Events on Monday, December 8

Hearst's Estate at San Simeon: Inside and Out

Special Event

Hearst's Estate at San Simeon: Inside and Out

Monday 12/ 8 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

American print mogul William Randolph Hearst may be the inspiration for the cold, withdrawn title character in Citizen Kane, but that... 

Me'shell Ndegeocello w/ the Coup

Music: Hip-Hop

The Coup

Monday 12/ 8 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip

Last time we heard from Oakland rap crew the Coup, it was when mastermind MC Boots Riley called in a nasty... 

Monday Evening Concerts presents: The Avant-Garde Through the Ages

Music: Classical

The Avant-Garde Through the Ages

Monday 12/ 8 @ Herbert Zipper Concert Hall

New music impresario Justin Urcis kicks off another fascinating, cutting-edge season of the acclaimed Monday Evening Concerts series with a brief... 

Joan Jonas: Reading Culture Through Dante and Aby Warburg

Film

Joan Jonas

Monday 12/ 8 @ REDCAT

Joan Jonas has been producing video and performance art for more than 30 years, and this evening appears in person alongside... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art: Photography

In Focus: The Landscape

Monday 12/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Norton Simon Museum

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

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

Art

James Turrell

Monday 12/ 8 @ 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>Hunger</em>

Film

Hunger

Monday 12/ 8 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

Turner Prize winner Steve McQueen debuts his first feature film, the bleak and fearless Hunger. Already garnering the Camera d'Or and... 

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

Art

The Art of War

Monday 12/ 8 @ 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... 

Divine Design

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Divine Design

Monday 12/ 8 @ Old Robinson's May Building

Activist and spiritual writer Marianne Williamson founded Project Angel Food in 1989 to help bring nourishment to those with life-threatening illnesses;... 

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

Art

Eddy Sykes

Monday 12/ 8 @ Materials & Applications

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

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Monday 12/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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... 

<em>Plush</em>

Art

Plush

Monday 12/ 8 @ 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>The Little Dog Laughed</em>

Theatre

The Little Dog Laughed

Monday 12/ 8 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre

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

Louise Bourgeois

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Monday 12/ 8 @ 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... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Monday 12/ 8 @ Scribble Press

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

GOOD December

Festival: Performing Arts

GOOD December

Monday 12/ 8 @ GOOD Space

Everyone wants to be a better person, but no one wants to forgo art, music, or great food in the process.... 

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

Art

CUT: Makings of Removal

Monday 12/ 8 @ 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>War as a Way of Life</em>

Art: Photography

War as a Way of Life

Monday 12/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Western Project

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