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MUSEUM
CARS!
Pixar Animation Studios and Petersen Automotive Museum launch The Art of Cars, an exhibit featuring pre-production artwork from the Golden Globe-winning film Cars and showing the process of creating its characters, personalities and locations. "The spirit of Route 66 is in every scratch on a fender and every curl of paint on a weathered billboard," notes director John Lasseter, who enlisted automotive personalities including Paul Newman and racing legend Mario Andretti to give life to the vehicles. The show includes more than 60 watercolor and pastel drawings, pencil and marker sketches, and three-dimensional pieces including life-size replicas of the movie's main characters: Lightning McQueen and his tow-truck buddy, Mater. 6060 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., 323.930.CARS. Map J13

dining
ONE FINE STK
The New York-based group behind ONE Sunset opens STK Los Angeles, a contemporary and sultry steakhouse on Restaurant Row. Décor highlights include a wall with 117 white bullhorns, an open-air lounge with a glass roof extending 50 feet into the air and a Bistro Room in black and lavender with a wall-size graphic of a woman's face. Chef de cuisine Larry Greenwood (BOA, The Standard) offers shrimp Rice Krispies with tiger prawns, shrimp bisque and cilantro; foie gras French toast; and steaks in small, medium and large, from a 6-ounce Filet Medallion to a 16-ounce New York to a 24-ounce Porterhouse. 755 N. La Cienega Blvd., West Hollywood, 310.659.3535.

EVENT
To the Mettle
The 34th annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, April 18–20 on the streets of downtown Long Beach, is first round of the Champ Car World Series; a new era in open-wheel racing begins next year, so the featured race on April 20 offers the last chance to see the up-to-800-horsepower, turbocharged Champ Cars on the 1.97-mile, 11-turn race circuit. Other races include the Pro/Celebrity, American Le Mans and Speed GT Championship. The event, which includes free concerts on the Rock-N-Roar stage, draws more than 180,000 spectators. 300 Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, 562.436.3661. Map O16

MUSICALS
London's Fair Lady
Lerner and Loewe's legendary My Fair Lady comes to the Ahmanson Theatre downtown through April 27; the 50th anniversary production from London features direction by Trevor Nunn and choreography and musical staging by Matthew Bourne. British actors Christopher Cazenove and Lisa O'Hare star as Professor Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle. The beloved score includes "The Rain in Spain" and "I Could Have Danced All Night." Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown, 213.628.2772. Map H16

SHOPPING
Popping Up
Don't blink or you'll miss them: Pop-up stores that come and go are the latest shopping trend. The Comme des Garçons Guerrilla Store is a temporary space featuring the avant-garde Japanese label (125 W. 4th St., Suite 106, downtown, 213.626.6606). New High (M)art hosts a new designer each month (741 New High St., Chinatown, 213.621.7822). The Way We Wore has a new pop-up for its vast vintage collection (7264 Melrose Ave., L.A., 323.932.8490).

ART
Ready-Made Rebel
The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena presents Marcel Duchamp Redux, an exhibition that celebrates the sensational 20th-century artist and revisits a defining moment in the museum's history: the first-ever retrospective of Duchamp's work, in 1963. (The venue was then known as the Pasadena Art Museum.) The installation features a dozen Duchamp works acquired by Simon during and after the exhibition and photographs and ephemera from the retrospective itself. Among works displayed are examples of his landmark subversive "ready-mades"—made from found objects—and motor-driven "rotoreliefs." 411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, 626.449.6840. Map Q19

MUSIC
IN RECITAL
Los Angeles Opera presents Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, opera superstar, April 20 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. "He can roar," wrote The New York Times, "with pain, with pleasure, with fierce indignation, filling the hall with full, strong tone. But he can also coo and purr at an extreme pianissimo, making a sound that stays audible only because there is so much in it to feel, as well as to hear." Hungarian pianist Andras Schiff continues his Beethoven cycle April 9 at Walt Disney Concert Hall as part of the L.A. Philharmonic celebrity series. Schiff plays sonatas No. 12 through 15, including Op. 27, No. 2, dubbed "Moonlight," and Op. 28, "Pastoral."

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown, 213.972.7211. Map H1
Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S. Grand Ave., downtown, 323.850.2000. Map H17

EVENTS
Antique News
The Los Angeles Antiques Show, April 24–27 at Santa Monica Air Center's Barker Hangar, has a new aesthetic this year, and the entranceway sets the tone. An installation showcasing Mercedes-Benz vehicles "from then to now" leads to an interior designer installation then to an antiques-filled movie trailer designed by hip young designer Jane Hallworth. The show itself features 65 premier antique and fine-art dealers from the U.S. and Europe offering furniture, objects, decorative arts, photographs and paintings. On the schedule are lectures, series, book signings, tours for families and a champagne brunch. The opening night benefit preview party takes place April 23. Barker Hangar, 3021 Airport Ave., Santa Monica, 310.559.9334. Map L9

MUSEUMS
MOCA'S ALLAN KAPROW: ART AS LIFE Exhibit and Happenings Tracing his development from early abstract expressionist paintings to his highly influential Happenings of the 1950s and ‘60s, this comprehensive retrospective of the work of Allan Kaprow includes paintings, assemblages, scores, photography, video, and reinvented early Environments and various Happenings. Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 152 N. Central Ave., downtown, 213.626.6222. H17