Events on Saturday, June 7
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Skylight Books
Erik Davis' mindblowing lectures are enlightening adventures to begin with — but put him on a luxury bus headed for five...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Safari Sam's
A long-running, Felix the Cat-obsessed pop-punk act from New Hampshire, the Queers add bubblegum harmonies and proto-emo love sickness to Beach...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ The Troubadour
Declaring a band "darlings" is one of the music press' more backhanded compliments. But really, there's no better way to describe...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Gobbled up by critics after its 1983 release, Tony Scott's directorial debut, The Hunger, holds up today as a stylish '80s...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Offering an uncompromising counterpoint to Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown's erratic pop exorcisms, British Columbia's Frog Eyes are an indie-rock success...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Gagosian Gallery
For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with...
The Legendary Times of Bulgakov
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Art|Works Theatre
American Russian Theatre Ensemble Laboratory produces interdisciplinary events that illuminate Russia's darkly poetic, politically charged history. Now, ARTEL focuses on the...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ REDCAT
From its humble beginnings at the Getty Center to its infiltration of alternative venues all across LA, the little dance-film festival...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Keep Your Pantheon and Duck Variations
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre
Brilliantly contrasting old with new, Center Theatre Group places one of David Mamet's earliest works alongside his latest production. In the...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
Tiffany Bozic's paintings and drawings are interpretations of the natural world — as seen through a warped microscope, in brilliant color,...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ The Mint
Between willfully simple, '50s-inspired numbers like "I'm a Little Dinosaur" and his work with the Modern Lovers, Jonathan Richman has the...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Hammer Museum
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Pounder-Koné Art Space
Afrobeat pioneer and revolutionary activist Fela Kuti has influenced generations of progressives, from his native Nigeria to South Central LA, with...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
AFI Conservatory Production Design Showcase
Saturday 6/ 7 @ American Film Institute
Production designers are like magical movie elves, taking far-fetched screenplay concepts and turning them into realities. But becoming a magical elf...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Jail Gallery
The globally diverse artists in JAIL's latest endeavor have one thing in common: their work ignores the ugly cable-news cycle of...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
A modern-day incarnation of 1983's groundbreaking Style Wars, graffiti documentary Bomb It moves past the boroughs of New York to survey...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
Saturday 6/ 7 @ LAXART
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo, both making their solo debuts in Los Angeles, meditate on the meaning of objects in human...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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 6/ 7 @ 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 6/ 7 @ Grind Gallery
Including comic-book writers, fashion photographers, and magazine illustrators, the eclectic collection of emerging artists at the Grind Gallery may be under...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Western Project
Sculpture is LA's latest claim to art-world fame, and the medium's reemergence is due partly to the city's new generation of...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ The Ford Theater
After directing Broadway's mega-musical The Lion King, Tony Award-winner Peter Schneider moved in a surprising direction: he traded in big-budget spectacle...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Catalina Bar & Grill
Latin bebop boss Arturo Sandoval is known for his laser-point high notes and deft command of the trumpet. Sandoval's fiery style...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Liat Yossifor and Aaron Sandnes
Saturday 6/ 7 @ See Line Gallery
In the midst of war, there seems to be no shortage of news on the subject. But though we may often...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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 6/ 7 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
CalArts MFA Graduate Exhibition
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Various Chinatown galleries
After graduation, most MFA recipients fret over finding places to show their work. This year's graduating class of visual artists at...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Los Angeles Convention Center
Dwell always goes big for Dwell on Design, the magazine's annual festival of aesthetics that's equal parts conference, product exhibition, and...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ REDCAT
Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a...
Don Ed Hardy and Michael McCabe
Saturday 6/ 7 @ Track 16 Gallery
If you live in California, you've most likely heard of Don Ed Hardy — or at least of his ubiquitous fashion...
Saturday 6/ 7 @ 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...
