All events on Sunday July 13

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Music
Carmen
Sunday July 13 (7:30pm) @ 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, informing numerous modern works,... View details »
Carmen
Art: Architecture/Design
John Lautner
Sunday July 13 (11am–5pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
The risk-taking John Lautner is often described as an architect's architect, even though some of his designs brought him both criticism and disdain. One of... View details »
John Lautner
Music: Global
Brazilian Summer Festival
Sunday July 13 (5pm) @ 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 Summer Festival's live music,... View details »
Brazilian Summer Festival
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Bastille Day LA
Sunday July 13 (noon–10pm) @ 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 that touched off the... View details »
Bastille Day LA
Music: Electronic
Matmos
Sunday July 13 (9pm) @ Echoplex
Giveaway
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 have crafted entire albums... View details »
Matmos

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Art
James Turrell
Sunday July 13 (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
Vinum Populi
Sunday July 13 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Vinum Populi, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one key... View details »
Vinum Populi
Art: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
Sunday July 13 @ 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
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Sunday July 13 (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 July 13 (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
Vexing
Sunday July 13 (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
Art
COLA Artist Fellowships
Sunday July 13 (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 July 13 (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
Art
Kori Newkirk
Sunday July 13 (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
Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground
Sunday July 13 (1–4pm) @ another year in LA More times »
Free
In Robert A. Nelson's exhibition Common Ground, viewers are treated to a new side of the '60s experimental filmmaker. Nelson's offbeat, conceptual, and often humorous... View details »
Robert A. Nelson: Common Ground
Art
Mark Bradford
Sunday July 13 @ 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
Against the Grain
Sunday July 13 (noon–6pm) @ Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions More times »
Free
Known for its progressive, boundary-pushing performances and interdisciplinary bravado, LACE's lofty space transforms into a clean, white gallery for Against the Grain, perhaps this summer's... View details »
Against the Grain
Art: Photography
This Side of Paradise
Sunday July 13 (10:30am–4:30pm) @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens More times »
If only our cracked sidewalks, classic homes, sprawling hills, and endless streets could talk. But even if objects can't, camera lenses spin many a word.... View details »
This Side of Paradise
Art
Peter Saul
Sunday July 13 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
Peter Saul, who hit his artistic stride mid-century during America's pop-art movement, has become best known of late as a creator of work that's part... View details »
Peter Saul
Art
MiniWorX
Sunday July 13 (2–6pm) @ Ghettogloss More times »
Free
The Art Directors Guild IA Local 800 is a deliriously talented group of production designers, art directors, and scenic, title, and graphic artists — all... View details »
MiniWorX
Art: Photography
Ten Years in Focus
Sunday July 13 (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
Art
The Juxtapoz Factor
Sunday July 13 (10am–6pm) @ Laguna Art Museum More times »
To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as little surprise that some... View details »
The Juxtapoz Factor
Art
Flaunt
Sunday July 13 (noon–7pm) @ Junc Gallery More times »
Free
This annual exhibition at Junc typically features new work by both its most promising emerging talents and good-old standbys. The 2008 edition acts as a... View details »
Flaunt
Performing Arts: Dance
Eleven Missing Days
Sunday July 13 (6pm) @ Unknown Theater More times »
Meg Wolfe's relentless creative spirit knows no bounds. Her energy produced the offbeat dance zine Itch Journal, the experimental series Anatomy Riot, and now Eleven... View details »
Eleven Missing Days
Art
Haegue Yang
Sunday July 13 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
REDCAT continues to be a beacon for cutting-edge contemporary art, featuring the first solo show of Haegue Yang in the US. The Korean artist's multimedia... View details »
Haegue Yang
Art
The Joint Custody Project
Sunday July 13 (1–5pm) @ Found Gallery More times »
Free
Many artists feel that they express themselves best through their own singular vision, making collaboration in the visual arts somewhat rare. But Found Gallery's The... View details »
The Joint Custody Project
Art
Weekend Warrior
Sunday July 13 (11am–6pm) @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai More times »
Free
The Ojai-based Nathan Larramendy Gallery has teamed up with the illustrious Beautiful/Decay magazine to produce Weekend Warrior, a group show of LA artists... View details »
Weekend Warrior
Art
Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason
Sunday July 13 (noon–6pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
Though painters Caia Koopman and Mark Gleason take vastly different approaches, both make the human/animal relationship a cornerstone of their work. Koopman's whimsical illustrations depict... View details »
Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason
Music: Folk/Country
Brunch Americana
Sunday July 13 (noon–4pm) @ Safari Sam's More times »
Free
If your ears are still ringing from last night's show (or from a few too many newfangled theme cocktails), attending Safari Sam's Brunch Americana is... View details »
Brunch Americana
Performing Arts
TAIKOPROJECT
Sunday July 13 (8pm) @ The Ford Theater More times »
Giveaway
After selling out the Ford last summer, the TAIKOPROJECT drum spectacular arrives again, bringing the tradition of Japanese taiko drumming to a new generation. For... View details »
TAIKOPROJECT
Art
LA Art Girls
Sunday July 13 (noon–6pm) @ Pacific Electric Lofts More times »
Free
The LA Art Girls began four years ago, when a vibrant group of women working in painting, photography, video, and performance began supporting one another... View details »
LA Art Girls
Performing Arts: Theatre
Broadway Bound
Sunday July 13 (4pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
Neil Simon has authored some of the most popular American plays of the last century, including the much-loved Eugene Trilogy, which follows an aspiring comedy... View details »
Broadway Bound
Art
Conversations That Never Happened
Sunday July 13 (7pm) @ Telic Arts Exchange More times »
Conversations That Never Happened is a series of four communal, food-based art happenings in and around Telic's Chinatown gallery, created by a group of chefs,... View details »
Conversations That Never Happened
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rabbit Hole
Sunday July 13 (7pm) @ Skylight Theatre More times »
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 Cynthia Nixon's Tony Award-winning... View details »
Rabbit Hole
Performing Arts: Theatre
Talk Radio
Sunday July 13 (7pm) @ The MET Theatre More times »
Eric Bogosian made the leap from sputtering performance artist to Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright with his fiery, rant-filled Talk Radio. Known for a dark, abrasive comedic... View details »
Talk Radio
Art
Marlene Dumas
Sunday July 13 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
The first stateside exhibit of French/South African/Dutch artist Marlene Dumas' work, Measuring Your Own Grave is a prodding collection of sketches and paintings that explore... View details »
Marlene Dumas
More Flavor: City Gem
Pavilion of Wings
Sunday July 13 (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 July 13 (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