Events on Sunday, April 6
Sunday 4/ 6 @ Hammer Museum
Steve Martin famously said that talking about music is like dancing about architecture; tonight at the Hammer, audiences finally get to...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ Echo Curio
Joni Mitchell once confided that the greatest musical compliment she'd ever received was that her songs evoked cinema — musical moving...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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 4/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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 4/ 6 @ 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 4/ 6 @ 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 4/ 6 @ 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 4/ 6 @ 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 4/ 6 @ First Baptist Church
Out of 36 glass panels and multiple tonnage of cracked clay and resin, German artist Anselm Kiefer has created an illusion...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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 4/ 6 @ SCI-Arc
"Merletti" means lace in Italian; for architects, it refers to the pattern of folds along a watchtower's defensive rims and other...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ REDCAT
Even if you don't recognize their names, you are likely familiar with the art of Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge. In...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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 4/ 6 @ 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 4/ 6 @ 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 4/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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 4/ 6 @ The Getty Center
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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 4/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ Hammer Museum
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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 4/ 6 @ 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 4/ 6 @ 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 4/ 6 @ PawnShop Gallery
Traditionally, bust portraiture has been a means of honoring those with wealth, power, and status; Ben Pruskin, however, believes that such...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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 4/ 6 @ The Brewery Art Complex
The Brewery is a sprawling complex of brick buildings that once housed beer makers. Now, it hosts several hundred studios occupied...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ The Getty Center
Those swaying, pulsing Afro-jazzers known as Build an Ark are one of the most honest-to-goodness glorious bands in LA. Their live...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
