Events on Sunday, September 20
Sunday 9/20 @ Santa Monica Boys & Girls Club
Produced by the tireless youth advocate and photographer Myra Vides, this board-centric event is also a labor of love for Hella...
Fallen Fruit Banana Meditation & Artists Talk
Sunday 9/20 @ 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...
Sunday 9/20 @ Aratani/Japan America Theatre
Winning chefs from local sushi competitions across the country meet to face off in the neighborhood where the Japanese dish first...
Sunday 9/20 @ Hollywood Bowl
Celebrate India's music and dance - from the intoxicating beauty of the Indian classical and folk legacy curated by maestro Shankar,...
Sunday 9/20 @ The Cinefamily
WATCH CLIP OF JEFF IN ACTION! Alongside artists such as Nam Jun Paik and Yoko Ono, Jeff Perkins was a member...
Ongoing Events
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Sunday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Marine
One silver lining to art-world downsizing is the resurgence of the private salon, made famous by the 19th and 20th century...
Sunday 9/20 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Sunday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ The Getty Center
Thirty staged photographs are on view at the Getty Center as part of its In Focus series, a thematic presentation of...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Sunday 9/20 @ 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...
Sunday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Laemmle's Royal Theatre
Environmental documentaries have been popping up at an alarming rate, providing lots of proselytizing, but little action. No Impact Man promises...
Sunday 9/20 @ 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...
Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins
Sunday 9/20 @ El Centro Theatre
Seventies hatemonger (and Harvey Milk's old nemesis) Anita Bryant is the anti-heroine in Brian Christopher Williams' gentle coming-of-age comedy. Directed by...
Sunday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
After following Metallica through group therapy in his last film, Some Kind of Monster, Joe Berlinger is back in top form...
Sunday 9/20 @ PØST
The LA art world mourned the closing of downtown avant-garde exhibition staple PØST a few years ago, but now it's back...
Sunday 9/20 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Billed as the first bel canto production from LA Opera in six years, The Elixir of Love features a big gun:...
Sunday 9/20 @ 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...
Sunday 9/20 @ 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...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Sunday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ El Portal Theatre
Luminario Ballet delivers new works and vintage choreography in ballet, modern and aerial classics by Judith FLEX Helle, Bella Lewitzky, Doriana...
Sunday 9/20 @ REDCAT
REDCAT presents Autoconstrucción: The Film by Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas, in which the artist revisits Ajusco, his childhood neighborhood in Mexico...
Sunday 9/20 @ 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...
Sunday 9/20 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Whether the product of sheer creative license or shrewd marketing heads, the movie poster has inspired as much debate as the...
Sunday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ West Beach, Santa Barbara
The word bashment is a Caribbean term used to describe a particularly good party, and it happens to be the name...
Sunday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Sunday 9/20 @ 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...
Sunday 9/20 @ 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...
Sunday 9/20 @ 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...
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Sunday 9/20 @ The Getty Museum
This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights...
Annie Lapin: Parallel Deliria Iteration
Sunday 9/20 @ 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...
Sunday 9/20 @ 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...
Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist
Sunday 9/20 @ 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...
Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36
Sunday 9/20 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
This new exhibition explores the career of legendary film producer Irving Thalberg, Hollywood’s original “Boy Wonder,” and...
Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Sunday 9/20 @ The Getty Museum
This exhibition represents an overview of three centuries of French bronze sculpture, when monarchs and private collectors came to embrace bronze...
Sunday 9/20 @ The Getty Museum
Irving Penn was one of the most respected photographers of the 20th century. In a career that began at the premiere...
Sunday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ 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...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Sunday 9/20 @ 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 9/20 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Biltmore Hotel tour explores the architecture and rich history of this magnificent hotel, known in its early days as “The...
Sunday 9/20 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty
Sunday 9/20 @ 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,...
