Events on Sunday, April 25
Sunday 4/25 @ Kopeikin Gallery
New York's non-profit arts org Slideluck Potshow specializes in hosting food-driven slideshows in cities across the globe. As part of Month...
Javelin (Brooklyn) w/ Maus Haus (SF) and 60-Watt Kid at Bootleg
Sunday 4/25 @ Bootleg Theater
JAVELIN “Javelin, comprised of New York City crate-rats George Langford and Tom Van Buskirk, certainly do their share of jumping around,...
The Lost Origins of the Essay: Celebrating the History of Literary Nonfiction
Sunday 4/25 @ REDCAT
A reading with Tisa Bryant, Bernard Cooper, Ben Ehrenreich and Amy Gerstler
Von Trier Documentary Double Shot: The Purified & The Exhibited
Sunday 4/25 @ The Cinefamily
Co-presented by The Danish Film Festival
Infamous, inflammatory, and insane -- few directors have stimulated more arguments,...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 4/25 @ Santa Monica Air Center, Barker Hangar
Los Angeles Antiques Show says: LOS ANGELES ANTIQUES SHOW FEATURES 65 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITORS, LECTURES, BENEFITS P.S. ARTS
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Sunday 4/25 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
Sunday 4/25 @ The Last Bookstore
While we certainly wish them all the luck in the world, we hope that the Last Bookstore's name proves un-prophetic. A...
Sunday 4/25 @ American Jewish University
Each of the artists in the three-person show, Body and Soul, carries an impressive list of achievements. Featuring work by Kathryn...
Sunday 4/25 @ Natural History Museum
One of the Natural History Museum's most eagerly anticipated annual events is its Pavilion of Wings — the installation of living,...
Sunday 4/25 @ Lazarides Gallery Beverly Hills
On the eve of the release of the new biographical documentary on his life so far, David Choe takes on the...
Sunday 4/25 @ Downtown Independent Theater
The artists featured in the documentary Beautiful Losers were hardly the first to root their work in street art, but they...
Paved Paradise: The Art of Joni Mitchell
Sunday 4/25 @ The Renberg Theatre
Acclaimed, award-winning performance artist John Kelly has a voice that's eerie in its elasticity, able to bend between genders and spirits...
Sunday 4/25 @ The Autry National Center of the American West
The terminus of Manifest Destiny has produced an unparalleled convergence of cultures, and by using methodologies such as cultural, social, and...
Sunday 4/25 @ Various LA locations
"More than a century ago, composer Richard Wagner conceived his epic four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen as a festival event...
Sunday 4/25 @ The Geffen Playhouse
Almost immediately after William Lindsay Gresham's Nightmare Alley was first published in 1946, quintessential Hollywood hunk, Tyrone Power, bought the movie...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Sunday 4/25 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Does having more Best Picture nominations affect the quality of films made? Maybe not. But then again, the last time 10...
Sunday 4/25 @ SCI-Arc
After studying architecture in the '50s, Sir Peter Cook exhibited at ICA (where he later served as director), and co-founded Archigram,...
Sunday 4/25 @ 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...
Darkwave: Surfing and the Violence of the City
Sunday 4/25 @ USC Institute for Genetic Medicine Art Gallery
This expanded and recontextualized exhibition builds on last year's installation at Black Cat Gallery, to now involve the experiences of the...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Sunday 4/25 @ 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 4/25 @ California Market Center
Following up on last year's success of Unique LA (the debut earned over half a million dollars), the sophomore edition looks...
Sunday 4/25 @ Arclight Hollywood
Directed by the notorious Banksy himself, Exit Through the Gift Shop takes viewers on a wild ride through the illicit world...
Sunday 4/25 @ Electric Lodge
Forget Amsterdam, Oaksterdam, and the Rastafarians. Where else could you catch the world premiere of a musical about pot than in...
Sunday 4/25 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip
Those who summon spirituality from live music and Southern-style cuisine will enjoy the House of Blues' Gospel Brunch, a longtime local...
Sunday 4/25 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Sumi Ink Club represents a new ethos in the art world, one that builds on the playful spirit of artists like...
Sunday 4/25 @ 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 4/25 @ SolwayJones Gallery
In this dual-venue mini-retrospective of works mainly from the mid-'70s and early '80s, SolwayJones and Kunsthalle L.A. set up an intriguing...
Sunday 4/25 @ Art Center College of Design
Rightfully entitled DreamWorlds, this short exhibition at the Williamson Gallery features the work of the Dreamworks animation artists that help bring...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Sunday 4/25 @ Mark Taper Forum
It's always refreshing to see a work that speaks with such striking originality; it reaffirms the value in taking risks. Playwright...
Sunday 4/25 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
National Geographic puts a new spin on a classic subject, using cutting-edge photographic technology to build a sweeping portfolio of the...
Sunday 4/25 @ Various Hollywood theaters
America's beloved commercial-free cable network, Turner Classic Movies broadcasts everything from silent-era two-reelers and vintage travelogues to rare film noirs, golden-era...
Sunday 4/25 @ The Fountain Theatre
In a modern-day California gothic tale worthy of something by Raymond Chandler, John Fante, Charles Bukowski, or James Ellroy, the longtime...
Sunday 4/25 @ Los Angeles Convention Center
THC Expose says: THC EXPO was the first trade show presented by World War Thirteen, Inc. THC EXPOSE is the second....
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Sunday 4/25 @ 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 4/25 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Sunday 4/25 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Sunday 4/25 @ The Cravens Estate
The artistry and innovation of the designers, landscapers, and artisans involved in this year's Pasadena Showcase House is as inspirational and...
Sunday 4/25 @ Largo
Nebraskan troubadour Josh Rouse has resided in Spain for a few years now, and the relocation has transformed his life and...
Sunday 4/25 @ CB1 Gallery
The thing about Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia is that, although nearly all his creative projects involve paint at some point, he's not...
Sunday 4/25 @ Edgemar Center for the Arts
Henry Jaglom's father was a wealthy Russian businessman, and one of the few Jews Heinrich Himmler offered make an "honorary Aryan"...
Sunday 4/25 @ Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum says: This spring the Hammer Museum presents The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New...
No One Knows About Persian Cats
Sunday 4/25 @ Landmark Westside Pavilion
Under normal circumstances, most Americans over 30 wouldn't rush to see the latest independent quasi-documentary feature about a bunch of city...
Sunday 4/25 @ The Ford Theater
Lascivious Something is a marked departure from Sheila Callaghan's work as a writer on Showtime's The United States of Tara. Presented...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Sunday 4/25 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The Los Angeles River has been having a comeback, if you can argue that it was ever popular to begin with....
Sunday 4/25 @ UCLA Main Campus
The cliché that Angelenos don't read is refuted once again by the popularity of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books,...
Sunday 4/25 @ François Ghebaly Gallery
Although he was born in New York and lives and works in Berlin, there is something about David Levine's long-term found-photo...
Sunday 4/25 @ Eclectic Company Theatre
Written by Jeff Folschinsky, Eclectic's original Turkey Day has the pitch-perfect couple, Bruce and Buffy, being forced to survive their imperfect...
Sunday 4/25 @ 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 4/25 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Biltmore Hotel tour explores the architecture and rich history of this magnificent hotel, known in its early days as “The...
Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs
Sunday 4/25 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents an exhibition of twenty lithographs of botanical subjects by American artist Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923). Though...
Sunday 4/25 @ 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...
The Bloody Beetroots w/ Steve Aoki
Sunday 4/25 @ Hollywood Palladium
The Bloody Beetroots are an electro and dance music duo from Bassano del Grappa, Vicenza, Italy. Formed in late 2006 by...
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Sunday 4/25 @ Book Soup
Visit Book Soup at the LA Times Festival of Books! (Booth 330 -- Zone C)
Americas and Americans: Golijov's St. Mark Passion
Sunday 4/25 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
María Guinand leads Golijov’s masterpiece, the passionate and visceral St. Mark Passion, which features choreography...
Sunday 4/25 @ The GRAMMY Museum
The GRAMMY Museum's third major special exhibit, Strange Kozmic Experience explores the innovations, legacies, and continual impact of the artists who...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Sunday 4/25 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Showcasing more than 100 illustrations and texts from time-honored classics and popular favorites, this new exhibition guides audiences through the colorful...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Sunday 4/25 @ The Getty Museum
Over 180 ancient glass objects from the collection of Erwin Oppenländer are featured in this exhibition. The Oppenländer collection, which the Getty...
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Sunday 4/25 @ Book Soup
Visit Book Soup at the LA Times Festival of Books! (Booth 330 -- Zone C)
