Events on Saturday, December 12
Saturday 12/12 @ Fox Theatre (Pomona)
Boston boys Passion Pit wind down their spectacular 2009 with a performance celebrating the launch of their debut full-length disc, Manners....
Saturday 12/12 @ Cinespace
Finally, an independent arts showcase that's as eclectic as life really is. With four monthly editions around the LA/Long Beach crescent,...
Saturday 12/12 @ Location TBA with RSVP
Anyone who caught the Liberace Penthouse party knows what kind of shenanigans the art-based partiers at End Days get up to....
Claudia Politi and Mario Núñez
Saturday 12/12 @ Gallery Chauvet
LA's Hazy Moon Zen Center co-sponsors an exhibit featuring Claudia Hosso Politi—a priest, artist, daughter, mother, and the founder and teacher...
Saturday 12/12 @ Treepeople, Coldwater Canyon Park
Today's early start time shouldn't be a problem for fans of the green thumb; besides, since tree surgery can be hard...
Saturday 12/12 @ Hint Mint House
Artist, DC Comics legend, and graphics whiz James Jean, whose work can be seen in the Giant Robot Biennale 2 exhibition...
Saturday 12/12 @ The Echo & Echoplex
BUST has been cranking out its bimonthly neo-feminist rag for over 15 years, granting brainy babes an outlet where they're free...
Saturday 12/12 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
The world's reigning opera diva returns to Los Angeles for a one-night-only engagement. The versatile Renée Fleming — whose recent repertoire...
Weekend Series: Memories of Murder
Saturday 12/12 @ LACMA
Memories of Murder (Salinui chueok)
December 12 | 4:30 pm | Free...
Musical Explorations: Holidays Around the World feat. Johnny Bregar
Saturday 12/12 @ The GRAMMY Museum
A mix of French, Irish Celtic, blues and jazz, Lisa Haley and the Zydekats will bring the songs of the bayou...
Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL & THE FISHER KING
Saturday 12/12 @ Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature: BRAZIL, 1985, Universal, 142 min. Director Terry Gilliam’s groundbreaking science fiction satire is an anachronistic masterpiece. Winner of the...
Saturday 12/12 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW TRAILER
God bless James Szalapski for crafting Heartworn Highways (shot in '75, released in '81) because today's...
(RED)Nights presents Brett Dennen
Saturday 12/12 @ The Wiltern
Singer/songwriter Brett Dennen will bring his easy going style of folk-pop music to the Wiltern, and he's making a Christmas party....
Saturday 12/12 @ LACMA
Mother (Madeo)
December 12 | 7:30 pm
A Q&A with...
RETRO FORMAT: RARE SILENT FILMS ON 8MM
Saturday 12/12 @ Egyptian Theatre
Before there was home video, let alone Blu-Ray, there was 8mm film. The American Cinematheque is proud to present films impossible...
Todd Snider with Ashleigh Flynn
Saturday 12/12 @ El Rey
Keith Richards said humor was rock and roll's greatest weapon, Bob Dylan proved it and Snider takes it to heart. For...
Conversations on the Culture of Korean Buddhism
Saturday 12/12 @ LACMA
Conversations on the Culture of Korean Buddhism Saturday, December 12 | 2 pm Venerable Hyon...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 12/12 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Straddling a fine art line between sculpture and painting, Cordy Ryman flirts with both media but never really commits. Ryman is...
Saturday 12/12 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
Saturday 12/12 @ REDCAT
Unfettered by a male-dominated Asian art scene, Everyday Miracles (Extended) — an offshoot of the Everyday Miracles that debuted at the...
Saturday 12/12 @ g727
The Los Angeles River has often endured continuous criticism for being a useless eyesore, yielding foot-high sludge instead of flowing water....
Saturday 12/12 @ Honor Fraser
Tomoo Gokita's new body of work reveals an artistic practice that walks the tightrope between abstraction and representation. Rendered only in...
Saturday 12/12 @ Celebration Theatre
Writer/Director Justin Tanner's semi-autobiographical account of horror tales in a small-town local theater scene (read: LA) is as funny as it...
Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project
Saturday 12/12 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
At Rhizome.org, Mark Tribe supports the creation and dissemination of forward-thinking contemporary art; and LACE is a fixture in LA's anything-goes...
Saturday 12/12 @ Japanese American National Museum
In 2007, Giant Robot launched its first biennale celebrating 15 years as a magazine and a pop culture phenomenon. For its...
Saturday 12/12 @ Various locations
King of Kitsch Charles Phoenix is back with his hilariously nostalgic, heartwarming Retro Holiday Slide Show, and this year, he's bringing...
Saturday 12/12 @ Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside
Twenty international artists who explore human interaction with domesticated, imaginary, laboratory, or wild animals contribute work in media from video installation...
Saturday 12/12 @ HVW8 Art + Design Gallery
Three friends, fellow CalArts alums, and working artists join forces to explore the finer side in an exhibit at HVW8 Art...
Saturday 12/12 @ The Spurgeon Building, Santa Ana
Most cities define the holiday spirit by decking the halls, stringing a few lights, and covering the streets with humdrum holiday...
Saturday 12/12 @ Sam Lee Gallery
There is sometimes a disconnect between one's idea of a place and one's actual experience. Artist Jeff Gambill works precisely in this...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Saturday 12/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center
The subject of an engaging exhibition and lavishly appended new book, Eric Etheridge's contemporary photographic portraits of this group of American...
Saturday 12/12 @ Various Los Angeles theaters
It was just a matter of time before the classic concert film genre embraced Digital 3D, and as audiences, we can...
Saturday 12/12 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
Given that Tim Robbins founded the Actors Gang in response to a lack of opportunities for independent writers and actors to...
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Saturday 12/12 @ Hammer Museum
R. Crumb's interpretation of the Book of Genesis is at once disturbing, sacrilegious, violent, and debauched, but paired with a holy...
Saturday 12/12 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Whether the product of sheer creative license or shrewd marketing heads, the movie poster has inspired as much debate as the...
Saturday 12/12 @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
Curated by Flavorpill's own Heather Jeno Silva (who moonlights as the curator of the CAF's monthly Forum Lounge public conversations, among...
Saturday 12/12 @ Royal/T
Jane Glassman's years of work in the art world have seen her not only getting to know a variety of its...
Saturday 12/12 @ Laguna Art Museum
Works by regional and national artists come together at the Laguna Art Museum's Collecting California, which reflects the long history of...
Saturday 12/12 @ The Lyric Hyperion Theatre
In Jason Moyer's gay tweaking of Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale, A Christmas Carol, penny-pinching Scrooge is a world-famous designer for...
Saturday 12/12 @ Junc Gallery
Combining an anniversary party with a comeback, Junc Gallery hosts an exhibition featuring the expanded registry of artists whose work adorns...
Saturday 12/12 @ Vida Verde
Sydney Walsh's warm and human collages are rendered on reclaimed wood, paper and canvas, and are at once resonant, gentle, and...
Saturday 12/12 @ 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 12/12 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
The Annenberg Space for Photography brings the entire genius of its well-appointed exhibition areas and NASA-quality digital-media resources to bear on...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Saturday 12/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Recently, Art Center College of Design students directed their communications prowess towards human rights, yielding emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line...
Saturday 12/12 @ Beverly Center
After following Metallica through group therapy in his last film, Some Kind of Monster, Joe Berlinger is back in top form...
Ingres' Comtesse d'Haussonville from the Frick Collection
Saturday 12/12 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
This beguiling portrait occupies a privileged position at the threshold between French Romanticism and the early hints of modernity. Its impossibly...
Saturday 12/12 @ MAK Center Schindler House
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture hosts an exhibition in honor of Austrian sociologist, political scientist, intellectual, and author Otto...
Saturday 12/12 @ Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
As creator of the popular Edible Estates project and host of the eco-art workshop the Sundown Schoolhouse, architect Fritz Haeg has...
Saturday 12/12 @ Art Center College of Design
Although some of the objects in TOOLS may seem familiar, they are most definitely far from from ordinary. Jointly organized by...
Saturday 12/12 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Canadian fans can delight in Cripple Creek, a group show featuring five artists from our neighbor to the north and their illustration-inspired works....
Saturday 12/12 @ Clark Oshin Gallery
Clark Oshin Gallery shows off Frank W. Ockenfels 3's astonishing creative range with an exhibition of photographs and drawings at the...
Saturday 12/12 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 12/12 @ Various Hollywood locations
Co-produced by Neil Patrick Harris and Tom Salamon, Accomplice: Hollywood sends teams of intrepid folks along Hollywood Boulevard and its environs...
Saturday 12/12 @ Kristi Engle Gallery
Michael Arata is one of LA's best known "artist's artists," a man with serious chops as a curator as well as...
Saturday 12/12 @ Various Los Angeles theaters
A fictional cinematic biography that weaves fantasy with universal themes of identity and alienation, Broken Embraces might be Pedro Almodóvar's most...
Hunky Santa and the Candy Cane Girls
Saturday 12/12 @ Beverly Center
The Beverly Center's aerial-and-floor extravaganza is the perfect relief from holiday shopping, featuring choreography by Brenda Hamilton and Tania Pierce, centered...
Saturday 12/12 @ LACMA
Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:...
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Saturday 12/12 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Perhaps no pop artist is as famous for his window shopping as Wayne Thiebaud. Known largely for his pale palette oil...
Saturday 12/12 @ Galerie Anais
Los Angeles painter and poet Matthew Heller has hit a stride with his latest exhibition at Galerie Anaïs, Bergamot's newest tenant....
Leonardo da Vinci and Bill Viola
Saturday 12/12 @ Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles
"I don't know why they are called Old Masters," notes renowned da Vinci scholar Carlo Pedretti, "when in fact, they were...
Saturday 12/12 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Curator Jennifer Doyle gets in touch with our emotional side in I Feel Different, a group exhibition featuring multimedia works at...
Saturday 12/12 @ Art/Works Theatre
In the tradition of Paris' Theatre du Grand Guignol, LA's Grand Guignolers combine macabre storytelling with delightful performances. This time, the...
Saturday 12/12 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Even if you're not an opera fan, chances are you've enjoyed arias from Gioachino Rossini's crowd-pleasing comic opera. Not only is...
Saturday 12/12 @ Arclight Hollywood
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
Saturday 12/12 @ Overtones Gallery
In case you haven't heard, America is gripped with fear of a little something called the Swine Flu at the moment....
Saturday 12/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center
An Idea Called Tomorrow offers meditations on what should/could/would make for a peaceable and sustainable future — culturally, environmentally, and socially...
Saturday 12/12 @ Phantom Galleries LA: Long Beach
In a modern update on the urban tradition of extravagant seasonal shop-window decorations, Phantom Galleries' Long Beach phalanx offers nearly 30...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Saturday 12/12 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
Severed heads, skulls and daggers brimming with blood, and cemeteries littered with dismembered corpses may not readily invoke visions of spiritual...
Saturday 12/12 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Commercial photographer Susan Anderson crosses over to a fine-art career with her striking portraits from child beauty pageants. Shooting "tarted-up tots"...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Saturday 12/12 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Saturday 12/12 @ Kopeikin Gallery
There's an inherent splendor in Mark Edward Harris' photography that relates both to his experience crafting film stills and the intrigue...
Saturday 12/12 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Joey Arias and Basil Twist: Arias with a Twist
Saturday 12/12 @ REDCAT
Created by third-generation puppeteer Basil Twist and drag icon Joey Arias, Arias with a Twist merges the visionary direction and production...
Saturday 12/12 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Not much has changed since 1975 when New Topographics first opened at the George Eastman House. The state of the world...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 12/12 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
The recently opened GRAMMY Museum at Downtown's mammoth entertainment complex LA Live offers visitors a rare, intimate glimpse into the life...
Saturday 12/12 @ Edgemar Center for the Arts
Henry Jaglom's father was a wealthy Russian businessman, and one of the few Jews Heinrich Himmler offered make an "honorary Aryan"...
Saturday 12/12 @ Jancar Gallery
Annie Buckley has what one might call a diverse artistic practice; one that includes photography, collage, digital and text-based works, curatorial...
Saturday 12/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Recently, Art Center College of Design students directed their communications prowess towards human rights, yielding emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line...
Saturday 12/12 @ Santa Monica Pier
After a meteoric rise in popularity that spawned dozens of touring and resident shows of increasing complexity and pageantry, Cirque du...
Saturday 12/12 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Saturday 12/12 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
In conjunction with the installation of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's stunning Comtesse d’Haussonville, 1845, on loan from The Frick Collection in New...
Saturday 12/12 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Art Deco tour is an in-depth look at the history, materials, and style of Art Deco architecture popular in Los...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Saturday 12/12 @ The Getty Museum
Telling the differenc between drawings by Rembrandt and his pupils is a centuries-old problem. A popular teacher with more than 50...
Saturday 12/12 @ Cinespace
Saturday nights at Cinespace is the place to be for dancing and drinks on Hollywood Boulevard. Join us for the city's...
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart
Saturday 12/12 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
A leader in the American Printmaking movement, Frances Gearhart’s work was embedded in the time and place of the Arts and...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Saturday 12/12 @ The Getty Museum
Over 180 ancient glass objects from the collection of Erwin Oppenländer are featured in this exhibition. The Oppenländer collection, which the Getty...
Saturday 12/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Imagine yourself immersed in a favorite childhood tale. Five years in the making and occupying an 8,000-square-foot gallery, Noah's Ark at...
Saturday 12/12 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Beethoven’s Third is a watershed moment in the history of Western music: the epic work is about...
LACE Holiday Sale - Now Extended!
Saturday 12/12 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
LACE has extended the store sale to make your holiday shopping experience a pleasant one. Stop by LACE to purchase holiday...
Historic Downtown Walking Tour
Saturday 12/12 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Historic Downtown tour provides an overview of the historical and cultural landmarks of downtown Los Angeles. Covering a wide range...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Saturday 12/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Making its West Coast debut at the Skirball, Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968 features more than...
Saturday 12/12 @ The Getty Museum
Irving Penn was one of the most respected photographers of the 20th century. In a career that began at the premiere...
Saturday 12/12 @ The Echo & Echoplex
L.A.'S LONGEST RUNNING DUSTY BEAT DRIVEN WORLD FUNK PARTY RELOCATES TO THE ECHO EVERY SATURDAY STARTING & IS STILL FREE FOR...
Saturday 12/12 @ Art Center College of Design
Illustration students from Art Center College of Design currently have their work on display at the Aquarium of the Pacific in...
Broadway: Historic Theatre and Commercial District Walking Tour
Saturday 12/12 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The tour explores the social, cinematic, and architectural history of the largest National Register Historic Theatre Districts in the country. The...
Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36
Saturday 12/12 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
This new exhibition explores the career of legendary film producer Irving Thalberg, Hollywood’s original “Boy Wonder,” and...
Population: Portraits by Ray Turner
Saturday 12/12 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
A former painting instructor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, artist Ray Turner fashions a uniquely seductive and engaging...
