Events on Saturday, December 15
Saturday 12/15 @ New Beverly Cinema
Pop-culture hero/clown Chuck Norris stars in (and scribed) Invasion USA, a Cold War response as only America could imagine: assault all...
Saturday 12/15 @ Warehouse announced day of show
Jochem Paap (aka Speedy J) makes his only North American appearance this season, rocking a live audiovisual set with visual mastermind...
Saturday 12/15 @ Echo Park Film Center
For its final festive happening of the year, the Echo Park Film Center offers an smorgasbord of seasonal oddities they've dubbed...
Saturday 12/15 @ Dangerous Curve
Trakwerx recording artists the 17th Pygmy (who, no joke, changed their name from 17 Pygmies because it wasn't psychedelic enough) release...
Saturday 12/15 @ El Rey
Is that a bonfire in your solar plexus or just the burning desire for a good post-hardcore pummeling? Whatever it is,...
Saturday 12/15 @ Egyptian Theatre
Tonight finds eternal everyman James Stewart in two sublime, aw-shucks acts. Capra-corn informs the undeniably uplifting It's a Wonderful Life, with...
Saturday 12/15 @ DF2
With a brilliant juxtaposition of traditional method and modern subject, Chinese artist Xu Hualing's paintings take over this West Hollywood gallery...
Saturday 12/15 @ The Silent Movie Theatre
In the existential immediacy of the indie Mutual Appreciation, mumblecore mainstay Andrew Bujalski crafts a contemporary compendium of postcollegiate hesitation and...
Saturday 12/15 @ Little Temple
Self-made hip-hop original Pigeon John flies west tonight, hitting his hometown with the energy of a rocket from the roost. While...
Saturday 12/15 @ smart house
Visual artist Dana Louise Kirkpatrick is inspired by a variety of concepts, but more than the urban environment's frantic pace and...
A Spook-tacular St. Thanksmas Day Eve
Saturday 12/15 @ Palisades Park
This multi-holiday-themed community competition (courtesy of the Go Game) begins with a digital camera and a wireless-web cell phone, which provides...
Saturday 12/15 @ The Wiltern
Blessed with a voice both brassy and bluesy and admired by present-day belters such as the Gossip's Beth Ditto, Etta James...
Ashes and Diamonds & Man of Marble
Saturday 12/15 @ Aero Theatre
Antiwar auteur Andrzej Wajda's three-part study of wartime Poland's ruin and reclamation culminates in its hypnotic hypotenuse, Ashes and Diamonds. Somewhere...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 12/15 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
Like Victorian-era toys brought to life by the touch of a creepy goblin's wand, Elizabeth McGrath's works sprout claws and extra...
Saturday 12/15 @ Bonsorte Studio
Filmmakers, peace activists, and multimedia artists Antoine Bonsorte and Abram Zinberg have created a unique visual experience. Their short film and...
Saturday 12/15 @ Melrose & Fairfax Shopping District
This weekend, URB graciously teaches you how to look like you effortlessly hopped off the glossy pages of a magazine, providing...
Saturday 12/15 @ Theatre of NOTE
Set over the course of two balmy days in August, theatre of NOTE's latest production revolves around the emotional cyclones stirred...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ LA Louver Gallery
Venice's premier art space reminds us that sculpture can be one of the most thrilling creative media with the debut of...
Saturday 12/15 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
Ever since Tim Robbins founded the Actors' Gang in 1981, these motley hoodlums have churned out award-winning dramas, capers, and comedies...
Saturday 12/15 @ SolwayJones Gallery
LA painter Cherie Benner Davis sees the world in layered transparencies — crisp geometric shapes overlaying expressive, devotional elements of the...
Saturday 12/15 @ Mollusk Surf Shop
Serena Mitnik-Miller doesn't take the usual kind of surf photography, and Venice's freshly opened Mollusk Surf Shop isn't the usual kind...
Saturday 12/15 @ REDCAT
Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ 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...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Whether reading between the lines or blurring them entirely, ubiquitous designer Shepard Fairey mines the deep vein of irony running through...
Saturday 12/15 @ Skirball Cultural Center
In Of All the People in All the World: The Americas, UK theatre company Stan's Cafe collects 300 million grains of...
Saturday 12/15 @ Lacy Street Lofts
As Los Angeles is ushered into its role as a creative capital and traffic becomes exceedingly worse, functionality is key and...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ Gallery 825
Gallery 825, the La Cienega Boulevard location of LA's oldest artists cooperative, presents this year's Open Show. An annual highlight of...
Saturday 12/15 @ New Image Art
Bay Area artist Alex Kopps' undeniably beautiful work has been endorsed by Target, Home Depot, and Taco Bell — but don't...
You are not here, you are still there and think you are here
Saturday 12/15 @ High Energy Constructs
High Energy Constructs has put together a three-person show of up-and-coming artists who traverse the unknown and question culture. While the...
Saturday 12/15 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ 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...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ Michael Kohn Gallery
Even though Wallace Berman exhibited his work at the highly influential Ferus Gallery within years of Andy Warhol's first solo show,...
Saturday 12/15 @ Powerhouse Theatre
In this spectacular evening of magic and mirth, illusionist Michael Gutenplan performs a plethora of wondrous feats, from mind reading to...
Saturday 12/15 @ Ark Theatre
Dickens' "Please sir, may I have some more?" meets Animal House's "Thank you sir, may I have another?" in A Christmas...
Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto
Saturday 12/15 @ Commissary Arts
While Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto are both Los Angeles-based artists working in the medium of drawing, the juxtaposition of their...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ The New LATC
In this important and timely work, conceived and directed by Peter DiMuro, award-winning dance pioneer Liz Lerman examines accepted definitions of...
Saturday 12/15 @ Fahey/Klein Gallery
Jokes about working with children and animals aside, LA-based photographer Jill Greenberg has built an internationally acclaimed fine-art career by doing...
SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating
Saturday 12/15 @ Pounder-Koné Art Space
When not hurting bad guys on FX's The Shield, actress CCH Pounder works alongside her husband Boubacar Koné, developing the Boribana...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ Honor Fraser
Gardar Eide Einarsson's latest series features nine massive plywood panels, printed with graphics from a '60s police manual. As the officers...
Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann
Saturday 12/15 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Three newcomers to the LA art scene — Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann — open individual mini-exhibitions tonight at...
Saturday 12/15 @ Gallery C
Hyperrealist painter Kenny Harris showcases his recent paintings inspired by a trip to South America. While Harris' interiors hardly show direct...
Saturday 12/15 @ Los Angeles Opera
Giacomo Puccini's four-act opera La Bohème has been immortalized in more films, songs, and remakes than any other work of its...
Saturday 12/15 @ Highways Performance Space
This program of interdisciplinary movement-and-music pieces has a slight scent of inscrutable modern dance about it. Despite phrases like "the presence...
Brandi Milne: Sugar and Silence
Saturday 12/15 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Los Angeles' illustrative It-girl, Brandi Milne, joins forces with whimsical Chicago-based artist Jeremiah Ketner to transform this Culver City gallery into...
Saturday 12/15 @ Bandini Art
The female artists showing their work at Bandini Art most definitely know how to have fun. For starters, there's Castillo's whimsical,...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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....
Saturday 12/15 @ LAXART
A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last...
Saturday 12/15 @ DNJ Gallery
Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic...
Saturday 12/15 @ Found Gallery
Eliza Geddes' new mixed-media sculptures, wall hangings, and innovative paintings bring a rough physicality to deconstructivism. Her unconventional use of found...
Saturday 12/15 @ Walter Maciel Gallery
Curator Kristine Bowen brings together 16 artists who channel the contemporary American spirit of fear and, as the show title suggests,...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ Bert Green Fine Art
Clive Barker is known for creating some pretty frightening characters — Candyman, Pinhead, and the army of monsters in Nightbreed. The...
Saturday 12/15 @ project: gallery
To celebrate the first anniversary of its move to Culver City, project: gallery collaborates with Juxtapoz magazine on an exhibition in...
Saturday 12/15 @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai
Don't let the title fool you: for her second solo effort at Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Cassandra C. Jones isn't just...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ Cavern Club Theater
Labeled by its creators as a cross between a Perry Como Christmas special and Pee-wee's Playhouse, the Fruitcake Follies have one...
Saturday 12/15 @ Black Maria Gallery
Forget Wii, kid-sized Escalades, and paintball guns. Atwater Village's Black Maria Gallery shares its nostalgia (and collector's fetish) for old-time toys...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Saturday 12/15 @ 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...
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Head
Saturday 12/15 @ New Beverly Cinema
The first "rock-horror exploitation musical," as screenwriter Rogert Ebert crowed, female-fanatic Russ Meyer's hypersexual Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is...
Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ Regen Projects
Matthew Barney, iconic multimedia rainmaker and Björk's baby daddy, shows drawings relating to his newest multimedia work, Guardian of the Veil....
Saturday 12/15 @ Thinkspace Gallery
At Thinkspace Gallery's Snow Angels, audiences would be forgiven for thinking that a fleet of muses had landed in Sunset Junction,...
Saturday 12/15 @ La Luz de Jesus
Brooklyn-based illustrator and mixed-media painter Jordin Isip uses collage as his primary medium. This eclectic approach serves both as a literal...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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...
Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
Saturday 12/15 @ 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 12/15 @ Eco-Logical Art
Like all great ideas, the inspiration behind the activities of progressive-art-and-design outfit Eco-Logical Gallery was a simple binary realization: discarded billboards...
Saturday 12/15 @ 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,...
A Very Grand Guignol Christmas
Saturday 12/15 @ 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...
