all day: Art

Three exhibitions will run concurrently through July 8 at the Laguna Art Museum. ‘One Minute of Your Time,’ a brief survey of Southern California art from 1835 to 2001, features 20 permanent-collection works that cover 17 historical periods from early California and Impressionism to popular culture. The art includes painting, sculpture, photography, drawings and installations by artists such as John Baldessari, Llyn Foulkes, Peter Krasnow, Rico Lebrun and Millard Sheets. Also showing is “Presence Control,” a site-specific, sci-fi, environmental installation, and “Cyborg Manifesto,” an exhibition exploring man-machine hybrid creations.

* “One Minute of Your Time,” “Presence Control” and “Cyborg Manifesto,” three concurrent shows, Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach. Museum hours: Daily, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Wednesday. $4 to $5. Free Tuesdays. Ends July 8. (949) 494-8971.

8pm: Dance

Just 11 months old, Twyla Tharp Dance is the latest company formed by one of the dance world’s preeminent innovators, mavericks and celebrities. The New York Times said it blends “ballet bravura with a disco drive,” in the process grappling with some highly challenging scores. All the works scheduled are new to West Coast audiences. Tonight and Friday evening, the company performs “Surfer at the River Styx” (music by Donald Knaack) and “Mozart Clarinet Quintet K. 581.” On Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, the bill changes to “Grosse Sonata Opus 106 Hammerklavier”’ (the latest work in Tharp’s Beethoven cycle), plus the “Known by Heart Duet” and “Westerly Round.”

* Twyla Tharp Dance, Ahmanson Theatre, Music Center, 135 N. Grand Ave., L.A. 8 p.m. Also Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m. $15 to $60. (213) 365-3500.

8:30pm: Dance

Praised in the Chicago Tribune for its “synchronized anguish” and “awesome athleticism,” Vancouver’s 8-year-old contemporary ensemble Holy Body Tattoo invades UCLA with “our brief eternity,” an apocalyptic hourlong 1996 work for three dancers: co-artistic directors Noam Gagnon and Dana Gingras with Susan Elliott. Dancer stamina becomes a metaphor for human endurance here and startling juxtapositions a way of evoking the converging brutalities of modern life. An original industrial-rock score by Jean-Yves Theriault accompanies the multimedia action, with projected texts, video images, fog and strobes helping the dancers depict a culture in crisis.

* Holy Body Tattoo, Freud Playhouse, UCLA campus, Westwood. 8:30 p.m. Also Friday-Saturday, 8:30 p.m. $12 (students) to $35. (310) 825-2101.

8pm: Pop Music

Ron Sexsmith’s new album “Blue Boy,” produced by Steve Earle and Ray Kennedy, is a strong return to form for the once-hailed singer-songwriter, who will also show some added range with his version of “This Is Where I Belong,” for an upcoming tribute album to the Kinks.

* Ron Sexsmith, with Eileen Rose, the Troubadour, 9081 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood. 8 p.m. $12. (310) 276-6168.

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Freebie

* A.S.K. Theater Projects’ “Common Ground Festival 2001,” featuring innovative new works in progress, professional labs and special events, takes place on UCLA’s North Campus, today from 7 to 9:30 p.m. and Friday through Sunday at varying times. (310) 478-9ASK.