Events on Saturday, March 7
Tiki Mugs: Cult Artifacts of Polynesian Pop
Saturday 3/ 7 @ La Luz de Jesus
Who better to write a book on tiki mugs than a man who kicked off his career as the London-based clothier...
Saturday 3/ 7 @ The Wiltern
Les Claypool's dark, delightfully disturbing compositions layer old-timey rhymes with weirdly appropriate sounds, forming eerie, engaging tunes that beg to be...
Saturday 3/ 7 @ Disney Concert Hall
Gorging on gauzy, Tears for Fears-style synth melodies, M83 frontman Anthony Gonzalez is obsessed with the feelings of adolescence. The Frenchman's...
Saturday 3/ 7 @ Premiere Events Center
Over 40 local visual artists, musicians, performers, and DJs converge at the massive indoor/outdoor gallery and dance party for Create:Fixate's first...
Saturday 3/ 7 @ The Edison
Like some hazy dream of a psychedelic gypsy circus, the Vagabond Opera are one of those acts that intrigue even the...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 3/ 7 @ 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 3/ 7 @ 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 3/ 7 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Founded by artists in an attempt to inject the publishing world with some of the unmediated verve and vigor of the...
Saturday 3/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 7 @ 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 3/ 7 @ 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 3/ 7 @ 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 3/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 7 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
Wallace Berman and Richard Prince
Saturday 3/ 7 @ 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 3/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 7 @ 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 3/ 7 @ 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,...
Saturday 3/ 7 @ 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 3/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 7 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 3/ 7 @ 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 3/ 7 @ Art Dimensions
Freyda Miller's body of work dates as far back as 1978, developing from her early conceptual photography to the Fertile Dreams...
Saturday 3/ 7 @ 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:...
Saturday 3/ 7 @ 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...
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Saturday 3/ 7 @ 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 3/ 7 @ 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 3/ 7 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Saturday 3/ 7 @ 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 3/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 7 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 3/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 7 @ 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...
Marianne Mueller and Penelope Gottlieb
Saturday 3/ 7 @ 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 3/ 7 @ Studio 1636
A veneration of global artists on the perimeter, the Engine Collision Festival is an 11-day blowout of performances, films, and multimedia,...
Saturday 3/ 7 @ 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...
Saturday 3/ 7 @ Gallery at the End of the World
Altadena's Gallery at the End of the World hosts its quarterly ArtBender Weekend, featuring the works of over 35 artists, plus...
Saturday 3/ 7 @ 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...
