Events on Saturday, February 28

East Hollywood ArtCycle

City Gems

East Hollywood ArtCycle

Saturday 2/28 @ Melrose Ave & Heliotrope Ave

Make sure your chain is properly greased and your headlights are on for a nighttime ride supporting the ever-growing art scene... 

Bruce Conner's Explosive Cinema: A Tribute

Festival: Performing Arts

Bruce Conner's Explosive Cinema

Saturday 2/28 @ Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum

UCLA's Film Archives, REDCAT, and the Los Angeles Filmforum join forces for a two-day, two-venue program honoring the experimental films of... 

Emergency Ensemble w/ Mi Ami and Thank You

Music

Emergency Ensemble

Saturday 2/28 @ The Smell

Mi Ami and Thank You make ritual music for an impending apocalypse. A tight, drum-centric Baltimore punk band, the latter churns... 

Ongoing Events

Batsheva Dance Company: <em>Max</em>

Dance

Batsheva Dance Company

Saturday 2/28 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall

Artistic director Ohad Naharin's taste for extremes, from raw and unhinged distortions to elegant nuances of classical refinement, shakes the viewer... 

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

Art

Freyda Miller

Saturday 2/28 @ Art Dimensions

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

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

Saturday 2/28 @ 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>S&atilde;o Paolo</em>

Art

São Paolo

Saturday 2/28 @ The Scion Installation LA Space

Forget art school: in São Paulo, Brazil, all the action's outside, where skaters, tattooists, graffiti artists, illustrators, rockers, and hip-hoppers commingle... 

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

Art

Paper Cuts

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

ZAP! POW! BAM!

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

Rebekah Bogard: <em>Twilight</em>

Art

Rebekah Bogard: Twilight

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

Rebecca Campbell: <em>Poltergeist</em>

Art

Rebecca Campbell

Saturday 2/28 @ 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

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

Conferences

College Art Association Conference

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

<em>Battle Hymn</em>

Theatre

Battle Hymn

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Rachell Sumpter

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Ian O'Phelan

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

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

Saturday 2/28 @ 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>Self-Portaits in the Age of MyFaceSpaceBook</em>

Art

Self-Portraits in the Age of MyFaceSpaceBook

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Susanne Zottl

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Matisse's Amours

Saturday 2/28 @ 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

Saturday 2/28 @ Scribble Press

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

Performing Arts: Puppetry

Puppet Up! Uncensored

Saturday 2/28 @ Avalon Hollywood

When Jim Henson Company puppeteers first put on private workshops to develop their comedic skills, they had little idea the exercise... 

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

Art

Marianne Mueller and Penelope Gottlieb

Saturday 2/28 @ Lightbox Gallery

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

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

Film: Documentary

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

Randall Yarbrough: <em>Escapism</em>

Art

Randall Yarbrough

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

Mark Dutcher: <em>Havilah</em>

Art

Mark Dutcher

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

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

Fashion/Style

Antonio Pineda

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

Collecting Abraham Lincoln

Special Event

Collecting Abraham Lincoln

Saturday 2/28 @ 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

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

KAWS

Saturday 2/28 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Moira Hahn

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

Theatre

Pippin

Saturday 2/28 @ Mark Taper Forum

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

Theatre

West Fest 2009

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Beautiful/Decay A to Z

Saturday 2/28 @ Kopeikin Gallery

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

Engine Collision Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Engine Collision Festival

Saturday 2/28 @ Studio 1636

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

Melissa Manfull: <em>Tesseracts</em>

Art

Melissa Manfull

Saturday 2/28 @ 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:... 

At the Brewery Project 1993-2007: the Finale

Art

At the Brewery Project

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Saturday 2/28 @ The Getty Center

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

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

Art

Natalia Fabia

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

Ruth Weisberg

Art

Ruth Weisberg

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

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

Dance

Jérôme Bel: Pichet Klunchun and Myself

Saturday 2/28 @ REDCAT

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

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

Art: Photography

Wallace Berman and Richard Prince

Saturday 2/28 @ Michael Kohn Gallery

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

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

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

<em>Point Break LIVE!</em>

Theatre

Point Break LIVE!

Saturday 2/28 @ Dragonfly

Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill... 

Kim Abeles: <em>Carbon Studies</em>

Art

Kim Abeles

Saturday 2/28 @ Phantom Galleries at the Continental Building

Kim Abeles makes work in a variety of alternative media, with a special fondness for maps, both topographical and environmental, as... 

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

Art

Bill McMullen

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

James Hueter

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Jona Frank

Saturday 2/28 @ Sherry Frumkin Gallery

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

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

Art: Photography

Jeremy Kidd

Saturday 2/28 @ Fahey/Klein Gallery

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

2008 California Biennial

Art

2008 California Biennial

Saturday 2/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Eddy Sykes

Saturday 2/28 @ Materials & Applications

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