Events on Thursday, February 9
Today @ Downtown Independent Theater
Joshua Grannell is best known by his drag name, Peaches Christ, but he's also directed the darkly comic, campy horror film,...
Flash Photography: Weegee, Flash Photography, and Technological Innovation
Today @ The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Seminal photographer Weegee did the same thing in mid-20th century Los Angeles that paparazzi do today: he documented the shocking and...
A Journey into the Curious World of the Medical Museum
Today @ The Velaslavasay Panorama
New York-based historian, photographer, and designer Joanna Ebenstein is the mastermind behind Morbid Anatomy, a blog that merges the seemingly disparate...
The Hollywood Art Installation
Today @ The Hollywood Condos
LA-based artists have taken over the housing market! Claudia McCain, Guy Ellis, HK Zanami, and Tony Brown are on location and...
Today @ El Rey
Photo Finish recording artist Anthony Green has announced details of his new album, Beautiful Things. The eagerly awaited collection which follows...
Ongoing Events
Today @ Gagosian Gallery
Art lovers around the world rejoice as Gagosian Gallery presents Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings, 1986-2011, across eleven international locations...
Today @ Drago Centro
Downtown's Drago Centro has a sleek décor, featuring floor-to-ceiling windows, stone walls, and a glass wine cellar in the center of...
Today @ LACMA
While their male counterparts' focus was diverted with masturbatory hallucinations of women as objects, the female Surrealists delved freely into the...
Today @ La Sandia
La Sandia, Richard Sandoval's elegant Mexican restaurant at Santa Monica Place, offers four special month-long festivals a year, each celebrating a...
Today @ Cliff's Edge
While Cliff's Edge in Silver Lake is renowned for the excellent food served on its gorgeous terraced patio, the interior, now...
California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way
Today @ LACMA
Five years in the making, Living in a Modern Way vividly illustrates how California designers of the midcentury helped shape the...
Today @ Royal/T
Curator Amber Noland transforms Royal/T into a playground of contemporary art and imagination to inspire the next generation of artists and...
Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings
Today @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings is the first retrospective examination of Kelly’s exceedingly prolific print practice since 1988. The exhibition includes...
Civic Virtue: Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Today @ Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
The paintings, sculpture, photography, film, and other works at this dual-venue exhibition have been chosen to represent the history of two...
Today @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Documentarian Frederick Wiseman wanted to make a documentary about a nightclub, but after a trip to the Moulin Rouge put him...
The Cacophony Society Zone Show
Today @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana
The Cacophony Society Zone Show is a retrospective look at the Cacophony Society, a national collective of guerrilla artists, dada pranksters,...
Today @ Naya Sunset
"Naya," the Sanskrit word for "new," befits the new incarnation of the Silver Lake Indian restaurant previously known as Tantra. The...
Monica Nouwens and Jason Trucco
Today @ Annie Wharton Los Angeles
LA-Based Dutch photographer Monica Nouwens’ work examines the noir starkness of Los Angeles’ utopian dreams on the verge of collapse or...
Today @ Urban Masala
Urban Masala is a new casual Indian restaurant in the heart of Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Opened by three gents from...
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Today @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
During a career spanning four decades, George Harrison earned a reputation as one of rock's most talented and innovative musicians and...
Today @ Santa Monica Pier
Every step of Cirque d Soleil's new "Grand Chapiteau" is designed to enthrall L.A. From the star-laced walk (both figuratively and...
Today @ Mezze
Mezze, a Mediterranean-influenced restaurant and bar in West Hollywood, is a great place to begin an evening or indulge in a...
Today @ Salt Fine Art
Saltfineart is proud to present its most daring and intense show to date ¡CUBA! featuring 11 artists living and working within...
Civic Virtue: the Watts Towers Art Center
Today @ Watts Towers Art Center
Instead of artwork being isolated within a vacuum of the creative minds being represented, the paintings, sculpture, photography, film and other...
Today @ Palm Springs Art Museum
In conjunction with the Getty's Pacific Standard Time initiative, the Palm Springs Art Museum presents a comprehensive visual survey of swimming-pool...
Today @ ANN 330 Gallery
ANN 330 Gallery showcases this group photography show delving into the theme of saudade, a deep, melancholic sense of loss or...
Today @ Various Los Angeles theaters
Bruce Lee returns to the big screen in the Year of the Dragon! On Thursday, February 9th and Wednesday, February 15th...
Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles
Today @ The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Seminal photographer Weegee did the same thing in mid-20th century Los Angeles that paparazzi do today: he documented the shocking and...
Today @ Various LA Theatres
Haywire is a well-woven extravaganza of ass-kicking. Director Steven Soderbergh made the inspired decision to cast MMA champ Gina Carano as...
Today @ Various LA locations
Take a trip into Hollywood's Golden Age with a tour celebrating 100 years of Tinseltown. The Felix in Hollywood Tour Company...
Today @ NextSpace Culver City
After photographing celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Michael Cera, Paris Hilton, Joe Jonas, and Giada De Laurentiis, photojournalist and editorial photographer...
Today @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
The exhibition features twenty-eight photographs from [Rhona] Bitner's ongoing Listen series, a striking body of work devoted to the continued exploration...
Today @ The Getty Museum
This exhibition features photographs - made between 1945 and 1980 - from the Museum's collection that represent diverse responses to the...
Today @ Michael's Restaurant
Michael's Restaurant in Santa Monica, a much-lauded pioneer of California cuisine, has a new executive chef at the helm, John-Carlos Kuramoto....
Today @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Maximo González recycles materials such as devalued currency, vintage aluminum household items, and plastic kitchen items to create new modes of...
Today @ Greenway Court Theatre
I Love Lucy Live on Stage, a tribute to the most popular sitcom of all time, is back for a second...
Today @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Kenneth Anger is usually associated with his scandalous Hollywood Babylon oeuvre, but while the books are legendary, his filmic eye is...
Today @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
In collaboration with The Wende Museum and Archive of the Cold War, CAFAM will present Deconstructing Perestroika, the first major exhibition...
Hans Memling's Portrait of a Man, on Loan from The Frick Collection, New York
Today @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents a special installation of Hans Memling's Portrait of a Man, c. 1470–75, on loan from The...
Today @ LACMA
Metropolis II is an intense and a complex kinetic sculpture, modeled after a fast paced, frenetic modern city. Steel beams form...
Today @ The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The first large-scale survey of California art from this period, Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981 features artists working...
Obstacleism: Paintings by Farr Ligvani
Today @ Pacific Asia Museum
Born in Tehran and educated in California, Ligvani focuses his art on ideas of life and evolution. As the artist wrestled...
Today @ The Broad Stage
Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe-winner Helen Hunt stars in this groundbreaking new version of Wilder’s iconic American play. Our Town tells...
Today @ CENTRAL S.A.P.C
DANCEiSM/GottaDanceDirty present The VS (Versus) Party ft. very special guest DJs.
Today @ Pacific Asia Museum
Designed with a lunch-hour audience in mind, instructor Jill Zepezauer's instruction of Hatha yoga is uniquely accessible. Beginners always welcome!
Today @ Pacific Asia Museum
Meiji: Japan Rediscovered explores the connection of Japan and the West in the mid to late 19th century through the early...
The Original Print: An Introduction to Printmaking in the Postwar Period
Today @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents The Original Print: An Introduction to Printmaking in the Postwar Period, an exhibition that looks at...
Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings
Today @ LACMA
American artist Ellsworth Kelly is universally recognized as one of the most important purveyors of American abstraction. Born in Newburgh, New...
Auspicious Beauty: Korean Folk Painting
Today @ Pacific Asia Museum
Pacific Asia Museum is pleased to present the special exhibition Auspicious Beauty: Korean Folk Painting. Korean folk painting during the Joseon...
Today @ Skirball Cultural Center
Experience a groundbreaking new exhibition inspired by the critically acclaimed book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,...
Today @ REDCAT
Opening reception: Saturday, February 4 | 6-9pm For his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Ming Wong creates a series of...
46 N. Los Robles: A History of the Pasadena Art Museum
Today @ Pacific Asia Museum
Since 1924, the Chinese-inspiried building at 46 N. Los Robles Avenue in Pasadena has been a Southern California landmark and a...
Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California
Today @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California, an exhibition that explores the significance of printmaking...
