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LA Defines Design
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (7–11:30pm) @ 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 with the AIGA Fellow... View details »
LA Defines Design
Music: Rock/Pop
Langhorne Slim
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (8pm) @ The Troubadour
Even alone on a stage, lanky young'un Langhorne Slim and his red Guild guitar gets a crowd more riled up than a Southern preacher at... View details »
Langhorne Slim
Music: Rock/Pop
Kate Nash
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (8pm) @ 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 the picture. Bringing the... View details »
Kate Nash
Music: Rock/Pop
Efterklang
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (9pm) @ Spaceland
Copenhagen's Efterklang often swell to ten players to better wow audiences with their earthshaking live shows. As with Sigur Rós and Rachel's, this orchestral- pop... View details »
Efterklang
Music: Rock/Pop
Cloud Cult
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (8pm) @ Knitting Factory
Minnesota-based art rockers Cloud Cult have principles. Since musician and environmentalist Craig Minowa founded the band in 1995, the Cult have scorned lucrative record deals... View details »
Cloud Cult
Performing Arts: Theatre
Speech & Debate
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (8pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
Like his previous, more controversial Columbinus, emerging playwright Stephen Karam's Speech & Debate examines teenage alienation and the construction of the adult self. Speech explores... View details »
Music
Saint Motel
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (8:30pm) @ 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 from sporting those noteworthy... View details »
Saint Motel

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Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Wednesday May 14, 2008 @ 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 May 14, 2008 (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 May 14, 2008 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum 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 May 14, 2008 @ 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
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (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 May 14, 2008 (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 May 14, 2008 @ 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
Ugo Wine Bar
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one... View details »
Ugo Wine Bar
Performing Arts: Theatre
Keep Your Pantheon and Duck Variations
Wednesday May 14, 2008 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre More times »
Brilliantly contrasting old with new, Center Theatre Group places one of David Mamet's earliest works alongside his latest production. In the classic Duck Variations, two... View details »
Keep Your Pantheon and Duck Variations
Art
Las Vegas Diaspora
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (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
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (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
The Color of Life
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (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
Art
Masami Teraoka
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (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: Photography
Gregory Crewdson
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ Gagosian Gallery More times »
Free
For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with an army of production... View details »
Gregory Crewdson
Art: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
Wednesday May 14, 2008 @ 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: Photography
Catherine Opie
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (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
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (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: Discussion
Nicole Cohen
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she has something of a... View details »
Nicole Cohen
Art
100% Other
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (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
Wednesday May 14, 2008 @ 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
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Jason Martin
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (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
Wednesday May 14, 2008 @ 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
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (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 »
Art
Dave McKenzie
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT 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 May 14, 2008 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art 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 May 14, 2008 (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 May 14, 2008 @ 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
More Flavor: Festival
BritWeek 2008
Wednesday May 14, 2008 @ 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
Art
Menace & Charm
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (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 May 14, 2008 (2–7pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art 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 May 14, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ California Museum of Photography, UC 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
Yoskay Yamamoto
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ project: gallery More times »
Free
In his debut solo show, Japanese-born, California-bred artist Yoskay Yamamoto combines emotional expression with figures of timidity and doubt to illustrate his struggle with dualities.... View details »
Yoskay Yamamoto
Art
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon 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: Architecture/Design
Peter Gronquist
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Gallery 1988 More times »
Free
"Weapons of mass designer," Peter Gronquist's tongue-in-cheek label for his hilarious and poignant sculptures, is actually a quite literal description of his work: think tanks... View details »
Peter Gronquist
Art
Mexican Calendar Girls
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The color-soaked exhibition comprises a... View details »
Mexican Calendar Girls
Performing Arts: Comedy
Los Angeles Comedy Festival
Wednesday May 14, 2008 @ McCadden Place Theatre More times »
Los Angeles has long been a breeding ground for the hilarious, thanks to veteran improv groups like the Groundlings and relative newcomers like the Upright... View details »
Los Angeles Comedy Festival
Art
Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (11am–7pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
When he's not busy inking clients like Master P and Kiki Smith, internationally known tattoo artist Scott Harrison maintains a sweet little reputation as a... View details »
Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin
Art
Amir H. Fallah
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai More times »
Free
Installation artist and painter Amir H. Fallah finds intrigue in the ramshackle construction of boyhood clubhouses and other ill-designed, teetering structures. He tops those buildings... View details »
Amir H. Fallah
Art
Gary Palmer
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery More times »
Free
With this series of works, Gary Palmer addresses one of the most ancient concerns in art: the representation of landscapes. Using sumi ink, Palmer has... View details »
Art
Anna Dusi
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ The Loft at Liz's More times »
Free
Long known for fantastic salvage store Liz's Antique Hardware (a favorite with high-end interior designers and industry art directors), Liz Gordon has also created a... View details »
Anna Dusi
Art
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ LAXART More times »
Free
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo, both making their solo debuts in Los Angeles, meditate on the meaning of objects in human life. Lopez's The Year... View details »
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
Art
DREAM(land)
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ JAIL Gallery More times »
Free
The globally diverse artists in JAIL's latest endeavor have one thing in common: their work ignores the ugly cable-news cycle of reality in favor of... View details »
DREAM(land)
Art
Blood & Glitter
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
Free
Co-curated by Patrick Painter Gallery's Heather Harmon and Bandini's own Ashley McLean Emenegger, Blood & Glitter is a group exhibition about the seductive dangers of... View details »
Blood & Glitter
Art
Culmination
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Morono Kiang Gallery More times »
Free
As Internet galleries and portfolio sites make it increasingly easy to navigate the deep waters of the international emerging art scene, the prevalence of Chinese... View details »
Art
Liat Yossifor and Aaron Sandnes
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ See Line Gallery More times »
Free
In the midst of war, there seems to be no shortage of news on the subject. But though we may often feel aware of present... View details »
Liat Yossifor and Aaron Sandnes
Art
It's a Beautiful World
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ The Scion Installation LA Space More times »
Free
The Scion Installation Space in Culver City has lined its walls with works by the heavyweights of urban romanticism — including Sage Vaughn, Mel Kadel,... View details »
Art
Elizabeth McGrath
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Billy Shire Fine Arts More times »
Free
For The Secret Party, Elizabeth McGrath ditches her usual creepy dolls and freaky dioramas and fully embraces her works' intrinsic whimsy with a frothy, quirky... View details »
Elizabeth McGrath
Art
Terence Koh
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Peres Projects More times »
Free
Anyone who can sell his own bodily fluids for thousands of dollars on the art market has "made it" as an artist. Of course, there's... View details »
Art
Mark Bradford
Wednesday May 14, 2008 @ 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 May 14, 2008 (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
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (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
Wednesday May 14, 2008 (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