Events on Wednesday, February 10
Wednesday 2/10 @ Hammer Museum
It's not hyperbole to claim Dan Savage as one of America's most influential journalists. Since his internationally syndicated "Savage Love" advice...
Lost Embrace (El Abrazo Partido) w/ Daniel Burman
Wednesday 2/10 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Ariel (Daniel Hendler) and his mother run a lingerie shop located in downtown Buenos Aires. Curious about his Polish heritage, he...
Haiti Benefit feat. Pete Yorn, Tim Kasher and Craig Wedren
Wednesday 2/10 @ Bootleg Theater
PETE YORN Pete's music has been featured in movies such as "Spiderman" and also "Me, Myself and Irene," in which not...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Book Soup
"Dr. Sophy helps mothers understand how the relationship with the light of their life goes from blessing to battlefield....[R]eaders will come...
Blast Phemy! 1: A Midweek Music/Media Mashup
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW CLIP Blast Phemy! 1 is a kaleidoscope of media/music collaborative potentials, from mid-century experimentations to spontaneous singularities. The program...
Roger Vadim's Blood and Roses & Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural
Wednesday 2/10 @ Egyptian Theatre
LEMORA: A CHILD’S TALE OF THE SUPERNATURAL, 1973, 85 min. Dir. Richard Blackburn. This adult fairy tale, long considered lost, is...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Two key figures in Persian classical music – Kayhan Kalhor (spike fiddle) and Hossein Alizadeh (plucked lute)...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 2/10 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
The Annenberg Space for Photography brings the entire genius of its well-appointed exhibition areas and NASA-quality digital-media resources to bear on...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Arclight Sherman Oaks
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
J. David Carlson and Michael Dotson
Wednesday 2/10 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
The dialogue in Playscapes and Architectonic Dreams riffs off paintings inspired by a 1980s video-game aesthetic and intricate diorama sculptures (think...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Wednesday 2/10 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Known most famously for his reign as one of theater's greatest playwrights, British-born Noël Coward wore many other hats: singer, actor,...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Recently, Art Center College of Design students directed their communications prowess towards human rights, yielding emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line...
Wednesday 2/10 @ American Jewish University
Each of the artists in the three-person show, Body and Soul, carries an impressive list of achievements. Featuring work by Kathryn...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Wednesday 2/10 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Wednesday 2/10 @ 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...
The Women of Women: The Female Form
Wednesday 2/10 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Curator Yasmine Mohseni takes advantage of the female form's captive powers in The Women of Women, a group exhibition featuring the...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Largo at the Coronet Theater
Joe Sib, a California local, skateboarder, punk rocker, frontman for Wax, founder of SideOneDummy record label, and radio host shares his...
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
Scion continues its bid to outpace the NEA with its first big traveling show of 2010. They commissioned ten artists to...
Andres Guerrero and Albert Reyes
Wednesday 2/10 @ Subliminal Projects
From two LA artists comes a dual exhibition about the way individuals perceive themselves and the world around them, when nothing...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Wednesday 2/10 @ Skirball Cultural Center
The subject of an engaging exhibition and lavishly appended new book, Eric Etheridge's contemporary photographic portraits of this group of American...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Sam Lee Gallery
Remote warfare, military drones, and other robotic tools of destruction used to be the stuff of science fiction novels but now...
Wednesday 2/10 @ JAUS
Mexico City-based Anibal Catalan transforms the exterior of the Jaus house with a complex gray-scale mural referencing the incandescent wings of...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Bar Copa
You know and love him as part of the erstwhile west-side club night Funky in the Middle, as well as the...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Cherry and Martin
Daniel Dove's large-scale oil paintings attempt to reconcile the duality of the world outside of the artist's studio that is in...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Wednesday 2/10 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Does having more Best Picture nominations affect the quality of films made? Maybe not. But then again, the last time 10...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Honor Fraser
Somewhere on the formal continuum between Gordon Matta-Clark's cut-outs and the Ice Hotel in Sweden lie the architectural sculptures and interventions...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Wednesday 2/10 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Recently, Art Center College of Design students directed their communications prowess towards human rights, yielding emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Little Temple
Starting this month, if it's Wednesday, it's time to hit the dance floor at the Little Temple, where they've scored some...
The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing
Wednesday 2/10 @ Pacific Design Center
Curated by Art Cinema author Paul Young, The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing examines the span of contemporary global video art,...
Wednesday 2/10 @ REDCAT
REDCAT's four-year artist-in-residence project with the Wooster Group is one of those gifts that just keeps on giving. Not content with...
Wednesday 2/10 @ LAXART
Kamrooz Aram and Artemio engage in an unhinging of the standard mechanisms of image-making, challenging social norms in the process. Artemio's...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
Street-installation artist Mark Jenkins uses unlikely juxtapositions to shake people loose from their day-to-day expectations. The streets of world cities aren't...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Armory Center for the Arts
From 1966-2001, legendary artist Robert Rauschenberg partnered with the impressive printmakers at LA's Gemini G.E.L. to produce an astonishing 250-plus groundbreaking...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Landmark's Nuart Theatre presents a selection of British Noir double features, released by the go-to distributors of classic reissues, Rialto Pictures....
Wednesday 2/10 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Organized by co-curator of 2008's Beautiful Losers, Aaron Rose, Projections: A Festival of Rare and Hard-to-See Films is just what it...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Pantages Theatre
The story of Celie, a young black woman growing up in a minefield of abuse, racism, poverty, and deceit, who perseveres...
Wednesday 2/10 @ 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...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Wednesday 2/10 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
Severed heads, skulls and daggers brimming with blood, and cemeteries littered with dismembered corpses may not readily invoke visions of spiritual...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
LA painter Kenny Harris is a modern update on the archetype of the peripatetic plein air school, an artist whose frequent...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Skirball Cultural Center
An Idea Called Tomorrow offers meditations on what should/could/would make for a peaceable and sustainable future — culturally, environmentally, and socially...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Downtown Independent Theater
A BOY AND HIS DOG
35mm, 88 min, 1975, R
dir. L.Q. Jones
Wed Feb. 10th...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Downtown Independent Theater
WAITING FOR ARMAGEDDON
2009, 35mm, color, 74min
"Evangelicals need to see this movie to understand the...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Wednesday 2/10 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
In conjunction with the installation of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's stunning Comtesse d’Haussonville, 1845, on loan from The Frick Collection in New...
Oscar Nominee IN THE LOOP Limited Engagement
Wednesday 2/10 @ Egyptian Theatre
IN THE LOOP, 2008, IFC Films, 106 min. Dir. Armando Iannucci. ...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Imagine yourself immersed in a favorite childhood tale. Five years in the making and occupying an 8,000-square-foot gallery, Noah's Ark at...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Getty Museum
Over 180 ancient glass objects from the collection of Erwin Oppenländer are featured in this exhibition. The Oppenländer collection, which the Getty...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Getty Museum
Telling the differenc between drawings by Rembrandt and his pupils is a centuries-old problem. A popular teacher with more than 50...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Wednesday 2/10 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Making its West Coast debut at the Skirball, Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968 features more than...
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Resident DJs Tom Chasteen, Roy Corderoy, the Dungeonmaster, and Boss Harmony spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall.
Wednesday 2/10 @ Art Center College of Design
Illustration students from Art Center College of Design currently have their work on display at the Aquarium of the Pacific in...
