11 am: Art

“El Alma del Pueblo: Spanish Folk Art and Its Transformation in the Americas,” the first major exhibition to explore the folk art of Spain and its impact on Latin America and the United States, opens today at the Craft and Folk Art Museum. The survey will feature more than 200 objects, including pottery, votive offerings, household saints, religious sculpture, portrait paintings and furniture.

* “El Alma del Pueblo: Spanish Folk Art and Its Transformation in the Americas,” Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, 5814 Wilshire Blvd. Ends March 31. Wednesdays-Sundays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Adults, $3.50; students and seniors, $2.50; children under 12, free. (323) 937-4230.

7:30 pm: Theater

Kathleen Chalfant reprises her acclaimed lead off-Broadway role in “Wit,” Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a brilliant English scholar who uses her fierce intellect and passion for John Donne’s poetry as allies in her battle with ovarian cancer.

* “Wit,” Geffen Playhouse, 10886 Le Conte Ave., Westwood. Tuesdays-Thursdays, 7:30 p.m.; Fridays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 4 and 8:30 p.m.; Sundays, 2 and 7 p.m.; also Feb. 9, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Ends Feb. 20. $20 to $42; except Feb. 9, 2 p.m., mezzanine seats, $25. (310) 208-5454.

8 pm: Music

It’s a night of virtuoso violinists: Returning to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, American violinist Hilary Hahn, 20, plays the Beethoven Concerto three times this week while, farther south, veteran Itzhak Perlman, 54, assisted by his longtime recital partner, pianist Janet Guggenheim, plays a recital at the Cerritos Center.

* Hilary Hahn with the L.A. Philharmonic at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown Los Angeles. 8 p.m. $10 to $70. Also, Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2:30 p.m. (323) 850-2000.

* Itzhak Perlman at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 12700 Center Court Drive, Cerritos. 8 p.m. $55 to $75. (562) 916-8510. Sold out.

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FREEBIE: Romantic comedy “If the Sun Rises in the West,” Korean Cultural Center, 5505 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. 7 p.m. In Korean with English subtitles. (323) 936-7141.