Events on Saturday, January 31
An Evening with the Prelinger Archives
Saturday 1/31 @ The Silent Movie Theatre
Rick Prelinger has saved over 60,000 advertising, classroom, industrial, and amateur films from obscurity, methodically rescuing valuable filmstrips from the trash...
Saturday 1/31 @ Avalon Hollywood
Dimitri From Paris has parlayed his schmaltzy, retro-sexy-lounge persona (yes, he even appeared on an Austin Powers soundtrack) into a longstanding,...
Saturday 1/31 @ Tower Theater
Now in its ninth year in San Francisco, the Edwardian Ball finally comes to Los Angeles. With its cavalcade of exuberant...
Saturday 1/31 @ El Cid
Local indie fixture Kenneth Pattengale holds court tonight at El Cid, unveiling his newest record, Storied Places. The album is speckled...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ Theatre West
Hollywood's Theatre West has been providing challenging workshops, staging world-class performances, and giving back to the community for 47 years. LA's...
Saturday 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ Found Gallery
Danielle Eubank's ethereal pieces straddle the line between formalism and figurative representation, resulting in a dreamy, surreal body of work. The...
Saturday 1/31 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
East meets West on many levels as the Santa Monica Museum of Art welcomes octogenarian lion of painting Arnold Mesches to...
Saturday 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...
Saturday 1/31 @ Samuel Freeman
Each of the six artists assembled in this Samuel Freeman group exhibition is a master of the watercolor medium. Bucking tradition,...
Saturday 1/31 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 1/31 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
In previous collaborations between Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, audiences have been offered printed manifestos, photographic projects on public billboards, and...
Saturday 1/31 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Where London has the Victoria and Albert, LA has the Craft and Folk Art Museum; yet, too often, the little institution...
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Saturday 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Saturday 1/31 @ Wignall Museum/Gallery at Chaffey College
From psychedelic ceramics to custom-knitted army-tank cozies, the Arts and Crafts movement is thriving at Chaffey College's Wignall Museum in Rancho...
Saturday 1/31 @ 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,...
99¢ Only Calendar Girl Competition
Saturday 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
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J. Bennett Fitts and Bas Louter
Saturday 1/31 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Paul Kopeikin Gallery inaugurates its new West Hollywood digs with a pair of solo exhibitions underscoring its central place in the...
Saturday 1/31 @ The Company
The economy be damned: amid a spate of gallery closings, it's still full speed ahead for the fearless founders of the...
Saturday 1/31 @ Fahey/Klein Gallery
Like many photographers, Jeremy Kidd is drawn to sweeping vistas, from the high desert to the ocean floor, and from suburbia...
Saturday 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
Saturday 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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...
Wallace Berman and Richard Prince
Saturday 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ Electric Lodge
Members of Blue Man Group, Lucent Dossier, Rabbit in the Moon, Mixology, and Mass Ensemble combine their avant-garde performance skills in...
Marianne Mueller and Penelope Gottlieb
Saturday 1/31 @ Lightbox Gallery
Photographer Marianne Mueller and painter Penelope Gottlieb unite their disparate styles in this visual double bill at the Kim Light/Lightbox Gallery....
Saturday 1/31 @ 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 1/31 @ SCI-Arc
Austrian architect and SCI-Arc alum Susanne Zottl seeks out man-made environments and historic structures, fusing the world's existing space with her...
Saturday 1/31 @ Subliminal Projects
Photojournalist Martha Cooper literally wrote the book — several books actually — on the co-emergent graffiti and hip-hop scenes in New...
Saturday 1/31 @ 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...
