Events on Sunday, March 16

<em>Black Clock No. 8</em> Launch Party

Special Event

Black Clock No. 8 Launch Party

Sunday 3/16 @ The Mandrake

A native New Yorker travels back in time to '60s-era Harlem. A writer in Rome ruminates on the characters of Jorge... 

Boredoms w/ Human Bell

Music

Boredoms

Sunday 3/16 @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater

After hearing about the 77-member percussive spiral galaxy that assembled beneath the Brooklyn Bridge last summer, it might seem like a... 

<em>SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT: Works of the London Film-Makers' Co-operative</em>

Film

SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT

Sunday 3/16 @ Egyptian Theatre

At the height of the '60s avant-garde art scene, London was one of the world's most progressive cities for visionary filmmakers.... 

John Pizzarelli: <em>Dear Mr. Sinatra</em>

Music

John Pizzarelli

Sunday 3/16 @ Disney Concert Hall

John Pizzarelli puts his exclamation mark on the story of LA jazz with this evening's show at the Walt Disney Concert... 

Ongoing Events

Matt Maust & Matt Wignall: <em>Your Alimony Won't Buy a Bigger Room</em>

Art

Matt Maust & Matt Wignall

Sunday 3/16 @ Found Gallery

Indie-rock star by night and assemblage artist by day, Cold War Kids bassist Matt Maust reveals his dual personality in his... 

Robert Crumb: <em>Cr&egrave;me de la Crumb</em>

Art

Robert Crumb

Sunday 3/16 @ David Lawrence Gallery

Since his early days drawing for Zap Comix, Robert Crumb has made quite a name for himself as the comic world's... 

Art

Make Art/Stop AIDS

Sunday 3/16 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical... 

<em>Lights! Camera! Glamour!</em>

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Sunday 3/16 @ California Heritage Museum

George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups,... 

<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Sunday 3/16 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... 

<em>Carnage, a Comedy</em>

Theatre

Carnage, a Comedy

Sunday 3/16 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre

Twenty years after Carnage's wildly successful premiere, the Gang revives Adam Simon and Tim Robbins' play with frightening vitality and acerbic... 

<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Sunday 3/16 @ Various locations

An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That,... 

<em>Two Lines Align</em>: Drawings by Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge

Art

Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge

Sunday 3/16 @ REDCAT

Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In... 

Art

Everything But the Kitschen Sync

Sunday 3/16 @ La Luz de Jesus

The type of work that's usually celebrated at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, located inside Wacko (the Costco of kitsch), is... 

Kara Walker: <em>My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love</em>

Art

Kara Walker

Sunday 3/16 @ Hammer Museum

Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks... 

<em>Silver for Gold </em>

Theatre

Silver for Gold

Sunday 3/16 @ [delete] The Met Theatre

Before her untimely death at the tragic age of 28, socialite, heiress, and fledgling film star Edie Sedgwick was Andy Warhol's... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Sunday 3/16 @ 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>Sweeney Todd</em>

Theatre

Sweeney Todd

Sunday 3/16 @ Ahmanson Theatre

Johnny Depp's acclaimed cinematic stab (ahem) at Mr. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has refreshed our memories on... 

CA Boom V

Art

CA Boom V

Sunday 3/16 @ Santa Monica Air Center, Barker Hangar

Southern California has been at the forefront of design and architectural innovation for generations, and with the increased interest in all... 

<em>Freeze Frame: Five Decades of Photographs by Douglas Kirkland</em>

Art: Photography

Freeze Frame

Sunday 3/16 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides... 

<em>First Generation: Art in Claremont 1907-1957</em>

Art

First Generation

Sunday 3/16 @ Claremont Museum of Art

Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Sunday 3/16 @ 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>Point Break LIVE!</em>

Comedy

Point Break LIVE!

Sunday 3/16 @ Charlie O's at the Alexandria

Point Break LIVE! at Charlie O's is like a traveling Shakespearean theatre troupe — only the royal court is a downtown... 

<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>

Art

SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s

Sunday 3/16 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California... 

KuKula: <em>Dreamcatcher</em>

Art

KuKula

Sunday 3/16 @ Thinkspace Gallery

For Dreamcatcher, KuKula's first solo showing at Thinkspace, the Israeli-born artist paints eerily charming images of little girl dolls, Disney-esque forest... 

Ben Pruskin

Art

Ben Pruskin

Sunday 3/16 @ PawnShop Gallery

Traditionally, bust portraiture has been a means of honoring those with wealth, power, and status; Ben Pruskin, however, believes that such... 

<em>The Imaginary 20th Century</em>

Art

The Imaginary 20th Century

Sunday 3/16 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art... 

Bad Religion

Music

Bad Religion

Sunday 3/16 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip

What do an evolutionary biology PhD, the owner of Epitaph Records, and the guitarist from the Circle Jerks have in common?... 

<em>The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present </em>

Art

The Color of Life

Sunday 3/16 @ The Getty Villa

Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only... 

<em>Victory</em>

Theatre

Victory

Sunday 3/16 @ The Fountain Theatre

South African playwright Athol Fugard's work demonstrates the power of theatre to incite social transformation. Fugard's plays have addressed the subject... 

<em>California Video </em>

Art

California Video

Sunday 3/16 @ The Getty Center

As video art's growing reach now extends from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to commuters watching YouTube on their iPhones,... 

<em>Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film</em>

Film

Alfred Hitchcock

Sunday 3/16 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his... 

<em>Good Doll Bad Doll </em>

Art

Good Doll Bad Doll

Sunday 3/16 @ Armory Center for the Arts

ArtForum critic and independent curator Michael Duncan encourages childish behavior in Good Doll Bad Doll, an exhibition featuring modern and contemporary... 

<em>Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art from the Neon Homeland</em>

Art

Las Vegas Diaspora

Sunday 3/16 @ Laguna Art Museum

Dave Hickey has one of the most original minds in the contemporary art world. His best-selling collection of critical essays, Air... 

<em>Stadium Devildare </em>

Theatre

Stadium Devildare

Sunday 3/16 @ Theatre of NOTE

Stadium Devildare is billed as "a tale of future sport... America to the extreme" — and indeed, Ruth Margraff's play pushes... 

<em>Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966</em>

Art

Bob Dylan's American Journey

Sunday 3/16 @ Skirball Cultural Center

This year's resurgent Dylanmania — from Todd Haynes' byzantine biopic, I'm Not There, to Murray Lerner's performance-driven documentary, The Other Side...