Events on Saturday, January 30
Saturday 1/30 @ Trópico de Nopal
Domingo Siete joins Latin-indie chanteuse Ceci Bastida in an evening of live music, poetry, and spoken word. Proceeds benefit Partners in...
Saturday 1/30 @ urban: sanctuary
Originally from LA, painter and mixed media artist Mike Roman put in his time on New York's Lower East Side back...
Saturday 1/30 @ Pacific Design Center
Last year, progressive culture magazine X-TRA sold out REDCAT as it brought contributor Micol Hebron's column to life in front of...
Art & Architecture Scavenger Hunt
Saturday 1/30 @ Downtown location provided with registration
Adventurous culture lovers team up with family and friends today in a three-hour, walking scavenger hunt canvassing the art and architecture...
Saturday 1/30 @ Barnum Hall
First performed in 1958, Robert Kurka's opera The Good Soldier Schweik is the satirical tale of a bumbling Czech soldier and...
Sergio Leone: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
Saturday 1/30 @ Egyptian Theatre
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (C’ERA UNA VOLTA IL WEST), 1968, Paramount, 165 min. Charles Bronson is a soft-spoken,...
Los Angeles Art Deco Architecture
Saturday 1/30 @ Egyptian Theatre
Co-presented with the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles Lecture: Between 1920 and 1940 the population of Los Angeles grew by...
The Posters Came From The Walls (LA premiere)
Saturday 1/30 @ The Cinefamily
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Presented by Art Los Angeles Contemporary in association with Gavin Brown's enterprise
A...
Saturday 1/30 @ The Wiltern
Led Zeppelin has been called the grandfathers of the "Heavy Metal" genre. At their height in the early to mid 1970s,...
Saturday 1/30 @ LACMA
Immediately suppressed by the Soviets in 1966, Tarkovsky’s masterpiece is a sweeping tale of the tribulations of a medieval...
Weekend Series: Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky
Saturday 1/30 @ LACMA
Fashioning an Image of Success: Rembrandt’s Portraits of the 1630s
Saturday 1/30 @ LACMA
Amy Walsh, curator of European Paintings, speaks about Rembrandt's early portraits. This lecture is held in conjunction with Rembrandt...
John Nolan (Taking Back Sunday/Straylight Run) w/ Mansions and Line and Circle at Bootleg
Saturday 1/30 @ Bootleg Theater
JOHN NOLAN After a decade in the indie pop spotlight as a lead guitarist and singer for Taking Back Sunday and...
Strung Out with Pulley and The Darlings
Saturday 1/30 @ El Rey
For over a decade, Strung Out have broken barriers, exceeded goals, and reinvented themselves to remain one of the most crucial...
Los Angeles Art Deco Architecture
Saturday 1/30 @ Egyptian Theatre
Co-presented with the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles Lecture: Between 1920 and 1940 the population of Los Angeles grew by...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 1/30 @ HAUS
Surname challenged collaborative art duo Jeff & Gordon—aka Jeff Foye and Gordon Winiemko—push the boundaries between public and personal at HAUS,...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ Sam Lee Gallery
Remote warfare, military drones, and other robotic tools of destruction used to be the stuff of science fiction novels but now...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ Jancar Gallery
Foshee takes her penchant for transforming mundane materials, that might easily be amassed from Staples, to familiar and differentiated dimensions with...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ Arclight Sherman Oaks
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
Bride of Wildenstein: The Musical
Saturday 1/30 @ The Velaslavasay Panorama
LA-based nonprofit Automata is teaming up with Ibex Puppetry at the Velaslavasay Panorama for a program starring puppeteer, singer, and "high-art...
J. David Carlson and Michael Dotson
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ Khastoo Gallery
Now in its 34th year, Los Angeles Filmforum is LA's longest-running organization screening experimental films, and it's teaming up with Khastoo...
Allison Schulnik: Home for Hobo
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ REDCAT
Unfettered by a male-dominated Asian art scene, Everyday Miracles (Extended) — an offshoot of the Everyday Miracles that debuted at the...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ Royal/T
Jane Glassman's years of work in the art world have seen her not only getting to know a variety of its...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Saturday 1/30 @ 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,...
Saturday 1/30 @ [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 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Cowboy, Indian, and Horse wreak havoc in this slapstick stop-motion animation film, based on a cult Belgian TV series distributed by...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ LACMA
Rendering and paraphrasing India's ancient epic tales of archetypal gods and goddesses at war with demonic bad guys, Heroes and Villains:...
Saturday 1/30 @ Pacific Design Center
Dozens of international galleries temporarily set up shop at the Pacific Design Center as part of the inaugural three-day Art Los...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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"...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Saturday 1/30 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Saturday 1/30 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ LAXART
Kamrooz Aram and Artemio engage in an unhinging of the standard mechanisms of image-making, challenging social norms in the process. Artemio's...
Saturday 1/30 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber, Inc.
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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...
Historic Downtown Walking Tour
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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...
Population: Portraits by Ray Turner
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Young Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko, whose tutors included Esa-Pekka Salonen, was the youngest to be appointed principal...
Broadway: Historic Theatre and Commercial District Walking Tour
Saturday 1/30 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The tour explores the social, cinematic, and architectural history of the largest National Register Historic Theatre Districts in the country. The...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Wagatail Presents: Tim Reynolds & TR3 (2 Nights)
Saturday 1/30 @ The Mint
1/29 7:30pm Doors 9pm Check in the Dark 11pm Tim Reynolds & TR3 1/30 7:30pm Doors 9:30pm Jerry Joseph...
Saturday 1/30 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Saturday 1/30 @ 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 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ Downtown Independent Theater
BRONSON
Dir. Nicholas Winding Refn
Starring Tom Hardy, Hugh Ross
2008, 35mm, color, 92min
Playing...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
The Posters Came From The Walls (LA premiere)
Saturday 1/30 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW CLIP
Co-presented by Art Los Angeles Contemporary in association with Gavin Brown's enterprise
A...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) presents CLOSER 104.7, a radio collaboration with artist Jeff Cain, as part of the Art Los...
Saturday 1/30 @ Cinespace
Saturday nights at Cinespace is the place to be for dancing and drinks on Hollywood Boulevard. Join us for the city's...
