Events on Thursday, May 15
Thursday 5/15 @ Whisky a Go Go
Branded as the print world's Pinocchio after his addiction memoir A Million Little Pieces became a scapegoat for the industry, author...
Thursday 5/15 @ Silverlake Lounge
Amiable Echo Park-based duo Hearts of Palm UK (no, they're not from the UK, so quit asking) hit the Silverlake Lounge...
Thursday 5/15 @ The Troubadour
The Little Ones play the kind of pop music you wish LA would always produce: no rock posturing or fake tales...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 5/15 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical...
Liat Yossifor and Aaron Sandnes
Thursday 5/15 @ See Line Gallery
In the midst of war, there seems to be no shortage of news on the subject. But though we may often...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ Regen Projects II
After capturing the essence of SoCal beach life with her surfer portrait series, photographer Catherine Opie tackles another bastion of American...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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,...
Thursday 5/15 @ Peres Projects
Anyone who can sell his own bodily fluids for thousands of dollars on the art market has "made it" as an...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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,...
Thursday 5/15 @ Pounder-Koné Art Space
Afrobeat pioneer and revolutionary activist Fela Kuti has influenced generations of progressives, from his native Nigeria to South Central LA, with...
Thursday 5/15 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
With this series of works, Gary Palmer addresses one of the most ancient concerns in art: the representation of landscapes. Using...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Thursday 5/15 @ 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....
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ McCadden Place Theatre
Los Angeles has long been a breeding ground for the hilarious, thanks to veteran improv groups like the Groundlings and relative...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ Gagosian Gallery
For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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,...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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,...
Thursday 5/15 @ Thinkspace Gallery
Consider it Ladies' Choice at Thinkspace this month, as the gallery devotes its wall space to the work of four women...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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....
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ Hammer Museum
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks...
Thursday 5/15 @ The Getty Center
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Keep Your Pantheon and Duck Variations
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ REDCAT
Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a...
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
Thursday 5/15 @ LAXART
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo, both making their solo debuts in Los Angeles, meditate on the meaning of objects in human...
Thursday 5/15 @ Various locations
The British are coming! But this time there's no need to run for cover, as the Cool Britannia crowd of expats...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ The Getty Villa
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only...
Thursday 5/15 @ Morono Kiang Gallery
As Internet galleries and portfolio sites make it increasingly easy to navigate the deep waters of the international emerging art scene,...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ Samuel Freeman
Cheeky artist Masami Teraoka is most famous for his ukiyo-e woodblock paintings, which combine Japanese imagery, themes from American culture, and...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin
Thursday 5/15 @ 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...
