Events on Saturday, March 21

Conferences

Local Media for Social Change

Saturday 3/21 @ Occidental College

Whither the Fourth Estate in the 21st century? Like the larger economy, the media is undergoing a radical reorganization, and its... 

Giant presents Calvin Harris

Music: Electronic

Calvin Harris

Saturday 3/21 @ Vanguard

It's hard to say exactly how Scottish singer/swinger Calvin Harris knows just what was "Acceptable in the '80s" — especially since... 

Selected Artworks by Harmony Korine

Art

Harmony Korine

Saturday 3/21 @ Iconoclast Editions Pop-Up Shop

Based in LA since 2002, Iconoclast began as a means to publish books and editions by artists who appeared in Beautiful... 

Black Mountain w/ the Sadies

Music

Black Mountain

Saturday 3/21 @ Echoplex

Black Mountain's eponymous debut, a brazen amalgamation of the most classic sounds of the late '60s and the '70s, proudly brandished... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Matisse's Amours

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

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

Art

Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA

Saturday 3/21 @ Hammer Museum

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

Dance

Tango Kabloom

Saturday 3/21 @ Tango Mar Vista

Tango Mar Vista invites those bored with the gym to participate in a week-long series of free introductory tango classes. Resident... 

Melissa Manfull: <em>Tesseracts</em>

Art

Melissa Manfull

Saturday 3/21 @ 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:... 

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

Art

Bill McMullen

Saturday 3/21 @ 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>Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde</em>

Art

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

Saturday 3/21 @ The Getty Center

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

Ala Ebtekar and Taravat Talepasand: <em>Hampah</em>

Art

Ala Ebtekar and Taravat Talepasand

Saturday 3/21 @ Charlie James Gallery

For a Chung King Road gallery showing, the idea of an exhibition celebrating the Chinese New Year might not be that... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Saturday 3/21 @ Scribble Press

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

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

Art

Freyda Miller

Saturday 3/21 @ Art Dimensions

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

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

Art

São Paolo

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

Saturday 3/21 @ Vinum Populi

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

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

Art

James Hueter

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

Rebekah Bogard: <em>Twilight</em>

Art

Rebekah Bogard: Twilight

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

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

Art

KAWS

Saturday 3/21 @ 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,... 

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

Special Event

Within Heaven's Earshot

Saturday 3/21 @ Synchronicity Space

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

<em>Tokyo!</em>

Film

Tokyo!

Saturday 3/21 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

An imaginative ode to Japan's capital told in three parts, Tokyo! is cleverly linked by themes of alienation, identity, and destiny.... 

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

Art

Rachell Sumpter

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

Ken Roht's 99c Only Calendar Girl Competition

Performing Arts

Ken Roht's 99c Only Calendar Girl Competition

Saturday 3/21 @ Bootleg Theater

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

Art

Rebecca Bird

Saturday 3/21 @ Kopeikin Gallery

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

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

Art

Matthew Feyld and David MacDowell

Saturday 3/21 @ Thinkspace Gallery

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

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

Art

ZAP! POW! BAM!

Saturday 3/21 @ 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 3/21 @ 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 3/21 @ 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... 

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

Art

Robert Dowd

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

Mark Dutcher: <em>Havilah</em>

Art

Mark Dutcher

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

<em>Point Break LIVE!</em>

Theatre

Point Break LIVE!

Saturday 3/21 @ Dragonfly

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

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 3/21 @ 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... 

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

Art

Paper Cuts

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Jeremy Kidd

Saturday 3/21 @ Fahey/Klein Gallery

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

Luke Chueh: <em>From Light Cometh Darkness</em>

Art

Luke Chueh

Saturday 3/21 @ Corey Helford Gallery

Both Luke Chueh's art and the artist himself represent unlikely juxtapositions. As a Chinese-American from Philly transplanted to Fresno, Chueh dealt... 

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

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Saturday 3/21 @ 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... 

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

Art

Beautiful/Decay A to Z

Saturday 3/21 @ Kopeikin Gallery

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

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 3/21 @ 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... 

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: 50th Anniversary Celebration

Dance

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Saturday 3/21 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

On March 30, 1958, Alvin Ailey and a group of young black modern dancers performed at New York's 92nd Street YM-YWHA,... 

Collecting Abraham Lincoln

Special Event

Collecting Abraham Lincoln

Saturday 3/21 @ 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 3/21 @ 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 3/21 @ 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...