Events on Saturday, May 17
Saturday 5/17 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
On the third Saturday of each month, the freshly organized Miracle Mile Art Walk features over 40 private galleries — from...
Saturday 5/17 @ Alife LA
From infamously tagging the A train and creating some of the most iconic logos in hip-hop (Public Enemy, EPMD) to establishing...
Saturday 5/17 @ The Wiltern
Swedish singer Robyn may be familiar to late-'90s pop fans for her Max Martin-glossed hit "Show Me Love" — rumored, incidentally,...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ Theatre of NOTE
Erik Patterson's provocative play He Asked for It explores the dark underbelly of one-night stands: the HIV-indifferent behavior of "bug chasers."...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Saturday 5/17 @ Samuel Freeman
Cheeky artist Masami Teraoka is most famous for his ukiyo-e woodblock paintings, which combine Japanese imagery, themes from American culture, and...
Saturday 5/17 @ The Getty Center
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
With this series of works, Gary Palmer addresses one of the most ancient concerns in art: the representation of landscapes. Using...
Keep Your Pantheon and Duck Variations
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ Various locations
The British are coming! But this time there's no need to run for cover, as the Cool Britannia crowd of expats...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ Gagosian Gallery
For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with...
Deedee Cheriel and Louise Bonnet
Saturday 5/17 @ Subliminal Projects
The newest exhibition to hit Shepard and Amanda Fairey's Subliminal Projects gallery features the work of LA-based artists Deedee Cheriel and...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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,...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Saturday 5/17 @ 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....
Saturday 5/17 @ Hi Desert Cultural Center
Those who didn't get enough banging spoons and blazing temperatures during Coachella 2008 should take the 10 back east for more...
Saturday 5/17 @ Barnsdall Art Park
The Cultural Affairs Department recently issued a statement to declare its unprecedented satisfaction with the state's arts budget — proof that...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
The Legendary Times of Bulgakov
Saturday 5/17 @ Art|Works Theatre
American Russian Theatre Ensemble Laboratory produces interdisciplinary events that illuminate Russia's darkly poetic, politically charged history. Now, ARTEL focuses on the...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ Peres Projects
Anyone who can sell his own bodily fluids for thousands of dollars on the art market has "made it" as an...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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....
Saturday 5/17 @ 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,...
Saturday 5/17 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical...
Don Ed Hardy and Michael McCabe
Saturday 5/17 @ Track 16 Gallery
If you live in California, you've most likely heard of Don Ed Hardy — or at least of his ubiquitous fashion...
Saturday 5/17 @ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at...
Saturday 5/17 @ The Getty Villa
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only...
Saturday 5/17 @ Rogue Machine
Jeffrey Hatcher's critically acclaimed comedy takes it first LA bow at Theatre Theatre's brand-new Rogue Machine stage. Inspired by a real...
Saturday 5/17 @ Sam Lee Gallery
Misato Suzuki is acutely aware of nature's palette and geometry. With soothing shades of yellow, orange, brown, and blue, she paints...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Still feeling the love from last month's star-studded tribute to his 40 years in Los Angeles, Plácido Domingo returns to the...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ Thinkspace Gallery
Consider it Ladies' Choice at Thinkspace this month, as the gallery devotes its wall space to the work of four women...
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
Saturday 5/17 @ LAXART
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo, both making their solo debuts in Los Angeles, meditate on the meaning of objects in human...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ Applegate Gallery
Venice-based painter Mark Hobley takes iconic logos, scantily-dressed women, and playing cards (often at the same time) and transforms them into...
Saturday 5/17 @ McCadden Place Theatre
Los Angeles has long been a breeding ground for the hilarious, thanks to veteran improv groups like the Groundlings and relative...
Saturday 5/17 @ Morono Kiang Gallery
As Internet galleries and portfolio sites make it increasingly easy to navigate the deep waters of the international emerging art scene,...
Saturday 5/17 @ Regen Projects II
After capturing the essence of SoCal beach life with her surfer portrait series, photographer Catherine Opie tackles another bastion of American...
Saturday 5/17 @ Son of Semele Theater
It isn't often that eight different writers put their heads together to craft a single play, but that's the case in...
Saturday 5/17 @ Hammer Museum
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks...
Saturday 5/17 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Many art critics and scholars consider Jerome Witkin to be America's greatest living figurative painter. His portraits and landscapes combine an...
Saturday 5/17 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Like his previous, more controversial Columbinus, emerging playwright Stephen Karam's Speech & Debate examines teenage alienation and the construction of the...
Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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,...
Saturday 5/17 @ REDCAT
Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a...
Liat Yossifor and Aaron Sandnes
Saturday 5/17 @ See Line Gallery
In the midst of war, there seems to be no shortage of news on the subject. But though we may often...
Saturday 5/17 @ 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...
