All events on Sunday June 01

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Performing Arts: Comedy
Neil Hamburger
Sunday June 1 (9pm) @ Spaceland
Giveaway
Known for coughing loudly while telling jokes of questionable merit, Neil Hamburger (accompanied by the Too-Good-for-Neil-Hamburger-Band) has now released an honest-to-goodness country record, Neil... View details »
Neil Hamburger
Art
Kori Newkirk
Sunday June 1 (noon–5pm) @ Pasadena Museum of California Art More times »
Kori Newkirk first came to national attention thanks to his contribution to the Studio Museum in Harlem's daring group show Freestyle: a mural of a... View details »
Kori Newkirk
Art
Santa Monica Auctions
Sunday June 1 (1pm) @ Robert Berman Gallery D5
Free
Santa Monica Auctions may seem like the shorts-and-flip-flops version of Christie's, but it's just the atmosphere that's laid back. The items up for bidding are... View details »
Santa Monica Auctions
Music: Rock/Pop
The Cool Kids
Sunday June 1 (8pm) @ Key Club
Young retro rappers the Cool Kids are bringing '88 back, slow and low — just how we like it. Even if there isn't a mega-watt... View details »
The Cool Kids

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Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Sunday June 1 (10am–6pm) @ Peterson Automotive Museum More times »
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the need for expressing cultural... View details »
La Vida Lowrider
Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Sunday June 1 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups, "The grand seigneur of... View details »
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Art
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Sunday June 1 @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
This year's resurgent Dylanmania — from Todd Haynes' byzantine biopic, I'm Not There, to Murray Lerner's performance-driven documentary, The Other Side of the Mirror —... View details »
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Art
Kara Walker
Sunday June 1 (11am–5pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks a tense dialogue between... View details »
Kara Walker
Art
Make Art/Stop AIDS
Sunday June 1 (noon–5pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA More times »
Free
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical awareness that the AIDS... View details »
Art
California Video
Sunday June 1 @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
As video art's growing reach now extends from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to commuters watching YouTube on their iPhones, the Getty... View details »
California Video
Art
James Turrell
Sunday June 1 (10am–8pm) @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College More times »
Free
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 is, the transcendent, full-body... View details »
James Turrell
More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Sunday June 1 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one... View details »
Ugo Wine Bar
Performing Arts: Theatre
Keep Your Pantheon and Duck Variations
Sunday June 1 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre More times »
Brilliantly contrasting old with new, Center Theatre Group places one of David Mamet's earliest works alongside his latest production. In the classic Duck Variations, two... View details »
Keep Your Pantheon and Duck Variations
Art
Las Vegas Diaspora
Sunday June 1 (11am–5pm) @ Laguna Art Museum More times »
Dave Hickey has one of the most original minds in the contemporary art world. His best-selling collection of critical essays, Air Guitar, built bridges between... View details »
Las Vegas Diaspora
Art
Good Doll Bad Doll
Sunday June 1 (noon–5pm) @ Armory Center for the Arts More times »
Free
ArtForum critic and independent curator Michael Duncan encourages childish behavior in Good Doll Bad Doll, an exhibition featuring modern and contemporary artists who use dolls... View details »
Good Doll Bad Doll
Art
The Color of Life
Sunday June 1 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Villa More times »
Free
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only in tones of white... View details »
The Color of Life
Performing Arts: Theatre
He Asked for It
Sunday June 1 (7pm) @ Theatre of NOTE More times »
Erik Patterson's provocative play He Asked for It explores the dark underbelly of one-night stands: the HIV-indifferent behavior of "bug chasers." A character study of... View details »
He Asked for It
Art: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
Sunday June 1 @ Materials & Applications More times »
Free
M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents the central challenge, as... View details »
Phalanstery Module
Art
Dave McKenzie
Sunday June 1 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a single cell fits within... View details »
Dave McKenzie
Art
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Sunday June 1 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon More times »
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum... View details »
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Art
Mexican Calendar Girls
Sunday June 1 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The color-soaked exhibition comprises a... View details »
Mexican Calendar Girls
Art
Amir H. Fallah
Sunday June 1 (11am–6pm) @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai More times »
Free
Installation artist and painter Amir H. Fallah finds intrigue in the ramshackle construction of boyhood clubhouses and other ill-designed, teetering structures. He tops those buildings... View details »
Amir H. Fallah
Performing Arts: Theatre
Compleat Female Stage Beauty
Sunday June 1 (3pm) @ Rogue Machine More times »
Jeffrey Hatcher's critically acclaimed comedy takes it first LA bow at Theatre Theatre's brand-new Rogue Machine stage. Inspired by a real Shakespearean-era actor named Edward... View details »
Compleat Female Stage Beauty
Art
Uncommon Gardens
Sunday June 1 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery More times »
Free
Consider it Ladies' Choice at Thinkspace this month, as the gallery devotes its wall space to the work of four women with decidedly feminine bents... View details »
Uncommon Gardens
Art
Vexing
Sunday June 1 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art More times »
In the early '80s, the Vex was an all-ages music club located in Self Help Graphics and Art, a Chicano landmark in East LA. Although... View details »
Vexing
Performing Arts: Theatre
Dream Man
Sunday June 1 (3pm) @ Skylight Theatre More times »
Playwright James Carroll Pickett's one-man show Dream Man focuses on Christopher, a phone-sex hustler at his breaking point. Twenty-three years ago, actor/playwright Michael Kearns originated... View details »
Dream Man
Art
Under the Radar
Sunday June 1 (10am–4pm) @ Grind Gallery More times »
Free
Including comic-book writers, fashion photographers, and magazine illustrators, the eclectic collection of emerging artists at the Grind Gallery may be under the radar, but most... View details »
Art
COLA Artist Fellowships
Sunday June 1 (noon–5pm) @ Barnsdall Art Park More times »
Free
The Cultural Affairs Department recently issued a statement to declare its unprecedented satisfaction with the state's arts budget — proof that our programs are hale... View details »
Art: Photography
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Sunday June 1 (11am–8pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art More times »
Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia's meticulously planned pictures look as effortless as Polaroids. Most of his works feature a single person — who diCorcia usually finds through... View details »
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Music
Accordion Festival
Sunday June 1 (4pm) @ Fraternal Order of Eagles Hall More times »
The folk-gypsy invasion was just an excuse to bring the accordion back into the common parlance of indie rock, but it's thrived in all its... View details »
Accordion Festival
More Flavor: Convention
BookExpo LA
Sunday June 1 (9am–4pm) @ Los Angeles Convention Center More times »
BookExpo, the equivalent of Fashion Week for the book-readin' crowd, lands in Los Angeles this weekend. The literary industry's largest trade show features hundreds of... View details »
BookExpo LA
Performing Arts: Theatre
Norman's Ark
Sunday June 1 (8:30pm) @ The Ford Theater More times »
After directing Broadway's mega-musical The Lion King, Tony Award-winner Peter Schneider moved in a surprising direction: he traded in big-budget spectacle and the Great White... View details »
Norman's Ark
Art
Mark Hobley
Sunday June 1 (noon–5pm) @ Applegate Gallery More times »
Free
Venice-based painter Mark Hobley takes iconic logos, scantily-dressed women, and playing cards (often at the same time) and transforms them into graphically rich pop heroes.... View details »
Mark Hobley
Art
CalArts MFA Graduate Exhibition
Sunday June 1 (noon–5pm) @ Various Chinatown galleries More times »
Free
After graduation, most MFA recipients fret over finding places to show their work. This year's graduating class of visual artists at CalArts did its fretting... View details »
CalArts MFA Graduate Exhibition
Art
Jasmine Murrell
Sunday June 1 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space More times »
Free
Afrobeat pioneer and revolutionary activist Fela Kuti has influenced generations of progressives, from his native Nigeria to South Central LA, with his potently political celebration... View details »
Jasmine Murrell
Art
Mark Bradford
Sunday June 1 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious galleries and museums, but... View details »
Mark Bradford
Art: Photography
Ten Years in Focus
Sunday June 1 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition draws parallels between photography... View details »
Ten Years in Focus
More Flavor: City Gem
Pavilion of Wings
Sunday June 1 (10am–5pm) @ Natural History Museum More times »
Pavilion of Wings returns to the Natural History Museum for the exhibition's tenth anniversary. Now, anyone jealous of the Shins' experience in Mexico can walk... View details »
Pavilion of Wings
Art: Photography
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Sunday June 1 (10am–5pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
Free
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs looks at Israel's female citizenry as a reflection of the state's 60-year history of independence. Drawing on documentary and... View details »
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs