Events on Saturday, January 12

Pervasive Persuasion

Special Event

Pervasive Persuasion

Saturday 1/12 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

Superflat stylist Takashi Murakami is the focus of tonight's discussion, as panelists debate the value of obscuring a medium's margins in... 

Powder

Music

Powder

Saturday 1/12 @ Key Club

Gutter-glamorous denizens of LA, Powder play the Key Club tonight in support of a 2005 self-titled album that's still as fresh... 

<em>Enamorada</em> (1946)

Film

Enamorada

Saturday 1/12 @ The Getty Center

Despite its resemblance to a New World version of The Taming of the Shrew, Emilio Fernández's Enamorada (1946) manages more than... 

Minnie Driver

Music

Minnie Driver

Saturday 1/12 @ The Hotel Café

A long way from Puff, Rocks and Brown and Good Will Hunting, actress Minnie Driver continues to explore the other stage... 

<em>Careful</em> (1992) and <em>Odilon Redon or the Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity</em> (1995)

Film

Careful and Odilon Redon or the Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity

Saturday 1/12 @ The Silent Movie Theatre

Guy Maddin's mutated melodrama Careful is set in the remote mountain village of Tolzbad, whose residents whisper to avoid avalanches. Ever... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Point Break Live!</em>

Theatre

Point Break Live!

Saturday 1/12 @ Charlie O's at the Alexandria

A theatrical tongue-in-cheek homage to classic surfer-dude cinema, Point Break Live! hilariously rips apart Hollywood blockbusters and A-list bad acting. Hosted... 

Julia Schwartz, Gary Polonsky, and Stephanie Visser

Art

Julia Schwartz

Saturday 1/12 @ The Artists' Gallery

The Artists' Gallery (TAG) is one of the best membership-based art galleries in LA, in part due to the talent of... 

<i>Steep</i>

Film

Steep

Saturday 1/12 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

Like Werner Herzog's slo-mo documentary on ski-flying The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974), Steep conveys the breathless exhilaration of an... 

<em>SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating</em>

Art

SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

<em>Under the Influence: A Tribute to Stan Lee</em>

Art

Under the Influence

Saturday 1/12 @ Gallery 1988

Looking through Gallery 1988's roster of artists, it's easy to spot the legacy of the giants of alt-culture illustration and progressive... 

Virginia Katz: <I>Deliberations Through Practice... piecing things together</i>

Art

Virginia Katz

Saturday 1/12 @ Jancar Gallery

LA's Virginia Katz uses a complex mixed-media process that involves so many layers of hand-worked pigments and liquids, her art can... 

Richard Deacon

Art

Richard Deacon

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

<i>Generalized Anxiety Disorder</i>

Art

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Saturday 1/12 @ Walter Maciel Gallery

Curator Kristine Bowen brings together 16 artists who channel the contemporary American spirit of fear and, as the show title suggests,... 

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

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Saturday 1/12 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

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

David Sandlin:  <i>Swamp Preacher</i> & Martha Rich: <I>Imitation Snakeskin Superstore</i>

Art

David Sandlin & Martha Rich

Saturday 1/12 @ La Luz de Jesus

While gallery owner Billy Shire's other endeavor, upscale Culver City salon Billy Shire Fine Arts, exhibits a collection of David Sandlin's... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Saturday 1/12 @ The Getty Center

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

Golden Globe Foreign-Language Nominee Series

Film

Golden Globe Foreign-Language Nominee Series

Saturday 1/12 @ Aero Theatre

The Aero's four-night bill of Golden Globe foreign-language nominees begins with The Kite Runner, which negotiates decades, continents, and languages in... 

Tim Sullivan: <em>Perfect Entrance </em>and Colin Roberts: <em>The Inscrutable Immutable</em>

Art

Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts

Saturday 1/12 @ Steve Turner Contemporary

Photographer and video artist Tim Sullivan, the highlight of last year's OC Biennial, inserts himself into bizarrely macabre and possibly drug-induced... 

photo LA: The 17th Annual Los Angeles Photographic Exposition

Art: Photography

photo LA

Saturday 1/12 @ Santa Monica Air Center, Barker Hangar

Boasting more than 75 exhibitors, 2008's PhotoLA tops its previous incarnations in both diversity and scale. This year's program features the... 

<em>(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]</em>

Art: Photography

(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]

Saturday 1/12 @ Fette's Gallery

Twenty-five photographers working in cities around the world were given a simple task: to take an 11 x 14-inch self-portrait —... 

Henry Lewis &amp; Regino Gonzales: <em>Burning at Both Ends</em>

Art

Henry Lewis & Regino Gonzales

Saturday 1/12 @ Corey Helford Gallery

Individual series and a set of collaborative works from prodigal SoCal tattoo artists Regino Gonzales and Henry Lewis showcase the profound... 

Matthew Barney: <I>Drawing from Guardian of the Veil</i>

Art

Matthew Barney

Saturday 1/12 @ Regen Projects

Matthew Barney, iconic multimedia rainmaker and Björk's baby daddy, shows drawings relating to his newest multimedia work, Guardian of the Veil.... 

<em>Wunderlust Berlin</em>

Art: Photography

Wunderlust Berlin

Saturday 1/12 @ Paul Kopeikin Gallery

Berlin is in perpetual transition. The enduring fountainhead of Western culture is endlessly fascinating to students of art, architecture, and politics,... 

Karen Liebowitz: <I>Leviathan</i>

Art

Karen Liebowitz

Saturday 1/12 @ Rosamund Felsen Gallery

The empowered female subjects of Karen Liebowitz's paintings exist in a fantasyland encompassing mythology, religious tales, and the contemporary world. For... 

<em>Love Loves a Pornographer</em>

Theatre

Love Loves a Pornographer

Saturday 1/12 @ The Ford Theater

Circle X Theatre Company cordially invites you to attend its wicked Victorian farce about adultery, blackmail, and teacakes, set against the... 

Masao Yamamoto

Art: Photography

Masao Yamamoto

Saturday 1/12 @ Craig Krull Gallery

In his latest collection of photographs for Santa Monica's Craig Krull Gallery, Japanese artist Masao Yamamoto's work is somber and still,... 

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

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Saturday 1/12 @ 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,... 

<em>Poster Renaissance 2</em>

Art

Poster Renaissance 2

Saturday 1/12 @ New Image Art

New Image Art owner Marsea Goldberg remembers when posters were a vehicle for edgy, urban art and illustration — and so... 

<em>Lights! Camera! Glamour!</em>

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Saturday 1/12 @ California Heritage Museum

George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups,... 

Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk

Art

Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk

Saturday 1/12 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

The trio of contemporary artists assembled for the first show of the year at the Lawrence Asher Gallery draws inspiration from... 

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

Art

Materials & Applications: Density Fields

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

Victor Burgin

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Julius Shulman

Saturday 1/12 @ 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 —... 

Cassandra C. Jones: <I>Photos Taken</i>

Art

Cassandra C. Jones

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

<em>Modern American Sculpture</em>

Art

Modern American Sculpture

Saturday 1/12 @ Forum Gallery

Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven... 

<em>The Cut</em>

Theatre

The Cut

Saturday 1/12 @ Rude Guerrilla Theater Company

British playwright Mark Ravenhill gives theater company Rude Guerilla another opportunity to stage the U.S premieres of his work. Past collaborations... 

Einar and Jamex de la Torre: <em>New Colonies in the New World</em>

Art

Einar & Jamex de la Torre

Saturday 1/12 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery

Brothers Einar and Jamex couldn't possibly deny the influence of their heritage — their blown-glass and mixed-media works radiate with the... 

Choi Jeong-Hwa: <I>Truth</i>

Art

Choi Jeong-Hwa

Saturday 1/12 @ REDCAT

Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,... 

<em>Don't Fence Me In</em>

Art

Don't Fence Me In

Saturday 1/12 @ 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,... 

Angelika J. Trojnarski: <em>Ricochet<br />
</em>

Art

Angelika J. Trojnarski

Saturday 1/12 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery

Born in Poland and educated in Germany, Angelika J. Trojnarski depicts desolate cultural landscapes, dismembered bodies, and the barbwired evidence of... 

Bill Owens: <I>Suburbia</i> and <I>Leisure</i>

Art: Photography

Bill Owens

Saturday 1/12 @ DNJ Gallery

Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic... 

<I>You are not here, you are still there and think you are here</i>

Art

You are not here, you are still there and think you are here

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

<I>Treasures from the Vault</i>

Special Event

Treasures from the Vault

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

DanceGood.Damnit!!!: <em>Orifice</em>

Dance

Orifice

Saturday 1/12 @ Highways Performance Space

Out of remission and back in submission, Gregory Barnett and co. explore every possible opening, reconciling space with the body's receptive... 

Wallace Berman: <i>Photography and Other Works of Art 1950-1976</i>

Art

Wallace Berman

Saturday 1/12 @ 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,... 

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

Art

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

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

<em>Os Brasilieros Part I</em>

Art

Os Brasilieros

Saturday 1/12 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art

You've probably never heard of any of the over 40 artists included in this multimedia dragnet of a group show —... 

Neil Farber: <em>New Works</em>

Art

Neil Farber

Saturday 1/12 @ Richard Heller Gallery

At first glance, Neil Farber's vivid, whimsical drawings seem to capture all the ignorant bliss of childhood, but their darker intentions... 

Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto: <I>Organic/Structure</i>

Art

Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto

Saturday 1/12 @ Commissary Arts

While Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto are both Los Angeles-based artists working in the medium of drawing, the juxtaposition of their... 

Rachel Mason: <em>The Candidate</em>

Art

Rachel Mason

Saturday 1/12 @ Circus Gallery

There's political art; there's the art of political stagecraft; and then there's The Candidate, the new exhibition of sketches, sculptures, and... 

Matthew Heller: <em>Everything Is a Love Story</em>

Art

Matthew Heller

Saturday 1/12 @ DCA Fine Art

Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text.... 

Jill Greenberg: <I>Ursine</i> & <I>Performance</i>

Art: Photography

Jill Greenberg

Saturday 1/12 @ 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... 

Ruby Osorio: <em>Looking Through the Blind</em>

Art

Ruby Osorio

Saturday 1/12 @ Cherry and Martin

Los Angeles artist Ruby Osorio's collection at Cherry and Martin Gallery was heavily influenced by her recent trip to Athens. Surrounded... 

Gardar Eide Einarsson: <I>All My Friends Are Dead</i>

Art

Gardar Eide Einarsson

Saturday 1/12 @ Honor Fraser

Gardar Eide Einarsson's latest series features nine massive plywood panels, printed with graphics from a '60s police manual. As the officers...