Events on Saturday, February 20
Conspiracy of Beards: Leonard Cohen Choral Tribute
Saturday 2/20 @ The Mint
Cohen as Doo-Wop? The masterful Leonard Cohen, legendary folk icon and Canadian poet, is further immortalized by San Francisco's Conspiracy of...
Fanfarlo w/ April Smith & the Great Picture Show
Saturday 2/20 @ El Rey
Fanfarlo has been on our radar since their 2006 single "Talking Backwards." Now internationally touring on the tail of their long-anticipated...
GUTTED: LACE's Annual Winter Benefit
Saturday 2/20 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Ever the pioneering art force, LACE hosts its annual winter benefit this evening with curator Dino Dinco at the helm. For...
Saturday 2/20 @ Book Soup
With internet food reviews a dime a dozen, why should anyone be interested in a $10 print book on Los Angeles...
Saturday 2/20 @ Club Nokia
For the producers and creatives behind Brazilian Nites, every day is a kind of carnaval, but once a year, the whole...
Saturday 2/20 @ The Renaissance Hollywood Hotel
Over 20 bakeries from LA to the OC converge at the Renaissance Hollywood to compete in the highly-anticipated 2010 Cupcake Challenge....
Saturday 2/20 @ SCI-Arc
Taking its name from a Japanese phrase meaning "the sound of conversation," Tokyo-based, globally-replicated PechaKucha fosters conversations between progress-minded innovators in...
Saturday 2/20 @ The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
LA's own sonic expressionists Lucky Dragons, the art-experimental duo whose finest work blends audience participation with blossoming fractals of melody and...
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: The Scandalous Bob
Saturday 2/20 @ Egyptian Theatre
Co-presented with the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: "The Bob" The turbulent years from the mid-1910s...
Saturday 2/20 @ LACMA
In this dark, violent film—a primal morality tale in the form of a classic Western —a prostitute, angered by the release...
Matisse, Picasso and Beyond: How Portraiture Survived Modernism
Saturday 2/20 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
In the early 20th century, portraiture took on an important role among the avant-garde, partly because its scope was restricted to...
Weekend Series: White Hunter, Black Heart
Saturday 2/20 @ LACMA
Lit. Crawl: 4 Bars, 3 Authors, 1 Night
Saturday 2/20 @ Book Soup
4 Bars:
Malo Cantina
Tiki Ti
Good Luck Bar
4100 Bar 3 Authors:
Aimee Bender
...
Saturday 2/20 @ Book Soup
Based on a true story, Arthur Japin's new novel is a tale of consuming love and artistic creation that reimagines the...
Future Skate double feature: Prayer of the Rollerboys (w/ director in person) and Solarbabies
Saturday 2/20 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW CLIP Imagine a world decades into the future. What advanced technologies will remain in the wake of our economic collapse?...
Saturday 2/20 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW CLIP "Marketa Lazarova is without a doubt the best historical film ever made anywhere." -Film Quarterly "...the most convincing...
The Entrance Band w/ Lights and Pocahaunted at Bootleg
Saturday 2/20 @ Bootleg Theater
THE ENTRANCE BAND “Their music creates the feeling that something fresh and powerful is afoot. A potent mix of political mindedness...
Ongoing Events
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Saturday 2/20 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Saturday 2/20 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Saturday 2/20 @ Espace DbD / Rachel Rosenthal Co.
Having recently celebrated her 83rd birthday with an all-out party, art show, and silent auction, LA-based performance artist Rachel Rosenthal shows...
Andres Guerrero and Albert Reyes
Saturday 2/20 @ Subliminal Projects
From two LA artists comes a dual exhibition about the way individuals perceive themselves and the world around them, when nothing...
Saturday 2/20 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Saturday 2/20 @ Pantages Theatre
The story of Celie, a young black woman growing up in a minefield of abuse, racism, poverty, and deceit, who perseveres...
Saturday 2/20 @ LeBasse Projects
Yoshitaka Amano is something of a living legend in his native Japan, being one of the most influential and prolific artists,...
Saturday 2/20 @ JAUS
Mexico City-based Anibal Catalan transforms the exterior of the Jaus house with a complex gray-scale mural referencing the incandescent wings of...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Saturday 2/20 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Saturday 2/20 @ Fremont Centre Theatre, 1000 Fremont Ave., South Pasadena, CA 91030
The musical 2116, originally written 55 years ago by legendary author Ray Bradbury, is only now finally seeing its debut, and...
Saturday 2/20 @ The London Hotel West Hollywood
Always wanted to be on Hell's Kitchen, but lack the cooking skills? Well, now is your chance to gain the experience (sans...
Saturday 2/20 @ LAXART
Kamrooz Aram and Artemio engage in an unhinging of the standard mechanisms of image-making, challenging social norms in the process. Artemio's...
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Saturday 2/20 @ Alpert Jewish Community Center
Billed by its organizers as the "Jewish Coachella," but with an ever so slightly more professional and civic focus in addition...
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Saturday 2/20 @ Sam Lee Gallery
Remote warfare, military drones, and other robotic tools of destruction used to be the stuff of science fiction novels but now...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Saturday 2/20 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Saturday 2/20 @ The Fountain Theatre
In a modern-day California gothic tale worthy of something by Raymond Chandler, John Fante, Charles Bukowski, or James Ellroy, the longtime...
The Women of Women: The Female Form
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Saturday 2/20 @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Known for putting theatre up in unique locations, Ovation Award-winning Chalk Repertory Theatre is set to bring cross-dressing, mistaken identity, general...
Saturday 2/20 @ Sherman Gallery
Cannibal Flower and Thinkspace are staples of the East Side/Downtown independent art scene, favoring a certain kind of edgy, urban romanticism...
Saturday 2/20 @ Various Hollywood locations
Co-produced by Neil Patrick Harris and Tom Salamon, Accomplice: Hollywood sends teams of intrepid folks along Hollywood Boulevard and its environs...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
J. David Carlson and Michael Dotson
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Saturday 2/20 @ Synchronicity Space
Just in time for Valentine's Day, LA-based art and music collective Heard of Elephants participates in a two-week residency at Synchronicity...
Portraiture for the Silicon Enlightenment
Saturday 2/20 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Curated by Angela Dufresne, the Fuckheads group show features artists who challenge traditional ways of seeing, moving away from portraiture aligned...
Saturday 2/20 @ Arclight Sherman Oaks
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Saturday 2/20 @ 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....
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Saturday 2/20 @ Edgemar Center for the Arts
Henry Jaglom's father was a wealthy Russian businessman, and one of the few Jews Heinrich Himmler offered make an "honorary Aryan"...
Josh Azzarella: Untitled #100 (Fantasia)
Saturday 2/20 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/20 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Saturday 2/20 @ La Luz de Jesus
Multimedia artist, photographer, and journalist Ruby Ray may not be a household name, but with a body of work like hers,...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Saturday 2/20 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Art Deco tour is an in-depth look at the history, materials, and style of Art Deco architecture popular in Los...
Saturday 2/20 @ Art Center College of Design
Four Pasadena homes and their art treasurers will be on tour for a special two-day fundraising event as part of Art...
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Saturday 2/20 @ Cinespace
Saturday nights at Cinespace is the place to be for dancing and drinks on Hollywood Boulevard. Join us for the city's...
Kim Rugg: Please Remain Calmand Josh Azzarella: Untitled #100 (Fantasia)
Saturday 2/20 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 13, 5-7p On View February 13 – March 13, 2010 Featuring DJ MoreDillon...
Experience Art Center at Night
Saturday 2/20 @ Art Center College of Design
Experience Art Center at Night is the perfect opportunity to get better acquainted with the creative and educational possibilities...
Saturday 2/20 @ Downtown Independent Theater
A self-confessed war profiteer, Fidelis Cloer always had an on eye on growth opportunities and found the perfect war when the...
Historic Downtown Walking Tour
Saturday 2/20 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Historic Downtown tour provides an overview of the historical and cultural landmarks of downtown Los Angeles. Covering a wide range...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
Broadway: Historic Theatre and Commercial District Walking Tour
Saturday 2/20 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The tour explores the social, cinematic, and architectural history of the largest National Register Historic Theatre Districts in the country. The...
Dutoit Conducts Ravel and Stravinsky
Saturday 2/20 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Older brother of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, Paul was a concert pianist until he lost his right arm...
Saturday 2/20 @ Egyptian Theatre
THE HURT LOCKER, 2009, Summit Entertainment, 131 min. Acclaimed director Kathryn Bigelow brings together realistic action and intimate human drama in...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Saturday 2/20 @ 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
Saturday 2/20 @ 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...
