Events on Saturday, July 12

Daedelus CD Release Party

Music: Electronic

Daedelus

Saturday 7/12 @ Secret location

In preparation for a long European jaunt, sample-happy producer Daedelus lays down the leftfield grooves from his latest album, Love to... 

<em>Backscatter 2</em>

Art: Photography

Backscatter 2

Saturday 7/12 @ Premiere Events Center

The practice of being mindful and aware doesn't come easy in our contemporary environment. Cell phones ring, constant emails twitter back... 

The Who w/ Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, and the Flaming Lips

Music

The Who

Saturday 7/12 @ Pauley Pavillion (UCLA)

Whether influencing the grunge-infused rock of Pearl Jam and the Foo Fighters or the psychedelic sounds of the Flaming Lips, the... 

Ongoing Events

Misato Suzuki: <em>Unknown Quantities</em>

Art

Misato Suzuki

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

<em>The Puppet Show</em>

Art

The Puppet Show

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

<em>Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments</em>

Art

Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments

Saturday 7/12 @ 18th Street Arts Center

The 18th Street Art Center continues its tradition of presenting politically and socially engaged visual art with its four-part exhibition series... 

TAIKOPROJECT

Performing Arts

TAIKOPROJECT

Saturday 7/12 @ The Ford Theater

After selling out the Ford last summer, the TAIKOPROJECT drum spectacular arrives again, bringing the tradition of Japanese taiko drumming to... 

<em>Gravity & Transformation</em>

Art

Gravity & Transformation

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

<em>This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in LA Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

This Side of Paradise

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

<em>Broadway Bound</em>

Theatre

Broadway Bound

Saturday 7/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center

Neil Simon has authored some of the most popular American plays of the last century, including the much-loved Eugene Trilogy, which... 

HK Zamani: <em>Shelter from the Storm</em>

Art

HK Zamani

Saturday 7/12 @ SolwayJones Gallery

HK Zamani is best known to LA art lovers as Habib Kheradyar, the peripatetic multimedia artist, one-time owner of Post Gallery,... 

<em>Jekyll Island</em>

Art

Jekyll Island

Saturday 7/12 @ Honor Fraser

Artist Erik Parker and curator/critic Max Henry put their heads together to gather a group of talented artists for Honor Fraser's... 

<em>Rebel Legacy: The Abstract in Latino Art </em>

Art

Rebel Legacy

Saturday 7/12 @ Pharmaka

Hot on the heels of LACMA's controversial Phantom Sightings exhibition, Pharmaka Gallery tackles the issue of contemporary Chicano art with Rebel... 

<em>Cover Version: A Summer Reading List</em>

Art

Cover Version

Saturday 7/12 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery

Thematic summer shows are as de rigueur in the art world as summer reading lists were in high school — and... 

<em>Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs

Saturday 7/12 @ 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.... 

<em>Party Favors</em>

Art

Party Favors

Saturday 7/12 @ Bonelli Contemporary

An ambitious undertaking by art critic and curator Holly Myers, this month-long celebration of interactive visual and performance art promises to... 

<em>Splash</em>

Art

Splash

Saturday 7/12 @ Cerasoli Gallery

While others seek refuge from this season's sweltering heat, Cerasoli Gallery director Freddi Cerasoli is inspired by it — hence Splash,... 

Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>

Art

Mark Bradford

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

Andy Warhol: Photographs

Art: Photography

Andy Warhol

Saturday 7/12 @ Michael Kohn Gallery

The quintessential pop artist was much more than a factory for silkscreens of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's soup cans. In fact,... 

Roger Herman and Melissa Meyer

Art

Roger Herman and Melissa Meyer

Saturday 7/12 @ Jancar Gallery

Roger Herman wields thickly applied oils to attack figures, landscapes, and architecture with equal verve and vigor. He trowels layer upon... 

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Art: Photography

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

Eric Bogosian's <em>Talk Radio</em>

Theatre

Talk Radio

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Saturday 7/12 @ Norton Simon Museum

This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at... 

Jerome Witkin: <em>Revelations in Drawing</em>

Art

Jerome Witkin

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

<em>Ginger</em>

Art

Ginger

Saturday 7/12 @ New Image Art

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... 

<em>Contradictions & Complexities: Contemporary Art from India</em>

Art

Contemporary Art from India

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

Gillian Wearing: <em>Pin-Ups</em> and <em>Family History</em>

Art

Gillian Wearing

Saturday 7/12 @ Regen Projects

This dual exhibition from British artist Gillian Wearing begins with Pin-Ups, displayed at the Regen Projects' Almont Drive location. For her... 

<em>Darkness Will Find You</em>

Art

Darkness Will Find You

Saturday 7/12 @ Jail Gallery

Sculptor, video artist, and (increasingly often) independent curator Michael Dee is something of a conceptual punster; his own work in plastic... 

<em>Weekend Warrior</em>

Art

Weekend Warrior

Saturday 7/12 @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai

The Ojai-based Nathan Larramendy Gallery has teamed up with the illustrious Beautiful/Decay magazine to produce Weekend Warrior, a group... 

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

Sophia Allison & York Chang: <em>Automatic Enigmatic</em>

Art

Sophia Allison & York Chang

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

John Moore: <em>Dreamscapes: Excavating Our Inner Landscape</em>

Art

John Moore

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

<em>Eleven Missing Days </em>

Dance

Eleven Missing Days

Saturday 7/12 @ Unknown Theater

Meg Wolfe's relentless creative spirit knows no bounds. Her energy produced the offbeat dance zine Itch Journal, the experimental series Anatomy... 

Mike Stilkey: <em>Slightly All the Time</em>

Art

Mike Stilkey

Saturday 7/12 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery

While Mike Stilkey's fanciful-yet-edgy works draw comparisons to Egon Schiele, Modigliani, and Aubrey Beardsley, their contemporary illustrative twists give the Los... 

<em>Pierogi Et Al</em>

Art

Pierogi Et Al

Saturday 7/12 @ Daniel Weinberg Gallery

Before Williamsburg was Williamsburg (in other words, when taking the L train to Brooklyn was a perilous undertaking devoid of glossy... 

Bronx Zoo

Party

Bronx Zoo

Saturday 7/12 @ La Cita

Conceived as a Saturday afternoon cocktail party with art activities, Ghettogloss gallery launched its Bronx Zoo summer series in June at... 

David Eddington: <em>Bridges Over the LA River </em>

Art

David Eddington

Saturday 7/12 @ Frank Pictures Gallery

British ex-pat painter David Eddington may have left the grandeur and historical heft of Europe for a life by the Pacific... 

<em>Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera</em>

Art: Photography

Ten Years in Focus

Saturday 7/12 @ The Getty Center

In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition... 

Art

COLA Artist Fellowships

Saturday 7/12 @ Barnsdall Art Park

The Cultural Affairs Department recently issued a statement to declare its unprecedented satisfaction with the state's arts budget — proof that... 

Ami Tallman: <em>When the Sun Shines, It Does not Need Proof</em>

Art

Ami Tallman

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

Melanie Pullen: <em>Violent Times</em>

Art: Photography

Melanie Pullen

Saturday 7/12 @ ACE Gallery

Melanie Pullen extends her macabre view of the world in her latest series, Violent Times, which explores the aesthetics of war... 

Haegue Yang: <em>Asymmetric Equality</em>

Art

Haegue Yang

Saturday 7/12 @ REDCAT

REDCAT continues to be a beacon for cutting-edge contemporary art, featuring the first solo show of Haegue Yang in the US.... 

Victoria Reynolds: <em>Drawn and Rendered</em>

Art

Victoria Reynolds

Saturday 7/12 @ Richard Heller Gallery

Living in Sweden proved to be an invaluable influence on Victoria Reynolds' artwork. Not only does she emulate the painstakingly naturalistic... 

<em>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

LA Art Girls Art Fair Biennale LA 2008

Art

LA Art Girls

Saturday 7/12 @ Pacific Electric Lofts

The LA Art Girls began four years ago, when a vibrant group of women working in painting, photography, video, and performance... 

<em>Vexing: Female Voices from East LA Punk</em>

Art

Vexing

Saturday 7/12 @ Claremont Museum of Art

In the early '80s, the Vex was an all-ages music club located in Self Help Graphics and Art, a Chicano landmark... 

Camelot Artists present <em>Rabbit Hole</em>

Theatre

Rabbit Hole

Saturday 7/12 @ Skylight Theatre

Commissioned as part of South Coast Repertory's Pacific Playwrights Festival, David Lindsay-Abaire's wrenching drama won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize and kick-started... 

Edwin Ushiro: <em>While Tides Guide You Back Home</em>

Art

Edwin Ushiro

Saturday 7/12 @ project: gallery

Edwin Ushiro's multimedia paintings are ethereal combinations of pop art and anime, which explains why he is in high demand as... 

Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Saturday 7/12 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... 

<em>Hand to Hand: Witnessing the War</em>

Art

Witnessing the War

Saturday 7/12 @ Carol Henry Studio

An overstuffed white glove might bring to mind images of a Mickey Mouse cartoon, but for artist and curator Cecelia Kane,... 

<em>Politics as Usual: As Seen by Harry Benson</em>

Art: Photography

Harry Benson

Saturday 7/12 @ David Gallery

As the Beatles greeted New York City's cold winter weather for the first time in 1964, looming in their shadows was... 

<em>Two Madmen: The Art of Clive Barker and Myron Dyal</em>

Art

Two Madmen

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

<em>Against the Grain</em>

Art

Against the Grain

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

Antonio Ballester Moreno: <em>Hunter House & Bear Suit Number Two</em>

Art

Antonio Ballester Moreno

Saturday 7/12 @ Peres Projects

Antonio Ballester Moreno's first solo show in America explodes in vibrant colors and playful forms. His bold palette recalls the traditions... 

<em>In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor</em>

Art

The Juxtapoz Factor

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

Carlos Ramos: <em>Natural History Museum Part I</em>

Art

Carlos Ramos

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

Marlene Dumas: <em>Measuring Your Own Grave</em>

Art

Marlene Dumas

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

Mondongo: <em>Gaslighting</em>

Art

Mondongo

Saturday 7/12 @ Track 16 Gallery

As students of cultural iconoclasm, the members of Argentinian art collective Mondongo — Juliana Laffitte, Manuel Mendanha, and Agustina Picasso —... 

<em>Point Break LIVE!</em>

Theatre

Point Break LIVE!

Saturday 7/12 @ Dragonfly

Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill... 

<em>BANG! Fully Loaded</em>

Art

BANG! Fully Loaded

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

Peter Saul

Art

Peter Saul

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

<em>Conversations That Never Happened</em>

Art

Conversations That Never Happened

Saturday 7/12 @ Telic Arts Exchange

Conversations That Never Happened is a series of four communal, food-based art happenings in and around Telic's Chinatown gallery, created by... 

Kori Newkirk:<em> 1997-2007</em>

Art

Kori Newkirk

Saturday 7/12 @ 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:... 

<em>LA Nude X </em>

Art: Photography

LA Nude X

Saturday 7/12 @ 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... 

<em>The Joint Custody Project</em>

Art

The Joint Custody Project

Saturday 7/12 @ Found Gallery

Many artists feel that they express themselves best through their own singular vision, making collaboration in the visual arts somewhat rare.... 

Dennis Koch & Claudia Nieto

Art

Dennis Koch & Claudia Nieto

Saturday 7/12 @ High Energy Constructs

Angelinos Dennis Koch and Claudia Nieto work on the same plane — the flat one. Utilizing the simplest of all media,... 

<em>No Room</em>

Art

No Room

Saturday 7/12 @ Christopher Grimes Gallery

Architects and international-design darlings Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee are known for innovative materials and forms. Visually and conceptually promiscuous, Christopher... 

<em>Flaunt</em>

Art

Flaunt

Saturday 7/12 @ Junc Gallery

This annual exhibition at Junc typically features new work by both its most promising emerging talents and good-old standbys. The 2008... 

Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason

Art

Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason

Saturday 7/12 @ La Luz de Jesus

Though painters Caia Koopman and Mark Gleason take vastly different approaches, both make the human/animal relationship a cornerstone of their work.... 

Cadence Pearson: <em>Disjointed</em>

Art

Cadence Pearson

Saturday 7/12 @ 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...