Events on Sunday, March 23
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Deadly Syndrome
- @ The Roxy Theatre
- The Deadly Syndrome are one of those ridiculously frenetic live bands who put as much care into their performances as their... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Mr. Scruff
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- You Pick 'Em 2!
- @ 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... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Victory
- @ 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... View details »
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- Kara Walker
- @ Hammer Museum
- Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- La Vida Lowrider
- @ Petersen Automotive Museum
- The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... View details »
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- Matt Maust & Matt Wignall
- @ Found Gallery
- Indie-rock star by night and assemblage artist by day, Cold War Kids bassist Matt Maust reveals his dual personality in his... View details »
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- Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
- @ REDCAT
- Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In... View details »
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- Make Art/Stop AIDS
- @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
- Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical... View details »
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- Bob Dylan's American Journey
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Good Doll Bad Doll
- @ 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... View details »
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- California Video
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Carnage, a Comedy
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Imaginary 20th Century
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sweeney Todd
- @ Ahmanson Theatre
- Johnny Depp's acclaimed cinematic stab (ahem) at Mr. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has refreshed our memories on... View details »
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- Art
- James Turrell
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Discussion
- Nicole Cohen
- @ The Getty Center
- Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... View details »
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- Immigration Stories
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Freeze Frame
- @ 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... View details »
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- Everything But the Kitschen Sync
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- My Kid Could Paint That
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Stadium Devildare
- @ Theatre of NOTE
- Stadium Devildare is billed as "a tale of future sport... America to the extreme" — and indeed, Ruth Margraff's play pushes... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Lights! Camera! Glamour!
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Anything Could Happen...
- @ 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... View details »
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- Las Vegas Diaspora
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Color of Life
- @ The Getty Villa
- Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only... View details »
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- KuKula
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- Alfred Hitchcock
- @ 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... View details »
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- Ben Pruskin
- @ PawnShop Gallery
- Traditionally, bust portraiture has been a means of honoring those with wealth, power, and status; Ben Pruskin, however, believes that such... View details »
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- SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
- @ 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... View details »
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- Robert Crumb
- @ 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... View details »
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- First Generation
- @ Claremont Museum of Art
- Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than... View details »
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