Events on Saturday, November 24

<I>Truxtapoz</i>

Art

Truxtapoz

Saturday 11/24 @ Meltdown Comics

International skate culture tackles a new medium at Truxtapoz, as 20 international artists make their personal marks on skate trucks. Usually... 

Banyan feat. Norton Wisdom w/ Magic Box and Trees for Treehouses

Music

Banyan feat. Norton Wisdom

Saturday 11/24 @ Malibu Inn

Back in the proto-alternative '80s, 18-year-old Stephen Perkins played drums in a little hard-rock band called Jane's Addiction. The '90s ensued,... 

<I>Monty Python and the Holy Grail</i> (1975) & <I>Life of Brian</i> (1979)

Film

Monty Python Double Feature

Saturday 11/24 @ Aero Theatre

Decades after the group's inception, Monty Python still sets the benchmark for comedic irreverence and invention, leaving little breathing room between... 

Claude VonStroke w/ Matthew Dear

Music: DJ

Claude VonStroke w/ Matthew Dear

Saturday 11/24 @ Avalon Hollywood

Much has been made of Matthew Dear's recent shape-shift from minimal techno artiste to inscrutable, loved-up pop vocalist — but really,... 

Dead Bird Movement: <I>Entry by Entrance</i>

Dance

Dead Bird Movement

Saturday 11/24 @ eighteen-thirty

Dead Bird Movement is quickly gaining acclaim in the dance world for its contortionist choreography. The Seattle-based company brings its latest... 

Ongoing Events

Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: <i>Raw Space</i>

Art

Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space

Saturday 11/24 @ 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.... 

Nicole Eisenman: <I>A Show Born of Fear</i>

Art

Nicole Eisenman

Saturday 11/24 @ 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... 

Sandow Birk: <I>Depravities of War</i>

Art

Sandow Birk

Saturday 11/24 @ 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,... 

Pascual Sisto: <I>Everything Must Go</i>

Art

Pascual Sisto

Saturday 11/24 @ 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.... 

Kenny Harris: <I>New Paintings</i> and Roland Reiss: <I>Onshore Flow</i>

Art

Kenny Harris and Roland Reiss

Saturday 11/24 @ Gallery C

Hyperrealist painter Kenny Harris showcases his recent paintings inspired by a trip to South America. While Harris' interiors hardly show direct... 

Victor Burgin: <I>The Little House</i>

Art

Victor Burgin

Saturday 11/24 @ 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... 

Anton Henning: <I>Welcome, delicious ideas!</I>

Art

Anton Henning

Saturday 11/24 @ 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... 

<I>Grand Delusion</i>

Theatre

Grand Delusion

Saturday 11/24 @ 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... 

<I>Green</i>

Art

Green

Saturday 11/24 @ Robert Berman Gallery

From the minds at Murphy Art Books comes this mixed-media exhibition of small works by more than 40 contemporary artists who... 

Milo Martin: <I>The Bunnies of Denham</i>

Art

Milo Martin

Saturday 11/24 @ 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... 

Barry McGee: <i>Advanced Mature Work</i>

Art

Barry McGee: Advanced Mature Work

Saturday 11/24 @ REDCAT

Barry McGee (aka San Fran street scriber Twist) has created everything from a demolition derby (complete with cars featuring his painting)... 

<I>A Great Delicacy</i>

Art

A Great Delicacy

Saturday 11/24 @ 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... 

<i>Steal a Pencil for Me</i>

Film: Documentary

Steal a Pencil for Me

Saturday 11/24 @ 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... 

Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann

Art

Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann

Saturday 11/24 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

Three newcomers to the LA art scene — Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann — open individual mini-exhibitions tonight at... 

Carole Caroompas: <I>Dancing with Misfits: Eye-Dazzler</i>

Art

Carole Caroompas

Saturday 11/24 @ Western Project

Carole Caroompas' fantastically imaginative paintings and drawings are a melting pot of pop-culture imagery. For Caroompas' latest collection at Western Project,... 

Chris Oatey: <i>Wallpaper of Champions</i>

Art

Chris Oatey

Saturday 11/24 @ See Line Gallery

  Fresh-faced, LA-based multimedia artist Chris Oatey meticulously removes the majority of the detail from photo-based images, creating... 

Jennifer Faist: <I>I Remember Too</i>

Art

Jennifer Faist

Saturday 11/24 @ 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.... 

Mark Mothersbaugh: <I>Rugs During Wartime and Peacetime</I>

Art

Mark Mothersbaugh

Saturday 11/24 @ 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... 

<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Saturday 11/24 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... 

<I>Stardust Memories</i> (1980) and <I>Purple Rose of Cairo</i> (1985)

Film

Stardust Memories and Purple Rose of Cairo

Saturday 11/24 @ New Beverly Cinema

Within Woody Allen's comic cosmology, there's the Sun (Annie Hall, 1977), orbiting planets (Manhattan, 1979), and space-junk (Celebrity, 1998), but in... 

PiNK: <i>Plays Well With Others</i>

Art

Plays Well With Others

Saturday 11/24 @ 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... 

<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>

Art

SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s

Saturday 11/24 @ 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... 

<i>Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier</i>

Art

Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier

Saturday 11/24 @ 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... 

Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin

Art

Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin

Saturday 11/24 @ 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... 

Project Series 34: Iva Gueorguieva

Art

Iva Gueorguieva

Saturday 11/24 @ 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.... 

Clayton Murdach and Travis Somerville: <I>The Great American Let Down</i>

Art

Clayton Murdach and Travis Somerville

Saturday 11/24 @ delete

This exhibition unites two like-minded artists whose work addresses the unstoppable decline of American society. Clayton Murdach manipulates a bevy of... 

<I>Dream of Today</i>

Art

Dream of Today

Saturday 11/24 @ 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... 

Art

Ashley McLean Emenegger & Paul Pitsker: You Are Here

Saturday 11/24 @ Bandini Art

Inspired by the groundbreaking mixed-media assemblages of Betye Saar and Joseph Cornell, Ashley McLean Emenegger explores themes of masculinity and femininity... 

Sue de Beer: <I>Permanent Revolution</i>

Art

Sue de Beer

Saturday 11/24 @ Sandroni Rey

From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her... 

<i>Hair</i>

Theatre

Hair

Saturday 11/24 @ The MET Theatre

Hair's original 1967 production was way ahead of its time, masterfully exploring the sexual revolution, mind-expanding drugs, and opposition to the... 

Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario

Art

Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario

Saturday 11/24 @ 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... 

Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Saturday 11/24 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... 

<I>Replace 'Please' with 'Fast' & 'Thank you' with 'Good'</I>

Art

The Lab 101

Saturday 11/24 @ 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... 

Kim Dingle: <i>The Cake Series</i>

Art

Kim Dingle

Saturday 11/24 @ Lightbox Gallery

Kim Dingle has a knack for turning the innocent into the disturbing. Clownish kids getting their faces stuck in garish cakes... 

<i>Darfur Now</i>

Film: Documentary

Darfur Now

Saturday 11/24 @ Various locations

It's been nearly four years since desertification precipitated a tragic conflict in Sudan. According to some estimates, to date as many... 

Peter R&#246;sel

Art

Peter Rösel

Saturday 11/24 @ 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,... 

Ellen de Meutter: <I>Secrets and Lies</i>

Art

Ellen de Meutter

Saturday 11/24 @ 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... 

Mathieu Briand: <i>UBÏQ: A Mental Odyssey</i>

Art

Mathieu Briand

Saturday 11/24 @ DF2

While French artist Mathieu Briand is best known for his ambitious sound installations, with UBÏQ: A Mental Odyssey, he takes things... 

<I>Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling</i>

Art

Soundwaves

Saturday 11/24 @ 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... 

Adri&#224; Juli&#224;: <I>A Means of Passing the Time</I>

Art

Adrià Julià

Saturday 11/24 @ LAXART

A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last... 

<I>Julius Shulman's Los Angeles</i>

Art: Photography

Julius Shulman

Saturday 11/24 @ 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 —... 

Los Angeles Physical Theatre Festival

Theatre

LA Physical Theatre Festival

Saturday 11/24 @ Art/Works Theatre

Channeling the Chaplins and Keatons of Hollywood yesteryear, LAPT's inaugural festival salutes the not-so-subtle, yet supremely precise art of physical theatre.... 

Cherie Benner Davis: <I>Best Laid Plans</i>

Art

Cherie Benner Davis

Saturday 11/24 @ SolwayJones Gallery

LA painter Cherie Benner Davis sees the world in layered transparencies — crisp geometric shapes overlaying expressive, devotional elements of the... 

<i>Cry-Baby</i>

Theatre

Cry-Baby

Saturday 11/24 @ La Jolla Playhouse

We've entered the John Waters age. A Broadway musical adaptation of Hairspray and a subsequent cinematic "re-adaptation" has made the legendary... 

Clive Barker: <i>New Paintings and Works on Paper</i>

Art

Clive Barker

Saturday 11/24 @ Bert Green Fine Art

Clive Barker is known for creating some pretty frightening characters — Candyman, Pinhead, and the army of monsters in Nightbreed. The... 

Shona Macdonald: <I>SHIFT</i> &  Heimir Björgúlfsson: <I>Allure Gone Buffalo</i>

Art

Shona Macdonald: SHIFT & Heimir Björgúlfsson: Allure Gone Buffalo

Saturday 11/24 @ 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... 

<i>The Red Balloon</i> (1956) and <i>White Mane</i> (1953)

Film

The Red Balloon and White Mane

Saturday 11/24 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

In the early 1950s, cinemagician Albert Lamorisse created a new French board game, The Conquest of the World — or, for... 

Robert Hardgrave: <I>Xenoglossy</i>

Art

Robert Hardgrave

Saturday 11/24 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery

Beautiful and sublime, paintings by Seattle-based artist Robert Hardgrave boast slick, slippery, intestinal arabesques, quivering flora, and mysterious corpuscular floaters. Channeling... 

Jen Liu: <I>New Dawn Fades</i>

Art

Jen Liu

Saturday 11/24 @ Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery

Jen Liu's new multimedia collection at Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery finds the anti-technology characters of her Brethren of the Stone series once... 

Catalina Estrada & Mark Todd

Art

Catalina Estrada & Mark Todd

Saturday 11/24 @ 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... 

Materials & Applications: <em>Density Fields</em>

Art

Materials & Applications: Density Fields

Saturday 11/24 @ 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... 

<I>A Very Grand Guignol Christmas</i>

Theatre

A Very Grand Guignol Christmas

Saturday 11/24 @ Art/Works Theatre

Let the absinthe, eggnog, and blood flow at Art/Works Theater in Hollywood, as the Grand Guignol Theatre Company presents A Very... 

Joan Tucker: <I>The Time Is Always Now</i>

Art

Joan Tucker

Saturday 11/24 @ Milo Gallery

Don't call Joan Tucker another Rothko wannabe. While her exploratory, painterly abstractions are obviously influenced by the forefathers of abstract expressionism,... 

<I>Treasures from the Vault</i>

Special Event

Treasures from the Vault

Saturday 11/24 @ Natural History Museum

Whether you cherish the memory of dueling dino skeletons from long-ago field trips, or a more recent late-night music show amongst... 

Alex Kopps & the Gothic Dolphins: <I>Your Today Is Their Tomorrow</i>

Art

Alex Kopps

Saturday 11/24 @ New Image Art

Bay Area artist Alex Kopps' undeniably beautiful work has been endorsed by Target, Home Depot, and Taco Bell — but don't... 

Mark Dutcher: <I>Curtains</i>

Art

Mark Dutcher

Saturday 11/24 @ High Energy Constructs

California native Mark Dutcher utilizes Shakespeare as a thematic backdrop, adding a tinge of the macabre to his lavish, effervescent paintings... 

<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Saturday 11/24 @ 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,...