All events on Sunday September 21

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Music: Electronic
Hot Chip
Sunday Sep 21 (8pm) @ The Wiltern More times »
Fresh from the badlands of Putney, England, electro-funk outfit Hot Chip celebrate their latest album, Made in the Dark with this toast to their Los... View details »
Hot Chip
Music: Rock/Pop
My Morning Jacket
Sunday Sep 21 (7:30pm) @ Greek Theatre
Kentucky five-piece My Morning Jacket are celebrating a decade together with a mammoth European and US tour, and they've never been more experimental in their... View details »
My Morning Jacket
Music: Rock/Pop
Goldfrapp
Sunday Sep 21 (8pm) @ Orpheum Theatre
Giveaway
On Seventh Tree, Goldfrapp's newest release, the sound is sweet and slow, an imaginative soundtrack to a somber summer day in the '70s. Lush, simple... View details »
Goldfrapp
Music: DJ
Brown.Sugar.Sex.Magik
Sunday Sep 21 (1–8pm) @ The Downtown Standard Hotel
Between the late-summer chic of the Standard Downtown rooftop and a DJ roster with an international pedigree, folks are in for an iron-clad good time... View details »
Brown.Sugar.Sex.Magik
Music: Folk/Country
Janis Ian
Sunday Sep 21 (7pm) @ McCabe's Guitar Shop
Sold Out!
Folkie wunderkind, taboo buster, musi-biz survivor — Janis Ian has worn a lot of hats. And she just added published author to the list. Full... View details »
Janis Ian
Music: Hip-Hop
Del Tha Funky Homosapien
Sunday Sep 21 (8:30pm) @ Key Club
With beats beamed down from the Parliament mothership, Del Tha Funky Homosapien's discography is the soundtrack to an intergalactic sock hop. In a genre where... View details »
Del Tha Funky Homosapien

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Art
James Turrell
Sunday Sep 21 (10am–8pm) @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College More times »
Free
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 is, the transcendent, full-body... View details »
James Turrell
More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Sunday Sep 21 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one... View details »
Ugo Wine Bar
Art
Mark Bradford
Sunday Sep 21 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious galleries and museums, but... View details »
Mark Bradford
Art
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Sunday Sep 21 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon More times »
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum... View details »
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Art
Mexican Calendar Girls
Sunday Sep 21 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The color-soaked exhibition comprises a... View details »
Mexican Calendar Girls
Art
Against the Grain
Sunday Sep 21 (noon–6pm) @ Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions More times »
Free
Known for its progressive, boundary-pushing performances and interdisciplinary bravado, LACE's lofty space transforms into a clean, white gallery for Against the Grain, perhaps this summer's... View details »
Against the Grain
Art
Peter Saul
Sunday Sep 21 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
Peter Saul, who hit his artistic stride mid-century during America's pop-art movement, has become best known of late as a creator of work that's part... View details »
Peter Saul
Art
The Juxtapoz Factor
Sunday Sep 21 (10am–6pm) @ Laguna Art Museum More times »
To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as little surprise that some... View details »
The Juxtapoz Factor
Art
Marlene Dumas
Sunday Sep 21 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
The first stateside exhibit of French/South African/Dutch artist Marlene Dumas' work, Measuring Your Own Grave is a prodding collection of sketches and paintings that explore... View details »
Marlene Dumas
Art: Architecture/Design
John Lautner
Sunday Sep 21 (11am–5pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
The risk-taking John Lautner is often described as an architect's architect, even though some of his designs brought him both criticism and disdain. One of... View details »
John Lautner
Art
Summer Smockshop
Sunday Sep 21 (noon–8pm) @ Smockshop More times »
Free
For artists who don't yet sustain themselves from their work, there are myriad ways to bring in some income — peddling smocks is one of... View details »
Summer Smockshop
More Flavor: City Gem
Scribble Press
Sunday Sep 21 (11am–6pm) @ Scribble Press More times »
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with markers, stickers, paints, wide... View details »
Art
Yoko Ono
Sunday Sep 21 @ One Colorado More times »
Free
It has been nearly 28 years since John Lennon's passing, but his quest for world peace lives on. Lennon's widow, noted artist Yoko Ono, continues... View details »
Yoko Ono
Art
All of This is Melting Away
Sunday Sep 21 (10am–6pm) @ Royal/T More times »
Free
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 prominent collector Susan Hancock's... View details »
All of This is Melting Away
Performing Arts: Theatre
Bury the Dead
Sunday Sep 21 (3pm) @ The Actors' Gang Theatre More times »
From director Matt Huffman comes a new adaptation of Irwin Shaw's 1936 antiwar masterpiece, Bury the Dead. Shaw, who went on to pen the acclaimed... View details »
Art
Josh Dorman
Sunday Sep 21 (noon–6pm) @ Craft and Folk Art Museum More times »
Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as foundations for his fantastical... View details »
Josh Dorman
More Flavor: Fashion
Antonio Pineda
Sunday Sep 21 (noon–5pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA More times »
Free
World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show what an especially talented... View details »
Antonio Pineda
Art: Photography
In Focus: The Landscape
Sunday Sep 21 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In Focus: The Landscape explores... View details »
In Focus: The Landscape
Performing Arts: Theatre
9 to 5
Sunday Sep 21 @ Ahmanson Theatre More times »
Based on Collin Higgins' screwball 1980 comedy, 9 to 5: The Musical makes its LA premiere tonight before heading to Broadway in the spring. Directed... View details »
9 to 5
Art
Katie Grinnan
Sunday Sep 21 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture More times »
Katie Grinnan has made a career out of walking the fine line between the second and third dimensions. Grinnan takes architectural structures — as well... View details »
Katie Grinnan
Art
The Art of War
Sunday Sep 21 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon Museum More times »
When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much further than two-dimensional art.... View details »
The Art of War
Art
Anne Faith Nicholls
Sunday Sep 21 (noon–6pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
Anne Faith Nicholls remixes folk art with her quasi-surrealist, richly symbolic narrative works that have roots in the traditional Western high-art style. The result, which... View details »
Anne Faith Nicholls
Art: Photography
Camera Ephemera
Sunday Sep 21 (1–5pm) @ Found Gallery More times »
Free
The next generation of children sadly will be deprived of the joyous anticipation that accompanies instant-photograph developing — the whole shaking-and-waiting routine that goes on... View details »
Camera Ephemera
Art
Aspects of Mel's Hole
Sunday Sep 21 (11am–4pm) @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana More times »
Free
Beloved radio host Art Bell is a cross between Jean Shepherd and Fox Mulder, and a man whose paranormality-themed broadcasts were among the most misunderstood... View details »
Aspects of Mel's Hole
Art
Syndrome
Sunday Sep 21 (noon–6pm) @ Crewest Gallery More times »
Free
Micah Hancock, James Larese, and Mars Sandoval, who make up the motion-design studio Syndrome, demonstrate their penchants for biting humor and stark realism during an... View details »
Syndrome
Performing Arts: Theatre
It's the Housewives
Sunday Sep 21 (3pm) @ Whitefire Theatre More times »
Giveaway
Sarah Palin may have the elusive Hockey Mom demographic sewn up, but who knows how she's going to handle the nation's newest and most fabulous... View details »
It's the Housewives
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Bronx Tale
Sunday Sep 21 (3 & 7:30pm) @ Wadsworth Theater More times »
Before his tenure in Hollywood began, Chazz Palminteri penned this semi-autobiographical play about growing up on the corner of Belmont Ave and 187th Street. For... View details »
A Bronx Tale
Art
Sandrine Pelletier
Sunday Sep 21 @ Fette's Gallery More times »
Free
International-artist-friendly Fette's Gallery rings in its fall season with Insekts, an installation of new works by Swiss mixed-media artist/embroiderer Sandrine Pelletier. The Laussane/Paris-based artist creates... View details »
Sandrine Pelletier
Performing Arts: Festival
FOTW 08
Sunday Sep 21 @ Los Angeles Theatre Center More times »
For the second year in a row, the New LATC concocts an enthralling admixture of theatre, dance, and performance that brings together new work and... View details »
FOTW 08
Art
John Bock
Sunday Sep 21 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
John Bock's unpredictable performances may seem like exercises in artistic capriciousness, but his loud costumes and absurd statements conceal his skill as a social and... View details »
John Bock
Art
Gordy Grundy
Sunday Sep 21 @ Western Project More times »
Free
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website for a 21-week series... View details »
Gordy Grundy
Art: Photography
Robert Glenn Ketchum
Sunday Sep 21 (11am–7pm) @ G2 Gallery More times »
Free
Photographer and environmentalist Robert Glenn Ketchum makes landscape images, but this isn't Ansel Adams we're talking about here. The 38-year-old UCLA graduate eschews the somber... View details »
Robert Glenn Ketchum
Art
Futura, Patrick Chapman
Sunday Sep 21 @ Pacific Electric Lofts More times »
Free
Krunk announces its presentation of the weekend pop-up show Futura: Strategic Synchronicity in the Pacific Electric Lofts vast ground floor gallery space on Downtown's Main... View details »
Futura, Patrick Chapman
Art
East of Eden
Sunday Sep 21 (noon–5pm) @ Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery More times »
Free
Celebrating Silverlake Gallery Alliance's commitment to the creative spirit of LA, a host of East Side art galleries, institutions, and alternative spaces set up shop... View details »
East of Eden
Performing Arts: Theatre
Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Sunday Sep 21 (3pm) @ Miles Memorial Playhouse More times »
Kristina Wong, whose past projects include a parody mail-order bride website called Big Bad Chinese Mama, holds nothing back during her irreverent, no-topic-is-off-limits performances. Like... View details »
Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest