Events on Sunday, December 9
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- Old Boy
- @ The Silent Movie Theatre
- At once violent and sensitive, the watershed film Old Boy attracted both acclaim and fury while shifting attention to South Korean... View details »
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- Shag
- @ Laguna Art Museum
- The culture of fear as it relates to mass consumption is ingrained in our social subconscious; and, of course, carnal and... View details »
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- M.S. Garvey
- @ Electric Lodge
- In a presentation honed over four years in undisclosed sites in Romania, Chicago, Berlin, and elsewhere, M.S. Garvey — by turns... View details »
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- A Christmas Story
- @ Egyptian Theatre
- A Christmas TV staple, Bob Clark's A Christmas Story (1983) follows everychild Ralphie Parker's dream of receiving a carbine-action Red Ryder... View details »
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- More Flavor: Fair
- Craftsmas
- @ Bang Comedy Theatre
- Leave the glue gun at home and head over to the Fake Gallery's very real all-day drink-and-shop event. Get the rest... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Prefuse 73
- @ The Troubadour
- Fresh off their current tour, glitch-master Guillermo Scott Herren (aka Prefuse 73) and friends trip into the storied Troubador with bytes,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- Tongue & Groove
- @ The Hotel Café
- This month's Tongue & Groove has a roster made up entirely of Latino authors, performers, and spoken-word artists. Perhaps one of... View details »
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- Dharma River
- @ Norton Simon Museum
- Part one of acclaimed cinematographer and director John Bush's Yatra Trilogy, Dharma River: Journey of a Thousand Buddhas is a lush,... View details »
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- Francis Alÿs
- @ Hammer Museum
- Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Local Story
- @ Theatre of NOTE
- Set over the course of two balmy days in August, theatre of NOTE's latest production revolves around the emotional cyclones stirred... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Los Angeles Poverty Department
- @ REDCAT
- Since 1985, the Los Angeles Poverty Department has been committed to creating extraordinary, challenging performances that express the realities and hopes... View details »
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- James Turrell
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Actors' Gang Holiday Show
- @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
- Ever since Tim Robbins founded the Actors' Gang in 1981, these motley hoodlums have churned out award-winning dramas, capers, and comedies... View details »
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- Treasures from the Vault
- @ 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... View details »
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- SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Julius Shulman
- @ Los Angeles Public Library
- Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else —... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Opera
- La Bohème
- @ 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... View details »
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- Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
- @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
- One of three new exhibitions on view this fall at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, vinyl-obsessed group show Beyond Ultraman... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Victor Burgin
- @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
- The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François... View details »
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- Sandow Birk
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Grand Delusion
- @ The Lost Studio
- Given the topsy-turvy nature of current geopolitics, the idea of a global conflict being instigated by a cabal of petty, puerile... View details »
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- Stan's Cafe
- @ Skirball Cultural Center
- In Of All the People in All the World: The Americas, UK theatre company Stan's Cafe collects 300 million grains of... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Christmas Twist
- @ Ark Theatre
- Dickens' "Please sir, may I have some more?" meets Animal House's "Thank you sir, may I have another?" in A Christmas... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- La Vida Lowrider
- @ Petersen Automotive Museum
- The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... View details »
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- Milo Martin
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cry-Baby
- @ La Jolla Playhouse
- We've entered the John Waters age. A Broadway musical adaptation of Hairspray and a subsequent cinematic "re-adaptation" has made the legendary... View details »
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- Snow Angels
- @ Thinkspace Gallery
- At Thinkspace Gallery's Snow Angels, audiences would be forgiven for thinking that a fleet of muses had landed in Sunset Junction,... View details »
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- Giant Robot Biennale
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Choi Jeong-Hwa
- @ REDCAT
- Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,... View details »
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- Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto
- @ Commissary Arts
- While Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto are both Los Angeles-based artists working in the medium of drawing, the juxtaposition of their... View details »
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- Iva Gueorguieva
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Soundwaves
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- LA Physical Theatre Festival
- @ Art/Works Theatre
- Channeling the Chaplins and Keatons of Hollywood yesteryear, LAPT's inaugural festival salutes the not-so-subtle, yet supremely precise art of physical theatre.... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Benedictus
- @ The New LATC
- San Francisco-based Golden Thread Productions presents Benedictus, a transcultural tale of reunion and intrigue. In the play, two men from divergent... View details »
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- Materials & Applications: Density Fields
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Discussion
- Nicole Cohen
- @ The Getty Center
- Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... View details »
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- Eliza Geddes
- @ Found Gallery
- Eliza Geddes' new mixed-media sculptures, wall hangings, and innovative paintings bring a rough physicality to deconstructivism. Her unconventional use of found... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- My Kid Could Paint That
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating
- @ Pounder-Koné Art Space
- When not hurting bad guys on FX's The Shield, actress CCH Pounder works alongside her husband Boubacar Koné, developing the Boribana... View details »
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- Jordin Isip & Jason Houchen
- @ La Luz de Jesus
- Brooklyn-based illustrator and mixed-media painter Jordin Isip uses collage as his primary medium. This eclectic approach serves both as a literal... View details »
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- Film
- Diva 25th Anniversary
- @ 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... View details »
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