Events on Saturday, January 17
14th Annual Performance Marathon
Saturday 1/17 @ Theatre of NOTE
The culture-forward productions at Hollywood's famed Theatre of NOTE are the conscience of LA's independent stage scene, proffering classics, revivals, and...
Saturday 1/17 @ Knitting Factory
Larger than life — and rather rotund — frontman Buster Bloodvessel leads Bad Manners' crazed brass beats and breakneck drums. A...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 1/17 @ Art/Works Theatre
For the first half of the 20th century, Le Theatre du Grand Guignol in Paris reigned as the predominant purveyor of...
Saturday 1/17 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick...
Saturday 1/17 @ 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 1/17 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
The best operas hint at larger mysteries than their traditional, even predictable, story arcs at first seem to address. Reviving an...
Saturday 1/17 @ Gallery 1988
Gallery 1988 hits '09 running with the second installment of its Under the Influence series, this year paying homage to the...
Saturday 1/17 @ 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 1/17 @ 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...
Self-Portraits in the Age of MyFaceSpaceBook
Saturday 1/17 @ I-5 Gallery
Self-Portraits in the Age of MyFaceSpaceBook is a big, fat group show that delivers just what its title promises: an unwieldy...
Saturday 1/17 @ Angles Gallery
Israeli-born, LA-based artist Yuval Pudik executes remarkable graphite drawings on paper that defy the laws of anatomy, narrative, romance, and even...
Saturday 1/17 @ Charlie James Gallery
Los Angeles artist David E. Stone practices a surreal brand of punsterism, often producing exhibitions in serial form that build upon...
Saturday 1/17 @ Disney Concert Hall
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the LA Philharmonic in the West Coast premiere of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho's La Passion de Simone. Based...
Saturday 1/17 @ Samuel Freeman
Each of the six artists assembled in this Samuel Freeman group exhibition is a master of the watercolor medium. Bucking tradition,...
Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker
Saturday 1/17 @ Bob Baker Marionette Theater
In the early '60s, Bob Baker and partner Alton Wood founded a marionette theater, establishing what has become the longest-running children's...
Saturday 1/17 @ Pepperdine University, Weisman Museum of Art
The Weisman Museum at Pepperdine's Malibu campus launches one of its most important exhibitions to date with this long-overdue survey of...
Saturday 1/17 @ The Company
The economy be damned: amid a spate of gallery closings, it's still full speed ahead for the fearless founders of the...
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Saturday 1/17 @ The Getty Center
In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and...
Saturday 1/17 @ Subliminal Projects
Photojournalist Martha Cooper literally wrote the book — several books actually — on the co-emergent graffiti and hip-hop scenes in New...
Saturday 1/17 @ 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 1/17 @ Lightbox Gallery
In sacred and profane, Los Angeles-based artist George Stoll expands upon his traditional examination of everyday Americana. Objects such as his...
Saturday 1/17 @ Pacific Design Center
Blake Edwards has established a lasting role in an otherwise fickle entertainment industry, directing gems like Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Party,...
Saturday 1/17 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 1/17 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
Moira Hahn is known for conceptually complex, masterfully rendered mash-up paintings in which wild and domestic animals play the roles of...
Saturday 1/17 @ 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 1/17 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
In previous collaborations between Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, audiences have been offered printed manifestos, photographic projects on public billboards, and...
James Naccarato, Erik Alos, and Lauren Bergman
Saturday 1/17 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Experts in the unexpected, James Naccarato, Erik Alos, and Lauren Bergman all employ the stylistic underpinnings found in pop surrealism, combining...
Saturday 1/17 @ George Billis Gallery
In an inspired mashup of childhood comfort, adult-onset ADHD, and modern-art history, Brooklyn-based painter Derek Buckner delivers luminous, refined oil paintings...
Saturday 1/17 @ Jail Gallery
While it's certainly true that things are finally looking up in this country, the premise of curator Claressinka Anderson's latest parfait...
Saturday 1/17 @ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...
99¢ Only Calendar Girl Competition
Saturday 1/17 @ Bootleg Theater
Bargain-hunting beauty queens and dollar store Don Juans convene as Bootleg Theatre pays homage to LA's kitschy holiday headquarters. The 99¢...
Saturday 1/17 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Louise Bourgeois' deeply personal art combines an in-your-face sexuality with disturbing, even terrifying, imagery of trespassed flesh and violated privacy. Yet...
Saturday 1/17 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
Saturday 1/17 @ C4 Gallery
Marquetry is an ages-old technique of applying wood veneers to solid surfaces, popular among extremely wealthy Europeans in the time of...
Saturday 1/17 @ Norton Simon Museum
It's not often that Angelenos have the chance to examine an original painting by Dutch Baroque master Johannes Vermeer. His surviving...
Saturday 1/17 @ 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...
Saturday 1/17 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
LA painter Lisa Adams is something of a riddle. Her work is almost violently sweet, with a dulcet, wafting quality to...
Saturday 1/17 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Saturday 1/17 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Collaborative painters Daryoush Asgar and Elisabeth Gabriel make no attempt at seamlessness or illusion. The scars of their clashing styles is...
Saturday 1/17 @ Regen Projects
The first of this winter's pair of Raymond Pettibon exhibitions at Regen Projects focused on early monochromatic, pop-culture infused pen-and-ink drawings....
Saturday 1/17 @ The Ford Theater
Chronicling the misadventures of feisty, forward-thinking Martha, Battle Hymn is a touching, comedic, and thoughtful survey of American history, as seen...
Saturday 1/17 @ La Luz de Jesus
In Fragments, professional illustrator Mark Todd brings his increasingly abstracted art to La Luz. Bastardizing his signature, comics-based style, Todd's latest...
Saturday 1/17 @ Found Gallery
Danielle Eubank's ethereal pieces straddle the line between formalism and figurative representation, resulting in a dreamy, surreal body of work. The...
Wallace Berman and Richard Prince
Saturday 1/17 @ Michael Kohn Gallery
Aside from the landscape, womankind has been art's favorite subject — and few portray femininity quite as impressively or distinctly as...
Saturday 1/17 @ Armory Center for the Arts
With At the Brewery Project: 1993-2007: the Finale, the Armory pays its respects to an LA art mainstay. For the past...
Saturday 1/17 @ Benjamin Trigano Gallery
A suite of digitally collaged fantasmagorias from German artist Martin Denker, Citizenoftheplanet shows us what it would be like to see...
Saturday 1/17 @ Sherry Frumkin Gallery
With her new book, RIGHT: Portraits from the Evangelical Ivy League, photographer Jona Frank flips the script on the face of...
Saturday 1/17 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
