Events on Saturday, August 1
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Royal/T
While Nabokov may have preferred Cat and Mouse to Candyland, Valley of the Dolls' Lolita Tea Party promises a life-size version...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ 18th Street Arts Center
The world-famous 18th Street Arts Center is home to a complex of contemporary artist studios, multiple exhibition spaces, and the acclaimed...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
Eagle Rock's Center for the Arts plays host to a pre-release party celebrating the third volume of the mammoth Penny-Ante art...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ The New LATC
Back in LA for a third smash year with its biggest show yet (not to mention a newly released concert DVD...
IT'S A BIKINI WORLD & ANGEL, ANGEL DOWN WE GO
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Egyptian Theatre
Double Feature: New 35mm Print! IT’S A BIKINI WORLD, 1967, MGM Repertory, 86 min. Set the Wayback Machine to 1966, where...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Various Hollywood locations
Co-produced by Neil Patrick Harris and Tom Salamon, Accomplice: Hollywood sends teams of intrepid folks along Hollywood Boulevard and its environs...
The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Take My Picture Gary Leonard
Ever since taking a photograph of the Dodgers as a little boy in 1959, Gary Leonard has documented the mercurial landscape...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ The Getty Center
Thirty staged photographs are on view at the Getty Center as part of its In Focus series, a thematic presentation of...
Todd Hebert and Jennifer Nehrbass
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Mark Moore Gallery
In his latest body of work, Todd Hebert employs a mix of sharp detail and soft focus, and a dark yet...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ The Loft at Liz's
A diverse group of emerging LA artists join forces to give your garbage a new lease on life. Work in the...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ Happy
There's no excuse to feel glum when you're at Happy, a home and lifestyle nook in Los Feliz that features well-designed...
Kime Buzelli and Suzannah Sinclair
Saturday 8/ 1 @ New Image Art
New Image Art Gallery presents a pair of very different takes on the feminine mystique as painters Suzannah Sinclair and Kime...
Vice Magazine Photography Exhibition
Saturday 8/ 1 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
In conjunction with Vice's annual photo issue, the ninth annual Vice Photo Show features work by contributors Jamie Lee Curtis Taete,...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside
Lovers of the tableau vivant ("living picture") revel in earnest replicas of treasures of art history, typically versions of the Venus...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
LA-based art and action collective Fallen Fruit uses the visual arts (specifically photography, installation, and performance-oriented actions) to examine the imbalance...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Three very different artists enter into a dialogue about the persistence of memory and how recollections are formed, contorted, stored, and...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Honor Fraser
Curated by arts critic and writer Emma Gray, Honor Fraser's annual group show features works by 14 female artists based in...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Theatre of NOTE
Theatre of Note's current "Season of the Passion Plays" continues with this original noir production of Kill Me, Deadly! Loaded with...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ another year in LA
Fallen Fruit — the artist collective formed by David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young — has typically been known more...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery
In her latest series of photographic and video projections, Nicole Cohen expands upon previous subject matter and technological complexity, constructing layered,...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ S. Mark Taper Foundation Amphitheatre
Working to restore greenery to the southland for over 30 years, TreePeople helps communities foster tree growth, provides environmental education, and...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Norton Simon Museum
In the 1960s, soon-to-be Pop icon Wayne Thiebaud created a series of monochromatic, two-dimensional prints of nine pieces of pie, sufficiently...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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,...
New Original Works Festival 2009: Program Two
Saturday 8/ 1 @ REDCAT
Jennifer the Leopard is the logical outcome of four hot, hard-working female filmmaker/artists getting together to "perform a band." J-Lep navigate...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
All year photographers have been clicking camera shutters with their lenses pointed toward the action. The 66th annual Pictures of the...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ LA Louver Gallery
Following three previous incarnations, the Rogue Wave group show returns to Venice's LA Louver with ten Angelenos redefining regionalism. Co-curated by...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Los Angeles State Historic Park
Cirque Berzerk at Downtown's LA State Historic Park features a custom-built Italian big top, seven new alt-circus acts, and a midway...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ SolwayJones Gallery
Solway Jones Gallery's summer group show takes on the celebrated cross-pollination of music and art, with an exhibition of mostly sculptural...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
In the 1960s, soon-to-be Pop icon Wayne Thiebaud created a series of monochromatic, two-dimensional prints of nine pieces of pie, sufficiently...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Thinkspace Gallery
The paintings of Brooklyn-based artist Stella Im Hultberg combine the sultry, gilded romance and elongated, mannerist lines of Gustav Klimt with...
Exene Cervenka and Wayne White
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Western Project
Daring frontwoman of arguably the coolest punk band ever, X, Exene Cervenka has considerable talents off the stage as well, starting...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Pershing Square
Illuminating the wealth of creative resources within the LA art scene, Tarryn Teresa Gallery's Lights on LA strings up light bulbs...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Kristi Engle Gallery
Throughout the '70s, technical artist and service-manual author Dave Christensen fleshed out a series of bodacious and bawdy graphics for pinball...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Regen Projects II
Since his seminal book Statements came out in 1968, Lawrence Weiner has been at the forefront of conceptual art. Using language...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ The Fake Gallery
Octomom: The Musical places pop-cultural satire in good hands. However obvious the conceit may be, director Chris Voltaire uses it well...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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,...
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
Saturday 8/ 1 @ ACE Gallery
It's a veritable amusement park for optic nerves at ACE Gallery's Beverly Hills location this month, with a pair of exhibitions...
Smile 'Til It Hurts: The Up With People Story
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Arclight Hollywood
As hippies dodged the draft in the 1960s and more and more Americans embraced flower-power, free-love, and psychedelics, the corn-fed, deliriously...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ La Luz de Jesus
Born Bradley Stewart, Gidget Gein merged the name of an icon with that of grave-robber/murderer Ed Gein during his days as...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ 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...
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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 8/ 1 @ Black Maria Gallery
Taking a cue from those masters of capturing the youthful zeitgeist, the Who, The Kids Are Alright showcases a new generation...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Patrick Painter Gallery
Rob and Christian Clayton's first hometown exhibition in over half a decade, Jumbo Fruit represents the culmination of six months' worth...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Andrew Schoultz and Hank Willis Thomas
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Bay Area artist Andrew Schoultz crafts expansive murals and other large-scale paintings from innumerable individual lines and details. His densely swirled,...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Deborah Martin Gallery
Opening in conjunction with the Downtown Art Walk, RE: materialization features 35 works, narrowed down from over 200 submissions, in an...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Los Angeles-based photographer Heather Cantrell lays elaborate groundwork for her seemingly fresh and casual portraits. Employing props, costumes, and references to...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
In the '50s, blacklisted actor Will Geer opened a theater on his Topanga property for fellow performers ostracized during the McCarthy...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Benny Chan has worked diligently over the past few years to photograph overhead views of Los Angeles freeways during the height...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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...
New Original Works Festival 2009: Program Two
Saturday 8/ 1 @ REDCAT
The annual three-week NOW Festival launches new works by Los Angeles dance, theater, music and multimedia performance artists....
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Saturday 8/ 1 @ 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...
You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Featuring work of five UC Davis faculty members Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Manuel Neri, Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley,...
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Saturday 8/ 1 @ The Getty Museum
This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights...
Annie Lapin: Parallel Deliria Iteration
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The PMCA is proud to present Los Angeles painter Annie Lapin's Parallel Deliria Iteration, which the artist describes as "a never-ending...
Saturday 8/ 1 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
This exhibition focuses on the life of Edith Heath and her defining influence on California design through pottery. Popular at dinner...
Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Saturday 8/ 1 @ The Getty Museum
This exhibition represents an overview of three centuries of French bronze sculpture, when monarchs and private collectors came to embrace bronze...
Guys and Dolls in Concert with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
Saturday 8/ 1 @ Hollywood Bowl
Combine the pizzazz of Damon Runyon's now-legendary characters with a dazzling score by Frank Loesser and a brilliant book by Jo...
