Events on Sunday, August 17
The Magnificent Seven and The Professionals
Sunday 8/17 @ New Beverly Cinema
Our president may have given cowboys a bad name, but if you've still got a soft spot for tobacco-chewing gunslingers, unlikely...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 8/17 @ 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...
Sunday 8/17 @ The Landmark
In 1968, a French teen named Philippe Petit sat in a dentist's office reading a magazine that featured the plans for...
Sunday 8/17 @ 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...
Sunday 8/17 @ 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...
Sunday 8/17 @ 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...
Sunday 8/17 @ REDCAT
REDCAT continues to be a beacon for cutting-edge contemporary art, featuring the first solo show of Haegue Yang in the US....
Sunday 8/17 @ 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...
Sunday 8/17 @ Smockshop
For artists who don't yet sustain themselves from their work, there are myriad ways to bring in some income — peddling...
Sunday 8/17 @ 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...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Sunday 8/17 @ 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....
Sunday 8/17 @ 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...
Sunday 8/17 @ 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...
Sunday 8/17 @ 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:...
Sunday 8/17 @ Orpheum Theatre
According to local legend (and pictorial evidence), Downtown Los Angeles was once a vibrant metropolis overflowing with entertainment, culture, and men...
Sunday 8/17 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Sunday 8/17 @ 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...
Sunday 8/17 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Sunday 8/17 @ 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...
Sunday 8/17 @ 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...
Sunday 8/17 @ Pacific Electric Lofts
The LA Art Girls began four years ago, when a vibrant group of women working in painting, photography, video, and performance...
Sunday 8/17 @ 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...
Sunday 8/17 @ Royal/T
Director of New York's Greene Naftali Gallery, Jay Sanders steps into cafe/shop/gallery Royal/T to curate this group show of works from...
Sunday 8/17 @ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at...
Sunday 8/17 @ 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,...
Sunday 8/17 @ 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...
Sunday 8/17 @ 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...
Sunday 8/17 @ 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...
Sunday 8/17 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
From director Matt Huffman comes a new adaptation of Irwin Shaw's 1936 antiwar masterpiece, Bury the Dead. Shaw, who went on...
