All events on Tuesday April 22

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Art
Allan Kaprow
Tuesday Apr 22 (8pm) @ Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions More times »
As part of an ambitious MOCA survey of the late Allan Kaprow, LACE hosts this short-run restaging of one of the artist's more traditionally formatted... View details »
Allan Kaprow
Music: Rock/Pop
Indian Jewelry
Tuesday Apr 22 (8:30pm) @ The Echo
Though Houston-based noisemakers Indian Jewelry do have a few core members, their lineup has been known to expand and contract from show to show. It's... View details »
Indian Jewelry
Film
Indian Film Festival
Tuesday Apr 22 @ ArcLight Hollywood More times »
Opening
In terms of its ticket sales and the number of movies released, the Indian film industry is the largest in the world. The IFFLA celebrates... View details »
Indian Film Festival
Art: Photography
Heroes & Villains
Tuesday Apr 22 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford More times »
Opening
Free
A collection of who's who in the alt-comic and street-art scenes adorns the walls tonight in a portrait series by photographers Tatiana Wills and Roman... View details »
Heroes & Villains

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Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Tuesday Apr 22 @ Various locations More times »
Free
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That, Amir Bar-Lev documents the... View details »
My Kid Could Paint That
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Tuesday Apr 22 (10am–6pm) @ Peterson Automotive Museum More times »
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the need for expressing cultural... View details »
La Vida Lowrider
Art
First Generation
Tuesday Apr 22 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art More times »
Nestled 30 minutes outside of the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles lies Claremont — not known for much other than some great old houses... View details »
First Generation
Art
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Tuesday Apr 22 @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
This year's resurgent Dylanmania — from Todd Haynes' byzantine biopic, I'm Not There, to Murray Lerner's performance-driven documentary, The Other Side of the Mirror —... View details »
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Art
Kara Walker
Tuesday Apr 22 (11am–7pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks a tense dialogue between... View details »
Kara Walker
Art
California Video
Tuesday Apr 22 @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
As video art's growing reach now extends from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to commuters watching YouTube on their iPhones, the Getty... View details »
California Video
More Flavor: City Gem
Vinum Populi
Tuesday Apr 22 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Vinum Populi, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one key... View details »
Vinum Populi
Art
Las Vegas Diaspora
Tuesday Apr 22 (11am–5pm) @ Laguna Art Museum More times »
Dave Hickey has one of the most original minds in the contemporary art world. His best-selling collection of critical essays, Air Guitar, built bridges between... View details »
Las Vegas Diaspora
Art
Good Doll Bad Doll
Tuesday Apr 22 (noon–5pm) @ Armory Center for the Arts More times »
Free
ArtForum critic and independent curator Michael Duncan encourages childish behavior in Good Doll Bad Doll, an exhibition featuring modern and contemporary artists who use dolls... View details »
Good Doll Bad Doll
Art: Photography
A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
Tuesday Apr 22 (10:30am–6pm) @ Gallery Luisotti More times »
Free
Photographer Catherine Wagner used the Baltimore Museum of Industry's impressive collection of lightbulbs as the inspiration for her latest exhibition, which focuses on the illuminating... View details »
A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
Art
Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
Tuesday Apr 22 (11am–6pm) @ LAXART More times »
Free
Los Angeles' Anna Sew Hoy takes inspiration from her medical-doctor father in her latest exhibition POW!, which focuses on the theme of physical injury, treatment,... View details »
Guyton\Walker and Anna Sew Hoy
Art
The Color of Life
Tuesday Apr 22 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Villa More times »
Free
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only in tones of white... View details »
The Color of Life
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Masami Teraoka
Tuesday Apr 22 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman More times »
Free
Cheeky artist Masami Teraoka is most famous for his ukiyo-e woodblock paintings, which combine Japanese imagery, themes from American culture, and a mischievous sense of... View details »
Masami Teraoka
Art: Architecture/Design
Elena Manferdini
Tuesday Apr 22 (10am–6pm) @ SCI-Arc More times »
Free
"Merletti" means lace in Italian; for architects, it refers to the pattern of folds along a watchtower's defensive rims and other secure rooftops. In Elena... View details »
Elena Manferdini
Art: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
Tuesday Apr 22 @ Materials & Applications More times »
Free
M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents the central challenge, as... View details »
Phalanstery Module
Art
Salomón Huerta
Tuesday Apr 22 (10am–6pm) @ Patrick Painter Gallery More times »
Free
Salomón Huerta is one of LA's most popular painters — although personally, he seems somewhat reserved. His best-known works are smallish, finely detailed "portraits" of... View details »
Salomón Huerta
Art
Blek le Rat
Tuesday Apr 22 (1–6pm) @ Subliminal Projects More times »
Free
Blek le Rat is known as the Parisian forefather of stencil and graffiti art. Nearly three decades ago, he plastered the City of Lights' meticulously... View details »
Blek le Rat
Art
Toys
Tuesday Apr 22 (11am–6pm) @ Gallery 1988 More times »
Free
Watching kids fry their eyeballs playing video games can make some of us feel old. There was a time when board games and Matchbox cars... View details »
Toys
Art
Yumiko Kayukawa
Tuesday Apr 22 (11am–7pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
Japanese artist Yumiko Kayukawa's work is a fine example of what happens when East meets West. In Kayukawa's world, young women are erotic, sought-after creatures... View details »
Yumiko Kayukawa
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David Trulli
Tuesday Apr 22 (11am–6pm) @ Robert Berman Gallery D5 More times »
Free
No doubt David Trulli's former career as a cinematographer had an impact on his current work, as his scratchboard pieces exhibit a decidedly film-noir aesthetic.... View details »
David Trulli
Art: Photography
Catherine Opie
Tuesday Apr 22 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects II More times »
Free
After capturing the essence of SoCal beach life with her surfer portrait series, photographer Catherine Opie tackles another bastion of American culture: high-school football. Opie... View details »
Catherine Opie
Art
André Ethier and Cathy Akers
Tuesday Apr 22 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
Free
Toronto-based André Ethier's grotesque, surreal paintings are psychedelic allegories illustrating misconceptions about modern history and culture. In his latest collection, Vancouver Before Christ, the artist... View details »
André Ethier and Cathy Akers
Art
New London School
Tuesday Apr 22 (10am–6pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery More times »
Free
Last year, London art-gallery impresarios Simon Rumley and Zavier Ellis curated The Future Can Wait, an ambitious group show spotlighting some of the city's most... View details »
New London School
Art: Photography
Mister Lonely
Tuesday Apr 22 @ Agnes B. More times »
Filmmaker Harmony Korine's newest movie, Mister Lonely, follows a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living in a remote French castle with a group of fellow... View details »
Mister Lonely
Art
100% Other
Tuesday Apr 22 (11am–5pm) @ 18th Street Arts Center More times »
Free
For the next installment of Future of Nations exhibition series 100% Other, curator Tyler Stallings asked artists Matthew Bryant, Cheryl Gilge, Perry Vasquez, Reggie Woolery,... View details »
100% Other
Art
Icon
Tuesday Apr 22 @ DCA Fine Art More times »
Free
In Icon, two innovative, European-born painters explore the concept of worship in postmodernist life. Bogdan Dumitrica's portraits of animals and pop-art icons find themes of... View details »
Icon
Music: Rock/Pop
Drive A
Tuesday Apr 22 (8pm) @ Key Club More times »
Free
Every once in a while, a band comes around that makes you wish you were a rock star. Drive A, a quartet of 15-year-old punk... View details »
Art
Panopti(con)
Tuesday Apr 22 (11am–5pm) @ Bank More times »
Free
Los Angeles multimedia artist Martin Durazo curates this collection of work by 17 artists under the broad thematic umbrella of power and authority. The exhibition's... View details »
Panopti(con)
Art
Sue-Ling Hyde
Tuesday Apr 22 (9am–6pm) @ Ghettogloss More times »
Free
Sue-Ling Hyde is more than a pretty face. You might recognize her from modeling gigs with Shiseido, Versus, and Moshino, but the Puerto Rican artist... View details »
Sue-Ling Hyde
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Jason Martin
Tuesday Apr 22 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
Free
The title of UK painter Jason Martin's latest exhibition evokes the South Pacific's warm, breezy environs — but his abstract, mostly monochromatic oil-on-aluminum pieces are... View details »
Jason Martin
Art
Randall Sellers and Evah Fan
Tuesday Apr 22 @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Free
Consummate visual storyteller Evah Fan continues her Scheherazade-like seduction with a new batch of works at Richard Heller Gallery. Her small drawings of mundane, everyday... View details »
Randall Sellers and Evah Fan
Art: Architecture/Design
Michael Kalish
Tuesday Apr 22 (noon–6pm) @ MODAA gallery More times »
Free
While Michael Kalish's early work is marked by portraits of iconic figures (Jimi Hendrix, Jesus), his new exhibition at Culver City's Museum of Design Art... View details »
Music: Rock/Pop
Kanye West
Tuesday Apr 22 (7:30pm) @ Nokia Theatre LA Live More times »
Sold Out!
Just because he performs with a marching band and likes to go on crazy rants at awards shows, Kanye West is no mere attention hound.... View details »
Kanye West
Art
Lush
Tuesday Apr 22 @ Salon Oblique More times »
Free
With Lush, West Side sensation Salon Oblique upholds its growing reputation for intellectually and aesthetically engaging multimedia group exhibitions. As in previous shows, a cadre... View details »
Lush
Art
Ryan McLennan
Tuesday Apr 22 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
While Ryan McLennan's Audubon-inspired drawings of woodland animals seem innocent enough, the graphite-and-acrylic works on paper reveal the animal kingdom's vicious side. In his latest... View details »
Ryan McLennan
Film
Beyond the Call
Tuesday Apr 22 @ Laemmle's Grande 4-Plex More times »
Director/producer/cinematographer Adrian Belic follows 1999's Academy Award-nominated documentary Genghis Blues (about blind musician Paul Peña's relationship with Tuvan throat-singers) with a startling new documentary, Beyond... View details »
Beyond the Call
Art
Mark Bradford
Tuesday Apr 22 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious galleries and museums, but... View details »
Mark Bradford
Art: Photography
Ten Years in Focus
Tuesday Apr 22 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition draws parallels between photography... View details »
Ten Years in Focus
More Flavor: City Gem
Pavilion of Wings
Tuesday Apr 22 (9:30am–5pm) @ Natural History Museum More times »
Pavilion of Wings returns to the Natural History Museum for the exhibition's tenth anniversary. Now, anyone jealous of the Shins' experience in Mexico can walk... View details »
Pavilion of Wings
Art: Photography
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Tuesday Apr 22 (noon–5pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
Free
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs looks at Israel's female citizenry as a reflection of the state's 60-year history of independence. Drawing on documentary and... View details »
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs