Events on Saturday, January 23
Saturday 1/23 @ Montalbán Theatre
What happens when you pair hipper-than-thou Paper Magazine and Converse together in one room? One big-ass art party in a non-traditional setting:...
The Man Who Never Saw the Comtesse: An Introduction to Henry Clay Frick and His Collection
Saturday 1/23 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
This beguiling portrait occupies a privileged position at the threshold between French Romanticism and the early hints of modernity. Its impossibly...
Richard A. Barney: David Lynch Interviews
Saturday 1/23 @ Book Soup
Film buffs will mine much cinematic gold from David Lynch: Interviews, Richard Barney's illuminating collection of conversations with the iconic American...
Saturday 1/23 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
The 30,000 square-foot GRAMMY Museum in the heart of LA Live is home to over 300 pieces of rock history, from...
Black Lips w/ Nobunny, Jemina Pearl, and DJ Simon Bennett
Saturday 1/23 @ El Rey
With a sound falling somewhere in between New York 70s punk and 50s surf, Atlanta band the Black Lips brings its...
Francis Ford Coppola's THE GODFATHER Digital Restoration
Saturday 1/23 @ Egyptian Theatre
Digitally Restored! THE GODFATHER, 1972, Paramount, 175 min. Dir. Francis Ford Coppola. Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire and...
Dream House: The White House as an American Home
Saturday 1/23 @ LACMA
Ulysses Grant Dietz will discuss his newly published book, outlining America’s most famous residence in the context of American...
Saturday 1/23 @ Book Soup
Judy Lee Mandel presents and signs Replacement Child: A Memoir. Judy Mandel's autobiographical story of love and...
Saturday 1/23 @ LACMA
There exists a treacherous expanse of Russian wilderness known only as "the Zone," where the laws of nature appear to have...
Nashville's Mindy Smith w/ Landon Pigg at Bootleg
Saturday 1/23 @ Bootleg Theater
MINDY SMITH May 2009 – With an angelic voice and songs full of faith, grace and vulnerability, Mindy Smith has been...
Weekend Series: Ivan’s Childhood
Saturday 1/23 @ LACMA
Ongoing Events
Saturday 1/23 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
Saturday 1/23 @ Club Nokia
For many of us, Pee-wee Herman has been a demented-yet-diverting fixture of youth. The architect of such childhood classics as Pee-wee's...
Saturday 1/23 @ Armory Center for the Arts
From 1966-2001, legendary artist Robert Rauschenberg partnered with the impressive printmakers at LA's Gemini G.E.L. to produce an astonishing 250-plus groundbreaking...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Saturday 1/23 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
Severed heads, skulls and daggers brimming with blood, and cemeteries littered with dismembered corpses may not readily invoke visions of spiritual...
Saturday 1/23 @ MAK Center Schindler House
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture hosts an exhibition in honor of Austrian sociologist, political scientist, intellectual, and author Otto...
Saturday 1/23 @ Circus Gallery
Curated by Emma Gray and mischievously inspired by an '80s New Age guru's best-selling self-help book, You Can Heal Your Life...
Saturday 1/23 @ Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside
Twenty international artists who explore human interaction with domesticated, imaginary, laboratory, or wild animals contribute work in media from video installation...
Saturday 1/23 @ Cherry and Martin
Daniel Dove's large-scale oil paintings attempt to reconcile the duality of the world outside of the artist's studio that is in...
Saturday 1/23 @ JAUS
Mexico City-based Anibal Catalan transforms the exterior of the Jaus house with a complex gray-scale mural referencing the incandescent wings of...
Saturday 1/23 @ Edgemar Center for the Arts
Henry Jaglom's father was a wealthy Russian businessman, and one of the few Jews Heinrich Himmler offered make an "honorary Aryan"...
Saturday 1/23 @ HAUS
Surname challenged collaborative art duo Jeff & Gordon—aka Jeff Foye and Gordon Winiemko—push the boundaries between public and personal at HAUS,...
Allison Schulnik: Home for Hobo
Saturday 1/23 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Using claymation techniques and heavy impasto to achieve a hyper-visceral effect, artist Allison Schulnik's series Home for Hobo is striking portraiture...
Saturday 1/23 @ Skirball Cultural Center
An Idea Called Tomorrow offers meditations on what should/could/would make for a peaceable and sustainable future — culturally, environmentally, and socially...
Saturday 1/23 @ REDCAT
Unfettered by a male-dominated Asian art scene, Everyday Miracles (Extended) — an offshoot of the Everyday Miracles that debuted at the...
Saturday 1/23 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
Shizu Saldamando takes portraiture personally in her exhibition There is a Place. Using the old adage "draw what you know" as...
Saturday 1/23 @ Royal/T
Jane Glassman's years of work in the art world have seen her not only getting to know a variety of its...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Saturday 1/23 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Does having more Best Picture nominations affect the quality of films made? Maybe not. But then again, the last time 10...
Saturday 1/23 @ [delete] TAG (The Artists Gallery)
Bergamot Station's newest tenant and a long-standing pillar of the independent art community in Los Angeles, TAG (The Artists Gallery) is...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 1/23 @ 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 1/23 @ Art/Works Theatre
In the tradition of Paris' Theatre du Grand Guignol, LA's Grand Guignolers combine macabre storytelling with delightful performances. This time, the...
Saturday 1/23 @ Jancar Gallery
Foshee takes her penchant for transforming mundane materials, that might easily be amassed from Staples, to familiar and differentiated dimensions with...
Saturday 1/23 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
Scion continues its bid to outpace the NEA with its first big traveling show of 2010. They commissioned ten artists to...
Saturday 1/23 @ Arclight Sherman Oaks
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
Saturday 1/23 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Where London has the Victoria and Albert, LA has the Craft and Folk Art Museum; yet, too often, the little institution...
J. David Carlson and Michael Dotson
Saturday 1/23 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
The dialogue in Playscapes and Architectonic Dreams riffs off paintings inspired by a 1980s video-game aesthetic and intricate diorama sculptures (think...
Saturday 1/23 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Recently, Art Center College of Design students directed their communications prowess towards human rights, yielding emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line...
Saturday 1/23 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
Street-installation artist Mark Jenkins uses unlikely juxtapositions to shake people loose from their day-to-day expectations. The streets of world cities aren't...
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Saturday 1/23 @ Hammer Museum
R. Crumb's interpretation of the Book of Genesis is at once disturbing, sacrilegious, violent, and debauched, but paired with a holy...
Saturday 1/23 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Curator Jennifer Doyle gets in touch with our emotional side in I Feel Different, a group exhibition featuring multimedia works at...
Saturday 1/23 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Organized by co-curator of 2008's Beautiful Losers, Aaron Rose, Projections: A Festival of Rare and Hard-to-See Films is just what it...
Saturday 1/23 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
At Rhizome.org, Mark Tribe supports the creation and dissemination of forward-thinking contemporary art; and LACE is a fixture in LA's anything-goes...
Saturday 1/23 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
LA painter Kenny Harris is a modern update on the archetype of the peripatetic plein air school, an artist whose frequent...
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Saturday 1/23 @ Various Los Angeles theaters
Terry Gilliam's visually rich follow-up to such cult gems as Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and Fear and...
Saturday 1/23 @ Fremont Centre Theatre, 1000 Fremont Ave., South Pasadena, CA 91030
The musical 2116, originally written 55 years ago by legendary author Ray Bradbury, is only now finally seeing its debut, and...
Saturday 1/23 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
Owen Smith's use of archetypal characters such as the boxer taking a blow in the ring, men working high in the...
Saturday 1/23 @ A Noise Within
Irish playwright Samuel Beckett's pivotal work Waiting for Godot returns to its A Noise Within for a ten-performance-only run. Directed by...
Saturday 1/23 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
The Annenberg Space for Photography brings the entire genius of its well-appointed exhibition areas and NASA-quality digital-media resources to bear on...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Saturday 1/23 @ Skirball Cultural Center
The subject of an engaging exhibition and lavishly appended new book, Eric Etheridge's contemporary photographic portraits of this group of American...
Ingres' Comtesse d'Haussonville from the Frick Collection
Saturday 1/23 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
This beguiling portrait occupies a privileged position at the threshold between French Romanticism and the early hints of modernity. Its impossibly...
Saturday 1/23 @ Japanese American National Museum
In 2007, Giant Robot launched its first biennale celebrating 15 years as a magazine and a pop culture phenomenon. For its...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Saturday 1/23 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Saturday 1/23 @ Gallery 1988
By the power of Grayskull, Gallery 1988 is about to honor the power He-Man had on us old schoolers in one...
Saturday 1/23 @ Sam Lee Gallery
There is sometimes a disconnect between one's idea of a place and one's actual experience. Artist Jeff Gambill works precisely in this...
Saturday 1/23 @ Los Angeles Convention Center
The largest art fair on the West Coast takes flight tonight with a gallery ranging from promising (and pocket-friendly) unknowns to...
Saturday 1/23 @ The Landmark
Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina) penned some of the most dramatic stories in modern literature, but if The Last Station is anything...
Saturday 1/23 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Saturday 1/23 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Saturday 1/23 @ New Image Art
Writing in her seminal essay collection On Photography, art and media critic Susan Sontag was adamant concerning the inherent differences women...
Saturday 1/23 @ LACMA
Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Saturday 1/23 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Recently, Art Center College of Design students directed their communications prowess towards human rights, yielding emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line...
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Saturday 1/23 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Perhaps no pop artist is as famous for his window shopping as Wayne Thiebaud. Known largely for his pale palette oil...
The Women of Women: The Female Form
Saturday 1/23 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Curator Yasmine Mohseni takes advantage of the female form's captive powers in The Women of Women, a group exhibition featuring the...
Saturday 1/23 @ Honor Fraser
Somewhere on the formal continuum between Gordon Matta-Clark's cut-outs and the Ice Hotel in Sweden lie the architectural sculptures and interventions...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Saturday 1/23 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Known most famously for his reign as one of theater's greatest playwrights, British-born Noël Coward wore many other hats: singer, actor,...
Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber, Inc.
Saturday 1/23 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Members of Winnipeg's Royal Art Lodge, a prolific and cheeky artists collective which disbanded in 2008, this pair of artistic co-conspirators...
Saturday 1/23 @ 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...
Historic Downtown Walking Tour
Saturday 1/23 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Historic Downtown tour provides an overview of the historical and cultural landmarks of downtown Los Angeles. Covering a wide range...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Saturday 1/23 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Making its West Coast debut at the Skirball, Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968 features more than...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Saturday 1/23 @ The Getty Museum
Telling the differenc between drawings by Rembrandt and his pupils is a centuries-old problem. A popular teacher with more than 50...
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart
Saturday 1/23 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
A leader in the American Printmaking movement, Frances Gearhart’s work was embedded in the time and place of the Arts and...
Saturday 1/23 @ Art Center College of Design
Illustration students from Art Center College of Design currently have their work on display at the Aquarium of the Pacific in...
Saturday 1/23 @ Cinespace
Saturday nights at Cinespace is the place to be for dancing and drinks on Hollywood Boulevard. Join us for the city's...
Broadway: Historic Theatre and Commercial District Walking Tour
Saturday 1/23 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The tour explores the social, cinematic, and architectural history of the largest National Register Historic Theatre Districts in the country. The...
Swashbuckling Days and Daring Knights
Saturday 1/23 @ The Getty Museum
Klang! Swash! Pow! Swoosh! Draw your sword and shield as you join us in reliving classic Hollywood fantasies of the bygone...
Saturday 1/23 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Saturday 1/23 @ 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...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Saturday 1/23 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
In conjunction with the installation of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's stunning Comtesse d’Haussonville, 1845, on loan from The Frick Collection in New...
Saturday 1/23 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Art Deco tour is an in-depth look at the history, materials, and style of Art Deco architecture popular in Los...
Population: Portraits by Ray Turner
Saturday 1/23 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
A former painting instructor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, artist Ray Turner fashions a uniquely seductive and engaging...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Saturday 1/23 @ The Getty Museum
Over 180 ancient glass objects from the collection of Erwin Oppenländer are featured in this exhibition. The Oppenländer collection, which the Getty...
Saturday 1/23 @ REDCAT
“Raw 21st-century expression... Extraordinarily brilliant." The Guardian Brazilian choreographer Bruno Beltrão and his nine-member Grupo de Rua—all recruited from the...
Saturday 1/23 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Imagine yourself immersed in a favorite childhood tale. Five years in the making and occupying an 8,000-square-foot gallery, Noah's Ark at...
