Events on Wednesday, February 17
Wednesday 2/17 @ The Loft at Liz's
In a simple but salient and infinitely expandable curatorial gesture, the Loft at Liz's examines the ubiquity of numbers in modern...
Wednesday 2/17 @ The Airliner
Music marketing guru and impresario Leeor Brown founded the Friends of Friends record label in March of 2009, releasing fashion and...
Directors Close-Up: Writing and Directing Comedy
Wednesday 2/17 @ The Landmark
What's so funny? Tonight's Directors Close-Up panel attempts to answer this question — at least when it comes to making indie...
Getting Gertie's Garter (1927) and Up In Mabel's Room (1926)
Wednesday 2/17 @ The Cinefamily
Silent cinema buffs and flapper fans should shoot to Cinefamily tonight for a back-to-back screening of two of the Roaring Twenties'...
The Watson Twins w/ Deep Sea Diver and Daisy McCrackin at Bootleg
Wednesday 2/17 @ Bootleg Theater
Identical sisters Chandra and Leigh Watson (aka the Watson Twins) dropped their sophomore album Talking To You, Talking To Me this...
Sonja Lyubomirsky: The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want
Wednesday 2/17 @ Book Soup
Sonja Lyubomirsky presents and signs The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want. (Note: This...
Mark Ballas w/ Asia Whiteacre and Ian Hopkinson
Wednesday 2/17 @ The Mint
Mark Ballas Ballas is a professional ballroom dancer on the ABC program Dancing with the Stars. He began...
Wednesday 2/17 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
The world-renowned Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra – an ensemble that dates back to 1743 and boasts Mendelssohn as...
Ann Mah: Kitchen Chinese: A Novel about Food, Family, and Finding Yourself
Wednesday 2/17 @ Book Soup
"[A] refreshing and fun narrative, helped along by a fantastic heroine whose insights into modern China and the expatriate experience will...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ Arclight Sherman Oaks
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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...
Andres Guerrero and Albert Reyes
Wednesday 2/17 @ Subliminal Projects
From two LA artists comes a dual exhibition about the way individuals perceive themselves and the world around them, when nothing...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/17 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Sumi Ink Club represents a new ethos in the art world, one that builds on the playful spirit of artists like...
Wednesday 2/17 @ Coast Playhouse
A "bone"-ified smash. With "organ" accompaniment. Now that that's out of the way, yes, Puppetry of the Penis is exactly what...
Wednesday 2/17 @ LAXART
Kamrooz Aram and Artemio engage in an unhinging of the standard mechanisms of image-making, challenging social norms in the process. Artemio's...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Wednesday 2/17 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ Sherman Gallery
Cannibal Flower and Thinkspace are staples of the East Side/Downtown independent art scene, favoring a certain kind of edgy, urban romanticism...
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ JAUS
Mexico City-based Anibal Catalan transforms the exterior of the Jaus house with a complex gray-scale mural referencing the incandescent wings of...
The Women of Women: The Female Form
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Wednesday 2/17 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The Los Angeles River has been having a comeback, if you can argue that it was ever popular to begin with....
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ Pantages Theatre
The story of Celie, a young black woman growing up in a minefield of abuse, racism, poverty, and deceit, who perseveres...
J. David Carlson and Michael Dotson
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/17 @ Bleicher/Golightly
The current group show at Santa Monica's Bleicher/Golightly Gallery is a celebration of misuse. Nine artists manipulate, rehabilitate, disguise, and deprive...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/17 @ Bar Copa
You know and love him as part of the erstwhile west-side club night Funky in the Middle, as well as the...
Josh Azzarella: Untitled #100 (Fantasia)
Wednesday 2/17 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Known for his video and photography manipulations of monumental news imagery, including the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center,...
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/17 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Resident DJs Tom Chasteen, Roy Corderoy, the Dungeonmaster, and Boss Harmony spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall.
Kim Rugg: Please Remain Calmand Josh Azzarella: Untitled #100 (Fantasia)
Wednesday 2/17 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 13, 5-7p On View February 13 – March 13, 2010 Featuring DJ MoreDillon...
Wednesday 2/17 @ Downtown Independent Theater
A BOY AND HIS DOG
35mm, 88 min, 1975, R
dir. L.Q. Jones
Wed Feb. 10th...
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/17 @ Downtown Independent Theater
WAITING FOR ARMAGEDDON
2009, 35mm, color, 74min
"Evangelicals need to see this movie to understand the...
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Wednesday 2/17 @ 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...
