Events on Saturday, May 16
Saturday 5/16 @ Santa Monica Pier
As part of an ongoing centennial celebration, the Santa Monica Pier recalls its history as an early 20th-century entertainment destination, reviving...
Saturday 5/16 @ Boulevard Music
In the lively West Coast vein of a sunnier, more urban take on gypsy cabaret comes the Fishtank Ensemble, whose oom-pah...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/16 @ Custom Hotel
Custom Hotel's Eclectech-hosted day-into-night poolside dance party was already a legend. Making the move from Sunday to Saturday to "allow for...
Saturday 5/16 @ Ahmanson Theatre
The joint is jumpin' at the Ahmanson Theatre's revival of the 1978 off-Broadway musical Ain't Misbehavin'. Based on the life and...
Saturday 5/16 @ Edgemar Center for the Arts
Although last month saw the tenth anniversary of the Columbine shootings, John Buffalo Mailer's raw, stylish morality play Hello Herman was...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
Imagine the florid, hyper-decorative seduction of Kehinde Wiley's large-scale portraits of young black men, only rendered with an urban, folk-outsider edge,...
Saturday 5/16 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Painter and sculptural-installation artist Edward Walton Wilcox manifests an unforgettable hybrid vision. His work is torn between the edgy urban modernism...
Saturday 5/16 @ Overduin and Kite
In his first US solo exhibition, UK artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz presents four-dimensional spacial poetry realized in the form of a...
Saturday 5/16 @ JF Chen
JF Chen is one of LA's most respected dealers of the kind of Art Deco and Modernist design that people call...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ Hammer Museum
Exploring the idea of reinvention, Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA illuminates the creative undercurrent of a city that has long...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana
The Grand Central Art Center Gallery at Cal State Fullerton features over 40 original works by the Grammy-winning Creative Director of...
Vahid Sharifian and Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar
Saturday 5/16 @ Khastoo Gallery
Two Iranian artists share the rooms at Khastoo Gallery this month, as Vahid Sharifian and Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar — both of...
Saturday 5/16 @ Seni Contemporary
Art critic Peter Frank and gallerist Delia Cabral want you to see what they've seen. On a recent curatorial reconnaissance trip...
Saturday 5/16 @ The Company
Curated by Hedi El Kholti and David Jones, this wide-ranging group show uses broken-down stereotypes to reveal the multiplicity of a...
Saturday 5/16 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Saturday 5/16 @ Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
The City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowships in the Arts, granted by the Department of Cultural Affairs, are distinguished...
Saturday 5/16 @ DAP Studios
Thomas "Macky" McNamara has been looking for a way to earn a living as an artist since handcrafting toys as an...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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....
Lizabeth Eva Rossof and David Fokos
Saturday 5/16 @ Kopeikin Gallery
While much of Lizabeth Eva Rossof's visual art might recall the colorful confectionary treats of our youth, it actually focuses on...
Saturday 5/16 @ Deborah Martin Gallery
This month's Downtown Art Walk event is ideal for lovers of quirky paintings in all shapes and sizes. Deborah Martin Gallery...
Saturday 5/16 @ LeBasse Projects
Yoskay Yamamoto is all about fusion. His art, illustration, and design have become wildly popular among the urban-romantic set, whose aesthetic...
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Saturday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 5/16 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
Don't worry, it's not another Geico commercial gone wrong. Despite its faux-savage name, this decidedly polished experimental-art troupe uses a sophisticated...
Saturday 5/16 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Whether as a commercial or fine artist, Gary Baseman always seeks to erase boundaries; in the case of his latest solo...
Saturday 5/16 @ Charlie James Gallery
Chinatown's Charlie James Gallery becomes more appliance store than art space during Steve Lambert's solo show Everything You Want, Right Now!...
Saturday 5/16 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
Spanning the decade between 1976 and 1986, the GRAMMY Museum's first photography exhibition features 30 pictures of rock stars by Israeli-born,...
Saturday 5/16 @ Overtones Gallery
Starting in 1975 as a staff photographer for The Advocate and an employee in the Harvey Milk-owned Castro Camera shop, Daniel...
Saturday 5/16 @ LA Memorial Coliseum & Exposition Park
Artists, scientists, public-policy makers, and concerned citizens find common ground at unique outdoor art installation Cool Globes. The result of a...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
It's a perfect confluence of art and events at Carmichael Gallery this month, with two shows and a book-release party stoking...
Saturday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ Subliminal Projects
Sam Flores has brand recognition in the skate-deck and design worlds, but as a fine-art painter, his work might surprise even...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Saturday 5/16 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents a selection of artworks donated to the Museum since 2002. Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the...
