Events on Saturday, March 29

Roxy Chicken Jam feat. Silversun Pickups

Festival: Performing Arts

Roxy Chicken Jam

Saturday 3/29 @ Mammoth Mountain

While it's an open question what "Chicken Jam" means, it's crystal clear why Roxy and Mammoth Mountain tapped local indie darlings... 

<em>Hollywood Apocalypse!</em>

Art

Hollywood Apocalypse!

Saturday 3/29 @ Black Maria Gallery

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... 

GZA performs <em>Liquid Swords</em>

Music: Hip-Hop

GZA

Saturday 3/29 @ El Rey

GZA stands for "God Zig-Zag-Zig Allah" in the Supreme Alphabet. But to most, he's simply "the Genius." The Brooklyn artist and... 

Fritz Haeg: <em>Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn</em>

Art

Fritz Haeg

Saturday 3/29 @ MOCA at the Pacific Design Center

Fritz Haeg wears many hats. Originally trained as an architect, he can also list horticulturalist, artist, designer, and author on his... 

Homenaje feat. Roy Ayers, Najite, and J.Rocc

Music

Roy Ayers

Saturday 3/29 @ 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,... 

Cannibal Flower

Art

Cannibal Flower

Saturday 3/29 @ 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... 

LACMA Muse Young Directors' Night

Film

Young Directors' Night

Saturday 3/29 @ Bing Theater

A struggling filmmaker trying to get a first film off the ground could do a lot worse than this for an... 

Buy a Gay Bachelor

Special Event: Benefit

Buy a Gay Bachelor

Saturday 3/29 @ Bang Comedy Theatre

Hollywood's well-manicured claws come out as the hottest gay men in Los Angeles are auctioned off for a good cause. Former... 

Ongoing Events

Art

Make Art/Stop AIDS

Saturday 3/29 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical... 

Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy

Art

Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy

Saturday 3/29 @ LAXART

Los Angeles' Anna Sew Hoy takes inspiration from her medical-doctor father in her latest exhibition POW!, which focuses on the theme... 

Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>

Art

Mark Bradford

Saturday 3/29 @ 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... 

<em>Gravity Art </em>

Art

Gravity Art

Saturday 3/29 @ Telic Arts Exchange

More laboratory than art gallery, Telic Arts Exchange stages collaborative multimedia projects that invite curious audiences along for the ride. Its... 

Max Miceli: <em>Hard Icing</em>

Art

Max Miceli

Saturday 3/29 @ Milo Gallery

Two-parts pop to one-part folk, Max Miceli's landscapes and portraits force viewers to examine the relationships between man and beast, industry... 

<em>First Generation: Art in Claremont 1907-1957</em>

Art

First Generation

Saturday 3/29 @ Claremont Museum of Art

Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than... 

Hiromi Tsuchida: <em>Photographs 1969-2004 </em>

Art: Photography

Hiromi Tsuchida

Saturday 3/29 @ Michael Dawson Gallery

Renowned Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida has trained his lens on facets of ordinary life throughout his lengthy career. Tsuchida's first solo... 

<em>Sweeney Todd</em>

Theatre

Sweeney Todd

Saturday 3/29 @ Ahmanson Theatre

Johnny Depp's acclaimed cinematic stab (ahem) at Mr. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has refreshed our memories on... 

Tony de los Reyes: <em>Ahab's America</em>

Art

Tony de los Reyes

Saturday 3/29 @ Carl Berg Gallery

Los Angeles-based painter and sculptor Tony de los Reyes has more in common with 19th-century author Herman Melville than most politically... 

Elena Manferdini: <em>Merletti</em>

Art

Elena Manferdini

Saturday 3/29 @ SCI-Arc

"Merletti" means lace in Italian; for architects, it refers to the pattern of folds along a watchtower's defensive rims and other... 

<em>Two Lines Align</em>: Drawings by Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge

Art

Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge

Saturday 3/29 @ REDCAT

Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In... 

Art

Everything But the Kitschen Sync

Saturday 3/29 @ La Luz de Jesus

The type of work that's usually celebrated at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, located inside Wacko (the Costco of kitsch), is... 

<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Saturday 3/29 @ Various locations

An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That,... 

Ben Pruskin

Art

Ben Pruskin

Saturday 3/29 @ PawnShop Gallery

Traditionally, bust portraiture has been a means of honoring those with wealth, power, and status; Ben Pruskin, however, believes that such... 

Anne-Laure Sacriste

Art

Anne-Laure Sacriste

Saturday 3/29 @ Chung King Project

For her debut solo bow in the United States, French artist Anne-Laure Sacriste shows new large-scale paintings at Chung King Project.... 

<em>Here Is Where You'll Find Me</em>: Small Photographs by Ashley Tibbits & David Horvitz

Art: Photography

Here Is Where You'll Find Me

Saturday 3/29 @ The Lab 101 Gallery

As the much-beloved Polaroid photograph takes its final bow, David Horvitz and Flavorpill editor Ashley Tibbits harness the medium's lo-fi grace... 

<em>A Narrative History of the Light Bulb</em>

Art: Photography

A Narrative History of the Light Bulb

Saturday 3/29 @ Gallery Luisotti

Photographer Catherine Wagner used the Baltimore Museum of Industry's impressive collection of lightbulbs as the inspiration for her latest exhibition, which... 

<em>Carnage, a Comedy</em>

Theatre

Carnage, a Comedy

Saturday 3/29 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre

Twenty years after Carnage's wildly successful premiere, the Gang revives Adam Simon and Tim Robbins' play with frightening vitality and acerbic... 

<em>The Imaginary 20th Century</em>

Art

The Imaginary 20th Century

Saturday 3/29 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art... 

Tom Servais: <em>el&middot;e&middot;men&middot;tal</em>

Art: Photography

Tom Servais

Saturday 3/29 @ epOxybOx

Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for... 

Matt Maust & Matt Wignall: <em>Your Alimony Won't Buy a Bigger Room</em>

Art

Matt Maust & Matt Wignall

Saturday 3/29 @ Found Gallery

Indie-rock star by night and assemblage artist by day, Cold War Kids bassist Matt Maust reveals his dual personality in his... 

Mindy Shapero

Art

Mindy Shapero

Saturday 3/29 @ Anna Helwing Gallery

Bright and brash, Mindy Shapero concocts sculptures with a childlike zeal: always curious and never satisfied. Her works seem like visual... 

<em>Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera</em>

Art: Photography

Ten Years in Focus

Saturday 3/29 @ The Getty Center

In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition... 

<em>Freeze Frame: Five Decades of Photographs by Douglas Kirkland</em>

Art: Photography

Freeze Frame

Saturday 3/29 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides... 

Eddie Ruscha: <em>THIS IS IT!</em>

Art

Eddie Ruscha

Saturday 3/29 @ High Energy Constructs

Armageddon looms at Eddie Ruscha Jr.'s debut solo show. The son of the pop-art icon pairs psychedelic works on canvas and... 

Robert Crumb: <em>Cr&egrave;me de la Crumb</em>

Art

Robert Crumb

Saturday 3/29 @ David Lawrence Gallery

Since his early days drawing for Zap Comix, Robert Crumb has made quite a name for himself as the comic world's... 

Christopher Chinn: <em>On the Row</em>

Art

Christopher Chinn

Saturday 3/29 @ Overtones Gallery

Upon graduating from art school and relocating to the city, local painter Christopher Chinn was struck by how intrepid artists would... 

Sarajo Frieden: <em>Another Green World</em>

Art

Sarajo Frieden

Saturday 3/29 @ Little Bird Gallery

That Sarajo Frieden's Los Angeles studio is at the nexus of Koreatown, Little Armenia, and Thai Town makes perfect sense after... 

Michael Asher

Art

Michael Asher

Saturday 3/29 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art

Rather than create new spaces and pieces, conceptual mixed-media artist Michael Asher prefers to deconstruct and punctuate extant spaces with found... 

Rosson Crow: <em>Night at the Palomino</em>

Art

Rosson Crow

Saturday 3/29 @ Honor Fraser

In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection... 

<em>The Long Weekend</em>

Art

The Long Weekend

Saturday 3/29 @ Phantom Galleries LA in Pasadena

With artists like Takashi Murakami slapping color on Louis Vuitton handbags, the line between art and commerce is becoming increasingly blurred.... 

Nathan Mabry

Art

Nathan Mabry

Saturday 3/29 @ Cherry and Martin

Spanish conquistadors beware: payback is a bitch. Nathan Mabry exacts Montezuma's revenge with irreverently styled bronze sculptures based on Pre-Columbian Moche... 

<em>The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present </em>

Art

The Color of Life

Saturday 3/29 @ The Getty Villa

Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only... 

<em>Immigration Stories</em>

Art

Immigration Stories

Saturday 3/29 @ Pounder-Koné Art Space

Atwater Village's Pounder-Koné Art Space uses color as the great communicator, gathering work from its favorite underappreciated overseas artists with a... 

<em>Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art from the Neon Homeland</em>

Art

Las Vegas Diaspora

Saturday 3/29 @ Laguna Art Museum

Dave Hickey has one of the most original minds in the contemporary art world. His best-selling collection of critical essays, Air... 

<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>

Art

SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s

Saturday 3/29 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California... 

Angela DeCristofaro: <em>Wake</em>&nbsp;

Art

Angela DeCristofaro

Saturday 3/29 @ Commisary Arts

Like fellow Italian Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico, Angela DeCristofaro's paintings obscure reality with dreams and memories. Seemingly unrelated images find their... 

Wayne White: <em>Drop the Country Boy Act</em>

Art

Wayne White

Saturday 3/29 @ Western Project

Billed as "punk Mark Twain defiance," Wayne White's latest show features the recent collection of his famous word paintings and sculptures.... 

<em>HEF</em>

Art

HEF

Saturday 3/29 @ Jail Gallery

Hef. The single syllable alone conjures up images of smoking jackets and decadent mansion parties. Exploring that imagery, a group of... 

<em>Panopti(con)</em>

Art

Panopti(con)

Saturday 3/29 @ Bank

Los Angeles multimedia artist Martin Durazo curates this collection of work by 17 artists under the broad thematic umbrella of power... 

<em>Lights! Camera! Glamour!</em>

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Saturday 3/29 @ California Heritage Museum

George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups,... 

Alison Saar: <em>Hither</em>

Art

Alison Saar

Saturday 3/29 @ LA Louver Gallery

Though Los Angeles is her stomping ground, provocative painter/sculptress Alison Saar is internationally acclaimed. Daughter of the groundbreaking Betye Saar, whose... 

Faith47, Johnny Yanok, Joulu, Mike Kershnar, and Misery: <em>Anything Could Happen...</em>

Art

Anything Could Happen...

Saturday 3/29 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art

In the group show Anything Could Happen..., five international artists get together to celebrate the vibrancy of contemporary street art. From... 

Jeffrey Vallance w/ James Goodwin, Laurie Hassold, Marjan Hormozi, Dave Shulman, and Scotty Vera

Art

Jeffrey Vallance

Saturday 3/29 @ Track 16 Gallery

Extravagance, irony, and ephemera converge in five concurrent exhibitions. The focus is the 30th-anniversary celebration of Jeffery Vallance's performance piece Blinky... 

Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Saturday 3/29 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... 

<em>Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film</em>

Film

Alfred Hitchcock

Saturday 3/29 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his... 

Cal Lane: <em>Sweet Crude</em>

Art

Cal Lane

Saturday 3/29 @ Samuel Freeman

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... 

<em>California Video </em>

Art

California Video

Saturday 3/29 @ The Getty Center

As video art's growing reach now extends from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to commuters watching YouTube on their iPhones,... 

<em>Good Doll Bad Doll </em>

Art

Good Doll Bad Doll

Saturday 3/29 @ Armory Center for the Arts

ArtForum critic and independent curator Michael Duncan encourages childish behavior in Good Doll Bad Doll, an exhibition featuring modern and contemporary... 

Edgar Heap of Birds: <em>Moving With the Storm</em>

Art

Edgar Heap of Birds

Saturday 3/29 @ See Line Gallery

New York artist Edgar Heap of Birds doesn't use text to support his visual aesthetic — the text is the aesthetic.... 

Tim Bavington: <em>There We Were, Now Here We Are</em>

Art

There We Were, Now Here We Are

Saturday 3/29 @ Mark Moore Gallery

LA artist Tim Bavington reinvents the once-obsolete "stripe painting" with hometown verve. Bavington incorporates sound into many of his dense compositions,... 

<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Saturday 3/29 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... 

Mike Daisey: <em>Monopoly!</em>

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

Mike Daisey

Saturday 3/29 @ Samueli Theatre

Listening to monologist Mike Daisey feels like sitting in on an evangelist sermon, circa 1964 — except that instead of preaching... 

Kara Walker: <em>My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love</em>

Art

Kara Walker

Saturday 3/29 @ Hammer Museum

Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks... 

Toby Ziegler: <em>The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse</em>

Art

Toby Ziegler

Saturday 3/29 @ Patrick Painter Gallery

Toby Ziegler's work is full of dichotomies. For his new collection of painting and sculpture in Patrick Painter's West Gallery, the... 

KuKula: <em>Dreamcatcher</em>

Art

KuKula

Saturday 3/29 @ Thinkspace Gallery

For Dreamcatcher, KuKula's first solo showing at Thinkspace, the Israeli-born artist paints eerily charming images of little girl dolls, Disney-esque forest... 

Aaron Smith: <em>Estofada</em>

Art

Aaron Smith

Saturday 3/29 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery

The history of art may seem an obvious source of inspiration, but a new collection of paintings by LA's Aaron Smith... 

<em>Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966</em>

Art

Bob Dylan's American Journey

Saturday 3/29 @ Skirball Cultural Center

This year's resurgent Dylanmania — from Todd Haynes' byzantine biopic, I'm Not There, to Murray Lerner's performance-driven documentary, The Other Side...