All events on Saturday October 11

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Art
Ai Yamaguchi
Saturday Oct 11 (6–8pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
Hana wa no ni aruyouni (Flowers as they are in the field) is Japanese artist Ai Yamaguchi's second solo exhibition at Roberts & Tilton. A... View details »
Ai Yamaguchi
Art
Mark Dean Veca
Saturday Oct 11 (5–7pm) @ Otis College of Art and Design More times »
Opening
Free
Entering Mark Dean Veca's site-specific installation at Otis College's Ben Maltz Gallery is like stepping into a psychedelic playhouse filled with surreal pop-cultural cartoons. A... View details »
Mark Dean Veca
Art
Miriam Wosk
Saturday Oct 11 (7–10pm) @ Billy Shire Fine Arts More times »
Opening
Free
For her second exhibition at Culver City's Billy Shire Fine Arts, Santa Monica-based artist Miriam Wosk once again creates her trademark large-scale, laboriously constructed mixed... View details »
Miriam Wosk
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James Gobel
Saturday Oct 11 (6–8pm) @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
Steve Turner Contemporary on the Miracle Mile lets its hair down this month, showing new work by James Gobel, portraying portly, hairy, gay men known... View details »
James Gobel
Art: Architecture/Design
Eddy Sykes
Saturday Oct 11 @ Materials & Applications More times »
Opening
Free
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials & Applications' latest installation are... View details »
Eddy Sykes
Reading
Art Spiegelman
Saturday Oct 11 (5pm) @ Vroman's Bookstore
Free
In the late '70s, Art Spiegelman published his first major work, Breakdowns, a collection of strips that tackle the artist's own nervous break and time... View details »
Art Spiegelman
Music: Rock/Pop
Denali
Saturday Oct 11 (8pm) @ Echoplex
Giveaway
In 2000, Maura Davis was just a Virginian sister going to ask her songwriter brother, Keeley (of a band called Engine Down), for help with... View details »
Denali
Music: Electronic
Matthew Dear's Big Hands
Saturday Oct 11 @ Avalon Hollywood
Right now, Matthew Dear is arguably one of electronic music's most versatile artists. He's made stripped-down, fluid constructions as False, rough, acid techno as Audion,... View details »
Matthew Dear's Big Hands
Music: Global
Cesária Évora
Saturday Oct 11 (8pm) @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
Cesária Évora brings her majestic voice from the Cape Verde Islands to Cali tonight. Évora sings in the morna tradition, which incorporates elements of Portuguese... View details »
Cesária Évora
Art
Asad Faulwell and Annie Buckley
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–6pm) @ Carl Berg Gallery More times »
Free
This Miracle Mile-situated gallery's latest exhibition joins two artists with radically different approaches to the aesthetic of assemblage. Asad Faulwell, recent recipient of an MFA... View details »
Asad Faulwell and Annie Buckley
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Takako Yamaguchi
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–6pm) @ Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art More times »
Free
New landscapes and seascapes from LA-based painter Takako Yamaguchi combine the stylized organic geometry of op art with the sensual smoothness of patterned silk. Strong,... View details »
Takako Yamaguchi
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Charlie Roberts
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–5pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Free
Charlie Roberts is a consummate collector of images, with an organizational system resembling the interior of a Whitman's Sampler. He perceives the world of people... View details »
Charlie Roberts
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Mear One
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–6pm) @ 01 Gallery More times »
Free
Very few painters can swing the brush with the technical wizardry of LA native Mear One. Returning to the... ce where he got his start... View details »
Mear One

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Ugo Wine Bar
Saturday Oct 11 (5:30pm–1:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one... View details »
Ugo Wine Bar
Art
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon More times »
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum... View details »
Marcel Duchamp Redux
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Mexican Calendar Girls
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The color-soaked exhibition comprises a... View details »
Mexican Calendar Girls
Performing Arts: Theatre
Point Break LIVE!
Saturday Oct 11 (8pm) @ Dragonfly More times »
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill the not-so-massive shoes of... View details »
Point Break LIVE!
Art
Mark Bradford
Saturday Oct 11 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious galleries and museums, but... View details »
Mark Bradford
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Bronx Zoo
Saturday Oct 11 (3:30–8pm) @ La Cita More times »
Conceived as a Saturday afternoon cocktail party with art activities, Ghettogloss gallery launched its Bronx Zoo summer series in June at the delightfully dancy downtown... View details »
Bronx Zoo
Film: Festival
Other Venice Film Festival
Saturday Oct 11 @ Electric Lodge More times »
In a world rife with indie film festivals (that's a good thing), this annual weekend juggernaut of alt-culture cinema, music, and art is refreshing because... View details »
Other Venice Film Festival
Art: Architecture/Design
John Lautner
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–7pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
The risk-taking John Lautner is often described as an architect's architect, even though some of his designs brought him both criticism and disdain. One of... View details »
John Lautner
Performing Arts: Theatre
UCLA Live International Theatre Festival
Saturday Oct 11 (8–10pm) @ Freud Playhouse More times »
UCLA Live offers a finely curated nine-month season of performances, with the International Theatre Festival serving as its cornerstone. The event remains peerless in bringing... View details »
UCLA Live International Theatre Festival
Art
Ultrasonic International III
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–5pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery More times »
Free
Elementary, My Dear Watson is the Mark Moore Gallery's third installment of its annual Ultrasonic International series. The group show features 16 local, national, and... View details »
Ultrasonic International III
Art: Photography
In Focus: The Landscape
Saturday Oct 11 (10am–9pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In Focus: The Landscape explores... View details »
In Focus: The Landscape
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Martin Kersels
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–8pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art More times »
The Santa Monica Museum of Art hosts LA artist Martin Kersels' first retrospective, Heavyweight Champion, drawing from 13 years of his multimedia work. Informed by... View details »
Martin Kersels
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Hans Burkhardt
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–4pm) @ Cal State University Northridge Art Gallery More times »
Free
Comprising selections from the nearly 1,000 works that European-native-turned California-great Hans Burkhardt personally donated to Cal State Northridge (where he taught before his death), this... View details »
Hans Burkhardt
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Scribble Press
Saturday Oct 11 (10am–8pm) @ Scribble Press More times »
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with markers, stickers, paints, wide... View details »
Art
Katie Grinnan
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture More times »
Katie Grinnan has made a career out of walking the fine line between the second and third dimensions. Grinnan takes architectural structures — as well... View details »
Katie Grinnan
Art
All of This is Melting Away
Saturday Oct 11 (10am–6pm) @ Royal/T More times »
Free
Director of New York's Greene Naftali Gallery, Jay Sanders steps into cafe/shop/gallery Royal/T to curate this group show of works from prominent collector Susan Hancock's... View details »
All of This is Melting Away
Art
Yin Zhaoyang
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–5:30pm) @ DF2 More times »
Free
Chinese-born Yin Zhaoyang didn't have to look too far for inspiration when creating the work in his latest show at DF2 Gallery. After viewing the... View details »
Yin Zhaoyang
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Kerry James Marshall
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery More times »
Free
Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall has shown internationally to great acclaim, and now will show for the sixth time with Koplin del Rio in LA.... View details »
Kerry James Marshall
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Kyle Field
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery More times »
Free
For his second go-round at Taylor De Cordoba, San Franciscan artist/musican Kyle Field (he's a member of the band Little Wings), plucks whimsical imagery for... View details »
Kyle Field
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Josh Dorman
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–6pm) @ Craft and Folk Art Museum More times »
Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as foundations for his fantastical... View details »
Josh Dorman
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Amanda Ross-Ho
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–6pm) @ Cherry and Martin More times »
Free
Amanda Ross-Ho returns to Cherry and Martin with her latest exhibition of mixed-media sculptural installation, Half of What I Say Is Meaningless. Since she last... View details »
Amanda Ross-Ho
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Cycling Apparati
Saturday Oct 11 (11–6pm) @ High Energy Constructs More times »
Free
For many contemporary artists, Warhol is the North Star by which they guide their own emerging views of culture. But for a segment of more... View details »
Cycling Apparati
Performing Arts: Theatre
Elevator Repair Service
Saturday Oct 11 (8:30pm) @ REDCAT More times »
If the idea of staging the first chapter of Faulkner's brooding Southern epic, The Sound and the Fury, in all its unabridged glory sounds completely... View details »
Elevator Repair Service
Art
Aspects of Mel's Hole
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–9pm) @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana More times »
Free
Beloved radio host Art Bell is a cross between Jean Shepherd and Fox Mulder, and a man whose paranormality-themed broadcasts were among the most misunderstood... View details »
Aspects of Mel's Hole
Art: Photography
Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–6pm) @ Sam Lee Gallery More times »
Free
Sam Lee Gallery follows up its dynamic group exhibition I AM I A KILLER with Pipo Nguyen-Duy's cyclical photography project, The Garden. Behind his camera,... View details »
Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Art
Kristi Lippire
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–5:30pm) @ d.e.n. contemporary art More times »
Free
Kristi Lippire cobbles together images from a mind-boggling array of sources, then fashions them into large-scale works. Using plywood and other construction materials to reinforce... View details »
Kristi Lippire
Performing Arts: Theatre
9 to 5
Saturday Oct 11 @ Ahmanson Theatre More times »
Based on Collin Higgins' screwball 1980 comedy, 9 to 5: The Musical makes its LA premiere tonight before heading to Broadway in the spring. Directed... View details »
9 to 5
Art
Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–6pm) @ George Billis Gallery More times »
Free
Modern mix-masters Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed are art historians of sorts: all three borrow imagery from recycled sources such as obsolete textbooks,... View details »
Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed
Art
Tofer Chin
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–5pm) @ Commissary Arts More times »
Free
The "sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll" trifecta holds ample sway in the work of Los Angeles artist Tofer Chin. For his latest collection at... View details »
Tofer Chin
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Alexander Melamid
Saturday Oct 11 (10am–5:30pm) @ Forum Gallery More times »
Free
Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered elephants. In his first... View details »
Alexander Melamid
Art
The Art of War
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon Museum More times »
When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much further than two-dimensional art.... View details »
The Art of War
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Eric Sall
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–6pm) @ Acuna-Hansen Gallery More times »
Free
In confronting the vibrating, thickly textured canvases of Eric Sall, one gets the distinct impression that he could survive by eating nothing but oil paint,... View details »
Eric Sall
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Sarah Cromarty
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–6pm) @ Circus Gallery More times »
Free
LA painter Sarah Cromarty has had a big year already; she gained recognition through several group shows and a bit of favorable press. She continues... View details »
Sarah Cromarty
Art
Elizabeth Turk
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
Free
From the Department of How Did She Do That? comes a new exhibition of drawings and delicate marble sculptures from chisel-wielding enchantress Elizabeth Turk. Her... View details »
Elizabeth Turk
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Antonio Pineda
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–5pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA More times »
Free
World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show what an especially talented... View details »
Antonio Pineda
Art
CUT: Makings of Removal
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–4pm) @ Vincent Price Art Museum More times »
Free
The 17 young and emerging artists included in this ambitious group show follow diverse strategies in making work, but the organizing principle is one of... View details »
CUT: Makings of Removal
Art
Sandrine Pelletier
Saturday Oct 11 @ Fette's Gallery More times »
Free
International-artist-friendly Fette's Gallery rings in its fall season with Insekts, an installation of new works by Swiss mixed-media artist/embroiderer Sandrine Pelletier. The Laussane/Paris-based artist creates... View details »
Sandrine Pelletier
Art
Raymond Pettibon
Saturday Oct 11 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects II More times »
Free
Seminal Work features a selection of pieces from the much-lauded Raymond Pettibon, all completed between 1978 and 1988. Keeping true to the chameleon-like artist, the... View details »
Raymond Pettibon
Art: Photography
Jehad Nga
Saturday Oct 11 (10am–6pm) @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles More times »
Free
Daring photographer Jehad Nga has previously documented poverty and violence from Darfur to Iraq — now, he takes his camera into the world of boxing.... View details »
Jehad Nga
Art
John Bock
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
John Bock's unpredictable performances may seem like exercises in artistic capriciousness, but his loud costumes and absurd statements conceal his skill as a social and... View details »
John Bock
Art: Photography
Robert Glenn Ketchum
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–9pm) @ G2 Gallery More times »
Free
Photographer and environmentalist Robert Glenn Ketchum makes landscape images, but this isn't Ansel Adams we're talking about here. The 38-year-old UCLA graduate eschews the somber... View details »
Robert Glenn Ketchum
Performing Arts: Theatre
It's the Housewives
Saturday Oct 11 (8pm) @ Whitefire Theatre More times »
Giveaway
Sarah Palin may have the elusive Hockey Mom demographic sewn up, but who knows how she's going to handle the nation's newest and most fabulous... View details »
It's the Housewives
Art
Victor Gastelum
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–6pm) @ Overtones Gallery More times »
Free
Victor Gastelum upholds the grand California tradition of elevating street-art tropes to gallery-level heights with the spray-paint stencil multiples in Xacto Mundo. The Long Beach-based... View details »
Victor Gastelum
Art
No Brow
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–6pm) @ Black Maria Gallery More times »
Free
Not unlike impressionism, "low brow" was a label with initially negative connotations affixed to a group of artists reacting against then-mainstream art. Merging their vision... View details »
No Brow
Art
Dennis Oppenheim
Saturday Oct 11 (10am–6pm) @ ACE Gallery More times »
Free
Dennis Oppenheim first hit the art-world radar in the late 1960s with his Land and Body Art projects, which combined film and video with performance,... View details »
Dennis Oppenheim
Performing Arts: Festival
FOTW 08
Saturday Oct 11 @ Los Angeles Theatre Center More times »
For the second year in a row, the New LATC concocts an enthralling admixture of theatre, dance, and performance that brings together new work and... View details »
FOTW 08
Art: Photography
Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French
Saturday Oct 11 @ Robert Berman Gallery More times »
Free
Dreamlike, sensual, and ominous, the black-and-white photography of Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French is like a surrealist's take on a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel. The darkly... View details »
Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French
Art
Michael Knowlton
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–6pm) @ 01 Gallery More times »
Free
Painter Michael Knowlton doesn't feel the need to choose between beauty and terror. His passionately wrought, deftly composed scenes of the ruin and savagery of... View details »
Michael Knowlton
Art: Festival
Off-Axis
Saturday Oct 11 @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum More times »
Free
Although our neighbor to the north is typically known for its stellar views and celebrity mansions, Santa Barbara has a stash of hidden artistic gems,... View details »
Off-Axis
Performing Arts: Theatre
43 Plays for 43 Presidents
Saturday Oct 11 (8pm) @ Sacred Fools Theater More times »
Using comedy, drama, dance, and music, the half dozen actors in this crash course in presidential history conjure a theatrical experience that's part SAT prep,... View details »
43 Plays for 43 Presidents
Art
Park Life
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–5pm) @ Subliminal Projects More times »
Free
Subliminal Projects uses its recent move from Koreatown to the more pastoral environs of Echo Park as the curatorial focus for its latest exhibition, Park... View details »
Park Life
Art
The Maize Project
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–5pm) @ Torrance Art Museum More times »
Free
The small but influential Torrance Art Museum simultaneously mounts three new solo exhibitions, united by highly stylized explorations of abstraction and color. The Maize Project,... View details »
Art
Christopher Pate
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–6pm) @ Jail Gallery More times »
Free
Christopher Pate is interested in the relationship between maps and landscapes, as well as the broader discourse between the real quality of a place and... View details »
Christopher Pate
Art
LA25 Half-Life
Wednesday Oct 15 (6–8pm) @ Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions More times »
Free
Rising stars Annie Lapin, Jeff Sheng, Cal Crawford, and Brenna Youngblood are among the 25 juror-selected artists that make up LA25 Half-Life, a group show... View details »
LA25 Half-Life
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hello Herman
Saturday Oct 11 (8pm) @ Edgemar Center for the Arts More times »
Norman Mailer's legacy lives on, not only in the minds and hearts of his global readership, but through the pen of his youngest son, John... View details »
Hello Herman
Art
Surface Sounding
Saturday Oct 11 (11am–6pm) @ See Line Gallery More times »
Free
Any viewer beholding Surface Sounding without background information would likely believe all the art was selected by a single gatekeeper, so cohesive and connected is... View details »
Surface Sounding
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Biagio Black
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–9pm) @ The Sunset More times »
Free
Once just a single-night charity event dedicated to a fashion staple, the Little Black Dress party has grown into a four-week tour of three cities.... View details »
Biagio Black
Art: Festival
Hollywould
Saturday Oct 11 @ Hollywood Blvd between Cahuenga and Orange More times »
Free
The 11th Freewaves media-arts festival, dubbed "Hollywould," is a kind of triple-dog dare to Tinseltown boulevardiers, challenging them to engage with the splashy, spiky world... View details »
Hollywould
Art: Festival
Pasadena Art Weekend
Saturday Oct 11 @ Old Town Pasadena More times »
Free
On Friday, the city's cultural institutions stay open late to kick off Pasadena Art Weekend. A free shuttle circulates from one spot to the next,... View details »
Pasadena Art Weekend
Art
Ken Price
Saturday Oct 11 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
Free
Ken Price is one of the world's most respected ceramicists, part of a small, but proud, posse of sculptors hell-bent on rehabilitating the medium's less-than-sophisticated... View details »
Ken Price
Art
Katina and Christa Zinner
Saturday Oct 11 @ James Coleman Gallery More times »
Free
The mother-daughter relationship is fraught with emotion and drama, and what better venue for exploring that tension than a two-woman exhibition of sculpture and painting?... View details »
Katina and Christa Zinner
Art
Gordy Grundy
Saturday Oct 11 @ Western Project More times »
Free
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website for a 21-week series... View details »
Gordy Grundy
Art
Red Forest
Saturday Oct 11 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery More times »
Free
Hot off the success of their individual Thinkspace exhibitions, Ekundayo and Johnny "KMNDZ" Rodriguez join forces for their first-ever collaborative collection at their favorite Silverlake... View details »
Red Forest
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Venice Beach Wines
Saturday Oct 11 (8am–11pm) @ Venice Beach Wines More times »
Venice's transformation from the sister nabe of Loisaida into Williamsburg West continues with the re-opening of Venice Beach Wines on the increasingly de-sketchified Rose Ave... View details »
Venice Beach Wines
Art: Photography
Deanna Templeton and Hadassah Emmerich
Saturday Oct 11 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art More times »
Free
Deanna Templeton didn't need to stray far from her SoCal roots to find inspiration for her engaging photographs. A product of Orange County, Templeton (the... View details »
Deanna Templeton and Hadassah Emmerich
Art
Daniel DeSure
Saturday Oct 11 (1–5pm) @ Found Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles-based artist/art producer Daniel DeSure not only creates photography, film, and new media, but he also founded the art production/design house Commonwealth last year... View details »
Daniel DeSure
Art
Raw Skies
Saturday Oct 11 (2–7pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art More times »
Free
Seven is a lucky number at Carmichael Gallery this month, as the curators carry out another dazzling, high-octane international group exhibition. Raw Skies presents a... View details »
Raw Skies
Art
Yoko Ono
Saturday Oct 11 @ One Colorado More times »
Free
It has been nearly 28 years since John Lennon's passing, but his quest for world peace lives on. Lennon's widow, noted artist Yoko Ono, continues... View details »
Yoko Ono
Art
Hans Burkhardt
Saturday Oct 11 (10am–5pm) @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts More times »
Free
In the years bracketing WWII, a great many artists were among those fleeing to US shores from the specter of Nazi Germany. In fine-art terms... View details »
Hans Burkhardt
Art: Discussion
Earworms
Saturday Oct 11 (noon–5pm) @ Pasadena Museum of California Art More times »
PMCA's Project Room is transformed into a beguiling labyrinth, addressing the elusiveness of memory and the neurobiological basis of thought, via Deborah Aschheim's installation Earworms.... View details »
Earworms