Events on Monday, December 1

48 Hours to Action

Dance

48 Hours to Action

Monday 12/ 1 @ Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater

To commemorate World AIDS Day, UCLA students tap all the resources — and spaces — at their disposal, addressing AIDS-related issues... 

The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company presents CHIME LIVE!

Dance

CHIME LIVE!

Monday 12/ 1 @ Farmlab

Margaret Jenkins has brought her wildly successful Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange (CHIME) project down to Southern California after five years of... 

<em>EAT: Los Angeles</em>

Food/Wine

EAT: Los Angeles

Monday 12/ 1 @ Vroman's Bookstore

Tonight, Colleen Dunn Bates and her army of foodies gather to discuss their new gastronomic city atlas, EAT: Los Angeles. In... 

Monday Social presents NextAid World AIDS Day Benefit

Music: DJ

NextAid World AIDS Day Benefit

Monday 12/ 1 @ Nacional

LA-based non-profit NextAid is a progressive, hands-on charity that proves, among other things, that ravers are compassionate citizens of the world.... 

The Herbaliser w/ J Boogie

Music: Electronic

The Herbaliser

Monday 12/ 1 @ Echoplex

London-based group the Herbaliser have been crafting jazz-hop fusion tracks since the mid '90s. While these longtime Ninja Tune signees have... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art: Photography

In Focus: The Landscape

Monday 12/ 1 @ 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 12/ 1 @ Norton Simon Museum

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

City Gems

Scribble Press

Monday 12/ 1 @ Scribble Press

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

Zero Film Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Zero Film Festival

Monday 12/ 1 @ Echo Park Film Center

In a city where big budgets are often confused with big ideas, the first annual Zero Film Festival reminds us that... 

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

Art

The Art of War

Monday 12/ 1 @ 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>War as a Way of Life</em>

Art: Photography

War as a Way of Life

Monday 12/ 1 @ 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 12/ 1 @ 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 12/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Art

Vermeer's A Lady Writing

Monday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Monday 12/ 1 @ 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>The Little Dog Laughed</em>

Theatre

The Little Dog Laughed

Monday 12/ 1 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre

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

WEAVE! Monday Night Residency at The Echo

Music

WEAVE!

Monday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

Louise Bourgeois

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Monday 12/ 1 @ 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 12/ 1 @ Materials & Applications

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

<em>In It Together</em>

Art

In It Together

Monday 12/ 1 @ 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!... 

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

Art

CUT: Makings of Removal

Monday 12/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Plush</em>

Art

Plush

Monday 12/ 1 @ Eagle Rock Center for the Arts

Eagle Rock Center for the Arts' new group show, Plush, uses sculpture, video, and drawing to explore the excesses of the... 

<em>Spring Awakening</em>

Theatre

Spring Awakening

Monday 12/ 1 @ Ahmanson Theatre

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