Events on Wednesday, February 3
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Savoy Entertainment Center
The monthly Flypoet Spoken Word and Music Showcase exposes underground spoken-word artists to mainstream audiences, giving both crowds and poets alike...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Egyptian Theatre
'80s ladies and cult-film stars converge at tonight's sneak-preview screening of Stuck!, a campy celluloid tribute to women's prison movies. Susan...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Fais Do Do
Although Telepath make music that's inspired by West African, Middle Eastern, and Indian forces, don't apply that deadly "World Music" label...
Bruce Eric Kaplan: I Love You, I Hate You, I'm Hungry
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Book Soup
Bruce Eric Kaplan presents and signs I Love You, I Hate You, I'm Hungry. This is a new collection of...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ The Cinefamily
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Whenever we hear "flapper girl", we all think of the head-turningly beautiful, wise-cracking Jazz Age lass...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
A multi-media production that interleaves the birth of modern astronomy (including video projections) with a broad overview...
Waiting for the Messiah (Esperando al Mesías)
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Ariel (Daniel Hendler) lives in the predominately Jewish quarter of Buenos Aires. His path seems clear: marriage to his girlfriend and...
Red Cortez w/ The VLA, Alex Kemp and Shane Walsh at Bootleg
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Bootleg Theater
RED CORTEZ "They are cut from a cloth that embraces the free-thinking spirit of 60s, via San Francisco and Woodstock. They...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ LAXART
Kamrooz Aram and Artemio engage in an unhinging of the standard mechanisms of image-making, challenging social norms in the process. Artemio's...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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,...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Hammer Museum
R. Crumb's interpretation of the Book of Genesis is at once disturbing, sacrilegious, violent, and debauched, but paired with a holy...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ JAUS
Mexico City-based Anibal Catalan transforms the exterior of the Jaus house with a complex gray-scale mural referencing the incandescent wings of...
Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber, Inc.
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ The Hotel Café
The ethereal Chapin Sisters continue their once-a-month residency at the Hotel Café. With a background as compelling as its sound, the...
The Women of Women: The Female Form
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
J. David Carlson and Michael Dotson
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Little Temple
Disco is the thing, Los Angeles, and The Feel Up, the monthly offering from LA imprint Headinghome Recordings and darling newcomer...
Allison Schulnik: Home for Hobo
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ REDCAT
Unfettered by a male-dominated Asian art scene, Everyday Miracles (Extended) — an offshoot of the Everyday Miracles that debuted at the...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
The Best of Loop: Remote Viewing
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ New Image Art
Writing in her seminal essay collection On Photography, art and media critic Susan Sontag was adamant concerning the inherent differences women...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
