Events on Monday, April 28

Colin Meloy

Music

Colin Meloy

Monday 4/28 @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater

Decemberists leader Colin Meloy strips away the accordions, melodicas, and Stephen Colbert-trumping sidemen for tonight's solo acoustic performance. Befitting the man... 

Radars to the Sky w/ the Flying Tourbillon Orchestra, The Western States Motel, and I Make This Sound

Music

Radars to the Sky

Monday 4/28 @ The Echo & Echoplex

If your ears/liver didn't get enough delight/abuse in Indio this weekend, Coachella vets Radars to the Sky keep the desert-festival spirit... 

Best of Ottawa '07

Film: Animation

Best of Ottawa '07

Monday 4/28 @ REDCAT

In the last three decades, the annual Ottawa International Animation Festival has grown up. The festival now attracts visionary animators and... 

I'm from Barcelona w/ Dusty Rhodes & the River Band

Music

I'm from Barcelona

Monday 4/28 @ El Rey

IFB mastermind Emanuel Lundgren isn't actually from Barcelona, but the 28 other musicians in his supergroup aren't making an issue out... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Monday 4/28 @ 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>100% Other: Artists and Psycho-Demographic Transitions</em>

Art

100% Other

Monday 4/28 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Bob Dylan's American Journey

Monday 4/28 @ 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>Lush</em>

Art

Lush

Monday 4/28 @ Salon Oblique

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

Art

Michael Kalish

Monday 4/28 @ MODAA gallery

While Michael Kalish's early work is marked by portraits of iconic figures (Jimi Hendrix, Jesus), his new exhibition at Culver City's... 

Elena Manferdini: <em>Merletti</em>

Art

Elena Manferdini

Monday 4/28 @ 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>California Video </em>

Art

California Video

Monday 4/28 @ 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,... 

Polish Film Festival

Film

Polish Film Festival

Monday 4/28 @ Various locations

Krzysztof Kieslowski may have set the bar too high for Polish cinema with his mid-'90s Three Colors trilogy. In the years... 

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

Art

Las Vegas Diaspora

Monday 4/28 @ 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... 

Sue-Ling Hyde

Art

Sue-Ling Hyde

Monday 4/28 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

Sue-Ling Hyde is more than a pretty face. You might recognize her from modeling gigs with Shiseido, Versus, and Moshino, but... 

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

Art: Photography

Mister Lonely

Monday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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... 

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

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Monday 4/28 @ 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,... 

BritWeek 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

BritWeek 2008

Monday 4/28 @ Various locations

The British are coming! But this time there's no need to run for cover, as the Cool Britannia crowd of expats... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Monday 4/28 @ Norton Simon Museum

This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at... 

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

Monday 4/28 @ 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 4/28 @ 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...