Events on Monday, July 20

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart w/ Girls

Music

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Monday 7/20 @ The Echo & Echoplex

Sure, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart are still a little wet behind the ears, but they've polished their style... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Lights on LA</em>

Festival: Art

Lights on LA

Monday 7/20 @ Pershing Square

Illuminating the wealth of creative resources within the LA art scene, Tarryn Teresa Gallery's Lights on LA strings up light bulbs... 

Chalk Repertory Theatre presents <em>The Debate over Courtney O'Connell of Columbus, Nebraska</em>

Theatre

The Debate over Courtney O'Connell of Columbus, Nebraska

Monday 7/20 @ Cafe Metropol

Chalk Repertory Theatre guns love and passion down through defiantly minimal farce and a flaunted disregard for sex or ethnicity in... 

Jim Gentry: <em>Never Odd or Even</em> and Leia Jervert: <em>Cut Back</em>

Art

Jim Gentry and Leia Jervert

Monday 7/20 @ Happy

There's no excuse to feel glum when you're at Happy, a home and lifestyle nook in Los Feliz that features well-designed... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Monday 7/20 @ Scribble Press

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

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

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Monday 7/20 @ 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... 

Between Slumdogs and Millionaires: South Asian American Cinema

Film

Between Slumdogs and Millionaires

Monday 7/20 @ UCLA Public Affairs Building 2232

The LA Unified School District may have canceled summer school for the kids, but not UCLA. Expand your mind in the... 

<em>The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle</em>: Photographic Landscapes of the 1950s and 1960s

Art: Photography

The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle

Monday 7/20 @ Take My Picture Gary Leonard

Ever since taking a photograph of the Dodgers as a little boy in 1959, Gary Leonard has documented the mercurial landscape... 

Back to Basics: <em>MatterApp</em>

Art

MatterApp

Monday 7/20 @ Materials & Applications

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Sean Carnage presents Summerdelic Tweakfest

Music

Summerdelic Tweakfest

Monday 7/20 @ Women

After packing up his Monday night romper-stomper music nights at Pehrspace due to, um, noise issues, Sean Carnage kicks off his... 

<em>Occupation Dreamer: The Photography of Moshe Brakha</em>

Art: Photography

Occupation Dreamer

Monday 7/20 @ 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,... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Monday 7/20 @ 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... 

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

Monday 7/20 @ 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>Nordic Mood</em>: Photographs from Iceland by Fri&eth;geir Helgason

Art: Photography

Nordic Mood

Monday 7/20 @ Gallery Skart

Beyond Björk and ice hotels, most Americans don't have a lot of familiarity with Iceland — but the eerie beauty of... 

<em>Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet</em>

Art

Cool Globes

Monday 7/20 @ 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... 

<em>Sweets & Treats</em>: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum

Art

Wayne Thiebaud

Monday 7/20 @ Norton Simon Museum

In the 1960s, soon-to-be Pop icon Wayne Thiebaud created a series of monochromatic, two-dimensional prints of nine pieces of pie, sufficiently... 

<em>Diverted Destruction 2</em>

Art

Diverted Destruction 2

Monday 7/20 @ The Loft at Liz's

A diverse group of emerging LA artists join forces to give your garbage a new lease on life. Work in the... 

<em>Sweets & Treats</em>: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum

Special Event

Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum

Monday 7/20 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art

In the 1960s, soon-to-be Pop icon Wayne Thiebaud created a series of monochromatic, two-dimensional prints of nine pieces of pie, sufficiently... 

Pompeii and the Roman Villa

Special Event

Pompeii and the Roman Villa

Monday 7/20 @ LACMA

Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum

Special Event

Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum

Monday 7/20 @ 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... 

The Chimaera of Arezzo

Art

The Chimaera of Arezzo

Monday 7/20 @ The Getty Museum

The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...