 @ 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... 

2008 California Biennial

Art

2008 California Biennial

Friday 2/27 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick... 

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

Art

Ian O'Phelan

Friday 2/27 @ 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... 

Freyda Miller: <em>Fertile Dreams</em>

Art

Freyda Miller

Friday 2/27 @ Art Dimensions

Freyda Miller's body of work dates as far back as 1978, developing from her early conceptual photography to the Fertile Dreams... 

<em>Scott Walker: 30 Century Man</em>

Film: Documentary

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

Friday 2/27 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

The Walker Brothers were one of the biggest pop sensations of the 1960s; Scott Walker's shaggy hair and baritone croon made... 

Theatre

West Fest 2009

Friday 2/27 @ Theatre West

Hollywood's Theatre West has been providing challenging workshops, staging world-class performances, and giving back to the community for 47 years. LA's... 

Melissa Manfull: <em>Tesseracts</em>

Art

Melissa Manfull

Friday 2/27 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery

Add to the list of great historical art movements like Impressionism, Cubism, and Abstract Expressionism a brand-new, admittedly less erudite genre:... 

<em>ZAP! POW! BAM!</em><em> The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books, 1938-1950</em>

Art

ZAP! POW! BAM!

Friday 2/27 @ Skirball Cultural Center

Jerry Robinson, cartoonist and creator of Batman's iconic villain, the Joker, guest curated ZAP! POW! BAM! The Golden Age of Comic... 

Moira Hahn: <em>Night Vision</em>

Art

Moira Hahn

Friday 2/27 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery

Moira Hahn is known for conceptually complex, masterfully rendered mash-up paintings in which wild and domestic animals play the roles of... 

Natalia Fabia: <em>Hooker DreamEscape</em>

Art

Natalia Fabia

Friday 2/27 @ Corey Helford Gallery

Natalia Fabia's multiple personas, ranging from alternative beauty-pageant coordinator to tattooed model, photographer, illustrator, and painter, explosively combine in her new... 

Rebecca Campbell: <em>Poltergeist</em>

Art

Rebecca Campbell

Friday 2/27 @ LA Louver Gallery

Rebecca Campbell's paintings, including several large-scale works applying her eerie sense of space and sensitivity to anatomy and gesture, demonstrate advanced... 

Robert Dowd: <em>Pop Art Money</em>

Art

Robert Dowd

Friday 2/27 @ Pepperdine University, Weisman Museum of Art

The Weisman Museum at Pepperdine's Malibu campus launches one of its most important exhibitions to date with this long-overdue survey of... 

Theatre

Pippin

Friday 2/27 @ Mark Taper Forum

Wicked maestro Stephen Schwartz revives his '70s rock opera Pippin as the opening production of the Mark Taper 2009 season. A... 

Rachell Sumpter: <em>Molten Kin</em>

Art

Rachell Sumpter

Friday 2/27 @ Richard Heller Gallery

Dualism is a term easily applied to Rachell Sumpter's series of new paintings, Molten Kin. Gouache, her medium of choice, allows... 

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

Friday 2/27 @ Vinum Populi

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

<em>James Hueter: A Retrospective</em>

Art

James Hueter

Friday 2/27 @ Claremont Museum of Art

The Claremont Museum of Art makes no secret of its mission: the preservation, study, and dissemination of the legacy left by... 

At the Brewery Project 1993-2007: the Finale

Art

At the Brewery Project

Friday 2/27 @ Armory Center for the Arts

With At the Brewery Project: 1993-2007: the Finale, the Armory pays its respects to an LA art mainstay. For the past... 

Jeremy Kidd: <em>Fictional Realities</em>

Art: Photography

Jeremy Kidd

Friday 2/27 @ Fahey/Klein Gallery

Like many photographers, Jeremy Kidd is drawn to sweeping vistas, from the high desert to the ocean floor, and from suburbia... 

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

Art

Matisse's Amours

Friday 2/27 @ 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... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Friday 2/27 @ Scribble Press

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

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

Art

Shangri-La: Architecture as a State of Flux

Friday 2/27 @ 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... 

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

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Friday 2/27 @ 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... 

J&eacute;r&ocirc;me Bel: <em>Pichet Klunchun and Myself</em>

Dance

Jérôme Bel: Pichet Klunchun and Myself

Friday 2/27 @ REDCAT

Jérôme Bel's intensive creative process beckons some of the world's most refined and boldly curious dancers — those who are looking... 

Mark Dutcher: <em>Havilah</em>

Art

Mark Dutcher

Friday 2/27 @ Steve Turner Contemporary

Mark Dutcher's first show with Steve Turner Contemporary deftly traverses the space between sculpture and painting, thrusting the artist's traditional oeuvre... 

Bill McMullen: <em>Hype, Hustle, Rip-Off</em>

Art

Bill McMullen

Friday 2/27 @ The Constant Gallery

Bill McMullen's imagery for the likes of everyone from Adidas to the Beastie Boys has become a part of the urban... 

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

Art

Susanne Zottl

Friday 2/27 @ 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... 

Jona Frank: <em>Church and State</em>

Art: Photography

Jona Frank

Friday 2/27 @ Sherry Frumkin Gallery

With her new book, RIGHT: Portraits from the Evangelical Ivy League, photographer Jona Frank flips the script on the face of... 

KAWS: <em>The Long Way Home</em>

Art

KAWS

Friday 2/27 @ Honor Fraser

Brooklyn-based artist, graffiti icon, and designer KAWS is already a master of multiple media, with a mini-empire that includes painting, sculpture,... 

<em>Paper Cuts</em>: 200 Years of Black Paper Dolls

Art

Paper Cuts

Friday 2/27 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum

Where London has the Victoria and Albert, LA has the Craft and Folk Art Museum; yet, too often, the little institution... 

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

Art

Eddy Sykes

Friday 2/27 @ Materials & Applications

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