All events on Sunday January 27

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Art
First Generation
Sunday Jan 27 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art More times »
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than some great old houses... View details »
First Generation
Film
Young Frankenstein
Sunday Jan 27 (7:30pm) @ 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 mix of raunchiness, madcap... View details »
Young Frankenstein
Film
A Taste of Honey
Sunday Jan 27 (7pm) @ 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 of the style, catch... View details »
A Taste of Honey
Film
Gozu
Sunday Jan 27 (9:30pm) @ 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 stooge Minami is assigned... View details »
Gozu
Film: Documentary
Primo Levi's Journey
Sunday Jan 27 (6pm) @ Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles
Free
For International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Cultural Institute screens Davide Ferrario's documentary, Primo Levi's Journey. The film retraces the Italian luminary's post-Auschwitz odyssey back... View details »
Primo Levi's Journey
Film: Shorts
First Sight Scene
Sunday Jan 27 (7pm) @ Egyptian Theatre
Established in 1992 to showcase new work from Southern Californian artists, the annual First Sight Scene explores film that exists between states, whether it blends... View details »
First Sight Scene
Performing Arts: Spoken Word
Tongue & Groove
Sunday Jan 27 (6–7:30pm) @ 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. Her most recent, a... View details »
Tongue & Groove
Music: Rock/Pop
White Williams
Sunday Jan 27 (8:30pm) @ The Echo
Part Time Punks welcomes New York-based White Williams to the Echo tonight, flaunting flashy style and a studious love of classic, funky-town guitar in support... View details »
White Williams

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Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Sunday Jan 27 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art More times »
Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments historicizes the "evolution"... View details »
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Sunday Jan 27 @ Various locations More times »
Free
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That, Amir Bar-Lev documents the... View details »
My Kid Could Paint That
Art: Architecture/Design
Victor Burgin
Sunday Jan 27 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture More times »
The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François de Bastide's 1758 novella... View details »
Victor Burgin
Art
Francis Alÿs
Sunday Jan 27 (11am–5pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never quite strips: these are... View details »
Francis Alÿs
Art
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Sunday Jan 27 (10am–10pm) @ Materials & Applications More times »
Free
Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore the artful use of... View details »
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Art
Los Angeles Art Show
Sunday Jan 27 @ Santa Monica Air Center, Barker Hangar More times »
They say artLA is the "fun" one, and the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA)'s Los Angeles Art Show is the "mature" one. This holds true,... View details »
Art
Choi Jeong-Hwa
Sunday Jan 27 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture, and ridicules the preciousness... View details »
Choi Jeong-Hwa
Film
Steep
Sunday Jan 27 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre More times »
Like Werner Herzog's slo-mo documentary on ski-flying The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974), Steep conveys the breathless exhilaration of an extreme sport: big-mountain skiing.... View details »
Steep
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Sunday Jan 27 (10am–6pm) @ Peterson Automotive Museum More times »
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the need for expressing cultural... View details »
La Vida Lowrider
Art
Cassandra C. Jones
Sunday Jan 27 (11am–6pm) @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai More times »
Free
... n't let the title fool you: for her second solo effort at Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Cassandra C. Jones isn't just offering viewers another photography... View details »
Cassandra C. Jones
Art
David Sandlin & Martha Rich
Sunday Jan 27 (noon–6pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
While gallery owner Billy Shire's other endeavor, upscale Culver City salon Billy Shire Fine Arts, exhibits a collection of David Sandlin's large-scale paintings, Silverlake's edgier... View details »
David Sandlin & Martha Rich
Art: Photography
Steve Gullick
Sunday Jan 27 (1–5pm) @ Found Gallery More times »
Free
Steve Gullick
Performing Arts: Dance
Bollywood Cabaret
Sunday Jan 27 (2pm) @ Highways Performance Space More times »
Venice-based Blue13 adds a little spice to its artistic license for this weekend's program of contemporary Bollywood dance pieces. Several original works in Bollywood-Tech, the... View details »
Bollywood Cabaret
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
Sunday Jan 27 (noon–6pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his films took hundreds of... View details »
Alfred Hitchcock
Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Sunday Jan 27 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups, "The grand seigneur of... View details »
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Art: Photography
Freeze Frame
Sunday Jan 27 (noon–6pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides shooting spools of film... View details »
Freeze Frame
Performing Arts: Theatre
Victory
Sunday Jan 27 (2pm) @ The Fountain Theatre More times »
South African playwright Athol Fugard's work demonstrates the power of theatre to incite social transformation. Fugard's plays have addressed the subject of Apartheid with remarkable... View details »
Victory
Performing Arts: Opera
Tristan und Isolde
Sunday Jan 27 (4am) @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion More times »
Considered one of the world's greatest operas, Richard Wagner's 1857 Tristan und Isolde sprang from the composer's own torrid love life. Wagner composed the piece... View details »
Tristan und Isolde
Performing Arts: Theatre
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Sunday Jan 27 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre More times »
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Center Theatre Group's world-premiere musical, busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by its emo-influenced rock score,... View details »
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Art
Girly Group Show
Sunday Jan 27 (noon–5pm) @ Ghettogloss More times »
Free
This exhibition at Silverlake's favorite gallery/alt-culture hangout features the work of Noel ILL, Jenny Mollen, and Jessica Garrison among a sizeable roster of talented lady... View details »
Girly Group Show
Art
Neil Campbell and Peter Schuyff
Sunday Jan 27 (11am–6pm) @ The Balmoral More times »
Free
This Venice Beach gallery's latest endeavor juxtaposes the work of Dutch artist Peter Schuyff and Vancouver-based Neil Campbell. Schuyff's paintings are equal parts Surreal and... View details »
Art
The Imaginary 20th Century
Sunday Jan 27 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art presents 2,200 images from... View details »
The Imaginary 20th Century
Art
artLA
Sunday Jan 27 (noon–6pm) @ Santa Monica Civic Auditorium More times »
Take a deep breath, grab a map of exhibitors, and dive headfirst into this year's artLA (not to be confused with the Los Angeles Art... View details »
artLA
Art
Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
Sunday Jan 27 @ Various Chinatown galleries More times »
Free
As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art galleries, many of which... View details »
Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
Art
Projection
Sunday Jan 27 @ [delete] More times »
Free
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 probe the idea of... View details »
Projection
Art
James Turrell
Sunday Jan 27 (10am–8pm) @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College More times »
Free
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 is, the transcendent, full-body... View details »
James Turrell
More Flavor: City Gem
Vinum Populi
Sunday Jan 27 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Vinum Populi, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one key... View details »
Vinum Populi