Events on Saturday, April 12

South American Cooking Class

Food/Wine

South American Cooking Class

Saturday 4/12 @ Ciudad

Known for downtown restaurant Ciudad's sultry Latin fare, Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger dish their secrets at this weekend's special... 

Meat Beat Manifesto w/ Raz Mesinai's Badawi

Music

Meat Beat Manifesto

Saturday 4/12 @ El Rey

Since forming in Swindon in 1987, Meat Beat Manifesto have toyed with breaks, techno, industrial, dub, and everything in between, carving... 

David Cronenberg Retrospective: <em>Dead Ringers</em> (1988)

Film

Dead Ringers

Saturday 4/12 @ The Steve Allen Theater

Although director David Cronenberg's recent A History of Violence and Eastern Promises have been relatively accessible affairs, his first films were... 

<em>Nu-Soul</em> Magazine & NextAid present FUSION feat. Samantha James and Black Spade

Music

Samantha James

Saturday 4/12 @ Skinny's Lounge

LA-based nonprofit NextAid and Nu-Soul magazine curate FUSION, a party thrown in support of African children who have been orphaned by... 

Hotel Cafe Tour feat. Ingrid Michaelson, Cary Brothers, Jesca Hoop, Priscilla Ahn, Greg Laswell, and Jim Bianco

Music

Hotel Cafe Tour

Saturday 4/12 @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater

Ongoing Events

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

Art: Photography

Freeze Frame

Saturday 4/12 @ 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... 

Anne-Laure Sacriste

Art

Anne-Laure Sacriste

Saturday 4/12 @ 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.... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Saturday 4/12 @ 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 4/12 @ Telic Arts Exchange

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

Yumiko Kayukawa: Extinction

Art

Yumiko Kayukawa

Saturday 4/12 @ La Luz de Jesus

Japanese artist Yumiko Kayukawa's work is a fine example of what happens when East meets West. In Kayukawa's world, young women... 

Ryan McLennan: <em>From Fur to Bone</em>

Art

Ryan McLennan

Saturday 4/12 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery

While Ryan McLennan's Audubon-inspired drawings of woodland animals seem innocent enough, the graphite-and-acrylic works on paper reveal the animal kingdom's vicious... 

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

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Saturday 4/12 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

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

LA Art Weekend

Art

LA Art Weekend

Saturday 4/12 @ Various LA galleries & museums

Black Frame and ForYourArt present the first annual LA Art Weekend festival. From the premiere of Laurie Anderson's new piece, Homeland,... 

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

Art

The Imaginary 20th Century

Saturday 4/12 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Ten Years in Focus

Saturday 4/12 @ The Getty Center

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

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

Art

Anything Could Happen...

Saturday 4/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

Eddie Ruscha

Saturday 4/12 @ 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... 

Brent Stewart: <em>Mister Lonely</em>

Art: Photography

Mister Lonely

Saturday 4/12 @ Agnes B.

Filmmaker Harmony Korine's newest movie, Mister Lonely, follows a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living in a remote French castle with... 

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

Art

Angela DeCristofaro

Saturday 4/12 @ Commisary Arts

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

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

Art

Max Miceli

Saturday 4/12 @ 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>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 4/12 @ 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>Panopti(con)</em>

Art

Panopti(con)

Saturday 4/12 @ Bank

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

Michael Asher

Art

Michael Asher

Saturday 4/12 @ 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... 

Elena Manferdini: <em>Merletti</em>

Art

Elena Manferdini

Saturday 4/12 @ 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>100% Other: Artists and Psycho-Demographic Transitions</em>

Art

100% Other

Saturday 4/12 @ 18th Street Arts Center

For the next installment of Future of Nations exhibition series 100% Other, curator Tyler Stallings asked artists Matthew Bryant, Cheryl Gilge,... 

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

Art

Tony de los Reyes

Saturday 4/12 @ 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... 

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

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Saturday 4/12 @ 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,... 

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

Film

Alfred Hitchcock

Saturday 4/12 @ 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... 

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

Art

Wayne White

Saturday 4/12 @ 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>Lush</em>

Art

Lush

Saturday 4/12 @ Salon Oblique

With Lush, West Side sensation Salon Oblique upholds its growing reputation for intellectually and aesthetically engaging multimedia group exhibitions. As in... 

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

Art

Christopher Chinn

Saturday 4/12 @ Overtones Gallery

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

<em>Toys</em>

Art

Toys

Saturday 4/12 @ Gallery 1988

Watching kids fry their eyeballs playing video games can make some of us feel old. There was a time when board... 

Anselm Kiefer: <em>Palmsonntag</em>

Art

Anselm Kiefer

Saturday 4/12 @ First Baptist Church

Out of 36 glass panels and multiple tonnage of cracked clay and resin, German artist Anselm Kiefer has created an illusion... 

<em>Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs

Saturday 4/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center

Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs looks at Israel's female citizenry as a reflection of the state's 60-year history of independence.... 

Complexions Contemporary Ballet

Dance

Complexions Contemporary Ballet

Saturday 4/12 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Complexions is a dynamic New York dance collective led by artistic directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson. The company's populist appeal... 

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

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Saturday 4/12 @ 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,... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Saturday 4/12 @ 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>Aur&eacute;lia's  Oratorio</em>

Theatre

Aurélia's Oratorio

Saturday 4/12 @ Freud Playhouse

Aurélia Thierrée stars in a circus-theatre spectacle of retro, sideshow-style wonderment. Thierrée's parents invented Le Cirque Bonjour, which is credited as... 

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

Art

Cal Lane

Saturday 4/12 @ 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>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Saturday 4/12 @ Materials & Applications

M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents... 

Art

Make Art/Stop AIDS

Saturday 4/12 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

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

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

Art

Edgar Heap of Birds

Saturday 4/12 @ See Line Gallery

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

<em>HEF</em>

Art

HEF

Saturday 4/12 @ Jail Gallery

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

David Trulli: <em>All Lines Busy</em>

Art

David Trulli

Saturday 4/12 @ Robert Berman Gallery D5

No doubt David Trulli's former career as a cinematographer had an impact on his current work, as his scratchboard pieces exhibit... 

<em>New London School</em>

Art

New London School

Saturday 4/12 @ Mark Moore Gallery

Last year, London art-gallery impresarios Simon Rumley and Zavier Ellis curated The Future Can Wait, an ambitious group show spotlighting some... 

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

Art

The Color of Life

Saturday 4/12 @ The Getty Villa

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

Andr&eacute; Ethier and Cathy Akers

Art

André Ethier and Cathy Akers

Saturday 4/12 @ Honor Fraser

Toronto-based André Ethier's grotesque, surreal paintings are psychedelic allegories illustrating misconceptions about modern history and culture. In his latest collection, Vancouver... 

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

Art

Kara Walker

Saturday 4/12 @ Hammer Museum

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

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

Art

Bob Dylan's American Journey

Saturday 4/12 @ 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... 

<em>Immigration Stories</em>

Art

Immigration Stories

Saturday 4/12 @ 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... 

Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy

Art

Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy

Saturday 4/12 @ LAXART

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

Japan Film Festival

Film

Japan Film Festival

Saturday 4/12 @ Various locations

The blessing and curse of international cultural exchange is that the influx of exotic, unfamiliar art can be a bit overwhelming,... 

<em>Good Doll Bad Doll </em>

Art

Good Doll Bad Doll

Saturday 4/12 @ 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... 

Salom&oacute;n Huerta: <em>Mask</em>

Art

Salomón Huerta

Saturday 4/12 @ Patrick Painter Gallery

Salomón Huerta is one of LA's most popular painters — although personally, he seems somewhat reserved. His best-known works are smallish,... 

LA vs WAR

Art

LA vs WAR

Saturday 4/12 @ The Firehouse

The LA vs War festival takes over the area around the classic downtown firehouse to create a forum for artists and... 

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

Art: Photography

A Narrative History of the Light Bulb

Saturday 4/12 @ Gallery Luisotti

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

Theatre

Personality Crisis

Saturday 4/12 @ The Raven Playhouse

Academia and egomania collide in Rick Mitchell's Personality Crisis, a play that takes aim at the recent phenomenon of authors seeking... 

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

Art

First Generation

Saturday 4/12 @ Claremont Museum of Art

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

Catherine Opie: <em>Highschool Football</em>

Art: Photography

Catherine Opie

Saturday 4/12 @ Regen Projects II

After capturing the essence of SoCal beach life with her surfer portrait series, photographer Catherine Opie tackles another bastion of American... 

Very Short Movies Festival

Film

Very Short Movies Festival

Saturday 4/12 @ Cinespace

As Internet video, indie film, and broadcast TV continue merging in today's new-media world, the Very Short Movies Festival gets in... 

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

Art

Las Vegas Diaspora

Saturday 4/12 @ 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... 

<em>California Video </em>

Art

California Video

Saturday 4/12 @ 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,...