7:30pm, Pop Music

With the single “Dance Tonight” moving up the chart, the new R&B; alliance Lucy Pearl--En Vogue’s Dawn Robinson, Tony Toni Tone’s Rafael Saadiq and A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad--is shaping up as one of the genre’s bright new hopes. The trio marks the recent release of its self-titled debut album with a brief club tour that includes a stop at the House of Blues.

* Lucy Pearl at the House of Blues, 8430 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. 7:30 p.m. $22.50. (323) 848-5100.

noon

Art

Painting is the hot medium among young artists in California, as evidenced in “The Next Wave: New Painting in Southern California,” opening Sunday at the California Center for the Arts Museum. More focused on exploring contemporary painting than defining a regional style, the exhibition will feature still lifes, landscapes, abstract works, conceptual and installation pieces by 20 Southern California artists who are redefining the medium. The show includes L.A.’s Ingrid Calame, Steven Criqui, Salomon Huerta, Enrique Martinez Celaya and Lezley Saar.

* “The Next Wave: New Painting in Southern California,” California Center for the Arts Museum, 340 N. Escondido Blvd., Escondido. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays, noon to 5 p.m. Ends Sept. 10. Adults, $5; seniors, $4; students 12 to 18, $3; children 12 and under, free. (760) 839-4120.

11am

Art

The Museum of Contemporary Art hosts the first major survey devoted to Mexican multimedia sculptor Gabriel Orozco. The exhibition of his sculpture, photography, videos and works on paper opens Sunday. Known for his response to ordinary settings and utilizing found materials, Orozco creates unique sculptures such as a pingpong table with a lily pond, a large Plasticine ball equal to his weight and a deconstructed Citroen. The retrospective will be paired with the photography survey “The Social Scene,” a collection of more than 300 historically significant photographs by Diane Arbus, Brassai, Robert Frank, Lee Fredlander, Helen Levitt, Danny Lyon, Robert Mertin, John Pfahl and Garry Winogrand.

* “Gabriel Orozco” through Sept. 3 and “The Social Scene” through Aug. 20, Museum of Contemporary Art, 250 S. Grand Ave., downtown Los Angeles. Tuesdays through Sundays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Adults, $6; seniors and students, $4; children under 12, free. (213) 626-6222.

2pm

Jazz & Dance

From the time he formed his first band, the Duke’s Serenaders, at age 18 until his death in 1974, Duke Ellington shaped music in America. Even now, 101 years after Ellington’s birth on April 28, 1899, his compositions--”Take the ‘A’ Train,” “Satin Doll” and countless others--remain standards. Ellington’s legacy is honored with “To Duke With Love,” a performance by the unique jazz and dance group JazzAntiqua. Marcus Shelby and his band play while dancers under the direction of Pat Taylor re-create the Cotton Club era.

* “To Duke With Love” by JazzAntiqua, California African-American Museum, 600 State Drive, Exposition Park, Los Angeles. 2 p.m. Free. (213) 744-7432.

4pm

Theater

Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum opens its 18th summer repertory with Shakespeare’s romp “The Taming of the Shrew,” with Richard Tyson alternating with Jim LeFave as swaggering Petruchio and Melora Marshall as feisty Kate.

* “The Taming of the Shrew,” Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga. Sundays, 4 p.m. Ends Sept. 24. $13 to $20; ages 6-12, $7. (310) 455-3723.

7pm

Theater

“Blood Wedding/Boda de Sangre,” Federico Garcia Lorca’s Spanish “Romeo and Juliet,” about forbidden love and revenge, opens La Jolla Playhouse’s summer season, staged by England’s critically acclaimed Mark Wing-Davey and featuring a bilingual cast.

* “Blood Wedding/Boda de Sangre,” La Jolla Playhouse, Weis Theatre, La Jolla Village Drive and Torrey Pines Road. Sunday, 7 p.m. Regular schedule: Tuesdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 2 p.m. Ends July 2. $21 to $39. (858) 550-1010.

Freebie

Salsa band Bamboleo, saxophonist Michael Paulo and drummer Frank Capp’s 17-piece Juggernaut play outdoors on Corsair Field, Santa Monica College, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, as part of the Playboy Jazz Festival’s free community series. 1:30 p.m. (310) 470-4070.