All events on Saturday July 12

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Art
Weekend Warrior
Saturday July 12 (3–6pm) @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai More times »
Opening
Free
The Ojai-based Nathan Larramendy Gallery has teamed up with the illustrious Beautiful/Decay magazine to produce Weekend Warrior, a group show of LA artists... View details »
Weekend Warrior
Performing Arts
TAIKOPROJECT
Saturday July 12 (8pm) @ The Ford Theater More times »
Giveaway
After selling out the Ford last summer, the TAIKOPROJECT drum spectacular arrives again, bringing the tradition of Japanese taiko drumming to a new generation. For... View details »
TAIKOPROJECT
Art: Photography
Backscatter 2
Saturday July 12 (7pm–2am) @ Create:Fixate
The practice of being mindful and aware doesn't come easy in our contemporary environment. Cell phones ring, constant emails twitter back and forth, and crowded... View details »
Backscatter 2
Music: Electronic
Daedelus
Saturday July 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 Make Music To, tonight.... View details »
Daedelus
Art
Jekyll Island
Saturday July 12 (6–8pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
Opening
Free
Artist Erik Parker and curator/critic Max Henry put their heads together to gather a group of talented artists for Honor Fraser's annual summer show, which... View details »
Jekyll Island
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Gillian Wearing
Saturday July 12 (6–8pm) @ Regen Projects More times »
Opening
Free
This dual exhibition from British artist Gillian Wearing begins with Pin-Ups, displayed at the Regen Projects' Almont Drive location. For her collaboration with illustrator Jim... View details »
Gillian Wearing
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Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments
Saturday July 12 (6–9pm) @ 18th Street Arts Center More times »
Opening
Free
The 18th Street Art Center continues its tradition of presenting politically and socially engaged visual art with its four-part exhibition series Future of Nations, an... View details »
Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments
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Roger Herman and Melissa Meyer
Saturday July 12 (noon–5pm) @ Jancar Gallery More times »
Free
Roger Herman wields thickly applied oils to attack figures, landscapes, and architecture with equal verve and vigor. He trowels layer upon layer of gooey, vibrantly... View details »
Roger Herman and Melissa Meyer
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David Eddington
Saturday July 12 (11:30am–6:30pm) @ Frank Pictures Gallery More times »
Free
British ex-pat painter David Eddington may have left the grandeur and historical heft of Europe for a life by the Pacific shore, but his new... View details »
David Eddington
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Mike Stilkey
Saturday July 12 (7–10pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
While Mike Stilkey's fanciful-yet-edgy works draw comparisons to Egon Schiele, Modigliani, and Aubrey Beardsley, their contemporary illustrative twists give the Los Angeles artist's output real... View details »
Mike Stilkey
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rabbit Hole
Saturday July 12 (8pm) @ Skylight Theatre More times »
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 Cynthia Nixon's Tony Award-winning... View details »
Rabbit Hole
Music: Rock/Pop
The Who
Saturday July 12 (8pm) @ 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 Who have made an... View details »
The Who
Art
Edwin Ushiro
Saturday July 12 (noon–6pm) @ project: gallery More times »
Free
Edwin Ushiro's multimedia paintings are ethereal combinations of pop art and anime, which explains why he is in high demand as a production designer, art... View details »
Edwin Ushiro
Art
Splash
Saturday July 12 (11am–6pm) @ Cerasoli Gallery More times »
Free
While others seek refuge from this season's sweltering heat, Cerasoli Gallery director Freddi Cerasoli is inspired by it — hence Splash, a group exhibition that... View details »
Splash
Art
Pierogi Et Al
Saturday July 12 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Daniel Weinberg Gallery More times »
Free
Before Williamsburg was Williamsburg (in other words, when taking the L train to Brooklyn was a perilous undertaking devoid of glossy gallery-district maps), there was... View details »
Pierogi Et Al
Art: Photography
Melanie Pullen
Saturday July 12 (10am–6pm) @ ACE Gallery More times »
Free
Melanie Pullen extends her macabre view of the world in her latest series, Violent Times, which explores the aesthetics of war and takes her elaborately... View details »
Melanie Pullen

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Vinum Populi
Saturday July 12 (5:30pm–1:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Vinum Populi, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one key... View details »
Vinum Populi
Art: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
Saturday July 12 @ 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
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Marcel Duchamp Redux
Saturday July 12 (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
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Mexican Calendar Girls
Saturday July 12 (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
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Jerome Witkin
Saturday July 12 (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
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The Puppet Show
Saturday July 12 (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
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Vexing
Saturday July 12 (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
Cadence Pearson
Saturday July 12 (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 July 12 (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 July 12 (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
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Kori Newkirk
Saturday July 12 (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: Photography
LA Nude X
Saturday July 12 (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
Art
Ginger
Saturday July 12 (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
Point Break LIVE!
Saturday July 12 (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 July 12 (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 July 12 @ 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
Art
Rebel Legacy
Saturday July 12 (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 July 12 (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: Photography
This Side of Paradise
Saturday July 12 (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
Art
Peter Saul
Saturday July 12 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
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 July 12 (11am–6pm) @ David Gallery More times »
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
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Darkness Will Find You
Saturday July 12 (noon–6pm) @ JAIL Gallery More times »
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 July 12 (11am–5:30pm) @ d.e.n. contemporary art More times »
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: Photography
Ten Years in Focus
Saturday July 12 (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
Art
The Juxtapoz Factor
Saturday July 12 (10am–6pm) @ Laguna Art Museum More times »
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 July 12 (11am–6pm) @ High Energy Constructs More times »
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
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Ami Tallman
Saturday July 12 (11am–6pm) @ See Line Gallery More times »
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 July 12 (noon–7pm) @ Junc Gallery More times »
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
Performing Arts: Dance
Eleven Missing Days
Saturday July 12 (8pm) @ Unknown Theater More times »
Meg Wolfe's relentless creative spirit knows no bounds. Her energy produced the offbeat dance zine Itch Journal, the experimental series Anatomy Riot, and now Eleven... View details »
Eleven Missing Days
Art
Haegue Yang
Saturday July 12 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
REDCAT continues to be a beacon for cutting-edge contemporary art, featuring the first solo show of Haegue Yang in the US. The Korean artist's multimedia... View details »
Haegue Yang
Art
Party Favors
Saturday July 12 (noon–6pm) @ Bonelli Contemporary More times »
Free
An ambitious undertaking by art critic and curator Holly Myers, this month-long celebration of interactive visual and performance art promises to bring out the Factory... View details »
Party Favors
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Bronx Zoo
Saturday July 12 (3:30–8pm) @ La Cita More times »
Conceived as a Saturday afternoon cocktail party with art activities, Ghettogloss gallery launched its Bronx Zoo summer series in June at the delightfully dancy downtown... View details »
Bronx Zoo
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Carlos Ramos
Saturday July 12 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford More times »
Free
In this collection of 24 large-scale paintings, Carlos Ramos recalls the deep impressions that realistic-looking dioramas had on him as a young boy, wandering through... View details »
Carlos Ramos
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Cover Version
Saturday July 12 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery More times »
Free
Thematic summer shows are as de rigueur in the art world as summer reading lists were in high school — and now a new group... View details »
Cover Version
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Sophia Allison & York Chang
Saturday July 12 (noon–5pm) @ Lawrence Asher Gallery More times »
Free
The title of this two-person exhibition refers to the artists' different approaches to dependence on media and consumerism. For collagist Sophia Allison, the "automatic" is... View details »
Sophia Allison & York Chang
Art
The Joint Custody Project
Saturday July 12 (1–5pm) @ Found Gallery More times »
Free
Many artists feel that they express themselves best through their own singular vision, making collaboration in the visual arts somewhat rare. But Found Gallery's The... View details »
The Joint Custody Project
Art
Antonio Ballester Moreno
Saturday July 12 (11am–6pm) @ Peres Projects More times »
Free
Antonio Ballester Moreno's first solo show in America explodes in vibrant colors and playful forms. His bold palette recalls the traditions of his native Spain,... View details »
Antonio Ballester Moreno
Art
Misato Suzuki
Saturday July 12 (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
Art
Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason
Saturday July 12 (11am–9pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
Though painters Caia Koopman and Mark Gleason take vastly different approaches, both make the human/animal relationship a cornerstone of their work. Koopman's whimsical illustrations depict... View details »
Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason
Art
Mondongo
Saturday July 12 @ Track 16 Gallery More times »
Free
As students of cultural iconoclasm, the members of Argentinian art collective Mondongo — Juliana Laffitte, Manuel Mendanha, and Agustina Picasso — regularly reveal the dark... View details »
Mondongo
Art
Witnessing the War
Saturday July 12 (2–7pm) @ Carol Henry Studio More times »
Free
An overstuffed white glove might bring to mind images of a Mickey Mouse cartoon, but for artist and curator Cecelia Kane, it stands for something... View details »
Witnessing the War
Art
John Moore
Saturday July 12 @ DCA Fine Art More times »
Free
One of Dublin, Ireland's most popular and prolific painters, John Moore makes richly hued portraits and abstractions that use the seemingly ubiquitous premise of the... View details »
John Moore
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LA Art Girls
Saturday July 12 (noon–6pm) @ Pacific Electric Lofts More times »
Free
The LA Art Girls began four years ago, when a vibrant group of women working in painting, photography, video, and performance began supporting one another... View details »
LA Art Girls
Art
Two Madmen
Saturday July 26 (6–8pm) @ Otis College of Art and Design More times »
Free
Clive Barker is a successful author, director, screenwriter, playwright, and poet; Myron Dyal is a classical musician. But both artists also maintain an interest in... View details »
Two Madmen
Art: Photography
Andy Warhol
Saturday July 12 (11–6pm) @ Michael Kohn Gallery More times »
Free
The quintessential pop artist was much more than a factory for silkscreens of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's soup cans. In fact, the prolific Andy Warhol... View details »
Andy Warhol
Art
BANG! Fully Loaded
Saturday July 12 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Broadway Bound
Saturday July 12 (3pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
Neil Simon has authored some of the most popular American plays of the last century, including the much-loved Eugene Trilogy, which follows an aspiring comedy... View details »
Broadway Bound
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Conversations That Never Happened
Saturday July 12 (7pm) @ Telic Arts Exchange More times »
Conversations That Never Happened is a series of four communal, food-based art happenings in and around Telic's Chinatown gallery, created by a group of chefs,... View details »
Conversations That Never Happened
Art
No Room
Saturday July 12 (10am–5:30pm) @ Christopher Grimes Gallery More times »
Free
Architects and international-design darlings Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee are known for innovative materials and forms. Visually and conceptually promiscuous, Christopher Grimes Gallery has invited... View details »
No Room
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Victoria Reynolds
Saturday July 12 (11am–5pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Free
Living in Sweden proved to be an invaluable influence on Victoria Reynolds' artwork. Not only does she emulate the painstakingly naturalistic vanitas (often-morbid still-life paintings... View details »
Victoria Reynolds
Art
Gravity & Transformation
Saturday July 12 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Talk Radio
Saturday July 12 (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
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Marlene Dumas
Saturday July 12 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
The first stateside exhibit of French/South African/Dutch artist Marlene Dumas' work, Measuring Your Own Grave is a prodding collection of sketches and paintings that explore... View details »
Marlene Dumas
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Pavilion of Wings
Saturday July 12 (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 July 12 (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