Events on Saturday, December 29
Ball of Fire and Twentieth Century
Saturday 12/29 @ Aero Theatre
Amorphous auteur Howard Hawks has a jellybean assortment of genre gems. Tonight, two screwball sweets — the brisk Ball of Fire...
Saturday 12/29 @ The Silent Movie Theatre
Fabulously filthy, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie faithfully remembers those repulsive, nausea-tinged trading cards from the late '80s. Forgotten favorites include...
Saturday 12/29 @ The Mint
The Mother Hips offer anthemic, classic-minded rock punctuated by falsetto howls and soaring, multi-layered orchestration, all tempered by a fundamentally NorCal-style...
Saturday 12/29 @ Avalon Hollywood
Keep your New Year's weekend rolling with a visit from Mark Farina, LA's favorite DJ cousin from the NorCal side of...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 12/29 @ Gallery C
Hyperrealist painter Kenny Harris showcases his recent paintings inspired by a trip to South America. While Harris' interiors hardly show direct...
Saturday 12/29 @ Powerhouse Theatre
In this spectacular evening of magic and mirth, illusionist Michael Gutenplan performs a plethora of wondrous feats, from mind reading to...
Saturday 12/29 @ The Viper Room
Seattle's legendary Supersuckers face off against a series of SoCal challengers in a three-night rock 'n roll showdown that spills out...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ Regen Projects
Matthew Barney, iconic multimedia rainmaker and Björk's baby daddy, shows drawings relating to his newest multimedia work, Guardian of the Veil....
Brandi Milne: Sugar and Silence
Saturday 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ Catalina Bar & Grill
One of the most renowned jazz vocalists around, Tierney Sutton brings her virtuosic band to bless the Catalina Bar and Grill...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ 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...
Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
Saturday 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ 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...
Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto
Saturday 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ 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...
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Saturday 12/29 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip
Social Distortion are as inextricable from California as beaches, surfing, and endless summers. With a roots-punk style they've honed since the...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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,...
SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating
Saturday 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ LAXART
A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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,...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ Ark Theatre
Dickens' "Please sir, may I have some more?" meets Animal House's "Thank you sir, may I have another?" in A Christmas...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Saturday 12/29 @ 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 Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
Saturday 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ Honor Fraser
Gardar Eide Einarsson's latest series features nine massive plywood panels, printed with graphics from a '60s police manual. As the officers...
You are not here, you are still there and think you are here
Saturday 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ New Beverly Cinema
Pauline Kael considered Hal Ashby's Shampoo one of the finest films of the '70s — no small compliment considering Hollywood's impressive...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ 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 12/29 @ 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...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
