Events on Sunday, May 16
Santa Fe Art Colony Studio Walk Through
Sunday 5/16 @ Santa Fe Art Colony
The Santa Fe Art Colony was named for its location on Santa Fe Avenue, on the South/Eastern edge of Downtown, by...
The Echo presents Sea Wolf at the Autry Museum
Sunday 5/16 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Sea Wolf (aka Alex Brown Church) dusts off his cowboy boots and hits the stage at the Autry tonight, bringing tunes...
Sunday 5/16 @ The Sherry Theatre
Burlesque vixen Michelle L'amour likes reading in the nude and her husband certainly appreciates it as well. This is the simple...
Jack Stevenson presents: Venom
Sunday 5/16 @ The Cinefamily
Part of the tradition of Danish sex films that helped break down the barriers of censorship, Venom (aka Gift) is the...
Sunday 5/16 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
"Arguably the greatest saxophone player since Charlie Parker’s explosion…in the '40s" (Downbeat), tenor sax player Sonny...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 5/16 @ Downtown Independent Theater
Kitsch connoisseur and slideshow maven Charles Phoenix has been regaling audiences with his thrift-shop transparencies for some time. Now, he's taking...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ Crane's Hollywood Tavern
The Do-Over returns for another caliente season of beats, BBQ, and signature sangria courtesy of Stones Throw Records and Crane's Hollywood...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Sunday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ SCI-Arc
After studying architecture in the '50s, Sir Peter Cook exhibited at ICA (where he later served as director), and co-founded Archigram,...
Darkwave: Surfing and the Violence of the City
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Sunday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ The Velaslavasay Panorama
The Velaslavasay Panorama says: The Lost Panorama project was never about locating something. It was more about the phenomenon of disappearances...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ Bob Baker Marionette Theater
In a postmodern society with all its ironic trappings, the wholesome and irony-free Bob Baker Marionette Theater still reigns supreme with children's...
Sunday 5/16 @ Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum says: This spring the Hammer Museum presents The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Sunday 5/16 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ Muzeumm
Through various media and means, the artists in Over There traverse themes of movement, journey, and place through straightforward and/or circuitous...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ The Land of Odd Gallery
Assemblage has traditionally straddled the blurry line between crafts and fine art. But works by giants like Joseph Cornell and Edward...
Sunday 5/16 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ François Ghebaly Gallery
François Ghebaly says: The exhibition will include paintings, prints and works on paper. In her Pollution Painting series, Marie Jager makes...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ Marilyn Monroe Theater at the Lee Strasberg Creative Center
Rebellious Los Angeles teenager Bethany, misunderstood by her parents and frustrated with the superficiality of life in Los Angeles, goes to...
Sunday 5/16 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Jews on Vinyl is an auditory history of the influence of Jewish traditions on American pop culture from 1948, the year...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Sunday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ Pacific Asia Museum-
The Pacific Asia Museum says: In this exhibition, Shizuko Greenblatt explores a new mode of calligraphy on canvas as...
The Fantastical Worlds of Ray Harryhausen
Sunday 5/16 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Long before the recent quasi-blockbuster version, there was the original Clash of the Titans, a 1981 tour de force starring Laurence...
Sunday 5/16 @ Location TBA with RSVP
Performed in an actual home listed for sale, Full Disclosure is a standard Chalk Rep enthralling maneuver, placing theatre in environments and capitalizing...
Sunday 5/16 @ La Luz de Jesus
Rogue Taxidermy as a movement of contemporary art is akin to the Radical Craft movement popular in recent years. Just as...
Sunday 5/16 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Avant-garde film director and Dogme 95 member Harmony Korine delivers an example of neo-vérité sustainable cinema with his latest film, Trash Humpers, which chronicles the...
Sunday 5/16 @ Dogtown Station Lofts
Venice has always been a magnet for artists and other beachcombers, chic and scruffy alike, and its recent resurgence as an...
Sunday 5/16 @ Bleicher/Golightly
Schwartz' subtle but saturated palette of pure pigment dried to a thick, earthen, frosting-like crust, follows an internal logic rather than...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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 5/16 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Chuck Jones: An Animator's Life From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
Sunday 5/16 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
An exhibition of the work of Oscar winner and master humorist Chuck Jones, representing his short animated films, features and TV...
George Segal: The Expulsion, feat. photographs of the artist at work by Donald Lokuta
Sunday 5/16 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Experience George Segal's life-sized sculptural work The Expulsion, the generous gift of the George and Helen Segal Foundation, showcased in its...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Sunday 5/16 @ 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...
Sunday 5/16 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Biltmore Hotel tour explores the architecture and rich history of this magnificent hotel, known in its early days as “The...
