Events on Saturday, September 13
Saturday 9/13 @ Tree People
Tree People HQ hosts a special, one-night-only art installation featuring the work of LA-based artist Linda Kunik. Curated by Flavorpill's own...
Saturday 9/13 @ El Rey
Shining, euphoric, and playful, the Juan Maclean's 2005 debut album, Less than Human, was one part Buddha-like spiritual bliss and one...
Saturday 9/13 @ NOS Center (San Bernardino)
A Southland staple for ravers, electronic-music fans, and the purely adventurous, Nocturnal Wonderland returns for its 14th year, this time as...
Poems for the Utopian Nihilist
Saturday 9/13 @ Skylight Books
The newly expanded Skylight Books channels the Lapin Agile tonight, hosting spoken-word artists, authors, and musicians whose passions run to the...
Ongoing Events
Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
Saturday 9/13 @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside
Borrowing a recently coined neologism from Stephen Colbert's faux-conservative lexicon, Truthiness questions the reliability of the visual by featuring artists who...
Saturday 9/13 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
The Santa Monica Museum of Art hosts LA artist Martin Kersels' first retrospective, Heavyweight Champion, drawing from 13 years of his...
Saturday 9/13 @ Richard Heller Gallery
In tandem with the release of his book, 73 Funshine, San Francisco-based artist Jason Jägel exhibits a collection of music-inspired work....
Saturday 9/13 @ 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...
Saturday 9/13 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Elementary, My Dear Watson is the Mark Moore Gallery's third installment of its annual Ultrasonic International series. The group show features...
Saturday 9/13 @ 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...
Saturday 9/13 @ West Beach, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara's West Beach undergoes a Coachella-by-the-sea makeover featuring four stages and at least ten DJs. The three-day get-together showcases the...
Saturday 9/13 @ La Luz de Jesus
Anne Faith Nicholls remixes folk art with her quasi-surrealist, richly symbolic narrative works that have roots in the traditional Western high-art...
Saturday 9/13 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Saturday 9/13 @ Hollywood Bowl
With the long-awaited release of SMiLE in 2004, pop genius and Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson pulled off the impossible, rekindling...
Saturday 9/13 @ Corey Helford Gallery
The dangerous, abiding love for donuts that torments the psyche of the modern robot is at the center of the universe...
Saturday 9/13 @ Torrance Art Museum
The small but influential Torrance Art Museum simultaneously mounts three new solo exhibitions, united by highly stylized explorations of abstraction and...
Saturday 9/13 @ Royal/T
Director of New York's Greene Naftali Gallery, Jay Sanders steps into cafe/shop/gallery Royal/T to curate this group show of works from...
Saturday 9/13 @ The Troubadour
Aesop Rock is one of Def Jux's most consistently brilliant voices, with a gritty, futuristic take on left-field hip-hop. His flow...
Saturday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ 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...
Saturday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ Wadsworth Theater
Before his tenure in Hollywood began, Chazz Palminteri penned this semi-autobiographical play about growing up on the corner of Belmont Ave...
Saturday 9/13 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as...
Saturday 9/13 @ DF2
Chinese-born Yin Zhaoyang didn't have to look too far for inspiration when creating the work in his latest show at DF2...
Saturday 9/13 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Austrian artist Mercedes Helnwein's darkly beautiful pencil drawings are equal parts Tim Burton fairy tale, Cindy Sherman photograph, and girlish fantasy....
Saturday 9/13 @ d.e.n. contemporary art
Kristi Lippire cobbles together images from a mind-boggling array of sources, then fashions them into large-scale works. Using plywood and other...
Saturday 9/13 @ LA Louver Gallery
Nancy Reddin Kienholz may be familiar to some because of her lifelong collaboration with late husband Ed Kienholz, one of the...
Saturday 9/13 @ Norton Simon Museum
When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much...
Saturday 9/13 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
What do Vans, Tokion magazine, and the Moody Blues have in common? They are all among the scores of clients from...
Saturday 9/13 @ 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...
Saturday 9/13 @ Whitefire Theatre
Sarah Palin may have the elusive Hockey Mom demographic sewn up, but who knows how she's going to handle the nation's...
Saturday 9/13 @ Vincent Price Art Museum
The 17 young and emerging artists included in this ambitious group show follow diverse strategies in making work, but the organizing...
Saturday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ Fette's Gallery
International-artist-friendly Fette's Gallery rings in its fall season with Insekts, an installation of new works by Swiss mixed-media artist/embroiderer Sandrine Pelletier....
Saturday 9/13 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Loosely based on George Langelaan's 1957 short story and David Cronenberg's 1986 film adaptation, The Fly wings its way to the...
Saturday 9/13 @ Smockshop
For artists who don't yet sustain themselves from their work, there are myriad ways to bring in some income — peddling...
Saturday 9/13 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Directors Woody Allen and William Friedkin may not be the most often-mentioned figures in opera circles, but the LA Opera has...
Saturday 9/13 @ Found Gallery
The next generation of children sadly will be deprived of the joyous anticipation that accompanies instant-photograph developing — the whole shaking-and-waiting...
Saturday 9/13 @ Kristi Engle Gallery
Unless you're a goth historian, 19th-century cadavers, Victorian lace, and anatomical illustrations are not often everyday topics of interest. But Canadian...
Saturday 9/13 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
For his second go-round at Taylor De Cordoba, San Franciscan artist/musican Kyle Field (he's a member of the band Little Wings),...
Saturday 9/13 @ Commissary Arts
The "sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll" trifecta holds ample sway in the work of Los Angeles artist Tofer Chin. For...
Saturday 9/13 @ Mr. Musichead Gallery
If the name Brandon Boyd sounds familiar, it might be for precarious reasons: he's the lead singer of Incubus. Of course,...
Saturday 9/13 @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles
Daring photographer Jehad Nga has previously documented poverty and violence from Darfur to Iraq — now, he takes his camera into...
Saturday 9/13 @ High Energy Constructs
For many contemporary artists, Warhol is the North Star by which they guide their own emerging views of culture. But for...
Saturday 9/13 @ Santa Monica Pier
The beaches of Santa Monica are invaded by the best pit masters from Missouri, Mississippi, and California for a down-home good...
Saturday 9/13 @ Bandini Art
From the Department of How Did She Do That? comes a new exhibition of drawings and delicate marble sculptures from chisel-wielding...
Saturday 9/13 @ 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...
Saturday 9/13 @ ACE Gallery
Melanie Pullen extends her macabre view of the world in her latest series, Violent Times, which explores the aesthetics of war...
Saturday 9/13 @ 01 Gallery
Painter Michael Knowlton doesn't feel the need to choose between beauty and terror. His passionately wrought, deftly composed scenes of the...
Saturday 9/13 @ 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...
Saturday 9/13 @ Cal State University Northridge Art Gallery
Comprising selections from the nearly 1,000 works that European-native-turned California-great Hans Burkhardt personally donated to Cal State Northridge (where he taught...
Saturday 9/13 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
Katie Grinnan has made a career out of walking the fine line between the second and third dimensions. Grinnan takes architectural...
Saturday 9/13 @ Sam Lee Gallery
Sam Lee Gallery follows up its dynamic group exhibition I AM I A KILLER with Pipo Nguyen-Duy's cyclical photography project, The...
Saturday 9/13 @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana
Beloved radio host Art Bell is a cross between Jean Shepherd and Fox Mulder, and a man whose paranormality-themed broadcasts were...
Saturday 9/13 @ Forum Gallery
Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered...
Saturday 9/13 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
The brilliantly brash British phenom Ian Francis returns to Kinsey/DesForges for his second solo show. Once again, the artist presents visceral,...
Bob Biggs, Doug Edge, and Kate Harding
Saturday 9/13 @ Track 16 Gallery
Track 16 opens the fall season with three concurrent solo exhibitions. Venice stalwart Doug Edge is known for the fluidity and...
Saturday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show...
Saturday 9/13 @ 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...
Saturday 9/13 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
From director Matt Huffman comes a new adaptation of Irwin Shaw's 1936 antiwar masterpiece, Bury the Dead. Shaw, who went on...
Saturday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
For California Scenarios — the third installment of Signals, OCMA's ongoing contemporary video-art survey — the museum showcases the vivid work...
Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments
Saturday 9/13 @ 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...
Saturday 9/13 @ Crisp London Los Angeles
Pawn Shop Gallery reinvents itself as the LA half of the new venture Crisp London Los Angeles with an inaugural exhibition...
Saturday 9/13 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall has shown internationally to great acclaim, and now will show for the sixth time with Koplin...
Dennis Hopper and Wendy Burton
Saturday 9/13 @ Craig Krull Gallery
Craig Krull Gallery pulls out the big guns for its season opener, with concurrent solo exhibitions from two of its most...
Saturday 9/13 @ Regen Projects II
Seminal Work features a selection of pieces from the much-lauded Raymond Pettibon, all completed between 1978 and 1988. Keeping true to...
Saturday 9/13 @ Circus Gallery
LA painter Sarah Cromarty has had a big year already; she gained recognition through several group shows and a bit of...
Saturday 9/13 @ The Getty Center
Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In...
Saturday 9/13 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 9/13 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
From Brandon Boyd's paintings to Scion and ill-Studios' curatorial collaboration and Alexander Melamid's hip-hop portraits, music-related art has been blanketing LA's...
Saturday 9/13 @ 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 9/13 @ Los Angeles Theatre Center
For the second year in a row, the New LATC concocts an enthralling admixture of theatre, dance, and performance that brings...
Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven Campout
Saturday 9/13 @ Pappy and Harriet's Palace
Camper Van Beethoven have long been one of America's most undervalued bands, known for "Take the Skinheads Bowling" and, tragically, not...
