Events on Saturday, March 14

The Los Angeles Conservancy presents City of the Seekers: LA's Unique Spiritual Legacy

Art

City of the Seekers

Saturday 3/14 @ Various locations

The Los Angeles Conservancy and Modern Committee resurrect our city's religious heritage with a one-day driving tour of five spiritual institutions.... 

Richard Swift

Music

Richard Swift

Saturday 3/14 @ Yost Theatre

After winding down a US tour with Stereolab, Wilco, and Cold War Kids, the musically elusive Richard Swift allegedly recorded his... 

Little Radio and Aquarium Drunkard present Phosphorescent, Viva Voce, the Donkeys, and Rafter

Music

Phosphorescent

Saturday 3/14 @ Regent Theater Downtown

Phosphorescent (aka Matthew Houck) moved to Brooklyn from Athens, GA not long ago, and brought with him a gentle Southern accent... 

Love on Wheels

Special Event: Benefit

Love on Wheels

Saturday 3/14 @ World on Wheels

You know you're in for an interesting party when the promoters entreat you to sport "Sexy Roller Disco Funk Attire." Tonight's... 

Asobi Seksu w/ Bell and Resplandor

Music

Asobi Seksu

Saturday 3/14 @ The Troubadour

Brooklyn outfit Asobi Seksu's third album, Hush, sees the band branching out from its shoegaze roots to emit wholly crafted dream... 

Ongoing Events

Freyda Miller: <em>Fertile Dreams</em>

Art

Freyda Miller

Saturday 3/14 @ Art Dimensions

Freyda Miller's body of work dates as far back as 1978, developing from her early conceptual photography to the Fertile Dreams... 

Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>

Art

Mark Bradford

Saturday 3/14 @ 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... 

Ken Roht's 99c Only Calendar Girl Competition

Performing Arts

Ken Roht's 99c Only Calendar Girl Competition

Saturday 3/14 @ Bootleg Theater

<em>S&atilde;o Paolo</em>

Art

São Paolo

Saturday 3/14 @ The Scion Installation LA Space

Forget art school: in São Paulo, Brazil, all the action's outside, where skaters, tattooists, graffiti artists, illustrators, rockers, and hip-hoppers commingle... 

Matthew Feyld: <em>New Work</em> and David MacDowell: <em>The Sins of Atticus Finch</em>

Art

Matthew Feyld and David MacDowell

Saturday 3/14 @ Thinkspace Gallery

Matthew Feyld combines fantasy, reality, and optically operative patterning into a new series of super-flat, cartoonish paintings that could easily be... 

Elias Sime: <em>Eye of the Needle, Eye of the  Heart</em> and Arnold Mesches: <em>Coming Attractions</em>

Art

Elias Sime and Arnold Mesches

Saturday 3/14 @ 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... 

Rebekah Bogard: <em>Twilight</em>

Art

Rebekah Bogard: Twilight

Saturday 3/14 @ Vincent Price Art Museum

Nevada-based artist Rebekah Bogard turns the VPAM into a glazed forest of approachable yet baffling imagined creatures. Handcrafted, life-sized ceramic renderings... 

Jeremy Kidd: <em>Fictional Realities</em>

Art: Photography

Jeremy Kidd

Saturday 3/14 @ Fahey/Klein Gallery

Like many photographers, Jeremy Kidd is drawn to sweeping vistas, from the high desert to the ocean floor, and from suburbia... 

<em>Matisse's Amours: Illustrations of Pierre de Ronsard's Love Poems</em>

Art

Matisse's Amours

Saturday 3/14 @ Norton Simon Museum

The French Fauvist painter Henri Matisse began a simple, 30-lithograph portfolio in 1941, and seven years later transformed it into a... 

Eddy Sykes: <em>Yakuza Lou</em>

Art

Eddy Sykes

Saturday 3/14 @ Materials & Applications

First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &... 

Rachell Sumpter: <em>Molten Kin</em>

Art

Rachell Sumpter

Saturday 3/14 @ Richard Heller Gallery

Dualism is a term easily applied to Rachell Sumpter's series of new paintings, Molten Kin. Gouache, her medium of choice, allows... 

<em>Point Break LIVE!</em>

Theatre

Point Break LIVE!

Saturday 3/14 @ Dragonfly

Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill... 

MAK Center Residents: Final Projects, Group XXVII

Art

MAK Center Residents: Final Projects

Saturday 3/14 @ MAK Center Schindler House

The latest crop of participants in the MAK Center's noted six-month residency program for international emerging artists holds its Final Projects... 

<em>Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda</em>

Fashion/Style

Antonio Pineda

Saturday 3/14 @ 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... 

Collecting Abraham Lincoln

Special Event

Collecting Abraham Lincoln

Saturday 3/14 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

In honor of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday, the newly renovated Huntington Library digs into its massive reservoir of Lincolniana. The letters,... 

<em>Nat King Cole Re:Generations</em>

Art

Nat King Cole Re:Generations

Saturday 3/14 @ Crewest Gallery

Forty-four years after his death, legendary pianist and baritone Nat King Cole continues to inspire artists, from painters to poets and,... 

Rebecca Campbell: <em>Poltergeist</em>

Art

Rebecca Campbell

Saturday 3/14 @ LA Louver Gallery

Rebecca Campbell's paintings, including several large-scale works applying her eerie sense of space and sensitivity to anatomy and gesture, demonstrate advanced... 

Robert Dowd: <em>Pop Art Money</em>

Art

Robert Dowd

Saturday 3/14 @ 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... 

<em>Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy</em>

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Saturday 3/14 @ 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... 

Mark Dutcher: <em>Havilah</em>

Art

Mark Dutcher

Saturday 3/14 @ Steve Turner Contemporary

Mark Dutcher's first show with Steve Turner Contemporary deftly traverses the space between sculpture and painting, thrusting the artist's traditional oeuvre... 

BOXeight Fashion Week

Fashion/Style

BOXeight Fashion Week

Saturday 3/14 @ The Los Angeles Theatre

Even the most runway-savvy among us need a little help navigating the tsunami of taste-making that is Fashion Week in Los... 

Melissa Manfull: <em>Tesseracts</em>

Art

Melissa Manfull

Saturday 3/14 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery

Add to the list of great historical art movements like Impressionism, Cubism, and Abstract Expressionism a brand-new, admittedly less erudite genre:... 

Jona Frank: <em>Church and State</em>

Art: Photography

Jona Frank

Saturday 3/14 @ Sherry Frumkin Gallery

With her new book, RIGHT: Portraits from the Evangelical Ivy League, photographer Jona Frank flips the script on the face of... 

<em>Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde</em>

Art

Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde

Saturday 3/14 @ The Getty Center

In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and... 

<em>Within Heaven's Earshot</em>: Religious Album Covers

Special Event

Within Heaven's Earshot

Saturday 3/14 @ Synchronicity Space

Psychic healer Kieran Sala curated Within Heaven's Earshot after guests were asked to bring offbeat records to a ModCom Christmas party.... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Saturday 3/14 @ Scribble Press

Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with... 

<em>Beautiful/Decay A to Z</em>

Art

Beautiful/Decay A to Z

Saturday 3/14 @ Kopeikin Gallery

Founded by artists in an attempt to inject the publishing world with some of the unmediated verve and vigor of the... 

New Dance at Saint Joseph Ballet

Dance

Saint Joseph Ballet

Saturday 3/14 @ Saint Joseph Ballet

Saint Joseph Ballet is well-known for its wildly successful arts-based youth programs, helping to cultivate self-esteem, confidence, and leadership through dancemaking... 

Tofer Chin: <em>Double Dip</em> and David O'Brien: <em>Explosions in a Mental Sky</em>

Art

Tofer Chin and David O'Brien

Saturday 3/14 @ Cerasoli Gallery

LA native Tofer Chin's large-format paintings explore the impact of LSD, including its ability to prolong and exaggerate the effects of... 

Bill McMullen: <em>Hype, Hustle, Rip-Off</em>

Art

Bill McMullen

Saturday 3/14 @ The Constant Gallery

Bill McMullen's imagery for the likes of everyone from Adidas to the Beastie Boys has become a part of the urban... 

<em>James Hueter: A Retrospective</em>

Art

James Hueter

Saturday 3/14 @ Claremont Museum of Art

The Claremont Museum of Art makes no secret of its mission: the preservation, study, and dissemination of the legacy left by... 

Natalia Fabia: <em>Hooker DreamEscape</em>

Art

Natalia Fabia

Saturday 3/14 @ Corey Helford Gallery

Natalia Fabia's multiple personas, ranging from alternative beauty-pageant coordinator to tattooed model, photographer, illustrator, and painter, explosively combine in her new... 

KAWS: <em>The Long Way Home</em>

Art

KAWS

Saturday 3/14 @ Honor Fraser

Brooklyn-based artist, graffiti icon, and designer KAWS is already a master of multiple media, with a mini-empire that includes painting, sculpture,... 

2008 California Biennial

Art

2008 California Biennial

Saturday 3/14 @ 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... 

Theatre

Pippin

Saturday 3/14 @ Mark Taper Forum

Wicked maestro Stephen Schwartz revives his '70s rock opera Pippin as the opening production of the Mark Taper 2009 season. A... 

<em>Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA</em>

Art

Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA

Saturday 3/14 @ Hammer Museum

Exploring the idea of reinvention, Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA illuminates the creative undercurrent of a city that has long... 

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

Saturday 3/14 @ Vinum Populi

Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie... 

Rebecca Bird: <em>Everything That Ever Existed Still Exists</em>

Art

Rebecca Bird

Saturday 3/14 @ Kopeikin Gallery

Brooklyn-based watercolorist Rebecca Bird takes an unlikely, poetic approach to her considerations of destruction. In this series of explosions, based on... 

<em>Paper Cuts</em>: 200 Years of Black Paper Dolls

Art

Paper Cuts

Saturday 3/14 @ 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... 

<em>ZAP! POW! BAM!</em><em> The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books, 1938-1950</em>

Art

ZAP! POW! BAM!

Saturday 3/14 @ Skirball Cultural Center

Jerry Robinson, cartoonist and creator of Batman's iconic villain, the Joker, guest curated ZAP! POW! BAM! The Golden Age of Comic... 

Sigrid Sandstr&ouml;m

Art

Sigrid Sandström

Saturday 3/14 @ The Company

Sigrid Sandström's new works embrace a constant reconsideration (and re-reconsideration) of the role of illusion in painting. As the pieces speak... 

Ruth Weisberg

Art

Ruth Weisberg

Saturday 3/14 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts

Ruth Weisberg is hailed in some quarters as a living legend of contemporary figurative painting. Her delicate, yet dense depictions of...