Events on Sunday, March 23
Sunday 3/23 @ Custom Hotel
A self-described "cheeky DJ," Mr. Scruff is the Spike Jonze of the electronic-music world. He's most famous for his take on...
Sunday 3/23 @ Echo Park Film Center
San Francisco-based Canyon Cinema is devoted to collecting experimental and avant-garde films from the 1930s to the present day. As if...
Sunday 3/23 @ The Roxy Theatre
The Deadly Syndrome are one of those ridiculously frenetic live bands who put as much care into their performances as their...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 3/23 @ Found Gallery
Indie-rock star by night and assemblage artist by day, Cold War Kids bassist Matt Maust reveals his dual personality in his...
Sunday 3/23 @ 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...
Sunday 3/23 @ 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...
Sunday 3/23 @ Claremont Museum of Art
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than...
Sunday 3/23 @ 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...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Sunday 3/23 @ 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...
Sunday 3/23 @ Pounder-Koné Art Space
Atwater Village's Pounder-Koné Art Space uses color as the great communicator, gathering work from its favorite underappreciated overseas artists with a...
Sunday 3/23 @ PawnShop Gallery
Traditionally, bust portraiture has been a means of honoring those with wealth, power, and status; Ben Pruskin, however, believes that such...
Sunday 3/23 @ 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...
Sunday 3/23 @ The Getty Villa
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only...
Sunday 3/23 @ Ahmanson Theatre
Johnny Depp's acclaimed cinematic stab (ahem) at Mr. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has refreshed our memories on...
Sunday 3/23 @ 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,...
Sunday 3/23 @ 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...
Sunday 3/23 @ 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...
Sunday 3/23 @ 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...
Sunday 3/23 @ 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...
Sunday 3/23 @ 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...
Sunday 3/23 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical...
Sunday 3/23 @ 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,...
Sunday 3/23 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Sunday 3/23 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
In the group show Anything Could Happen..., five international artists get together to celebrate the vibrancy of contemporary street art. From...
Sunday 3/23 @ 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,...
Sunday 3/23 @ REDCAT
Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In...
Everything But the Kitschen Sync
Sunday 3/23 @ 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...
Sunday 3/23 @ Hammer Museum
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks...
Sunday 3/23 @ Theatre of NOTE
Stadium Devildare is billed as "a tale of future sport... America to the extreme" — and indeed, Ruth Margraff's play pushes...
Sunday 3/23 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
