Everyone loves an outlaw, and Robert Williams just happens to be the most celebrated one in the art world. Luckily, you can learn even more about him this Wednesday at LACMA. The documentary Robert Williams: Mr. Bitchin’, will be unveiled for a one-night only showing, benefiting its Prints and Drawings Council.

The movie recounts Williams’ emergence from humble beginnings in hotrods and the Zap Comix collective, to his surfacing as a celebrated artist. What became fifteen years in the making has resulted in an irreverent and comical look at all of the things that are so right about contemporary American art. The audience gets an inside look at Williams’ background, from his 1979 book The Lowbrow Art of Robt. Williams (which brought the term “lowbrow” into the fine arts world), to his work on Guns n’ Roses album covers, and the founding of Juxtapoz magazine. The film also features never-before-seen interviews with California luminaries Ed Roth, Don Ed Hardy, and Walter Hopps. But best of all is that Williams’ himself will be on hand after the screening for a Q&A session led by Coagula Art Journal founder, Mat Gleason.

It has been a year of achievements for Williams, as this year’s recipient of the Whitney biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the subject of a recent show entitled “Conceptual Realism in the Service of the Hypothetical” at the famed Tony Shafrazi Gallery.  And chances are things will just keep getting better.

Any Minxes unfortunate enough to miss this screening will have to wait for the films theatrical release this fall. And this will definitely be worth the wait.

Robert Williams: Mr. Bitchin’ is this Wednesday, June 16 at 7 p.m. LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd. (323) 857-6010. Tickets $15