Events on Sunday, September 7
Sunday 9/ 7 @ UCLA Main Campus
Calling all bibliophiles, current and former English majors, and anybody else who enjoys a good read. The UCLA Writers' Faire is...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ Echoplex
Encyclopaedia Metallum lists a whopping 12 bands named Witchcraft, two of which are from Sweden. But only one of these acts...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ Safari Sam's
Break out the grits and guitars — Safari Sam's Sunday Brunch Americana serves up no-fuss music folk and morning food just...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ Hollywood Bowl
If the post-Olympics void of Chinese theatricality has got you down, then the awe-inspiring feats of the Peking Acrobats might be...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ Spaceland
Joel Thibodeau's stratospherically high voice and bright delivery don't sound particularly funereal, but he carries his Death Vessel moniker with unflinching...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 9/ 7 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana
Beloved radio host Art Bell is a cross between Jean Shepherd and Fox Mulder, and a man whose paranormality-themed broadcasts were...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ Whitefire Theatre
Sarah Palin may have the elusive Hockey Mom demographic sewn up, but who knows how she's going to handle the nation's...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ Surfrider Beach
Finally, there's something to photograph on the beach in Malibu besides the shirtless antics of Matthew McConaughey. The newsworthy occasion is...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Loosely based on George Langelaan's 1957 short story and David Cronenberg's 1986 film adaptation, The Fly wings its way to the...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ La Luz de Jesus
Anne Faith Nicholls remixes folk art with her quasi-surrealist, richly symbolic narrative works that have roots in the traditional Western high-art...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ Norton Simon Museum
When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ Smockshop
For artists who don't yet sustain themselves from their work, there are myriad ways to bring in some income — peddling...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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 9/ 7 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
Katie Grinnan has made a career out of walking the fine line between the second and third dimensions. Grinnan takes architectural...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ Found Gallery
The next generation of children sadly will be deprived of the joyous anticipation that accompanies instant-photograph developing — the whole shaking-and-waiting...
Sunday 9/ 7 @ 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...
