Events on Saturday, August 8
William Attaway and Juan Carlos
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Art Studio
Pharmaka director Rebecca O'Leary travels west, and encourages you to do the same, as she presents a studio exhibition from a...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ The Velaslavasay Panorama
LA's only panoramic theater resurrects a trio of rarely-played instruments via solo musician The Douglas Lee tonight in an evening of...
Saturdays off the 405: The Dodos, DJ Turquiose Wisdom @ Getty Center
Saturday 8/ 8 @ The Echo & Echoplex
The Dodos || Listen
Visiter, The Dodos’ 2008 sophomore album, and first for Frenchkiss Records, was seen by many as...
Jason Torchinsky presents and signs Ad Naseum
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Book Soup
Jason Torchinsky presents and signs Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ The Mint
Heather Ballentine at 10:45pm, Steve Azar at 9pm, Travis Howard at 8pm Listen to 105.1 KKGO for ticket giveaways to...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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 8/ 8 @ 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 8/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
Vice Magazine Photography Exhibition
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
The Billy Shire Fine Arts gallery brings together the work of three different minds to its Culver City space. While the...
The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Regen Projects II
Since his seminal book Statements came out in 1968, Lawrence Weiner has been at the forefront of conceptual art. Using language...
Todd Hebert and Jennifer Nehrbass
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Mark Moore Gallery
In his latest body of work, Todd Hebert employs a mix of sharp detail and soft focus, and a dark yet...
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery
In her latest series of photographic and video projections, Nicole Cohen expands upon previous subject matter and technological complexity, constructing layered,...
Footsteps in Africa: A Nomadic Journey
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Director Kathi von Koerber has created a visual love letter to the nomadic Tuareg people's way of life. Following a community...
Kime Buzelli and Suzannah Sinclair
Saturday 8/ 8 @ New Image Art
New Image Art Gallery presents a pair of very different takes on the feminine mystique as painters Suzannah Sinclair and Kime...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Sea and Space Explorations
Multipurpose culture zone Sea and Space Explorations doesn't feel the need to respect the boundaries between the senses, with the result...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Highways Performance Space
Not all peep shows are filled with tawdry strippers exposing skin for a quick buck. At Highways Performance Space's Big Gay...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
Exene Cervenka and Wayne White
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ The Getty Center
Thirty staged photographs are on view at the Getty Center as part of its In Focus series, a thematic presentation of...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
Whether your biggest problem with taxidermy hunting trophies is their lack of space-age resins or the rarity of significant anatomical mutations,...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Honor Fraser
Curated by arts critic and writer Emma Gray, Honor Fraser's annual group show features works by 14 female artists based in...
New Original Works Festival 2009: Program Three
Saturday 8/ 8 @ REDCAT
The third and final week of the 2009 NOW Festival — REDCAT's commitment to supporting alternative visions of contemporary visual and...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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 8/ 8 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Los Angeles-based photographer Heather Cantrell lays elaborate groundwork for her seemingly fresh and casual portraits. Employing props, costumes, and references to...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Directors Guild of America Theater
A competitive film festival of various short films, the fifth annual HollyShorts Film Festival kicks off with Hollywood stars as well...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Herbie Hancock & Lang Lang with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Saturday 8/ 8 @ Hollywood Bowl
From vastly different musical worlds, two undisputed titans of the keyboard – jazz legend Herbie Hancock and Chinese prodigy Lang Lang...
Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Saturday 8/ 8 @ The Getty Museum
This exhibition represents an overview of three centuries of French bronze sculpture, when monarchs and private collectors came to embrace bronze...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ The Getty Museum
Fridays Off the 405 are now Saturdays Off the 405! Enjoy outdoor music and evening views of the city and drink...
You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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,...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 8/ 8 @ The Echo & Echoplex
L.A.'S LONGEST RUNNING DUSTY BEAT DRIVEN WORLD FUNK PARTY RELOCATES TO THE ECHO EVERY SATURDAY STARTING & IS STILL FREE FOR...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
Annie Lapin: Parallel Deliria Iteration
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist
Saturday 8/ 8 @ 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...
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Saturday 8/ 8 @ The Getty Museum
This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights...
