Events on Saturday, February 6
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Various Echo Park locations
One of LA's relatively few pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods, Echo Park is also full of artists, musicians, and other adventurous creative types. Now,...
Fallen Fruit: Plant the Perimeter Fruit Tree Giveaway
Saturday 2/ 6 @ LACMA
What began as the mapping of fruit trees in LA neighborhoods grew into Fallen Fruit, a full-fledged activist art project and...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ El Cid
Eric Duncan aka Dr. Dunks is one half of the DJ and production duo every LA/NYC party-goer knows: Rub-N-Tug. Known for...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Amoeba Records
Fingering through Amoeba’s vintage poster collection gives a good indication of the kind of gems to be auctioned off during this...
Wagatail Presents: The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey w/ Jeremy Sole
Saturday 2/ 6 @ The Mint
8:30pm Doors 9pm Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey (Set 1) 10:45pm Jeremy Sole's MUSAICS 12am Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey (Set 2)...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Book Soup
"First published in 1859, Our Nig is an autobiographical narrative that stands as one of the most important accounts of the...
Larry Goldings w/ Obi Best at Bootleg
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Bootleg Theater
LARRY GOLDINGS With his signature Hammond organ style and versatility on many keyboards, Boston native Larry Goldings has traversed not only...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ LACMA
One of Italy's most highly regarded directors, Bellocchio was dubbed a master of "baroque" filmmaking in the mid-sixties with his first...
Repast: Music from Rembrandt's Amsterdam
Saturday 2/ 6 @ The Getty Museum
Hailed by the New York Times as a "graceful, energetic ensemble," Repast delves into its masterful repertoire of the Baroque era...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Special event: One night only
Thom Hartmann, Robert Greenwald and Anand Gopal take YOUR questions on Afghanistan.
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Bad Biology w/ director Frank Henenlotter in person
Saturday 2/ 6 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW CLIP Basket Case director Frank Henenlotter, the Terence Malick of trash cinema, finally returns to the big screen with...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ The Cinefamily
View Clip Daisies is a bubbling and buoyant spring of irrepressible female creativity; it is an overflowing audio-visual bouquet of...
Ongoing Events
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Art/Works Theatre
In the tradition of Paris' Theatre du Grand Guignol, LA's Grand Guignolers combine macabre storytelling with delightful performances. This time, the...
Andres Guerrero and Albert Reyes
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Subliminal Projects
From two LA artists comes a dual exhibition about the way individuals perceive themselves and the world around them, when nothing...
The Women of Women: The Female Form
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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....
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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"...
Allison Schulnik: Home for Hobo
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ The Broad Stage at Santa Monica College
Master puppeteer Basil Twist follows up on his recent success of Arias With a Twist, staging his own quirky version of...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ REDCAT
Unfettered by a male-dominated Asian art scene, Everyday Miracles (Extended) — an offshoot of the Everyday Miracles that debuted at the...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Arclight Sherman Oaks
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ HAUS
Surname challenged collaborative art duo Jeff & Gordon—aka Jeff Foye and Gordon Winiemko—push the boundaries between public and personal at HAUS,...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Sam Lee Gallery
Remote warfare, military drones, and other robotic tools of destruction used to be the stuff of science fiction novels but now...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Hammer Museum
R. Crumb's interpretation of the Book of Genesis is at once disturbing, sacrilegious, violent, and debauched, but paired with a holy...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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,...
J. David Carlson and Michael Dotson
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ JAUS
Mexico City-based Anibal Catalan transforms the exterior of the Jaus house with a complex gray-scale mural referencing the incandescent wings of...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ LACMA
Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ New Image Art
Writing in her seminal essay collection On Photography, art and media critic Susan Sontag was adamant concerning the inherent differences women...
Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber, Inc.
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Historic Downtown Walking Tour
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The tour explores the social, cinematic, and architectural history of the largest National Register Historic Theatre Districts in the country. The...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Eminent veteran conductor Herbert Blomstedt was music director of the San Francisco Symphony for 10 years, during which he led the...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ 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/ 6 @ Cinespace
Saturday nights at Cinespace is the place to be for dancing and drinks on Hollywood Boulevard. Join us for the city's...
