Events on Monday, May 12

AFI Directing Workshop for Women Showcase

Film

AFI Directing Workshop for Women Showcase

Monday 5/12 @ Harmony Gold Theatre

According to the Directors Guild, women and minorities helmed only 17% of the top 40 prime-time TV shows of all time.... 

Film School w/ Everest

Music

Film School

Monday 5/12 @ The Viper Room

With a penchant for shimmering feedback and reverb-drenched arrangements, Film School are adherents to the late-'80s/early-'90s shoegaze tradition. Although some find... 

Ongoing Events

Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>

Art

Mark Bradford

Monday 5/12 @ Steve Turner Contemporary

Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious... 

<em>Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art from the Neon Homeland</em>

Art

Las Vegas Diaspora

Monday 5/12 @ Laguna Art Museum

Dave Hickey has one of the most original minds in the contemporary art world. His best-selling collection of critical essays, Air... 

Sue-Ling Hyde

Art

Sue-Ling Hyde

Monday 5/12 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

Sue-Ling Hyde is more than a pretty face. You might recognize her from modeling gigs with Shiseido, Versus, and Moshino, but... 

<em>Lush</em>

Art

Lush

Monday 5/12 @ Salon Oblique

With Lush, West Side sensation Salon Oblique upholds its growing reputation for intellectually and aesthetically engaging multimedia group exhibitions. As in... 

Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin

Art

Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin

Monday 5/12 @ La Luz de Jesus

When he's not busy inking clients like Master P and Kiki Smith, internationally known tattoo artist Scott Harrison maintains a sweet... 

<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Monday 5/12 @ Various locations

An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That,... 

Los Angeles Comedy Festival

Comedy

Los Angeles Comedy Festival

Monday 5/12 @ McCadden Place Theatre

Los Angeles has long been a breeding ground for the hilarious, thanks to veteran improv groups like the Groundlings and relative... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Monday 5/12 @ Norton Simon Museum

This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at... 

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

Monday 5/12 @ Natural History Museum

Pavilion of Wings returns to the Natural History Museum for the exhibition's tenth anniversary. Now, anyone jealous of the Shins' experience... 

<em>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Monday 5/12 @ Materials & Applications

M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents... 

<em>100% Other: Artists and Psycho-Demographic Transitions</em>

Art

100% Other

Monday 5/12 @ 18th Street Arts Center

For the next installment of Future of Nations exhibition series 100% Other, curator Tyler Stallings asked artists Matthew Bryant, Cheryl Gilge,... 

<em>Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966</em>

Art

Bob Dylan's American Journey

Monday 5/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center

This year's resurgent Dylanmania — from Todd Haynes' byzantine biopic, I'm Not There, to Murray Lerner's performance-driven documentary, The Other Side... 

BritWeek 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

BritWeek 2008

Monday 5/12 @ Various locations

The British are coming! But this time there's no need to run for cover, as the Cool Britannia crowd of expats... 

Art

Michael Kalish

Monday 5/12 @ MODAA gallery

While Michael Kalish's early work is marked by portraits of iconic figures (Jimi Hendrix, Jesus), his new exhibition at Culver City's... 

James Turrell: <em>Dividing the Light</em>

Art

James Turrell

Monday 5/12 @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College

It's up for debate whether James Turrell is a sculptor, an architect, a light-and-space artist, or an earth-works artist. Whichever he... 

<em>California Video </em>

Art

California Video

Monday 5/12 @ The Getty Center

As video art's growing reach now extends from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to commuters watching YouTube on their iPhones,...