Events on Sunday, May 18

Venice Art Walk

Art

Venice Art Walk

Sunday 5/18 @ Westminster School

The oceanside bohemian enclave of Venice Beach becomes its own gallery-sans-walls this weekend for the 29th annual Art Walk. The Venice... 

The Do-Over Season Opener

Music: DJ

The Do-Over

Sunday 5/18 @ Crane's Hollywood Tavern

The Do-Over returns for another caliente season of beats, BBQ, and signature sangria courtesy of Stones Throw Records and Crane's Hollywood... 

Cuban Music Festival

Music: Global

Cuban Music Festival

Sunday 5/18 @ Echo Park Lake

Long before Wim Wenders' 1999 documentary Buena Vista Social Club sparked a global obsession with Cuban music and culture, Los Angeles... 

Charles Phoenix presents Moonlight Rollerway Jubilee

Party

Moonlight Rollerway Jubilee

Sunday 5/18 @ Moonlight Rollerway

Charles Phoenix is LA's cultural ambassador to its own gloriously kitschy past. His wildly popular slide shows and bus tours showcase... 

Custom Sundaze feat. Nickodemus and DJ Quantic

Music: DJ

Custom Sundaze

Sunday 5/18 @ Custom Hotel

The days of driving all the way downtown for a good, old-fashioned pool party are over. The Custom Hotel's weekly Sundaze... 

LA Filmforum presents <em>Noisy People </em>(2007)

Film: Documentary

Noisy People

Sunday 5/18 @ The Silent Movie Theatre

The Noisy People break all the rules of conventional music-playing: they blow on the wrong ends of their horns; they hit... 

Ongoing Events

Mark Hobley: <em>The Visionary</em>

Art

Mark Hobley

Sunday 5/18 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Sunday 5/18 @ 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... 

Amir H. Fallah: <em>Pedestal</em>

Art

Amir H. Fallah

Sunday 5/18 @ 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.... 

<em>He Asked for It </em>

Theatre

He Asked for It

Sunday 5/18 @ 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."... 

<em>The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present </em>

Art

The Color of Life

Sunday 5/18 @ The Getty Villa

Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only... 

<em>Uncommon Gardens</em>

Art

Uncommon Gardens

Sunday 5/18 @ Thinkspace Gallery

Consider it Ladies' Choice at Thinkspace this month, as the gallery devotes its wall space to the work of four women... 

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

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Sunday 5/18 @ 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,... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Sunday 5/18 @ Norton Simon Museum

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

BritWeek 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

BritWeek 2008

Sunday 5/18 @ Various locations

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

Kara Walker: <em>My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love</em>

Art

Kara Walker

Sunday 5/18 @ Hammer Museum

Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks... 

<em>Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs

Sunday 5/18 @ 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.... 

<em>Compleat Female Stage Beauty</em>

Theatre

Compleat Female Stage Beauty

Sunday 5/18 @ 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... 

<em>Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera</em>

Art: Photography

Ten Years in Focus

Sunday 5/18 @ The Getty Center

In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition... 

Dave McKenzie: <em>Screen Doors on Submarines</em>

Art

Dave McKenzie

Sunday 5/18 @ REDCAT

Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a... 

<em>Keep Your Pantheon</em> and <em>Duck Variations</em>

Theatre

Keep Your Pantheon and Duck Variations

Sunday 5/18 @ 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... 

Art

COLA Artist Fellowships

Sunday 5/18 @ Barnsdall Art Park

The Cultural Affairs Department recently issued a statement to declare its unprecedented satisfaction with the state's arts budget — proof that... 

Joshua Tree Music Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Joshua Tree Music Festival

Sunday 5/18 @ 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... 

<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Sunday 5/18 @ 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... 

<em>Anatomy of a Slap</em>

Theatre

Anatomy of a Slap

Sunday 5/18 @ 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... 

<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Sunday 5/18 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... 

<em>Witnessed from Afar</em>

Art

Witnessed from Afar

Sunday 5/18 @ 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... 

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

Art

Bob Dylan's American Journey

Sunday 5/18 @ 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... 

<em>Good Doll Bad Doll </em>

Art

Good Doll Bad Doll

Sunday 5/18 @ 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... 

<em>Lush</em>

Art

Lush

Sunday 5/18 @ Salon Oblique

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

<em>Lights! Camera! Glamour!</em>

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Sunday 5/18 @ 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,... 

<em>Vexing: Female Voices from East LA Punk</em>

Art

Vexing

Sunday 5/18 @ Claremont Museum of Art

In the early '80s, the Vex was an all-ages music club located in Self Help Graphics and Art, a Chicano landmark... 

Theatre

Speech & Debate

Sunday 5/18 @ Skirball Cultural Center

Like his previous, more controversial Columbinus, emerging playwright Stephen Karam's Speech & Debate examines teenage alienation and the construction of the... 

Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Sunday 5/18 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... 

Jasmine Murrell: <em>Possession of Fela Kuti</em>

Art

Jasmine Murrell

Sunday 5/18 @ 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... 

<em>California Video </em>

Art

California Video

Sunday 5/18 @ 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,... 

Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin

Art

Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin

Sunday 5/18 @ 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... 

Los Angeles Comedy Festival

Comedy

Los Angeles Comedy Festival

Sunday 5/18 @ 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>Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art from the Neon Homeland</em>

Art

Las Vegas Diaspora

Sunday 5/18 @ 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... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Sunday 5/18 @ 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... 

James Carroll Pickett's <em>Dream Man</em>

Theatre

Dream Man

Sunday 5/18 @ Skylight Theatre

Playwright James Carroll Pickett's one-man show Dream Man focuses on Christopher, a phone-sex hustler at his breaking point. Twenty-three years ago,... 

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

Sunday 5/18 @ 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... 

Art

Make Art/Stop AIDS

Sunday 5/18 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical... 

<em>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Sunday 5/18 @ 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...