All events on Saturday March 29

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More Flavor: Festival
Roxy Chicken Jam
Saturday Mar 29 (2pm) @ Mammoth Mountain
Free
While it's an open question what "Chicken Jam" means, it's crystal clear why Roxy and Mammoth Mountain tapped local indie darlings the Silversun Pickups to... View details »
Roxy Chicken Jam
Art: Architecture/Design
Fritz Haeg
Saturday Mar 29 (3pm) @ MOCA at the Pacific Design Center
Free
Fritz Haeg wears many hats. Originally trained as an architect, he can also list horticulturalist, artist, designer, and author on his resume. In 2005, he... View details »
Fritz Haeg
More Flavor: Benefit
Buy a Gay Bachelor
Saturday Mar 29 (8pm) @ Fake Gallery
Hollywood's well-manicured claws come out as the hottest gay men in Los Angeles are auctioned off for a good cause. Former Playgirl Man of the... View details »
Buy a Gay Bachelor
Music: Rock/Pop
Roy Ayers
Saturday Mar 29 (8pm–1am) @ Crash Mansion
Roy Ayers is America's premier living vibraphone player. His genre-jumping career spans four decades and has encompassed jazz, funk, world beat, and, since the advent... View details »
Roy Ayers
Film
Young Directors' Night
Saturday Mar 29 (5–10pm) @ Bing Theater
A struggling filmmaker trying to get a first film off the ground could do a lot worse than this for an audience. At the LACMA... View details »
Young Directors' Night
Art
HEF
Saturday Mar 29 (noon–6pm) @ JAIL Gallery More times »
Free
Hef. The single syllable alone conjures up images of smoking jackets and decadent mansion parties. Exploring that imagery, a group of artists at JAIL Gallery... View details »
HEF
Music: Hip-Hop
GZA
Saturday Mar 29 (8pm) @ El Rey
Giveaway
GZA stands for "God Zig-Zag-Zig Allah" in the Supreme Alphabet. But to most, he's simply "the Genius." The Brooklyn artist and founding Wu-Tang member is... View details »
GZA
Art
Cannibal Flower
Saturday Mar 29 (9pm–1am) @ Hangar 1018
Cannibal Flower's unique mega-group multimedia-exhibition programs fill its space with cultural innovation and eager minds. The Flower is best known for its collaborations, unified artistic... View details »
Cannibal Flower
Art
Hollywood Apocalypse!
Saturday Mar 29 (7–10pm) @ Black Maria Gallery
Free
Hollywood Apocalypse! couldn't have come at a better time, given LA's emergence from the writers-strike rubble. Black Maria Gallery's competitive exhibition invites artists to breathe... View details »
Hollywood Apocalypse!
Art
Mark Bradford
Saturday Mar 29 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious galleries and museums, but... View details »
Mark Bradford

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Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Saturday Mar 29 @ 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 29 @ 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 29 (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
Art
Michael Asher
Saturday Mar 29 (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
Art
Rosson Crow
Saturday Mar 29 (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
Art
First Generation
Saturday Mar 29 (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
Art
Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
Saturday Mar 29 (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
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
Saturday Mar 29 (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 29 (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!
Art
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Saturday Mar 29 @ 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 29 (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
Art
The Imaginary 20th Century
Saturday Mar 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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
Art
Nathan Mabry
Saturday Mar 29 (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 29 (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 »
Art
Alison Saar
Saturday Mar 29 (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
Art
California Video
Saturday Mar 29 @ 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
Art: Photography
Tom Servais
Saturday Mar 29 (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 29 (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
Art
Angela DeCristofaro
Saturday Mar 29 (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
Art
Tony de los Reyes
Saturday Mar 29 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Carnage, a Comedy
Saturday Mar 29 (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
Vinum Populi
Saturday Mar 29 (5:30pm–1:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Vinum Populi, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one key... View details »
Vinum Populi
Art
Toby Ziegler
Saturday Mar 29 (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
Art
Jeffrey Vallance
Saturday Mar 29 (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
Art
Mindy Shapero
Saturday Mar 29 (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
Art
Ben Pruskin
Saturday Mar 29 (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
Art
Aaron Smith
Saturday Mar 29 (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
Art
Matt Maust & Matt Wignall
Saturday Mar 29 (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
Art
Las Vegas Diaspora
Saturday Mar 29 (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
Art
Everything But the Kitschen Sync
Saturday Mar 29 (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 29 (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
Art
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 29 (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 29 (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 29 (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
Art
KuKula
Saturday Mar 29 (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
Art
Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
Saturday Mar 29 (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
Art
Wayne White
Saturday Mar 29 (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 29 (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
Art
Anything Could Happen...
Saturday Mar 29 (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...
Art
Anne-Laure Sacriste
Saturday Mar 29 (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
Art
Edgar Heap of Birds
Saturday Mar 29 (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
Art
Sarajo Frieden
Saturday Mar 29 (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 29 (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
Art
Robert Crumb
Saturday Mar 29 @ 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
Art
The Long Weekend
Saturday Mar 29 (7pm) @ Phantom Galleries LA in Pasadena More times »
Free
With artists like Takashi Murakami slapping color on Louis Vuitton handbags, the line between art and commerce is becoming increasingly blurred. In response to the... View details »
The Long Weekend
Art
Max Miceli
Saturday Mar 29 (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
Performing Arts: Spoken Word
Mike Daisey
Saturday Mar 29 (8pm) @ Samueli Theatre More times »
Listening to monologist Mike Daisey feels like sitting in on an evangelist sermon, circa 1964 — except that instead of preaching about heaven and sin,... View details »
Mike Daisey
Art: Architecture/Design
Elena Manferdini
Saturday Mar 29 (10am–6pm) @ SCI-Arc More times »
Free
"Merletti" means lace in Italian; for architects, it refers to the pattern of folds along a watchtower's defensive rims and other secure rooftops. In Elena... View details »
Elena Manferdini
Art: Photography
Here Is Where You'll Find Me
Saturday Mar 29 (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 29 (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
Art
Panopti(con)
Saturday Mar 29 (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)
Art: Photography
Ten Years in Focus
Saturday Mar 29 (10am–9pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition draws parallels between photography... View details »
Ten Years in Focus