Tarzana Aikikai holds daily classes in Aikido and Yoga. We also have infant and toddler programs in movement and music.

This exhibit investigates moments in Southern California history that led to legislative reform, as well as episodes of vigilantism and mob behavior in the form of riots and/or rebellions. This exhibit explores both the importance of clarity in defining terms over time and why different historical agents may interpret the same event in diametrically opposed ways. This exhibit looks at the role of civil disobedience and how law enforcement reacted to such instances of protest, from the arrest of Upton Sinclair in 1923 for reading The Bill of Rights at an International Workers of the World labor protest, to the 2007 May Day march against in which officers are charged with using excessive force on journalists and participants in the protest. Law and Disorder delineates the differences between de facto and de juris forms of policy and behavior. Finally, this exhibit explores more hidden forms of crime within our society including human trafficking, gang formations, disability rights, and crimes against children. In addition to a 75 X 4 Timeline that integrates visitor participation, Law and Disorder will include multimedia displays that feature video history segments where various interviewees discuss the same subject.

In conjunction with the installation of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's stunning Comtesse d'Haussonville, 1845, on loan from The Frick Collection in New York, the Norton Simon Museum presents Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres. This exhibition of close to 150 paintings, sculpture and photographs from the Norton Simon collections traces artistic engagements with portraiture following Ingres's influence in the early to mid-19th century through to the present day, and examines why this genre, so seemingly laden with restrictions and expectations, appealed to some of the greatest avant-garde painters in the history of art. The exhibition includes such artists as Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, among many others.

America I AM celebrates nearly 500 years of African American contributions to our country and the world. Through artifacts, multimedia, and programs, visitors explore the influence and innovations of African Americans. Visitors can walk past the andrsquo;Door of No Returnandrsquo;; view personal artifacts and innovations of African American artists, activists and inventors; and investigage key moments in the evolution of the nation to open dialogue about our collective experience and future.

The world's largest collection of Native American baskets, representing eleven regions and more than 100 cultural groups, will be revealed to the public for the first time when The Art of Native American Basketry: A Living Tradition opens on November 7 at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles. These historical and contemporary pieces highlight one of the innumerable artistic expressions known to Native peoples.

Collection: MOCAs First Thirty Years is the largest-ever installation of the museums world-renowned permanent collection, which numbers nearly 6,000 works. Organized by MOCA Chief Curator Paul Schimmel, the exhibition features a selection of more than 500 artworks by over 200 artists at both of the museums downtown Los Angeles locations, providing a comprehensive historical survey of the past 70 years of contemporary art history.

Collection: MOCAs First Thirty Years is the largest-ever installation of the museums world-renowned permanent collection, which numbers nearly 6,000 works. Organized by MOCA Chief Curator Paul Schimmel, the exhibition features a selection of more than 500 artworks by over 200 artists at both of the museums downtown Los Angeles locations, providing a comprehensive historical survey of the past 70 years of contemporary art history.

Brooklyn-based artist Rob Fischer finds furniture, windows, mirrors, books, flooring, car parts, and other abandoned materials and reconfigures them to create large-scale sculptural environments that are like monuments to a forgotten past. Fischers use of these found materials is a commentary on the lifecycle of objects and how those discarded things will inevitably be reclaimed by nature. While his constructions contain an aura of melancholy and we feel the loss and the weight of the lingering presences of those who used these objects, the sculptures simultaneously acknowledge the possibility for transformation and regeneration. In Fischers work, decay is inextricable from rebirth. The notion of impermanence and recycling is paramount to the artists practice, and he often takes pieces apart and reuses the materials in other sculptures. For the Hammers Lobby Wall, Fischer recycles wooden floorboards from an old gymnasium to create a labyrinth-like mural that will extend off the wall. This exhibition is organized by Hammer senior curator Anne Ellegood.

Brooklyn-based artist Rob Fischer salvages material from abandoned buildings and junkyards and reconfigures them into large-scale sculptural environments that weave past histories into the present. For the Hammerandrsquo;s Lobby Wall, Fischer used recycled wooden floorboards from the gymnasium of a derelict school in souther Minnesota to create a labyrinth-like mural that winds around sculptures made of hand-painted and screen-printed signs and panes of glass. Inspired by the American mythology of the road trip, rooted in notions of freedom and self-discovery, as well as the thousands of miles of interstate highways that connect our cities and small towns,the overlapping and intersecting floorboards are like a map of a fantastical roadway. This exhibition is organized by Hammer senior curator Anne Ellegood.

The Norton Simon Museum presents The Familiar Face: Portrait Prints by Rembrandt, an exhibition of 15 etchings by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn (16061669). Rembrandts prominence as a painter of portraits, particularly those of the merchants and burghers of Amsterdam, is well known. But the artists etched prints also have a place and purpose in recording the visages of his contemporaries. A skilled, innovative printmaker, Rembrandt embraced etching as a means of expression and experimentation. The artworks in The Familiar Face illustrate the artists keen power of observation as well as his gift for drama and humor.Culled from the Norton Simons extensive collection of Rembrandt prints, the artworks on view offer a window to some of the personalities of Rembrandts age.Although 17th-century Holland had an active trade in the portraits of politicians, heroes and renowned scholars, the majority of portrait prints made by Rembrandt were not intended for such a market. We know this because his prints do not bear the characteristic etched captions identifying the name and public role of the subject.The Familiar Face is one of several exhibitions held this winter to celebrate the wealth of Rembrandts works in Southern California museum collections. Rembrandt exhibitions are also being presented by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Timkin Museum of Art, the San Diego Museum of Art and the Hammer Museum.

A stunning presentation of the intricate and mysterious cultures that inhabit that island of New Guinea, home to more than 1000 aboriginal tribes and 800 languages. Where Masks Still Dance: New Guinea features 35 white-and-black photographs by acclaimed documentary photographer Chris Rainer, known for his revealing images of the earthandrsquo;s last wilderness areas and isolated indigenous people who live there. Explore the lives, masked ceremonies, crocodile cults, rites of passage, adornment, celebrations, and rituals rarely documented.

Theatre 360 offers classes for acting, voice, and dance for ages 3-19. Join us this Winter season for 10 times the fun in our 10-week session, and be eligible to audition for our Winter mainstage play: Alice In Wonderland!

Four Rooms and a View: USCandrsquo;s Collection Highlights showcases several exceptional areas of the museumandrsquo;s collection. On view will be our well-known old master and contemporary landscape paintings and lesser-known works by contemporary Mexican masters, Marta Palau and Demin Flores. This showcase illustrates the museumandrsquo;s ongoing commitment to displaying its permanent collection, its partnering with the USC Libraries, and its strategic expansion of the collection.MEXICAN MASTERS - In celebration of the centennial anniversary of the Mexican Revolution and to celebrate newly acquired art, the Fisher Museum will present a selection of works of Artists Marta Palau and Demin Flores. On loan from the Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies at USC Doheny Memorial Library will be Palauandrsquo;s Un homenaje artstico a Lzaro Crdenas, which honors Mexican president Lzaro Crdenas. Palau views Crdenas as a personal savior as he granted her family refuge in Mexico after escaping from fascist Spain. Crdenas was able to bring to Mexico tens of thousands of refugees after World War II, among them distinguished intellectuals who left a lasting imprint in Mexican cultural life. Floresandrsquo;s work is similarly concerned with exploring themes of Mexican and Mexican American identity, both contemporary and ancestral. His series of illustrative aquatints for a text called Aztln by Guillermo Gmez-Pea will be displayed alongside the newly acquired painting Lagunillas.THE JINKS ROOM - The USC Fisher Museum is pleased to display one of its masterpieces, Maynard Dixonandrsquo;s Jinks Room. The relatively unknown murals mark a critical point in the career of Dixon--his transition from illustrator to painter. The panels were removed from their original setting, and six out of the original nine panels were donated to the museum and have undergone considerable conservation treatment.LANDSCAPES - The USC Fisher Museum of Art will present a selection from its impressive holding of landscape painting from the 19th century onwards. Paintings from the Hudson River School will reveal the subtle evolution and development of the first truly American style of painting. These works will be exhibited with works from the Barbizon School, revealing how the American school drew from European sources but also created a new visual mode of representation. Early 20th century California Impressionist landscapes will be installed in contrast to contemporary California and Los Angeles landscapes.Admission to the exhibition and all related events are free.

Rembrandt van Rijn was a prolific printmaker and created about 300 etchings over the course of his long career. The exhibition includes a variety of etchings with subjects ranging from religious narratives to figure studies and landscape. Drawn from the extensive collection of the Hammerandrsquo;s Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, as well as other institutions, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Norton Simon Museum, the exhibition also features different impressions of the same print, allowing the visitor to closely compare the compositions and see how the artist experimented with each individual impression.This exhibition is organized by Cynthia Burlingham, director, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, and deputy director of collections at the Hammer. Organized in collaboration with a major exhibition of Rembrandtandrsquo;s drawings at the Getty Museum, from December 8, 2009, to February 28, 2010, as well as an exhibition of Rembrandtandrsquo;s protraits at the Norton Simon Museum, from December 4, 2009, to March 22, 2010.

RARE EXHIBIT OF PAUL KNAPP FOLK ART SET AT HISTORIC ANDRES PICO ADOBE IN MISSION HILLS Currently Running Mission Hills, CA A rare exhibit of Paul Knapp folk art featuring Native American arrowheads, polished rocks, and buttons fashioned into decorative patterns will be on display from 1-4 p.m. on Sunday, February 21 at the Andres Pico Adobe in Mission Hills. Sponsored by the San Fernando Valley Historical Society as part of its Third Sunday Open House, the special Paul Knapp folk art exhibit is free and open to the general public. Selected from the historical societys archives, the Paul Knapp folk art exhibit will feature a selection of framed artwork created by the late Paul Knapp of Burbank, using items he had collected since boyhood. Knapp was reportedly one of the worlds foremost private collectors of Native American arrowheads; he traveled the United States 35 times assembling his renowned collection of more than 100,000 relics. The Paul Knapp folk art exhibit will also be available for viewing at the adobe from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Mondays throughout February and March. The adobe is located in Andres Pico Adobe Park, 10940 Sepulveda Blvd., Mission Hills (across from the Mission Hills Post Office at Brand Boulevard).

Experience the largest presentation of work by Chicago-based artist Nick Cave, featuring thirty-five of his Soundsuitsmulti-layered, mixed-media sculptures named for the sounds made when the suits are worn. Reminiscent of African, Caribbean and other ceremonial ensembles as well as of haute couture, Caves work explores issues of transformation, ritual, myth and identity. His virtuosic constructions incorporate yarn, sequins, bottle caps, vintage toys, rusted iron sticks, hair, and more. Mad, humorous, visionary, glamorous and unexpected, the Soundsuits are created from scavenged ordinary materials that Cave re-contextualizes into extraordinary works of art. The Fowler is the first LA-area museum to feature Caveandrsquo;s work and the only Southern California venue for this traveling exhibition.

* em Exhibition opening party, Friday January 15, 7-9pm /em Working in film, video, and installation, Thater is best known for creating complex visual and spatial environments. The exhibition was conceived as a brief history of cinemaa simple, beautiful, interpretation of movie magic that conjures the mythology of Hollywood filmmaking, recreating, and repositioning, a seminal moment in Los Angeles history.

Project Room 1. For his exhibition at SMMoA, Wells has created a series of new, site-specific, projected works, mimicking a variety of visual and optical effects to transform the space with walls that shift and corners that dissolve.

Project Room 2. The Santa Monica Museum of Art presents the United States premier of Sabbath 2008, a video that documents the closing down of the ultra-orthodox neighborhoods in and around Jerusalem on the eve of the Sabbath

THE RESTAURANT at The Standard, Downtown DINE WITH US Restaurant open 24/7. The Restaurant at The Standard, Downtown LA is a California brasserie that serves New American cuisine 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The vibrant interior features yellow booths and a diner style counter, as well as an outdoor patio that seats 62 adjacent to a flaming water fountain. * Breakfast from 6am-11am * Lunch from 11am-5pm * Dinner from 5pm-11pm * Overnight from 11pm-6am * Weekend Brunch from 11am-5pm SUNDAY SUPPERS - 3 COARSE PREFIX MENU SERVE FAMILY STYLE - Every Sunday we are serving up Sunday Supper. enjoy a deliciously seasonal 3 coarse meal. $20 per person, 2 person minimum. We will help with a nice boutique wine pairing. Call The Restaurant at 213-439-3030 or make a reservation at www.opentable.com. Cant sleep? Visit the restaurant after-hours and try Chef Yuji Iwasas own Chicken N Jalepeno Waffles topped with a warn maple syrup. This house favorite is sure to put a smile on your face.

Rauschenberg at Gemini will present over 30 years of multiples that world famous American artist Robert Rauschenberg created at Gemini G.E.L., the internationall recognized printmaking studio in Los Angeles. The exhibition will include approximately 50 pieces that Rauschenberg produced from 1967 through 2001. In his multiples as well as his unique pieces Rauschenberg, always pushed the envelope as far as what a work of art could be. Many of his works at Gemini were completely innovative as multiples. Included in the exhibition will be works from the Stone Moon Series, Samarkand Series, and the Cardbird Series. Jay Belloli, curator.

The world premiere of Cousin Bette. Antaeus Theater Company Hatchers sublilme adaptation of Balzacs masterpiece is a thrill-ride of violent jealousy, sexual passion and revenge.

On Saturday, January 23, 18th Street Arts Center kicks-off its 2010 season with Love in a Cemetery. Robert Sain, LACMAlab founding director, and LA based visual artist Andrea Bowers collaborate with the students of Otis MFA Public Practice and guest artist Olga Koumoundouros to transform 18th Streets gallery into a unique visual arts laboratoryThis expansive collaboration between artist, curator, graduate students, and community organizations will consist of a participatory laboratory that sponsors community dialogues, public presentations and interventions, exhibits of artworks and project data to explore the social and political dimension of art organizations. 18th Street Arts Center programs are generously funded by the City of Santa Monica, the Santa Monica Arts Commission, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, California Community Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Irvine Foundation, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Public Allies and the Getty Foundation.

For millennia, nomads have wandered across the steppes and oases of Central Asia in search of pasture for their herds and traveled along the famed trading route, the Silk Road, which stretched from China to the Mediterranean. Bold Abstractions: Textiles from Central Asia and Iran presents mementos of this nomadic culture in a dazzling display of mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth-century traditional garments, personal adornment, and domestic accessories.

While today seen primarily as a fortune telling or occult deck, the Tarot was born out of the intellectual, scientific and artistic developments of the Italian Renaissance. The Foolandrsquo;s Journey: The History and Symbolism of the Tarot showcases the 22 major trumps while illuminating their development and symbolism in the realm of Anima Mundi or the World Soul. Historic and modern Tarot decks will be featured to provide a deeper understanding of the Tarots artistic legacy, and message of transformation.