Events on Sunday, January 11
Sunday 1/11 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
On the heels of '60s and '70s documentaries like Gimme Shelter and The Salesman, cinema verite filmmakers...
Sunday 1/11 @ The Hotel Café
The year's first edition of monthly spoken-word staple Tongue & Groove invites a group of writers and guest musicians to share...
Sunday 1/11 @ The Smell
Vice Cooler (aka Hawnay Troof) started tweaking out with the XBXRX crew in the late '90s, but though the band's furious...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 1/11 @ 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 1/11 @ 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 1/11 @ Santa Monica Air Center, Barker Hangar
The LA International Photographic Art Expo (aka photoLA) hits Barker Hanger for its 18th-annual three-day jubilee. Over 70 worldwide galleries and...
Sunday 1/11 @ Gallery 1988
Gallery 1988 hits '09 running with the second installment of its Under the Influence series, this year paying homage to the...
Sunday 1/11 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
99¢ Only Calendar Girl Competition
Sunday 1/11 @ Bootleg Theater
Bargain-hunting beauty queens and dollar store Don Juans convene as Bootleg Theatre pays homage to LA's kitschy holiday headquarters. The 99¢...
Sunday 1/11 @ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...
Sunday 1/11 @ Norton Simon Museum
It's not often that Angelenos have the chance to examine an original painting by Dutch Baroque master Johannes Vermeer. His surviving...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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 1/11 @ 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 1/11 @ Art/Works Theatre
For the first half of the 20th century, Le Theatre du Grand Guignol in Paris reigned as the predominant purveyor of...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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 1/11 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
The best operas hint at larger mysteries than their traditional, even predictable, story arcs at first seem to address. Reviving an...
Sunday 1/11 @ Pacific Design Center
Blake Edwards has established a lasting role in an otherwise fickle entertainment industry, directing gems like Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Party,...
Sunday 1/11 @ Armory Center for the Arts
With At the Brewery Project: 1993-2007: the Finale, the Armory pays its respects to an LA art mainstay. For the past...
Sunday 1/11 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Louise Bourgeois' deeply personal art combines an in-your-face sexuality with disturbing, even terrifying, imagery of trespassed flesh and violated privacy. Yet...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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 1/11 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
Sunday 1/11 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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 1/11 @ La Luz de Jesus
In Fragments, professional illustrator Mark Todd brings his increasingly abstracted art to La Luz. Bastardizing his signature, comics-based style, Todd's latest...
Sunday 1/11 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Sunday 1/11 @ 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...
Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker
Sunday 1/11 @ Bob Baker Marionette Theater
In the early '60s, Bob Baker and partner Alton Wood founded a marionette theater, establishing what has become the longest-running children's...
Sunday 1/11 @ Playa del Carmen, Mexico
In honor of the second annual BPM Festival, club owners, promoters, and other pro nightlifers flock to the Mexican Caribbean for...
Sunday 1/11 @ The Company
The economy be damned: amid a spate of gallery closings, it's still full speed ahead for the fearless founders of the...
Sunday 1/11 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick...
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Sunday 1/11 @ The Getty Center
In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and...
Sunday 1/11 @ Viceroy Santa Monica
Hosted by renowned producers such as Glenfiddich, the Macallan, and Glenmorangie, Single Malt Sundays at the Viceroy Santa Monica Hotel offers...
Art, Craft & Vintage Flea Market
Sunday 1/11 @ Citibank Parking Lot (corner of Silverlake Blvd)
East Side shoppers seeking the offbeat were rewarded last holiday season, as the gals at Ghettogloss heard their flea-market pleas. Back...
