Events on Sunday, November 16

Phyllis Chen

Music: Classical

Phyllis Chen

Sunday 11/16 @ Residence for a Briard

Offering a welcome respite from the traditional concert hall, Whitney Sander's "Hybrid House" approach to pre-fabricated housing combines a physical manifestation... 

Part Time Punks Festival feat. A Certain Ratio and Pylon

Music

Part Time Punks Festival

Sunday 11/16 @ The Echo & Echoplex

Tonight, Part Time Punks — a weekly parade of punk, post-punk, new wave, and indie-pop bands — holds the first annual... 

Beyond Baroque presents the Marathon Harvest Moon Bash

Party

Marathon Harvest Moon Bash

Sunday 11/16 @ Beyond Baroque

Beyond Baroque has been fostering alternative avenues to artistic success since 1968, when the Venice Beach performance space and literary archive... 

Ongoing Events

Deborah Aschheim and Lisa Mezzacappa: <em>Earworms</em>

Special Event

Earworms

Sunday 11/16 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art

PMCA's Project Room is transformed into a beguiling labyrinth, addressing the elusiveness of memory and the neurobiological basis of thought, via... 

Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>

Art

Mark Bradford

Sunday 11/16 @ Steve Turner Contemporary

Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious... 

Ismail Farouk: <em>Cancelled Without Prejudice</em>

Art

Ismail Farouk

Sunday 11/16 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture

Johannesburg-based urban geographer and artist Ismail Farouk offers a multimedia overview of his recent work in the second installment of the... 

<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Sunday 11/16 @ California Heritage Museum

Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The... 

<em>Pour Me Some Smoke</em>

Art

Pour Me Some Smoke

Sunday 11/16 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art

Carmichael Gallery assembles an international gang of five figurative painters whose obsessive magic realism reads like an alt-culture Forum Gallery exhibition.... 

Silverlake Art, Craft & Vintage Flea Market

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Art, Craft & Vintage Flea Market

Sunday 11/16 @ Citibank Parking Lot (corner of Silverlake Blvd)

East Side shoppers seeking the offbeat were rewarded last holiday season, as the gals at Ghettogloss heard their flea-market pleas. Back... 

<em>The Art of War: American Posters from WWI and WWII</em>

Art

The Art of War

Sunday 11/16 @ Norton Simon Museum

When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much... 

<em>Spring Awakening</em>

Theatre

Spring Awakening

Sunday 11/16 @ Ahmanson Theatre

It's easy to see why Spring Awakening snagged eight Tony Awards last year, marking what has been heralded as the new... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Sunday 11/16 @ Norton Simon Museum

This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at... 

Louise Bourgeois

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Sunday 11/16 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

Louise Bourgeois' deeply personal art combines an in-your-face sexuality with disturbing, even terrifying, imagery of trespassed flesh and violated privacy. Yet... 

UCLA Live's International Theatre Festival: Robert Lepage/Ex Machina: <em>The Blue Dragon</em>

Theatre

Robert Lepage/Ex Machina

Sunday 11/16 @ Freud Playhouse

Versed in virtually every aspect of theatrical design, direction, performance, and writing, Robert Lepage is one of the world's most dynamic... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Sunday 11/16 @ 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>The School of Night</em>

Theatre

The School of Night

Sunday 11/16 @ Mark Taper Forum

Peter Whelan's latest work, The School of Night, cleverly glides between the modes of traditional murder mystery and avant-garde theatre. As... 

Eddy Sykes: <em>Yakuza Lou</em>

Art

Eddy Sykes

Sunday 11/16 @ Materials & Applications

First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &... 

P-Jay Fidler and Jason Houchen

Art

P-Jay Fidler and Jason Houchen

Sunday 11/16 @ La Luz de Jesus

Art Center alum P-Jay Fidler's works reflect a heady amalgam of artistic influences, including naturalism, surrealism, popular illustration, and modern graphic... 

<em>In It Together</em>

Art

In It Together

Sunday 11/16 @ Tinlark Gallery

In It Together is the meta-title for a pair of simultaneous collaborative exhibitions: Matthew Rodriguez and Nicholas Bohac's Drill, Baby, Drill!... 

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Art: Photography

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Sunday 11/16 @ G2 Gallery

Photographer and environmentalist Robert Glenn Ketchum makes landscape images, but this isn't Ansel Adams we're talking about here. The 38-year-old UCLA... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Sunday 11/16 @ Scribble Press

Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with... 

Ad&eacute;s and Berlioz

Music: Classical

Thomas Adés

Sunday 11/16 @ Disney Concert Hall

Hector Berlioz died in 1869, and Thomas Adés is still, at least by classical music standards, quite young, but both have... 

<em>All of This is Melting Away</em>

Art

All of This is Melting Away

Sunday 11/16 @ Royal/T

Director of New York's Greene Naftali Gallery, Jay Sanders steps into cafe/shop/gallery Royal/T to curate this group show of works from... 

<em>LA25 Half-Life</em>

Art

LA25 Half-Life

Sunday 11/16 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)

Rising stars Annie Lapin, Jeff Sheng, Cal Crawford, and Brenna Youngblood are among the 25 juror-selected artists that make up LA25... 

Grace Oh: <em>Humanature II</em>

Art: Photography

Grace Oh

Sunday 11/16 @ Edgar Varela Fine Arts

Los Angeles photographer Grace Oh first grew passionate about capturing nudes when she began actively pursuing photography in her early twenties.... 

Vermeer's <em>A Lady Writing</em>

Art

Vermeer's A Lady Writing

Sunday 11/16 @ Norton Simon Museum

It's not often that Angelenos have the chance to examine an original painting by Dutch Baroque master Johannes Vermeer. His surviving... 

2008 California Biennial

Art

2008 California Biennial

Sunday 11/16 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Sunday 11/16 @ 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... 

<em>Xanadu</em>

Theatre

Xanadu

Sunday 11/16 @ La Jolla Playhouse

When it comes to '80s nostalgia, Olivia Newton-John guilty-pleasure juggernaut Xanadu has it all: leg-warmers, roller skates, blue eye shadow, men... 

Face of the World Festival 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

FOTW 08

Sunday 11/16 @ Los Angeles Theatre Center

For the second year in a row, the New LATC concocts an enthralling admixture of theatre, dance, and performance that brings... 

<em>Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda</em>

Fashion/Style

Antonio Pineda

Sunday 11/16 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show... 

<em>The Little Dog Laughed</em>

Theatre

The Little Dog Laughed

Sunday 11/16 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre

Hollywood and homophobia share the bill in The Little Dog Laughed, a comedy about Tinseltown hypocrisy and the veil of lies... 

<em>Within Four Miles: The World of Josh Dorman</em>

Art

Josh Dorman

Sunday 11/16 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum

Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as... 

Vegan Thanksgiving Cooking Class

Food/Wine

Vegan Thanksgiving Cooking Class

Sunday 11/16 @ Spork Foods Home Kitchen

There's no need for vegans to feel left out this Thanksgiving season with the Spork sisters on hand. Jenny, a trained... 

<em>Song of Extinction</em>

Theatre

Song of Extinction

Sunday 11/16 @ The Ford Theater

[Inside] the Ford's New Plays Series makes use of the intimate theatre under the venue's more familiar outdoor setting during the... 

<em>In Focus: The Landscape</em>

Art: Photography

In Focus: The Landscape

Sunday 11/16 @ The Getty Center

Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In... 

<em>Bronx Zoo</em>

Art

Bronx Zoo

Sunday 11/16 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

Downtown's La Cita Bar has hosted Ghettogloss Gallery's Bronx Zoo each Saturday since the start of June, inspiring artists to render... 

<em>Fortuna Rising: Gordy Grundy is the Messenger</em>

Art

Gordy Grundy

Sunday 11/16 @ Western Project

The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...