Events on Sunday, April 13

Dance Camera West presents No Dancing at the Mandrake

Dance

No Dancing at the Mandrake

Sunday 4/13 @ The Mandrake

It's been almost seven years since Dance Camera West began providing audiences with films from around the world and presenting them... 

Morcheeba w/ Federico Aubele

Music

Morcheeba

Sunday 4/13 @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater

London-based Morcheeba have been churning out sleepy, sexy tunes since "trip-hop" was a novel genre. In this decade, the Godfrey brothers... 

Ongoing Events

Yumiko Kayukawa: Extinction

Art

Yumiko Kayukawa

Sunday 4/13 @ La Luz de Jesus

Japanese artist Yumiko Kayukawa's work is a fine example of what happens when East meets West. In Kayukawa's world, young women... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Sunday 4/13 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Imaginary 20th Century

Sunday 4/13 @ 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... 

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

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Sunday 4/13 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

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

Faith47, Johnny Yanok, Joulu, Mike Kershnar, and Misery: <em>Anything Could Happen...</em>

Art

Anything Could Happen...

Sunday 4/13 @ 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... 

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

Sunday 4/13 @ Natural History Museum

Pavilion of Wings returns to the Natural History Museum for the exhibition's tenth anniversary. Now, anyone jealous of the Shins' experience... 

Art

Make Art/Stop AIDS

Sunday 4/13 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

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

Brent Stewart: <em>Mister Lonely</em>

Art: Photography

Mister Lonely

Sunday 4/13 @ Agnes B.

Filmmaker Harmony Korine's newest movie, Mister Lonely, follows a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living in a remote French castle with... 

Anselm Kiefer: <em>Palmsonntag</em>

Art

Anselm Kiefer

Sunday 4/13 @ First Baptist Church

Out of 36 glass panels and multiple tonnage of cracked clay and resin, German artist Anselm Kiefer has created an illusion... 

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

Art

Las Vegas Diaspora

Sunday 4/13 @ 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... 

Elena Manferdini: <em>Merletti</em>

Art

Elena Manferdini

Sunday 4/13 @ SCI-Arc

"Merletti" means lace in Italian; for architects, it refers to the pattern of folds along a watchtower's defensive rims and other... 

<em>Immigration Stories</em>

Art

Immigration Stories

Sunday 4/13 @ 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... 

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

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Sunday 4/13 @ 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>Toys</em>

Art

Toys

Sunday 4/13 @ Gallery 1988

Watching kids fry their eyeballs playing video games can make some of us feel old. There was a time when board... 

<em>Lush</em>

Art

Lush

Sunday 4/13 @ Salon Oblique

With Lush, West Side sensation Salon Oblique upholds its growing reputation for intellectually and aesthetically engaging multimedia group exhibitions. As in... 

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

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Sunday 4/13 @ 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,... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Sunday 4/13 @ 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... 

Theatre

Personality Crisis

Sunday 4/13 @ The Raven Playhouse

Academia and egomania collide in Rick Mitchell's Personality Crisis, a play that takes aim at the recent phenomenon of authors seeking... 

<em>Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera</em>

Art: Photography

Ten Years in Focus

Sunday 4/13 @ The Getty Center

In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition... 

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

Art: Photography

Freeze Frame

Sunday 4/13 @ 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>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Sunday 4/13 @ Materials & Applications

M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents... 

LA vs WAR

Art

LA vs WAR

Sunday 4/13 @ The Firehouse

The LA vs War festival takes over the area around the classic downtown firehouse to create a forum for artists and... 

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

Art

Kara Walker

Sunday 4/13 @ Hammer Museum

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

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

Art

The Color of Life

Sunday 4/13 @ The Getty Villa

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

Complexions Contemporary Ballet

Dance

Complexions Contemporary Ballet

Sunday 4/13 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Complexions is a dynamic New York dance collective led by artistic directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson. The company's populist appeal... 

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

Art

Bob Dylan's American Journey

Sunday 4/13 @ 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... 

<em>Good Doll Bad Doll </em>

Art

Good Doll Bad Doll

Sunday 4/13 @ 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... 

Japan Film Festival

Film

Japan Film Festival

Sunday 4/13 @ Various locations

The blessing and curse of international cultural exchange is that the influx of exotic, unfamiliar art can be a bit overwhelming,... 

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

Art

First Generation

Sunday 4/13 @ Claremont Museum of Art

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

<em>Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs

Sunday 4/13 @ Skirball Cultural Center

Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs looks at Israel's female citizenry as a reflection of the state's 60-year history of independence.... 

LA Art Weekend

Art

LA Art Weekend

Sunday 4/13 @ Various LA galleries & museums

Black Frame and ForYourArt present the first annual LA Art Weekend festival. From the premiere of Laurie Anderson's new piece, Homeland,... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Sunday 4/13 @ 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>Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film</em>

Film

Alfred Hitchcock

Sunday 4/13 @ 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>California Video </em>

Art

California Video

Sunday 4/13 @ 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,...