Events on Saturday, January 9
Saturday 1/ 9 @ The Wiltern
Sonic Youth redefined the punk aesthetic, focusing more on what they could do with their guitars and less on mimicking the...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Long Beach Terrace Theatre
Folk rocker Rufus Wainwright took a classical sabbatical during 2009, embarking on a musical version of Shakespeare's sonnets and premiering his...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ El Rey
Glitch Mob's productions unearth the secret family tree that links early Timbaland, the laser-guided bass of Ghislain Poirier, and Ed Banger's...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ The Renberg Theatre
Although addiction is seldom funny (witness A&E's sobering series Intervention), that doesn't mean recovery can't be a party. Tonight, comedian, actress,...
Bad Poetry with Pamela August Russell
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Book Soup
Pamela August Russell takes the poetry establishment head-on in her new book of deliberately "bad" verse. In truth, only a gifted...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Copro Gallery
Since Polaroid announced the discontinuation of its iconic instant-film camera, folks missing the anticipatory hand-shaken magic that accompanies the appearance of...
The Original Renaissance Pleasure Faire
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Egyptian Theatre
Saturday, January 9 – Noon -...
Ed Harris In Person with: EXCALIBUR & KNIGHTRIDERS
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Egyptian Theatre
Actor Ed Harris will appear in person to speak following the...
Family Matinee: THE SECRET OF KELLS
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Egyptian Theatre
Saturday, January 9 – 1:00 PM...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Book Soup
Davida Wills Hurwin presents and signs Freaks and Revelations. "[A] raw, moving novel that follows two teenagers -- one,...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Kristi Engle Gallery
Michael Arata is one of LA's best known "artist's artists," a man with serious chops as a curator as well as...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
Curated by Flavorpill's own Heather Jeno Silva (who moonlights as the curator of the CAF's monthly Forum Lounge public conversations, among...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Royal/T
Jane Glassman's years of work in the art world have seen her not only getting to know a variety of its...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ REDCAT
Unfettered by a male-dominated Asian art scene, Everyday Miracles (Extended) — an offshoot of the Everyday Miracles that debuted at the...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ The Viper Room
Often seen as the epicenter of the Sunset Strip, the Viper Room hits the ground running in the new year with...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Clark Oshin Gallery
Clark Oshin Gallery shows off Frank W. Ockenfels 3's astonishing creative range with an exhibition of photographs and drawings at the...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Art Center College of Design
Although some of the objects in TOOLS may seem familiar, they are most definitely far from from ordinary. Jointly organized by...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ [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...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Ingres' Comtesse d'Haussonville from the Frick Collection
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Playa del Carmen, Mexico
The BPM Festival has club owners, promoters, and other pro nightlifers flocking to the Mexican Caribbean for a well-earned, post-holiday breather....
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Allison Schulnik: Home for Hobo
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 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 1/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ The London Hotel West Hollywood
Always wanted to be on Hell's Kitchen, but lack the cooking skills? Well, now is your chance to gain the experience (sans...
Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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...
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Gallery 1988
By the power of Grayskull, Gallery 1988 is about to honor the power He-Man had on us old schoolers in one...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 1/ 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...
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Subliminal Projects
This evening celebrates two storytelling achievements centered around music and social justice. Author Antonino D'Ambrosio's book A Heartbeat & A Guitar...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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...
The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis
Saturday 1/ 9 @ Hammer Museum
R. Crumb's interpretation of the Book of Genesis is at once disturbing, sacrilegious, violent, and debauched, but paired with a holy...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Laguna Art Museum
Works by regional and national artists come together at the Laguna Art Museum's Collecting California, which reflects the long history of...
Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Phantom Galleries LA: Long Beach
In a modern update on the urban tradition of extravagant seasonal shop-window decorations, Phantom Galleries' Long Beach phalanx offers nearly 30...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Historic Downtown Walking Tour
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 1/ 9 @ The Getty Museum
Irving Penn was one of the most respected photographers of the 20th century. In a career that began at the premiere...
Broadway: Historic Theatre and Commercial District Walking Tour
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Population: Portraits by Ray Turner
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Cinespace
Saturday nights at Cinespace is the place to be for dancing and drinks on Hollywood Boulevard. Join us for the city's...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Saturday 1/ 9 @ 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...
