Events on Saturday, December 20
Saturday 12/20 @ Sunset Plaza Mansion
It's hard to believe the third Winter Reunion music festival's outrageous shenanigans won't attract unwarranted attention from the authorities, but, somehow,...
Saturday 12/20 @ The Mountain Bar
Party Scammers' shindigs include the annual RPS (rock-paper-scissors) Rumble, '80s dance floor workouts, Tetris tournaments, hoedowns, drunken drawing competitions, and nostalgic...
Saturday 12/20 @ The Stronghold
In tandem with a wave of December events surrounding World AIDS Day, New York's world-funk party Turntables on the Hudson teams...
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Saturday 12/20 @ Studio 528
'Twas a case of poetic justice for a contemporary holiday classic: conceived by goth director (and Burbank native) Tim Burton as...
Ongoing Events
Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker
Saturday 12/20 @ Bob Baker Marionette Theater
In the early '60s, Bob Baker and partner Alton Wood founded a marionette theater, establishing what has become the longest-running children's...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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 12/20 @ New Image Art
New Image Art stages an imaginative collection of works by the Date Farmers (aka Coachella Valley's Carlos Ramirez and Armando Lerma)....
Saturday 12/20 @ The Company
The economy be damned: amid a spate of gallery closings, it's still full speed ahead for the fearless founders of the...
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Saturday 12/20 @ The Getty Center
In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and...
Saturday 12/20 @ Applegate Gallery
Applegate Gallery stays up late with a group show featuring a choice selection of gallery artists that includes Mark Hobley, Britt...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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 12/20 @ 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,...
Saturday 12/20 @ Cherry and Martin
Whatever outfit they sport, leisurely activity they pursue, or unearthly landscape they inhabit, Coulis' men are never revealed as themselves (and...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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 12/20 @ 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 12/20 @ Subliminal Projects
One of the best-known names in street photography, Glen Friedman produces jaunty, richly printed black-and-white portraits of skate, punk, and indie...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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 12/20 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ Regen Projects
The first of this winter's pair of Raymond Pettibon exhibitions at Regen Projects focused on early monochromatic, pop-culture infused pen-and-ink drawings....
Saturday 12/20 @ Thinkspace Gallery
Thinkspace Gallery presents new works by artists whose street-based achievements reveal impassioned stratagems on top of fundamental creative impulses. Conceived in...
Saturday 12/20 @ Samuel Freeman
Each of the six artists assembled in this Samuel Freeman group exhibition is a master of the watercolor medium. Bucking tradition,...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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 12/20 @ 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,...
Saturday 12/20 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
99¢ Only Calendar Girl Competition
Saturday 12/20 @ Bootleg Theater
Bargain-hunting beauty queens and dollar store Don Juans convene as Bootleg Theatre pays homage to LA's kitschy holiday headquarters. The 99¢...
Saturday 12/20 @ Lightbox Gallery
In sacred and profane, Los Angeles-based artist George Stoll expands upon his traditional examination of everyday Americana. Objects such as his...
Saturday 12/20 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
Saturday 12/20 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
While some traditions are made to be broken, others are simply too opulent to ignore. Washing away the rigors of the...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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 12/20 @ C4 Gallery
Marquetry is an ages-old technique of applying wood veneers to solid surfaces, popular among extremely wealthy Europeans in the time of...
Saturday 12/20 @ Armory Center for the Arts
With At the Brewery Project: 1993-2007: the Finale, the Armory pays its respects to an LA art mainstay. For the past...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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 12/20 @ 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 12/20 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
Written and directed by the Actors' Gang's own Angela Berliner, Scrooge Must Die! offers an X-rated reading of Charles Dickens' classic...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre
Hollywood and homophobia share the bill in The Little Dog Laughed, a comedy about Tinseltown hypocrisy and the veil of lies...
Evan B. Harris and Catherine Ryan
Saturday 12/20 @ Cerasoli-LeBasse Gallery
This month, Cerasoli-LeBasse Gallery presents a pair of exhibitions depicting imaginary lands, pairing the work by Evan Harris in the main...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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 12/20 @ Sandroni Rey
Fascinated by homo-eroticism and inspired by mythology and classic fiction, Miami painter Hernan Bas' tableaux present an enchanted world of roaming...
David McDonald, Annie Wharton, and Jason David
Saturday 12/20 @ Jail Gallery
Essentially three concurrent solo shows, this trio of installations by LA artists shares impulses ranging from gentle mockery to intellectualized deconstruction,...
Saturday 12/20 @ Benjamin Trigano Gallery
A suite of digitally collaged fantasmagorias from German artist Martin Denker, Citizenoftheplanet shows us what it would be like to see...
Saturday 12/20 @ Art/Works Theatre
For the first half of the 20th century, Le Theatre du Grand Guignol in Paris reigned as the predominant purveyor of...
Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ Pasadena Central Library
Art Center College of Design students direct their communications prowess towards human rights, presenting 25 emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line...
