Events on Saturday, April 26
Saturday 4/26 @ McCabe's Guitar Shop
Singer/songwriter Peter Case brings his down-home, finger-picked folk rock to McCabe's this evening. The Buffalo-born Case has come a long way...
Start the Revolution Without Me and DuBarry Was a Lady
Saturday 4/26 @ The Getty Center
In conjunction with its ongoing exhibition Consuming Passion: Fragonard's Allegories of Love, the Getty Center has assembled a Versailles-themed film series...
Saturday 4/26 @ Spaceland
Sadly, the Joggers have been incubating since the release of 2005's With a Cape and a Cane. A smart indie-rock record...
Saturday 4/26 @ The Steve Allen Theater
David Cronenberg has created some of the most memorable cinematic moments in recent history (think Scanners or Eastern Promises). The Steve...
Ongoing Events
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Saturday 4/26 @ 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....
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside
This exhibition juxtaposes the work of idealist photographers Jeremy Kidd and Eric Curry, both of whom use digital manipulation in arresting...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ Theatre of NOTE
Erik Patterson's provocative play He Asked for It explores the dark underbelly of one-night stands: the HIV-indifferent behavior of "bug chasers."...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
Some of the most talented, recognizable practitioners of Carmichael Gallery's trademark urban-romantic aesthetic show new work in Witnessed from Afar. Highlights...
Saturday 4/26 @ Samuel Freeman
Cheeky artist Masami Teraoka is most famous for his ukiyo-e woodblock paintings, which combine Japanese imagery, themes from American culture, and...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ Bank
Los Angeles multimedia artist Martin Durazo curates this collection of work by 17 artists under the broad thematic umbrella of power...
Saturday 4/26 @ Various locations
The British are coming! But this time there's no need to run for cover, as the Cool Britannia crowd of expats...
Saturday 4/26 @ First Baptist Church
Out of 36 glass panels and multiple tonnage of cracked clay and resin, German artist Anselm Kiefer has created an illusion...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ Diavolo Dance Theatre
Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company is a repertory on a mission. The troupe offers workshops and classes as well as a...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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,...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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,...
Saturday 4/26 @ Telic Arts Exchange
More laboratory than art gallery, Telic Arts Exchange stages collaborative multimedia projects that invite curious audiences along for the ride. Its...
A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
Saturday 4/26 @ Gallery Luisotti
Photographer Catherine Wagner used the Baltimore Museum of Industry's impressive collection of lightbulbs as the inspiration for her latest exhibition, which...
Saturday 4/26 @ Various locations
Krzysztof Kieslowski may have set the bar too high for Polish cinema with his mid-'90s Three Colors trilogy. In the years...
Saturday 4/26 @ Black Maria Gallery
Not everyone's childhood memories contain happy-go-lucky images of bubblegum chewing and bicycle riding. As the artists in Black Maria Gallery's upcoming...
Saturday 4/26 @ Regen Projects II
After capturing the essence of SoCal beach life with her surfer portrait series, photographer Catherine Opie tackles another bastion of American...
Saturday 4/26 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
As part of an ambitious MOCA survey of the late Allan Kaprow, LACE hosts this short-run restaging of one of the...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ The Getty Center
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition...
Saturday 4/26 @ Rogue Machine
Jeffrey Hatcher's critically acclaimed comedy takes it first LA bow at Theatre Theatre's brand-new Rogue Machine stage. Inspired by a real...
Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
Saturday 4/26 @ LAXART
Los Angeles' Anna Sew Hoy takes inspiration from her medical-doctor father in her latest exhibition POW!, which focuses on the theme...
Saturday 4/26 @ Empire Polo Field
Dig, if you will, the picture: three days in the desert, 100-plus degree temperatures, and a Saturday headlining date with His...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ Unknown Theater
Director/choreographer Jennifer Li spins her theatrical yarn with a seamlessly integrated movement style and an ensemble of offbeat collaborators. For dirty...
Saturday 4/26 @ Hammer Museum
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ New Image Art
Anthony Lister's newest installation, strewn with pop-culture tragedies and unfortunate vagabonds, erupts in New Image Art's white-walled gallery space. Hailing from...
Saturday 4/26 @ See Line Gallery
New York artist Edgar Heap of Birds doesn't use text to support his visual aesthetic — the text is the aesthetic....
Saturday 4/26 @ Agnes B.
Filmmaker Harmony Korine's newest movie, Mister Lonely, follows a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living in a remote French castle with...
Saturday 4/26 @ Overtones Gallery
Upon graduating from art school and relocating to the city, local painter Christopher Chinn was struck by how intrepid artists would...
Saturday 4/26 @ Arclight Hollywood
In terms of its ticket sales and the number of movies released, the Indian film industry is the largest in the...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ SCI-Arc
"Merletti" means lace in Italian; for architects, it refers to the pattern of folds along a watchtower's defensive rims and other...
Saturday 4/26 @ REDCAT
CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information, and Technology, known for its support of rule-bending and border-crossing innovations in electronic music,...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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 4/26 @ UCLA Main Campus
Marking its 13th year of disproving the tired old saw about Angelenos not reading, the LA Times Festival of Books...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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,...
Saturday 4/26 @ REDCAT
Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
