Events on Saturday, May 22
Saturday 5/22 @ Liquid Kitty
Liquid Kitty says:
Summer comes early this year, with the Liquid Kitty Beyond Barbecue. This show features 5 rockin'...
Matthew Dear, Magda, and Konrad Black
Saturday 5/22 @ Avalon Hollywood
The Avalon Hollywood says: Cutting her teeth with Hawtin in Detroit, the diminutive Magda has quickly assumed a DJ stature...
Saturday 5/22 @ Jody Domingue Studios
Curators Rachel Matos and Adrien Vargas say: Please join us for a one night only event featuring Mr. Opasinski's personal, non-commercial portfolio of...
Saturday 5/22 @ Egyptian Theatre
Co-produced by the Producers Guild of America/ New Media Council as part of the Saturday 2.0 series:
JIM...
Saturday 5/22 @ El Rey
When Kaki King went into the studio in upstate New York to record the tracks for her fourth album, Dreaming Of...
Mellodrama: The Mellotron Movie
Saturday 5/22 @ The Cinefamily
A synth fetishist's utter delight! From a California workshop to Royal Albert Hall, Mellodrama tells the story of the first sampling...
Illuminating the Future: The Arrival of Solid State Lighting
Saturday 5/22 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Cinematographer Daryn Okada and panelists representing several filmmaking disciplines discuss the challenges and advantages of...
PASSPORT SCREENING: Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love
Saturday 5/22 @ Skirball Cultural Center
In 2005, global superstar Youssou N’Dour released his most personal album yet, Egypt. Although it received international acclaim, its pop-music sensibility...
Saturday 5/22 @ Egyptian Theatre
Director Jason Berry's documentary touches on the rich history, passion and true grit of the Tour de France bicycle race as...
Goodreads and Book Soup Book Swap sponsored by PEN Center USA!
Saturday 5/22 @ Book Soup
Goodreads and Book Soup Book Swap sponsored by PEN Center USA! Read, Eat, and Be Merry!...
Mondo Macabro Kiddo (feat. Lost In The Desert)
Saturday 5/22 @ The Cinefamily
Mommy, what's a Mondo Mix? Well, Mondo Mixes are Cinefamily's signature homemade long-form video montages of found footage madness that can...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/22 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
LA painter Edward Walton Wilcox is not afraid of paradox; and his darkly romantic, evasively poignant pictures benefit from this fearlessness....
Saturday 5/22 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Saturday 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ 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...
Saturday 5/22 @ Plaza de la Raza
Plaza de la Raza says: Plaza de la Raza is pleased to announce a major retrospective of Linda Vallejo's wide-ranging...
The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen
Saturday 5/22 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Long before the recent quasi-blockbuster version, there was the original Clash of the Titans, a 1981 tour de force starring Laurence...
Saturday 5/22 @ La Luz de Jesus
Rogue Taxidermy as a movement of contemporary art is akin to the Radical Craft movement popular in recent years. Just as...
Saturday 5/22 @ Natural History Museum
One of the Natural History Museum's most eagerly anticipated annual events is its Pavilion of Wings — the installation of living,...
Saturday 5/22 @ Location TBA with RSVP
Performed in an actual home listed for sale, Full Disclosure is a standard Chalk Rep enthralling maneuver, placing theatre in environments and capitalizing...
Saturday 5/22 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Jason Shawn Alexander's richly textured, expressively rendered, life-size figure drawings belong to a tradition of psychological fraught portraiture that links Egon...
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
Saturday 5/22 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
American furniture designer Charles Rohlfs (1853–1936) found inspiration in Art Nouveau, Asian, English, German, and Moorish designs, yet his own style...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ Bob Baker Marionette Theater
In a postmodern society with all its ironic trappings, the wholesome and irony-free Bob Baker Marionette Theater still reigns supreme with children's...
Saturday 5/22 @ Abbot Kinney
For some 30 years now, the Venice Art Walk has been an international destination for fans of eccentric architecture, fantasy landscaping,...
Saturday 5/22 @ The Continental Gallery
Eco-conscious thespian and star of Entourage Adrian Grenier co-hosts the Downtown opening of the SHFT Gallery and Pop-Up Shop, a new...
Saturday 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ 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...
4 x 4: Four Figurative Photographers
Saturday 5/22 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Kopeikin Gallery says: Four photographers present four images each.
Alison Brady: This body of work uses staged imagery...
Patrick Graham and Arshile Gorky
Saturday 5/22 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Continuing its tradition of illuminating scholarship on modern and contemporary painting, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts presents one of its most ambitious...
Saturday 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ Glendale Civic Auditorium
Appealing to history buffs, decorators, and retro-revivalists alike, the Vintage Paper Fair is a nice way to spend a few hours...
Saturday 5/22 @ The Land of Odd Gallery
Assemblage has traditionally straddled the blurry line between crafts and fine art. But works by giants like Joseph Cornell and Edward...
COLA Individual Artist Fellowships
Saturday 5/22 @ Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
This year's COLA (City of Los Angeles) Individual Artist Grants cover the visual, literary, and performing arts, carrying on the DCA's...
Saturday 5/22 @ Muzeumm
Through various media and means, the artists in Over There traverse themes of movement, journey, and place through straightforward and/or circuitous...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Saturday 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ Patrick Painter Gallery
Sculptor and installation artist Won Ju Lin has always had an interest in architecture as an element of her visual art,...
Saturday 5/22 @ Dogtown Station Lofts
Venice has always been a magnet for artists and other beachcombers, chic and scruffy alike, and its recent resurgence as an...
Saturday 5/22 @ Honor Fraser
Honor Fraser Gallery says: Mark Licari is known for his strikingly original vision of worlds in which the ordinary spins playfully...
Saturday 5/22 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
In the tradition of Paris' Theatre du Grand Guignol, LA's Grand Guignolers combine macabre storytelling with delightful performances. This time, the...
Saturday 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ Western Project
Arne Svenson's latest exhibition draws on his own extensive personal archives of torn-out pages, photographs, scraps, and other sundry paper-best memorabiliac...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Saturday 5/22 @ 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...
Saturday 5/22 @ Saban Theatre
LA Weekly's annual "Best of LA People" issue profiles dozens of fascinating Angelenos, and is one of the publication's most anticipated...
Saturday 5/22 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
Starring comic musician Mike O'Connell as K. Roth Binew, The Living Wake tells the story of an obnoxious intellectual as he...
Saturday 5/22 @ Thinkspace Gallery
Thinkspace Gallery says: In this new series Sommers aims to engage with the metaphor of Schlaraffenland, the world of plenty,...
Saturday 5/22 @ Myra Ave & Santa Monica Blvd
Expect revelry on the east side this weekend when first-time festival, the Silver Lake Jubilee, takes over. The inter-arts celebration brings...
Saturday 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum says: This spring the Hammer Museum presents The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New...
Saturday 5/22 @ Pacific Asia Museum-
The Pacific Asia Museum says: In this exhibition, Shizuko Greenblatt explores a new mode of calligraphy on canvas as...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Saturday 5/22 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Saturday 5/22 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
For those of you who think hors d'oeuvres are the highlight of the average art exhibit, Scion presents a showcase where...
Darkwave: Surfing and the Violence of the City
Saturday 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ Marilyn Monroe Theater at the Lee Strasberg Creative Center
Rebellious Los Angeles teenager Bethany, misunderstood by her parents and frustrated with the superficiality of life in Los Angeles, goes to...
Saturday 5/22 @ Edgar Varela Fine Arts
In photographs, and even in person at a slight distance, certain of Ashley Gibbons' images might be mistaken for painting —...
Saturday 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ Jancar Gallery
Los Angeles artist Pierre Picot has called half of his current exhibition at Chinatown's Jancar Gallery Collaborations with... in part because...
Saturday 5/22 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Jews on Vinyl is an auditory history of the influence of Jewish traditions on American pop culture from 1948, the year...
Saturday 5/22 @ Laemmle's Music Hall 3
Director Darko Lungulov says: I was born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia. When the civil war broke out in 1991, I...
Saturday 5/22 @ Bleicher/Golightly
Schwartz' subtle but saturated palette of pure pigment dried to a thick, earthen, frosting-like crust, follows an internal logic rather than...
Saturday 5/22 @ Timothy Yarger Fine Art
As the grandson of a golden-era Hollywood songwriter, acclaimed photographer Jim McHugh is heir to a particular experience and vision of...
Saturday 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ Blum & Poe
Blum & Poe says: Tim Hawkinson's practice is known for its sprawling surrealistic self-portraiture in which the body, through intense introspection,...
Saturday 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Roberts & Tilton says: Roberts & Tilton is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Belgium based artist Ellen...
Saturday 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ Antebellum Gallery
The legend goes, 420 first came into existence in 1971 after a group of California high school students met each day...
Saturday 5/22 @ Cinespace
Saturday nights at Cinespace is the place to be for dancing and drinks on Hollywood Boulevard. Join us for the city's...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Saturday 5/22 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Saturday 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ 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...
George Segal: The Expulsion, feat. photographs of the artist at work by Donald Lokuta
Saturday 5/22 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Experience George Segal's life-sized sculptural work The Expulsion, the generous gift of the George and Helen Segal Foundation, showcased in its...
Chuck Jones: An Animator's Life From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
Saturday 5/22 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
An exhibition of the work of Oscar winner and master humorist Chuck Jones, representing his short animated films, features and TV...
Saturday 5/22 @ 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...
Saturday 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Utilizing pop and rock music as his source material, Bavington acts as a translator between the aural and visual. Guitar solos...
Lionel Popkin: There is an Elephant in this Dance
Saturday 5/22 @ REDCAT
The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series presents Lionel Popkin: There is an Elephant in this Dance Los Angeles premiere. "Lovely....
Historic Downtown Walking Tour
Saturday 5/22 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Historic Downtown tour provides an overview of the historical and cultural landmarks of downtown Los Angeles. Covering a wide range...
Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs
Saturday 5/22 @ 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 5/22 @ Downtown Independent Theater
In search of wisdom found in unlikely places, The Philosopher Kings takes us on a journey through the halls of the...
Broadway: Historic Theatre and Commercial District Walking Tour
Saturday 5/22 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The tour explores the social, cinematic, and architectural history of the largest National Register Historic Theatre Districts in the country. The...
