Events on Saturday, May 30
Saturday 5/30 @ Miracle Mile
Wilshire Boulevard between Fairfax and La Brea is not only home to several major museums, but also to a litany of...
Saturday 5/30 @ Spaceland
Recorded in Asheville, NC, with producer Danny Kadar (of Grizzly Bear fame), Oklahoma native Samantha Crain's Songs in the Night takes...
Saturday 5/30 @ Culver City Gallery District
The Culver City Gallery District is home to scores of galleries, packed into a few square blocks along Washington Boulevard. La...
Saturday 5/30 @ World on Wheels
Space Is the Place, LA's monthly rollerskating party, celebrates its eighth year tonight at the Southland's only remaining full-scale roller-disco rink,...
Saturday 5/30 @ Bang Improv Studio
Bang Comedy Theater, the brainchild of Chicago's Second City alums, presents actress, comic, and improv genius Nicole Marcks as her offbeat...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ Michael Kohn Gallery
Dark Night of the Soul is a two-pronged project: The visual element, represented here, features psych-noir master David Lynch's photographic interpretations...
Saturday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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....
Saturday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles
As a photography student at LA's Occidental College in 1980, Lisa Jack took a series of portraits with a handsome, charismatic...
Saturday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ Los Angeles Opera
Expect knife-twisting drama in LA Opera's lush staging of Verdi's masterpiece, La Traviata. Long considered one of opera's most significant works,...
Saturday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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...
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Saturday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ Overtones Gallery
Starting in 1975 as a staff photographer for The Advocate and an employee in the Harvey Milk-owned Castro Camera shop, Daniel...
Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA
Saturday 5/30 @ Hammer Museum
Exploring the idea of reinvention, Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA illuminates the creative undercurrent of a city that has long...
Saturday 5/30 @ 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...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Saturday 5/30 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre
It's always refreshing to see a work that speaks with such striking originality that it reaffirms the value in taking risks....
Saturday 5/30 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
Billboards and other outdoor advertising methods are a source of contention in every landscape they grace, from the rural to the...
Saturday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 5/30 @ 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...
Lizabeth Eva Rossof and David Fokos
Saturday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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...
Saturday 5/30 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Saturday 5/30 @ 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...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Saturday 5/30 @ The Getty Museum
The city of Algiers, on the north coast of Africa, historically sheltered a diverse population. During the Ottoman centuries (1529-1830), this...
