Events on Monday, December 3
A Century Ago: The Films of 1907
Monday 12/ 3 @ Linwood Dunn Theater
At the 20th century's turn, the still-new art of moving pictures was dismissed by many as a fly-by-night fad. Come 1907,...
Monday 12/ 3 @ REDCAT
East meets West-as-East as REDCAT reinvigorates the lost art of the benshi. Live speakers practicing interpretive vocal improvisation in sync with...
Monday 12/ 3 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Afro-pop-inspired rockers Vampire Weekend hit town tonight for a hyper-literate, Paul Simon-worshipping set of soon-to-be sing-along indie anthems. While the press...
Ongoing Events
Monday 12/ 3 @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
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,...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Monday 12/ 3 @ Materials & Applications
Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore...
Monday 12/ 3 @ Los Angeles Opera
Giacomo Puccini's four-act opera La Bohème has been immortalized in more films, songs, and remakes than any other work of its...
Monday 12/ 3 @ Los Angeles Public Library: Central Library
Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else —...
Monday 12/ 3 @ Various locations
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That,...
Monday 12/ 3 @ Pomona College Museum of Art
Victor Hugo once said that, in contrast to the sublime, the grotesque is the richest material that nature can offer art....
Monday 12/ 3 @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College
It's up for debate whether James Turrell is a sculptor, an architect, a light-and-space artist, or an earth-works artist. Whichever he...
Monday 12/ 3 @ Brickhouse Kitchen
Poet, artist, and amateur Buddhist Milo Martin claims to "write what I can't paint, and paint what I can't write," so...
Monday 12/ 3 @ Various locations
Steal a Pencil for Me is the improbable-but-true documentary about the love affair conducted between two prisoners of a Nazi concentration...
Monday 12/ 3 @ Spin Gallery
Venice's brand-new Spin Gallery merges fine and automotive art, showcasing promising new visual talents alongside rare and beautiful cars. Its latest...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Monday 12/ 3 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California...
Monday 12/ 3 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
A genre-bending thriller, Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva (1982) was among the first French films to herald the Cinéma du Look — the...
Monday 12/ 3 @ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling is MCASD's response to MOCA's 2005 exhibition Visual Music, a survey of the influence and/or direct...
Monday 12/ 3 @ Natural History Museum
Whether you cherish the memory of dueling dino skeletons from long-ago field trips, or a more recent late-night music show amongst...
Monday 12/ 3 @ Japanese American National Museum
Pop-culture empire Giant Robot began way back in 1994 as a zine, and has since grown to include a glossy magazine,...
