Events on Saturday, June 28
Saturday 6/28 @ LA Memorial Coliseum & Exposition Park
For electronic-music fans, the annual Electric Daisy Carnival is what Coachella is to the indie-rock set. Over 20,000 revelers gather as...
Saturday 6/28 @ Hollywood Bowl
Tonight, along with a little help from the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and an array of special guests, Cheap Trick perform the...
Saturday 6/28 @ Silverlake Lounge
"Techno meets ambient" is a straightforward description of Flula Borg. But that's before you get to the vocals that weave through...
Saturday 6/28 @ Spaceland
While he moonlights in avant-noise act the Planet The, Portland's Charlie Salas-Humara is best known for his work in Panther. Backed...
Saturday 6/28 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
In the world of literature, one day you're in and the next day you're out. Once-golden boys James Frey, Augusten Burroughs,...
Saturday 6/28 @ E3rd Steakhouse
A true musical renaissance man, Philly native Vikter Duplaix gets mad respect for his impeccable production skills, innovative compositions, and incredibly...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ DCA Fine Art
One of Dublin, Ireland's most popular and prolific painters, John Moore makes richly hued portraits and abstractions that use the seemingly...
Saturday 6/28 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip
The Sunset Strip has long been a mecca for mischief. Prohibition-era poker tourneys gave way to the '60s art rock of...
Saturday 6/28 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Living in Sweden proved to be an invaluable influence on Victoria Reynolds' artwork. Not only does she emulate the painstakingly naturalistic...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ Honor Fraser
Painter Tillman Kaiser invokes the legacy of dadaist Marcel Duchamp, who famously flipped a ceramic urinal on its side, signed it...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ Various locations
Though it packs 200 new films into 11 days, the LA Film Festival offers more than just screenings. There are poolside...
Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
Saturday 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ High Energy Constructs
Angelinos Dennis Koch and Claudia Nieto work on the same plane — the flat one. Utilizing the simplest of all media,...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ Corey Helford Gallery
In this collection of 24 large-scale paintings, Carlos Ramos recalls the deep impressions that realistic-looking dioramas had on him as a...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Saturday 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
The first stateside exhibit of French/South African/Dutch artist Marlene Dumas' work, Measuring Your Own Grave is a prodding collection of sketches...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ REDCAT
REDCAT continues to be a beacon for cutting-edge contemporary art, featuring the first solo show of Haegue Yang in the US....
Saturday 6/28 @ Egyptian Theatre
Mods and rockers both worshiped bands, rode scooters, and cultivated impossibly hip hairstyles. But the two UK groups had a distinct...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
The title of this two-person exhibition refers to the artists' different approaches to dependence on media and consumerism. For collagist Sophia...
Saturday 6/28 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 6/28 @ Little Bird Gallery
Blame it on her traditional Southern upbringing, but Mariah Anne Johnson (born and raised in Arkansas) has an affinity for her...
Saturday 6/28 @ Peres Projects
Antonio Ballester Moreno's first solo show in America explodes in vibrant colors and playful forms. His bold palette recalls the traditions...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ Otis College of Art and Design
Clive Barker is a successful author, director, screenwriter, playwright, and poet; Myron Dyal is a classical musician. But both artists also...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ Pharmaka
Hot on the heels of LACMA's controversial Phantom Sightings exhibition, Pharmaka Gallery tackles the issue of contemporary Chicano art with Rebel...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ Bonelli Contemporary
An ambitious undertaking by art critic and curator Holly Myers, this month-long celebration of interactive visual and performance art promises to...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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...
Saturday 6/28 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Thematic summer shows are as de rigueur in the art world as summer reading lists were in high school — and...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ Jail Gallery
Sculptor, video artist, and (increasingly often) independent curator Michael Dee is something of a conceptual punster; his own work in plastic...
Saturday 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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 6/28 @ 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...
