Events on Tuesday, February 2
Tenacious D and Friends: Stand with Haiti Benefit
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ The Wiltern
Whether they wake up this morning feeling like guitar gods, rock stars, standup comedians, actors, social commentators, or just hung-over as...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ Book Soup
Book Soup welcomes the Prince of Darkness tonight, and we don't mean the devil, or even Michael Eisner, but rather Black...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ LACMA
A tough-minded widower and Korean War vet sets out to reform the teenager who tries to steal his prized sports...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ Skirball Cultural Center
In 1964, St. Augustine, Florida became a civil rights battleground when protesters demonstrated to demand the integration of a hotel swimming...
Green Umbrella: Maxwell Davies and Schoenberg
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
English composer and conductor Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (born 1934) is currently Master of the Queen's...
Ongoing Events
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ Hammer Museum
R. Crumb's interpretation of the Book of Genesis is at once disturbing, sacrilegious, violent, and debauched, but paired with a holy...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Cowboy, Indian, and Horse wreak havoc in this slapstick stop-motion animation film, based on a cult Belgian TV series distributed by...
Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber, Inc.
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Members of Winnipeg's Royal Art Lodge, a prolific and cheeky artists collective which disbanded in 2008, this pair of artistic co-conspirators...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
Owen Smith's use of archetypal characters such as the boxer taking a blow in the ring, men working high in the...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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...
J. David Carlson and Michael Dotson
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Allison Schulnik: Home for Hobo
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Using claymation techniques and heavy impasto to achieve a hyper-visceral effect, artist Allison Schulnik's series Home for Hobo is striking portraiture...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ Circus Gallery
Curated by Emma Gray and mischievously inspired by an '80s New Age guru's best-selling self-help book, You Can Heal Your Life...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside
Twenty international artists who explore human interaction with domesticated, imaginary, laboratory, or wild animals contribute work in media from video installation...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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 Best of Loop: Remote Viewing
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ Pacific Design Center
Curated by Art Cinema author Paul Young, The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing examines the span of contemporary global video art,...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ The Garter Lounge
A sure shot for anyone and a low-key place to let loose on a school night, Takeover Tuesdays attracts a friendly...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ REDCAT
Unfettered by a male-dominated Asian art scene, Everyday Miracles (Extended) — an offshoot of the Everyday Miracles that debuted at the...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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,...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ Arclight Sherman Oaks
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ Club Nokia
For many of us, Pee-wee Herman has been a demented-yet-diverting fixture of youth. The architect of such childhood classics as Pee-wee's...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ LAXART
Kamrooz Aram and Artemio engage in an unhinging of the standard mechanisms of image-making, challenging social norms in the process. Artemio's...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ LACMA
Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:...
Ferraby Lionheart February Residency at Bootleg
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ Bootleg Theater
FERRABY LIONHEART Los Angeles folk-pop singer/songwriter Ferraby Lionheart was born in Nashville, TN, and his musical influences range from Shel Silverstein...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 2 @ 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...
