Events on Saturday, April 10
Saturday 4/10 @ Future Studio Gallery
Future Studio Gallery on Historic Route 66 is home to Chicken Boy, a 22-foot fiberglass crossbreed of man and poultry that...
Goldenvoice and KXLU present Liars w/ Fol Chen
Saturday 4/10 @ El Rey
The Liars are back after recording their latest full-length, Sisterworld, with Jon Brion in LA, and the syncopated squalls of...
Saint Motel / Voxhaul Broadcast / Pity Party / Mississippi Man @ echoplex
Saturday 4/10 @ The Echo & Echoplex
With white flowers attached to their microphone stands and dressed in their best black and white variations, they launched into things...
Film Noir Double Feature: NEW YORK CONFIDENTIAL and HUMAN DESIRE
Saturday 4/10 @ Egyptian Theatre
Saturday, April 10 – 7:30 PM Broderick Crawford Double Feature: NEW YORK CONFIDENTIAL, 1955, Kit Parker Films, 87 min. Dir. Russell...
Sam Francis: The 1950s and the Basel Mural Paintings in Context
Saturday 4/10 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Museum recently welcomed two important paintings into its collection: American Abstract Expressionist painter Sam Francis’s Basel Mural III, Fragments 1...
Son of Bollyweird: The Movie (feat. Jaani Dushman)
Saturday 4/10 @ The Cinefamily
One thing they really understand in India: every movie's better with song-and-dance numbers, so every one of their films have got...
Gary Calamar & Phil Gallo: Record Store Days: From Vinyl to Digital and Back Again
Saturday 4/10 @ Book Soup
Gary Calamar & Phil Gallo present and sign Record Store Days: From Vinyl to Digital and Back Again. ...
Wires in the Walls (EP Release) w/ Olin and the Moon at Bootleg
Saturday 4/10 @ Bootleg Theater
WIRES IN THE WALLS Beloved for their candid lyrics, impeccable punctuality and mediocre grooming, Wires in the Walls is quickly becoming...
Saturday 4/10 @ The Cinefamily
If a documentary that relies on recreation goes beyond just recreating -- then what exactly is Close-Up? Famed Iranian director Abbas...
Ongoing Events
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Western Project
Being just the second exhibition at its freshly-opened (aka expensively renovated) Culver City location (new from a previous CC place a...
Saturday 4/10 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Saturday 4/10 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Saturday 4/10 @ Espace DbD / Rachel Rosenthal Co.
Having recently celebrated her 83rd birthday with an all-out party, art show, and silent auction, LA-based performance artist Rachel Rosenthal shows...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Electric Lodge
Forget Amsterdam, Oaksterdam, and the Rastafarians. Where else could you catch the world premiere of a musical about pot than in...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Thomas Adès is one of the brightest stars in the British classical vanguard, but he increasingly finds inspiration and critical appreciation...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Underground Gallery
Underground Gallery says: Club Med is a solo exhibition by Anne Martens featuring sewn mixed-media sculpture and installation. In Club Med,...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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...
4th International Exhibition with Thailand
Saturday 4/10 @ LA Artcore Union Center Gallery
LA Artcore hosts a dual-venue exhibition co-produced by the Thai Art Council and the Office of National Culture Commission of Thailand....
Saturday 4/10 @ Otis College of Art and Design
Otis College continues to churn out the serious artists and designers, with an eclectic alumni list whose influences have been felt...
Saturday 4/10 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
LA Opera's presentation of The Stigmatized, considered one of opera's most obscure acts, makes a worthy return to the spotlight. As...
Saturday 4/10 @ Affinity Galleries
Affinity Galleries, previously known as the Circus Gallery, presents an innovative group show that effectively redefines the term "multimedia." Exhibiting photography,...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Saturday 4/10 @ 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...
Britton Tolliver: A Search for the Sky Underneath the Dirt
Saturday 4/10 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Tolliver's vivid paintings engage a successful and intense marriage of abstraction and geometric rendering, and at times his forms seem to...
Saturday 4/10 @ Laemmle's Music Hall 3
Laemmle's says: In her feature-film debut, renowned visual artist Shirin Neshat offers an exquisitely crafted view of Iran in 1953, when...
Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since W.W.II
Saturday 4/10 @ 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...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Saturday 4/10 @ The Ford Theater
Lascivious Something is a marked departure from Sheila Callaghan's work as a writer on Showtime's The United States of Tara. Presented...
Jeff Koegel and Gregory Euclide
Saturday 4/10 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Jeff Koegel and Gregory Euclide each examine the complexities of humanity's interactions with nature. Koegel's paintings, while not immediately seeming to...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Peter Fetterman Gallery
A survey spanning several decades of Caponigro's innovative classicism in still life and landscape, this is quite simply one of the...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 4/10 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
National Geographic puts a new spin on a classic subject, using cutting-edge photographic technology to build a sweeping portfolio of the...
Saturday 4/10 @ The Hive Gallery & Studios
The Hive Gallery is the artistic home to over 25 resident studio visionaries based in Southern California. In honor of its...
Saturday 4/10 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Chris Natrop is an installation artist by nature, known for his labor-intensive, room-engulfing sculptural environments constructed of cut and painted elements....
Saturday 4/10 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
Circa 1963, Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek met at UCLA's film school, and the rest is, well, it's kind of a...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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...
Saturday 4/10 @ Eclectic Company Theatre
Written by Jeff Folschinsky, Eclectic's original Turkey Day has the pitch-perfect couple, Bruce and Buffy, being forced to survive their imperfect...
Saturday 4/10 @ Track 16 Gallery
Mike Watt, former bassist of San Pedro '80s punk band Minutemen, debuts his latest turn tonight: photography. The iconic rocker, who...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Ahmanson Theatre
One of Hubbard Street's greatest strengths is their versatility in style, allowing them to explore myriad choreographic voices from the contemporary...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Mark Moore Gallery
On the heels of his solo booth at PULSE Contemporary Art Fair (New York), Kim Dorland returns to LA with nearly...
Historic Downtown Walking Tour
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ The GRAMMY Museum
The GRAMMY Museum's third major special exhibit, Strange Kozmic Experience explores the innovations, legacies, and continual impact of the artists who...
Broadway: Historic Theatre and Commercial District Walking Tour
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Cinespace
Saturday nights at Cinespace is the place to be for dancing and drinks on Hollywood Boulevard. Join us for the city's...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Saturday 4/10 @ 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 4/10 @ Downtown Independent Theater
9 - 14 April:
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2008, 35mm, 90 min
Robert...
Saturday 4/10 @ 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...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Saturday 4/10 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Showcasing more than 100 illustrations and texts from time-honored classics and popular favorites, this new exhibition guides audiences through the colorful...
