All events on Saturday March 22

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Music: DJ
Audion
Saturday Mar 22 (10pm–7am) @ Avalon Hollywood
Matthew Dear takes to the turntables in Hollywood under his dance-floor pseudonym Audion. As a live performer, he combines a talent for flooring crowds (at... View details »
Audion
Art
Anything Could Happen...
Saturday Mar 22 (2–7pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art More times »
Free
In the group show Anything Could Happen..., five international artists get together to celebrate the vibrancy of contemporary street art. From sobering reflections on inequality... View details »
Anything Could Happen...
Music: Rock/Pop
Vikter Duplaix
Saturday Mar 22 (9pm) @ Temple Bar
The word "label" is apparently not in Vikter Duplaix's vocabulary: as a producer, DJ, vocalist, and songwriter, he's always defied convention. Fittingly, his recent masterpiece,... View details »
Vikter Duplaix
Music: Rock/Pop
The Black Ghosts
Saturday Mar 22 (9pm) @ Echoplex
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Simon Lord, one half of the Black Ghosts, may not be a household name; but unless you've been trapped in a panic room for the... View details »
The Black Ghosts
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Anne-Laure Sacriste
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–6pm) @ Chung King Project More times »
Free
For her debut solo bow in the United States, French artist Anne-Laure Sacriste shows new large-scale paintings at Chung King Project. Her haunting paintings are... View details »
Anne-Laure Sacriste
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Edgar Heap of Birds
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–6pm) @ See Line Gallery More times »
Free
New York artist Edgar Heap of Birds doesn't use text to support his visual aesthetic — the text is the aesthetic. In his exhibition at... View details »
Edgar Heap of Birds
Music: Rock/Pop
Gravy Train!!!!
Saturday Mar 22 (8pm) @ The Troubadour
Kitschy, wacky glam-pop is the preferred mode of expression for Gravy Train!!!!, the Oakland-based quartet obscenely assaulting the stage at the Troubadour this evening. The... View details »
Gravy Train!!!!
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Max Miceli
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–5pm) @ Milo Gallery More times »
Free
Two-parts pop to one-part folk, Max Miceli's landscapes and portraits force viewers to examine the relationships between man and beast, industry and nature, and abstraction... View details »
Max Miceli
Art: Photography
Here Is Where You'll Find Me
Saturday Mar 22 (noon–10pm) @ The Lab 101 Gallery More times »
Free
As the much-beloved Polaroid photograph takes its final bow, David Horvitz and Flavorpill editor Ashley Tibbits harness the medium's lo-fi grace for their own artistic... View details »
Here Is Where You'll Find Me
Art
Immigration Stories
Saturday Mar 22 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space More times »
Free
Atwater Village's Pounder-Koné Art Space uses color as the great communicator, gathering work from its favorite underappreciated overseas artists with a homegrown sophistication. The UK's... View details »
Immigration Stories
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Panopti(con)
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–5pm) @ Bank More times »
Free
Los Angeles multimedia artist Martin Durazo curates this collection of work by 17 artists under the broad thematic umbrella of power and authority. The exhibition's... View details »
Panopti(con)

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SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Saturday Mar 22 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art More times »
Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments historicizes the "evolution"... View details »
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Saturday Mar 22 @ Various locations More times »
Free
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That, Amir Bar-Lev documents the... View details »
My Kid Could Paint That
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Saturday Mar 22 (10am–6pm) @ Peterson Automotive Museum More times »
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the need for expressing cultural... View details »
La Vida Lowrider
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Michael Asher
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–8pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art More times »
Rather than create new spaces and pieces, conceptual mixed-media artist Michael Asher prefers to deconstruct and punctuate extant spaces with found materials, creating a site-specific... View details »
Michael Asher
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Rosson Crow
Saturday Mar 22 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
Free
In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection of paintings. Despite the... View details »
Rosson Crow
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First Generation
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art More times »
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than some great old houses... View details »
First Generation
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Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
Saturday Mar 22 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In addition to many gallery-caliber... View details »
Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
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Yun Bai
Saturday Mar 22 (noon–6pm) @ Art Murmur Gallery More times »
Free
Rising LA artist Yun Bai and her alter ego Yunny Bunny converge in this smashing show. Bai splits herself in two: while the artist is... View details »
Yun Bai
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
Saturday Mar 22 (noon–6pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his films took hundreds of... View details »
Alfred Hitchcock
Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups, "The grand seigneur of... View details »
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
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Bob Dylan's American Journey
Saturday Mar 22 @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
This year's resurgent Dylanmania — from Todd Haynes' byzantine biopic, I'm Not There, to Murray Lerner's performance-driven documentary, The Other Side of the Mirror —... View details »
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Art: Photography
Freeze Frame
Saturday Mar 22 (noon–6pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides shooting spools of film... View details »
Freeze Frame
Performing Arts: Theatre
Victory
Saturday Mar 22 (8pm) @ The Fountain Theatre More times »
South African playwright Athol Fugard's work demonstrates the power of theatre to incite social transformation. Fugard's plays have addressed the subject of Apartheid with remarkable... View details »
Victory
Art
The Imaginary 20th Century
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art presents 2,200 images from... View details »
The Imaginary 20th Century
Art: Photography
Hiromi Tsuchida
Saturday Mar 22 (10am–5pm) @ Michael Dawson Gallery More times »
Free
Renowned Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida has trained his lens on facets of ordinary life throughout his lengthy career. Tsuchida's first solo exhibition in the US... View details »
Hiromi Tsuchida
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sweeney Todd
Saturday Mar 22 (2 & 8pm) @ Ahmanson Theatre More times »
Johnny Depp's acclaimed cinematic stab (ahem) at Mr. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has refreshed our memories on this tale of greed,... View details »
Sweeney Todd
Art
Kara Walker
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–7pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks a tense dialogue between... View details »
Kara Walker
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Nathan Mabry
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–6pm) @ Cherry and Martin More times »
Free
Spanish conquistadors beware: payback is a bitch. Nathan Mabry exacts Montezuma's revenge with irreverently styled bronze sculptures based on Pre-Columbian Moche ceramics and bedazzled Mixtec... View details »
Nathan Mabry
Art
Make Art/Stop AIDS
Saturday Mar 22 (noon–5pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA More times »
Free
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical awareness that the AIDS... View details »
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Alison Saar
Saturday Mar 22 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
Free
Though Los Angeles is her stomping ground, provocative painter/sculptress Alison Saar is internationally acclaimed. Daughter of the groundbreaking Betye Saar, whose intensely symbolic mixed-media assemblages... View details »
Alison Saar
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California Video
Saturday Mar 22 @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
As video art's growing reach now extends from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to commuters watching YouTube on their iPhones, the Getty... View details »
California Video
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Tessar Lo and Chris Devera
Saturday Mar 22 (noon–6pm) @ project: gallery More times »
Free
This Valentine's Day, project: gallery presents Tessar Lo and Chris Devera, two illustrator/artists whose imagination-gone-wild paintings never hesitate to take things too far. Lo draws... View details »
Tessar Lo and Chris Devera
Art: Photography
Tom Servais
Saturday Mar 22 (10am–6pm) @ epOxybOx More times »
Free
Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for his creative documentation of... View details »
Tom Servais
Art
There We Were, Now Here We Are
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–5pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery More times »
Free
LA artist Tim Bavington reinvents the once-obsolete "stripe painting" with hometown verve. Bavington incorporates sound into many of his dense compositions, assigning a musical note... View details »
There We Were, Now Here We Are
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Angela DeCristofaro
Saturday Mar 22 (noon–6pm) @ Commisary Arts More times »
Free
Like fellow Italian Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico, Angela DeCristofaro's paintings obscure reality with dreams and memories. Seemingly unrelated images find their way onto the same... View details »
Angela DeCristofaro
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Tony de los Reyes
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–6pm) @ Carl Berg Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles-based painter and sculptor Tony de los Reyes has more in common with 19th-century author Herman Melville than most politically savvy, academically trained artists.... View details »
Tony de los Reyes
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Adam Janes
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–6pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery More times »
Free
With the creative ingenuity of a mad doctor and the unwieldy imagination of a five-year old, installation artist Adam Janes unveils Don't Sweat the Small... View details »
Adam Janes
Performing Arts: Theatre
Carnage, a Comedy
Saturday Mar 22 (8pm) @ The Actors' Gang Theatre More times »
Twenty years after Carnage's wildly successful premiere, the Gang revives Adam Simon and Tim Robbins' play with frightening vitality and acerbic absurdity to spare. The... View details »
Carnage, a Comedy
More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Saturday Mar 22 (5:30pm–1:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one... View details »
Ugo Wine Bar
Art
Julian Schnabel
Saturday Mar 22 (10am–5:30pm) @ Gagosian Gallery More times »
Free
Neo-expressionist aesthete and, most recently, award-winning feature-film director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) takes a break from the red carpet with a... View details »
Julian Schnabel
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Toby Ziegler
Saturday Mar 22 (10am–6pm) @ Patrick Painter Gallery More times »
Free
Toby Ziegler's work is full of dichotomies. For his new collection of painting and sculpture in Patrick Painter's West Gallery, the British artist can't decide... View details »
Toby Ziegler
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Evan Hecox
Saturday Mar 22 (noon–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
In 2001, Colorado-based artist Evan Hecox inaugurated Culver City's Kinsey/DesForges gallery. Now he returns in a show that highlights how they have each evolved. In... View details »
Evan Hecox
Performing Arts: Dance
Backhausdance at the Barclay
Saturday Mar 22 (8pm) @ Irvine Barclay Theatre More times »
Over the past five years, Jennifer Backhaus has nabbed her share of Lester Horton Awards for her company's finely polished productions. Along the way, Backhausdance... View details »
Backhausdance at the Barclay
Art
Jeffrey Vallance
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–6pm) @ Track 16 Gallery More times »
Free
Extravagance, irony, and ephemera converge in five concurrent exhibitions. The focus is the 30th-anniversary celebration of Jeffery Vallance's performance piece Blinky the Friendly Hen. In... View details »
Jeffrey Vallance
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Mindy Shapero
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–6pm) @ Anna Helwing Gallery More times »
Free
Bright and brash, Mindy Shapero concocts sculptures with a childlike zeal: always curious and never satisfied. Her works seem like visual experiments in representing the... View details »
Mindy Shapero
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Ben Pruskin
Saturday Mar 22 (noon–6pm) @ PawnShop Gallery More times »
Free
Traditionally, bust portraiture has been a means of honoring those with wealth, power, and status; Ben Pruskin, however, believes that such depictions should be used... View details »
Ben Pruskin
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Aaron Smith
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery More times »
Free
The history of art may seem an obvious source of inspiration, but a new collection of paintings by LA's Aaron Smith flips the switch on... View details »
Aaron Smith
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Matt Maust & Matt Wignall
Saturday Mar 22 (1–5pm) @ Found Gallery More times »
Free
Indie-rock star by night and assemblage artist by day, Cold War Kids bassist Matt Maust reveals his dual personality in his show at Found Gallery.... View details »
Matt Maust & Matt Wignall
Performing Arts: Theatre
Stadium Devildare
Saturday Mar 22 (8pm) @ Theatre of NOTE More times »
Stadium Devildare is billed as "a tale of future sport... America to the extreme" — and indeed, Ruth Margraff's play pushes the country's obsessions (fame,... View details »
Stadium Devildare
Art
Las Vegas Diaspora
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–5pm) @ Laguna Art Museum More times »
Dave Hickey has one of the most original minds in the contemporary art world. His best-selling collection of critical essays, Air Guitar, built bridges between... View details »
Las Vegas Diaspora
Performing Arts: Theatre
Death of a Sugar Daddy
Saturday Mar 22 (2 & 8pm) @ The Manual Archives More times »
Puppet theatre is back with a vengeance, and Susan Simpson, director/designer/writer of Concrete Folk Variations, turns the genre on its little wooden head. In part... View details »
Death of a Sugar Daddy
Art
Everything But the Kitschen Sync
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–9pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
The type of work that's usually celebrated at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, located inside Wacko (the Costco of kitsch), is usually irreverent, curious, and... View details »
Art
Cal Lane
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman More times »
Free
The beauty of Canadian-born, New York-based artist Cal Lane's work is in its remarkable juxtapositions. Lane transforms anything-but-delicate objects, such as dumpsters and shovels, into... View details »
Cal Lane
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Eddie Ruscha
Friday Apr 25 @ High Energy Constructs More times »
Free
Armageddon looms at Eddie Ruscha Jr.'s debut solo show. The son of the pop-art icon pairs psychedelic works on canvas and paper with a cosmic... View details »
Eddie Ruscha
Art
Good Doll Bad Doll
Saturday Mar 22 (noon–5pm) @ Armory Center for the Arts More times »
Free
ArtForum critic and independent curator Michael Duncan encourages childish behavior in Good Doll Bad Doll, an exhibition featuring modern and contemporary artists who use dolls... View details »
Good Doll Bad Doll
Art: Photography
A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
Saturday Mar 22 (10:30am–6pm) @ Gallery Luisotti More times »
Free
Photographer Catherine Wagner used the Baltimore Museum of Industry's impressive collection of lightbulbs as the inspiration for her latest exhibition, which focuses on the illuminating... View details »
A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
Art
Christopher Chinn
Saturday Mar 22 (noon–6pm) @ Overtones Gallery More times »
Free
Upon graduating from art school and relocating to the city, local painter Christopher Chinn was struck by how intrepid artists would often share their Skid... View details »
Christopher Chinn
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KuKula
Saturday Mar 22 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery More times »
Free
For Dreamcatcher, KuKula's first solo showing at Thinkspace, the Israeli-born artist paints eerily charming images of little girl dolls, Disney-esque forest creatures, and blossoming flowers.... View details »
KuKula
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Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–6pm) @ LAXART More times »
Free
Los Angeles' Anna Sew Hoy takes inspiration from her medical-doctor father in her latest exhibition POW!, which focuses on the theme of physical injury, treatment,... View details »
Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
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Wayne White
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–5pm) @ Western Project More times »
Free
Billed as "punk Mark Twain defiance," Wayne White's latest show features the recent collection of his famous word paintings and sculptures. White uses phrases like... View details »
Wayne White
Art
The Color of Life
Saturday Mar 22 (10am–9pm) @ The Getty Villa More times »
Free
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only in tones of white... View details »
The Color of Life
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Sarajo Frieden
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–5pm) @ Little Bird Gallery More times »
Free
That Sarajo Frieden's Los Angeles studio is at the nexus of Koreatown, Little Armenia, and Thai Town makes perfect sense after you see her mixed-media... View details »
Sarajo Frieden
Art
Gravity Art
Saturday Mar 22 (noon–6pm) @ Telic Arts Exchange More times »
Free
More laboratory than art gallery, Telic Arts Exchange stages collaborative multimedia projects that invite curious audiences along for the ride. Its current exhibition, Gravity Art,... View details »
Gravity Art
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Robert Crumb
Saturday Mar 22 @ David Lawrence Gallery More times »
Free
Since his early days drawing for Zap Comix, Robert Crumb has made quite a name for himself as the comic world's favorite enfant terrible; with... View details »
Robert Crumb