Events on Monday, January 5

Consuming the Arts presents <em>New Choices</em>

Theatre

Consuming the Arts

Monday 1/ 5 @ The Actors' Playpen

The first Monday of every month sees the members and guest artists of interdisciplinary creative ensemble Consuming the Arts invade the... 

Rocco Deluca w/ Crash Kings

Music

Rocco Deluca w/ Crash Kings

Monday 1/ 5 @ Spaceland

Rocco Deluca's oh-so-dulcet Monday-night residency gets a welcome kick in the pants with tonight's guests: the very loud, hard-driving, perennially charming... 

Gay Beast w/ Moment Trigger, Tleilaxu Music Machine, Kawaiietly Please, and French Quarter

Music: Experimental

Gay Beast

Monday 1/ 5 @ Pehrspace

Gay Beast's ecstatic rockers are more intricate and technically difficult than they seem. Some of their songs straddle the line between... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art: Photography

In Focus: The Landscape

Monday 1/ 5 @ 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... 

Mark Todd, <em>Fragments</em> and Alan Forbes, <em>Unmanned Vessel</em>

Art

Mark Todd and Alan Forbes

Monday 1/ 5 @ 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... 

<em>Fortuna Rising: Gordy Grundy is the Messenger</em>

Art

Gordy Grundy

Monday 1/ 5 @ Western Project

The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website... 

<em>The Art of War: American Posters from WWI and WWII</em>

Art

The Art of War

Monday 1/ 5 @ 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... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Monday 1/ 5 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Monday 1/ 5 @ 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... 

Louise Bourgeois

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Monday 1/ 5 @ 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... 

Eddy Sykes: <em>Yakuza Lou</em>

Art

Eddy Sykes

Monday 1/ 5 @ Materials & Applications

First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &... 

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

Monday 1/ 5 @ Vinum Populi

Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie... 

William Tunberg

Art

William Tunberg

Monday 1/ 5 @ C4 Gallery

Marquetry is an ages-old technique of applying wood veneers to solid surfaces, popular among extremely wealthy Europeans in the time of... 

BPM Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

BPM Festival

Monday 1/ 5 @ 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... 

Vermeer's <em>A Lady Writing</em>

Art

Vermeer's A Lady Writing

Monday 1/ 5 @ 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... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Monday 1/ 5 @ Scribble Press

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