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“My absolute favorite suggestion for people who want to start to make art is this. Get a pencil and a piece of paper, then draw a self-portrait with eyes closed.”
An Evening with Julia Margulies
Live Talks L.A. welcomes actress Julianna Margulies (
The Good Wife, ER) who discusses her new memoir,
Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected Life. She chats about her unconventional childhood (traveling between divorced parents homes in Paris, England and the East Coast) and her acting career.
COST: $38, tickets include a copy of the book; MORE INFO
Joseph Horning: Valerie (1975).
Monday, May 3; 8 p.m. PT
The Girl Can’t Help It: Trans-Femme Portraits at the Dawn of the Sexual Revolution
REDCAT screens a program from Dirty Looks, a platform for queer film, video and performance. Founded in 2011 by Bradford Nordeen, Dirty Looks brings several archival trans portrait films to the forefront, from experimental cinema of the 1970s to activist videos and nightclub documents. Content warning: The virtual program contains discussions of early gender reassignment surgeries, details of police persecution and some brief nudity.