Events on Saturday, May 9
Saturday 5/ 9 @ Clover Park
There's more to the annual Santa Monica Festival than music, but with headliners like the Little Ones, you're forgiven for the...
Saturday 5/ 9 @ Los Angeles Zoo
Los Angeles' California E.A.R. Unit has been furnishing classical-music lovers with a unique take on contemporary music for nearly 30 years....
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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,...
Saturday 5/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Saturday 5/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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 5/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Mr. Musichead Gallery
Alan Aldridge was a legend in the world of psychedelic illustration even before he created his landmark 1969 book, The Beatles...
Saturday 5/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Various West Hollywood Locations
Taking a cue from the multiplicity of hugely successful gallery-district art walks around town, the La Cienega Design Quarter gets into...
Saturday 5/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Saturday 5/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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 5/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA
Saturday 5/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Knitting Factory
Coffins are a punishing Japanese metal band, whose sludgy riffs and animalistic grunts pay homage to late-'80s death/doom pioneers, while also...
Saturday 5/ 9 @ 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 5/ 9 @ Khastoo Gallery
Two Iranian artists share the rooms at Khastoo Gallery this month, as Vahid Sharifian and Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar — both of...
Saturday 5/ 9 @ LeBasse Projects
Yoskay Yamamoto is all about fusion. His art, illustration, and design have become wildly popular among the urban-romantic set, whose aesthetic...
Saturday 5/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Lizabeth Eva Rossof and David Fokos
Saturday 5/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
