Events on Sunday, July 13

Bastille Day LA

Festival: Performing Arts

Bastille Day LA

Sunday 7/13 @ West Hollywood Park

Grab your best amis for a jolie good time at Los Angeles' seventh-annual Bastille Day Festival. Unlike the events of 1789... 

Matmos w/ Wobbly and Dub Lab DJs

Music: Electronic

Matmos

Sunday 7/13 @ Echoplex

There's intelligent dance music, and then there's intelligent dance music. Since 1998's quasi-objects LP, which exclusively relied on found sounds, Matmos... 

Brazilian Summer Festival

Music: Global

Brazilian Summer Festival

Sunday 7/13 @ The Queen Mary

While perhaps not as all-consuming as Carnaval, tonight's shakedown more than lives up to Brazilians' reputation for partying. The 15th-annual Brazilian... 

Denyce Graves performs Bizet's <em>Carmen</em>

Music

Carmen

Sunday 7/13 @ Hollywood Bowl

Dubbed "immoral" by critics upon its 1875 debut (a surefire marketing strategy), Georges Bizet's Carmen is now an oft-staged operatic staple,... 

Ongoing Events

Haegue Yang: <em>Asymmetric Equality</em>

Art

Haegue Yang

Sunday 7/13 @ REDCAT

REDCAT continues to be a beacon for cutting-edge contemporary art, featuring the first solo show of Haegue Yang in the US.... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Sunday 7/13 @ 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... 

Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason

Art

Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason

Sunday 7/13 @ La Luz de Jesus

Though painters Caia Koopman and Mark Gleason take vastly different approaches, both make the human/animal relationship a cornerstone of their work.... 

<em>Vexing: Female Voices from East LA Punk</em>

Art

Vexing

Sunday 7/13 @ Claremont Museum of Art

In the early '80s, the Vex was an all-ages music club located in Self Help Graphics and Art, a Chicano landmark... 

Camelot Artists present <em>Rabbit Hole</em>

Theatre

Rabbit Hole

Sunday 7/13 @ Skylight Theatre

Commissioned as part of South Coast Repertory's Pacific Playwrights Festival, David Lindsay-Abaire's wrenching drama won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize and kick-started... 

<em>This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in LA Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

This Side of Paradise

Sunday 7/13 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

If only our cracked sidewalks, classic homes, sprawling hills, and endless streets could talk. But even if objects can't, camera lenses... 

Robert A. Nelson: <em>Common Ground</em>

Art

Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground

Sunday 7/13 @ another year in LA

In Robert A. Nelson's exhibition Common Ground, viewers are treated to a new side of the '60s experimental filmmaker. Nelson's offbeat,... 

<em>In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor</em>

Art

The Juxtapoz Factor

Sunday 7/13 @ Laguna Art Museum

To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as... 

Art

COLA Artist Fellowships

Sunday 7/13 @ Barnsdall Art Park

The Cultural Affairs Department recently issued a statement to declare its unprecedented satisfaction with the state's arts budget — proof that... 

LA Art Girls Art Fair Biennale LA 2008

Art

LA Art Girls

Sunday 7/13 @ Pacific Electric Lofts

The LA Art Girls began four years ago, when a vibrant group of women working in painting, photography, video, and performance... 

Peter Saul

Art

Peter Saul

Sunday 7/13 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

Peter Saul, who hit his artistic stride mid-century during America's pop-art movement, has become best known of late as a creator... 

<em>Eleven Missing Days </em>

Dance

Eleven Missing Days

Sunday 7/13 @ Unknown Theater

Meg Wolfe's relentless creative spirit knows no bounds. Her energy produced the offbeat dance zine Itch Journal, the experimental series Anatomy... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Sunday 7/13 @ 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... 

<em>Against the Grain</em>

Art

Against the Grain

Sunday 7/13 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)

Known for its progressive, boundary-pushing performances and interdisciplinary bravado, LACE's lofty space transforms into a clean, white gallery for Against the... 

<em>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Sunday 7/13 @ 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... 

<em>Flaunt</em>

Art

Flaunt

Sunday 7/13 @ Junc Gallery

This annual exhibition at Junc typically features new work by both its most promising emerging talents and good-old standbys. The 2008... 

<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Sunday 7/13 @ California Heritage Museum

Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The... 

<em>Conversations That Never Happened</em>

Art

Conversations That Never Happened

Sunday 7/13 @ Telic Arts Exchange

Conversations That Never Happened is a series of four communal, food-based art happenings in and around Telic's Chinatown gallery, created by... 

<em>Weekend Warrior</em>

Art

Weekend Warrior

Sunday 7/13 @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai

The Ojai-based Nathan Larramendy Gallery has teamed up with the illustrious Beautiful/Decay magazine to produce Weekend Warrior, a group... 

The Art Directors Guild presents <em>MiniWorX</em>

Art

MiniWorX

Sunday 7/13 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

The Art Directors Guild IA Local 800 is a deliriously talented group of production designers, art directors, and scenic, title, and... 

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

Art: Photography

Ten Years in Focus

Sunday 7/13 @ 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>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Sunday 7/13 @ Norton Simon Museum

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

Brunch Americana

Music

Brunch Americana

Sunday 7/13 @ Safari Sam's

If your ears are still ringing from last night's show (or from a few too many newfangled theme cocktails), attending Safari... 

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Art: Photography

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Sunday 7/13 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia's meticulously planned pictures look as effortless as Polaroids. Most of his works feature a single person — who... 

Eric Bogosian's <em>Talk Radio</em>

Theatre

Talk Radio

Sunday 7/13 @ The MET Theatre

Eric Bogosian made the leap from sputtering performance artist to Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright with his fiery, rant-filled Talk Radio. Known for... 

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

Art: Photography

Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs

Sunday 7/13 @ 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.... 

<em>The Joint Custody Project</em>

Art

The Joint Custody Project

Sunday 7/13 @ Found Gallery

Many artists feel that they express themselves best through their own singular vision, making collaboration in the visual arts somewhat rare.... 

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

Sunday 7/13 @ 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... 

Kori Newkirk:<em> 1997-2007</em>

Art

Kori Newkirk

Sunday 7/13 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art

Kori Newkirk first came to national attention thanks to his contribution to the Studio Museum in Harlem's daring group show Freestyle:... 

Marlene Dumas: <em>Measuring Your Own Grave</em>

Art

Marlene Dumas

Sunday 7/13 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

The first stateside exhibit of French/South African/Dutch artist Marlene Dumas' work, Measuring Your Own Grave is a prodding collection of sketches... 

TAIKOPROJECT

Performing Arts

TAIKOPROJECT

Sunday 7/13 @ The Ford Theater

After selling out the Ford last summer, the TAIKOPROJECT drum spectacular arrives again, bringing the tradition of Japanese taiko drumming to... 

<em>Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner</em>

Art

John Lautner

Sunday 7/13 @ Hammer Museum

The risk-taking John Lautner is often described as an architect's architect, even though some of his designs brought him both criticism... 

<em>Broadway Bound</em>

Theatre

Broadway Bound

Sunday 7/13 @ Skirball Cultural Center

Neil Simon has authored some of the most popular American plays of the last century, including the much-loved Eugene Trilogy, which... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Sunday 7/13 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...