Events on Saturday, September 20

FLOOD presents SoundWalk 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

SoundWalk 2008

Saturday 9/20 @ East Village Arts District

The installation-based group FLOOD, which pushes the limits of artistic collaboration, hosts another year of SoundWalk, an annual public-art event that... 

Beck w/ Spoon and MGMT

Music

Beck

Saturday 9/20 @ Hollywood Bowl

The recent release of Modern Guilt, Beck's latest dark-and-dank collab with Danger Mouse, would be reason enough to make a beeline... 

DCA Style Launch Party

Art

DCA Style

Saturday 9/20 @ North Spring Gallery

Cynthia Wylie and Delia Cabral — the ladies behind the X-Large Clothing label and contemporary gallery DCA Fine Art, respectively —... 

Exquisite Corpse II feat. Dwight Trible

Music: Experimental

Exquisite Corpse II

Saturday 9/20 @ MAK Center Schindler House

The durable surrealist parlor game known as the Exquisite Corpse has entertained sherry-drinking participants for nearly a century. Players pass around... 

Create:Fixate: <em>AMP: Art. Music.Politics</em>

Art

Create:Fixate

Saturday 9/20 @ Premiere Events Center

A longstanding fixture of the LA arts scene, Create:Fixate presents artwork with an agenda this Saturday (the eve of International Peace... 

Droid Behavior and Detroit Underground present Friendly Integration

Music: Electronic

Friendly Integration

Saturday 9/20 @ Secret location

For the 11th installment of Friendly Integration, blitzin' Berlin booty house comes to LA courtesy of Jahcoozi, a trio that has... 

Ongoing Events

Hans Burkhardt

Art

Hans Burkhardt

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Yin Zhaoyang: <em>Radiation</em>

Art

Yin Zhaoyang

Saturday 9/20 @ DF2

Chinese-born Yin Zhaoyang didn't have to look too far for inspiration when creating the work in his latest show at DF2... 

Hope Gangloff and Jason J&auml;gel

Art

Hope Gangloff and Jason Jägel

Saturday 9/20 @ 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.... 

<em>Against the Grain</em>

Art

Against the Grain

Saturday 9/20 @ 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>Aspects of Mel's Hole: Artists Respond to a Paranormal Land Event Occurring in Radiospace</em>

Art

Aspects of Mel's Hole

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Nancy Reddin Kienholz

Art

Nancy Reddin Kienholz

Saturday 9/20 @ LA Louver Gallery

Nancy Reddin Kienholz may be familiar to some because of her lifelong collaboration with late husband Ed Kienholz, one of the... 

Ian Francis: <em>Together Forever</em>

Art

Ian Francis

Saturday 9/20 @ 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: <em>OPP-A Roadmap to Nowhere</em>, Doug Edge: <em>New Paintings</em>, and Kate Harding: <em>Whiskey Creek</em>

Art

Bob Biggs, Doug Edge, and Kate Harding

Saturday 9/20 @ Track 16 Gallery

Track 16 opens the fall season with three concurrent solo exhibitions. Venice stalwart Doug Edge is known for the fluidity and... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Saturday 9/20 @ 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>Cycling Apparati</em>

Art

Cycling Apparati

Saturday 9/20 @ High Energy Constructs

For many contemporary artists, Warhol is the North Star by which they guide their own emerging views of culture. But for... 

<em>CUT: Makings of Removal</em>

Art

CUT: Makings of Removal

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Art

The Maize Project

Saturday 9/20 @ Torrance Art Museum

The small but influential Torrance Art Museum simultaneously mounts three new solo exhibitions, united by highly stylized explorations of abstraction and... 

<em>9 to 5: The Musical </em>

Theatre

9 to 5

Saturday 9/20 @ Ahmanson Theatre

Based on Collin Higgins' screwball 1980 comedy, 9 to 5: The Musical makes its LA premiere tonight before heading to Broadway... 

<em>Point Break LIVE!</em>

Theatre

Point Break LIVE!

Saturday 9/20 @ Dragonfly

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

Andrea Zittel: Summer Smockshop

Art

Summer Smockshop

Saturday 9/20 @ Smockshop

For artists who don't yet sustain themselves from their work, there are myriad ways to bring in some income — peddling... 

<em>Macrocosm</em>

Art

Macrocosm

Saturday 9/20 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery

Roberts + Tilton becomes the latest A-list LA gallery to take up residence in Culver City, throwing a mammoth group show... 

Yoko Ono: <em>Wish Tree</em>

Art

Yoko Ono

Saturday 9/20 @ One Colorado

It has been nearly 28 years since John Lennon's passing, but his quest for world peace lives on. Lennon's widow, noted... 

Neck Face: <em>Cannibal Carnival</em>

Art

Neck Face

Saturday 9/20 @ New Image Art

Neck Face and his ubiquitous demon motifs — scrawled all over downtowns on both coasts — enter the gallery scene and... 

Nathan Danilowicz: <em>All Internal</em>

Art

Nathan Danilowicz

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Kyle Field: <em>More Country Questions</em>

Art

Kyle Field

Saturday 9/20 @ 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),... 

Mercedes Helnwein: <em>Whistling Past the Graveyard</em>

Art

Mercedes Helnwein

Saturday 9/20 @ 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.... 

Dennis Hopper: <em>Colors </em>and Wendy Burton: <em>Trace Elements III</em>

Art: Photography

Dennis Hopper and Wendy Burton

Saturday 9/20 @ Craig Krull Gallery

Craig Krull Gallery pulls out the big guns for its season opener, with concurrent solo exhibitions from two of its most... 

Jehad Nga: <em>My Shadow, My Opponent</em>

Art: Photography

Jehad Nga

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Eric Sall: <em>High and Wide</em>

Art

Eric Sall

Saturday 9/20 @ Acuna-Hansen Gallery

In confronting the vibrating, thickly textured canvases of Eric Sall, one gets the distinct impression that he could survive by eating... 

Sarah Cromarty: <em>Diamonds and Rust</em>

Art

Sarah Cromarty

Saturday 9/20 @ Circus Gallery

LA painter Sarah Cromarty has had a big year already; she gained recognition through several group shows and a bit of... 

<em>In Focus: The Landscape</em>

Art: Photography

In Focus: The Landscape

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

<em>Agamemnon</em>

Theatre

Agamemnon

Saturday 9/20 @ The Getty Villa

Aeschylus' Agamemnon, the first of three plays that make up famed Greek trilogy The Oresteia, soaks the stage with what all... 

Victor Gastelum: <em>Xacto Mundo</em>

Art

Victor Gastelum

Saturday 9/20 @ Overtones Gallery

Victor Gastelum upholds the grand California tradition of elevating street-art tropes to gallery-level heights with the spray-paint stencil multiples in Xacto... 

<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Krunk presents Futura: <em>Strategic Synchronicity</em>, and Phantom Galleries presents Patrick Chapman & Emmeric Konrad

Art

Futura, Patrick Chapman

Saturday 9/20 @ Pacific Electric Lofts

Krunk announces its presentation of the weekend pop-up show Futura: Strategic Synchronicity in the Pacific Electric Lofts vast ground floor gallery... 

<em>The Fly: The Opera</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

The Fly

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Silverlake Gallery Alliance presents East of Eden

Art

East of Eden

Saturday 9/20 @ Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

Celebrating Silverlake Gallery Alliance's commitment to the creative spirit of LA, a host of East Side art galleries, institutions, and alternative... 

Katie Grinnan: <em>Polaris </em>

Art

Katie Grinnan

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Puccini's <em>Il Trittico</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Il Trittico

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

John Bock: <em>Palms</em>

Art

John Bock

Saturday 9/20 @ REDCAT

John Bock's unpredictable performances may seem like exercises in artistic capriciousness, but his loud costumes and absurd statements conceal his skill... 

Ultrasonic International III: <em>Elementary, My Dear Watson</em>

Art

Ultrasonic International III

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Alexander Melamid: <em>Holy Hip-Hop!</em>

Art

Alexander Melamid

Saturday 9/20 @ Forum Gallery

Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered... 

Tofer Chin: <em>VIVID</em>

Art

Tofer Chin

Saturday 9/20 @ Commissary Arts

The "sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll" trifecta holds ample sway in the work of Los Angeles artist Tofer Chin. For... 

Anne Faith Nicholls: <em>Neofolk</em>

Art

Anne Faith Nicholls

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Saturday 9/20 @ Scribble Press

Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with... 

<em>Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda</em>

Fashion/Style

Antonio Pineda

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Art: Photography

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Saturday 9/20 @ G2 Gallery

Photographer and environmentalist Robert Glenn Ketchum makes landscape images, but this isn't Ansel Adams we're talking about here. The 38-year-old UCLA... 

<em>43 Plays for 43 Presidents</em>

Theatre

43 Plays for 43 Presidents

Saturday 9/20 @ Sacred Fools Theater

Using comedy, drama, dance, and music, the half dozen actors in this crash course in presidential history conjure a theatrical experience... 

<em>All of This is Melting Away</em>

Art

All of This is Melting Away

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Saturday 9/20 @ Norton Simon Museum

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

<em>Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner</em>

Art

John Lautner

Saturday 9/20 @ 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>Fortuna Rising: Gordy Grundy is the Messenger</em>

Art

Gordy Grundy

Saturday 9/20 @ Western Project

The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website... 

<em>A Bronx Tale</em>

Theatre

A Bronx Tale

Saturday 9/20 @ Wadsworth Theater

Before his tenure in Hollywood began, Chazz Palminteri penned this semi-autobiographical play about growing up on the corner of Belmont Ave... 

<em>Within Four Miles: The World of Josh Dorman</em>

Art

Josh Dorman

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Kerry James Marshall: Portraits, Pin-Ups, and Wistful Romantic Idylls

Art

Kerry James Marshall

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Pipo Nguyen-Duy: <em>The Garden</em>

Art: Photography

Pipo Nguyen-Duy

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Kristi Lippire: <em>Paradox and Levity, Mergers and Sigmund</em>

Art

Kristi Lippire

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Raymond Pettibon: <em>Seminal Work</em>

Art

Raymond Pettibon

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

<em>The Art of War: American Posters from WWI and WWII</em>

Art

The Art of War

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Art

The Art of Music

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Juxtapoz Factor

Saturday 9/20 @ 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>Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest</em>

Theatre

Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Saturday 9/20 @ Miles Memorial Playhouse

Kristina Wong, whose past projects include a parody mail-order bride website called Big Bad Chinese Mama, holds nothing back during her... 

Chris Mars: <em>Tolerance</em>

Art

Chris Mars

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

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

Art

Marlene Dumas

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Sandrine Pelletier: <em>Insekts</em>

Art

Sandrine Pelletier

Saturday 9/20 @ 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.... 

Theatre

Bury the Dead

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

<em>Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture</em> and <em>Absurd Recreation: Contemporary Art from China</em>

Art

Truthiness and Absurd Recreation

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Martin Kersels: <em>Heavyweight Champion</em>

Art

Martin Kersels

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

<em>Camera Ephemera</em>

Art: Photography

Camera Ephemera

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Cindy Stelmackowich: <em>Embalmination</em>

Art

Cindy Stelmackowich

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Amanda Ross-Ho: <em>Half of What I Say Is Meaningless</em>

Art

Amanda Ross-Ho

Saturday 9/20 @ Cherry and Martin

Amanda Ross-Ho returns to Cherry and Martin with her latest exhibition of mixed-media sculptural installation, Half of What I Say Is... 

Syndrome: <em>I Learned It By Watching You</em>

Art

Syndrome

Saturday 9/20 @ Crewest Gallery

Micah Hancock, James Larese, and Mars Sandoval, who make up the motion-design studio Syndrome, demonstrate their penchants for biting humor and... 

Brandon Boyd: <em>Ectoplasm</em>

Art

Brandon Boyd

Saturday 9/20 @ 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,... 

Hans Burkhardt: Paintings of the 1960s

Art

Hans Burkhardt

Saturday 9/20 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts

In the years bracketing WWII, a great many artists were among those fleeing to US shores from the specter of Nazi... 

Eric Joyner: <em>Artificial Enlightenment</em>

Art

Eric Joyner

Saturday 9/20 @ Corey Helford Gallery

The dangerous, abiding love for donuts that torments the psyche of the modern robot is at the center of the universe... 

Elizabeth Turk: <em>Traces</em>

Art

Elizabeth Turk

Saturday 9/20 @ Bandini Art

From the Department of How Did She Do That? comes a new exhibition of drawings and delicate marble sculptures from chisel-wielding... 

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

Art: Photography

Melanie Pullen

Saturday 9/20 @ ACE Gallery

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

<em>It's the Housewives</em>

Theatre

It's the Housewives

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Michael Knowlton: <em>Blackwater Babylon</em>

Art

Michael Knowlton

Saturday 9/20 @ 01 Gallery

Painter Michael Knowlton doesn't feel the need to choose between beauty and terror. His passionately wrought, deftly composed scenes of the... 

Peter Saul

Art

Peter Saul

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Face of the World Festival 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

FOTW 08

Saturday 9/20 @ 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... 

Bronx Zoo

Party

Bronx Zoo

Saturday 9/20 @ La Cita

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