Events on Saturday, April 19

Splash! A Festival of Mermaids and the Sea

Festival: Performing Arts

Splash!

Saturday 4/19 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

The Fowler hosts this afternoon's costume-optional festival of mermaids and other angels of the sea in conjunction with the museum's ongoing... 

State Bird at Pehrspace

Music

State Bird

Saturday 4/19 @ Pehrspace

Somehow, Echo Park art-and-performance space Pehrspace has successfully built a home for visual art and independent music in the back of... 

Festival: Performing Arts

Skylight Salon

Saturday 4/19 @ Skylight Books

Eat your heart out, 17th-century Paris — the literary salon has been reborn in the cozy maze of Los Feliz's Skylight... 

Fingered

Dance

Fingered

Saturday 4/19 @ Charlie O's at the Alexandria

Hysteria Dance Company designer Ryan Heffington and his troupe of busy avant-garde dancers take over Charlie O's for this month's Fingered... 

[SOLD OUT] Sarah Silverman: South Toward Home Benefit Concert

Special Event: Benefit

[SOLD OUT] Sarah Silverman

Saturday 4/19 @ The Troubadour

Sarah Silverman goes where others fear to tread, performing take-no-prisoners standup routines that regularly make audiences split their sides (or struggle... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art: Photography

Freeze Frame

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

David Trulli

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Saturday 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ Telic Arts Exchange

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

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

Art

The Color of Life

Saturday 4/19 @ 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>New London School</em>

Art

New London School

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Saturday 4/19 @ The Getty Center

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

The Ash Grove 50th Anniversary: <em>Legend and Legacy</em>

Music

Legend and Legacy

Saturday 4/19 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall

Tonight's UCLA Live concert commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Ash Grove, the legendary folk-music club that defined '50s- and '60s-era... 

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

Art

Las Vegas Diaspora

Saturday 4/19 @ 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>My Kid Could Paint That</i>

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Saturday 4/19 @ 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>Icon</em>: The Nature of Worship In Contemporary Culture

Art

Icon

Saturday 4/19 @ DCA Fine Art

In Icon, two innovative, European-born painters explore the concept of worship in postmodernist life. Bogdan Dumitrica's portraits of animals and pop-art... 

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

Art

Salomón Huerta

Saturday 4/19 @ 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,... 

Bent Festival 2008

Art

Bent Festival

Saturday 4/19 @ California Plaza

If Chucky the homicidal doll had gotten a scholarship to Juilliard and developed an obsession with John Cage instead of murder,... 

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

Art

Angela DeCristofaro

Saturday 4/19 @ Commisary Arts

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

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

Art: Photography

A Narrative History of the Light Bulb

Saturday 4/19 @ 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>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 4/19 @ 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... 

Elena Manferdini: <em>Merletti</em>

Art

Elena Manferdini

Saturday 4/19 @ 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>Lights! Camera! Glamour!</em>

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Saturday 4/19 @ 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,... 

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

Art: Photography

Ten Years in Focus

Saturday 4/19 @ The Getty Center

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

LA Contemporary Dance Company: <em>Modern Myths and Monsters</em>

Dance

Modern Myths and Monsters

Saturday 4/19 @ Diavolo Dance Theatre

Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company is a repertory on a mission. The troupe offers workshops and classes as well as a... 

Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy

Art

Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy

Saturday 4/19 @ LAXART

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

<em>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

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

Film

Alfred Hitchcock

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

Yumiko Kayukawa: Extinction

Art

Yumiko Kayukawa

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

<em>Beyond the Call </em>(2006)

Film

Beyond the Call

Saturday 4/19 @ Laemmle's Grande 4-Plex

Director/producer/cinematographer Adrian Belic follows 1999's Academy Award-nominated documentary Genghis Blues (about blind musician Paul Peña's relationship with Tuvan throat-singers) with a... 

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

Art

Christopher Chinn

Saturday 4/19 @ Overtones Gallery

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

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

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Saturday 4/19 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

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

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

Art

Ryan McLennan

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

Andr&eacute; Ethier and Cathy Akers

Art

André Ethier and Cathy Akers

Saturday 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ 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... 

Sue-Ling Hyde

Art

Sue-Ling Hyde

Saturday 4/19 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

Sue-Ling Hyde is more than a pretty face. You might recognize her from modeling gigs with Shiseido, Versus, and Moshino, but... 

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

Art

Max Miceli

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

Randall Sellers and Evah Fan

Art

Randall Sellers and Evah Fan

Saturday 4/19 @ Richard Heller Gallery

Consummate visual storyteller Evah Fan continues her Scheherazade-like seduction with a new batch of works at Richard Heller Gallery. Her small... 

Art

Make Art/Stop AIDS

Saturday 4/19 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

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

<em>Panopti(con)</em>

Art

Panopti(con)

Saturday 4/19 @ Bank

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

<em>HEF</em>

Art

HEF

Saturday 4/19 @ Jail Gallery

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

Masami Teraoka

Art

Masami Teraoka

Saturday 4/19 @ Samuel Freeman

Cheeky artist Masami Teraoka is most famous for his ukiyo-e woodblock paintings, which combine Japanese imagery, themes from American culture, and... 

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

Art

First Generation

Saturday 4/19 @ Claremont Museum of Art

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

Jason Martin: <em>Oceania</em>

Art

Jason Martin

Saturday 4/19 @ LA Louver Gallery

The title of UK painter Jason Martin's latest exhibition evokes the South Pacific's warm, breezy environs — but his abstract, mostly... 

<em>dirty mean tricks</em>

Dance

dirty mean tricks

Saturday 4/19 @ Unknown Theater

Director/choreographer Jennifer Li spins her theatrical yarn with a seamlessly integrated movement style and an ensemble of offbeat collaborators. For dirty... 

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

Art

Eddie Ruscha

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

<em>California Video </em>

Art

California Video

Saturday 4/19 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Anything Could Happen...

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

<em>Toys</em>

Art

Toys

Saturday 4/19 @ Gallery 1988

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

<em>Lush</em>

Art

Lush

Saturday 4/19 @ Salon Oblique

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

<em>Good Doll Bad Doll </em>

Art

Good Doll Bad Doll

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs

Saturday 4/19 @ 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.... 

Anselm Kiefer: <em>Palmsonntag</em>

Art

Anselm Kiefer

Saturday 4/19 @ First Baptist Church

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

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

Art: Photography

Catherine Opie

Saturday 4/19 @ Regen Projects II

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

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

Art

The Imaginary 20th Century

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

Saturday 4/19 @ Natural History Museum

Pavilion of Wings returns to the Natural History Museum for the exhibition's tenth anniversary. Now, anyone jealous of the Shins' experience... 

Theatre

Personality Crisis

Saturday 4/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

Edgar Heap of Birds

Saturday 4/19 @ See Line Gallery

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

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

Art: Photography

Mister Lonely

Saturday 4/19 @ Agnes B.

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