All events on Saturday April 05

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Music: Rock/Pop
Dwight Trible
Saturday Apr 5 (8pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
Those swaying, pulsing Afro-jazzers known as Build an Ark are one of the most honest-to-goodness glorious bands in LA. Their live shows can cram up... View details »
Dwight Trible
Music: Rock/Pop
Groove Armada
Saturday Apr 5 (6pm) @ City Hall
Giveaway
Party catalysts Groove Armada take to the south lawn of LA's city hall. The last few years have been good to the UK-based duo, with... View details »
Groove Armada
Art
Brewery Artwalk
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–6pm) @ The Brewery More times »
Free
The Brewery is a sprawling complex of brick buildings that once housed beer makers. Now, it hosts several hundred studios occupied by painters, photographers, filmmakers,... View details »
Brewery Artwalk
Music
Connie Price
Saturday Apr 5 (9pm) @ Temple Bar
Ubiquity Records' Connie Price & the Keystones fuse rhymes, beats, and re-sampled live percussion to draw seamlessly from hip-hop and soul influences with a frequent... View details »
Connie Price
Music: DJ
Bootie LA
Saturday Apr 5 (9pm) @ Echoplex
Giveaway
Originally started in San Francisco, this monthly live mashup club fuses pop tunes with forgotten favorites, making it the only place where you can dance... View details »
Bootie LA
Art
Salomón Huerta
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–6pm) @ Patrick Painter Gallery More times »
Free
Salomón Huerta is one of LA's most popular painters — although personally, he seems somewhat reserved. His best-known works are smallish, finely detailed "portraits" of... View details »
Salomón Huerta
Art
Blek le Rat
Saturday Apr 5 (8–11pm) @ Subliminal Projects More times »
Opening
Free
Blek le Rat is known as the Parisian forefather of stencil and graffiti art. Nearly three decades ago, he plastered the City of Lights' meticulously... View details »
Blek le Rat
Art
David Trulli
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–6pm) @ Robert Berman Gallery D5 More times »
Free
No doubt David Trulli's former career as a cinematographer had an impact on his current work, as his scratchboard pieces exhibit a decidedly film-noir aesthetic.... View details »
David Trulli
Art
New London School
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–5pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery More times »
Free
Last year, London art-gallery impresarios Simon Rumley and Zavier Ellis curated The Future Can Wait, an ambitious group show spotlighting some of the city's most... View details »
New London School
Art
Ryan McLennan
Saturday Apr 5 (noon–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
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 side. In his latest... View details »
Ryan McLennan

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Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Saturday Apr 5 @ Various locations More times »
Free
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That, Amir Bar-Lev documents the... View details »
My Kid Could Paint That
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Saturday Apr 5 (10am–6pm) @ Peterson Automotive Museum More times »
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the need for expressing cultural... View details »
La Vida Lowrider
Art
Michael Asher
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–8pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art More times »
Rather than create new spaces and pieces, conceptual mixed-media artist Michael Asher prefers to deconstruct and punctuate extant spaces with found materials, creating a site-specific... View details »
Michael Asher
Art
First Generation
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art More times »
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than some great old houses... View details »
First Generation
Art
Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
Saturday Apr 5 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In addition to many gallery-caliber... View details »
Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
Saturday Apr 5 (noon–6pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his films took hundreds of... View details »
Alfred Hitchcock
Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups, "The grand seigneur of... View details »
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Art
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Saturday Apr 5 @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
This year's resurgent Dylanmania — from Todd Haynes' byzantine biopic, I'm Not There, to Murray Lerner's performance-driven documentary, The Other Side of the Mirror —... View details »
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Art: Photography
Freeze Frame
Saturday Apr 5 (noon–6pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides shooting spools of film... View details »
Freeze Frame
Art
The Imaginary 20th Century
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art presents 2,200 images from... View details »
The Imaginary 20th Century
Music: Rock/Pop
Ani DiFranco
Saturday Apr 5 (8pm) @ Orpheum Theatre More times »
Ani DiFranco's latest disc, Canon (the singer/songwriter's first retrospective recording), showcases the new mother's contribution to music — an influential career that's spawned 19 albums.... View details »
Ani DiFranco
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sweeney Todd
Saturday Apr 5 (2 & 8pm) @ Ahmanson Theatre More times »
Johnny Depp's acclaimed cinematic stab (ahem) at Mr. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has refreshed our memories on this tale of greed,... View details »
Sweeney Todd
Art
Kara Walker
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–7pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks a tense dialogue between... View details »
Kara Walker
Art
Nathan Mabry
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–6pm) @ Cherry and Martin More times »
Free
Spanish conquistadors beware: payback is a bitch. Nathan Mabry exacts Montezuma's revenge with irreverently styled bronze sculptures based on Pre-Columbian Moche ceramics and bedazzled Mixtec... View details »
Nathan Mabry
Art
Make Art/Stop AIDS
Saturday Apr 5 (noon–5pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA More times »
Free
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical awareness that the AIDS... View details »
Art
Alison Saar
Saturday Apr 5 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
Free
Though Los Angeles is her stomping ground, provocative painter/sculptress Alison Saar is internationally acclaimed. Daughter of the groundbreaking Betye Saar, whose intensely symbolic mixed-media assemblages... View details »
Alison Saar
Art
California Video
Saturday Apr 5 @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
As video art's growing reach now extends from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to commuters watching YouTube on their iPhones, the Getty... View details »
California Video
Art
Angela DeCristofaro
Saturday Apr 5 (noon–6pm) @ Commisary Arts More times »
Free
Like fellow Italian Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico, Angela DeCristofaro's paintings obscure reality with dreams and memories. Seemingly unrelated images find their way onto the same... View details »
Angela DeCristofaro
Art
Tony de los Reyes
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–6pm) @ Carl Berg Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles-based painter and sculptor Tony de los Reyes has more in common with 19th-century author Herman Melville than most politically savvy, academically trained artists.... View details »
Tony de los Reyes
Performing Arts: Dance
La La La Human Steps
Saturday Apr 5 (8pm) @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall More times »
Édouard Lock's souped-up, punk-infused choreography mixes intoxicating sweetness with freneticism to create dizzying tableaux of on-the-edge, gut-punch dance. La La La Human Steps last played... View details »
La La La Human Steps
More Flavor: City Gem
Vinum Populi
Saturday Apr 5 (5:30pm–1:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Vinum Populi, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one key... View details »
Vinum Populi
Art
Jeffrey Vallance
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–6pm) @ Track 16 Gallery More times »
Free
Extravagance, irony, and ephemera converge in five concurrent exhibitions. The focus is the 30th-anniversary celebration of Jeffery Vallance's performance piece Blinky the Friendly Hen. In... View details »
Jeffrey Vallance
Art
Mindy Shapero
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–6pm) @ Anna Helwing Gallery More times »
Free
Bright and brash, Mindy Shapero concocts sculptures with a childlike zeal: always curious and never satisfied. Her works seem like visual experiments in representing the... View details »
Mindy Shapero
Art
Ben Pruskin
Saturday Apr 5 (noon–6pm) @ PawnShop Gallery More times »
Free
Traditionally, bust portraiture has been a means of honoring those with wealth, power, and status; Ben Pruskin, however, believes that such depictions should be used... View details »
Ben Pruskin
Art
Aaron Smith
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery More times »
Free
The history of art may seem an obvious source of inspiration, but a new collection of paintings by LA's Aaron Smith flips the switch on... View details »
Aaron Smith
Art
Las Vegas Diaspora
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–5pm) @ Laguna Art Museum More times »
Dave Hickey has one of the most original minds in the contemporary art world. His best-selling collection of critical essays, Air Guitar, built bridges between... View details »
Las Vegas Diaspora
Art
Cal Lane
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman More times »
Free
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 dumpsters and shovels, into... View details »
Cal Lane
Art
Eddie Ruscha
Friday Apr 25 @ High Energy Constructs More times »
Free
Armageddon looms at Eddie Ruscha Jr.'s debut solo show. The son of the pop-art icon pairs psychedelic works on canvas and paper with a cosmic... View details »
Eddie Ruscha
Art
Good Doll Bad Doll
Saturday Apr 5 (noon–5pm) @ Armory Center for the Arts More times »
Free
ArtForum critic and independent curator Michael Duncan encourages childish behavior in Good Doll Bad Doll, an exhibition featuring modern and contemporary artists who use dolls... View details »
Good Doll Bad Doll
Art: Photography
A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
Saturday Apr 5 (10:30am–6pm) @ Gallery Luisotti More times »
Free
Photographer Catherine Wagner used the Baltimore Museum of Industry's impressive collection of lightbulbs as the inspiration for her latest exhibition, which focuses on the illuminating... View details »
A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
Art
Christopher Chinn
Saturday Apr 5 (noon–6pm) @ Overtones Gallery More times »
Free
Upon graduating from art school and relocating to the city, local painter Christopher Chinn was struck by how intrepid artists would often share their Skid... View details »
Christopher Chinn
Art
Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–6pm) @ LAXART More times »
Free
Los Angeles' Anna Sew Hoy takes inspiration from her medical-doctor father in her latest exhibition POW!, which focuses on the theme of physical injury, treatment,... View details »
Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
Art
Wayne White
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–5pm) @ Western Project More times »
Free
Billed as "punk Mark Twain defiance," Wayne White's latest show features the recent collection of his famous word paintings and sculptures. White uses phrases like... View details »
Wayne White
Art
The Color of Life
Saturday Apr 5 (10am–9pm) @ The Getty Villa More times »
Free
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only in tones of white... View details »
The Color of Life
Art
Anything Could Happen...
Saturday Apr 5 (2–7pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art More times »
Free
In the group show Anything Could Happen..., five international artists get together to celebrate the vibrancy of contemporary street art. From sobering reflections on inequality... View details »
Anything Could Happen...
Art
Anne-Laure Sacriste
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–6pm) @ Chung King Project More times »
Free
For her debut solo bow in the United States, French artist Anne-Laure Sacriste shows new large-scale paintings at Chung King Project. Her haunting paintings are... View details »
Anne-Laure Sacriste
Art
Edgar Heap of Birds
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–6pm) @ See Line Gallery More times »
Free
New York artist Edgar Heap of Birds doesn't use text to support his visual aesthetic — the text is the aesthetic. In his exhibition at... View details »
Edgar Heap of Birds
Art
Sarajo Frieden
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–5pm) @ Little Bird Gallery More times »
Free
That Sarajo Frieden's Los Angeles studio is at the nexus of Koreatown, Little Armenia, and Thai Town makes perfect sense after you see her mixed-media... View details »
Sarajo Frieden
Art
Gravity Art
Saturday Apr 5 (noon–6pm) @ Telic Arts Exchange More times »
Free
More laboratory than art gallery, Telic Arts Exchange stages collaborative multimedia projects that invite curious audiences along for the ride. Its current exhibition, Gravity Art,... View details »
Gravity Art
Art
Robert Crumb
Saturday Apr 5 @ David Lawrence Gallery More times »
Free
Since his early days drawing for Zap Comix, Robert Crumb has made quite a name for himself as the comic world's favorite enfant terrible; with... View details »
Robert Crumb
Art
Max Miceli
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–5pm) @ Milo Gallery More times »
Free
Two-parts pop to one-part folk, Max Miceli's landscapes and portraits force viewers to examine the relationships between man and beast, industry and nature, and abstraction... View details »
Max Miceli
Art
HEF
Saturday Apr 5 (noon–6pm) @ JAIL Gallery More times »
Free
Hef. The single syllable alone conjures up images of smoking jackets and decadent mansion parties. Exploring that imagery, a group of artists at JAIL Gallery... View details »
HEF
Art: Architecture/Design
Elena Manferdini
Saturday Apr 5 (10am–6pm) @ SCI-Arc More times »
Free
"Merletti" means lace in Italian; for architects, it refers to the pattern of folds along a watchtower's defensive rims and other secure rooftops. In Elena... View details »
Elena Manferdini
Art
MFA #2
Saturday Apr 5 (10am–6pm) @ New Wight Gallery, UCLA More times »
Free
Each year, the stellar Fine Arts Department at UCLA stages multi-part exhibitions of its final-year MFA students, and this year's second act opens tonight with... View details »
MFA #2
Art
Toys
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–6pm) @ Gallery 1988 More times »
Free
Watching kids fry their eyeballs playing video games can make some of us feel old. There was a time when board games and Matchbox cars... View details »
Toys
Art
Yumiko Kayukawa
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–9pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
Japanese artist Yumiko Kayukawa's work is a fine example of what happens when East meets West. In Kayukawa's world, young women are erotic, sought-after creatures... View details »
Yumiko Kayukawa
Art: Photography
Here Is Where You'll Find Me
Saturday Apr 5 (noon–10pm) @ The Lab 101 Gallery More times »
Free
As the much-beloved Polaroid photograph takes its final bow, David Horvitz and Flavorpill editor Ashley Tibbits harness the medium's lo-fi grace for their own artistic... View details »
Here Is Where You'll Find Me
Art
Immigration Stories
Saturday Apr 5 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space More times »
Free
Atwater Village's Pounder-Koné Art Space uses color as the great communicator, gathering work from its favorite underappreciated overseas artists with a homegrown sophistication. The UK's... View details »
Immigration Stories
Art
Panopti(con)
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–5pm) @ Bank More times »
Free
Los Angeles multimedia artist Martin Durazo curates this collection of work by 17 artists under the broad thematic umbrella of power and authority. The exhibition's... View details »
Panopti(con)
Art
Anselm Kiefer
Saturday Apr 5 (noon–6pm) @ First Baptist Church More times »
Free
Out of 36 glass panels and multiple tonnage of cracked clay and resin, German artist Anselm Kiefer has created an illusion (as well as an... View details »
Anselm Kiefer
Art
Mark Bradford
Saturday Apr 5 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious galleries and museums, but... View details »
Mark Bradford
Art: Photography
Ten Years in Focus
Saturday Apr 5 (10am–9pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition draws parallels between photography... View details »
Ten Years in Focus