Events on Saturday, March 8
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Premiere Events Center
All artists need to start somewhere, and Create:Fixate provides just such a jumping-off place with Transformation. The arts org's multi-tiered extravaganza...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ The Smell
Spazz-punk band the Mae Shi follow in the footsteps of LA faves No Age, building their fan base through unremittingly energetic...
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Saturday 3/ 8 @ Le SuperWash Coin Laundry
Heidi Duckler's Collage Dance Theatre first lept onto the scene in 1988 with a clever little site-specific piece in, on, and...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 3/ 8 @ project: gallery
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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ PawnShop Gallery
Traditionally, bust portraiture has been a means of honoring those with wealth, power, and status; Ben Pruskin, however, believes that such...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Claremont Museum of Art
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Charlie O's at the Alexandria
Point Break LIVE! at Charlie O's is like a traveling Shakespearean theatre troupe — only the royal court is a downtown...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ High Energy Constructs
One of Chinatown's most interesting emerging galleries, High Energy Constructs inaugurated its space with an exhibition by David Brady. Two years...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
Miami-based painter and self-proclaimed "frustrated scientist" Julie Davidow presents a series of new works that embody the interactions between man and...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Various Chinatown galleries
As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Commisary Arts
Like fellow Italian Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico, Angela DeCristofaro's paintings obscure reality with dreams and memories. Seemingly unrelated images find their...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ GR2
GR2 combines the artistic minds of Katherine Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush for a group show of anti-monumental proportions. Discarding...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Gagosian Gallery
Neo-expressionist aesthete and, most recently, award-winning feature-film director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) takes a break from the...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Found Gallery
Indie-rock star by night and assemblage artist by day, Cold War Kids bassist Matt Maust reveals his dual personality in his...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Hammer Museum
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Milo Gallery
With leaked sex tapes and nude photos of celebrities comprising a billion-dollar industry, David Touster's new work couldn't be more humorous...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Eight-year-old Amelia is crafting a 14-song cycle about her dog Peppi, but her mate Palace is more of a metal head....
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
In 2001, Colorado-based artist Evan Hecox inaugurated Culver City's Kinsey/DesForges gallery. Now he returns in a show that highlights how they...
Everything But the Kitschen Sync
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Powerhouse Theatre
If you only have time this month to see one dark-comedy dance spectacular about a dystopian future in which sex-craved, man-eating...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Bandini Art
In his new series of work, painter Luke Whitlatch offers a meditation on both the emotional events that define human life...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ The Getty Villa
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Richard Heller Gallery
The organic forms that populate Mel Kadel's drawings have begun to grow in scale, creeping toward the edges of the sheet...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Racism, jealousy, and betrayal form the backdrop of Shakespeare's penultimate tragedy, Othello. The stakes of the story are set even higher...
Miguel Osuna and Sam Seawright
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Landscape paintings from Mexican artist Miguel Osuna have a photographic sensibility. His California landscapes possess all the fleeting romance of a...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Anna Helwing Gallery
Bright and brash, Mindy Shapero concocts sculptures with a childlike zeal: always curious and never satisfied. Her works seem like visual...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Telic Arts Exchange
More laboratory than art gallery, Telic Arts Exchange stages collaborative multimedia projects that invite curious audiences along for the ride. Its...
MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Exhibition
Saturday 3/ 8 @ MAK Center Schindler House
MAK Center residents Sabine Müller and Andreas Quednau, Hank Schmidt in der Beek, Bernhard Eder and Theresa Krenn, and Johann Neumeister...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ [delete] The Met Theatre
Before her untimely death at the tragic age of 28, socialite, heiress, and fledgling film star Edie Sedgwick was Andy Warhol's...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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,...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ epOxybOx
Celebrated surf photographer Tom Servais comes to Venice Beach's original "green" gallery for his debut fine-art exhibition. Servais is known for...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ The Manual Archives
Puppet theatre is back with a vengeance, and Susan Simpson, director/designer/writer of Concrete Folk Variations, turns the genre on its little...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Los Angeles artist Frohawk Two Feathers makes fanciful, avant-folk paintings featuring a cast of singularly imaginative characters. For his latest collection...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
With the creative ingenuity of a mad doctor and the unwieldy imagination of a five-year old, installation artist Adam Janes unveils...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ [delete]
This private-residence-turned-gallery's latest offering, Projection, interprets the titular concept both literally and figuratively in an ambitious multimedia group show. The works...
There We Were, Now Here We Are
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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,...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Honor Fraser
In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Theatre of NOTE
Stadium Devildare is billed as "a tale of future sport... America to the extreme" — and indeed, Ruth Margraff's play pushes...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
"Interdisciplinary" is an understatement when it comes to Brooklyn-based artist Wynne Greenwood: she's known for melding performance, installation, video, and two-dimensional...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ REDCAT
Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 8 @ 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,...
