Three-day forecast

MUSEUMS

The work of geniuses

Add up early 19th century innovator Hippolyte Bayard, Julia Margaret Cameron, Dorothea Lange, Man Ray, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Edward Weston, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Weegee and the work of 29 other masters of photography, and the sum is one of the world’s most formidable collections. Photographers of Genius at the Getty, which opened Tuesday, is an exhibition of major artists who represent everything from some of the earliest European experimentations to the tradition-subverting images of 1960s America and beyond. The J. Paul Getty collection, begun in 1984, now includes roughly 35,000 prints, as well as 475 albums containing more than 40,000 mounted photographs and related objects and equipment.

Photographers of Genius at the Getty, 1200 Getty Center Drive, L.A. Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Beginning March 23, one-hour exhibition overviews offered; Tuesday-Sunday, 1:30 p.m. Ends July 25. Free. (310) 440-7300.

MUSIC

Eisler’s chamber

Before fleeing Hitler, Hanns Eisler had made a chamber music arrangement of Bruckner’s massive Seventh Symphony for Schoenberg’s “Society for Private Performances” in Vienna. Southwest Chamber Music plays this arrangement on a program that also includes Eisler’s “Hollywood Songbook,” settings of poems by Bertolt Brecht, which the composer used later to reflect his exile from the U.S. after the McCarthy-era HUAC hearings.

Norton Simon Museum Theater, 411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. Saturday, 8 p.m. Also: Zipper Concert Hall, Colburn School of Performing Arts, 200 S. Grand Ave., L.A. Tuesday, 8 p.m. $10-$25. (800) 726-7147.

EVENT

A three-day adventure

Wizard World Los Angeles is billed as a three-day, pop-culture event delving into the worlds of comic books, toys, anime, movies, video games and other media. Promoters promise fans a chance to interact with comic book and entertainment-industry luminaries, including the event’s guest of honor -- movie producer-director-writer Kevin Smith (“Jersey Girl,” “Dogma,” “Chasing Amy”). Others scheduled to appear include James Marsden (“X-Men” and “X2”), Ron Perlman (“Hellboy” and TV’s “Beauty and the Beast”), Jason Mewes (“Clerks”) and Stan Lee (creator of “Spider-Man” and “X-Men”). For more information, see www.wizarduniverse.com

Wizard World Los Angeles, Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach. Friday, 5-8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $20-$35. (310) 274-7800.

POP MUSIC

In Rascal’s ‘Corner’

Dizzee Rascal has quickly won over the critical community at home in England and in the U.S. with his debut album, “Boy in Da Corner”; now the precocious Cockney with the distinctive voice, sound and language tests the live waters. He just might have an edge as a performer over his record-making peers, having cut his teeth in the world of England’s underground clubs and raves.

The Key Club, 9039 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, Thursday, 10:30 p.m. $18.50-$20. (310) 274-5800.

WORDS

Takei has a new mission

Original “Star Trek” cast member George Takei addresses a part of this country’s history and the future in the American Perspectives lecture series. Takei, who spent part of his childhood in internment camps during World War II, discusses diversity in America.

George Takei, American Perspectives Lecture Series, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance. Sunday, 4 p.m. $30; $27, students and ages 2 and older. (310) 781-7171.

JAZZ

Singer is on a roll

Chilean-born singer Claudia Acuna moved to New York City to pursue her jazz career. After several years of struggle, she got a recording contract and released two critically acclaimed albums: “Wind From the South” in 2000 and “Rhythm of Life” in 2002. Her third CD, “Luna” -- her first on her new label, Max Jazz -- was released this week. Acuna continues her week at the Jazz Bakery with pianist Jason Linder, bassist Essiet O. Essiet and drummer Tony Escapa.

Claudia Acuna, the Jazz Bakery, 3233 Helms Ave., Culver City. Thursday-Sunday, 8 and 9:30 p.m. $25.(310) 271-9039.

MOVIES

Not even a memory

Did you ever want to have that certain someone completely erased from your memory? Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet go to the extreme and have their brains completely washed of one another in the chilly metaphysical comedy “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” Another consciousness-bender from the pen of Charlie Kaufman (“Being John Malkovich” and “Adaptation”), the film examines a relationship gone wrong and all the exponentially warped ways it can scar the combatants. Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood and Tom Wilkinson head the supporting cast. French video director Michel Gondry marks his second collaboration with Kaufman after “Human Nature.”

“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” rated R for language, some drug and sexual content, opens Friday in general release.

ART

Opposing forces

A dialogue between opposites is taking place at Gallery at REDCAT. Curator Eungie Joo defines the visual exchange by way of the title of the catalog she wrote for the show: “Bounce: Mark Bradford and Glenn Kaino.”

Bradford’s paintings splinter the silence with the tensions of South Los Angeles -- looking just under the skin of what he describes as a community “half-forgotten but retaining an energy-in-waiting.” Kaino’s sculptures play off of kinetic energy of complex life/time equations. The sculptures seem to release energy as they arc through the daily grind shedding commentary everywhere.

Bounce: Mark Bradford and Glenn Kaino, Gallery at the REDCAT, Walt Disney Concert Hall, 631 W. 2nd St., L.A. Tuesday-Sunday, noon-6 p.m. or until curtain time. Ends March 28. (213) 237-2800.

DANCE

From New York, with many raves

Born in Hunan, China, Shen Wei has become New York’s most talked about choreographer, dancer, company leader, painter and designer -- someone the New York Times called “a strikingly original artist who fits into no familiar category.” All his talents will be on view in two pieces seen locally for the first time at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. “The Rite of Spring” is performed on a large-scale canvas painted by Shen and is danced to the four-hand piano reduction of Stravinsky’s score (on tape). “Folding” features bodies draped in red and black, a mix of taped music by John Tavener and Buddhist chants, as well as a movement style that Charles L. Reinhart, the president of the annual American Dance Festival in North Carolina, describes as “overwhelmingly beautiful.”

Shen Wei Dance Arts, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, L.A. Music Center, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown L.A. Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 8 p.m. $15-$50. (213) 365-3500.

COMEDY

Importing laughs

The Aussie icon of comedy is back, possums: Actor Barry Humphries’ uproarious female alter ego -- the ultra-glam housewife, talk-show host and jolly insult comedian -- returns in her one-woman touring show, “A Night With Dame Edna.”

Orange County Performing Arts Center, Segerstrom Hall, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. Opens Thursday. Runs Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 and 7 p.m.; ends Sunday $34.50-$64.50. (714) 556-ARTS. (213) 365-3500. (714) 740-7878.