Events on Sunday, August 30
Ask Your Mama with Jessye Norman, The Roots, Nnenna Freelon, and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
Sunday 8/30 @ Hollywood Bowl
Hip Hop seduces the symphony tonight when Laura Karpman's Ask Your Mama, a genre-grinding street musical inspired by Langston Hughes' revolutionary...
Sunday 8/30 @ Synchronicity Space
International squeezebox extremists and alt-folk instrumentalists tour the west, as Vancouver's Geoff Berner — a self-described "Klezmer mongrel" — shares his...
Sunday 8/30 @ Exchange LA
As the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, there is much cause for celebration in how far New Orleans has come...
Panel discussion on Edith Heath and Heath Ceramics
Sunday 8/30 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Join us for a panel discussion on Edith Heath and Heath Ceramics. Edith Heath began as a studio potter in San...
387 Music Entertainment Presents
Sunday 8/30 @ The Mint
Your Very Own (acoustic) at 8:00, Jon Ketchum at 8:55
WOAH! "(500) Days of Summer" Walking Tour NOW CLOSED
Sunday 8/30 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
We've had an overwhelming response to this Sunday's free walking tour of sites from the film "(500) Days of Summer." The...
The Bear (1988) w/ live score by No Age
Sunday 8/30 @ The Cinefamily
TRAILER L.A.-based, world-renowned experimental noise pop duo No Age will appear live at...
The Bear (1988) w/ live score by No Age
Sunday 8/30 @ The Cinefamily
TRAILER L.A.-based, world-renowned experimental noise pop duo No Age will appear live at...
Ongoing Events
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Sunday 8/30 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
All year photographers have been clicking camera shutters with their lenses pointed toward the action. The 66th annual Pictures of the...
Sunday 8/30 @ Various Hollywood locations
Co-produced by Neil Patrick Harris and Tom Salamon, Accomplice: Hollywood sends teams of intrepid folks along Hollywood Boulevard and its environs...
Sunday 8/30 @ 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 8/30 @ 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...
Sunday 8/30 @ Smooth n Purdy Gallery
Los Angeles artist Michael Hayden arrives at the Smooth n Purdy Gallery in The Complex for a solo exhibition of recent...
Sunday 8/30 @ S. Mark Taper Foundation Amphitheatre
Working to restore greenery to the southland for over 30 years, TreePeople helps communities foster tree growth, provides environmental education, and...
Sunday 8/30 @ Theatre of NOTE
Theatre of Note's current "Season of the Passion Plays" continues with this original noir production of Kill Me, Deadly! Loaded with...
Sunday 8/30 @ Japanese American National Museum
Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda has a lot on his mind — literally. His parallel career as a visual artist often finds...
Sunday 8/30 @ Thinkspace Gallery
In honor of ModArt's 20th issue, Thinkspace hosts a group show curated by the folks at the revered European art magazine,...
Sunday 8/30 @ 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...
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Sunday 8/30 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
The second most consumed drink next to water, tea has also been frequent theme in art history. Guest curated by tea...
Sunday 8/30 @ Various East Side Venues
Celebrating the spirit of the bicycle through film, art, and music, the Bicycle Film Festival rolls into LA for the sixth...
Sunday 8/30 @ 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 8/30 @ The Getty Center
Thirty staged photographs are on view at the Getty Center as part of its In Focus series, a thematic presentation of...
Sunday 8/30 @ 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...
Sunday 8/30 @ Little Radio
Time to ditch that indie rock monitor tan, as Little Radio Summer Camp returns for the 2009 back-to-school season at the...
Sunday 8/30 @ Pershing Square
Illuminating the wealth of creative resources within the LA art scene, Tarryn Teresa Gallery's Lights on LA strings up light bulbs...
dredg / RX Bandits with As Tall as Lions
Sunday 8/30 @ El Rey
Like At the Drive-In, Rival Schools, and other post-hardcore Judases who had the nerve to make knotty art-punk riffs more palatable,...
Sunday 8/30 @ Various locations
The Architecture and Design Museum launches a trio of urban hikes canvassing little-known LA with the City of Angels' laureate, Mike...
Sunday 8/30 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
In today's volatile political climate, questions abound as to what, if any, limits on free speech and civic protest exist —...
Sunday 8/30 @ The Gas Company Lofts
Mear One's legendary psychedelic, often graffiti-inspired surrealism and Michael Pukac's baroque, almost classically narrative paintings — and their shared interest in...
The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle
Sunday 8/30 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Sunday 8/30 @ 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 8/30 @ The Landmark
Adapted from Stefan Aust's 1985 publication, The Baader Meinhof Complex chronicles the reckless idealism and hectic resolve of Germany's Red Army...
Sunday 8/30 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Sunday 8/30 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
Severed heads, skulls and daggers brimming with blood, and cemeteries littered with dismembered corpses may not readily invoke visions of spiritual...
Sunday 8/30 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
LA-based art and action collective Fallen Fruit uses the visual arts (specifically photography, installation, and performance-oriented actions) to examine the imbalance...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Sunday 8/30 @ 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...
Sunday 8/30 @ Malibu Country Mart
Seven Los Angeles-based contemporary art galleries spread their wings and cruise with the Malibu seagulls for the inaugural edition of a...
Sunday 8/30 @ The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
In the '50s, blacklisted actor Will Geer opened a theater on his Topanga property for fellow performers ostracized during the McCarthy...
Sunday 8/30 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Biltmore Hotel tour explores the architecture and rich history of this magnificent hotel, known in its early days as “The...
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Sunday 8/30 @ The Getty Museum
This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights...
You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty
Sunday 8/30 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Featuring work of five UC Davis faculty members Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Manuel Neri, Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley,...
Sunday 8/30 @ Art Center College of Design
Illustration students from Art Center College of Design currently have their work on display at the Aquarium of the Pacific in...
Sunday 8/30 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Imagine yourself immersed in a favorite childhood tale. Five years in the making and occupying an 8,000-square-foot gallery, Noah's Ark at...
Annie Lapin: Parallel Deliria Iteration
Sunday 8/30 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The PMCA is proud to present Los Angeles painter Annie Lapin's Parallel Deliria Iteration, which the artist describes as "a never-ending...
Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Sunday 8/30 @ The Getty Museum
This exhibition represents an overview of three centuries of French bronze sculpture, when monarchs and private collectors came to embrace bronze...
Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist
Sunday 8/30 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
This exhibition focuses on the life of Edith Heath and her defining influence on California design through pottery. Popular at dinner...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Sunday 8/30 @ 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...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Sunday 8/30 @ The Getty Museum
The city of Algiers, on the north coast of Africa, historically sheltered a diverse population. During the Ottoman centuries (1529-1830), this...
Sunday 8/30 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Benny Chan has worked diligently over the past few years to photograph overhead views of Los Angeles freeways during the height...
Sunday 8/30 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
