Events on Sunday, November 2

Dwight Trible: Jazz on the Sacred Side

Music

Dwight Trible

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Jazz Bakery

Today's Jazz Bakery showcase features the incomparable sounds of legendary LA jazz vocalist Dwight Trible, a man whose collaborations include sessions... 

Leslie S. Klinger: <em>The New Annotated Dracula</em>

Books: Reading

The New Annotated Dracula

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Diesel, A Bookstore

Noted literary detective Leslie S. Klinger may live on the sunny shores of Malibu, but his work resides in... 

Part Time Punks feat. Crystal Stilts w/ Cause Co-Motion!

Music

Crystal Stilts

Sunday 11/ 2 @ The Echo & Echoplex

The catchy psych-pop ditties of Brooklyn's Crystal Stilts could have been recorded in 1966 outside a 13th Floor Elevators show. Of... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

The Art of War

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Art: Photography

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Face of the World Festival 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

FOTW 08

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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>The School of Night</em>

Theatre

The School of Night

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

<em>Spring Awakening</em>

Theatre

Spring Awakening

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Ahmanson Theatre

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

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

Special Event

Earworms

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

2008 California Biennial

Art

2008 California Biennial

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Sunday 11/ 2 @ The Getty Center

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

Meredith Monk and Ann Hamilton: <em>Songs of Ascension</em>

Theatre

Songs of Ascension

Sunday 11/ 2 @ REDCAT

Avant-garde singer and composer Meredith Monk's extended vocal techniques obliterated the boundaries of language, creating otherworldly landscapes awash in grunts and... 

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

Art

Eddy Sykes

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Materials & Applications

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

<em>LA25 Half-Life</em>

Art

LA25 Half-Life

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

AFI Fest

Festival: Performing Arts

AFI Fest

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Arclight Hollywood

The AFI Fest continues its yearly assault on the Arclight with a truly impressive lineup for 2008. Among the highlights are... 

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

Art

Josh Dorman

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Scribble Press

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

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

Art

All of This is Melting Away

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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>Seeing Things: Ghost Polaroids</em>

Art: Photography

Ghost Polaroids

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Drkrm

For 15 years, in an old house on a sleepy hillside outside LA, a phalanx of residents, researchers, and TV producers... 

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

Art: Photography

Grace Oh

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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.... 

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

Fashion/Style

Antonio Pineda

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Fall 2008 Brewery ArtWalk

Festival: Performing Arts

Brewery ArtWalk

Sunday 11/ 2 @ The Brewery Art Complex

Set on the former site of the Eastside and Pabst Blue Ribbon factories, the Brewery is a mecca for LA art-lovers.... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Santa Barbara Off-Axis 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

Off-Axis

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

Although our neighbor to the north is typically known for its stellar views and celebrity mansions, Santa Barbara has a stash... 

John Bock: <em>Palms</em>

Art

John Bock

Sunday 11/ 2 @ REDCAT

John Bock's unpredictable performances may seem like exercises in artistic capriciousness, but his loud costumes and absurd statements conceal his skill... 

Yoko Ono: <em>Wish Tree</em>

Art

Yoko Ono

Sunday 11/ 2 @ One Colorado

It has been nearly 28 years since John Lennon's passing, but his quest for world peace lives on. Lennon's widow, noted... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

In Focus: The Landscape

Sunday 11/ 2 @ 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... 

Theatre

I'm not a racist but...

Sunday 11/ 2 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre

Cynthia Ettinger acts as more of an editor/troupe leader than a writer/director in the Actors Gang's ongoing workshop production of its... 

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

Art

Gordy Grundy

Sunday 11/ 2 @ Western Project

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