Events on Sunday, July 27

Tongue & Groove

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

Tongue & Groove

Sunday 7/27 @ The Hotel Café

Tongue & Groove arrives this month with literary offerings from some of the city's standout playwrights, novelists, poets, and screenwriters. Acclaimed... 

<em>Arthur </em>presents Howlin' Rain w/ Mark Fosson

Music

Howlin' Rain

Sunday 7/27 @ 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... 

Gnarls Barkley w/ Fallou Dieng and Deerhoof

Music

Gnarls Barkley

Sunday 7/27 @ 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... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Flaunt</em>

Art

Flaunt

Sunday 7/27 @ Junc Gallery

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

Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Magazine

Art

Frédéric Magazine

Sunday 7/27 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Marlene Dumas

Sunday 7/27 @ 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... 

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

Art

John Lautner

Sunday 7/27 @ 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>The Heist Show: A Thrance Caper</em>

Performing Arts

The Heist Show

Sunday 7/27 @ Studio/Stage

The term "thrance" is a bit of a curveball as far as descriptions of performances go. It's used to describe a... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Sunday 7/27 @ 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>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Sunday 7/27 @ Norton Simon Museum

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

<em>Spacial Reconstruction</em>

Art

Spacial Reconstruction

Sunday 7/27 @ Found Gallery

The term "redecorating" doesn't quite capture what a handful of artists are doing over the next 23 days in Silverlake's Found... 

Brunch Americana

Music

Brunch Americana

Sunday 7/27 @ 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... 

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

Art

Vexing

Sunday 7/27 @ 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... 

<em>Signals: A Video Showcase</em>

Art

Signals: A Video Showcase

Sunday 7/27 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Talk Radio

Sunday 7/27 @ 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>Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera</em>

Art: Photography

Ten Years in Focus

Sunday 7/27 @ The Getty Center

In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition... 

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

Art

Kori Newkirk

Sunday 7/27 @ 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:... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Sunday 7/27 @ 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... 

Andrea Zittel: Summer Smockshop

Art

Summer Smockshop

Sunday 7/27 @ Smockshop

For artists who don't yet sustain themselves from their work, there are myriad ways to bring in some income — peddling... 

Peter Saul

Art

Peter Saul

Sunday 7/27 @ 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... 

Cirque Berzerk

Performing Arts: Acrobatics

Cirque Berzerk

Sunday 7/27 @ 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)... 

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

Art: Photography

Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs

Sunday 7/27 @ 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.... 

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

Art

Haegue Yang

Sunday 7/27 @ REDCAT

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

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

Sunday 7/27 @ 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... 

Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason

Art

Caia Koopman & Mark Gleason

Sunday 7/27 @ 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>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Sunday 7/27 @ 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>Weekend Warrior</em>

Art

Weekend Warrior

Sunday 7/27 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Rabbit Hole

Sunday 7/27 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Sunday 7/27 @ The Getty Center

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

Art

COLA Artist Fellowships

Sunday 7/27 @ Barnsdall Art Park

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

<em>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Sunday 7/27 @ 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... 

LA Art Girls Art Fair Biennale LA 2008

Art

LA Art Girls

Sunday 7/27 @ Pacific Electric Lofts

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

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Art: Photography

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Sunday 7/27 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

This Side of Paradise

Sunday 7/27 @ 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... 

<em>Against the Grain</em>

Art

Against the Grain

Sunday 7/27 @ 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>In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor</em>

Art

The Juxtapoz Factor

Sunday 7/27 @ 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...