Events on Saturday, June 26
Cheech & Chong All-Nighter feat. Up In Smoke, Next Movie & Nice Dreams
Saturday 6/26 @ The Cinefamily
Standup duo Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong practically invented the pothead stereotype. Their breakthrough film, Up in Smoke (1978), established the...
Saturday 6/26 @ Downtown Arts District
Long before the installation of sleek signage designating the Gallery Row, Old Bank District, and Arts District neighborhoods of Downtown, there...
Saturday 6/26 @ Spring Arts Tower
In coincidence with Dwell on Design's redecorating of Downtown this weekend, deLab (Design East of La Brea — a loose confederacy...
Saturday 6/26 @ LACMA
LA-based organization Freewaves is turning 20, and in true agitprop spirit, it's hijacking LACMA in the middle of its Late Night...
"Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" at the Orpheum Theatre
Saturday 6/26 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
Matinee screening with Pee Wee himself, Paul Reubens!
At the Historic Orpheum Theatre
842 S. Broadway, Los...
Advance Screening: Twelve Starring Chace Crawford w/ Joel Schumacher In Person
Saturday 6/26 @ Egyptian Theatre
Joel Schumacher began his career as a costume designer, and his impeccable sense of visual design is evident in all of...
"The Leopard" ("Il Gattopardo") at the Orpheum Theatre
Saturday 6/26 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
Evening screening with special celebrity guests and a newly restored print of the film!
At the Historic Orpheum...
Saturday 6/26 @ Bootleg Theater
Whether turning out visceral noise-pop with Sebadoh and the Folk Implosion, conjuring lo-fi gems from a four-track as Sentridoh or playing...
José Carreras and symphony orchestra
Saturday 6/26 @ Greek Theatre
World-renowned Spanish Catalan tenor José Carreras returns to the award winning Greek Theatre for the first time in over 15 years...
Retroformat: Idols of the Silent Era!
Saturday 6/26 @ Egyptian Theatre
Saturday, June 26 – 7:30 PM [Spielberg Theatre] RETROFORMAT- IDOLS OF THE SILENT ERA: This fascinating evening includes Two superb D.W...
The LA Chapter of Sisters in Crime: Murder in La-La Land
Saturday 6/26 @ Book Soup
The LA Chapter of Sisters in Crime present and sign Murder in La-La Land.
Shorts Program>>Retroformat: Idols of the Silent Era
Saturday 6/26 @ Egyptian Theatre
Saturday, June 26 – 7:30 PM [Spielberg Theatre] RETROFORMAT- IDOLS OF THE SILENT ERA: This fascinating evening of historic films projected...
Ongoing Events
Art from the Ashes to benefit Deukmejian Wilderness Park
Saturday 6/26 @ Art from the Ashes Gallery
Art from the Ashes says: ART from the ashes is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization of independent artists and volunteers who contribute...
Patrick Graham and Arshile Gorky
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Otis College of Art and Design
From the Otis College of Art and Design comes the summer's first blockbuster art show — actually, an inspired pairing of...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Capri Restaurant
Venice Beach is legendary for being home to generations of the most important and/or intriguing artists LA has ever produced, among...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
The Neon Art of Bill Concannon
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
Co-founded by Robert De Niro, Tribeca Film Festival has served as New York's equivalent of our own Los Angeles Film Festival....
Saturday 6/26 @ Angles Gallery
Angles Gallery says:
Angles Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new photographs by Ori Gersht, Places...
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
Saturday 6/26 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
Julien Nitzberg's documentary The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia is something like an amusing, feature-length episode of A&E's Intervention....
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
Aside perhaps from bowls of fruit, no subject matter is more prevalent in fine art than the human body — usually...
Darkwave: Surfing and the Violence of the City
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ The Steve Allen Theater
Mary Lynn Rajskub (24, Julie & Julia) takes on her most challenging role to date, as her one-woman show jabs at...
Saturday 6/26 @ Subliminal Projects
We just received an intriguing teaser video from Skullphone for his upcoming show this Saturday at Subliminal Projects and wanted to...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Gallery Brown
Not only has John Lurie starred in a string of Jim Jarmusch films in the '80s, he's written and directed the...
Saturday 6/26 @ Pacific Asia Museum-
The Pacific Asia Museum says: In this exhibition, Shizuko Greenblatt explores a new mode of calligraphy on canvas as...
Saturday 6/26 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
Ian Dury and the Blockheads were uniquely responsible for the carnivalesque, gender-bending side of the British punk rock family tree, scrambling...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Honor Fraser
Honor Fraser Gallery says: Mark Licari is known for his strikingly original vision of worlds in which the ordinary spins playfully...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
COLA Individual Artist Fellowships
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
Some Assembly Required: race, gender, and globalization
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Regal Cinemas LA LIVE Stadium 14
Circus producer David Balding realizes his star African elephant Flora has lived a limited existence in St. Louis, and sets out...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Saturday 6/26 @ Various Hollywood theaters
A festival as ambitious and eclectic as this can be hard to get your arms around. The website is actually very...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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...
The Curious World of Patent Models and The Future of Objects
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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....
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Khastoo Gallery
Khastoo Gallery says: "After the cursing comes laughter, so that the soul is saved from the dead. " -Carl Gustav Jung,...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
One of the documentary highlights of last year's Los Angeles Film Festival was City of Borders, Yun Suh's portrait of a...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Roberts & Tilton says: Roberts & Tilton is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Belgium based artist Ellen...
Saturday 6/26 @ Los Angeles Convention Center
Billed as the West Coast's largest design event, Dwell on Design is a three-day Downtown festival spotlighting inspirational design trends, featuring...
Saturday 6/26 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Sandy de Lissovoy and David Kelley / Tanya Haden / Beatriz Monteavaro
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
"This summer, LA Opera unveils the first complete performances of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen ever presented in Los Angeles...
Saturday 6/26 @ LA Memorial Coliseum & Exposition Park
The Electric Daisy Carnival is back for its third and biggest year at the LA Memorial Coliseum & Exposition Park, with...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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...
Saturday 6/26 @ Various Downtown locations
The qualifying festival for Film Independent's Spirit Awards, Los Angeles Film Festival screens hundreds of feature-length narratives, documentaries, music videos, and...
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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...
Historic Downtown Walking Tour
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ Cinespace
Saturday nights at Cinespace is the place to be for dancing and drinks on Hollywood Boulevard. Join us for the city's...
Film Series: The Ornament and the Enchantress
Saturday 6/26 @ The Getty Museum
Surrender to the charms of Hollywood's most glamorous femmes fatales in this film series inspired by the sensuous paintings in the...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Saturday 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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 6/26 @ 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...
