Events on Monday, September 1

Labor Day BBQ & the Five Minutes Game

Party

The Five Minutes Game

Monday 9/ 1 @ The Silent Movie Theatre

The folks behind the Cinefamily film series at the Silent Movie Theatre put an ingenious spin on traditional Labor Day festivities.... 

Ice Cube

Music: Hip-Hop

Ice Cube

Monday 9/ 1 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip

With high-profile roles in films like Are We There Yet? and xXx: State of the Union more recently on the radar,... 

Ongoing Events

<em>In Focus: The Landscape</em>

Art: Photography

In Focus: The Landscape

Monday 9/ 1 @ The Getty Center

Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In... 

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Art: Photography

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Monday 9/ 1 @ 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

Monday 9/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Art

Yoko Ono

Monday 9/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Art

Marlene Dumas

Monday 9/ 1 @ 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... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Monday 9/ 1 @ Scribble Press

Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Monday 9/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Monday 9/ 1 @ 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>Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments</em>

Art

Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments

Monday 9/ 1 @ 18th Street Arts Center

The 18th Street Art Center continues its tradition of presenting politically and socially engaged visual art with its four-part exhibition series... 

Jenny Mollen-Biggs: <em>Be Your Own Pet</em>

Art

Jenny Mollen-Biggs

Monday 9/ 1 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

When Jenny Mollen-Biggs isn't acting in films and television shows, she is exhibiting paintings that are simultaneously cute and sinister. The... 

Hans Burkhardt

Art

Hans Burkhardt

Monday 9/ 1 @ Cal State University Northridge Art Gallery

Comprising selections from the nearly 1,000 works that European-native-turned California-great Hans Burkhardt personally donated to Cal State Northridge (where he taught... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Monday 9/ 1 @ 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>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Monday 9/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>I Served the King of England</em>

Film

I Served the King of England

Monday 9/ 1 @ Laemmle's Royal Theatre

Screenwriter/director Jirí Menzel translates this tale of a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and Communist regimes from a novel... 

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

Art

The Juxtapoz Factor

Monday 9/ 1 @ 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... 

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

Monday 9/ 1 @ 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...