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All day: Art

In what is sure to be the blockbuster show of the fall season, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents “Picasso: Masterworks From the Museum of Modern Art.” Drawn from one of the finest Picasso collections in the world, the exhibition will include more than 90 paintings, drawings, sculptures, collages and prints by the 20th century master. The survey will cover more than 60 years in the artist’s career and will include all of his many different styles and techniques from his Blue and Rose periods of 1904 to his late self-portraits of 1971.

* “Picasso: Masterworks From the Museum of Modern Art.” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd. Ends Jan. 4. Museum hours: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, noon-8 p.m.; Friday, noon-9 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Weekday admission: adults, $12; seniors, $8; children 6-17, $5; children 5 and under, free. Weekend admission: adults, $15; seniors, $12; children 6-17, $5; children 5 and under free. (213) 857-6000.

7:30 pm: Music

Jane Eaglen, fresh from “Tristan und Isolde” in Seattle and hailed as the Wagnerian soprano of the moment, sings movie opera--arias by Wagner, Puccini and Catalini featured in “Meeting Venus,” “Fatal Attraction” and “Diva”--plus some extras, including the songs she recorded for the score of “Sense and Sensibility,” and Isolde’s Liebestod.

* Jane Eaglen, with John Mauceri conducting the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., 7:30 p.m. $3-$72. (323) 850-2000).

8 am: Family

Participants in the Home Run Family Fun Run in Elysian Park will receive a voucher for a Dodgers game as well as a T-shirt, a goodie bag and refreshments. The charity event benefits the Exceptional Children’s Foundation, which serves the needs of children and adults with developmental disabilities.

* Home Run Family Fun Run, Elysian Park near Dodger Stadium. Events: 10K, 5K, one mile. Games, live music, prizes. Preregistration: $19; race day, $25. (323) 298-8282.

8:50 am: Culture

Meet Jack the Human Fly, the Barnes Circus’ Fat Sally, Sarah Bernhardt and other colorful characters on the Venice Historical Society’s Labor Day Weekend Walking Tour. The two-hour historical tour of Venice, or Abbot Kinney’s Folly as skeptics once called it, includes tales of bizarre local events and happenings, illustrated by photos from the historical society’s collection.

* Venice Historical Society’s Labor Day Weekend Walking Tour. Meet at Ocean Front Walk and Rose Avenue. $15. (310) 676-0020 for reservations.

11 am: Family

Get a taste of the circus under a big top of oak trees when Peter Alsop’s Kids Koncerts presents Nathan Stein at the Theatricum Botanicum. Stein co-founded the Mums, a variety troupe whose work has been seen on stages across the U.S. and internationally.

* Peter Alsop’s Kids Koncerts presents Nathan Stein, Theatricum Botanicum, 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga. $6. (310) 455-0499.

6 pm: Television

Jerry Lewis and Ed McMahon make their annual appeal during “The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon” on behalf of the Muscular Dystrophy Assn., which hopes to exceed the 1997 pledge total of $50.5 million supporting research, community services and public health education. The live, two-day telecast originating from CBS Television City in Hollywood includes satellite feeds and taped segments from New York, Chicago and Nashville. Billy Joel, Gloria Estefan, Hanson, Drew Carey, Bill Maher and many others are lined up as entertainers on the show, which will be carried for the first time on the MDA Web site, https://www.mdausa.org.

* “The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon” begins at 6 p.m., airing continuously until Monday at 5 p.m. on KCAL-TV (Channel 9).

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FREEBIE: Make your own puppets, Junior Arts Center, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, 2 p.m. (213) 485-4474.