Events on Saturday, November 17
Saturday 11/17 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Those who label LA as a metropolis devoid of history haven't explored the city's graffiti-soaked ghettos. This afternoon's book launch at...
Saturday 11/17 @ Bordello Bar
Garden State guitarist and singer Jenny Owen Youngs writes about whiskey hangovers with a weary yet deceptively angelic voice. Listen to...
Saturday 11/17 @ Boardner's
Sad to see Halloween come and go so quick? Don't worry, there's no need to put those fake bloody fangs and...
Saturday 11/17 @ 7 Dudley Cinema at Sponto Gallery
In the 17th incarnation of "the haiku of cinema," video artists from around the globe converge on Venice's 7 Dudley Cinema...
Hit+Run Two-Year Anniversary Party
Saturday 11/17 @ Crash Mansion LA
Growing out of the small silk-screening parties Brandy Flower and Mike Crivello used to throw at their SoCal pads, Hit+Run quickly...
Curtis Harrington and Kenneth Anger
Saturday 11/17 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Indie filmmaking in the US started long before Sundance. Two of its avant-garde originators, Curtis Harrington and Kenneth Anger, are finally...
Saturday 11/17 @ Avalon Hollywood
Avalon celebrates four years of hosting world-class DJs with a rare LA set from French techno producer/DJ Laurent Garnier. His legendary...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
Sandow Birk's Depravities of War examines its titular subject's social, political, and aesthetic constructs. Birk's precursor was 17th-century printmaker Jacques Callot,...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ LAXART
A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ The Lost Studio
Given the topsy-turvy nature of current geopolitics, the idea of a global conflict being instigated by a cabal of petty, puerile...
Saturday 11/17 @ Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College
Following the DIY aesthetic to a T, Sharon Kagan, Lana Shuttleworth, and Leslie Yagar, collectively known as the ladies of PiNK...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ 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...
Clayton Murdach and Travis Somerville
Saturday 11/17 @ delete
This exhibition unites two like-minded artists whose work addresses the unstoppable decline of American society. Clayton Murdach manipulates a bevy of...
Saturday 11/17 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
East meets West (coast, that is) in this exhibition of 14 NYC-based up-and-comers. Independent curator and New York gallerist Amy Smith-Stewart...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ Milo Gallery
Don't call Joan Tucker another Rothko wannabe. While her exploratory, painterly abstractions are obviously influenced by the forefathers of abstract expressionism,...
Saturday 11/17 @ Brickhouse Kitchen
Poet, artist, and amateur Buddhist Milo Martin claims to "write what I can't paint, and paint what I can't write," so...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ Lightbox Gallery
Kim Dingle has a knack for turning the innocent into the disturbing. Clownish kids getting their faces stuck in garish cakes...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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,...
Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
Saturday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
For Ellen de Meutter's first US solo exhibition, the Belgian painter displays her signature childlike aesthetic, juxtaposing bright, expressionist imagery with...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ DF2
While French artist Mathieu Briand is best known for his ambitious sound installations, with UBÏQ: A Mental Odyssey, he takes things...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ New Beverly Cinema
Muppet-man Jim Henson's final film, Labyrinth, and Ridley Scott's splashy Legend are fetching fantasies fashioned in the old style. Inventive netherworlds...
Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann
Saturday 11/17 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Three newcomers to the LA art scene — Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann — open individual mini-exhibitions tonight at...
Saturday 11/17 @ See Line Gallery
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
Mark Mothersbaugh, the DEVO diva-turned-soundtrack composer, designs rugs the way David Byrne designs chairs — as humorous objects, not items of...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ New Image Art
Bay Area artist Alex Kopps' undeniably beautiful work has been endorsed by Target, Home Depot, and Taco Bell — but don't...
Saturday 11/17 @ High Energy Constructs
California native Mark Dutcher utilizes Shakespeare as a thematic backdrop, adding a tinge of the macabre to his lavish, effervescent paintings...
Eric Tucker & Rae Scarton: Exit East
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
Saturday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ 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...
Saturday 11/17 @ Laemmle's Music Hall 3
Ever cruised down the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, found yourself surrounded by a crowd of grown men and women dressed...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ Gallery C
Hyperrealist painter Kenny Harris showcases his recent paintings inspired by a trip to South America. While Harris' interiors hardly show direct...
Ashley McLean Emenegger & Paul Pitsker: You Are Here
Saturday 11/17 @ Bandini Art
Inspired by the groundbreaking mixed-media assemblages of Betye Saar and Joseph Cornell, Ashley McLean Emenegger explores themes of masculinity and femininity...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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...
Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario
Saturday 11/17 @ Richard Heller Gallery
LA painter Jacob Magraw's gouache-on-paper works are improvisational landscapes composed of layers of Skittles-worthy colors. His latest batch of works at...
Saturday 11/17 @ Egyptian Theatre
In this festival's sixth edition, the burgeoning cinematic breadth of Buenos Aires and beyond is on display. Hot-topic showpiece XXY portrays...
Barry McGee: Advanced Mature Work
Saturday 11/17 @ REDCAT
Barry McGee (aka San Fran street scriber Twist) has created everything from a demolition derby (complete with cars featuring his painting)...
Saturday 11/17 @ 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 11/17 @ Various locations
It's been nearly four years since desertification precipitated a tragic conflict in Sudan. According to some estimates, to date as many...
