Events on Saturday, May 1
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Human Resources
Human Resources says: On May 1, 2010, Human Resources opens its doors to the world with its inaugural May Day event. ...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Bordello Bar
Party Scammers' shindigs include the RPS (rock-paper-scissors) Rumble, '80s dance floor workouts, Tetris tournaments, hoedowns, drunken drawing competitions, and nostalgic fêtes...
Sidney D. Gamble Lecture: Lloyd Wright: Architect of Sunshine and Shadow
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Art Center College of Design
The Sidney D. Gamble Lecture Series presents "Lloyd Wright: Architect of Sunshine and Shadow," during which Dana Hutt, editor of SCI-Arc...
Nico Stai w/ Shadow Shadow Shade and The Black Apples at Bootleg
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Bootleg Theater
NICO STAI “On the verge of becoming America’s next big indie rocker, evoking memories of Bob Dylan and post Sgt. Peppers...
May Day Monster May Picnic at La Laguna!
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
Celebrate May Day with a picnic at a truly unique playground! We're thrilled to hold this special event at La Laguna...
NEEDTOBREATHE w/ Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers and Seabird
Saturday 5/ 1 @ El Rey
"We're from a small town in South Carolina called Possum Kingdom," NEEDTOBREATHE frontman Bear Rinehart explains when asked about the place...
Triple Feature: Back to the Future Parts I, II, & III
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Egyptian Theatre
Triple Feature: 25th Anniversary! BACK TO THE FUTURE, 1985, Universal, 117 min. Dir. Robert Zemeckis. Michael J. Fox plays teenager Marty...
Dublab Labrat Matinee 8: Pupils Dilate
Saturday 5/ 1 @ The Cinefamily
Open your pupils wide and join the ever-expanding, dynamic Dublab crew for another program of rarely-seen music videos (including clips featuring...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ Charlie James Gallery
When Orly Cogan's work first gained international attention, it wasn't only for pressing the traditionally crafts-associated medium of embroidery into the...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ The Cravens Estate
The artistry and innovation of the designers, landscapers, and artisans involved in this year's Pasadena Showcase House is as inspirational and...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Mark Taper Forum
It's always refreshing to see a work that speaks with such striking originality; it reaffirms the value in taking risks. Playwright...
Britton Tolliver: A Search for the Sky Underneath the Dirt
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Tolliver's vivid paintings engage a successful and intense marriage of abstraction and geometric rendering, and at times his forms seem to...
Dirty Hands: The Art & Crimes of David Choe
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
Watching Harry Kim's documentary on puckish artist David Choe is a lot like being trapped with Choe in an elevator for...
Jeff Koegel and Gregory Euclide
Saturday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ The Velaslavasay Panorama
The Velaslavasay Panorama says: The Lost Panorama project was never about locating something. It was more about the phenomenon of disappearances...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum says: This spring the Hammer Museum presents The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Saturday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ Edward Cella Art + Architecture
Edward Cella Gallery wears its worldview on its sleeve, or at least its nameplate, being dedicated to investigating the myriad ways...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Bonhams & Butterfields
It's nice to know that "California art" can mean more than David Hockney or coastal landscapes. The most established auction house...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ François Ghebaly Gallery
François Ghebaly says: The exhibition will include paintings, prints and works on paper. In her Pollution Painting series, Marie Jager makes...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ Santa Monica Air Center, Barker Hangar
Specializing in antique posters that have been dutifully preserved, expertly mounted on linen, and primed for re-use in the living rooms...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Natural History Museum
One of the Natural History Museum's most eagerly anticipated annual events is its Pavilion of Wings — the installation of living,...
4 x 4: Four Figurative Photographers
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Kopeikin Gallery says: Four photographers present four images each.
Alison Brady: This body of work uses staged imagery...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ Arclight Hollywood
To the common channel-flipper, Mexico onscreen is either some "aye-dios-mio" melodrama or an epic starring a few trim Zapata moustaches. Founded...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ CB1 Gallery
The thing about Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia is that, although nearly all his creative projects involve paint at some point, he's not...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ Electric Lodge
Forget Amsterdam, Oaksterdam, and the Rastafarians. Where else could you catch the world premiere of a musical about pot than in...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ The Autry National Center of the American West
The terminus of Manifest Destiny has produced an unparalleled convergence of cultures, and by using methodologies such as cultural, social, and...
Darkwave: Surfing and the Violence of the City
Saturday 5/ 1 @ USC Institute for Genetic Medicine Art Gallery
This expanded and recontextualized exhibition builds on last year's installation at Black Cat Gallery, to now involve the experiences of the...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Antebellum Gallery
The legend goes, 420 first came into existence in 1971 after a group of California high school students met each day...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 5/ 1 @ 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...
South-East European Film Festival
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
The only festival in the USA to showcase films from the Balkans and surrounding countries, the fifth annual South-East European Film...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Lazarides Gallery Beverly Hills
On the eve of the release of the new biographical documentary on his life so far, David Choe takes on the...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ Regen Projects
Photographer and UCLA faculty member Catherine Opie displays her new series of time-sensitive images taken from the deck of a container...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Saturday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ Various LA locations
"More than a century ago, composer Richard Wagner conceived his epic four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen as a festival event...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ 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...
Historic Downtown Walking Tour
Saturday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Utilizing pop and rock music as his source material, Bavington acts as a translator between the aural and visual. Guitar solos...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Saturday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Broadway: Historic Theatre and Commercial District Walking Tour
Saturday 5/ 1 @ 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 5/ 1 @ Cinespace
Saturday nights at Cinespace is the place to be for dancing and drinks on Hollywood Boulevard. Join us for the city's...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Downtown Independent Theater
"Ross manages to capture and present wrenching sorrow jutted up against the playfulness of youth." - LA Times
The...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Saturday 5/ 1 @ 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...
Americas and Americans: Dudamel Conducts Estévez
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Antonio Estévez’ atmospheric, folk-inspired Cantata Criolla, will be designed and staged by renowned filmmaker Alberto Arvelo...
Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs
Saturday 5/ 1 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents an exhibition of twenty lithographs of botanical subjects by American artist Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923). Though...
Saturday 5/ 1 @ 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...
