Events on Saturday, March 20
Saturday 3/20 @ Monk Space
Imagery of water are abstracted to the point of pure brushstrokes in this series of new paintings by Shane Blackbourn, curated...
Saturday 3/20 @ The Troubadour
Like the Violent Femmes before them, Santa Cruz's the Devil Makes Three infuse country-bluegrass swing with a raucous punk spirit. A...
Saturday 3/20 @ Lot 613
Dozens of designers converge to show off their goods at Downtown's Lot 613 in the midst of Fashion Week Los Angeles....
A Celebration of Hawaiian Music
Saturday 3/20 @ The GRAMMY Museum
Join GRAMMY Award-winning artist and producer Daniel Ho for an exciting family program featuring the music of Hawaii. Come ready to sing,...
Devin Sarno and G.E. Stinson, Jean Baudin and Constant Collection
Saturday 3/20 @ Bootleg Theater
DEVIN SARNO The music of bassist Devin Sarno focuses on improvised sub-sonics which Bass Player magazine has characterized as: “mesmerising dronescapes.”...
Saturday 3/20 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW CLIP One of Max Ophuls’ wittiest depictions of boudoir intrigue, Madame De... proves that exquisite technique and elaborately orchestrated camera...
Saturday 3/20 @ The Mint
Delta Nove, 8:30pm Moon Alice, 10:45pm Moonalice: Moonalice is a Native...
Saturday 3/20 @ Downtown Independent Theater
ASTRAL LANDSCAPES :
the Peralta / Strangeloop project
$10
an audio-visual journey by
Strangeloop...
FAMILY SLEEPOVER ABOARD NOAH’S ARK
Saturday 3/20 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Due to popular demand, the Skirball is pleased to host its second family overnight getaway aboard Noah’s Ark! Load up your...
Ongoing Events
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Saturday 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ The Last Bookstore
While we certainly wish them all the luck in the world, we hope that the Last Bookstore's name proves un-prophetic. A...
Saturday 3/20 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since W.W.II
Saturday 3/20 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Art Against Empire, culled from the extensive holdings of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, offers over 100 selected...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ Charlie James Gallery
Travis Somerville is one of the west coast's fastest-rising art stars, first coming to national attention as the winner of the...
Saturday 3/20 @ SCI-Arc
After studying architecture in the '50s, Sir Peter Cook exhibited at ICA (where he later served as director), and co-founded Archigram,...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ CB1 Gallery
The current exhibition — just the second at Downtown's freshly-minted CB1 Gallery — is a three-person show of diverse works in...
Saturday 3/20 @ Art Center College of Design
Rightfully entitled DreamWorlds, this short exhibition at the Williamson Gallery features the work of the Dreamworks animation artists that help bring...
Saturday 3/20 @ Downtown Center East/West Gallery
Michael Salerno has been a pillar of the artistic community of writers and painters that has made Downtown LA the epicenter...
Saturday 3/20 @ Edward Cella Art + Architecture
At a time when the country of Chile is foremost in the world's thoughts for tragic reasons, Mary Heebner's long-planned exhibition...
Saturday 3/20 @ The Continental Gallery
Between their individual projects and their extensive collaborative undertakings, the six artists in Focus Daily operate in photography, painting, fashion, video,...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Saturday 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ Khastoo Gallery
Khastoo goes from art gallery to temporary pop-up shop, teaming up with Stor and Quentin Smith's Smithshop to sell not just...
Saturday 3/20 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 3/20 @ LAXART
Kamrooz Aram and Artemio engage in an unhinging of the standard mechanisms of image-making, challenging social norms in the process. Artemio's...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ Jeanie Madsen Gallery
A 79-year old society hairdresser, New York photographer Victor Friedman has been moonlighting as a photojournalist for 45 years. Now, he...
Saturday 3/20 @ SolwayJones Gallery
In this dual-venue mini-retrospective of works mainly from the mid-'70s and early '80s, SolwayJones and Kunsthalle L.A. set up an intriguing...
How Many Billboards? Art in Stead
Saturday 3/20 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
In New York, street art is tagged on the sides of buildings and pasted on empty storefronts. In Los Angeles, a...
Saturday 3/20 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Sumi Ink Club represents a new ethos in the art world, one that builds on the playful spirit of artists like...
Saturday 3/20 @ Track 16 Gallery
Courtesy of the freshly re-opened Track 16 Gallery and curated by Elizabeta Betinski of the recently closed and much-missed Overtones Gallery,...
Saturday 3/20 @ DNJ Gallery
The often-haunting nightscapes of Night Lights reveal how city environments can become both isolating and poetic with the absence of daylight....
Saturday 3/20 @ Jancar Gallery
Los Angeles artist Mery Lynn McCorkle exhibits new mixed-media works combining rich, saturated colors with visceral, almost topographic textures, distressed surfaces,...
Saturday 3/20 @ Coast Playhouse
A "bone"-ified smash. With "organ" accompaniment. Now that that's out of the way, yes, Puppetry of the Penis is exactly what...
Saturday 3/20 @ Affinity Galleries
Affinity Galleries, previously known as the Circus Gallery, presents an innovative group show that effectively redefines the term "multimedia." Exhibiting photography,...
Saturday 3/20 @ Arclight Sherman Oaks
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Saturday 3/20 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Saturday 3/20 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Saturday 3/20 @ Crewest Gallery
The Cool 5, better known as TC-5, were responsible for the graffiti, fashion, and all-around scene-making that made the NYC outdoor...
Saturday 3/20 @ Michael Benevento Los Angeles
Updegraff's debut exhibition with Michael Benevento is an elegant evolution of the artist's exploration of the power-play between subject and author,...
Saturday 3/20 @ The Fountain Theatre
In a modern-day California gothic tale worthy of something by Raymond Chandler, John Fante, Charles Bukowski, or James Ellroy, the longtime...
Portraiture for the Silicon Enlightenment
Saturday 3/20 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Curated by Angela Dufresne, the Fuckheads group show features artists who challenge traditional ways of seeing, moving away from portraiture aligned...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Saturday 3/20 @ Various LA Theatres
In the Scandivanian cinema storytelling tradition of greats such as Ingmar Bergman and Lars von Trier, The Girl With the Dragon...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Saturday 3/20 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The Los Angeles River has been having a comeback, if you can argue that it was ever popular to begin with....
Saturday 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Saturday 3/20 @ François Ghebaly Gallery
Although he was born in New York and lives and works in Berlin, there is something about David Levine's long-term found-photo...
Werner Herzog: Nosferatu the Vampyre, Cobra Verde, Stroszek, and Woyzeck
Saturday 3/20 @ Egyptian Theatre
Werner Herzog's narratives and documentaries — not to mention the documentaries about the narratives — straddle the boundary between metacinema and...
Saturday 3/20 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Photographer, painter, installation artist, and skate legend Ed Templeton is a natural documentarian, first coming to the art world's attention with...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ 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...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Saturday 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ 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...
Historic Downtown Walking Tour
Saturday 3/20 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Historic Downtown tour provides an overview of the historical and cultural landmarks of downtown Los Angeles. Covering a wide range...
Saturday 3/20 @ Cinespace
Saturday nights at Cinespace is the place to be for dancing and drinks on Hollywood Boulevard. Join us for the city's...
Saturday 3/20 @ Mark Moore Gallery
On the heels of his solo booth at PULSE Contemporary Art Fair (New York), Kim Dorland returns to LA with nearly...
Saturday 3/20 @ Downtown Independent Theater
digital, 90 min, 2009
dir. Bill Ross, IV
45365 explores the congruities of daily life in an...
Saturday 3/20 @ Egyptian Theatre
Critic's Buzz Special Screenings: RED RIDING: 1974, 2009, IFC Films, 105 min. Dir. Julian Jarrold. Inspired by the novels of David...
Broadway: Historic Theatre and Commercial District Walking Tour
Saturday 3/20 @ 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 3/20 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Exciting young British conductor Robin Ticciati, who counts Simon Rattle and Colin Davis as mentors, takes over...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
