Events on Saturday, October 11

Matthew Dear's Big Hands

Music: Electronic

Matthew Dear's Big Hands

Saturday 10/11 @ Avalon Hollywood

Right now, Matthew Dear is arguably one of electronic music's most versatile artists. He's made stripped-down, fluid constructions as False, rough,... 

Denali w/ Holloys

Music

Denali

Saturday 10/11 @ Echoplex

In 2000, Maura Davis was just a Virginian sister going to ask her songwriter brother, Keeley (of a band called Engine... 

Art Spiegelman: <em>Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!</em>

Books: Reading

Art Spiegelman

Saturday 10/11 @ Vroman's Bookstore

In the late '70s, Art Spiegelman published his first major work, Breakdowns, a collection of strips that tackle the artist's own... 

Ces&aacute;ria &Eacute;vora

Music: Global

Cesária Évora

Saturday 10/11 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall

Cesária Évora brings her majestic voice from the Cape Verde Islands to Cali tonight. Évora sings in the morna tradition, which... 

Ongoing Events

Hans Burkhardt

Art

Hans Burkhardt

Saturday 10/11 @ Cal State University Northridge Art Gallery

Comprising selections from the nearly 1,000 works that European-native-turned California-great Hans Burkhardt personally donated to Cal State Northridge (where he taught... 

Amanda Ross-Ho: <em>Half of What I Say Is Meaningless</em>

Art

Amanda Ross-Ho

Saturday 10/11 @ Cherry and Martin

Amanda Ross-Ho returns to Cherry and Martin with her latest exhibition of mixed-media sculptural installation, Half of What I Say Is... 

Other Venice Film Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Other Venice Film Festival

Saturday 10/11 @ Electric Lodge

In a world rife with indie film festivals (that's a good thing), this annual weekend juggernaut of alt-culture cinema, music, and... 

John Bock: <em>Palms</em>

Art

John Bock

Saturday 10/11 @ REDCAT

John Bock's unpredictable performances may seem like exercises in artistic capriciousness, but his loud costumes and absurd statements conceal his skill... 

Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed

Art

Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed

Saturday 10/11 @ George Billis Gallery

Modern mix-masters Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed are art historians of sorts: all three borrow imagery from recycled sources... 

Mark Dean Veca: <em>Phantasmagoria</em>

Art

Mark Dean Veca

Saturday 10/11 @ Otis College of Art and Design

Entering Mark Dean Veca's site-specific installation at Otis College's Ben Maltz Gallery is like stepping into a psychedelic playhouse filled with... 

Eric Sall: <em>High and Wide</em>

Art

Eric Sall

Saturday 10/11 @ Acuna-Hansen Gallery

In confronting the vibrating, thickly textured canvases of Eric Sall, one gets the distinct impression that he could survive by eating... 

Ai Yamaguchi: <em>Hana wa no ni aruyouni</em>

Art

Ai Yamaguchi

Saturday 10/11 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery

Hana wa no ni aruyouni (Flowers as they are in the field) is Japanese artist Ai Yamaguchi's second solo exhibition at... 

<em>All of This is Melting Away</em>

Art

All of This is Melting Away

Saturday 10/11 @ Royal/T

Director of New York's Greene Naftali Gallery, Jay Sanders steps into cafe/shop/gallery Royal/T to curate this group show of works from... 

Michael Knowlton: <em>Blackwater Babylon</em>

Art

Michael Knowlton

Saturday 10/11 @ 01 Gallery

Painter Michael Knowlton doesn't feel the need to choose between beauty and terror. His passionately wrought, deftly composed scenes of the... 

Charlie Roberts

Art

Charlie Roberts

Saturday 10/11 @ Richard Heller Gallery

Charlie Roberts is a consummate collector of images, with an organizational system resembling the interior of a Whitman's Sampler. He perceives... 

Santa Barbara Off-Axis 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

Off-Axis

Saturday 10/11 @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

Although our neighbor to the north is typically known for its stellar views and celebrity mansions, Santa Barbara has a stash... 

John Buffalo Mailer: <em>Hello Herman</em>

Theatre

Hello Herman

Saturday 10/11 @ Edgemar Center for the Arts

Norman Mailer's legacy lives on, not only in the minds and hearts of his global readership, but through the pen of... 

Mear One: <em>Mearasma</em>

Art

Mear One

Saturday 10/11 @ 01 Gallery

Very few painters can swing the brush with the technical wizardry of LA native Mear One. Returning to the place where... 

Yin Zhaoyang: <em>Radiation</em>

Art

Yin Zhaoyang

Saturday 10/11 @ DF2

Chinese-born Yin Zhaoyang didn't have to look too far for inspiration when creating the work in his latest show at DF2... 

<em>Fortuna Rising: Gordy Grundy is the Messenger</em>

Art

Gordy Grundy

Saturday 10/11 @ Western Project

The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website... 

Ekundayo & Johnny "KMNDZ" Rodriguez: Red Forest

Art

Red Forest

Saturday 10/11 @ Thinkspace Gallery

Hot off the success of their individual Thinkspace exhibitions, Ekundayo and Johnny "KMNDZ" Rodriguez join forces for their first-ever collaborative collection... 

Ultrasonic International III: <em>Elementary, My Dear Watson</em>

Art

Ultrasonic International III

Saturday 10/11 @ Mark Moore Gallery

Elementary, My Dear Watson is the Mark Moore Gallery's third installment of its annual Ultrasonic International series. The group show features... 

Raymond Pettibon: <em>Seminal Work</em>

Art

Raymond Pettibon

Saturday 10/11 @ Regen Projects II

Seminal Work features a selection of pieces from the much-lauded Raymond Pettibon, all completed between 1978 and 1988. Keeping true to... 

Pipo Nguyen-Duy: <em>The Garden</em>

Art: Photography

Pipo Nguyen-Duy

Saturday 10/11 @ Sam Lee Gallery

Sam Lee Gallery follows up its dynamic group exhibition I AM I A KILLER with Pipo Nguyen-Duy's cyclical photography project, The... 

Elizabeth Turk: <em>Traces</em>

Art

Elizabeth Turk

Saturday 10/11 @ Bandini Art

From the Department of How Did She Do That? comes a new exhibition of drawings and delicate marble sculptures from chisel-wielding... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Saturday 10/11 @ Scribble Press

Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with... 

<em>CUT: Makings of Removal</em>

Art

CUT: Makings of Removal

Saturday 10/11 @ Vincent Price Art Museum

The 17 young and emerging artists included in this ambitious group show follow diverse strategies in making work, but the organizing... 

<em>Surface Sounding</em>

Art

Surface Sounding

Saturday 10/11 @ See Line Gallery

Any viewer beholding Surface Sounding without background information would likely believe all the art was selected by a single gatekeeper, so... 

Sandrine Pelletier: <em>Insekts</em>

Art

Sandrine Pelletier

Saturday 10/11 @ Fette's Gallery

International-artist-friendly Fette's Gallery rings in its fall season with Insekts, an installation of new works by Swiss mixed-media artist/embroiderer Sandrine Pelletier.... 

Elevator Repair Service: <em>The Sound and the Fury: April Seventh, 1928</em>

Theatre

Elevator Repair Service

Saturday 10/11 @ REDCAT

If the idea of staging the first chapter of Faulkner's brooding Southern epic, The Sound and the Fury, in all its... 

Christopher Pate: <em>Flyover</em>

Art

Christopher Pate

Saturday 10/11 @ Jail Gallery

Christopher Pate is interested in the relationship between maps and landscapes, as well as the broader discourse between the real quality... 

<em>Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner</em>

Art

John Lautner

Saturday 10/11 @ Hammer Museum

The risk-taking John Lautner is often described as an architect's architect, even though some of his designs brought him both criticism... 

Freewaves presents <em>Hollywould</em>

Festival: Performing Arts

Hollywould

Saturday 10/11 @ Hollywood Blvd between Cahuenga and Orange

The 11th Freewaves media-arts festival, dubbed "Hollywould," is a kind of triple-dog dare to Tinseltown boulevardiers, challenging them to engage with... 

UCLA Live International Theatre Festival: <em>Playboy of the Western World</em> and <em>The Shadow of the Glen</em>

Theatre

UCLA Live International Theatre Festival

Saturday 10/11 @ Freud Playhouse

UCLA Live offers a finely curated nine-month season of performances, with the International Theatre Festival serving as its cornerstone. The event... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Saturday 10/11 @ Norton Simon Museum

This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at... 

Kyle Field: <em>More Country Questions</em>

Art

Kyle Field

Saturday 10/11 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery

For his second go-round at Taylor De Cordoba, San Franciscan artist/musican Kyle Field (he's a member of the band Little Wings),... 

Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>

Art

Mark Bradford

Saturday 10/11 @ Steve Turner Contemporary

Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious... 

Daniel DeSure: <em>Wouldn't It Be Nice</em>

Art

Daniel DeSure

Saturday 10/11 @ Found Gallery

Los Angeles-based artist/art producer Daniel DeSure not only creates photography, film, and new media, but he also founded the art production/design... 

Kristi Lippire: <em>Paradox and Levity, Mergers and Sigmund</em>

Art

Kristi Lippire

Saturday 10/11 @ d.e.n. contemporary art

Kristi Lippire cobbles together images from a mind-boggling array of sources, then fashions them into large-scale works. Using plywood and other... 

Dennis Oppenheim: <em>Cactus Grove</em>

Art

Dennis Oppenheim

Saturday 10/11 @ ACE Gallery

Dennis Oppenheim first hit the art-world radar in the late 1960s with his Land and Body Art projects, which combined film... 

<em>The Art of War: American Posters from WWI and WWII</em>

Art

The Art of War

Saturday 10/11 @ Norton Simon Museum

When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much... 

Art

The Maize Project

Saturday 10/11 @ Torrance Art Museum

The small but influential Torrance Art Museum simultaneously mounts three new solo exhibitions, united by highly stylized explorations of abstraction and... 

<em>In Focus: The Landscape</em>

Art: Photography

In Focus: The Landscape

Saturday 10/11 @ The Getty Center

Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In... 

<em>No Brow</em>

Art

No Brow

Saturday 10/11 @ Black Maria Gallery

Not unlike impressionism, "low brow" was a label with initially negative connotations affixed to a group of artists reacting against then-mainstream... 

Takako Yamaguchi: <em>The Plain Sense of Things</em>

Art

Takako Yamaguchi

Saturday 10/11 @ Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art

New landscapes and seascapes from LA-based painter Takako Yamaguchi combine the stylized organic geometry of op art with the sensual smoothness... 

<em>43 Plays for 43 Presidents</em>

Theatre

43 Plays for 43 Presidents

Saturday 10/11 @ Sacred Fools Theater

Using comedy, drama, dance, and music, the half dozen actors in this crash course in presidential history conjure a theatrical experience... 

Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French: <em>Massillon</em>

Art: Photography

Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French

Saturday 10/11 @ Robert Berman Gallery

Dreamlike, sensual, and ominous, the black-and-white photography of Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French is like a surrealist's take on a Nathaniel... 

Little Black Dress presents Biagio Black: <em>Junoesque</em>

Fashion/Style

Biagio Black

Saturday 10/11 @ The Sunset

Once just a single-night charity event dedicated to a fashion staple, the Little Black Dress party has grown into a four-week... 

Katie Grinnan: <em>Polaris </em>

Art

Katie Grinnan

Saturday 10/11 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture

Katie Grinnan has made a career out of walking the fine line between the second and third dimensions. Grinnan takes architectural... 

Katina and Christa Zinner: <em>Tides of Emotion</em>

Art

Katina and Christa Zinner

Saturday 10/11 @ James Coleman Gallery

The mother-daughter relationship is fraught with emotion and drama, and what better venue for exploring that tension than a two-woman exhibition... 

<em>Raw Skies</em>

Art

Raw Skies

Saturday 10/11 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art

Seven is a lucky number at Carmichael Gallery this month, as the curators carry out another dazzling, high-octane international group exhibition.... 

<em>Within Four Miles: The World of Josh Dorman</em>

Art

Josh Dorman

Saturday 10/11 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum

Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as... 

Alexander Melamid: <em>Holy Hip-Hop!</em>

Art

Alexander Melamid

Saturday 10/11 @ Forum Gallery

Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered... 

<em>LA25 Half-Life</em>

Art

LA25 Half-Life

Saturday 10/11 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)

Rising stars Annie Lapin, Jeff Sheng, Cal Crawford, and Brenna Youngblood are among the 25 juror-selected artists that make up LA25... 

Sarah Cromarty: <em>Diamonds and Rust</em>

Art

Sarah Cromarty

Saturday 10/11 @ Circus Gallery

LA painter Sarah Cromarty has had a big year already; she gained recognition through several group shows and a bit of... 

Hans Burkhardt: Paintings of the 1960s

Art

Hans Burkhardt

Saturday 10/11 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts

In the years bracketing WWII, a great many artists were among those fleeing to US shores from the specter of Nazi... 

<em>Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda</em>

Fashion/Style

Antonio Pineda

Saturday 10/11 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show... 

James Gobel:<em> Happy Hour </em>

Art

James Gobel

Saturday 10/11 @ Steve Turner Contemporary

Steve Turner Contemporary on the Miracle Mile lets its hair down this month, showing new work by James Gobel, portraying portly,... 

<em>9 to 5: The Musical </em>

Theatre

9 to 5

Saturday 10/11 @ Ahmanson Theatre

Based on Collin Higgins' screwball 1980 comedy, 9 to 5: The Musical makes its LA premiere tonight before heading to Broadway... 

<em>Cycling Apparati</em>

Art

Cycling Apparati

Saturday 10/11 @ High Energy Constructs

For many contemporary artists, Warhol is the North Star by which they guide their own emerging views of culture. But for... 

<em>Park Life</em>

Art

Park Life

Saturday 10/11 @ Subliminal Projects

Subliminal Projects uses its recent move from Koreatown to the more pastoral environs of Echo Park as the curatorial focus for... 

<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Saturday 10/11 @ California Heritage Museum

Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The... 

Eddy Sykes: <em>Yakuza Lou</em>

Art

Eddy Sykes

Saturday 10/11 @ Materials & Applications

First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &... 

<em>Point Break LIVE!</em>

Theatre

Point Break LIVE!

Saturday 10/11 @ Dragonfly

Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill... 

Deborah Aschheim and Lisa Mezzacappa: <em>Earworms</em>

Special Event

Earworms

Saturday 10/11 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art

PMCA's Project Room is transformed into a beguiling labyrinth, addressing the elusiveness of memory and the neurobiological basis of thought, via... 

Kerry James Marshall: Portraits, Pin-Ups, and Wistful Romantic Idylls

Art

Kerry James Marshall

Saturday 10/11 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery

Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall has shown internationally to great acclaim, and now will show for the sixth time with Koplin... 

Yoko Ono: <em>Wish Tree</em>

Art

Yoko Ono

Saturday 10/11 @ One Colorado

It has been nearly 28 years since John Lennon's passing, but his quest for world peace lives on. Lennon's widow, noted... 

Deanna Templeton: <em>The Swimming Pool</em> and Hadassah Emmerich: <em>Ghosts 'n Garlands</em>

Art: Photography

Deanna Templeton and Hadassah Emmerich

Saturday 10/11 @ New Image Art

Deanna Templeton didn't need to stray far from her SoCal roots to find inspiration for her engaging photographs. A product of... 

<em>Aspects of Mel's Hole: Artists Respond to a Paranormal Land Event Occurring in Radiospace</em>

Art

Aspects of Mel's Hole

Saturday 10/11 @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana

Beloved radio host Art Bell is a cross between Jean Shepherd and Fox Mulder, and a man whose paranormality-themed broadcasts were... 

Jehad Nga: <em>My Shadow, My Opponent</em>

Art: Photography

Jehad Nga

Saturday 10/11 @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles

Daring photographer Jehad Nga has previously documented poverty and violence from Darfur to Iraq — now, he takes his camera into... 

Tofer Chin: <em>VIVID</em>

Art

Tofer Chin

Saturday 10/11 @ Commissary Arts

The "sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll" trifecta holds ample sway in the work of Los Angeles artist Tofer Chin. For... 

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Art: Photography

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Saturday 10/11 @ G2 Gallery

Photographer and environmentalist Robert Glenn Ketchum makes landscape images, but this isn't Ansel Adams we're talking about here. The 38-year-old UCLA... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Saturday 10/11 @ The Getty Center

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

Victor Gastelum: <em>Xacto Mundo</em>

Art

Victor Gastelum

Saturday 10/11 @ Overtones Gallery

Victor Gastelum upholds the grand California tradition of elevating street-art tropes to gallery-level heights with the spray-paint stencil multiples in Xacto... 

Asad Faulwell and Annie Buckley

Art

Asad Faulwell and Annie Buckley

Saturday 10/11 @ Carl Berg Gallery

This Miracle Mile-situated gallery's latest exhibition joins two artists with radically different approaches to the aesthetic of assemblage. Asad Faulwell, recent... 

Face of the World Festival 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

FOTW 08

Saturday 10/11 @ Los Angeles Theatre Center

For the second year in a row, the New LATC concocts an enthralling admixture of theatre, dance, and performance that brings... 

<em>It's the Housewives</em>

Theatre

It's the Housewives

Saturday 10/11 @ Whitefire Theatre

Sarah Palin may have the elusive Hockey Mom demographic sewn up, but who knows how she's going to handle the nation's... 

Miriam Wosk: <em>Paradise and Wildlife</em>

Art

Miriam Wosk

Saturday 10/11 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts

For her second exhibition at Culver City's Billy Shire Fine Arts, Santa Monica-based artist Miriam Wosk once again creates her trademark... 

Martin Kersels: <em>Heavyweight Champion</em>

Art

Martin Kersels

Saturday 10/11 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art

The Santa Monica Museum of Art hosts LA artist Martin Kersels' first retrospective, Heavyweight Champion, drawing from 13 years of his... 

Pasadena Art Weekend

Festival: Performing Arts

Pasadena Art Weekend

Saturday 10/11 @ Old Town Pasadena

On Friday, the city's cultural institutions stay open late to kick off Pasadena Art Weekend. A free shuttle circulates from one... 

Bronx Zoo

Party

Bronx Zoo

Saturday 10/11 @ La Cita

Conceived as a Saturday afternoon cocktail party with art activities, Ghettogloss gallery launched its Bronx Zoo summer series in June at...