Events on Saturday, January 26

<em>Bunny Lake Is Missing</em> (1965) and <em>The 13th Letter </em>(1951)

Film

Bunny Lake Is Missing and The 13th Letter

Saturday 1/26 @ Egyptian Theatre

Two Otto Preminger classics set the mood for a night of psychological conspiracy. The he-said-she-said thriller Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)... 

Avaland presents Made in Brazil feat. Gui Boratto

Music: DJ

Made in Brazil feat. Gui Boratto

Saturday 1/26 @ Avalon Hollywood

The Avalon celebrates the one-year anniversary of their Made in Brazil party with a special appearance from Gui Boratto. While his... 

Lady Sinatra w/ Who Rides the Tiger, OAKS, and Dali's Llama

Music

Lady Sinatra

Saturday 1/26 @ The Scene

Taking a page from the unreality of life in their hometown of LA, all-boy quartet Lady Sinatra offer up a satirical... 

High Places w/ Lucky Dragons

Music

High Places

Saturday 1/26 @ The Smell

Brooklyn's High Places play lighthearted melodies with a concentrated blend of tropical percussion and laptop beats. Mary Pearson's cooing and Rob... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Matthew Heller

Saturday 1/26 @ DCA Fine Art

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

<em>Special Relationship</em>

Art

Special Relationship

Saturday 1/26 @ The Scion Installation LA Space

Britain's Scrawl Collective is an emerging group of post-illustration urban romantics. They bring their ramped-up aesthetic energy to the States this... 

<em>Projection</em>

Art

Projection

Saturday 1/26 @ [delete]

This private-residence-turned-gallery's latest offering, Projection, interprets the titular concept both literally and figuratively in an ambitious multimedia group show. The works... 

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

Art

Victor Burgin

Saturday 1/26 @ 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... 

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

Art

Materials & Applications: Density Fields

Saturday 1/26 @ 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... 

Blue13 Dance Company: <em>Bollywood Cabaret</em>

Dance

Bollywood Cabaret

Saturday 1/26 @ Highways Performance Space

Venice-based Blue13 adds a little spice to its artistic license for this weekend's program of contemporary Bollywood dance pieces. Several original... 

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

Art

David Sandlin & Martha Rich

Saturday 1/26 @ 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... 

Rosson Crow: <em>Night at the Palomino</em>

Art

Rosson Crow

Saturday 1/26 @ Honor Fraser

In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection... 

Steve Gullick: <em>Tenebrous</em>

Art: Photography

Steve Gullick

Saturday 1/26 @ Found Gallery

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

Art

Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts

Saturday 1/26 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Saturday 1/26 @ The Getty Center

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

Tucker Neel: <em>Confabulations</em>

Art

Tucker Neel

Saturday 1/26 @ Commissary Arts

Frustrated debutantes, overdressed crocodiles, and bandaged aristocrats parade through Tucker Neel's latest exhibition. The LA artist conjures up witty, intriguing imagery... 

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

Art

Don't Fence Me In

Saturday 1/26 @ 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,... 

<i>Steep</i>

Film

Steep

Saturday 1/26 @ 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>Girly Group Show</em>

Art

Girly Group Show

Saturday 1/26 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

This exhibition at Silverlake's favorite gallery/alt-culture hangout features the work of Noel ILL, Jenny Mollen, and Jessica Garrison among a sizeable... 

Dustin Yellin

Art

Dustin Yellin

Saturday 1/26 @ Samuel Freeman

Dustin Yellin does not suspend exotic crimson seaweed inside his freestanding resin columns — it just looks like it. What he... 

<em>Wunderlust Berlin</em>

Art: Photography

Wunderlust Berlin

Saturday 1/26 @ Paul Kopeikin Gallery

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

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

Art: Photography

Jill Greenberg

Saturday 1/26 @ 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... 

<em>Victory</em>

Theatre

Victory

Saturday 1/26 @ The Fountain Theatre

South African playwright Athol Fugard's work demonstrates the power of theatre to incite social transformation. Fugard's plays have addressed the subject... 

Masao Yamamoto

Art: Photography

Masao Yamamoto

Saturday 1/26 @ 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,... 

Daniel Richter: <em>Rock Und Polizei</em>

Art

Daniel Richter

Saturday 1/26 @ Regen Projects

German painter Daniel Richter's expressionistic, figurative works are both dark and disarming. With influences that range from Goya to comic books... 

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

Art

Choi Jeong-Hwa

Saturday 1/26 @ 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>Lights! Camera! Glamour!</em>

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Saturday 1/26 @ 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,... 

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

Art

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

Saturday 1/26 @ 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>Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film</em>

Film

Alfred Hitchcock

Saturday 1/26 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his... 

Alex Steinweiss:<em> Creator of the Album Cover</em>

Art

Alex Steinwiess

Saturday 1/26 @ Robert Berman Gallery

Rocker/designer Kevin Reagan and Juxtapoz's Greg Escalante co-curate this survey of images by Alex Steinweiss. In 1939, the Columbia Records packaging... 

Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions

Art

Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions

Saturday 1/26 @ Various Chinatown galleries

As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art... 

artLA

Art

artLA

Saturday 1/26 @ Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Take a deep breath, grab a map of exhibitors, and dive headfirst into this year's artLA (not to be confused with... 

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

Art

Rachel Mason

Saturday 1/26 @ 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... 

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

Art

Cassandra C. Jones

Saturday 1/26 @ 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... 

Karen Liebowitz: <I>Leviathan</i>

Art

Karen Liebowitz

Saturday 1/26 @ 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>The Last Days of Desmond Nani Reese</em>

Theatre

The Last Days of Desmond Nani Reese

Saturday 1/26 @ Bang Improv Studio

It's Los Angeles circa 2014, and a 108-year-old Echo Park stripper has a lot to get off her chest. Heather Woodbury's... 

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

Art

Einar & Jamex de la Torre

Saturday 1/26 @ 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... 

Hiromi Tsuchida: <em>Photographs 1969-2004 </em>

Art: Photography

Hiromi Tsuchida

Saturday 1/26 @ Michael Dawson Gallery

Renowned Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida has trained his lens on facets of ordinary life throughout his lengthy career. Tsuchida's first solo... 

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

Art

Virginia Katz

Saturday 1/26 @ 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... 

Art

Neil Campbell and Peter Schuyff

Saturday 1/26 @ The Balmoral

This Venice Beach gallery's latest endeavor juxtaposes the work of Dutch artist Peter Schuyff and Vancouver-based Neil Campbell. Schuyff's paintings are... 

Art

Los Angeles Art Show

Saturday 1/26 @ Santa Monica Air Center, Barker Hangar

They say artLA is the "fun" one, and the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA)'s Los Angeles Art Show is the "mature"... 

<em>Freeze Frame: Five Decades of Photographs by Douglas Kirkland</em>

Art: Photography

Freeze Frame

Saturday 1/26 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides... 

Sheng Qi: <em>History in Black and Red</em>

Art

Sheng Qi

Saturday 1/26 @ DF2

Renowned Chinese artist Sheng Qi lived in exile in Europe for a decade after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Before fleeing China,... 

<i>Generalized Anxiety Disorder</i>

Art

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Saturday 1/26 @ Walter Maciel Gallery

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

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

Art: Photography

Bill Owens

Saturday 1/26 @ DNJ Gallery

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

Company Ea Sola: <em>Drought and Rain Vol. 2</em>

Dance

Company Ea Sola

Saturday 1/26 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall

It took 11 years for Vietnamese choreographer Ea Sola to follow up her heralded work Drought and Rain. In Vol. 2,... 

Michael Asher

Art

Michael Asher

Saturday 1/26 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art

Rather than create new spaces and pieces, conceptual mixed-media artist Michael Asher prefers to deconstruct and punctuate extant spaces with found... 

Rocky Schenck: <em>Los Angeles</em>

Art: Photography

Rocky Schenck

Saturday 1/26 @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles

Known for haunting images that envelop the viewer in an uneasy haze, Rocky Schenck finds beauty in rural landscapes and unremarkable... 

<em>Poster Renaissance 2</em>

Art

Poster Renaissance 2

Saturday 1/26 @ New Image Art

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

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

Art

Neil Farber

Saturday 1/26 @ 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... 

LA Opera presents Wagner's <em>Tristan und Isolde</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Tristan und Isolde

Saturday 1/26 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Considered one of the world's greatest operas, Richard Wagner's 1857 Tristan und Isolde sprang from the composer's own torrid love life.... 

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

Art

Angelika J. Trojnarski

Saturday 1/26 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery

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

<em>The Imaginary 20th Century</em>

Art

The Imaginary 20th Century

Saturday 1/26 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art... 

<em>Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson</em>

Theatre

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Saturday 1/26 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Center Theatre Group's world-premiere musical, busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by... 

Chris Anthony: <em>I'm the Most Normal Person I Know</em>

Art: Photography

Chris Anthony

Saturday 1/26 @ Corey Helford Gallery

Chris Anthony inhabits a strange, haunting world in his new exhibition. Influenced by childhood visions and containing authentically dreamlike narratives, Anthony's... 

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

Art: Photography

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

Saturday 1/26 @ 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 —... 

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

Art

Ruby Osorio

Saturday 1/26 @ 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... 

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

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Saturday 1/26 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

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

<em>The Cut</em>

Theatre

The Cut

Saturday 1/26 @ 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... 

Julia Schwartz, Gary Polonsky, and Stephanie Visser

Art

Julia Schwartz

Saturday 1/26 @ 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... 

<em>Modern American Sculpture</em>

Art

Modern American Sculpture

Saturday 1/26 @ Forum Gallery

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

Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk

Art

Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk

Saturday 1/26 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

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

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

Art

Under the Influence

Saturday 1/26 @ 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... 

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

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Saturday 1/26 @ 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,...