Events on Sunday, July 27

Gnarls Barkley w/ Fallou Dieng and Deerhoof
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Music: Rock/Pop
Gnarls Barkley
@ Hollywood Bowl
Ever since New York beatsmith Danger Mouse and Atlanta's gospel-crooning Cee-Lo got together, futuristic soul duo Gnarls Barkley have been one...  View details »
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Tongue & Groove
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Performing Arts: Spoken Word
Tongue & Groove
@ The Hotel Café
Tongue & Groove arrives this month with literary offerings from some of the city's standout playwrights, novelists, poets, and screenwriters. Acclaimed...  View details »
<em>Arthur </em>presents Howlin' Rain w/ Mark Fosson
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Music: Rock/Pop
Howlin' Rain
@ McCabe's Guitar Shop
In Comets on Fire, Ethan Miller's guitar and voice are often caked in layers of echo and distortion, but, in his...  View details »

Ongoing Events

<em>Signals: A Video Showcase</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art
Signals: A Video Showcase
@ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
For California Scenarios — the third installment of Signals, OCMA's ongoing contemporary video-art survey — the museum showcases the vivid work...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Against the Grain</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art
Against the Grain
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art
COLA Artist Fellowships
@ Barnsdall Art Park
The Cultural Affairs Department recently issued a statement to declare its unprecedented satisfaction with the state's arts budget — proof that...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art: Photography
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art
Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art: Photography
Ten Years in Focus
@ The Getty Center
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>
Month_07 Monday Day_28
Art
Mark Bradford
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Andrea Zittel: Summer Smockshop
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art
Summer Smockshop
@ Smockshop
For artists who don't yet sustain themselves from their work, there are myriad ways to bring in some income — peddling...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Cirque Berzerk
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Performing Arts: Acrobatics
Cirque Berzerk
@ Los Angeles State Historic Park
It should come as no surprise that LA-based Cirque Berzerk was borne out of a group of devout (and highly flexible)...  View details »
Ongoing
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art: Photography
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Weekend Warrior</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art
Weekend Warrior
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Eric Bogosian's <em>Talk Radio</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Performing Arts: Theatre
Talk Radio
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art
Marcel Duchamp Redux
@ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in LA Photographs</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art: Photography
This Side of Paradise
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Flaunt</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art
Flaunt
@ Junc Gallery
This annual exhibition at Junc typically features new work by both its most promising emerging talents and good-old standbys. The 2008...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art: Discussion
Nicole Cohen
@ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Pavilion of Wings
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
More Flavor: City Gem
Pavilion of Wings
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Phalanstery Module </em>
Month_07 Monday Day_28
Art: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
LA Art Girls Art Fair Biennale LA 2008
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art
LA Art Girls
@ Pacific Electric Lofts
The LA Art Girls began four years ago, when a vibrant group of women working in painting, photography, video, and performance...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Magazine
Month_07 Monday Day_28
Art
Frédéric Magazine
@ Fette's Gallery
Every day, at least one new drawing posts to the online magazine/gallery Frédéric. Founded in 2004 by Isabelle Boinot, Frédéric Fleury,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Vexing: Female Voices from East LA Punk</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art
Vexing
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art: Architecture/Design
John Lautner
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Camelot Artists present <em>Rabbit Hole</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rabbit Hole
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Marlene Dumas: <em>Measuring Your Own Grave</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art
Marlene Dumas
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Haegue Yang: <em>Asymmetric Equality</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art
Haegue Yang
@ REDCAT
REDCAT continues to be a beacon for cutting-edge contemporary art, featuring the first solo show of Haegue Yang in the US....  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
Kori Newkirk:<em> 1997-2007</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art
Kori Newkirk
@ 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:...  View details »
Ongoing
James Turrell: <em>Dividing the Light</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art
James Turrell
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art
The Juxtapoz Factor
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Princeton Residency
Month_07 Monday Day_28
Music: Rock/Pop
Princeton
@ Silverlake Lounge
In spite of their ivy-oriented band name, chamber-pop trio Princeton are actually from here in LA. Adding to the geographical incongruency,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
Brunch Americana
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Music: Folk/Country
Brunch Americana
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>(Neo) Realism</em>
Month_07 Monday Day_28
Art
(Neo) Realism
@ George Billis Gallery
Just like the A.O.S. song says, history repeats itself. The new exhibition at George Billis Gallery offers a refreshing take on...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art
Mexican Calendar Girls
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Peter Saul
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Art
Peter Saul
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Heist Show: A Thrance Caper</em>
Month_07 Sunday Day_27
Performing Arts
The Heist Show
@ Studio/Stage
The term "thrance" is a bit of a curveball as far as descriptions of performances go. It's used to describe a...  View details »
Ongoing