Events on Sunday, January 27

Tongue & Groove

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

Tongue & Groove

Sunday 1/27 @ The Hotel Café

The first T&G of the new year features a reading from Aimee Bender, author of a coterie of critically acclaimed books.... 

First Sight Scene: New Works by Southern California Filmmakers

Film: Shorts

First Sight Scene

Sunday 1/27 @ Egyptian Theatre

Established in 1992 to showcase new work from Southern Californian artists, the annual First Sight Scene explores film that exists between... 

<em>Gozu</em> (2003)

Film

Gozu

Sunday 1/27 @ The Silent Movie Theatre

Takashi Miike's jarring phantasmagoria of Yakuza and horror, Gozu is not for the queasy or the quaint. It begins simply: Mafia... 

Holocaust Remembrance Day: <em>Primo Levi's Journey </em>(2006)<em> </em>

Film: Documentary

Primo Levi's Journey

Sunday 1/27 @ Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles

For International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Cultural Institute screens Davide Ferrario's documentary, Primo Levi's Journey. The film retraces the Italian... 

<em>Young Frankenstein</em> (1974)

Film

Young Frankenstein

Sunday 1/27 @ Aero Theatre

Writer-director Mel Brooks' revisionist shtick peaks in his send-up of monster movies, Young Frankenstein. Brooks ambushes the genre with his trademark... 

<em>A Taste of Honey</em> (1961)

Film

A Taste of Honey

Sunday 1/27 @ Hammer Museum

In its day, the British New Wave depicted mid-century England's working class with an authentic blue-collar realism. For a supreme example... 

White Williams w/ Magic Bullets, the Blakes

Music

White Williams

Sunday 1/27 @ The Echo & Echoplex

Part Time Punks welcomes New York-based White Williams to the Echo tonight, flaunting flashy style and a studious love of classic,... 

Ongoing Events

David Sandlin:  <i>Swamp Preacher</i> & Martha Rich: <I>Imitation Snakeskin Superstore</i>

Art

David Sandlin & Martha Rich

Sunday 1/27 @ La Luz de Jesus

While gallery owner Billy Shire's other endeavor, upscale Culver City salon Billy Shire Fine Arts, exhibits a collection of David Sandlin's... 

<em>Projection</em>

Art

Projection

Sunday 1/27 @ [delete]

This private-residence-turned-gallery's latest offering, Projection, interprets the titular concept both literally and figuratively in an ambitious multimedia group show. The works... 

Victor Burgin: <I>The Little House</i>

Art

Victor Burgin

Sunday 1/27 @ 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... 

Art

Neil Campbell and Peter Schuyff

Sunday 1/27 @ The Balmoral

This Venice Beach gallery's latest endeavor juxtaposes the work of Dutch artist Peter Schuyff and Vancouver-based Neil Campbell. Schuyff's paintings are... 

Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Sunday 1/27 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... 

<em>Victory</em>

Theatre

Victory

Sunday 1/27 @ The Fountain Theatre

South African playwright Athol Fugard's work demonstrates the power of theatre to incite social transformation. Fugard's plays have addressed the subject... 

<i>Steep</i>

Film

Steep

Sunday 1/27 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

Like Werner Herzog's slo-mo documentary on ski-flying The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974), Steep conveys the breathless exhilaration of an... 

<em>Freeze Frame: Five Decades of Photographs by Douglas Kirkland</em>

Art: Photography

Freeze Frame

Sunday 1/27 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides... 

Cassandra C. Jones: <I>Photos Taken</i>

Art

Cassandra C. Jones

Sunday 1/27 @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai

  Don't let the title fool you: for her second solo effort at Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Cassandra C. Jones isn't just... 

James Turrell: <em>Dividing the Light</em>

Art

James Turrell

Sunday 1/27 @ 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... 

<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>

Art

SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s

Sunday 1/27 @ 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... 

Choi Jeong-Hwa: <I>Truth</i>

Art

Choi Jeong-Hwa

Sunday 1/27 @ REDCAT

Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,... 

Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions

Art

Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions

Sunday 1/27 @ Various Chinatown galleries

As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art... 

artLA

Art

artLA

Sunday 1/27 @ Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Take a deep breath, grab a map of exhibitors, and dive headfirst into this year's artLA (not to be confused with... 

<em>Lights! Camera! Glamour!</em>

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Sunday 1/27 @ California Heritage Museum

George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups,... 

<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Sunday 1/27 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... 

Blue13 Dance Company: <em>Bollywood Cabaret</em>

Dance

Bollywood Cabaret

Sunday 1/27 @ Highways Performance Space

Venice-based Blue13 adds a little spice to its artistic license for this weekend's program of contemporary Bollywood dance pieces. Several original... 

Art

Los Angeles Art Show

Sunday 1/27 @ Santa Monica Air Center, Barker Hangar

They say artLA is the "fun" one, and the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA)'s Los Angeles Art Show is the "mature"... 

<em>Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film</em>

Film

Alfred Hitchcock

Sunday 1/27 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his... 

Francis Al&#255;s: <I>Politics of Rehearsal</I>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Sunday 1/27 @ Hammer Museum

Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never... 

<em>The Imaginary 20th Century</em>

Art

The Imaginary 20th Century

Sunday 1/27 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art... 

LA Opera presents Wagner's <em>Tristan und Isolde</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Tristan und Isolde

Sunday 1/27 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Considered one of the world's greatest operas, Richard Wagner's 1857 Tristan und Isolde sprang from the composer's own torrid love life.... 

Steve Gullick: <em>Tenebrous</em>

Art: Photography

Steve Gullick

Sunday 1/27 @ Found Gallery

<em>Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson</em>

Theatre

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Sunday 1/27 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Center Theatre Group's world-premiere musical, busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by... 

<em>Girly Group Show</em>

Art

Girly Group Show

Sunday 1/27 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

This exhibition at Silverlake's favorite gallery/alt-culture hangout features the work of Noel ILL, Jenny Mollen, and Jessica Garrison among a sizeable... 

<em>First Generation: Art in Claremont 1907-1957</em>

Art

First Generation

Sunday 1/27 @ Claremont Museum of Art

Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than... 

Materials & Applications: <em>Density Fields</em>

Art

Materials & Applications: Density Fields

Sunday 1/27 @ 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... 

<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Sunday 1/27 @ 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,...