Events on Sunday, March 15

Ivo Vergara: Monumental Waterfall Mural

Art

Ivo Vergara

Sunday 3/15 @ Roosevelt Lofts

The Roosevelt Lofts private residences in Downtown LA host an afternoon reception, unveiling the mammoth new mural gracing their upper garden.... 

Paradise Found

Music: DJ

Paradise Found

Sunday 3/15 @ Temporary Spaces

Being in a city known for its love of vocal house, LA parties have been historically hit-or-miss. Fortunately, dance-music aficionados are... 

Part Time Punks feat. These Are Powers w/ Death Sentence: PANDA!

Music: Experimental

These Are Powers

Sunday 3/15 @ The Echo & Echoplex

These Are Powers' self-described "ghost punk" sound unsettles listeners by veering wildly from unhinged theatricality to spaced-out dub, while maintaining a... 

Ongoing Events

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

Sunday 3/15 @ Vinum Populi

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

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Sunday 3/15 @ 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>Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda</em>

Fashion/Style

Antonio Pineda

Sunday 3/15 @ 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... 

Robert Dowd: <em>Pop Art Money</em>

Art

Robert Dowd

Sunday 3/15 @ Pepperdine University, Weisman Museum of Art

The Weisman Museum at Pepperdine's Malibu campus launches one of its most important exhibitions to date with this long-overdue survey of... 

Collecting Abraham Lincoln

Special Event

Collecting Abraham Lincoln

Sunday 3/15 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

In honor of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday, the newly renovated Huntington Library digs into its massive reservoir of Lincolniana. The letters,... 

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

Art

Eddy Sykes

Sunday 3/15 @ Materials & Applications

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

<em>Das Rheingold</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Das Rheingold

Sunday 3/15 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Wagnerians of the world unite tonight, at what promises to be LA Opera's exceptional treatment of its first Ring Cycle. Part... 

<em>Nat King Cole Re:Generations</em>

Art

Nat King Cole Re:Generations

Sunday 3/15 @ Crewest Gallery

Forty-four years after his death, legendary pianist and baritone Nat King Cole continues to inspire artists, from painters to poets and,... 

MAK Center Residents: Final Projects, Group XXVII

Art

MAK Center Residents: Final Projects

Sunday 3/15 @ MAK Center Schindler House

The latest crop of participants in the MAK Center's noted six-month residency program for international emerging artists holds its Final Projects... 

<em>Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde</em>

Art

Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde

Sunday 3/15 @ The Getty Center

In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and... 

<em>Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy</em>

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Sunday 3/15 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live

The recently opened GRAMMY Museum at Downtown's mammoth entertainment complex LA Live offers visitors a rare, intimate glimpse into the life... 

Matthew Feyld: <em>New Work</em> and David MacDowell: <em>The Sins of Atticus Finch</em>

Art

Matthew Feyld and David MacDowell

Sunday 3/15 @ Thinkspace Gallery

Matthew Feyld combines fantasy, reality, and optically operative patterning into a new series of super-flat, cartoonish paintings that could easily be... 

2008 California Biennial

Art

2008 California Biennial

Sunday 3/15 @ 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... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Sunday 3/15 @ Scribble Press

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

Silverlake Art, Craft & Vintage Flea Market

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Art, Craft & Vintage Flea Market

Sunday 3/15 @ 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... 

Ken Roht's 99c Only Calendar Girl Competition

Performing Arts

Ken Roht's 99c Only Calendar Girl Competition

Sunday 3/15 @ Bootleg Theater

<em>Paper Cuts</em>: 200 Years of Black Paper Dolls

Art

Paper Cuts

Sunday 3/15 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum

Where London has the Victoria and Albert, LA has the Craft and Folk Art Museum; yet, too often, the little institution... 

<em>Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA</em>

Art

Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA

Sunday 3/15 @ Hammer Museum

Exploring the idea of reinvention, Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA illuminates the creative undercurrent of a city that has long... 

<em>ZAP! POW! BAM!</em><em> The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books, 1938-1950</em>

Art

ZAP! POW! BAM!

Sunday 3/15 @ Skirball Cultural Center

Jerry Robinson, cartoonist and creator of Batman's iconic villain, the Joker, guest curated ZAP! POW! BAM! The Golden Age of Comic... 

Theatre

Pippin

Sunday 3/15 @ Mark Taper Forum

Wicked maestro Stephen Schwartz revives his '70s rock opera Pippin as the opening production of the Mark Taper 2009 season. A... 

BOXeight Fashion Week

Fashion/Style

BOXeight Fashion Week

Sunday 3/15 @ The Los Angeles Theatre

Even the most runway-savvy among us need a little help navigating the tsunami of taste-making that is Fashion Week in Los... 

<em>Matisse's Amours: Illustrations of Pierre de Ronsard's Love Poems</em>

Art

Matisse's Amours

Sunday 3/15 @ Norton Simon Museum

The French Fauvist painter Henri Matisse began a simple, 30-lithograph portfolio in 1941, and seven years later transformed it into a... 

<em>James Hueter: A Retrospective</em>

Art

James Hueter

Sunday 3/15 @ Claremont Museum of Art

The Claremont Museum of Art makes no secret of its mission: the preservation, study, and dissemination of the legacy left by... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Sunday 3/15 @ 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...