Events on Saturday, June 12
Saturday 6/12 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Miracle Mile does its best to live up to the name at this year's LACMA Muse ArtWalk. Billed as an...
Contemporary Art Conversations #5
Saturday 6/12 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
LA's leading art critics gather for a panel discussion on the local art-scape, the fifth in a series of talks examining...
Saturday 6/12 @ Location TBA with RSVP
Despite its notorious gloom, June in Los Angeles is a time of carousing. As party-goers awaken from their slumber and step...
Wagner, Cézanne and Early Modernist Painting in France
Saturday 6/12 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
In a lecture held in conjunction with Ring Festival LA, André Dombrowski, Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art, University...
Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil (sneak preview)
Saturday 6/12 @ The Cinefamily
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Chainsaws! Skinny dips! Brewskis! Woodchipper massacres and weedwhacker hackings! Who's ready to party? Tucker & Dale...
Saturday 6/12 @ Greek Theatre
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Passport Screening: Throw Down Your Heart
Saturday 6/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Rich Fulcher: Tiny Acts of Rebellion: 97 Almost-Legal Ways to Stick It to the Man
Saturday 6/12 @ Book Soup
The Mighty Boosh actor Rich Fulcher presents and signs Tiny Acts of Rebellion: 97 Almost-Legal Ways to Stick...
Mishna Wolff: I'm Down: A Memoir
Saturday 6/12 @ Book Soup
Mishna Wolff presents and signs I'm Down: A Memoir. Publisher Comments:
Saturday 6/12 @ The Cinefamily
When a great comedian does a killer set on-stage, it all looks so easy, and you feel like you're just hanging...
37th Annual Student Academy Awards
Saturday 6/12 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
This popular annual event honors outstanding college filmmakers from across the country. Past Student...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 6/12 @ GR2
Giant Robot is proud to host The Jizo, an art show featuring new work by Yukinori Dehara. Dehara's hand-painted clay depictions...
Saturday 6/12 @ Pacific Asia Museum-
The Pacific Asia Museum says: In this exhibition, Shizuko Greenblatt explores a new mode of calligraphy on canvas as...
Rachel Rosenthal w/ George Herms
Saturday 6/12 @ Espace DbD / Rachel Rosenthal Co.
Rachel Rosenthal's The DbD Experience: Chance Knows What It’s Doing breaks down the artist's improv formula, "doing by doing," in a...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Honor Fraser
Honor Fraser Gallery says: Mark Licari is known for his strikingly original vision of worlds in which the ordinary spins playfully...
Saturday 6/12 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Antebellum Gallery
The legend goes, 420 first came into existence in 1971 after a group of California high school students met each day...
Saturday 6/12 @ Freeman's Vader Project Los Angeles
What could be more artistically inspiring than one of cinema's most magnetic yet menacing villains, Darth Vader? If this collection of...
Saturday 6/12 @ Hacienda Hot Springs
A mission-style oasis in the Coachella Valley, Hacienda Hot Springs isn't your ordinary spa destination. Between the homemade granola and the...
Saturday 6/12 @ CB1 Gallery
Chicago-based mixed media sculptor and installation artist Fang Ling-An remixes elements of the traditional and the contemporary, the spiritual and the...
Saturday 6/12 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle
Saturday 6/12 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Murderer Gary Gilmore does the Texas two-step, Master Masons experience spiritual transcendence in the Chrysler building, and satyrs compete in motorcycle...
The Curious World of Patent Models and The Future of Objects
Saturday 6/12 @ Art Center College of Design
As testament of the ceaselessly inventive American mind and geared towards lifestyle improvement, The Curious World of Patent Models produces myriad...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Ruth Bachofner Gallery
Ruth Bachofner Gallery says: Monika's Rittershaus' photographs of LA Opera's first presentation of Richard Wagner's epic masterwork Der Ring Des Nibelungen...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Mihai Nicodim Gallery
Mihai Nicodim Gallery is pleased to present Unimportant Stories, the second solo show in the gallery of the Romanian artist Serban Savu....
Darkwave: Surfing and the Violence of the City
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Subliminal Projects
We just received an intriguing teaser video from Skullphone for his upcoming show this Saturday at Subliminal Projects and wanted to...
Saturday 6/12 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
Every few years the giant corpse flower (Amorphophallus Titanium) blooms into an elegant, impressive flora, and smells like a rotting corpse....
Saturday 6/12 @ 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...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Khastoo Gallery
Khastoo Gallery says: "After the cursing comes laughter, so that the soul is saved from the dead. " -Carl Gustav Jung,...
Saturday 6/12 @ Various locations
LAXART says: Launching June 1st, 2010 with a special showing at LAXART from 7-10pm, Superclogger will mark Los Angeles-based artist Joel...
Saturday 6/12 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
Think of iconic Japanese print-maker Hiroshige as a kind of Andy Warhol of his day, crossed with a staff photographer for...
Saturday 6/12 @ LeBasse Projects
With stylistic influences that range from the sublime, dreamy, and sometimes violent imagery of Ukiyo-e (literally, "the floating world") to the...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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...
Saturday 6/12 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
Take four musicians clad in black, add one lovably flighty celebu-chef, stir in a surly, line-dancing prison warden, combine all on...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ The End
In some of the most spectacular examples of adaptive reuse, medical marijuana dispensaries have rapidly cropped up across the Southland, staking...
Saturday 6/12 @ The Farley Building
Mike Kelley is one of the most influential artists ever to come out of Los Angeles. Though he works across every...
Saturday 6/12 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Roberts & Tilton says: Roberts & Tilton is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Belgium based artist Ellen...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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...
Some Assembly Required: race, gender, and globalization
Saturday 6/12 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
A series of events is presented in conjunction with Some Assembly Required, the unique, exuberant, and powerful current exhibition of assemblage...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Muzeumm
Through various media and means, the artists in Over There traverse themes of movement, journey, and place through straightforward and/or circuitous...
Saturday 6/12 @ Phantom Galleries LA: Long Beach
Phantom Galleries says: Phantom Galleries is pleased to present a one-person exhibition of drawings by Long Beach based-artist Jennifer Celio curated...
Hurley's )( Space Gallery feat. Mike Stilkey
Saturday 6/12 @ Hurley's )( Space
Mike Stilkey makes art with books — not in the sense of art in book form, but using books themselves as...
The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen
Saturday 6/12 @ 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...
Patrick Graham and Arshile Gorky
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Devil's Night Drive-In
To the car-centric city of LA comes a classic idea experiencing a revival — a drive-in movie theatre that welcomes bicyclists...
Saturday 6/12 @ ADC Contemporary Art Gallery
ADC Contemporary Art Gallery says: This exhibition includes a recent production consisting of videos and installations which build a...
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
Saturday 6/12 @ 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...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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...
The Neon Art of Bill Concannon
Saturday 6/12 @ Museum of Neon Art
Neon signs, once referred to by Tom Wolfe as a 20th-century American folk art, have long been an obsession of Bill...
Saturday 6/12 @ Patrick Painter Gallery
Sculptor and installation artist Won Ju Lin has always had an interest in architecture as an element of her visual art,...
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky
Saturday 6/12 @ Various Los Angeles theaters
You gotta love movies where people smoke during love-making and cut their corsets off with scissors. Henry & June meets Immortal...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Angles Gallery
Angles Gallery says:
Angles Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new photographs by Ori Gersht, Places...
COLA Individual Artist Fellowships
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
Aside perhaps from bowls of fruit, no subject matter is more prevalent in fine art than the human body — usually...
Saturday 6/12 @ Capri Restaurant
Venice Beach is legendary for being home to generations of the most important and/or intriguing artists LA has ever produced, among...
Sandy de Lissovoy and David Kelley / Tanya Haden / Beatriz Monteavaro
Saturday 6/12 @ Las Cienegas Projects
Las Cienegas Projects says: Sandy de Lissovoy and David Kelley have engaged in a year-long, bi-coastal collaboration ultimately aimed...
Saturday 6/12 @ Libbey Bowl
Building on a tradition that spans five decades, the legendary Ojai Music Festival is known around the world for its top-notch...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Track 16 Gallery
Lun*na Menoh's comprehensive body of work includes a standing gig with Japanese art-rock band Seksu Roba, a piece in the Victoria...
Saturday 6/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Jews on Vinyl is an auditory history of the influence of Jewish traditions on American pop culture from 1948, the year...
The Wicked Wilde Shakespeare Festival
Saturday 6/12 @ Miles Memorial Playhouse
Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company is renowned for their all-female versions of classic plays, a variation on the Shakespearean practice of...
Broadway: Historic Theatre and Commercial District Walking Tour
Saturday 6/12 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The tour explores the social, cinematic, and architectural history of the largest National Register Historic Theatre Districts in the country. The...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Saturday 6/12 @ 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...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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...
Saturday 6/12 @ 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...
Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs
Saturday 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ 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 6/12 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Historic Downtown tour provides an overview of the historical and cultural landmarks of downtown Los Angeles. Covering a wide range...
Chuck Jones: An Animator's Life From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
Saturday 6/12 @ 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...
