All events on Saturday August 02

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Performing Arts: Spoken Word
The Drums Inside Your Chest
Saturday Aug 2 (8pm) @ The New LATC
Giveaway
The Drums Inside Your Chest is back for a second smash year. The brainchild (or lovechild, really) of actress, artist, and author Amber Tamblyn is... View details »
The Drums Inside Your Chest
Art
Live from Skid Row
Saturday Aug 2 (6–9pm) @ The Box Gallery
Free
The Box Gallery has successfully bridged art and social change with the Skid Row History Museum, a means of educating the public about the problems... View details »
Live from Skid Row
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Omage 08
Saturday Aug 2 (6–9pm) @ Track 16 Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
In celebration of Otis College's 90th anniversary, 60 of the faculty's most renowned artists, designers, and writers are honored for their imaginative prowess and influence... View details »
Performing Arts: Puppetry
The Puppet Shows
Saturday Aug 2 (6 & 8:30pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
Part two of the Santa Monica Museum of Art's The Puppet Shows picks up where part one left off, as a varied cadre of artists... View details »
The Puppet Shows
Art
Doug Henry & Joe Potts
Saturday Aug 2 (6–8pm) @ Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art More times »
Opening
Free
Video artist Doug Henry and composer/audiophile Joe Potts collaborate in a major new video work honoring the 100-year anniversary of cubism and Picasso's masterpiece Les... View details »
Doug Henry & Joe Potts
Music: Experimental
Nightlight Jesus
Saturday Aug 2 (10pm) @ Unknown Theater
LA-based spoken-word artist Rich Ferguson has been diligently chipping away at the wall between poetry and rock 'n roll with his volcanic, decibel-intensive material for... View details »
Nightlight Jesus
Music: Rock/Pop
Thao & the Get Down Stay Down
Saturday Aug 2 (9pm) @ The Troubadour
The recent success of Thao Nguyen's We Brave Bee Stings and All has ushered the young artist into SF's indie-rock pantheon. Aided by her genre-defying... View details »
Thao & the Get Down Stay Down
Art
Insiders, Outsiders, & the Middle
Saturday Aug 2 (7–10pm) @ The Scion Installation LA Space More times »
Opening
Free
With the help of Giant Robot, Scion Installation LA presents this group show featuring three different "schools" of artists. Adrian Johnson and Noriko Ashino are... View details »
Insiders, Outsiders, & the Middle
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Adi Da Samraj
Saturday Aug 2 (11am–5pm) @ LA Contemporary More times »
Free
Adi Da Samraj's images are products of mashed-together visual strategies, evoking everything from Mondrian's primary-color palette and geometric line work to Lichtenstein's fragmentation of familiar... View details »
Adi Da Samraj

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More Flavor: City Gem
Vinum Populi
Saturday Aug 2 (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 Aug 2 @ 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 Aug 2 (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 Aug 2 (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
Art
Jerome Witkin
Saturday Aug 2 (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 Aug 2 (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
Art
Vexing
Saturday Aug 2 (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 Aug 2 (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: Photography
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Saturday Aug 2 (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 Aug 2 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Point Break LIVE!
Saturday Aug 2 (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
Mark Bradford
Saturday Aug 2 @ 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
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Against the Grain
Saturday Aug 2 (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 Aug 2 (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
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Peter Saul
Saturday Aug 2 (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
Performing Arts: Comedy
Eric Idle
Saturday Aug 2 (8:30pm) @ Hollywood Bowl More times »
Think Monty Python's Life of Brian as a humorous oratorio: Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) follows Brian, a contemporary of Jesus, who... View details »
Eric Idle
Art: Photography
Harry Benson
Saturday Aug 2 (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
Art
Contemporary Art from India
Saturday Aug 2 (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 Aug 2 (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 Aug 2 (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 Aug 2 (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
Art
Haegue Yang
Saturday Aug 2 (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
More Flavor: Party
Bronx Zoo
Saturday Aug 2 (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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Cover Version
Saturday Aug 2 (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
Art
Antonio Ballester Moreno
Saturday Aug 2 (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
Music: Rock/Pop
Darker My Love
Saturday Aug 2 (8:30pm) @ The Echo More times »
GiveawayFree
Darker My Love's overdriven soul isn't the most original thing in the world — imagine the Jesus & Mary Chain channeled by the Brian Jonestown... View details »
Darker My Love
Performing Arts: Acrobatics
Cirque Berzerk
Saturday Aug 2 (8:30pm) @ Los Angeles State Historic Park More times »
It should come as no surprise that LA-based Cirque Berzerk was borne out of a group of devout (and highly flexible) Burning Man attendees. After... View details »
Cirque Berzerk
Art: Architecture/Design
John Lautner
Saturday Aug 2 (11am–7pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
The risk-taking John Lautner is often described as an architect's architect, even though some of his designs brought him both criticism and disdain. One of... View details »
John Lautner
Art
Weekend Warrior
Saturday Aug 2 (11am–6pm) @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai More times »
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
Art
(Neo) Realism
Saturday Aug 2 @ George Billis Gallery More times »
Free
Just like the A.O.S. song says, history repeats itself. The new exhibition at George Billis Gallery offers a refreshing take on mid-19th-century realism, as an... View details »
(Neo) Realism
Art
LA Art Girls
Saturday Aug 2 (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
Performing Arts: Festival
NOW Festival
Saturday Aug 2 (8:30pm) @ REDCAT More times »
In the fifth installment of its annual NOW Festival, REDCAT assembles a stellar three-program lineup for a three-week run. Committed to creating, nurturing, and sustaining... View details »
NOW Festival
Art
Jekyll Island
Saturday Aug 2 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
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
Art
Two Madmen
Saturday Aug 2 (10am–5pm) @ 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 Aug 2 (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
In the Eye of the Beholder
Saturday Aug 2 (11am–5pm) @ Louis Stern Fine Arts More times »
Free
What do submerged nudes, fire-ravaged landscapes, and monstrous energy towers have in common? Not much at first glance, but they're all featured in In the... View details »
In the Eye of the Beholder
Art
Gillian Wearing
Saturday Aug 2 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects More times »
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
Art
Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments
Saturday Aug 2 @ 18th Street Arts Center More times »
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
Art
Roger Herman and Melissa Meyer
Saturday Aug 2 (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
Art
David Eddington
Saturday Aug 2 (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
Art
No Room
Saturday Aug 2 (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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Mike Stilkey
Saturday Aug 2 (noon–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
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
Art
Kori Newkirk and Miguel Angel Rios
Saturday Aug 2 (11am–6pm) @ LAXART More times »
Free
Kori Newkirk transforms the mundane into the monumental with his new installation, RANK. The deceptively simple sculpture — an outsized, mirrored podium — invokes the... View details »
Kori Newkirk and Miguel Angel Rios
Performing Arts
The Heist Show
Saturday Aug 2 (8pm) @ Studio/Stage More times »
The term "thrance" is a bit of a curveball as far as descriptions of performances go. It's used to describe a hybrid of theater and... View details »
The Heist Show
Art
Gravity & Transformation
Saturday Aug 2 (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
Rabbit Hole
Saturday Aug 2 (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
Art
Eduardo Sarabia
Saturday Aug 2 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
Free
A participant in LA Louver's group show Rogue Wave '07, Sarabia proves that his work is dynamic enough to stand on its own with a... View details »
Eduardo Sarabia
Art
Big Kids/Little Kids
Saturday Aug 2 (noon–5pm) @ Subliminal Projects More times »
Free
Big Kids/Little Kids is the brainchild of curator John Freeborn, author of a book of the same name that chronicles the graffiti-inspired art movement that... View details »
Big Kids/Little Kids
Art
Summer Smockshop
Saturday Aug 2 (noon–8pm) @ Smockshop More times »
Free
For artists who don't yet sustain themselves from their work, there are myriad ways to bring in some income — peddling smocks is one of... View details »
Summer Smockshop
Art
Edwin Ushiro
Saturday Aug 2 (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
Frédéric Magazine
Saturday Aug 2 @ Fette's Gallery More times »
Free
Every day, at least one new drawing posts to the online magazine/gallery Frédéric. Founded in 2004 by Isabelle Boinot, Frédéric Fleury, Emmanuelle Pidoux, Frédéric Poincelet,... View details »
Frédéric Magazine
Art
Splash
Saturday Aug 2 (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
Spacial Reconstruction
Saturday Aug 2 (noon–midnight) @ Found Gallery More times »
Free
The term "redecorating" doesn't quite capture what a handful of artists are doing over the next 23 days in Silverlake's Found Gallery. Each artist inhabits... View details »
Spacial Reconstruction
Art: Photography
Contemporary Photography from China
Saturday Aug 2 (10am–6pm) @ DNJ Gallery More times »
Free
In DNJ's latest exhibition, eight artists take their cameras on the road and on rail, underground into mines, onto farms, and deep into abstract realms... View details »
Contemporary Photography from China
Art: Photography
Jim Marshall
Saturday Aug 2 (11am–6pm) @ Duncan Miller Gallery More times »
Free
During his 40-year career, rock 'n roll photographer Jim Marshall has captured some of Bob Dylan's, John Coltrane's, and Janis Joplin's most intimate moments. "There's... View details »
Jim Marshall
Art
Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
Saturday Aug 2 (noon–5pm) @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside More times »
Borrowing a recently coined neologism from Stephen Colbert's faux-conservative lexicon, Truthiness questions the reliability of the visual by featuring artists who transform photography (decidedly two-dimensional)... View details »
Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
Art
Aragna Ker
Saturday Aug 2 (11am–6pm) @ Sabina Lee Gallery More times »
Free
Cambodian artist Aragna Ker can't help but poke and prod at cultural meanings until they fall apart. His elaborate mixed-media installations infuse Asian traditions of... View details »
Aragna Ker
Art
Sean Cassidy & Cody Hudson
Saturday Aug 2 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art More times »
Free
It's only been a little over a year since Sean Cassidy's brilliantly scatterbrained Memory Is a Vacuum exhibition at New Image Art, but already the... View details »
Sean Cassidy & Cody Hudson
Art
Signals: A Video Showcase
Saturday Aug 2 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
For California Scenarios — the third installment of Signals, OCMA's ongoing contemporary video-art survey — the museum showcases the vivid work of Mungo Thomson, Enid... View details »
Signals: A Video Showcase
Music: DJ
Peanut Butter Wolf vs LA
Saturday Aug 2 @ Various locations More times »
Hip-hop is for nerds, or so seems to be the sentiment of LA's own Stones Throw records. You won't see the label's founder, Peanut Butter... View details »
Peanut Butter Wolf vs LA
Art
Marlene Dumas
Saturday Aug 2 (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
Art
Dave McKean
Saturday Aug 2 (noon–6pm) @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery More times »
Free
During this solo show, Dave McKean leaves no medium unexplored. McKean is a prolific artist who dabbles in — among other things — digital photography,... View details »
Dave McKean
Art
Pierogi Et Al
Saturday Aug 2 (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 Aug 2 (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
Art
Rozi Demant
Saturday Aug 2 (11am–4pm) @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery More times »
Free
The work of New Zealander Rozi Demant depicts feathered friends, but her birds don't always stand for things like freedom, peace, and beauty. Demant's utterly... View details »
Rozi Demant
More Flavor: City Gem
Pavilion of Wings
Saturday Aug 2 (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 Aug 2 (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
Art
The Horror of Tradition
Saturday Aug 2 (11am–6pm) @ AndrewShire Gallery More times »
Free
The five artists brought together for this end-of-summer group show have little in common — except perhaps episodes of childhood trauma involving home-ec class. They... View details »
The Horror of Tradition