opens saturdayArtMarilyn will be there. Jackie and...

opens saturday

Art

Marilyn will be there. Jackie and Elvis too. Add some flowers, a little disaster, a few Campbell’s Soup cans and you’ve got the makings of a colorful show that could only be about Andy Warhol. The highly anticipated “Andy Warhol Retrospective” arrives at MOCA on Saturday for a three-month stay after a hugely popular run at London’s Tate Gallery. Billed as the first comprehensive exhibition of Warhol’s work presented here in more than 30 years, the extensive survey will feature more than 200 paintings, drawings and sculptures that bridge the worlds of commercial and fine art.

“Andy Warhol Retrospective,” MOCA at California Plaza, 250 S. Grand Ave., downtown L.A. Saturday to Aug. 18. Special hours: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursdays, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sundays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. $12, weekdays; $17, weekends; ages 12 and younger, $6 and $8. Timed and dated tickets required. (213) 626-6222, or Ticketmaster, (213) 365-3500.

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sunday & monday

Jazz/Reggae

The 16th annual UCLA JazzReggae Festival will keep things simple. Jazz--Jimmy Smith, Christian McBride, Phil Ranelin & Tribe Renaissance, Kahil El Zabar’s Ritual Trio with Pharaoh Sanders, Arkestra Clandestin and We-Bop--on Sunday. Reggae--Barrington Levy, Seal Paul, Benji Myaz, Notch, Junior Kelly and others--on Monday. Refuel at an international foods and crafts marketplace either day.

UCLA JazzReggae Festival, Drake Stadium, UCLA Campus, 405 Hilgard Ave., Westwood, Sunday and Monday, noon to 7 p.m. $5 for Sunday; $10 for Monday; (310) 281-1150.

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all weekend

Theater

Athol Fugard will direct the West Coast premiere of his new drama “Sorrows and Rejoicings.” Like Fugard’s best work, the play interweaves the political with the personal. Set in his Karoo homeland, it explores the legacy of apartheid on a white South African poet--exiled for speaking out against the racist regime--and on two women in his life, one white, one black. The cast includes Brienin Nequa Bryant, John Glover, Judith Light and Cynthia Martells.

“Sorrows and Rejoicings,” Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown L.A. Opens today. Runs Tuesdays to Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. Also June 26, 2:30 p.m.; June 30, 2:30 p.m. only. Ends June 30. $30 to $44. (213) 628-2772.

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friday to sunday

Movies

The American Cinematheque salutes one of the maverick director of the 1950s with the seven-film series Ride Lonesome: A Tribute to Budd Boetticher and the Randolph Scott Westerns. Boetticher, who died in November at age 85, had trained as a bullfighter in Mexico before moving to Hollywood, where he made his mark with half a dozen western morality plays that starred Scott as an archetypal loner seeking justice.

Ride Lonesome: A Tribute to Budd Boetticher and the Randolph Scott Westerns, Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. “7 Men From Now” and “The Tall T,” Friday, 7:30 p.m. “The Bullfighter and the Lady,” Saturday, 5 p.m. “Decision at Sundown” and “Buchanan Rides Alone,” Saturday, 8 p.m. “Ride Lonesome” and “Comanche Station,” Sunday, 5 p.m. $7 to $8. (323) 466-3456.

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saturday & sunday

Museum

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County says don’t smash that spider. Bring it in to their first-ever California spider survey. Just coax any local arachnid--alive--into a plastic bottle and bring it to the museum’s 16th annual Insect Fair this weekend. While you’re there, check out the displays of living and preserved insects, plus bug art, books and jewelry.

Insect Fair, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., L.A., Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Museum admission, $2 to $8; children younger than 5, free. (213) 763-3552.

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saturday

Opera

Italian composer Luciano Berio has written a new ending for Puccini’s “Turandot,” the portion the composer left undone at his death. This new resolution, which replaces the standard one written by Franco Alfano, will be heard for the first time in an opera house when Los Angeles Opera unveils its new “Turandot” with a cast including Audrey Stottler, Franco Farina, Hei-Kyung Hong and Rosendo Flores.

“Turandot,” Los Angeles Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown L.A., Saturday, 7:30 p.m. $34 to $165. (213) 365-3500. Subsequent performances through June 16.

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monday

Pop Music

The mini Swedish Invasion that looked like a pop oddity a few months ago is suddenly gathering force, having linked up with the larger rising rock tide of the return-to-raw represented by the Strokes, the White Stripes, et al. The Hives are riding that wave onto radio and into the hearts of the new garage-rock generation. Their Roxy show figures to be a wall-rattling introduction.

The Hives, the Roxy, 9009 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, Monday, 8 p.m. Also Tuesday. (310) 278-9457. Both shows sold out.