Events on Saturday, October 25
Saturday 10/25 @ New Image Art
Surf culture's artistic luminaries unite to support Tiffany Campbell and Andria Lessner's film, Dear & Yonder, which chronicles the wave of...
Saturday 10/25 @ LA Sports Arena
Get reacquainted with your trick-or-treat spirit during the return of the frighteningly fantastic Monster Massive — the largest Halloween dance-music festival...
Saturday 10/25 @ The Smell
Brooklyn duo USAISAMONSTER (pronounced as if spaces exist between the words) are seasoned veterans of the global basement/warehouse scene. More adventurous...
Ongoing Events
Speculations on the Expanded Field of Writing
Saturday 10/25 @ REDCAT
This two-day symposium explores writing that "in some manner exceeds the printed page," whether it exists on a screen, a wall,...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ Natural History Museum
Hot on the, er, antennae of the Pavilion of Wings exhibition, the Natural History Museum now brings on the spiders. The...
Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ Angles Gallery
Linda Besemer produces the kind of art that provokes people to solve the mystery of how she does it. Without divulging...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ See Line Gallery
Any viewer beholding Surface Sounding without background information would likely believe all the art was selected by a single gatekeeper, so...
Saturday 10/25 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ DF2
Chinese-born Yin Zhaoyang didn't have to look too far for inspiration when creating the work in his latest show at DF2...
Saturday 10/25 @ Edgar Varela Fine Arts
Los Angeles photographer Grace Oh first grew passionate about capturing nudes when she began actively pursuing photography in her early twenties....
Saturday 10/25 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
Cynthia Ettinger acts as more of an editor/troupe leader than a writer/director in the Actors Gang's ongoing workshop production of its...
Saturday 10/25 @ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at...
Saturday 10/25 @ ACE Gallery
Dennis Oppenheim first hit the art-world radar in the late 1960s with his Land and Body Art projects, which combined film...
Saturday 10/25 @ Los Angeles Theatre Center
LATC's Face of the World Festival presents a rarefied dance experience as it celebrates the 100th birthday of icon José Limón....
Saturday 10/25 @ Torrance Art Museum
The small but influential Torrance Art Museum simultaneously mounts three new solo exhibitions, united by highly stylized explorations of abstraction and...
Saturday 10/25 @ Guy Hepner Contemporary
In his previous life as a principal at a "Hollywood creative firm," Neal Spector was instrumental in enabling LA's obsession with...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ Drkrm
For 15 years, in an old house on a sleepy hillside outside LA, a phalanx of residents, researchers, and TV producers...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ Woodbury Hollywood Exhibitions
Woodbury University goes Hollywood — or at least goes to Hollywood — by inaugurating its new off-campus gallery space with Analytic...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ Sandroni Rey
Anthony Goicolea let his family albums guide his latest exhibition, Related III. The Cuban artist's photographs, drawings, and installations are spun...
Saturday 10/25 @ Thinkspace Gallery
Hot off the success of their individual Thinkspace exhibitions, Ekundayo and Johnny "KMNDZ" Rodriguez join forces for their first-ever collaborative collection...
Saturday 10/25 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
Steve Turner Contemporary on the Miracle Mile lets its hair down this month, showing new work by James Gobel, portraying portly,...
Saturday 10/25 @ Christopher Grimes Gallery
Marco Brambilla's newest video pieces live up to his reputation for supersaturated maximalism, combining, recombining, randomizing, and manipulating found and sampled...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Asad Faulwell and Annie Buckley
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
LACE and the Pitzer College Media Studies Program host Resolution 3: Video Praxis in Global Spaces, comprising this weekend's multi-venue symposium,...
Saturday 10/25 @ Jail Gallery
Christopher Pate is interested in the relationship between maps and landscapes, as well as the broader discourse between the real quality...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...
Saturday 10/25 @ The Troubadour
The Mountain Goats come to San Francisco this week as part of their US tour, entitled The Last Happy Night of...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ Forum Gallery
Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ Regen Projects
Wolfgang Tillmans is like the Madonna of the art world: never afraid to change directions, reinvent himself, or throw in a...
Saturday 10/25 @ Track 16 Gallery
Even Robbie Conal's most fervent admirers tend to see his work primarily through their car windows. His trademark posters — featuring...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ Sacred Fools Theater
Using comedy, drama, dance, and music, the half dozen actors in this crash course in presidential history conjure a theatrical experience...
Richard Amend and Christopher Martin Hoff
Saturday 10/25 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Considering the precision and mastery of detail in the work of Richard Amend and Christopher Martin Hoff, it should come as...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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),...
Saturday 10/25 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ Commissary Arts
The "sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll" trifecta holds ample sway in the work of Los Angeles artist Tofer Chin. For...
Saturday 10/25 @ The Edison
Architect Andrew Meieran's redesign of the Edison, a lounge built in what was Downtown LA's first private power plant, is a...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ 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...
Saturday 10/25 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
Saturday 10/25 @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
It's likely that Pittsburgh never thought it would have a citizen described as a pioneer of "laptop rock," but Gregg Gillis...
