All events on Saturday June 21

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Music: Rock/Pop
The Virgins
Saturday June 21 (7:30pm) @ The Wiltern
Spawned from a meeting-of-the-models in the fantasy land of Ryan McGinley's photographs, the Virgins have been recording and performing together for just over a year... View details »
The Virgins
Art
Peter Saul
Saturday June 21 (8–10pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
Opening
Peter Saul, who hit his artistic stride mid-century during America's pop-art movement, has become best known of late as a creator of work that's part... View details »
Peter Saul
Art: Photography
Harry Benson
Saturday June 21 (6–8pm) @ David Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
As the Beatles greeted New York City's cold winter weather for the first time in 1964, looming in their shadows was Scottish photographer Harry Benson.... View details »
Harry Benson
Music: Rock/Pop
Save New Wave
Saturday June 21 (6pm) @ Gibson Amphitheatre
Sure, we all wish that the Cure, Morrissey, Depeche Mode, and Oingo Boingo would join forces and put on the ultimate '80s concert. But until... View details »
Save New Wave
Art
Darkness Will Find You
Saturday June 21 (6–10pm) @ JAIL Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
Sculptor, video artist, and (increasingly often) independent curator Michael Dee is something of a conceptual punster; his own work in plastic abstract forms and layered... View details »
Darkness Will Find You
Art
Contemporary Art from India
Saturday June 21 (5–8pm) @ d.e.n. contemporary art More times »
Opening
Free
A single definition of Indian contemporary art is tricky to pin down, as one might expect when funneling the widely varying creative output from any... View details »
Contemporary Art from India
Art
MiniWorX
Saturday June 21 (7pm–midnight) @ Ghettogloss More times »
Opening
Free
The Art Directors Guild IA Local 800 is a deliriously talented group of production designers, art directors, and scenic, title, and graphic artists — all... View details »
MiniWorX
Music: Rock/Pop
Lightspeed Champion
Saturday June 21 (8pm) @ The Troubadour
You may know Devonte Hynes as a member of the abrasive, now-defunct Test Icicles, but his new project, Lightspeed Champion, is a band of a... View details »
Lightspeed Champion
Art
The Juxtapoz Factor
Saturday June 21 (7–11pm) @ Laguna Art Museum More times »
Opening
To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as little surprise that some... View details »
The Juxtapoz Factor
Art
Dennis Koch & Claudia Nieto
Saturday June 21 (6–9pm) @ High Energy Constructs More times »
Opening
Free
Angelinos Dennis Koch and Claudia Nieto work on the same plane — the flat one. Utilizing the simplest of all media, paper and colored pencil,... View details »
Dennis Koch & Claudia Nieto
Art
Ami Tallman
Saturday June 21 (6–9pm) @ See Line Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
Ami Tallman's Fauvist palette, her love of extreme decor, and her penchant for historical research each feed into her interiors and still lifes. Tallman's compositions... View details »
Ami Tallman
Art
Flaunt
Saturday June 21 (7:30–10:30pm) @ Junc Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
This annual exhibition at Junc typically features new work by both its most promising emerging talents and good-old standbys. The 2008 edition acts as a... View details »
Flaunt
Music: Rock/Pop
Make Music Pasadena
Saturday June 21 (10am–10pm) @ Paseo Colorado
Free
With so many free shows in so few hours, Make Music Pasadena's bill is as impressive as it is overwhelming. In addition to local heroes... View details »
Make Music Pasadena
More Flavor: Lecture
Master of the Mysteries
Saturday June 21 (noon) @ Philosophical Research Society
Canadian-born Manly P. Hall was one of the world's most prolific writers on mysticism, mythology, and the occult. He founded the Philosophical Research Society in... View details »
Master of the Mysteries
Art
BANG! Fully Loaded
Saturday June 21 (noon–6pm) @ Remy's on Temple More times »
Free
BANG! Fully Loaded sits at the intersection of the group art show, the modern penchant for excavating problematic historical/cultural symbols, and urban culture's taste for... View details »
BANG! Fully Loaded
Art
Gravity & Transformation
Saturday June 21 (noon–6pm) @ Kristi Engle Gallery More times »
Free
The world of art is one place where the laws of physics do not apply, and LA-based artist Suzanne Adelman assembles a group exhibition that... View details »
Gravity & Transformation

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Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Saturday June 21 (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!
More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Saturday June 21 (5:30pm–1:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one... View details »
Ugo Wine Bar
Art
The Color of Life
Saturday June 21 (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: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
Saturday June 21 @ Materials & Applications More times »
Free
M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents the central challenge, as... View details »
Phalanstery Module
Art: Photography
Newer Topographics
Saturday June 21 (noon–5pm) @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside More times »
This exhibition juxtaposes the work of idealist photographers Jeremy Kidd and Eric Curry, both of whom use digital manipulation in arresting multimedia and photographic works.... View details »
Newer Topographics
Art
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Saturday June 21 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon More times »
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum... View details »
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Art
Mexican Calendar Girls
Saturday June 21 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The color-soaked exhibition comprises a... View details »
Mexican Calendar Girls
Art
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
Saturday June 21 (11am–6pm) @ LAXART More times »
Free
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo, both making their solo debuts in Los Angeles, meditate on the meaning of objects in human life. Lopez's The Year... View details »
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
Art
Blood & Glitter
Saturday June 21 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
Free
Co-curated by Patrick Painter Gallery's Heather Harmon and Bandini's own Ashley McLean Emenegger, Blood & Glitter is a group exhibition about the seductive dangers of... View details »
Blood & Glitter
Art
Culmination
Saturday June 21 (noon–6pm) @ Morono Kiang Gallery More times »
Free
As Internet galleries and portfolio sites make it increasingly easy to navigate the deep waters of the international emerging art scene, the prevalence of Chinese... View details »
Performing Arts: Opera
Tosca
Saturday June 21 (7:30pm) @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion More times »
Still feeling the love from last month's star-studded tribute to his 40 years in Los Angeles, Plácido Domingo returns to the stage to conduct Giacomo... View details »
Art
Jerome Witkin
Saturday June 21 (10am–5pm) @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts More times »
Free
Many art critics and scholars consider Jerome Witkin to be America's greatest living figurative painter. His portraits and landscapes combine an unerring eye for detail,... View details »
Jerome Witkin
Art
The Puppet Show
Saturday June 21 (11am–8pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art More times »
SMMoA gathers an eclectic array of work by 30 impressive artists — from Kara Walker to Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Nauman, and Kiki Smith — in... View details »
The Puppet Show
Art
Vexing
Saturday June 21 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art More times »
In the early '80s, the Vex was an all-ages music club located in Self Help Graphics and Art, a Chicano landmark in East LA. Although... View details »
Vexing
Art
Juan Uslé
Saturday June 21 (11am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
Free
The life and experiences of Spanish painter Juan Uslé meet his vision of abstraction in this new series of paintings. Including over a dozen canvases... View details »
Art
Tiffany Bozic
Saturday June 21 (noon–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
Tiffany Bozic's paintings and drawings are interpretations of the natural world — as seen through a warped microscope, in brilliant color, with Mozart's Rex Tremendae... View details »
Art
Cadence Pearson
Saturday June 21 (9am–noon) @ Kara Wily Pilates More times »
Free
When dancer and art enthusiast Kara Wily wanted to open her own Pilates studio (having learned the ropes from the movement's founder himself) she always... View details »
Cadence Pearson
Art
COLA Artist Fellowships
Saturday June 21 (noon–5pm) @ Barnsdall Art Park More times »
Free
The Cultural Affairs Department recently issued a statement to declare its unprecedented satisfaction with the state's arts budget — proof that our programs are hale... View details »
Art: Photography
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Saturday June 21 (11am–8pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art More times »
Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia's meticulously planned pictures look as effortless as Polaroids. Most of his works feature a single person — who diCorcia usually finds through... View details »
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Art
Tillman Kaiser
Saturday June 21 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
Free
Painter Tillman Kaiser invokes the legacy of dadaist Marcel Duchamp, who famously flipped a ceramic urinal on its side, signed it R. Mutt, and called... View details »
Tillman Kaiser
Art
Jon Rappleye and Amy Mahnick
Saturday June 21 (11am–5:30pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Free
In New Jersey-based artist Jon Rappleye's world, eyeless horned owls flit around a cluster of vultures, deer, and snakes while, in the distance, dozens of... View details »
Jon Rappleye and Amy Mahnick
Art
Steve Olson
Saturday June 21 (noon–6pm) @ 01 Gallery More times »
Free
Back in the late 1970s, Steve Olson became a celebrity in the world of professional skateboarding for his vertical-shredding ability. He's since made his name... View details »
Steve Olson
Art
Piot Brehmer
Saturday June 21 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman More times »
Free
Piot Brehmer's hyperrealist-inspired paintings at Samuel Freeman may owe a nod to painters like Philip Pearlstein and Eric Fischl, but there's a certain allure to... View details »
Piot Brehmer
Art
Four
Saturday June 21 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford More times »
Free
Jason Shawn Alexander, Sarah Folkman, Melissa Forman, and Karen Hsiao make up the "four" artists of this exhibition, which brings together locals working within the... View details »
Four
Art
Kori Newkirk
Saturday June 21 (noon–5pm) @ Pasadena Museum of California Art More times »
Kori Newkirk first came to national attention thanks to his contribution to the Studio Museum in Harlem's daring group show Freestyle: a mural of a... View details »
Kori Newkirk
Art
Oksana Badrak
Saturday June 21 (noon–6pm) @ Black Maria Gallery More times »
Free
Russian-born artist Oksana Badrak creates worlds where disparate mediums and settings collide, merging traditional with modern, Eastern with Western, and so on. Drawing on her... View details »
Oksana Badrak
Art
Terence Koh
Saturday June 21 (10am–6pm) @ Peres Projects More times »
Free
Anyone who can sell his own bodily fluids for thousands of dollars on the art market has "made it" as an artist. Of course, there's... View details »
Art: Photography
LA Nude X
Saturday June 21 (10am–3pm) @ A&I Hollywood More times »
Free
LA's most industry-beloved photo lab, Photo Impact, officially closed when its owner went in with A&I, but the group show LA Nude X at A&I's... View details »
LA Nude X
Performing Arts: Theatre
One-Act Play Festival
Saturday June 21 (8pm) @ Studio/Stage More times »
Those suffering from art attention-deficit disorder should appreciate Moving Arts' 14th Annual One-Act Play Festival, a yearly roundup of short 'n sweet theatrical pieces. This... View details »
One-Act Play Festival
Art
Ginger
Saturday June 21 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art More times »
Free
New Image Art's latest group exhibition packs a powerhouse list of participants. Vets of the gallery — including indie-rock man-of-the-moment Devendra Banhart, Sean Cassidy, Nico... View details »
Ginger
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Chorus Line
Saturday June 21 (8pm) @ Ahmanson Theatre More times »
Director and co-choreographer Michael Bennett spins this well-loved tale of Broadway gypsies and would-be stars who lay their souls on the line in pursuit of... View details »
A Chorus Line
Performing Arts: Theatre
Point Break LIVE!
Saturday June 21 (8pm) @ Dragonfly More times »
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill the not-so-massive shoes of... View details »
Point Break LIVE!
Art
HK Zamani
Saturday June 21 (11am–6pm) @ SolwayJones More times »
Free
HK Zamani is best known to LA art lovers as Habib Kheradyar, the peripatetic multimedia artist, one-time owner of Post Gallery, and relentlessly curious individual... View details »
HK Zamani
Art
Mark Bradford
Saturday June 21 @ 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
Performing Arts: Comedy
Carny Trash
Saturday June 21 (8pm) @ The Steve Allen Theater More times »
In Steve Allen Theater's latest production, Carny Trash, your fondest memories of days at the carnival with ma and pa are all fair game —... View details »
Carny Trash
Film
Recent Spanish Cinema XIV
Saturday June 21 (7:30pm) @ Egyptian Theatre More times »
Giveaway
Although Pedro Almodovar's work tends to hog the spotlight, more and more Spanish films continue to reach crossover status. This year's ongoing Recent Spanish Cinema... View details »
Recent Spanish Cinema XIV
Art
Rebel Legacy
Saturday June 21 (noon–6pm) @ Pharmaka More times »
Free
Hot on the heels of LACMA's controversial Phantom Sightings exhibition, Pharmaka Gallery tackles the issue of contemporary Chicano art with Rebel Legacy: The Abstract in... View details »
Rebel Legacy
Art
Against the Grain
Saturday June 21 (noon–6pm) @ Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions More times »
Free
Known for its progressive, boundary-pushing performances and interdisciplinary bravado, LACE's lofty space transforms into a clean, white gallery for Against the Grain, perhaps this summer's... View details »
Against the Grain
Art
Amy Sol
Saturday June 21 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery More times »
Free
Karmic Magic, Las Vegas artist Amy Sol's solo show with the Silverlake gem Thinkspace, features doe-eyed females, furry creatures, and sweetly whimsical, abstract narratives. Her... View details »
Amy Sol
Film
Israel Film Festival
Saturday June 21 @ Various locations More times »
The Israel Film Festival, an annual two-week movie marathon, celebrates Israel and — l'chaim! — independent film. Festival highlights include Lynn Roth's The Little Traitor,... View details »
Israel Film Festival
Art
Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
Saturday June 21 (noon–6pm) @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery More times »
Free
Like the Catholic-raised Mexican artist himself, Tino Rodriguez's gender-defying, allegorical paintings are torn between sensuality and conservative tradition. Inspired by the limitations of his religious... View details »
Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
Art: Photography
This Side of Paradise
Saturday June 21 (10:30am–4:30pm) @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens More times »
If only our cracked sidewalks, classic homes, sprawling hills, and endless streets could talk. But even if objects can't, camera lenses spin many a word.... View details »
This Side of Paradise
Film: Festival
LA Film Festival
Saturday June 21 @ Various locations More times »
Though it packs 200 new films into 11 days, the LA Film Festival offers more than just screenings. There are poolside chats with filmmakers at... View details »
LA Film Festival
Art
Matt Dangler
Saturday June 21 (11am–6pm) @ Gallery 1988 More times »
Free
Artist Matt Dangler is a wee young thing to be garnering such art-world acclaim. The 24-year-old's spooky and fantastical paintings are filled with bizarre animals,... View details »
Matt Dangler
Performing Arts: Theatre
After the Flood
Saturday June 21 (9pm) @ A + D Museum More times »
Giveaway
The government's response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina was tragically slow and uninspired — but the love, resources, and support devoted by citizens,... View details »
After the Flood
Art: Photography
Ten Years in Focus
Saturday June 21 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
1984
Saturday June 21 (3 & 8:30pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Giveaway
George Orwell wrote 1984 in the bloody wake of WWII, when anti-totalitarian screeds and fear of Communism were at a fever pitch. His own frazzled... View details »
1984
More Flavor: Shopping
TASCHEN Warehouse Sale
Saturday June 21 (10am–7pm) @ The TASCHEN Store More times »
Free
TASCHEN books are synonymous with sleek, tasteful subjects, from architecture and film to travel and everything in between — including the focus of the upcoming... View details »
TASCHEN Warehouse Sale
Performing Arts: Theatre
Tommy
Saturday June 21 (2 & 8pm) @ Ricardo Montalban Theatre More times »
The idea that a young man would become "deaf, dumb, and blind" and then discover that he's a pinball genius was pretty far-out when the... View details »
Tommy
Art
Mr. Brainwash
Saturday June 21 (1–9pm) @ CBS News Studios More times »
Free
Mr. Brainwash, or MBW, is a documentary filmmaker turned street artist who fell in with the renowned circle of renegade activists, filmmakers, and artists helmed... View details »
Mr. Brainwash
Art
Mariah Anne Johnson
Saturday June 21 (noon–6pm) @ Little Bird Gallery More times »
Free
Blame it on her traditional Southern upbringing, but Mariah Anne Johnson (born and raised in Arkansas) has an affinity for her own family history. The... View details »
Mariah Anne Johnson
Performing Arts: Dance
Ballerina & Videodanza
Saturday June 21 (8pm) @ Aero Theatre More times »
As Dance Camera West's 2008 program winds down this week, the focus shifts toward classicism with a behind-the-scenes peek at the Mariinsky Ballet. Ballerina, directed... View details »
Ballerina & Videodanza
Art
Irene Kai
Saturday June 21 (noon–5pm) @ Found Gallery More times »
Free
Somewhere between Edward Weston's nudes and Hermann Rorschach's ink blots lies the work of Irene Kai. The author/teacher/photographer plays with the power of suggestion in... View details »
Irene Kai
Art
Misato Suzuki
Saturday June 21 (noon–6pm) @ Sam Lee Gallery More times »
Free
Misato Suzuki is acutely aware of nature's palette and geometry. With soothing shades of yellow, orange, brown, and blue, she paints amorphous forms that are... View details »
Misato Suzuki
Performing Arts: Theatre
Talk Radio
Saturday June 21 (8pm) @ The MET Theatre More times »
Eric Bogosian made the leap from sputtering performance artist to Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright with his fiery, rant-filled Talk Radio. Known for a dark, abrasive comedic... View details »
Talk Radio
More Flavor: City Gem
Pavilion of Wings
Saturday June 21 (10am–5pm) @ Natural History Museum More times »
Pavilion of Wings returns to the Natural History Museum for the exhibition's tenth anniversary. Now, anyone jealous of the Shins' experience in Mexico can walk... View details »
Pavilion of Wings
Art: Photography
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Saturday June 21 (10am–5pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
Free
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs looks at Israel's female citizenry as a reflection of the state's 60-year history of independence. Drawing on documentary and... View details »
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs