March 2020 events calendar for Los Angeles

This fun neighborhood stroll highlights the numerous artists, musicians, shops and galleries of Mar Vista, where huge vivid murals brighten exterior walls everywhere you look. Since launching in 2015, the quarterly event has dramatically expanded, now featuring several clusters of activity along Venice Boulevard. Catch local musicians and performers throughout the evening, artists selling their works as well as creating new ones on the spot, grab food from trucks, and browse galleries and shops that stay open late. The walk takes place the first Thursday of March, June, September and November, each time featuring a different theme and the artists are curated by Monique Boileau and Mitchelito Orquiola.

It’s alive. It’s alive! The Natural History Museum is taking a look at the science and history that inspired some of film’s most iconic, hideous creatures. “Natural History of Horror” showcases scientific breakthroughs, like early experiments in animal electricity, (mis)understanding the spread of diseases, the discovery of the first living coelacanth and the excavation of King Tut’s tomb, to explore how they influenced old-school monster movies, including Frankenstein, Dracula, Creature From the Black Lagoon and The Mummy. Back in the 1930s, Universal Studios donated around 50 props to museum’s still-growing moving images collection. You’ll find some of these, like actor Boris Karloff’s wrappings from The Mummy and a pair of shackles from Frankenstein, alongside their real-life inspirations: millennia-old mummified Egyptian figurines and preserved frog specimens, to name a couple. At the center of the small gallery, clips from the four highlighted films play out. Sure, they all seem stylistically silly by today’s standards—look no further than the featureless face of a wood-and-cloth bat that’s pinned right next to an actual vampire bat specimen. But the monster designs, like the silicone reconstruction of the Creature from the Black Lagoon suit, are timeless and tap into our imaginations’ ability to take a stranger-than-fiction truth and stretch it into something fantastical (see: vampires, missing link sea monsters and walking, talking mummies). Unlike most of the muse

This CAAM exhibition examines the legacy of Carl Jones and TJ Walker’s Cross Colours clothing line, an African-American–owned brand that skyrocketed in popularity following its placement in the first season of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Expect to see vintage textiles, media footage and rare ephemera.

Come on down to the Glendale Galleria and try to escape the foul-mouthed fourth graders’ least favorite spot—the classroom—in this official South Park-inspired escape room.

Take a peek at some of Hollywood’s most famous cars during this decade-spanning survey, which includes the DeLorean from Back to the Future, a bunch of Batmobiles, Bumblebee (in Camaro, not robot, form) from Transformers, Tony Stark’s Audi, the Warthog from Halo, a Weyland Industries armored tank from Prometheus and more.

Fashion and cars collide in this defiantly minimalist and sleek exhibition that showcases the works of designers Rem D Koolhaas and Joey Ruiter.

Years before he'd put the unmistakable imagery of 2001 and The Shining to celluloid, Stanley Kubrick was a teenage photojournalist in New York. The Skirball is celebrating that lesser-known period in Kubrick's career with a collection of over 130 of his photographs. “Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs” focuses on the filmmaker's early work for Look magazine, with a special emphasis on his depictions of human relationships, organizations and celebrities, as well as his channeling of film noir aesthetic touches. The chronologically-arranged exhibition arrives at the Skirball on October 17 and runs through March 8, 2020.

Come on down to the Glendale Galleria and try to escape the foul-mouthed fourth graders’ least favorite spot—the classroom—in this official South Park-inspired escape room.

This fun neighborhood stroll highlights the numerous artists, musicians, shops and galleries of Mar Vista, where huge vivid murals brighten exterior walls everywhere you look. Since launching in 2015, the quarterly event has dramatically expanded, now featuring several clusters of activity along Venice Boulevard. Catch local musicians and performers throughout the evening, artists selling their works as well as creating new ones on the spot, grab food from trucks, and browse galleries and shops that stay open late. The walk takes place the first Thursday of March, June, September and November, each time featuring a different theme and the artists are curated by Monique Boileau and Mitchelito Orquiola.

This CAAM exhibition examines the legacy of Carl Jones and TJ Walker’s Cross Colours clothing line, an African-American–owned brand that skyrocketed in popularity following its placement in the first season of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Expect to see vintage textiles, media footage and rare ephemera.