11am: Art

“Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997,” the first-ever European survey of postwar art made in Los Angeles, arrives in Los Angeles after a yearlong international tour that began at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. The survey, which opened Wednesday at the UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, will examine more than 150 works from a European perspective. Designed as an “introduction” to L.A. art, the exhibition is expected to produce much debate over who is included and who is not. Those who are: Sam Francis, Ed Kienholz, Ed Ruscha, Mike Kelley, Charles Ray, Jennifer Pastor and Diana Thater, among others.

* “Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997.” UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood. Ends Jan. 3. Museum hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Thursday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Museum admission: adults, $4.50; seniors and non-UCLA students, $3; UCLA students, $1; visitors 17 and under, free. (310) 443-7020.

8pm: Theater

Two very different views of love and the mating game are on tap this week. The West Coast premiere of Sandra Tsing Loh’s off-Broadway hit, “Bad Sex With Bud Kemp,” is a comic chronicle of one woman’s search for, if not love, at least a non-humiliating relationship. Meanwhile, the critically acclaimed Joe DiPietro-Jimmy Roberts musical revue, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” takes a roller coaster ride through dating, marriage, lovers and in-laws.

* “Bad Sex With Bud Kemp,” Tiffany Theatre, 8532 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 and 7 p.m. Ends Nov. 15. $25-$32.50. (310) 289-2999.

* “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” Coronet Theatre, 366 N. La Cienega Blvd., West Hollywood. Tuesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 3 p.m.; beginning Nov. 21, Saturdays, 2 p.m.; Sundays, 2 and 7 p.m., except matinee only, Nov. 29. Dark Nov. 26. Added shows Nov. 25, Nov. 27, 2 p.m. $38-$42.50. (310) 657-7377 or (213) 365-3500.

8pm: Music

Beginning its 80th consecutive winter subscription season--and its 35th in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Music Center--the Los Angeles Philharmonic celebrates Finnish composers and the silent film, “The Wind.” Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen presides over music by himself and his countryman, Jan Sibelius, the latter’s music played under a showing of the 1928 film starring Lillian Gish. This presentation is the second in the orchestra’s ongoing “Filmharmonic” series.

* The L.A. Philharmonic plays Esa-Pekka Salonen’s “Gambit,” and works of Sibelius in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown Los Angeles. $11-$65. Also, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 2:30 p.m., and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. (213) 365-3500.