Events on Sunday, August 17

Custom Sundaze feat. Osunlade

Music: DJ

Osunlade

Sunday 8/17 @ Custom Hotel

Born in St. Louis but currently living on a heavenly Greek isle, DJ, producer, and composer Osunlade has worked with such... 

<em>The Magnificent Seven</em> (1960) and <em>The Professionals</em> (1966)

Film: Double Feature

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

Brunch Americana

Music

Brunch Americana

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... 

<em>Man on Wire</em>

Film

Man on Wire

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... 

<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

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... 

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

Art

Signals: A Video Showcase

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... 

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

Art

The Juxtapoz Factor

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... 

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

Art

Haegue Yang

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.... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

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... 

Andrea Zittel: Summer Smockshop

Art

Summer Smockshop

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... 

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Art: Photography

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

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... 

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

Art: Photography

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.... 

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

Theatre

Rabbit Hole

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... 

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

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... 

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

Art

Kori Newkirk

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:... 

Downtown Film Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Downtown Film Festival

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... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

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... 

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

Art

John Lautner

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... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

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... 

<em>Against the Grain</em>

Art

Against the Grain

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... 

<em>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

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... 

LA Art Girls Art Fair Biennale LA 2008

Art

LA Art Girls

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... 

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

Art

Vexing

Sunday 8/17 @ 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>This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in LA Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

This Side of Paradise

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... 

<em>All of This is Melting Away</em>

Art

All of This is Melting Away

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... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

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... 

Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Magazine

Art

Frédéric Magazine

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,... 

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

Art

Marlene Dumas

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... 

Peter Saul

Art

Peter Saul

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... 

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

Art

James Turrell

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... 

Theatre

Bury the Dead

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... 

Yoko Ono: <em>Wish Tree</em>

Art

Yoko Ono

Sunday 8/17 @ One Colorado

It has been nearly 28 years since John Lennon's passing, but his quest for world peace lives on. Lennon's widow, noted...