All events on Saturday October 25

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Music: Festival
Monster Massive
Saturday Oct 25 (7pm–4am) @ LA Sports Arena
Get reacquainted with your trick-or-treat spirit during the return of the frighteningly fantastic Monster Massive — the largest Halloween dance-music festival this side of the... View details »
Monster Massive
Art
Linda Besemer
Saturday Oct 25 (10am–6pm) @ Angles Gallery More times »
Free
Linda Besemer produces the kind of art that provokes people to solve the mystery of how she does it. Without divulging trade secrets, it has... View details »
Linda Besemer
Art: Photography
Ghost Polaroids
Saturday Oct 25 (7pm–midnight) @ Drkrm More times »
Opening
Free
For 15 years, in an old house on a sleepy hillside outside LA, a phalanx of residents, researchers, and TV producers have documented a recurring... View details »
Ghost Polaroids
Art: Photography
Grace Oh
Saturday Oct 25 @ Edgar Varela Fine Arts More times »
Opening
Free
Los Angeles photographer Grace Oh first grew passionate about capturing nudes when she began actively pursuing photography in her early twenties. After broadening her scope... View details »
Grace Oh
Art
Dear & Yonder
Saturday Oct 25 (6–10pm) @ New Image Art
Free
Surf culture's artistic luminaries unite to support Tiffany Campbell and Andria Lessner's film, Dear & Yonder, which chronicles the wave of female professional surfers contributing... View details »
Dear & Yonder
Performing Arts: Dance
José Limón Dance Company
Saturday Oct 25 (3 & 8pm) @ Los Angeles Theatre Center More times »
LATC's Face of the World Festival presents a rarefied dance experience as it celebrates the 100th birthday of icon José Limón. Disenchanted with what he... View details »
José Limón Dance Company
Music: Rock/Pop
Mountain Goats
Saturday Oct 25 (8pm) @ The Troubadour More times »
The Mountain Goats come to San Francisco this week as part of their US tour, entitled The Last Happy Night of Your Life. With over... View details »
Mountain Goats
Music: Experimental
USAISAMONSTER
Saturday Oct 25 (9pm) @ The Smell
Brooklyn duo USAISAMONSTER (pronounced as if spaces exist between the words) are seasoned veterans of the global basement/warehouse scene. More adventurous than many of their... View details »
USAISAMONSTER
Art
Bob Zoell
Saturday Oct 25 @ Wal-Art More times »
Free
Remember in LA Story when Steve Martin thought the LED signs on the freeway were speaking to him? The work in Bob Zoell's current show... View details »
Bob Zoell

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Ugo Wine Bar
Saturday Oct 25 (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 25 (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
Art
Mexican Calendar Girls
Saturday Oct 25 (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 25 (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 25 @ 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 25 (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
Art
Ultrasonic International III
Saturday Oct 25 (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 25 (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
Art
Martin Kersels
Saturday Oct 25 (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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Scribble Press
Saturday Oct 25 (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 25 (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 25 (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 25 (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
Art
Kyle Field
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Art
Josh Dorman
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Art
Amanda Ross-Ho
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Art
Josh Dorman, Carol Es, and Julie Speed
Saturday Oct 25 (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 25 (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
Art
Alexander Melamid
Saturday Oct 25 (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 25 (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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Antonio Pineda
Saturday Oct 25 (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 25 (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
John Bock
Saturday Oct 25 (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 25 (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
Art
Victor Gastelum
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Dennis Oppenheim
Saturday Oct 25 (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 25 @ 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 25 @ 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: Festival
Off-Axis
Saturday Oct 25 @ 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 25 (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 25 (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 25 (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 25 (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
Ai Yamaguchi
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–6pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery More times »
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 25 (10am–5pm) @ Otis College of Art and Design More times »
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
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Spider Pavilion
Saturday Oct 25 (4–9pm) @ Natural History Museum More times »
Hot on the, er, antennae of the Pavilion of Wings exhibition, the Natural History Museum now brings on the spiders. The arachnids crawl and climb... View details »
Spider Pavilion
Art
Miriam Wosk
Saturday Oct 25 (noon–6pm) @ Billy Shire Fine Arts More times »
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
Art
LA25 Half-Life
Saturday Oct 25 (noon–6pm) @ 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 25 (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
James Gobel
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–6pm) @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
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 25 @ Materials & Applications More times »
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
Art
Surface Sounding
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Art
Ken Price
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Gordy Grundy
Saturday Oct 25 @ 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 25 (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 25 (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
Anthony Goicolea
Saturday Oct 25 (10am–6pm) @ Sandroni Rey More times »
Free
Anthony Goicolea let his family albums guide his latest exhibition, Related III. The Cuban artist's photographs, drawings, and installations are spun from portraits of family... View details »
Anthony Goicolea
Art
Robbie Conal
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–6pm) @ Track 16 Gallery More times »
Free
Even Robbie Conal's most fervent admirers tend to see his work primarily through their car windows. His trademark posters — featuring his unique style of... View details »
Robbie Conal
Art
Richard Amend and Christopher Martin Hoff
Saturday Oct 25 (noon–5pm) @ Lawrence Asher Gallery More times »
Free
Considering the precision and mastery of detail in the work of Richard Amend and Christopher Martin Hoff, it should come as no surprise that both... View details »
Richard Amend and Christopher Martin Hoff
Art
Daniel DeSure
Saturday Oct 25 (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
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Speculations on the Expanded Field of Writing
Saturday Oct 25 (10:30am–10:30pm) @ REDCAT More times »
This two-day symposium explores writing that "in some manner exceeds the printed page," whether it exists on a screen, a wall, or on the tip... View details »
Speculations on the Expanded Field of Writing
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Resolution 3
Saturday Oct 25 @ Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions More times »
Free
LACE and the Pitzer College Media Studies Program host Resolution 3: Video Praxis in Global Spaces, comprising this weekend's multi-venue symposium, the traveling exhibition Narrowcast:... View details »
Resolution 3
Art
Analytic & Synthetic Pile-Up
Saturday Oct 25 (noon–5pm) @ Woodbury Hollywood Exhibitions More times »
Free
Woodbury University goes Hollywood — or at least goes to Hollywood — by inaugurating its new off-campus gallery space with Analytic & Synthetic Pile-Up. The... View details »
Analytic & Synthetic Pile-Up
Art
Raw Skies
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Wolfgang Tillmans
Saturday Oct 25 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects More times »
Free
Wolfgang Tillmans is like the Madonna of the art world: never afraid to change directions, reinvent himself, or throw in a surprise or two to... View details »
Wolfgang Tillmans
Art: Photography
Neal Spector
Saturday Oct 25 (10am–6pm) @ Guy Hepner Contemporary More times »
Free
In his previous life as a principal at a "Hollywood creative firm," Neal Spector was instrumental in enabling LA's obsession with labels. Now working as... View details »
Neal Spector
Music: Electronic
Girl Talk
Saturday Oct 25 (8pm) @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater More times »
It's likely that Pittsburgh never thought it would have a citizen described as a pioneer of "laptop rock," but Gregg Gillis (aka Girl Talk) has... View details »
Girl Talk
Film: Festival
Jules Verne Film Festival
Saturday Oct 25 (11am–11pm) @ The Edison More times »
Architect Andrew Meieran's redesign of the Edison, a lounge built in what was Downtown LA's first private power plant, is a spectacular testament to adaptive... View details »
Jules Verne Film Festival
Art
Asad Faulwell and Annie Buckley
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Art
Takako Yamaguchi
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Art
Yoko Ono
Saturday Oct 25 @ 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
Performing Arts: Dance
Nightspot
Saturday Oct 25 (7:30pm) @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion More times »
The trend of traditional arts being reimagined by contemporary genre-benders continues with this ballet from post-punk icon Elvis Costello. Making its West Coast debut, Miami... View details »
Nightspot
Art
Charlie Roberts
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Art
Hans Burkhardt
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Marco Brambilla
Saturday Oct 25 (10am–5:30pm) @ Christopher Grimes Gallery More times »
Free
Marco Brambilla's newest video pieces live up to his reputation for supersaturated maximalism, combining, recombining, randomizing, and manipulating found and sampled film footage into looped... View details »
Marco Brambilla
Art
Mear One
Saturday Oct 25 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
I'm not a racist but...
Saturday Oct 25 (8pm) @ The Actors' Gang Theatre More times »
Cynthia Ettinger acts as more of an editor/troupe leader than a writer/director in the Actors Gang's ongoing workshop production of its new work in progress.... View details »
Art: Discussion
Earworms
Saturday Oct 25 (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