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February 04, 2010 - February 10, 2010

Each Week, ForYourArt highlights select cultural offerings throughout the week ahead to help you Plan ForYourArt.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4
The Never Ending Story: Fairytale, Fantasy, Obsession
Royal/T (Culver City)
6–11pm
The opening reception for an exhibition that focuses on fantasy and narrative, as inspired by different cultural traditions as well as surrealist tendencies. Curated by Laura Hoptman of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Exhibition on view until August 4. Rsvp required to rsvp@roytal-t.org.

Hammer Bash!
Hammer Museum (Westwood)
7–11pm
The closing reception for The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb's Book of Genesis, which is on view until February 7. Musical performance by Janet Klein and the Parlor Boys including Robert Armstrong and Tom Marion from The Cheap Suit Serenaders. The galleries are open late, and there is a cash bar.

Herb Alpert: Black Totems
Ace Gallery (Miracle Mile / Beverly Hills)
7:30–9pm
The opening reception for a new exhibition by Herb Alpert, whose work references the symbol and object of the totem, and focuses on its historical precedence in sculpture and ancient cultural traditions. Exhibition on view until May 25.

A Collection of Ideas: A Tribute to Howard Zinn
SMMoA (Bergamot Station)
8pm
The Santa Monica Museum of Art celebrates free speech with a screening of The People Speak, a documentary adaptation of social activist Howard Zinn's book A People's History of the United States.The evening is a tribute to Zinn, who passed away in January. This free event is sold out, but a stand-by line opens at 7pm.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5
First Fridays: The Science of Southern California
Natural History Museum (Exposition Park)
5:30–10:30pm
Every first Friday of the month, the Natural History Museums keeps its doors open late for a special series of exhibitions and programming. This evening focuses on scientific issues effecting Southern California, with a curatorial tour on a renewable energy at 5:30pm, and a discussion at 6:30pm. Musical performance by Warpaint and Yeasayer, and DJ sets continuing throughout the evening. Admission $9.

Still Robot Exhibition Discussion: Alexis Rochas and Eric Owen Moss
SCI-Arc (Downtown)
7pm
Alexis Rochas and SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss discuss Still Robot. A new configuration of the installation using the OCTA.BOT building system is on view for the discussion. Exhibition on view until March 7.

Original Plumbing #2 Release Party
Workspace (Echo Park)
7–10pm
Darin Klein and Friends celebrate the release of Original Plumbing #2, San Francisco’s trans male quarterly. The event features an exhibition of photographs by Editor-in-Chief Amos Mac, a make-your-own mustache station, and screenings of short films and videos by local artists who explore notions of queer identity and aesthetics.

Nate Page: Machine: Subject/Object/Project
Machine Project (Echo Park)
8–10pm
As research for this new installation, Nate Page spent two months following Machine Project's members as they went about their daily routines, exploring the connection between site and action. The resulting installation takes the objects from the Machine Project space and transforms them into narrative sculptural vignettes. Remaining objects are shrink-wrapped, and the staff will be forced to break through the plastic to retrieve needed materials during the project’s one-month run. On view until March 5.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6
Public Displays of Art: Echo Park Art Walk
Various venues (Echo Park)
12–6pm
The Echo Park Art Walk begins at Blue Collar Pet Supplies (1533 Echo Park Ave.) and travels through to FIX coffee shop (2100 Echo Park Ave.) and includes chain link fence galleries, driveway theaters, bike racing, performance art, live music, film screenings, food trucks, sidewalk dancing, hands on workshops, sculptures, special store promotions and other various interactive public displays of art.

Earthquake, Tsunami, Volcano: Natural Disasters and Political Change
Getty Center (Brentwood)
2pm
A lecture that explores new evidence that suggests that the eastern Mediterranean was shaped by a series of natural disasters during the Bronze Age. Archaeologist Alexander MacGillivray links the eruption of Thera (present-day Santorini) to the destruction of Minoan Crete, the rise of Mycenae and Hatshepsut's ascension to the throne of Egypt. Free, tickets required.

Mexicali Biennial Panel Discussion
Ben Maltz Gallery (Otis)
2–4pm
A panel discussion with a selection of artists and Mexicali Biennial curators. The biennial includes the work of 27 artists and collectives, working in both traditional and new media, and aims to provide a progressive platform for continual and fluent “border crossings” with exhibitions and related performances, panel discussions and events. Through March 20, check schedule for details.

Performing Public Space
La Casa del Túnel (Tijuana, Mexico)
3–7pm
Bringing the work of eleven LA-based artists and artist collectives to La Casa del Túnel, Tijuana, Performing Public Space presents new performances and artworks alongside growing archives of ‘non-art’ actions documented on the streets, parks and plazas of Los Angeles and Tijuana. Runs through March 21.

Ilán Lieberman: Dream Works; Tim Sullivan: His Master's Voice
Steve Turner Contemporary (Miracle Mile)
6–8pm
The opening reception for two new exhibitions. Ilán Lieberman, a Mexico-City based artist, debuts new work that illustrates the artist's experimentation with ESP, with the drawings recreating the imagery he conjured during this process. Tim Sullivan has created several large phonographic-photographic discs on which he has recorded modified versions of various California pop anthems. Exhibitions on view until March 13.

Territories: Left of Center
Luckman Gallery (CalState LA)
6–8pm
The opening reception for an exhibition that elaborates on philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin's claim that "to live is to leave traces." The featured artists respond, in diverse ways, to institutional hierarchies, materiality and transience. On view until March 27.

A Man Asleep
LM Projects (Downtown)
6–8pm
The opening reception for a group exhibition that celebrates the connection between art and literature, with a focus on Georges Perec’s "A Man Asleep," which details one man’s slow withdrawal from the world around him. The artists involved offer different takes on the act of disengagement. Exhibition on view until March 13.

La Vie En Rose: Annual Benefit Auction
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (Santa Barbara)
8pm
CAF’s annual auction supports its artist programs. The space is transformed into a French-inspired lounge, and includes a special exhibition, wine and food, a fashion show, music and an auction of fine art and luxury goods. Tickets begin at $75.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7
Slavs and Tatars
Ooga Booga (Downtown)
12–5pm
Last chance to see Slavs and Tartars, an artists collective devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia, who redeem an oft-forgotten, romantic sphere of influence between Slavs, Caucasians and Central Asians. The exhibition of their printed matter closes February 7.

EATLACMA
LACMA (Miracle Mile)
12pm
Artist collective Fallen Fruit kicks off a yearlong project, EATLACMA, with a fruit tree giveaway. Come pick up a free fruit tree along with planting instructions for your garden. This is the first in a series of events, which will include an exhibition, opening in June, and a series of food-related events throughout the year. The project is an investigation into food, art, culture and politics.

Art Talk: Folly–The View from Nowhere
MOCA Pacific Design Center (West Hollywood)
3pm
Dr. Paulette Singley, professor in the School of Architecture at Woodbury University, discusses Folly—A View from Nowhere. Free and open to the public.

Hollis Frampton Retrospective
Los Angeles Film Forum at the Egyptian Theatre (Hollywood)
7:30pm
CIRCLES OF CONFUSION, a joint project between the Los Angeles Film Forum and Khastoo Gallery, is a retrospective screening of films by Hollis Frampton, with guest scholars and artists at each program to discuss his works and their influence on later artists. The fifth screening of the series includes Gloria! and Zorns Lemma, with an introduction by David James.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9
Toonstruck: Cartoons in Love
Cinefamily (Fairfax)
8pm
Animation historian Jerry Beck opens the film vault and presents a collection of love-obsessed cartoon classics – from the sex-starved Pepe LePew, to Tex Avery’s luscious Red Riding Hood. The program features rare 35mm and 16mm Technicolor film prints. Tickets $13.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10
Let’s Talk Art
Angles Gallery (Culver City)
7pm
A panel and Town Hall event moderated by Marc Richards, with Dean Valentine, Sara Watson and audience participation, on the state of the contemporary art market in Los Angeles, how the arts have changed in the past decade, art patronage and art branding. Tickets $10, admission benefits LAXART.

The Wooster Group: North Atlantic
REDCAT (Downtown)
8:30pm
North Atlantic takes a satiric look at the role of the military and the growing influence of technology in American culture during the late Cold War period. On view until February 21.