Events on Monday, December 22

The Count Basie Orchestra presents A Swingin' Christmas

Music

Count Basie Orchestra

Monday 12/22 @ Disney Concert Hall

William "Count" Basie and his world-renowned jazz orchestra created the formula for the modern jazz big band. In the process, they... 

Monday Social Christmas Party feat. Colette and Jesse Brooks

Music: DJ

Colette

Monday 12/22 @ Nacional

Chicago house favorite and Om Records siren Colette descends on Hollywood tonight to preside over Monday Social's Christmas fete at Nacional.... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art: Photography

In Focus: The Landscape

Monday 12/22 @ 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>Plush</em>

Art

Plush

Monday 12/22 @ 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... 

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

Art

Eddy Sykes

Monday 12/22 @ Materials & Applications

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

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

Art

The Art of War

Monday 12/22 @ 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 12/22 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Monday 12/22 @ 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... 

Louise Bourgeois

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Monday 12/22 @ 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... 

Art

Human Rights: Student Voices

Monday 12/22 @ Pasadena Central Library

Art Center College of Design students direct their communications prowess towards human rights, presenting 25 emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line... 

William Tunberg

Art

William Tunberg

Monday 12/22 @ C4 Gallery

Marquetry is an ages-old technique of applying wood veneers to solid surfaces, popular among extremely wealthy Europeans in the time of... 

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

Art

Gordy Grundy

Monday 12/22 @ Western Project

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

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

Art

Vermeer's A Lady Writing

Monday 12/22 @ 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... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Monday 12/22 @ Scribble Press

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