All events on Saturday December 01

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Film
Spellbound
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (7:30pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
In 1944, Alfred Hitchcock intuited that Salvador Dalí's penchant for precisely rendered images of the impossible embodied a dreamlike mindstate better than the prevailing cinematic... View details »
Spellbound
Art
Richard Deacon
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
Free
Venice's premier art space reminds us that sculpture can be one of the most thrilling creative media with the debut of Richard Deacon's Dead Leg,... View details »
Richard Deacon
Art
Eliza Geddes
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (1–5pm) @ Found Gallery More times »
Free
Eliza Geddes' new mixed-media sculptures, wall hangings, and innovative paintings bring a rough physicality to deconstructivism. Her unconventional use of found objects within sculpture and... View details »
Eliza Geddes
More Flavor: Benefit
Wishful Thinking
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ project: gallery More times »
Free
To celebrate the first anniversary of its move to Culver City, project: gallery collaborates with Juxtapoz magazine on an exhibition in support of the Make-A-Wish... View details »
Wishful Thinking
Music: Rock/Pop
Steve Forbert
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (8pm) @ McCabe's Guitar Shop
Steve Forbert is exactly the kind of musician that belongs in the back room of McCabe's Guitar Shop. His 28-year career at the crossroads of... View details »
Steve Forbert
Music: Global
Youssou N'Dour
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (8pm) @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
Grammy-award winner and Mbalax proponent Youssou N'Dour graces UCLA's Royce Hall with his careening, caressing tenor. The Senegalese superstar has been an avalanche onstage since... View details »
Youssou N'Dour
Art
Create:Fixate
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (4pm–2am) @ Create:Fixate
Giveaway
Bi-monthly art, music, and scenester extravaganza Create:Fixate celebrates its sixth anniversary with a move to posher (and more permanent) digs, not too far from its... View details »
Create:Fixate
Art
Shepard Fairey
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery More times »
Free
Whether reading between the lines or blurring them entirely, ubiquitous designer Shepard Fairey mines the deep vein of irony running through the American dream. Though... View details »
Shepard Fairey
Art
Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Commissary Arts More times »
Free
While Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto are both Los Angeles-based artists working in the medium of drawing, the juxtaposition of their work in this dual... View details »
Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto
Art
Gardar Eide Einarsson
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
Free
Gardar Eide Einarsson's latest series features nine massive plywood panels, printed with graphics from a '60s police manual. As the officers demonstrate baton maneuvers, the... View details »
Gardar Eide Einarsson

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Art
Mathieu Briand
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–5:30pm) @ DF2 More times »
Free
While French artist Mathieu Briand is best known for his ambitious sound installations, with UBÏQ: A Mental Odyssey, he takes things significantly further. A multimedia... View details »
Mathieu Briand
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Clive Barker
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Bert Green Fine Art More times »
Free
Clive Barker is known for creating some pretty frightening characters — Candyman, Pinhead, and the army of monsters in Nightbreed. The script he submitted for... View details »
Clive Barker
Performing Arts: Theatre
Cry-Baby
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 @ La Jolla Playhouse More times »
We've entered the John Waters age. A Broadway musical adaptation of Hairspray and a subsequent cinematic "re-adaptation" has made the legendary Baltimorean a household name.... View details »
Cry-Baby
Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art More times »
Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments historicizes the "evolution"... View details »
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hair
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (8pm) @ The MET Theatre More times »
Hair's original 1967 production was way ahead of its time, masterfully exploring the sexual revolution, mind-expanding drugs, and opposition to the Vietnam War. This new... View details »
Hair
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 @ Various locations More times »
Free
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That, Amir Bar-Lev documents the... View details »
My Kid Could Paint That
Art
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Pasadena Museum of California Art More times »
One of three new exhibitions on view this fall at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, vinyl-obsessed group show Beyond Ultraman explores the multifaceted world... View details »
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
Art
Catalina Estrada & Mark Todd
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–9pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
Custo, Nike, Honda, and others have tapped Barcelona-based illustration sensation Catalina Estrada’s super-stylized imagery. Mark Todd, influenced by comic book artist legends like Jack Kirby,... View details »
Catalina Estrada & Mark Todd
Art
Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ DCA Fine Art More times »
Free
Alejandro Gehry may be the son of uber-architect Frank, but it's his co-exhibitor, Brian Biedul, whose work really focuses on spatiality. In Raw Space, Biedul... View details »
Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
Art
Ashley McLean Emenegger & Paul Pitsker: You Are Here
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
Free
Inspired by the groundbreaking mixed-media assemblages of Betye Saar and Joseph Cornell, Ashley McLean Emenegger explores themes of masculinity and femininity through evocative combinations of... View details »
Art: Architecture/Design
Victor Burgin
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture More times »
The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François de Bastide's 1758 novella... View details »
Victor Burgin
Film: Documentary
Steal a Pencil for Me
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 @ Various locations More times »
Steal a Pencil for Me is the improbable-but-true documentary about the love affair conducted between two prisoners of a Nazi concentration camp. The film has... View details »
Steal a Pencil for Me
Art
Adrià Julià
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ LAXART More times »
Free
A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last year at the Orange... View details »
Adrià Julià
Art
Mark Mothersbaugh
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ The Scion Installation LA Space More times »
Free
Mark Mothersbaugh, the DEVO diva-turned-soundtrack composer, designs rugs the way David Byrne designs chairs — as humorous objects, not items of sleek chic. Mothersbaugh's idiosyncratic... View details »
Mark Mothersbaugh
Art
Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Lawrence Asher Gallery More times »
Free
Three newcomers to the LA art scene — Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann — open individual mini-exhibitions tonight at Lawrence Asher Gallery. Kimbro's... View details »
Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann
Art
Joan Tucker
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Milo Gallery More times »
Free
Don't call Joan Tucker another Rothko wannabe. While her exploratory, painterly abstractions are obviously influenced by the forefathers of abstract expressionism, this Detroit-born, LA-based painter's... View details »
Joan Tucker
Art
Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Free
LA painter Jacob Magraw's gouache-on-paper works are improvisational landscapes composed of layers of Skittles-worthy colors. His latest batch of works at Richard Heller Gallery is... View details »
Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario
Performing Arts: Theatre
Grand Delusion
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (8pm) @ The Lost Studio More times »
Given the topsy-turvy nature of current geopolitics, the idea of a global conflict being instigated by a cabal of petty, puerile European nobles and military... View details »
Grand Delusion
Art
Green
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Robert Berman Gallery More times »
Free
From the minds at Murphy Art Books comes this mixed-media exhibition of small works by more than 40 contemporary artists who were asked to explore... View details »
Green
Art
Milo Martin
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (8am–4pm) @ Brickhouse Kitchen More times »
Free
Poet, artist, and amateur Buddhist Milo Martin claims to "write what I can't paint, and paint what I can't write," so it makes sense that... View details »
Milo Martin
Art
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10am–10pm) @ Materials & Applications More times »
Free
Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore the artful use of... View details »
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Art
Cherie Benner Davis
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ SolwayJones More times »
Free
LA painter Cherie Benner Davis sees the world in layered transparencies — crisp geometric shapes overlaying expressive, devotional elements of the physical and psychological world.... View details »
Cherie Benner Davis
Art
Robert Hardgrave
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
Beautiful and sublime, paintings by Seattle-based artist Robert Hardgrave boast slick, slippery, intestinal arabesques, quivering flora, and mysterious corpuscular floaters. Channeling a "Fantastic Voyage" vision... View details »
Robert Hardgrave
Art
Sue de Beer
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Sandroni Rey More times »
Free
From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her protagonists appear alternately incandescent,... View details »
Sue de Beer
Art
Plays Well With Others
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–4pm) @ Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College More times »
Free
Following the DIY aesthetic to a T, Sharon Kagan, Lana Shuttleworth, and Leslie Yagar, collectively known as the ladies of PiNK (Pins, Needles, and Knives... View details »
Plays Well With Others
Art
Mark Dutcher
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ High Energy Constructs More times »
Free
California native Mark Dutcher utilizes Shakespeare as a thematic backdrop, adding a tinge of the macabre to his lavish, effervescent paintings of multi-colored circles, graffiti-like... View details »
Mark Dutcher
Performing Arts: Opera
La Bohème
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 @ Los Angeles Opera More times »
Giacomo Puccini's four-act opera La Bohème has been immortalized in more films, songs, and remakes than any other work of its time. The love story... View details »
La Bohème
Art
Kim Dingle
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Lightbox Gallery More times »
Free
Kim Dingle has a knack for turning the innocent into the disturbing. Clownish kids getting their faces stuck in garish cakes may seem the perfect... View details »
Kim Dingle
Art
A Great Delicacy
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery More times »
Free
Curator Melissa Levin has gathered six New York-based artists whose work focuses on the nature of consumables. While the duo of Rebecca Veit and Kathryn... View details »
A Great Delicacy
Art
Clayton Murdach and Travis Somerville
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ delete More times »
Free
This exhibition unites two like-minded artists whose work addresses the unstoppable decline of American society. Clayton Murdach manipulates a bevy of found objects into assemblages... View details »
Clayton Murdach and Travis Somerville
Art
Shona Macdonald: SHIFT & Heimir Björgúlfsson: Allure Gone Buffalo
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–5:30pm) @ d.e.n. contemporary art More times »
Free
Aberdeen-born Shona Macdonald's delicate gouache, silverpoint, and graphite works, exhibited in d.e.n.'s main gallery, comment on the endless order and routine of daily life —... View details »
Shona Macdonald: SHIFT &  Heimir Björgúlfsson: Allure Gone Buffalo
Performing Arts
Degenerate Art Ensemble
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (8:30pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Giveaway
Seattle-based DAE's artistic methodology combines jazz, rock, thrash, butoh, poetry, and surrealism to generate intoxicating performances. The six versatile members play out their experimentations in... View details »
Degenerate Art Ensemble
Performing Arts: Theatre
Teatr Zar
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 @ Freud Playhouse More times »
Carrying on the tradition of Polish provocateur Jerzy Grotowski, Teatr Zar's members alter the notion of theatre through acts of deeply personal communal ritual. Zar's... View details »
Teatr Zar
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Christmas Twist
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (8pm) @ Ark Theatre More times »
Dickens' "Please sir, may I have some more?" meets Animal House's "Thank you sir, may I have another?" in A Christmas Twist — a bizarre,... View details »
A Christmas Twist
Art
Pascual Sisto
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ De Soto Gallery More times »
Free
If LA-based video artist Pascual Sisto had been born a century earlier, he and Salvador Dalí would have been best buds. Like his Spanish countryman,... View details »
Pascual Sisto
Art
Iva Gueorguieva
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 @ Pomona College Museum of Art More times »
Free
Victor Hugo once said that, in contrast to the sublime, the grotesque is the richest material that nature can offer art. Iva Gueorguieva heeds Hugo's... View details »
Iva Gueorguieva
Art
Sandow Birk
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach More times »
Sandow Birk's Depravities of War examines its titular subject's social, political, and aesthetic constructs. Birk's precursor was 17th-century printmaker Jacques Callot, whose Miseries and Misfortunes... View details »
Sandow Birk
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Very Grand Guignol Christmas
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (8:30pm) @ Art/Works Theatre More times »
Let the absinthe, eggnog, and blood flow at Art/Works Theater in Hollywood, as the Grand Guignol Theatre Company presents A Very Grand Guignol Christmas. From... View details »
A Very Grand Guignol Christmas
Film
Fusion Film Festival
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 @ Egyptian Theatre More times »
The Fusion festival celebrates ethnically and sexually diverse themes in new cinema by up-and-coming filmmakers from around the world. This year's queer party boasts eight... View details »
Fusion Film Festival
Art
Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Applegate Gallery More times »
Free
Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin's paintings and collages radiate pop sensibility: McClure's all-too-lovely works layer nostalgic imagery and text, while the Rauchenburg-influenced Wilkin treats... View details »
Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin
Art
Nicole Eisenman
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects More times »
Free
The humorous, poignant, and technically impressive paintings, drawings, and prints by Nicole Eisenman at Vielmetter Projects are neatly explained by the artist in a crude... View details »
Nicole Eisenman
Performing Arts: Theatre
Benedictus
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (8pm) @ The New LATC More times »
San Francisco-based Golden Thread Productions presents Benedictus, a transcultural tale of reunion and intrigue. In the play, two men from divergent Middle Eastern faiths meet... View details »
Benedictus
Performing Arts: Theatre
Local Story
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (8pm) @ Theatre of NOTE More times »
Set over the course of two balmy days in August, theatre of NOTE's latest production revolves around the emotional cyclones stirred up within the interwoven... View details »
Local Story
Art
Ellen de Meutter
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery More times »
Free
For Ellen de Meutter's first US solo exhibition, the Belgian painter displays her signature childlike aesthetic, juxtaposing bright, expressionist imagery with desolate backdrops. The collection... View details »
Ellen de Meutter
Art
Carole Caroompas
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Western Project More times »
Free
Carole Caroompas' fantastically imaginative paintings and drawings are a melting pot of pop-culture imagery. For Caroompas' latest collection at Western Project, she counts films by... View details »
Carole Caroompas
Art
Jen Liu
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery More times »
Free
Jen Liu's new multimedia collection at Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery finds the anti-technology characters of her Brethren of the Stone series once again entrenched in humorously... View details »
Jen Liu
Performing Arts: Theatre
LA Physical Theatre Festival
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (8pm) @ Art/Works Theatre More times »
Channeling the Chaplins and Keatons of Hollywood yesteryear, LAPT's inaugural festival salutes the not-so-subtle, yet supremely precise art of physical theatre. Festival producers [via]Corpora have... View details »
LA Physical Theatre Festival
Art
Dream of Today
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
East meets West (coast, that is) in this exhibition of 14 NYC-based up-and-comers. Independent curator and New York gallerist Amy Smith-Stewart lends her well-trained eye... View details »
Dream of Today
Art
Stan's Cafe
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
In Of All the People in All the World: The Americas, UK theatre company Stan's Cafe collects 300 million grains of rice, creating a hauntingly... View details »
Stan's Cafe
Art
Alex Kopps
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art More times »
Free
Bay Area artist Alex Kopps' undeniably beautiful work has been endorsed by Target, Home Depot, and Taco Bell — but don't hold that against him.... View details »
Alex Kopps
Art
Kenny Harris and Roland Reiss
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Gallery C More times »
Free
Hyperrealist painter Kenny Harris showcases his recent paintings inspired by a trip to South America. While Harris' interiors hardly show direct evidence of their exotic... View details »
Kenny Harris and Roland Reiss
Art
Soundwaves
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla More times »
Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling is MCASD's response to MOCA's 2005 exhibition Visual Music, a survey of the influence and/or direct use of music in... View details »
Soundwaves
Art: Photography
Julius Shulman
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Los Angeles Public Library More times »
Free
Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else — and he's also shot... View details »
Julius Shulman
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Peterson Automotive Museum More times »
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the need for expressing cultural... View details »
La Vida Lowrider
More Flavor: Exhibition
Treasures from the Vault
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Natural History Museum More times »
Whether you cherish the memory of dueling dino skeletons from long-ago field trips, or a more recent late-night music show amongst stuffed-buffalo-and-antelope dioramas, you probably... View details »
Treasures from the Vault
Art
Wallace Berman
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Michael Kohn Gallery More times »
Free
Even though Wallace Berman exhibited his work at the highly influential Ferus Gallery within years of Andy Warhol's first solo show, you've probably never heard... View details »
Wallace Berman
Art: Architecture/Design
SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating
Saturday Dec 1, 2007 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space More times »
Free
When not hurting bad guys on FX's The Shield, actress CCH Pounder works alongside her husband Boubacar Koné, developing the Boribana Museum in Dakar and... View details »
SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating