Events on Sunday, May 17
Jean Harlow Pre-Code Double Feature
Sunday 5/17 @ Egyptian Theatre
Shortly before Depression-era censors went into overdrive under the notorious Hays Code, Jean Harlow starred in a string of pictures challenging...
Deep feat. Sabo, Wiseacre, and Joplin
Sunday 5/17 @ Vanguard
Tonight, Deep at the Vanguard — Sunday's regular haven for house fiends — finds club originator and resident DJ Marques Wyatt...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 5/17 @ Ahmanson Theatre
The joint is jumpin' at the Ahmanson Theatre's revival of the 1978 off-Broadway musical Ain't Misbehavin'. Based on the life and...
Sunday 5/17 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Joseph Cornell's surrealist shadowboxes reconfigured found objects into multidimensional creations, classified as neither sculpture nor collage, but as assemblages. The Craft...
Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA
Sunday 5/17 @ Hammer Museum
Exploring the idea of reinvention, Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA illuminates the creative undercurrent of a city that has long...
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Sunday 5/17 @ The Getty Center
Over 100 prints by prolific New York photographer Paul Outerbridge (1896-1958) are on view at the Getty Center through August 9....
It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq
Sunday 5/17 @ Hammer Museum
Creative Time is known as much for its support of ambitious, innovative art projects as it is for its fearless engagement...
Sunday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
The City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowships in the Arts, granted by the Department of Cultural Affairs, are distinguished...
Sunday 5/17 @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana
The Grand Central Art Center Gallery at Cal State Fullerton features over 40 original works by the Grammy-winning Creative Director of...
Sunday 5/17 @ DAP Studios
Thomas "Macky" McNamara has been looking for a way to earn a living as an artist since handcrafting toys as an...
Sunday 5/17 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
It's a perfect confluence of art and events at Carmichael Gallery this month, with two shows and a book-release party stoking...
Sunday 5/17 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
John Baldessari, Catherine Opie, Douglas Kirkland, Lauren Greenfield and Julius Shulman are a few of the world-class photographers whose images are...
Sunday 5/17 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Sunday 5/17 @ 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...
Sunday 5/17 @ Edgemar Center for the Arts
Although last month saw the tenth anniversary of the Columbine shootings, John Buffalo Mailer's raw, stylish morality play Hello Herman was...
Sunday 5/17 @ 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...
Sunday 5/17 @ 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...
Sunday 5/17 @ 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 5/17 @ LA Memorial Coliseum & Exposition Park
Artists, scientists, public-policy makers, and concerned citizens find common ground at unique outdoor art installation Cool Globes. The result of a...
Sunday 5/17 @ The Fountain Theatre
In the early '50s, British biophysicist Rosalind Franklin labored in a King's College London lab to unravel the structure of DNA....
Sunday 5/17 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
Spanning the decade between 1976 and 1986, the GRAMMY Museum's first photography exhibition features 30 pictures of rock stars by Israeli-born,...
Sunday 5/17 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Sunday 5/17 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents a selection of artworks donated to the Museum since 2002. Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the...
