Events on Monday, November 3

Once Upon a Time in the West <em>(C'era una volta il West)</em>

Film

Once Upon a Time in the West

Monday 11/ 3 @ Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum

Tonight, film preservation expert Barry Allen discusses the restoration of Sergio Leone's 1968 C'era una volta il West, a lost masterpiece... 

Parts & Labor w/ Gowns and Terrors

Music: Experimental

Parts & Labor

Monday 11/ 3 @ The Smell

Brooklyn noise rockers Parts & Labor never stray far from the formula — dense layers of scabrous noise coating the band's... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art: Photography

In Focus: The Landscape

Monday 11/ 3 @ 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>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Monday 11/ 3 @ Norton Simon Museum

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

Santa Barbara Off-Axis 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

Off-Axis

Monday 11/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

Yoko Ono

Monday 11/ 3 @ 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... 

WEAVE! Monday Night Residency at The Echo

Music

WEAVE!

Monday 11/ 3 @ The Echo & Echoplex

Self-styled "French pop" outfit Weave! create an untameable mixture of indiscernible lyrics, wrapping mismatched vocals around charmingly sloppy harmonies. Sure, the... 

<em>War as a Way of Life</em>

Art: Photography

War as a Way of Life

Monday 11/ 3 @ 18th Street Arts Center

18th Street wraps up its yearlong, four-part examination of sociopolitical issues with War as a Way of Life. The exhibit includes... 

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

Art

Gordy Grundy

Monday 11/ 3 @ Western Project

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

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Monday 11/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>CUT: Makings of Removal</em>

Art

CUT: Makings of Removal

Monday 11/ 3 @ Vincent Price Art Museum

The 17 young and emerging artists included in this ambitious group show follow diverse strategies in making work, but the organizing... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Monday 11/ 3 @ Scribble Press

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

<em>Spring Awakening</em>

Theatre

Spring Awakening

Monday 11/ 3 @ Ahmanson Theatre

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

Louise Bourgeois

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Monday 11/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

Eddy Sykes

Monday 11/ 3 @ Materials & Applications

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

AFI Fest

Festival: Performing Arts

AFI Fest

Monday 11/ 3 @ Arclight Hollywood

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

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

Art

The Art of War

Monday 11/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Monday 11/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Grace Oh

Monday 11/ 3 @ 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....