all day: Art

Between 1958, when Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama arrived in New York, and the late 1960s, when performance began to dominate her art, she created a body of work that made a significant contribution to the contemporary scene. A comprehensive exhibition of works from this period, “Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968,” opens Sunday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with paintings, collages, sculptures and reconstructions of three of the artist’s environmental installations.

* “Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd. Sunday-June 8. Museum hours: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, noon- 8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Adults, $6; students and seniors, $4; children under 12, $1; children under five, free. (213) 857-6000.

All day: Festival

At “Earth Day Every Day,” visitors can see a horse get a new pair of shoes, sheep being sheared, meet a beekeeper, view bees in their hives and more than 60 types of birds. The event celebrates the grand opening of the nature center at the Discovery Museum of Orange County. Children can also create art from recycled material and listen to Native American storytellers.

* “Earth Day Every Day,” the Discovery Museum of Orange County, 3101 W. Harvard St., Santa Ana. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. (714) 540-0404.

3:30 pm: Music

The reconfigured Juilliard String Quartet--with former Californian Ronald Copes as the new second violinist--returns to Coleman Chamber Concerts to play Mendelssohn’s Quartet No. 2 in A, Opus 13, Copland’s Three Pieces, and, with clarinetist Charles Neidich, Brahms’ Quintet, Opus 115.

* Juilliard String Quartet and clarinetist Charles Neidich, Beckman Auditorium at Caltech, Michigan Avenue at Del Mar Boulevard, Pasadena. $13-$25. (626) 395-4652.

11 am & 2pm: Family

Parachute Express, the smooth-moving superstar kids’ music trio notable for its dynamic beat, sophisticated harmonies and irresistible play-along lyrics, will put on two big family concerts featuring old favorites and songs from the group’s new album, “Doctor Looney’s Remedy.”

* Parachute Express, Glendale High School Auditorium, 1440 E. Broadway, Glendale. $12-$20; under age 2, free. (818) 548-9246.

7 pm: World Music

Stella Chiweshe overcame gender barriers in her native Zimbabwe to become one of her country’s most important players of the traditional, finger-plucked hand piano known as the mbira. Susana Baca of Lima, Peru, is a powerful singer in the Afro-Peruvian tradition. Tish Hinojosa of San Antonio combines western swing and Mexican conjunto styles into an original hybrid. The three women--billed as Global Divas--each lead their own bands in this cross-cultural night of history, folklore and song.

* Global Divas with Susana Baca, Stella Chiweshe and Tish Hinojosa, Veterans Wadsworth Theater, Wilshire Boulevard at 405 Freeway, Brentwood. $22-$25, UCLA students $10. (310) 825-2101.

11 am: Movies

Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson and actor William H. Macy will be on hand for a screening and discussion of “Boogie Nights,” which has been nominated for three Academy Awards, including best original screenplay. The event is part of an informal film and discussion series organized by the Sherwood Oaks Experimental College. Upcoming films and guests in the Sunday series include more Oscar nominees: James L. Brooks and “As Good as It Gets”; Robert Forster and “Jackie Brown”; James Cameron and “Titanic.”

* Sherwood Oaks Film Series, Raleigh Studios, 5300 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles. Sundays through March 29. $20. (213) 851-1769.

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FREEBIE: Michael Connelly reads from and signs his new book “Blood Work,” Book Soup, West Hollywood. (800) 764-BOOK.