Events on Saturday, November 22

Hauschka w/ Tom Brosseau
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Music: Experimental
Hauschka
@ Largo at the Coronet Theater
If Dusseldorf-based pianist Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) were a little girl, the piano would be his Barbie doll. And, man, does...  View details »
Of Montreal w/ Health
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Music: Rock/Pop
Of Montreal
@ Hollywood Palladium
Athens, Georgia's Of Montreal have evolved a unique and eclectic musical style that might best be termed "indie glam." Since 2004's...  View details »
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Peanut Butter Wolf presents Violet Valen: <em>The Buddy Collection: Grandma's Buttons</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
More Flavor: Fashion
Violet Valen
@ Downtown Art Center Gallery
Named "Buddy" in honor of a particularly beloved teddy bear, Violet Valen's line of hand-crafted hoodies is about as hardcore as...  View details »
Free
O'Death w/ Le Switch and Death to Anders
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Music: Rock/Pop
O'Death
@ Spaceland
This ain't your granddad's jug band. Brooklyn quintet O'Death stand (or stomp) apart with their rambunctious, passionate live show. They're joyful,...  View details »
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Ongoing Events

<em>Surface Sounding</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Surface Sounding
@ See Line Gallery
Any viewer beholding Surface Sounding without background information would likely believe all the art was selected by a single gatekeeper, so...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Point Break LIVE!</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
Point Break LIVE!
@ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...  View details »
Ongoing
Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art: Discussion
Nicole Cohen
@ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>CUT: Makings of Removal</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
CUT: Makings of Removal
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
California Touring Project: An Evening of Provocative Dance Theater from the Bay to LA
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Performing Arts: Dance
California Touring Project
@ Diavolo Dance Theatre
This year's California Touring Project assembles a stellar lineup of original dance-makers for an evening of in-the-round works, bound by the...  View details »
Ongoing
Mark Dean Veca: <em>Phantasmagoria</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Mark Dean Veca
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Linda Day and Cristi Rinklin
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Linda Day and Cristi Rinklin
@ Jancar Gallery
The works of LA painters Linda Day and Cristi Rinklin treat pattern as a malleable, organic thing that doesn't require symmetry...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher: <em>The Searchers</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher
@ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
In the '60s and '70s, the Beatles led an exuberant parade East, inspiring throngs of Westerners to follow in a search...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Wolfgang Tillmans: <em>half page</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Wolfgang Tillmans
@ Regen Projects
Wolfgang Tillmans is like the Madonna of the art world: never afraid to change directions, reinvent himself, or throw in a...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Deborah Aschheim and Lisa Mezzacappa: <em>Earworms</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art: Discussion
Earworms
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Ismail Farouk: <em>Cancelled Without Prejudice</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Ismail Farouk
@ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
Johannesburg-based urban geographer and artist Ismail Farouk offers a multimedia overview of his recent work in the second installment of the...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Carmen</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Performing Arts: Opera
Carmen
@ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Bizet's Carmen isn't just known for its ferociously popular femme fatale but also for its transformation of opera comique into a...  View details »
Ongoing
Scott Belcastro, Jill Simonsen, and Nate Frizzell
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Scott Belcastro, Jill Simonsen, and Nate Frizzell
@ Cerasoli-LeBasse Gallery
Project: gallery and Cerasoli join forces, merging their programs for the kind of no-brow urban romanticism that made LA famous. Scott...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Bronx Zoo</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Bronx Zoo
@ Ghettogloss
Downtown's La Cita Bar has hosted Ghettogloss Gallery's Bronx Zoo each Saturday since the start of June, inspiring artists to render...  View details »
Ongoing
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Marco Brambilla: <em>Living the Dream</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Marco Brambilla
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
David McDonald: <em>Minor Monuments</em>, Annie Wharton: <em>Pungent Glimmer</em>, and Jason David: <em>Hubris Cream</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
David McDonald, Annie Wharton, and Jason David
@ Jail Gallery
Essentially three concurrent solo shows, this trio of installations by LA artists shares impulses ranging from gentle mockery to intellectualized deconstruction,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Eddy Sykes: <em>Yakuza Lou</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_23
Art: Architecture/Design
Eddy Sykes
@ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Michael Kenna: <em>Recent Photographs</em> and Pam Posey: <em>Timber</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art: Photography
Michael Kenna and Pam Posey
@ Craig Krull Gallery
Photographer Michael Kenna is a technical whiz, a classicist with a flair for the dramatic. His sweeping black-and-white landscapes depict vistas...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Marcel Duchamp Redux
@ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at...  View details »
Ongoing
Cindy Wright
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Cindy Wright
@ Mark Moore Gallery
Influenced by Dutch vanitas of the 16th and 17th centuries, Belgian artist Cindy Wright creates excruciatingly detailed, large-scale portraits and still-lifes...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Spring Awakening</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_23
Performing Arts: Theatre
Spring Awakening
@ Ahmanson Theatre
It's easy to see why Spring Awakening snagged eight Tony Awards last year, marking what has been heralded as the new...  View details »
Ongoing
Jennifer Vanderpool: <em>Hysterical Paradise</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Jennifer Vanderpool
@ Bandini Art
Overtaking every nook and cranny of Bandini Art's box space — including the ceiling — Jennifer Vanderpool's recent, large-scale installation features...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Paul and Damon McCarthy: <em>Caribbean Pirates</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Film
Paul and Damon McCarthy
@ REDCAT
Inspired by Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean ride, LA artist Paul McCarthy and his son Damon's video piece twists Disney's sanitized...  View details »
Ongoing
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Month_11 Saturday Day_22
More Flavor: City Gem
Scribble Press
@ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
More Flavor: Fashion
Antonio Pineda
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Karl Ferris: <em>The Psychedelic Experience</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art: Photography
Karl Ferris
@ Mr. Musichead Gallery
The cover art of Jimi Hendrix's debut album, Are You Experienced?, is just as memorable as the guitar pyrotechnics inside. Using...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
John Buffalo Mailer: <em>Hello Herman</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hello Herman
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>All of This is Melting Away</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
All of This is Melting Away
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Which Way Berlin </em>-<em> L.A.?</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Which Way Berlin - L.A.?
@ Pharmaka
Berlin has always been notorious for cultivating the avant garde, but its conceptual art scene has flourished since the fall of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Linda Besemer: <em>Sine, Sine, Everywhere a Sine</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Linda Besemer
@ Angles Gallery
Linda Besemer produces the kind of art that provokes people to solve the mystery of how she does it. Without divulging...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Clowns!</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Clowns!
@ Corey Helford
Culver City's Corey Helford Gallery teams up with London's StolenSpace Gallery to present Clowns!, a new way of looking at the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Holly Coulis:<em> Men</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Holly Coulis
@ Cherry and Martin
Whatever outfit they sport, leisurely activity they pursue, or unearthly landscape they inhabit, Coulis' men are never revealed as themselves (and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>A Mulholland Christmas Carol</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Mulholland Christmas Carol  
@ Sacred Fools Theater
A holiday must-see for the whole dysfunctional family, theatre of NOTE and Sacred Fools' A Mulholland Christmas Carol is an inspired,...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Human Resources</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Human Resources
@ The Company
The economy be damned: amid a spate of gallery closings, it's still full speed ahead for the fearless founders of the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Face of the World Festival 2008
Month_11 Sunday Day_23
Performing Arts: Festival
FOTW 08
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
P-Jay Fidler and Jason Houchen
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
P-Jay Fidler and Jason Houchen
@ La Luz de Jesus
Art Center alum P-Jay Fidler's works reflect a heady amalgam of artistic influences, including naturalism, surrealism, popular illustration, and modern graphic...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Xanadu</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
Xanadu
@ La Jolla Playhouse
When it comes to '80s nostalgia, Olivia Newton-John guilty-pleasure juggernaut Xanadu has it all: leg-warmers, roller skates, blue eye shadow, men...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
@ The Getty Center
In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Ed Templeton: <em>Map of the Inner War</em> and Matt Leines: <em>The Great Gates of Zenith</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Ed Templeton and Matt Leines
@ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
In this pairing of one-man exhibitions, Roberts + Tilton's new Culver City digs unleashes an ocean of dense artistic detail. Matt...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Sumi Ink Club
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Sumi Ink Club
@ Quiksilver SiteLA
True to its name, the Sumi Ink Club is a drawing collective that encourages autodidacts to explore the miracles of sumi...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Enrique Mart&iacute;nez Celaya: <em>Daybreak</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Enrique Martínez Celaya
@ LA Louver Gallery
Cuban-born artist Enrique Martinez Celaya's oil-and-wax paintings and mixed-media sculptures offer a rare combination of vigorous, pre-Raphaelite style and pensive, academic...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Martin Kersels: <em>Heavyweight Champion</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Martin Kersels
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Grace Oh: <em>Humanature II</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_23
Art: Photography
Grace Oh
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Robert Glenn Ketchum
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art: Photography
Robert Glenn Ketchum
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>In It Together</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_23
Art
In It Together
@ Tinlark Gallery
In It Together is the meta-title for a pair of simultaneous collaborative exhibitions: Matthew Rodriguez and Nicholas Bohac's Drill, Baby, Drill!...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Cole Case: <em>When We Did Believe in Magic and We Didn't Die</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Cole Case
@ Western Project
A new series of paintings by LA-based Cole Case, When We Did Believe in Magic and We Didn't Die is best...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Art of War: American Posters from WWI and WWII</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
The Art of War
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Robbie Conal: <em>No Spitting No Kidding</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Robbie Conal
@ Track 16 Gallery
Even Robbie Conal's most fervent admirers tend to see his work primarily through their car windows. His trademark posters — featuring...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
UCLA Live's International Theatre Festival: Robert Lepage/Ex Machina: <em>The Blue Dragon</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
Robert Lepage/Ex Machina
@ Freud Playhouse
Versed in virtually every aspect of theatrical design, direction, performance, and writing, Robert Lepage is one of the world's most dynamic...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>In Focus: The Landscape</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art: Photography
In Focus: The Landscape
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Analytic & Synthetic Pile-Up</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Analytic & Synthetic Pile-Up
@ Woodbury Hollywood Exhibitions
Woodbury University goes Hollywood — or at least goes to Hollywood — by inaugurating its new off-campus gallery space with Analytic...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Hernan Bas
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Hernan Bas
@ Sandroni Rey
Fascinated by homo-eroticism and inspired by mythology and classic fiction, Miami painter Hernan Bas' tableaux present an enchanted world of roaming...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Mear One: <em>Mearasma</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Mear One
@ 01 Gallery
Very few painters can swing the brush with the technical wizardry of LA native Mear One. Returning to the place where...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
George Stoll: <em>sacred and profane</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
George Stoll
@ Lightbox Gallery
In sacred and profane, Los Angeles-based artist George Stoll expands upon his traditional examination of everyday Americana. Objects such as his...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Song of Extinction</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
Song of Extinction
@ The Ford Theater
[Inside] the Ford's New Plays Series makes use of the intimate theatre under the venue's more familiar outdoor setting during the...  View details »
Ongoing
Hans Burkhardt: Paintings of the 1960s
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Hans Burkhardt
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Vermeer's <em>A Lady Writing</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Vermeer's A Lady Writing
@ Norton Simon Museum
It's not often that Angelenos have the chance to examine an original painting by Dutch Baroque master Johannes Vermeer. His surviving...  View details »
Ongoing
Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_23
Art
Mark Bradford
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
2008 California Biennial
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
2008 California Biennial
@ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The School of Night</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Performing Arts: Theatre
The School of Night
@ Mark Taper Forum
Peter Whelan's latest work, The School of Night, cleverly glides between the modes of traditional murder mystery and avant-garde theatre. As...  View details »
Ongoing
Louise Bourgeois
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Louise Bourgeois
@ Museum of Contemporary Art
Louise Bourgeois' deeply personal art combines an in-your-face sexuality with disturbing, even terrifying, imagery of trespassed flesh and violated privacy. Yet...  View details »
Ongoing
Kelsey Brookes
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Kelsey Brookes
@ New Image Art
San Diego artist Kelsey Brookes' recent work resembles the slashed daydreams of a flower child: bright swathes of colors splash onto...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Plush</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Plush
@ Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
Eagle Rock Center for the Arts' new group show, Plush, uses sculpture, video, and drawing to explore the excesses of the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Black Market at Black Maria: Skip the Mall
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Skip the Mall
@ Black Maria Gallery
For the fourth year in a row, Atwater's Black Maria Gallery pursues a simple but powerful idea for the holiday season,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Fortuna Rising: Gordy Grundy is the Messenger</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_23
Art
Gordy Grundy
@ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
William Hundley: <em>Draco</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art: Photography
William Hundley
@ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
Austin-based photographer William Hundley's work intervenes in reality, harnessing his inner trickster with the yoke of labor-intensive production. His staged and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Within Four Miles: The World of Josh Dorman</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Josh Dorman
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>
Month_11 Saturday Day_22
Art
Mexican Calendar Girls
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Little Dog Laughed</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_23
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Little Dog Laughed
@ Kirk Douglas Theatre
Hollywood and homophobia share the bill in The Little Dog Laughed, a comedy about Tinseltown hypocrisy and the veil of lies...  View details »
Ongoing