Events on Saturday, November 10
Saturday 11/10 @ Writing Pad
Gay men are encouraged to "come out of that writing closet" for the Writing Pad's Queer Writing Brunch, to flex their...
Saturday 11/10 @ The Hotel Café
The life of a musician is hard, but few artists share the struggles of Coby Brown. The Boston indie singer/songwriter (now...
Future Cars and the Environment
Saturday 11/10 @ Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
From "Little Red Corvette" to fun on the "Autobahn," the car is the harbinger of Cool, especially when it comes to...
The Swell Season w/ Martha Wainwright
Saturday 11/10 @ The Wiltern
Those who witnessed Martha Wainwright at Rufus Wainwright's Hollywood Bowl Judy Garland spectacle this summer saw a star stepping out from...
Saturday 11/10 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Dominated by the sentiment that Africa is undeniably wild and sexy, the paintings in Natalia Fabia's new show Hooker Safari invoke...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 11/10 @ Bert Green Fine Art
Clive Barker is known for creating some pretty frightening characters — Candyman, Pinhead, and the army of monsters in Nightbreed. The...
Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin
Saturday 11/10 @ Applegate Gallery
Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin's paintings and collages radiate pop sensibility: McClure's all-too-lovely works layer nostalgic imagery and text, while...
Saturday 11/10 @ Pomona College Museum of Art
Victor Hugo once said that, in contrast to the sublime, the grotesque is the richest material that nature can offer art....
Saturday 11/10 @ Chung King Project
Born in Germany and raised in Iraq, Peter Rösel is now a devotee of the whisperings of desert mirages. Rösel's sparse,...
Saturday 11/10 @ Ruth Bachofner Gallery
Ironically, LA-based Jennifer Faist uses one of the most labor-intensive, obsessive processes imaginable to create serene, harmonious, and even poetic monochromes....
Saturday 11/10 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Saturday 11/10 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Internationally acclaimed, Berkeley-based artist Brendan Monroe returns to Richard Heller Gallery — one of the West Side's premier sources of contemporary...
Saturday 11/10 @ The Lab 101 Gallery
Culver City's Lab 101 celebrates its third year in LA's newest international art-world hub with a show that, appropriately enough, features...
Saturday 11/10 @ Lightbox Gallery
Kim Dingle has a knack for turning the innocent into the disturbing. Clownish kids getting their faces stuck in garish cakes...
Saturday 11/10 @ Various locations
It's been nearly four years since desertification precipitated a tragic conflict in Sudan. According to some estimates, to date as many...
Saturday 11/10 @ Black Maria Gallery
There's a lot more to punk than style — after all, safety pins and mohawks were really just window dressing to...
Saturday 11/10 @ Western Project
Carole Caroompas' fantastically imaginative paintings and drawings are a melting pot of pop-culture imagery. For Caroompas' latest collection at Western Project,...
Saturday 11/10 @ De Soto Gallery
If LA-based video artist Pascual Sisto had been born a century earlier, he and Salvador Dalí would have been best buds....
Saturday 11/10 @ Sandroni Rey
From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her...
Saturday 11/10 @ Robert Berman Gallery
Marischa Slusarski's paintings would be at home in Bosch's nursery school. Her strange, surreal landscapes — full of hideously adorable babies...
Saturday 11/10 @ Brickhouse Kitchen
As part of its ongoing series of exhibitions spotlighting Venice Beach's legendarily talented denizens, the Brickhouse Kitchen welcomes Monica Martinez and...
Ashley McLean Emenegger & Paul Pitsker: You Are Here
Saturday 11/10 @ Bandini Art
Inspired by the groundbreaking mixed-media assemblages of Betye Saar and Joseph Cornell, Ashley McLean Emenegger explores themes of masculinity and femininity...
Eric Tucker & Rae Scarton: Exit East
Saturday 11/10 @ Commissary Arts
Eric Tucker and Rae Scarton's Exit East explores the transformation of the Inland Empire with large-format color prints that pay special...
Saturday 11/10 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Los Angeles' own Camille Rose Garcia isn't just part of the hot "lowbrow" urban-art movement — she's a key player. Her...
Shona Macdonald: SHIFT & Heimir Björgúlfsson: Allure Gone Buffalo
Saturday 11/10 @ d.e.n. contemporary art
Aberdeen-born Shona Macdonald's delicate gouache, silverpoint, and graphite works, exhibited in d.e.n.'s main gallery, comment on the endless order and routine...
Saturday 11/10 @ Various locations
Steal a Pencil for Me is the improbable-but-true documentary about the love affair conducted between two prisoners of a Nazi concentration...
Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
Saturday 11/10 @ DCA Fine Art
Alejandro Gehry may be the son of uber-architect Frank, but it's his co-exhibitor, Brian Biedul, whose work really focuses on spatiality....
Saturday 11/10 @ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling is MCASD's response to MOCA's 2005 exhibition Visual Music, a survey of the influence and/or direct...
Saturday 11/10 @ DF2
While French artist Mathieu Briand is best known for his ambitious sound installations, with UBÏQ: A Mental Odyssey, he takes things...
Saturday 11/10 @ Los Angeles Public Library: Central Library
Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else —...
Saturday 11/10 @ See Line Gallery
Saturday 11/10 @ Egyptian Theatre
In the oft-vapid world of
Saturday 11/10 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
The modest Canadian artist known as Labrona considers himself to be "just a guy... [who] doesn't want a regular nine-to-five" —...
Saturday 11/10 @ High Energy Constructs
California native Mark Dutcher utilizes Shakespeare as a thematic backdrop, adding a tinge of the macabre to his lavish, effervescent paintings...
Saturday 11/10 @ Various locations
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That,...
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
Saturday 11/10 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
One of three new exhibitions on view this fall at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, vinyl-obsessed group show Beyond Ultraman...
Saturday 11/10 @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
The humorous, poignant, and technically impressive paintings, drawings, and prints by Nicole Eisenman at Vielmetter Projects are neatly explained by the...
Clayton Murdach and Travis Somerville
Saturday 11/10 @ delete
This exhibition unites two like-minded artists whose work addresses the unstoppable decline of American society. Clayton Murdach manipulates a bevy of...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Saturday 11/10 @ Materials & Applications
Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore...
Susan Silton: The Day, the Earth
Saturday 11/10 @ SolwayJones Gallery
Susan Silton's latest photography project packs centuries of history and cultural politics into what many think of as a lowly design...
Saturday 11/10 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Saturday 11/10 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
Without question, Pina Bausch has exerted profound influence on contemporary dance, developing the medium of dance-theatre by incorporating dramatic sets and...
Saturday 11/10 @ La Luz de Jesus
Custo, Nike, Honda, and others have tapped Barcelona-based illustration sensation Catalina Estrada’s super-stylized imagery. Mark Todd, influenced by comic book artist...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Saturday 11/10 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California...
Barry McGee: Advanced Mature Work
Saturday 11/10 @ REDCAT
Barry McGee (aka San Fran street scriber Twist) has created everything from a demolition derby (complete with cars featuring his painting)...
Saturday 11/10 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Curator Melissa Levin has gathered six New York-based artists whose work focuses on the nature of consumables. While the duo of...
Saturday 11/10 @ SAE Institute of Technology
Remix magazine's Remix Hotel decamps to LA this weekend for three full days of mind-expanding panels, workshops, afterparties, free tunes, and...
Fumiko Amano: Heian Dream Series & Art Weeks: God Only Knows (what I'd be without you)
Saturday 11/10 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Fumiko Amano's saturated palettes, thick color fields, and raw patterns have an intensely serene and meditative physicality. Offering a powerful counterpoint,...
Kim Rugg: Don't Mention the War
Saturday 11/10 @ Mark Moore Gallery
British artist Kim Rugg distills printed objects to their barest essentials by cutting them up and reconfiguring. For her well-known newspaper...
Saturday 11/10 @ Christopher Grimes Gallery
Anton Henning's loopy abstractions, painterly portraits, and grandiose furniture are loveable yet curiously familiar. Consuming broad swathes of modernism from Manet...
Saturday 11/10 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
The theme of unlearning is an essential aspect in BLK/MRKT gallery owner Dave Kinsey's art. As a result, his multi-medium portraits...
Saturday 11/10 @ Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz
Montreal-based choreographers Bill Coleman and Laurence Lemieux introduce their company to Los Angeles, presenting a program highlighting the work of former...
Saturday 11/10 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François...
