Events on Sunday, December 9
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ Electric Lodge
In a presentation honed over four years in undisclosed sites in Romania, Chicago, Berlin, and elsewhere, M.S. Garvey — by turns...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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,...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ The Troubadour
Fresh off their current tour, glitch-master Guillermo Scott Herren (aka Prefuse 73) and friends trip into the storied Troubador with bytes,...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ Laguna Art Museum
The culture of fear as it relates to mass consumption is ingrained in our social subconscious; and, of course, carnal and...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 12/ 9 @ Found Gallery
Eliza Geddes' new mixed-media sculptures, wall hangings, and innovative paintings bring a rough physicality to deconstructivism. Her unconventional use of found...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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,...
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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,...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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 —...
Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto
Sunday 12/ 9 @ Commissary Arts
While Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto are both Los Angeles-based artists working in the medium of drawing, the juxtaposition of their...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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....
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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....
Sunday 12/ 9 @ REDCAT
Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ Hammer Museum
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Los Angeles Poverty Department
Sunday 12/ 9 @ REDCAT
Since 1985, the Los Angeles Poverty Department has been committed to creating extraordinary, challenging performances that express the realities and hopes...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ Thinkspace Gallery
At Thinkspace Gallery's Snow Angels, audiences would be forgiven for thinking that a fleet of muses had landed in Sunset Junction,...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ Ark Theatre
Dickens' "Please sir, may I have some more?" meets Animal House's "Thank you sir, may I have another?" in A Christmas...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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...
SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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...
Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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...
