Events on Saturday, June 21
Saturday 6/21 @ Paseo Colorado
With so many free shows in so few hours, Make Music Pasadena's bill is as impressive as it is overwhelming. In...
Saturday 6/21 @ 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...
Saturday 6/21 @ 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...
Saturday 6/21 @ The Troubadour
You may know Devonte Hynes as a member of the abrasive, now-defunct Test Icicles, but his new project, Lightspeed Champion, is...
Saturday 6/21 @ Gibson Amphitheatre
Sure, we all wish that the Cure, Morrissey, Depeche Mode, and Oingo Boingo would join forces and put on the ultimate...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 6/21 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
Tiffany Bozic's paintings and drawings are interpretations of the natural world — as seen through a warped microscope, in brilliant color,...
Saturday 6/21 @ Richard Heller Gallery
In New Jersey-based artist Jon Rappleye's world, eyeless horned owls flit around a cluster of vultures, deer, and snakes while, in...
Saturday 6/21 @ Various locations
Though it packs 200 new films into 11 days, the LA Film Festival offers more than just screenings. There are poolside...
Saturday 6/21 @ Ahmanson Theatre
Director and co-choreographer Michael Bennett spins this well-loved tale of Broadway gypsies and would-be stars who lay their souls on the...
Saturday 6/21 @ Black Maria Gallery
Russian-born artist Oksana Badrak creates worlds where disparate mediums and settings collide, merging traditional with modern, Eastern with Western, and so...
Saturday 6/21 @ d.e.n. contemporary art
A single definition of Indian contemporary art is tricky to pin down, as one might expect when funneling the widely varying...
Saturday 6/21 @ Egyptian Theatre
Although Pedro Almodovar's work tends to hog the spotlight, more and more Spanish films continue to reach crossover status. This year's...
Saturday 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ A&I Hollywood
LA's most industry-beloved photo lab, Photo Impact, officially closed when its owner went in with A&I, but the group show LA...
Saturday 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ A + D Museum
The government's response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina was tragically slow and uninspired — but the love, resources, and...
Saturday 6/21 @ 01 Gallery
Back in the late 1970s, Steve Olson became a celebrity in the world of professional skateboarding for his vertical-shredding ability. He's...
Saturday 6/21 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
Peter Saul, who hit his artistic stride mid-century during America's pop-art movement, has become best known of late as a creator...
Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
Saturday 6/21 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Like the Catholic-raised Mexican artist himself, Tino Rodriguez's gender-defying, allegorical paintings are torn between sensuality and conservative tradition. Inspired by the...
Saturday 6/21 @ See Line Gallery
Ami Tallman's Fauvist palette, her love of extreme decor, and her penchant for historical research each feed into her interiors and...
Saturday 6/21 @ Sam Lee Gallery
Misato Suzuki is acutely aware of nature's palette and geometry. With soothing shades of yellow, orange, brown, and blue, she paints...
Saturday 6/21 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Many art critics and scholars consider Jerome Witkin to be America's greatest living figurative painter. His portraits and landscapes combine an...
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
Saturday 6/21 @ LAXART
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo, both making their solo debuts in Los Angeles, meditate on the meaning of objects in human...
Saturday 6/21 @ The TASCHEN Store
TASCHEN books are synonymous with sleek, tasteful subjects, from architecture and film to travel and everything in between — including the...
Saturday 6/21 @ Morono Kiang Gallery
As Internet galleries and portfolio sites make it increasingly easy to navigate the deep waters of the international emerging art scene,...
Saturday 6/21 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia's meticulously planned pictures look as effortless as Polaroids. Most of his works feature a single person — who...
Saturday 6/21 @ Various locations
The Israel Film Festival, an annual two-week movie marathon, celebrates Israel and — l'chaim! — independent film. Festival highlights include Lynn...
Saturday 6/21 @ Studio/Stage
Those suffering from art attention-deficit disorder should appreciate Moving Arts' 14th Annual One-Act Play Festival, a yearly roundup of short 'n...
Saturday 6/21 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Kori Newkirk first came to national attention thanks to his contribution to the Studio Museum in Harlem's daring group show Freestyle:...
Saturday 6/21 @ Gallery 1988
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...
Saturday 6/21 @ The MET Theatre
Eric Bogosian made the leap from sputtering performance artist to Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright with his fiery, rant-filled Talk Radio. Known for...
Saturday 6/21 @ Little Bird Gallery
Blame it on her traditional Southern upbringing, but Mariah Anne Johnson (born and raised in Arkansas) has an affinity for her...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Saturday 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ Kristi Engle Gallery
The world of art is one place where the laws of physics do not apply, and LA-based artist Suzanne Adelman assembles...
Saturday 6/21 @ Peres Projects
Anyone who can sell his own bodily fluids for thousands of dollars on the art market has "made it" as an...
Saturday 6/21 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Known for its progressive, boundary-pushing performances and interdisciplinary bravado, LACE's lofty space transforms into a clean, white gallery for Against the...
Saturday 6/21 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
SMMoA gathers an eclectic array of work by 30 impressive artists — from Kara Walker to Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Nauman, and...
Saturday 6/21 @ Kara Wily Pilates
When dancer and art enthusiast Kara Wily wanted to open her own Pilates studio (having learned the ropes from the movement's...
Saturday 6/21 @ Barnsdall Art Park
The Cultural Affairs Department recently issued a statement to declare its unprecedented satisfaction with the state's arts budget — proof that...
Saturday 6/21 @ Samuel Freeman
Piot Brehmer's hyperrealist-inspired paintings at Samuel Freeman may owe a nod to painters like Philip Pearlstein and Eric Fischl, but there's...
Saturday 6/21 @ The Steve Allen Theater
In Steve Allen Theater's latest production, Carny Trash, your fondest memories of days at the carnival with ma and pa are...
Saturday 6/21 @ Pharmaka
Hot on the heels of LACMA's controversial Phantom Sightings exhibition, Pharmaka Gallery tackles the issue of contemporary Chicano art with Rebel...
Saturday 6/21 @ High Energy Constructs
Angelinos Dennis Koch and Claudia Nieto work on the same plane — the flat one. Utilizing the simplest of all media,...
Saturday 6/21 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Still feeling the love from last month's star-studded tribute to his 40 years in Los Angeles, Plácido Domingo returns to the...
Saturday 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ California Heritage Museum
Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The...
Saturday 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ 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 6/21 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 6/21 @ David Gallery
As the Beatles greeted New York City's cold winter weather for the first time in 1964, looming in their shadows was...
Saturday 6/21 @ Aero Theatre
As Dance Camera West's 2008 program winds down this week, the focus shifts toward classicism with a behind-the-scenes peek at the...
Saturday 6/21 @ Jail Gallery
Sculptor, video artist, and (increasingly often) independent curator Michael Dee is something of a conceptual punster; his own work in plastic...
Saturday 6/21 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
If only our cracked sidewalks, classic homes, sprawling hills, and endless streets could talk. But even if objects can't, camera lenses...
Saturday 6/21 @ Laguna Art Museum
To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as...
Saturday 6/21 @ Remy's on Temple
BANG! Fully Loaded sits at the intersection of the group art show, the modern penchant for excavating problematic historical/cultural symbols, and...
Saturday 6/21 @ Honor Fraser
Painter Tillman Kaiser invokes the legacy of dadaist Marcel Duchamp, who famously flipped a ceramic urinal on its side, signed it...
Saturday 6/21 @ CBS News Studios
Mr. Brainwash, or MBW, is a documentary filmmaker turned street artist who fell in with the renowned circle of renegade activists,...
Saturday 6/21 @ Bandini Art
Co-curated by Patrick Painter Gallery's Heather Harmon and Bandini's own Ashley McLean Emenegger, Blood & Glitter is a group exhibition about...
Saturday 6/21 @ 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...
