Events on Saturday, July 19

Rules Help Control the Fun

Party

Rules Help Control the Fun

Saturday 7/19 @ Bonelli Contemporary

The ongoing Party Favors exhibition at Bonelli Contemporary examines models of social behavior, from Martin Durazo's gleefully sinister video art to... 

Emily Wells w/ His Orchestra and Willoughby

Music

Emily Wells

Saturday 7/19 @ The Hotel Café

The Hotel Café gets a triple dose of bubble gum tonight, courtesy of three irrepressibly optimistic bands from art rock's poppy... 

<em>Less Than Zero</em> (1987) and <em>The Big Lebowski </em>(1998)

Film: Double Feature

Less Than Zero and The Big Lebowski

Saturday 7/19 @ Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum

As Bret Easton Ellis fans eagerly await the literary follow-up to the escapades of Clay and company (tentatively titled Imperial Bedrooms),... 

Lili Haydn

Music

Lili Haydn

Saturday 7/19 @ The Roxy Theatre

In her first LA show since completely annihilating it at Coachella with Roger Waters, violinist and singer Lili Haydn returns to... 

CreativeTime and LACE present Mark Tribe: <em>The Port Huron Project 4: We Are Also Responsible</em>

Art

Mark Tribe

Saturday 7/19 @ LA Memorial Coliseum & Exposition Park

At Rhizome.org, Mark Tribe supports the creation and dissemination of forward-thinking contemporary art; CreativeTime is responsible for some of NYC's most... 

HARD Summer Music Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

HARD Summer Music Festival

Saturday 7/19 @ Shrine Auditorium

From the whacked-out crew that put French beat-masters Justice and Miami hip-hop bad boys 2 Live Crew on the same stage... 

Glow

Festival: Performing Arts

Glow

Saturday 7/19 @ Santa Monica Pier

If you think the twinkling lights of the Santa Monica Pier are already a sight to behold, the area's metamorphosis for... 

Aylward SarnoSilva w/ 11:11, City City, King Cheetah, and Chris Tondre

Music: Electronic

City City

Saturday 7/19 @ The Mint

Taking equal inspiration from Ace of Base and David Bowie, LA outfit City City can't seem to choose between rock, pop,... 

Budos Band w/ Fool's Gold

Music: Global

Budos Band

Saturday 7/19 @ The Getty Center

Though they rock a serious set of horns, an in-the-pocket rhythm section, and an old-school organ, 11-piece Afro-soul orchestra Budos Band... 

SASSAS and Dublab present sound. at Glow: Tonalism

Music: Experimental

sound. at Glow: Tonalism

Saturday 7/19 @ Looff Hippodrome Carousel, Santa Monica Pier

In an inspired avant-garde mashup, the beat gurus of Dublab lock horns with the Society for the Activation of Social Space... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Edwin Ushiro

Saturday 7/19 @ project: gallery

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

Rozi Demant: <em>Lovebirds</em>

Art

Rozi Demant

Saturday 7/19 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery

The work of New Zealander Rozi Demant depicts feathered friends, but her birds don't always stand for things like freedom, peace,... 

<em>Kenny</em>

Film

Kenny

Saturday 7/19 @ Laemmle's Monica 4-plex

Kenny, a lovable Porta Potti maintenance man, just might be Australia's answer to Larry the Cable Guy. The new indie-cinema sweetheart... 

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

Art

Witnessing the War

Saturday 7/19 @ 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>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

Jerome Witkin

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

Art

COLA Artist Fellowships

Saturday 7/19 @ Barnsdall Art Park

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

Peter Saul

Art

Peter Saul

Saturday 7/19 @ 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>Two Madmen: The Art of Clive Barker and Myron Dyal</em>

Art

Two Madmen

Saturday 7/19 @ 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>Party Favors</em>

Art

Party Favors

Saturday 7/19 @ 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>Cover Version: A Summer Reading List</em>

Art

Cover Version

Saturday 7/19 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery

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

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

Outfest Under the Stars

Film

Outfest

Saturday 7/19 @ The Ford Theater

In light of the California Supreme Court's recent overruling of the gay-marriage ban, the 26th Annual Los Angeles Outfest has more... 

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

Art

Mike Stilkey

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

Kori Newkirk: <em>RANK</em> and Miguel Angel Rios: <em>Crudo</em>

Art

Kori Newkirk and Miguel Angel Rios

Saturday 7/19 @ LAXART

Kori Newkirk transforms the mundane into the monumental with his new installation, RANK. The deceptively simple sculpture — an outsized, mirrored... 

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

Art

John Moore

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

Wolf Parade

Music

Wolf Parade

Saturday 7/19 @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater

Wolf Parade's 2005 full-length debut, Apologies to the Queen Mary, marked the arrival of a compelling new force in indie rock... 

Dave McKean: <em>Persistence of Vision</em>

Art

Dave McKean

Saturday 7/19 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery

During this solo show, Dave McKean leaves no medium unexplored. McKean is a prolific artist who dabbles in — among other... 

<em>Pierogi Et Al</em>

Art

Pierogi Et Al

Saturday 7/19 @ Daniel Weinberg Gallery

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

<em>Against the Grain</em>

Art

Against the Grain

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

Vexing

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Ten Years in Focus

Saturday 7/19 @ The Getty Center

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

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

Art

Rebel Legacy

Saturday 7/19 @ Pharmaka

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

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

Art

Contemporary Art from India

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

<em>No Room</em>

Art

No Room

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

LA Art Girls Art Fair Biennale LA 2008

Art

LA Art Girls

Saturday 7/19 @ 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>Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner</em>

Art

John Lautner

Saturday 7/19 @ Hammer Museum

The risk-taking John Lautner is often described as an architect's architect, even though some of his designs brought him both criticism... 

<em>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

<em>The Heist Show: A Thrance Caper</em>

Performing Arts

The Heist Show

Saturday 7/19 @ Studio/Stage

The term "thrance" is a bit of a curveball as far as descriptions of performances go. It's used to describe a... 

<em>Big Kids/Little Kids</em>

Art

Big Kids/Little Kids

Saturday 7/19 @ Subliminal Projects

Big Kids/Little Kids is the brainchild of curator John Freeborn, author of a book of the same name that chronicles the... 

<em>Splash</em>

Art

Splash

Saturday 7/19 @ Cerasoli Gallery

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

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

Art

Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

Bronx Zoo

Party

Bronx Zoo

Saturday 7/19 @ La Cita

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

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

Art

Marlene Dumas

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Saturday 7/19 @ 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>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Saturday 7/19 @ Norton Simon Museum

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

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

Art

HK Zamani

Saturday 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ 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>Flaunt</em>

Art

Flaunt

Saturday 7/19 @ Junc Gallery

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

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

Art

Ami Tallman

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

New Original Works Festival 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

NOW Festival

Saturday 7/19 @ REDCAT

In the fifth installment of its annual NOW Festival, REDCAT assembles a stellar three-program lineup for a three-week run. Committed to... 

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

Art: Photography

Melanie Pullen

Saturday 7/19 @ ACE Gallery

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

<em>BANG! Fully Loaded</em>

Art

BANG! Fully Loaded

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason

Art

Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason

Saturday 7/19 @ 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.... 

Mondongo: <em>Gaslighting</em>

Art

Mondongo

Saturday 7/19 @ Track 16 Gallery

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

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

Theatre

Talk Radio

Saturday 7/19 @ 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>Spacial Reconstruction</em>

Art

Spacial Reconstruction

Saturday 7/19 @ Found Gallery

The term "redecorating" doesn't quite capture what a handful of artists are doing over the next 23 days in Silverlake's Found... 

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

Art: Photography

This Side of Paradise

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

Sean Cassidy & Cody Hudson: <em>I May Be Right & I May Be Wrong, But You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone: Notes on Building a Time Machine</em>

Art

Sean Cassidy & Cody Hudson

Saturday 7/19 @ New Image Art

It's only been a little over a year since Sean Cassidy's brilliantly scatterbrained Memory Is a Vacuum exhibition at New Image... 

<em>The Puppet Show</em>

Art

The Puppet Show

Saturday 7/19 @ 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>LA Nude X </em>

Art: Photography

LA Nude X

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

Kori Newkirk

Saturday 7/19 @ 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>Politics as Usual: As Seen by Harry Benson</em>

Art: Photography

Harry Benson

Saturday 7/19 @ David Gallery

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

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

Art

Gillian Wearing

Saturday 7/19 @ Regen Projects

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

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

Art

Sophia Allison & York Chang

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

Antonio Ballester Moreno

Saturday 7/19 @ Peres Projects

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

Cadence Pearson: <em>Disjointed</em>

Art

Cadence Pearson

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

<em>Point Break LIVE!</em>

Theatre

Point Break LIVE!

Saturday 7/19 @ Dragonfly

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

<em>Gravity & Transformation</em>

Art

Gravity & Transformation

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

Victoria Reynolds

Saturday 7/19 @ 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>(Neo) Realism</em>

Art

(Neo) Realism

Saturday 7/19 @ George Billis Gallery

Just like the A.O.S. song says, history repeats itself. The new exhibition at George Billis Gallery offers a refreshing take on... 

<em>Conversations That Never Happened</em>

Art

Conversations That Never Happened

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

David Eddington

Saturday 7/19 @ 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>Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs

Saturday 7/19 @ 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.... 

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

Art

Haegue Yang

Saturday 7/19 @ REDCAT

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

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Art: Photography

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Juxtapoz Factor

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

<em>Darkness Will Find You</em>

Art

Darkness Will Find You

Saturday 7/19 @ Jail Gallery

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

Dennis Koch & Claudia Nieto

Art

Dennis Koch & Claudia Nieto

Saturday 7/19 @ High Energy Constructs

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

Eduardo Sarabia: <em>History of the World</em>

Art

Eduardo Sarabia

Saturday 7/19 @ LA Louver Gallery

A participant in LA Louver's group show Rogue Wave '07, Sarabia proves that his work is dynamic enough to stand on... 

Andy Warhol: Photographs

Art: Photography

Andy Warhol

Saturday 7/19 @ 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 7/19 @ Jancar Gallery

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

<em>Weekend Warrior</em>

Art

Weekend Warrior

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Saturday 7/19 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Rabbit Hole

Saturday 7/19 @ 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...