All events on Wednesday April 30

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Music: Hip-Hop
Kenan Bell
Wednesday Apr 30 (9pm) @ Spaceland in Silver Lake
Giveaway
Kenan Bell is a West Coast cat with a cerebral, East Coast edge. The chatter about the self-proclaimed shoegazing hip-hop minimalist is rising due to... View details »
Kenan Bell
Film: Documentary
Through Thick and Thin
Wednesday Apr 30 (7:30pm) @ Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood
Giveaway
Love is a battlefield in Sebastian Cordoba's documentary Through Thick and Thin, an exposé of gays and lesbians under homeland fire. Under current laws, thousands... View details »
Through Thick and Thin
Film: Documentary
The US vs John Lennon and Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
Wednesday Apr 30 (7pm) @ Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood
Free
For the newest installment of its Contemporary Documentaries series, the Academy screens a double feature — a pair of films profiling two of the brightest,... View details »
The US vs John Lennon and Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
Music: Rock/Pop
Hazelden
Wednesday Apr 30 (9pm) @ Silverlake Lounge
Tonight, Solarcade play refreshingly hook-addled songs with high-octane chops. This performance comes a year after their career-making tour with the Killers and weeks before releasing... View details »
Hazelden

The following events are ongoing.

Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Wednesday Apr 30 @ 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
Wednesday Apr 30 (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: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Wednesday Apr 30 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum in Santa Monica More times»
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups, "The grand seigneur of... View details »
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Art
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Wednesday Apr 30 @ Skirball Cultural Center in Brentwood 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
Wednesday Apr 30 (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
Make Art/Stop AIDS
Wednesday Apr 30 (noon–5pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA More times»
Free
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical awareness that the AIDS... View details »
Art
California Video
Wednesday Apr 30 @ The Getty Center in Brentwood 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
Wednesday Apr 30 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi in Culver City 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
Wednesday Apr 30 (11am–5pm) @ Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach 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
Wednesday Apr 30 (noon–5pm) @ Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena 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
Wednesday Apr 30 (10:30am–6pm) @ Gallery Luisotti in Santa Monica 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
The Color of Life
Wednesday Apr 30 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Villa in Malibu 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
Art
Masami Teraoka
Wednesday Apr 30 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman in Santa Monica 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
HEF
Wednesday Apr 30 (noon–6pm) @ JAIL Gallery in Downtown More times»
Free
Hef. The single syllable alone conjures up images of smoking jackets and decadent mansion parties. Exploring that imagery, a group of artists at JAIL Gallery... View details »
HEF
Art: Architecture/Design
Elena Manferdini
Wednesday Apr 30 (10am–6pm) @ SCI-Arc in Downtown 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
Wednesday Apr 30 @ Materials & Applications in Silver Lake 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
Wednesday Apr 30 (10am–6pm) @ Patrick Painter Gallery in Santa Monica 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
Wednesday Apr 30 (1–6pm) @ Subliminal Projects in Echo Park 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: Photography
Catherine Opie
Wednesday Apr 30 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects II in W Hollywood 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
Wednesday Apr 30 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser in Culver City 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
Wednesday Apr 30 (10am–6pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica 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
Wednesday Apr 30 @ 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
Wednesday Apr 30 (11am–5pm) @ 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica 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
Wednesday Apr 30 @ DCA Fine Art in Santa Monica 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
Art
Sue-Ling Hyde
Wednesday Apr 30 (9am–6pm) @ Ghettogloss in Silverlake 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
Art
Jason Martin
Wednesday Apr 30 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery in Venice 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
Wednesday Apr 30 @ Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica 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
Wednesday Apr 30 (noon–6pm) @ MODAA gallery in Culver City 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 »
Art
Dave McKenzie
Wednesday Apr 30 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT in Downtown More times»
Free
Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a single cell fits within... View details »
Dave McKenzie
Art
Anthony Lister
Wednesday Apr 30 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art in W Hollywood More times»
Free
Anthony Lister's newest installation, strewn with pop-culture tragedies and unfortunate vagabonds, erupts in New Image Art's white-walled gallery space. Hailing from Australia, where his work... View details »
Anthony Lister
Art
KC in LA
Wednesday Apr 30 (11am–5pm) @ Milo Gallery More times»
Free
Curator Ashley Emenegger went all the way to the unlikely art capital of Kansas City, Missouri, and brought back a little piece of the progressive... View details »
KC in LA
Art
Lush
Wednesday Apr 30 @ 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
Wednesday Apr 30 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery in Culver City 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
More Flavor: Festival
BritWeek 2008
Wednesday Apr 30 @ Various locations More times»
The British are coming! But this time there's no need to run for cover, as the Cool Britannia crowd of expats and Anglophiles celebrates the... View details »
BritWeek 2008
Film
Polish Film Festival
Wednesday Apr 30 @ Various locations More times»
Krzysztof Kieslowski may have set the bar too high for Polish cinema with his mid-'90s Three Colors trilogy. In the years since, though, Polish filmmakers... View details »
Polish Film Festival
Art
Menace & Charm
Wednesday Apr 30 (noon–6pm) @ Black Maria Gallery More times»
Free
Not everyone's childhood memories contain happy-go-lucky images of bubblegum chewing and bicycle riding. As the artists in Black Maria Gallery's upcoming show prove, sometimes our... View details »
Menace & Charm
Art
Witnessed from Afar
Wednesday Apr 30 (2–7pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art in W Hollywood More times»
Free
Some of the most talented, recognizable practitioners of Carmichael Gallery's trademark urban-romantic aesthetic show new work in Witnessed from Afar. Highlights include Mel Kadel's feisty,... View details »
Witnessed from Afar
Art: Photography
Newer Topographics
Wednesday Apr 30 (noon–5pm) @ UC Riverside California Museum of Photography in Riverside More times»
This exhibition juxtaposes the work of idealist photographers Jeremy Kidd and Eric Curry, both of whom use digital manipulation in arresting multimedia and photographic works.... View details »
Newer Topographics
Art
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Wednesday Apr 30 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon in Pasadena More times»
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum... View details »
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Art
Mark Bradford
Wednesday Apr 30 @ 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
Wednesday Apr 30 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Center in Brentwood 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