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.
Welcome to impeachment week, in which we grow increasingly concerned about the fate of our fragile republic but also the aesthetics of Sen. Ted Cruz’s haircut. I’m
Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, here with your weekly dose of culture news and hamburger dispatches:
Artistic legacies
Shortly after abandoning her religious vows in 1968,
Corita Kent produced a series of 29 prints called “Heroes and Sheroes” that honored political and civil rights figures she admired. The prints mark a moment of departure, when Kent is increasingly appropriating images from mass media and, unshackled from the Catholic Church, her critiques of the powerful become more overt.