Events on Saturday, December 5
Bootie LA feat. DJ Faroff, Adrian, Mysterious D, DJ Paul V, R.A.I.D. @ echoplex
Saturday 12/ 5 @ The Echo & Echoplex
A permanent favorite dance party mavens in LA (and SF, where it started) is Bootie, the party that drops genre-crossing mashups...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Based on the Machine Project Field Guide to LACMA, the book offers alternative perspectives of a cultural institution from the point...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ Mr. Musichead Gallery
In a career as a music photographer spanning 40 years, Neil Zlozower has photographed everyone from Van Halen and Frank Zappa...
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
Saturday 12/ 5 @ La Luz de Jesus
La Luz hosts tonight's reading and book signing for the new volume of words by Chris Desjardins, better known as Chris...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ El Cid
Less attitude and more hotness — that's the vibe at Hot Biscuit, the monthly soirée put on by resident know-it-alls TK...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ Panorama High School Auditorium
Harkening back to his days in a Navy band, trombonist mega-legend Bill Watrous takes the stage with Southern California's premier military band, the...
5+1: Five Artists and One Musician
Saturday 12/ 5 @ Tree People
A group art show by five local artists working in photography, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture, including Edith Ben-Horin, Jolly de...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ Premiere Events Center
Hot on the heels of its hit fundraiser, Create:Fixate is throwing itself a much-deserved birthday party after eight years of promoting...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ Art Center College of Design
Students enrolled in Art Center’s Saturday High Fashion Design class present a fashion show that will give Project Runway a run...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ LACMA
Machine Project Book Launch Saturday, December 5 | 7–9 pm To celebrate the publication of...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ Book Soup
Andrew Grant presents and signs Rover. This is an open casting call...
Special Exhibition Lecture: The Remarkable Tale of the Ardabil Carpets
Saturday 12/ 5 @ LACMA
Special Exhibition Lecture: The Remarkable Tale of the Ardabil Carpets Saturday, December 5 | 2 pm...
Beautiful Losers short film group show
Saturday 12/ 5 @ The Cinefamily
In the early 1990's a loose-knit group of likeminded outsiders (which included Harmony Korine, Ed Templeton, Shepard Fairey, Mike Mills and...
Gallery Conversations: Modern and Contemporary Art
Saturday 12/ 5 @ LACMA
Gallery Conversations: Modern and Contemporary Art Saturdays and Sundays | December | 1–4 pm Introducing...
Celebrate the Life of George Carlin with Last Words
Saturday 12/ 5 @ Book Soup
Kelly Carlin-McCall presents and signs Last Words "Carlin comes off as a smart, humble everyman...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
Ingres' Comtesse d'Haussonville from the Frick Collection
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Regen Projects
Fresh from a year of acclaimed exhibitions in Europe and NYC and the opening spot on Madonna's recent tour, Marilyn Minter...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Following up on last year's inaugural Zero Film Festival, this year's version promises almost a week's worth of all-new self-financed films...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Arclight Hollywood
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
Hunky Santa and the Candy Cane Girls
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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...
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Saturday 12/ 5 @ Hammer Museum
R. Crumb's interpretation of the Book of Genesis is at once disturbing, sacrilegious, violent, and debauched, but paired with a holy...
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Galerie Anais
Los Angeles painter and poet Matthew Heller has hit a stride with his latest exhibition at Galerie Anaïs, Bergamot's newest tenant....
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Anderle, Immer, McGrath, and Potocki
Saturday 12/ 5 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
Four contemporary artists converge at Billy Shire Fine Arts to interpret similar themes in vastly different ways. Legendary record producer-turned-artist David...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Royal/T
Jane Glassman's years of work in the art world have seen her not only getting to know a variety of its...
West Coast, Left Coast: Adams and Josefowicz
Saturday 12/ 5 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Mapping the musical topography of the vast state of California, the LA Philharmonic's three-week West Coast, Left Coast Festival brings some...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ LACMA
Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ REDCAT
Unfettered by a male-dominated Asian art scene, Everyday Miracles (Extended) — an offshoot of the Everyday Miracles that debuted at the...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ Robert Berman Gallery
Alejandro Gehry is back with another fresh and frisky series of paintings that combine a nostalgia for the blazing palette and...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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...
Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ California Market Center
This year, head on over to Unique Los Angeles' famous holiday show for the best Christmas shopping adventure in the city....
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Subliminal Projects
If you believe the prophecies of Nostradamus, the 2012 gang, and other would-be seers (you know, the ones about how the...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ Egyptian Theatre
The Artivist Film Festival celebrates six years of fostering filmmaking among artistic advocates, and this year, it hosts a brand-new lineup...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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"...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Leonardo da Vinci and Bill Viola
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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...
Joey Arias and Basil Twist: Arias with a Twist
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
Charlie Hunter featuring Eric Kalb and Alan Ferber : TONIGHT!
Saturday 12/ 5 @ The Mint
Saturday 12/ 5 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ Cinespace
Saturday nights at Cinespace is the place to be for dancing and drinks on Hollywood Boulevard. Join us for the city's...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Historic Downtown Walking Tour
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ The Getty Museum
Irving Penn was one of the most respected photographers of the 20th century. In a career that began at the premiere...
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The tour explores the social, cinematic, and architectural history of the largest National Register Historic Theatre Districts in the country. The...
