Events

What a difference a continent makes. I saw Anna Skubik’s “Broken Nails” last year in Wroclaw, Poland, where a dim, suspended lightbulb and a stark pool of light (lighting by Anna Cecelia Martin) are just part of the Grotowskian theatrical landscape. Despite the recession,... More >>

There's so much great music coming out of the West African nation Mali, from the enchanting vocal interplay of the blind couple Amadou & Mariam in the south to the swirling, sizzling guitar trails sparked by the Saharan nomads Tinariwen in the north (and beyond). Mali is such a large country... More >>

Screening of the 1978 British animated film Watership Down based on Richard Adams's children's novel. More >>

Are you tired of throwing down $11 to see a movie that was recommended by a film critic, only to find that your hard-earned dough just went down the toilet? In this town, anyone who's wielded a camera, directed a college short, or written a review for the Pico Post is an expert. If you're... More >>

Marvin Hamlisch's credits are staggering. His shining achievement may be his brilliant score for the Broadway hit A Chorus Line , which endures as one of the most thrilling collections of songs ever written for the stage. So much of Hamlisch's creative musical output has been lauded that he's... More >>

Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture: Inspiration and Invention features 17 drawings for sculptures never completed, in addition to sculpture by his contemporaries. More >>

Just in case you thought the only gristle Moby cared for was of the Throbbing variety: Tonight Moby presents Gristle: From Factory Farms to Food Safety , possibly the most chilling and illuminating book about the meat in your mouth since Upton Sinclair's 20th-century novelistic gross-out The... More >>

Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim, three photographers capture three cities: Catherine Opie (L.A.); Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao (N.Y.); and Soo Kim (Reykjavik). More >>

In Focus: The Worker includes more than 40 19th- and 20th-century photographs that "demonstrate shifting attitudes towards the worker." More >>

For the museum's lobby wall, artist Rob Fischer creates a mural made out of wooden floorboards. More >>

Rembrandt Prints features etchings of different subjects, from "religious narratives to figure studies." More >>

Rachel Whiteread Drawings features the British artist's works on paper and sculpture. More >>

Foundry Finish: The Making of a Bronze Sculpture features photographs and video that demonstrate the bronze casting process as practiced by 17th-century Dutch artist Adriaen De Vries. More >>

Collages of Freud, Einstein, Michael Jackson, Madonna and President Obama, in addition to photographs. More >>

Artist Nick Cave's Soundsuits are Halloween costumes on drugs. Who'd have thunk that ordinary textiles could be fashioned into bristling bottle-cap warriors, crunching tree-monsters or furry phallic dancers -- sans LSD? At Chicago's School of the Art Institute, Cave teaches the fiber arts... More >>