Events on Monday, April 14

The Moth: When Worlds Collide

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

The Moth

Monday 4/14 @ King King

Tonight, the Moth revives the art of storytelling in an atmosphere of creative, cocktail-fueled competition. These monthly, audience-judged events are usually... 

The Music of Helmut Lachenmann

Music: Classical

Helmut Lachnemann

Monday 4/14 @ Herbert Zipper Concert Hall

To aficionados of contemporary classical music, Helmut Lachenmann is a true giant. Tonight's event is a double pleasure, as the man... 

Apocalyptica

Music

Apocalyptica

Monday 4/14 @ The Roxy Theatre

The four cellists making up Helsinki's Apocalyptica first emerged as a Metallica cover band back in 1996. Now down to three... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Monday 4/14 @ 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... 

Yumiko Kayukawa: Extinction

Art

Yumiko Kayukawa

Monday 4/14 @ 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... 

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

Art

Bob Dylan's American Journey

Monday 4/14 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Mister Lonely

Monday 4/14 @ Agnes B.

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

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

Art

James Turrell

Monday 4/14 @ 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>California Video </em>

Art

California Video

Monday 4/14 @ 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>Lush</em>

Art

Lush

Monday 4/14 @ Salon Oblique

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

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

Art

Las Vegas Diaspora

Monday 4/14 @ 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... 

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

Monday 4/14 @ 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... 

<em>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Monday 4/14 @ 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... 

<em>100% Other: Artists and Psycho-Demographic Transitions</em>

Art

100% Other

Monday 4/14 @ 18th Street Arts Center

For the next installment of Future of Nations exhibition series 100% Other, curator Tyler Stallings asked artists Matthew Bryant, Cheryl Gilge,... 

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

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Monday 4/14 @ 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,... 

Japan Film Festival

Film

Japan Film Festival

Monday 4/14 @ Various locations

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

Elena Manferdini: <em>Merletti</em>

Art

Elena Manferdini

Monday 4/14 @ SCI-Arc

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

AFI Music Documentary Series

Film

AFI Music Documentary Series

Monday 4/14 @ Arclight Hollywood

This year's AFI Music Doc series kicks off with a sneak peek at Scott Hicks' inventive, intimate film Glass: A Portrait...