Events on Monday, August 16

KCRW presents Alice Russell w/ Ruby Friedman Orchestra

Music

KCRW presents Alice Russell w/ Ruby Friedman Orchestra

Monday 8/16 @ Bootleg Theater

Call her the next British blue-eyed soul export if you want, but Alice Russell doesn't need a trademark look, tabloid troubles,... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Caught</em>

Performing Arts: Theatre

Caught

Monday 8/16 @ Zephyr Theatre

David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play... 

John Baldessari: <em>Pure Beauty</em>

Art

John Baldessari: Pure Beauty

Monday 8/16 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

John Baldessari is much more than a well-known LA art-world figure. He's one of the most honored and acclaimed visual artists... 

Christopher Ulrich: <em>Illuminator: A Royal Wedding</em>

Art

Christopher Ulrich

Monday 8/16 @ La Luz de Jesus

A voyage into the mind of a modern-day surrealist painter, the Christ Chronocrator Project represents Christopher Ulrich's continuing investigation into the... 

Chris Douridas presents: School Night

Music

School Night

Monday 8/16 @ Bardot Hollywood

Cool your weekends down: Monday nights now belong to Hollywood & Vine dining den Bardot, and its new weekly club, School... 

Theatre Asylum's Best of the Fringe

Theatre

Best of the Fringe

Monday 8/16 @ Theatre Asylum

Theatre Asylum says: The 1st annual Hollywood Fringe Festival has ended, but we at Theatre Asylum are not willing to let... 

Hiroshige: Visions of Japan

Art

Hiroshige: Visions of Japan

Monday 8/16 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art

Think of iconic Japanese print-maker Hiroshige as a kind of Andy Warhol of his day, crossed with a staff photographer for... 

Philip Lumbang: <em>Adventure!</em>

Art

Philip Lumbang

Monday 8/16 @ GR2

Phil Lumbang is a fast-emerging (some would even say ubiquitous) street artist, who also happens to be Shepard Fairey's art assistant.... 

Pavilion of Wings

Special Event

Pavilion of Wings

Monday 8/16 @ Natural History Museum

One of the Natural History Museum's most eagerly anticipated annual events is its Pavilion of Wings — the installation of living,... 

Hacienda Hot Springs

Getaways

Hacienda Hot Springs

Monday 8/16 @ Hacienda Hot Springs

A mission-style oasis in the Coachella Valley, Hacienda Hot Springs isn't your ordinary spa destination. Between the homemade granola and the... 

Oscar Noir: 1940s Writing Nominees from Hollywood's Dark Side

Festival: Film

Oscar Noir: 1940s Writing Nominees from Hollywood's Dark Side

Monday 8/16 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

LA's affair with film noir continues as 15 features from the 1940s screen Mondays through August at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater.... 

<em>Plant Vacation</em>

Art

Plant Vacation

Monday 8/16 @ Hammer Museum

It's already too late to drop your plants off at the Hammer Museum for Machine Project and artist Lisa Anne Auerbach's... 

Fallen Fruit presents <em>EATLACMA: Let Them Eat LACMA
</em>

Art

EATLACMA

Monday 8/16 @ LACMA

What began as the mapping of fruit trees in LA neighborhoods grew into Fallen Fruit, a full-fledged activist art project and... 

Hurley presents: <em>Art Shack</em>

Art

Art Shack

Monday 8/16 @ Laguna Art Museum

There will be a curator's walk-through with Greg Escalante (Juxtapoz) on Sunday, June 13 (1pm), and a shack-making workshop on July... 

The Art Squared Gallery Art Show

Festival: Art

Art Squared Gallery

Monday 8/16 @ Pershing Square

Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles is meant to be the literal and symbolic center of the city; and while that's... 

Tad Beck: <em>Palimpsest</em>

Art

Tad Beck

Monday 8/16 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

In honor of acquiring the presciently — and probably unintentionally — homoerotic 1899 masterpiece Wrestlers by Victorian painter Thomas Eakins, LACMA... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Monday 8/16 @ 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... 

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

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Monday 8/16 @ 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... 

Fol Chen August Residency @ the Echo

Music

Fol Chen August Residency @ the Echo

Monday 8/16 @ The Echo & Echoplex

Highland Parkers Fol Chen come out of the arroyo leading with beats that crunch, decay, them submerge, diving straight into downright... 

<em>Animal Kingdom</em>

Film

Animal Kingdom

Monday 8/16 @ Various Los Angeles theaters

Following his mother's heroin overdose, 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody (James Frecheville) is unwittingly thrust into the core of a criminal underworld... 

<em>The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs</em>

Art

The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs

Monday 8/16 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

American furniture designer Charles Rohlfs (1853–1936) found inspiration in Art Nouveau, Asian, English, German, and Moorish designs, yet his own style... 

The Last Chapbook Project

Books: Reading

The Last Chapbook Project

Monday 8/16 @ 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... 

Pacific Design Center's <em>Design Loves Art</em> Gallery Night

Art

Design Loves Art

Monday 8/16 @ Pacific Design Center

The miniature, indoor gallery district on the Blue Whale's second, and now third, floors welcomes new shows from original residents and... 

Joel Kyack: <em>Superclogger</em>

Art

Joel Kyack: Superclogger

Monday 8/16 @ Various locations

LAXART says: Launching June 1st, 2010 with a special showing at LAXART from 7-10pm, Superclogger will mark Los Angeles-based artist Joel... 

Art

Portable City Projects: Public Issue Actions

Monday 8/16 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)

Public Action One: Supporting Public Libraries
Take a moment to shout out on the Portable City audio blog, and to... 

<em>Strange Kozmic Experience</em>

Special Event

Strange Kozmic Experience

Monday 8/16 @ 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... 

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity

Art

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity

Monday 8/16 @ 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... 

Cinespace Bar Industry Night feat. Live Band Karaoke

Music: Experimental

Cinespace Bar Industry Night feat. Live Band Karaoke

Monday 8/16 @ Cinespace

Join us at Cinespace for the official Bar Industry Night in Hollywood hosted by Reno 911's Cedric Yarbrough and featuring Live... 

<em>Plants, Flowers and Fruits</em>: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs

Special Event

Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs

Monday 8/16 @ 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...