Events on Saturday, October 4
Saturday 10/ 4 @ City Hall
LA Weekly brings the action off the coast and into downtown for the third annual Detour Festival. The Mars Volta headline...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Greek Theatre
It was a pretty sweet moment when Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova won the Oscar for their song "Falling Slowly" from...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
The 10th annual Eagle Rock Music Festival puts the east side neighborhood's ever-burgeoning arts scene on display. Live outdoor sets along...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ The Ford Theater
Community center J.U.i.C.E (Justice by Uniting in Creative Energy) nurtures emerging voices through the creative expression of hip-hop culture. Tonight, J.U.i.C.E....
Center for the Study of Political Graphics
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Union Station
In these turbulent political times, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics can help us make sense of the glut...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 01 Gallery
Painter Michael Knowlton doesn't feel the need to choose between beauty and terror. His passionately wrought, deftly composed scenes of the...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Richard Heller Gallery
In tandem with the release of his book, 73 Funshine, San Francisco-based artist Jason Jägel exhibits a collection of music-inspired work....
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Orange County Performing Arts Center
Fall for Dance is the OC Performing Arts Center's gift to the dance-loving masses, bringing ten international companies spanning contemporary, classical,...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Dennis Hopper and Wendy Burton
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Craig Krull Gallery
Craig Krull Gallery pulls out the big guns for its season opener, with concurrent solo exhibitions from two of its most...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Laguna Art Museum
To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ The Landmark
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Sacred Fools Theater
Using comedy, drama, dance, and music, the half dozen actors in this crash course in presidential history conjure a theatrical experience...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Circus Gallery
LA painter Sarah Cromarty has had a big year already; she gained recognition through several group shows and a bit of...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ High Energy Constructs
For many contemporary artists, Warhol is the North Star by which they guide their own emerging views of culture. But for...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Little Bird Gallery
For the past year, this traveling exhibition has showcased artists and graphic designers who were asked to apply their experience with...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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...
UCLA Live International Theatre Festival
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Freud Playhouse
UCLA Live offers a finely curated nine-month season of performances, with the International Theatre Festival serving as its cornerstone. The event...
Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
Saturday 10/ 4 @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside
Borrowing a recently coined neologism from Stephen Colbert's faux-conservative lexicon, Truthiness questions the reliability of the visual by featuring artists who...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Deanna Templeton and Hadassah Emmerich
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
The brilliantly brash British phenom Ian Francis returns to Kinsey/DesForges for his second solo show. Once again, the artist presents visceral,...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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....
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
From Brandon Boyd's paintings to Scion and ill-Studios' curatorial collaboration and Alexander Melamid's hip-hop portraits, music-related art has been blanketing LA's...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ ACE Gallery
Dennis Oppenheim first hit the art-world radar in the late 1960s with his Land and Body Art projects, which combined film...
Bob Biggs, Doug Edge, and Kate Harding
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Track 16 Gallery
Track 16 opens the fall season with three concurrent solo exhibitions. Venice stalwart Doug Edge is known for the fluidity and...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ LA Louver Gallery
Nancy Reddin Kienholz may be familiar to some because of her lifelong collaboration with late husband Ed Kienholz, one of the...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Miracle Mile
Not since the landmark Flintstones road-trip episode have the La Brea Tar Pits seen so much action. Occupying several venues along...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Bandini Art
From the Department of How Did She Do That? comes a new exhibition of drawings and delicate marble sculptures from chisel-wielding...
Saturday 10/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Saturday 10/ 4 @ Miles Memorial Playhouse
Kristina Wong, whose past projects include a parody mail-order bride website called Big Bad Chinese Mama, holds nothing back during her...
