Events on Sunday, November 9

<em>Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting</em>

Art

Oranges and Sardines

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Hammer Museum

Like words, abstract art often evolves into something that has nothing to do with its original idea. The new Hammer exhibition... 

Onyx Revival

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

Onyx Revival

Sunday 11/ 9 @ The Echo & Echoplex

Ten years ago, Vermont Avenue in Los Feliz was not exactly the chic strip it is these days, but the scene... 

Music: Global

Collie Buddz

Sunday 11/ 9 @ The Roxy Theatre

Born in New Orleans but raised in Bermuda and Toronto, renaissance reggae star Collie Buddz has grown to be quite the... 

Ongoing Events

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

Special Event

Earworms

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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>Song of Extinction</em>

Theatre

Song of Extinction

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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... 

Santa Barbara Off-Axis 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

Off-Axis

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Art of War

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

Yoko Ono

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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... 

Beck

Music

Beck

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Nokia Theatre LA Live

Beck helps christen the new Club Nokia stage in its first full weekend of operation, in continued support of his latest... 

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

Art: Photography

In Focus: The Landscape

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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>The School of Night</em>

Theatre

The School of Night

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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>Fortuna Rising: Gordy Grundy is the Messenger</em>

Art

Gordy Grundy

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Western Project

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

P-Jay Fidler and Jason Houchen

Art

P-Jay Fidler and Jason Houchen

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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... 

2008 <em>Paper</em> Project Los Angeles

Fashion/Style

Paper Project Los Angeles

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Paper Mag Pop-Up Space

Fashion capitals collide as Paper magazine returns to the City of Angels for its 4th Annual Los Angeles Project. This week,... 

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Art: Photography

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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... 

Theatre

I'm not a racist but...

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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... 

Face of the World Festival 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

FOTW 08

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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>LA25 Half-Life</em>

Art

LA25 Half-Life

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Spring Awakening</em>

Theatre

Spring Awakening

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Ahmanson Theatre

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

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

Art

Vermeer's A Lady Writing

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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... 

The Who

Music

The Who

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Nokia Theatre LA Live

Whether influencing the grunge-infused rock of Pearl Jam and the Foo Fighters or the psychedelic sounds of the Flaming Lips, the... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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>Pour Me Some Smoke</em>

Art

Pour Me Some Smoke

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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.... 

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

Art

Eddy Sykes

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Materials & Applications

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

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

Fashion/Style

Antonio Pineda

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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... 

AFI Fest

Festival: Performing Arts

AFI Fest

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Scribble Press

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

Method Contemporary Dance: <em>Remarkably Content Free!!!</em>

Dance

Method Contemporary Dance

Sunday 11/ 9 @ Diavolo Dance Theatre

Method's works don't mess with addressing sociopolitical ideology, dramaturgical devices, or storylines with dramatic arcs. No, Method slams its ideas home... 

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

Art

All of This is Melting Away

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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... 

John Bock: <em>Palms</em>

Art

John Bock

Sunday 11/ 9 @ REDCAT

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

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

Art: Photography

Grace Oh

Sunday 11/ 9 @ 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....