All events on Saturday September 06

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Music: Punk/Metal
Nine Inch Nails
Saturday Sep 6 (8pm) @ The Forum
Since parting ways with Interscope last year, industrial-music impresario Trent Reznor has taken a stand against corporate interference and high consumer costs. He's recently self-released... View details »
Nine Inch Nails
Music: DJ
Modeselektor
Saturday Sep 6 (10pm) @ Avalon Hollywood
The Berlin invasion rolls through town tonight, bringing doe-eyed techno doyenne Ellen Allien and party monsters Modeselektor to the Avalon. In conjunction with her latest... View details »
Modeselektor
Art
Ultrasonic International III
Saturday Sep 6 (5–7pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
Elementary, My Dear Watson is the Mark Moore Gallery's third installment of its annual Ultrasonic International series. The group show features 16 local, national, and... View details »
Ultrasonic International III
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Macrocosm
Saturday Sep 6 (6–8pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
Roberts + Tilton becomes the latest A-list LA gallery to take up residence in Culver City, throwing a mammoth group show and housewarming party on... View details »
Macrocosm
Art
LA Flash
Saturday Sep 6 (8–11pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The latest installment in LACMA's Late Night Art series puts a new twist on an old project. Thirty-five years ago, the museum commissioned photographers to... View details »
LA Flash
Performing Arts: Opera
Il Trittico
Saturday Sep 6 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion More times »
Directors Woody Allen and William Friedkin may not be the most often-mentioned figures in opera circles, but the LA Opera has the prolific pair helming... View details »
Il Trittico
Art
Yin Zhaoyang
Saturday Sep 6 (6–8pm) @ DF2 More times »
Opening
Free
Chinese-born Yin Zhaoyang didn't have to look too far for inspiration when creating the work in his latest show at DF2 Gallery. After viewing the... View details »
Yin Zhaoyang
Art
Kerry James Marshall
Saturday Sep 6 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall has shown internationally to great acclaim, and now will show for the sixth time with Koplin del Rio in LA.... View details »
Kerry James Marshall
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Kyle Field
Saturday Sep 6 (6–8pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
For his second go-round at Taylor De Cordoba, San Franciscan artist/musican Kyle Field (he's a member of the band Little Wings), plucks whimsical imagery for... View details »
Kyle Field
Art
Hope Gangloff and Jason Jägel
Saturday Sep 6 (5–7pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
In tandem with the release of his book, 73 Funshine, San Francisco-based artist Jason Jägel exhibits a collection of music-inspired work. Part of the exhibition... View details »
Hope Gangloff and Jason Jägel
Art: Photography
Camera Ephemera
Saturday Sep 6 (7–9pm) @ Found Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
The next generation of children sadly will be deprived of the joyous anticipation that accompanies instant-photograph developing — the whole shaking-and-waiting routine that goes on... View details »
Camera Ephemera
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Cycling Apparati
Saturday Sep 6 (6–9pm) @ High Energy Constructs More times »
Opening
Free
For many contemporary artists, Warhol is the North Star by which they guide their own emerging views of culture. But for a segment of more... View details »
Cycling Apparati
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Aspects of Mel's Hole
Saturday Sep 6 (11am–9pm) @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana More times »
Free
Beloved radio host Art Bell is a cross between Jean Shepherd and Fox Mulder, and a man whose paranormality-themed broadcasts were among the most misunderstood... View details »
Aspects of Mel's Hole
Art: Photography
Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Saturday Sep 6 (6–9pm) @ Sam Lee Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
Sam Lee Gallery follows up its dynamic group exhibition I AM I A KILLER with Pipo Nguyen-Duy's cyclical photography project, The Garden. Behind his camera,... View details »
Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Art
Syndrome
Saturday Sep 6 (7pm) @ Crewest Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
Micah Hancock, James Larese, and Mars Sandoval, who make up the motion-design studio Syndrome, demonstrate their penchants for biting humor and stark realism during an... View details »
Syndrome
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Kristi Lippire
Saturday Sep 6 (5–8pm) @ d.e.n. contemporary art More times »
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Free
Kristi Lippire cobbles together images from a mind-boggling array of sources, then fashions them into large-scale works. Using plywood and other construction materials to reinforce... View details »
Kristi Lippire
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Ian Francis
Saturday Sep 6 (6–9pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
The brilliantly brash British phenom Ian Francis returns to Kinsey/DesForges for his second solo show. Once again, the artist presents visceral, even garish, large-scale works... View details »
Ian Francis
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Malibu Surf Classic
Saturday Sep 6 (6:30am–7pm) @ Surfrider Beach More times »
Free
Finally, there's something to photograph on the beach in Malibu besides the shirtless antics of Matthew McConaughey. The newsworthy occasion is the Malibu Surf Association... View details »
Malibu Surf Classic
Art
Bob Biggs, Doug Edge, and Kate Harding
Saturday Sep 6 (6–9pm) @ Track 16 Gallery More times »
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Free
Track 16 opens the fall season with three concurrent solo exhibitions. Venice stalwart Doug Edge is known for the fluidity and materials-driven caprice of his... View details »
Bob Biggs, Doug Edge, and Kate Harding
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Eric Sall
Saturday Sep 6 (6–9pm) @ Acuna-Hansen Gallery More times »
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Free
In confronting the vibrating, thickly textured canvases of Eric Sall, one gets the distinct impression that he could survive by eating nothing but oil paint,... View details »
Eric Sall
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The Art of Music
Saturday Sep 6 (7–10pm) @ The Scion Installation LA Space More times »
Opening
Free
What do Vans, Tokion magazine, and the Moody Blues have in common? They are all among the scores of clients from the retail, publishing, and... View details »
Art
Eric Joyner
Saturday Sep 6 (7–10pm) @ Corey Helford More times »
Opening
Free
The dangerous, abiding love for donuts that torments the psyche of the modern robot is at the center of the universe inhabited by SF-based painter... View details »
Eric Joyner
Art
Elizabeth Turk
Saturday Sep 6 (6–8pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
Opening
Free
From the Department of How Did She Do That? comes a new exhibition of drawings and delicate marble sculptures from chisel-wielding enchantress Elizabeth Turk. Her... View details »
Elizabeth Turk
Performing Arts: Theatre
It's the Housewives
Saturday Sep 6 (8pm) @ Whitefire Theatre More times »
Giveaway
Sarah Palin may have the elusive Hockey Mom demographic sewn up, but who knows how she's going to handle the nation's newest and most fabulous... View details »
It's the Housewives
Art
The Maize Project
Saturday Sep 6 (11am–5pm) @ Torrance Art Museum More times »
Free
The small but influential Torrance Art Museum simultaneously mounts three new solo exhibitions, united by highly stylized explorations of abstraction and color. The Maize Project,... View details »

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Ugo Wine Bar
Saturday Sep 6 (5:30pm–1:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one... View details »
Ugo Wine Bar
Art
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Saturday Sep 6 (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 Sep 6 (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: Photography
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Saturday Sep 6 (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 Sep 6 (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 Sep 6 (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 Sep 6 @ 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 Sep 6 (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 Sep 6 (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 Sep 6 (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
The Juxtapoz Factor
Saturday Sep 6 (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
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Bronx Zoo
Saturday Sep 6 (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
Art: Architecture/Design
John Lautner
Saturday Sep 6 (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
Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments
Saturday Sep 6 @ 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
David Eddington
Saturday Sep 6 (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
Kori Newkirk and Miguel Angel Rios
Saturday Sep 6 (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: Theatre
Rabbit Hole
Saturday Sep 6 (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
Summer Smockshop
Saturday Sep 6 (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: Photography
Contemporary Photography from China
Saturday Sep 6 (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 Sep 6 (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 Sep 6 (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
Signals: A Video Showcase
Saturday Sep 6 (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
Art
Doug Henry & Joe Potts
Saturday Sep 6 (11am–6pm) @ Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art More times »
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
Art: Photography
In Focus: The Landscape
Saturday Sep 6 (10am–9pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In Focus: The Landscape explores... View details »
In Focus: The Landscape
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Marlene Dumas
Saturday Sep 6 (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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Hans Burkhardt
Saturday Sep 6 (noon–4pm) @ Cal State University Northridge Art Gallery More times »
Free
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 before his death), this... View details »
Hans Burkhardt
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Scribble Press
Saturday Sep 6 (10am–8pm) @ Scribble Press More times »
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with markers, stickers, paints, wide... View details »
Art: Photography
Melanie Pullen
Saturday Sep 6 (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
Katie Grinnan
Saturday Sep 6 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture More times »
Katie Grinnan has made a career out of walking the fine line between the second and third dimensions. Grinnan takes architectural structures — as well... View details »
Katie Grinnan
Art
All of This is Melting Away
Saturday Sep 6 (10am–6pm) @ Royal/T More times »
Free
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 prominent collector Susan Hancock's... View details »
All of This is Melting Away
Music: Jazz/Blues
The Bad Plus
Saturday Sep 6 (8 & 10pm) @ Catalina Bar & Grill More times »
Three distinct musical personalities make up the Bad Plus. Drummer David King drives syncopated, rough-around-the-edges rhythms, while Ethan Iverson's piano provides a link to jazz,... View details »
The Bad Plus
Art
Neck Face
Saturday Sep 6 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art More times »
Free
Neck Face and his ubiquitous demon motifs — scrawled all over downtowns on both coasts — enter the gallery scene and infiltrate the once-genteel medium... View details »
Neck Face
Art
Josh Dorman
Saturday Sep 6 (noon–6pm) @ Craft and Folk Art Museum More times »
Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as foundations for his fantastical... View details »
Josh Dorman
Art
Nathan Danilowicz
Saturday Sep 6 (noon–6pm) @ Crisp London Los Angeles More times »
Free
Pawn Shop Gallery reinvents itself as the LA half of the new venture Crisp London Los Angeles with an inaugural exhibition of recent photographs and... View details »
Nathan Danilowicz
Art
Cindy Stelmackowich
Saturday Sep 6 (noon–6pm) @ Kristi Engle Gallery More times »
Free
Unless you're a goth historian, 19th-century cadavers, Victorian lace, and anatomical illustrations are not often everyday topics of interest. But Canadian artist Cindy Stelmackowich stumbled... View details »
Cindy Stelmackowich
Performing Arts: Theatre
Bury the Dead
Saturday Sep 6 (8pm) @ The Actors' Gang Theatre More times »
From director Matt Huffman comes a new adaptation of Irwin Shaw's 1936 antiwar masterpiece, Bury the Dead. Shaw, who went on to pen the acclaimed... View details »
Art
The Horror of Tradition
Saturday Sep 6 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Agamemnon
Saturday Sep 6 (8–10pm) @ The Getty Villa More times »
Aeschylus' Agamemnon, the first of three plays that make up famed Greek trilogy The Oresteia, soaks the stage with what all good tragedies boast —... View details »
Agamemnon
Art
Mercedes Helnwein
Saturday Sep 6 (noon–6pm) @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery More times »
Free
Austrian artist Mercedes Helnwein's darkly beautiful pencil drawings are equal parts Tim Burton fairy tale, Cindy Sherman photograph, and girlish fantasy. The women in her... View details »
Mercedes Helnwein
Performing Arts: Theatre
9 to 5
Saturday Sep 6 @ Ahmanson Theatre More times »
Based on Collin Higgins' screwball 1980 comedy, 9 to 5: The Musical makes its LA premiere tonight before heading to Broadway in the spring. Directed... View details »
9 to 5
Art: Photography
Dennis Hopper and Wendy Burton
Saturday Sep 6 (11am–5:30pm) @ Craig Krull Gallery More times »
Free
Craig Krull Gallery pulls out the big guns for its season opener, with concurrent solo exhibitions from two of its most accomplished artists. Wendy Burton's... View details »
Dennis Hopper and Wendy Burton
Art
Nancy Reddin Kienholz
Saturday Sep 6 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
Free
Nancy Reddin Kienholz may be familiar to some because of her lifelong collaboration with late husband Ed Kienholz, one of the world's most famous assemblage... View details »
Nancy Reddin Kienholz
Art
The Art of War
Saturday Sep 6 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon Museum More times »
When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much further than two-dimensional art.... View details »
The Art of War
Art
Anne Faith Nicholls
Saturday Sep 6 (11am–9pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
Anne Faith Nicholls remixes folk art with her quasi-surrealist, richly symbolic narrative works that have roots in the traditional Western high-art style. The result, which... View details »
Anne Faith Nicholls
Art
Sarah Cromarty
Saturday Sep 6 (11am–6pm) @ Circus Gallery More times »
Free
LA painter Sarah Cromarty has had a big year already; she gained recognition through several group shows and a bit of favorable press. She continues... View details »
Sarah Cromarty
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Antonio Pineda
Saturday Sep 6 (noon–5pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA More times »
Free
World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show what an especially talented... View details »
Antonio Pineda
Art
CUT: Makings of Removal
Thursday Sep 11 (6–9pm) @ Vincent Price Art Museum More times »
Free
The 17 young and emerging artists included in this ambitious group show follow diverse strategies in making work, but the organizing principle is one of... View details »
CUT: Makings of Removal
Art
Yoko Ono
Saturday Sep 6 @ One Colorado More times »
Free
It has been nearly 28 years since John Lennon's passing, but his quest for world peace lives on. Lennon's widow, noted artist Yoko Ono, continues... View details »
Yoko Ono