Events on Wednesday, May 14

Pavilion of Wings
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
More Flavor: City Gem
Pavilion of Wings
@ 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... View details » View details »
Catherine Opie: <em>Highschool Football</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art: Photography
Catherine Opie
@ Regen Projects II
After capturing the essence of SoCal beach life with her surfer portrait series, photographer Catherine Opie tackles another bastion of American... View details » View details »
Free
Jason Martin: <em>Oceania</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Jason Martin
@ LA Louver Gallery
The title of UK painter Jason Martin's latest exhibition evokes the South Pacific's warm, breezy environs — but his abstract, mostly... View details » View details »
Free
Gregory Crewdson
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art: Photography
Gregory Crewdson
@ Gagosian Gallery
For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art: Photography
Ten Years in Focus
@ The Getty Center
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition... View details » View details »
Free
Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art: Discussion
Nicole Cohen
@ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... View details » View details »
Free
<em>The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present </em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
The Color of Life
@ The Getty Villa
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only... View details » View details »
Free
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Terence Koh
@ Peres Projects
Anyone who can sell his own bodily fluids for thousands of dollars on the art market has "made it" as an... View details » View details »
Free
Andr&eacute; Ethier and Cathy Akers
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
André Ethier and Cathy Akers
@ Honor Fraser
Toronto-based André Ethier's grotesque, surreal paintings are psychedelic allegories illustrating misconceptions about modern history and culture. In his latest collection, Vancouver... View details » View details »
Free
<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
@ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... View details » View details »
Anna Dusi: <em>Da Cosa Nasce Cosa</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Anna Dusi
@ The Loft at Liz's
Long known for fantastic salvage store Liz's Antique Hardware (a favorite with high-end interior designers and industry art directors), Liz Gordon... View details » View details »
Free
<em>100% Other: Artists and Psycho-Demographic Transitions</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
100% Other
@ 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,... View details » View details »
Free
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
@ LAXART
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo, both making their solo debuts in Los Angeles, meditate on the meaning of objects in human... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Lights! Camera! Glamour!</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
@ California Heritage Museum
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups,... View details » View details »
<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Mexican Calendar Girls
@ California Heritage Museum
Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The... View details » View details »
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
It's a Beautiful World
@ The Scion Installation LA Space
The Scion Installation Space in Culver City has lined its walls with works by the heavyweights of urban romanticism — including... View details » View details »
Free
Masami Teraoka
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Masami Teraoka
@ Samuel Freeman
Cheeky artist Masami Teraoka is most famous for his ukiyo-e woodblock paintings, which combine Japanese imagery, themes from American culture, and... View details » View details »
Free
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Gary Palmer
@ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
With this series of works, Gary Palmer addresses one of the most ancient concerns in art: the representation of landscapes. Using... View details » View details »
Free
Peter Gronquist: <em>The Revolution Will Be Fabulous</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art: Architecture/Design
Peter Gronquist
@ Gallery 1988
"Weapons of mass designer," Peter Gronquist's tongue-in-cheek label for his hilarious and poignant sculptures, is actually a quite literal description of... View details » View details »
Free
Liat Yossifor and Aaron Sandnes: <em>The War Is Over</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Liat Yossifor and Aaron Sandnes
@ See Line Gallery
In the midst of war, there seems to be no shortage of news on the subject. But though we may often... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art from the Neon Homeland</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Las Vegas Diaspora
@ 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... View details » View details »
Amir H. Fallah: <em>Pedestal</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Amir H. Fallah
@ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai
Installation artist and painter Amir H. Fallah finds intrigue in the ramshackle construction of boyhood clubhouses and other ill-designed, teetering structures.... View details » View details »
Free
<em>KC in LA</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
KC in LA
@ Milo Gallery
Curator Ashley Emenegger went all the way to the unlikely art capital of Kansas City, Missouri, and brought back a little... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Blood & Glitter </em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Blood & Glitter
@ Bandini Art
Co-curated by Patrick Painter Gallery's Heather Harmon and Bandini's own Ashley McLean Emenegger, Blood & Glitter is a group exhibition about... View details » View details »
Free
Kara Walker: <em>My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Kara Walker
@ Hammer Museum
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks... View details » View details »
Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Culmination
@ Morono Kiang Gallery
As Internet galleries and portfolio sites make it increasingly easy to navigate the deep waters of the international emerging art scene,... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Newer Topographics: Photographs of Digitally Altered Urban Landscapes</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art: Photography
Newer Topographics
@ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside
This exhibition juxtaposes the work of idealist photographers Jeremy Kidd and Eric Curry, both of whom use digital manipulation in arresting... View details » View details »
<em>Good Doll Bad Doll </em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Good Doll Bad Doll
@ Armory Center for the Arts
ArtForum critic and independent curator Michael Duncan encourages childish behavior in Good Doll Bad Doll, an exhibition featuring modern and contemporary... View details » View details »
Free
<em>DREAM(land)</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
DREAM(land)
@ Jail Gallery
The globally diverse artists in JAIL's latest endeavor have one thing in common: their work ignores the ugly cable-news cycle of... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Menace & Charm: The Nostalgia of Childhood</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Menace & Charm
@ Black Maria Gallery
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... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art: Photography
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
@ Skirball Cultural Center
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs looks at Israel's female citizenry as a reflection of the state's 60-year history of independence.... View details » View details »
Free
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Make Art/Stop AIDS
@ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Marcel Duchamp Redux
@ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at... View details » View details »
Dave McKenzie: <em>Screen Doors on Submarines</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Dave McKenzie
@ REDCAT
Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a... View details » View details »
Free
Elizabeth McGrath: <em>The Secret Party</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Elizabeth McGrath
@ Billy Shire Fine Arts
For The Secret Party, Elizabeth McGrath ditches her usual creepy dolls and freaky dioramas and fully embraces her works' intrinsic whimsy... View details » View details »
Free
Yoskay Yamamoto: <em>The Upside of Down</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Yoskay Yamamoto
@ project: gallery
In his debut solo show, Japanese-born, California-bred artist Yoskay Yamamoto combines emotional expression with figures of timidity and doubt to illustrate... View details » View details »
Free
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art: Architecture/Design
Michael Kalish
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
Anthony Lister: <em>Quit Your Sobbing and Call Me in the Afternoon</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Anthony Lister
@ New Image Art
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... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Witnessed from Afar</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Art
Witnessed from Afar
@ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
Some of the most talented, recognizable practitioners of Carmichael Gallery's trademark urban-romantic aesthetic show new work in Witnessed from Afar. Highlights... View details » View details »
Free
AIGA presents LA Defines Design
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
More Flavor: Convention
LA Defines Design
@ Elevate Lounge
Kick back with LA's cutting-edge design community as AIGA honors three individuals chosen for their contribution to the field in 2007... View details » View details »
Kate Nash
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Music: Rock/Pop
Kate Nash
@ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
For anyone who saw the appeal in Lily Allen's music, but not in Allen herself, Kate Nash is here to complete... View details » View details »
Langhorne Slim w/ Ferraby Lionheart
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Music: Rock/Pop
Langhorne Slim
@ The Troubadour
Even alone on a stage, lanky young'un Langhorne Slim and his red Guild guitar gets a crowd more riled up than... View details » View details »
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
Speech & Debate
@ Skirball Cultural Center
Like his previous, more controversial Columbinus, emerging playwright Stephen Karam's Speech & Debate examines teenage alienation and the construction of the... View details » View details »
Cloud Cult w/ Kid Dakota
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Music: Rock/Pop
Cloud Cult
@ Knitting Factory
Minnesota-based art rockers Cloud Cult have principles. Since musician and environmentalist Craig Minowa founded the band in 1995, the Cult have... View details » View details »
Saint Motel w/ Satisfaction, the Ringers, and the Union Line
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Music
Saint Motel
@ The Viper Room
The well-coiffed young men of Saint Motel hit the Viper Room for the inauguration of their biweekly, Indie 103.1-sponsored residency. Aside... View details » View details »
Efterklang w/ Slaraffenland
Month_05 Wednesday Day_14
Music: Rock/Pop
Efterklang
@ Spaceland
Copenhagen's Efterklang often swell to ten players to better wow audiences with their earthshaking live shows. As with Sigur Rós and... View details » View details »
<em>Phalanstery Module </em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_15
Art: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>
Month_05 Thursday Day_15
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
@ 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,... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Lush</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_15
Art
Lush
@ Salon Oblique
With Lush, West Side sensation Salon Oblique upholds its growing reputation for intellectually and aesthetically engaging multimedia group exhibitions. As in... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Keep Your Pantheon</em> and <em>Duck Variations</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_15
Performing Arts: Theatre
Keep Your Pantheon and Duck Variations
@ Kirk Douglas Theatre
Brilliantly contrasting old with new, Center Theatre Group places one of David Mamet's earliest works alongside his latest production. In the... View details » View details »
Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_15
Art
Mark Bradford
@ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery
Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious... View details » View details »
Free
Randall Sellers and Evah Fan
Month_05 Thursday Day_15
Art
Randall Sellers and Evah Fan
@ Richard Heller Gallery
Consummate visual storyteller Evah Fan continues her Scheherazade-like seduction with a new batch of works at Richard Heller Gallery. Her small... View details » View details »
Free
<em>California Video </em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_15
Art
California Video
@ 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,... View details » View details »
Free
Los Angeles Comedy Festival
Month_05 Thursday Day_15
Performing Arts: Comedy
Los Angeles Comedy Festival
@ McCadden Place Theatre
Los Angeles has long been a breeding ground for the hilarious, thanks to veteran improv groups like the Groundlings and relative... View details » View details »
<em>Icon</em>: The Nature of Worship In Contemporary Culture
Month_05 Thursday Day_15
Art
Icon
@ DCA Fine Art
In Icon, two innovative, European-born painters explore the concept of worship in postmodernist life. Bogdan Dumitrica's portraits of animals and pop-art... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_15
Art
Bob Dylan's American Journey
@ 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... View details » View details »
BritWeek 2008
Month_05 Thursday Day_15
More Flavor: Festival
BritWeek 2008
@ Various locations
The British are coming! But this time there's no need to run for cover, as the Cool Britannia crowd of expats... View details » View details »