Events on Saturday, April 11
The Cognomi Theory of the Antarctic Interior
Saturday 4/11 @ The Velaslavasay Panorama
LA's only theater with a 360-degree painting in its rotunda, the Velaslavasay Panorama hosts an evening of scholarship in conjunction with...
Saturday 4/11 @ The Park Plaza Hotel
KCRW heads east this evening, taking over the elegant, MacArthur Park-adjacent Park Plaza hotel with RadioActive, the station's first ever all-DJ...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 4/11 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
John Baldessari, Catherine Opie, Douglas Kirkland, Lauren Greenfield and Julius Shulman are a few of the world-class photographers whose images are...
Saturday 4/11 @ Frank Pictures Gallery
The visionary photography mavens behind the annual Lucie Awards are LA natives (though the awards are presented in NYC), and this...
Saturday 4/11 @ REDCAT
Big Art Group's hallucinatory theatrical happenings create immersive environments through real-time film projections. As the action unfolds, a forest of technology...
Saturday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ Phyllis Stein Art
In the hands of gallerist Phyllis Stein and the artists in this exhibition, the notion of sweetness gets a humorous, and...
Saturday 4/11 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Joseph Cornell's surrealist shadowboxes reconfigured found objects into multidimensional creations, classified as neither sculpture nor collage, but as assemblages. The Craft...
Saturday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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...
Saturday 4/11 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA
Saturday 4/11 @ Hammer Museum
Exploring the idea of reinvention, Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA illuminates the creative undercurrent of a city that has long...
Saturday 4/11 @ The Fountain Theatre
In the early '50s, British biophysicist Rosalind Franklin labored in a King's College London lab to unravel the structure of DNA....
Martha Rich and Robert Pasternak
Saturday 4/11 @ La Luz de Jesus
There's realism, and then there's reality. For Canadian artist and designer Robert Pasternak (aka Nak), both concepts are fluid and subject...
Saturday 4/11 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
Taking the ancient craft of origami to a new extreme, Giant Robot invited artists and the art-minded to cut, tear, sew,...
Ala Ebtekar and Taravat Talepasand
Saturday 4/11 @ Charlie James Gallery
For a Chung King Road gallery showing, the idea of an exhibition celebrating the Chinese New Year might not be that...
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Saturday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ De Soto Gallery
The performances and video, audio, and sculptural installations of LA-based artist Fernando Sanchez are often as sparse and DIY as it...
Saturday 4/11 @ LOOK Gallery
In 2006, unscrupulous real-estate developers painted over one of the city's most beloved pieces of public art, a portrait of Ed...
Saturday 4/11 @ Sacred Fools Theater
Like a battle of the bands for short plays, Sacred Fools Theater's Serial Killers pits new playwrights against each other in...
Saturday 4/11 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Brooklyn-based watercolorist Rebecca Bird takes an unlikely, poetic approach to her considerations of destruction. In this series of explosions, based on...
Saturday 4/11 @ Nokia Theatre LA Live
"First We Take Manhattan" isn't the most innovative techno track. An ode to the disparate virtues of New York and Berlin,...
Saturday 4/11 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
For the third installment of his World Stage series (the first two spotlighted China and Africa, respectively), Harlem's hip-hop-styled conceptualist painter...
Saturday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Every once in a while, an art exhibition comes along that defies expectation, blows stodgy rules apart, and gets right to...
Saturday 4/11 @ Synchronicity Space
Psychic healer Kieran Sala curated Within Heaven's Earshot after guests were asked to bring offbeat records to a ModCom Christmas party....
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Saturday 4/11 @ The Getty Center
Over 100 prints by prolific New York photographer Paul Outerbridge (1896-1958) are on view at the Getty Center through August 9....
Saturday 4/11 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Founded by artists in an attempt to inject the publishing world with some of the unmediated verve and vigor of the...
Saturday 4/11 @ Various locations
Chalk Repertory burst out of the gate with its inaugural production of The Three Sisters in February. Its follow-up delivers a...
Saturday 4/11 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
Guest curated by Iranian-American arts writer Yasmine Mohseni, All Under One Roof features a range of creations by ten artists who...
Saturday 4/11 @ 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...
Saturday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ Sam Lee Gallery
For artist Phung Huynh, a keen awareness of her Vietnamese culture's long memory and claim on her affections combines with an...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 4/11 @ 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 4/11 @ 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...
Saturday 4/11 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 4/11 @ Track 16 Gallery
After documenting the Great Depression in San Francisco, Sam Cherry photographed the seeds of the Beat Generation at the city's Black...
Saturday 4/11 @ Bottle Rock
Every day has resembled Earth Day lately, so now's an appropriate time to toast those forward-thinking folks, activist John McConnell and...
Saturday 4/11 @ 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...
Vahid Sharifian and Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar
Saturday 4/11 @ Khastoo Gallery
Two Iranian artists share the rooms at Khastoo Gallery this month, as Vahid Sharifian and Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar — both of...
Saturday 4/11 @ 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...
