Events on Saturday, April 4
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Museum of Jurassic Technology
Esotouric's newest expedition unearths the whereabouts of some of West LA's least-known and most unbelievable crimes. Among what are now great...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ El Rey
The French (Françoise Cactus) and German (Brezel Göring) members of Stereo Total span the light and breezy sound spectrum of Europe....
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Hollywood Palladium
With the release of last year's LP3, Ratatat tried to move beyond their usual synth-driven electrorock and pitch-perfect rap remixes in...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
We first heard about Plato's Retreat from a small cameo in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam. Years later, we didn't need...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Those blown away by LA Opera's ingenious production of Das Rheingold, the prologue to Wagner's Ring Cycle, are already on board...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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 4/ 4 @ Standard Downtown Rooftop
Postopolis! takes over the rooftop of the Downtown Standard for a five-day series of confabs about architecture and its related disciplines,...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Freud Playhouse
It's been more than a few years since David Roussève has taken his company, Reality, on the road. Roussève seamlessly blends...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Schoenberg Hall
Two days of commemorative events have been lined up by the UCLA jazz department to honor the 110th birthday of the...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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 4/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
The titular allusion of Matt Tyrnauer's warts-and-all portrait of Italian couturier Valentino Garavani to Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 epic is an apt...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Martha Rich and Robert Pasternak
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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...
Ala Ebtekar and Taravat Talepasand
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Outhouse of the Apocalypse
Located in the deepest reaches of Devendra Banhart's wet dreams, the freak-folk forest's famed fridge is the best place to keep...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Taking cues from Montreal's Mutek festival and Berlin's Transmediale, LACE (itself a noted institution on the international avant-garde performance-art map for...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Synchronicity Space
Psychic healer Kieran Sala curated Within Heaven's Earshot after guests were asked to bring offbeat records to a ModCom Christmas party....
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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/ 4 @ Multiple venues throughout Los Angeles
For the second annual Los Angeles Art Weekend, ForYourArt and BlackFrame single out the city's vast cultural resources with a four-day...
