Events on Sunday, March 22

Festival: Performing Arts

The Pink Parlour Festival

Sunday 3/22 @ Santa Anita Park

In an effort to foster harmony among female creatives, the Pink Parlour Festival has invited scores of artists, crafters, musicians, and... 

Culprit Session 01 West Coast Launch feat. Damian Lazarus, Droog, Lee Foss, Jamie Jones, and Clive Henry

Music: DJ

Culprit Sessions 01

Sunday 3/22 @ The Downtown Standard Hotel

Crosstown Rebels label honcho Damian Lazarus helps pop the cork at the launch for the latest Droog DJ residency, with a... 

Da Camera Society presents the Amstel Quartet

Music: Classical

The Amstel Quartet

Sunday 3/22 @ Bradbury Building

Commissioned by mining magnate Lewis Bradbury in 1892, Downtown's five-story, commercial Romanesque Bradbury Building was allegedly completed by architect George Wyman... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

Sunday 3/22 @ Vinum Populi

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

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

Art

Nat King Cole Re:Generations

Sunday 3/22 @ Crewest Gallery

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

City Gems

Scribble Press

Sunday 3/22 @ 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 3/22 @ 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... 

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: 50th Anniversary Celebration

Dance

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Sunday 3/22 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

On March 30, 1958, Alvin Ailey and a group of young black modern dancers performed at New York's 92nd Street YM-YWHA,... 

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

Art

Robert Dowd

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

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

Art

ZAP! POW! BAM!

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

<em>Tokyo!</em>

Film

Tokyo!

Sunday 3/22 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

An imaginative ode to Japan's capital told in three parts, Tokyo! is cleverly linked by themes of alienation, identity, and destiny.... 

Dance

Tango Kabloom

Sunday 3/22 @ Tango Mar Vista

Tango Mar Vista invites those bored with the gym to participate in a week-long series of free introductory tango classes. Resident... 

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

Art

Paper Cuts

Sunday 3/22 @ 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>James Hueter: A Retrospective</em>

Art

James Hueter

Sunday 3/22 @ 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 3/22 @ 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... 

Ken Roht's 99c Only Calendar Girl Competition

Performing Arts

Ken Roht's 99c Only Calendar Girl Competition

Sunday 3/22 @ Bootleg Theater

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

Art

Matisse's Amours

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

Collecting Abraham Lincoln

Special Event

Collecting Abraham Lincoln

Sunday 3/22 @ 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,... 

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

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Sunday 3/22 @ 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 3/22 @ Thinkspace Gallery

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

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

Art

Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA

Sunday 3/22 @ Hammer Museum

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

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

Art

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

Sunday 3/22 @ The Getty Center

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