Events on Saturday, April 3
The Ancient Universe of the Queen of Sheba
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Building, UCLA
"The legendary Queen of Sheba known for her famous rendezvous with King Solomon in Jerusalem reportedly ruled southern Arabia and the...
Eliza French & Jeff Charbonneau
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Robert Berman Gallery D5
Tonight's opening reception (in conjunction with the return of the Month of Photography LA, or MOPLA, opening night parties at Bergamot...
Dublab presents Secondhand Sureshots feat. Daedulus, J-Rocc, Nobody, and Ras G
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Downtown Independent Theater
A self-proclaimed "experiment in sound recycling," Secondhand Sureshots follows four Dublab DJs as they embark on a mellifluous odyssey across Los...
Film Noir Double Feature: RED LIGHT and JOHNNY ANGEL
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Egyptian Theatre
Saturday, April 3 – 7:30 PM George Raft Tribute Double Feature: RED LIGHT, 1949, Warner Bros., 83 min. Dir. Roy...
Bell Gardens (Stars of the Lid) w/ Nudge at Bootleg
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Bootleg Theater
BELL GARDENS “It’s gorgeous, rapturous pop balladry with candy-coated Beach Boys falsettos and pre-afro-Phil Spector production. It’s weightless with gravitas. Gibson...
Paul Verhoeven: Jesus of Nazareth
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Book Soup
Film director Paul Verhoeven presents and signs Jesus of Nazareth. "Verhoeven does not ignore...
Big River Man (encore screening!)
Saturday 4/ 3 @ The Cinefamily
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We had such a blast with this one last week, that we're giving you a second...
Forbidden Zone (30th Anniversary screening, w/ director in person!)
Saturday 4/ 3 @ The Cinefamily
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If you've never seen it before, or if you've never seen it before on the big...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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 4/ 3 @ 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 4/ 3 @ Highways Performance Space
Arianne MacBean, Ilaan Egeland Mazzini, Carmela Hermann, and Keith Glassman achieve fascinating and unique performances, each expressing a personalized life view,...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Tolliver's vivid paintings engage a successful and intense marriage of abstraction and geometric rendering, and at times his forms seem to...
Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since W.W.II
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
How Many Billboards? Art in Stead
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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,...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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 4/ 3 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
4th International Exhibition with Thailand
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Affinity Galleries
Affinity Galleries, previously known as the Circus Gallery, presents an innovative group show that effectively redefines the term "multimedia." Exhibiting photography,...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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 More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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 4/ 3 @ 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 4/ 3 @ 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...
Historic Downtown Walking Tour
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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 4/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
“He doesn't simply conduct this music; he lives...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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...
Sumi Ink Club Drawing Event Series
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
For the first phase of their residence at PMCA, Sumi Ink Club will hold drawing events to gradually cover the walls...
Saturday 4/ 3 @ Mark Moore Gallery
On the heels of his solo booth at PULSE Contemporary Art Fair (New York), Kim Dorland returns to LA with nearly...
