All events on Sunday May 18
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Venice Art Walk
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Sunday May 18 (11am–6pm) @ Westminster School in Venice
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The oceanside bohemian enclave of Venice Beach becomes its own gallery-sans-walls this weekend for the 29th annual Art Walk. The Venice Art Walk (and its... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Custom Sundaze
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Sunday May 18 (1–9pm) @ Custom Hotel in Westchester
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The days of driving all the way downtown for a good, old-fashioned pool party are over. The Custom Hotel's weekly Sundaze party is an Ibiza-style... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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Noisy People
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Sunday May 18 (7pm) @ The Silent Movie Theatre in Hollywood
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The Noisy People break all the rules of conventional music-playing: they blow on the wrong ends of their horns; they hit percussion instruments with vegetables;... View details »
- Music: Global
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Cuban Music Festival
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Sunday May 18 (noon–7pm) @ Echo Park Lake in Echo Park
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Long before Wim Wenders' 1999 documentary Buena Vista Social Club sparked a global obsession with Cuban music and culture, Los Angeles was home to a... View details »
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The Do-Over
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Sunday May 18 (2–10pm) @ Crane's Hollywood Tavern in Hollywood
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The Do-Over returns for another caliente season of beats, BBQ, and signature sangria courtesy of Stones Throw Records and Crane's Hollywood Tavern. Hosted by Haycock,... View details »
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James Turrell
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Sunday May 18 (10am–8pm) @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College
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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 is, the transcendent, full-body... View details »
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Bob Dylan's American Journey
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Sunday May 18 @ Skirball Cultural Center in Brentwood
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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 »
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Make Art/Stop AIDS
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Sunday May 18 (noon–5pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
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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 »
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Kara Walker
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Sunday May 18 (11am–5pm) @ Hammer Museum
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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 »
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The Color of Life
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Sunday May 18 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Villa in Malibu
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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 »
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Las Vegas Diaspora
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Sunday May 18 (11am–5pm) @ Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach
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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 »
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California Video
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Sunday May 18 @ The Getty Center in Brentwood
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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 »
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Good Doll Bad Doll
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Sunday May 18 (noon–5pm) @ Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena
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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 »
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Mark Bradford
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Sunday May 18 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery
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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 »
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Lush
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Sunday May 18 @ Salon Oblique
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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 »
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Dave McKenzie
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Sunday May 18 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT in Downtown
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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 »
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Marcel Duchamp Redux
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Sunday May 18 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon in Pasadena
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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 »
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Witnessed from Afar
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Sunday May 18 (2–7pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art in W Hollywood
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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 »
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Amir H. Fallah
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Sunday May 18 (11am–6pm) @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai
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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 »
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Mexican Calendar Girls
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Sunday May 18 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum in Santa Monica
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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 »
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Uncommon Gardens
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Sunday May 18 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery
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Consider it Ladies' Choice at Thinkspace this month, as the gallery devotes its wall space to the work of four women with decidedly feminine bents... View details »
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Dream Man
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Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ Skylight Theatre in Hollywood
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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, actor/playwright Michael Kearns originated... View details »
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Speech & Debate
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Sunday May 18 (4pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center in Brentwood
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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 »
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Jasmine Murrell
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Sunday May 18 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space in Atwater
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Afrobeat pioneer and revolutionary activist Fela Kuti has influenced generations of progressives, from his native Nigeria to South Central LA, with his potently political celebration... View details »
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COLA Artist Fellowships
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Sunday May 18 (noon–5pm) @ Barnsdall Art Park in Hollywood
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The Cultural Affairs Department recently issued a statement to declare its unprecedented satisfaction with the state's arts budget — proof that our programs are hale... View details »
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Vexing
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Sunday May 18 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art
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In the early '80s, the Vex was an all-ages music club located in Self Help Graphics and Art, a Chicano landmark in East LA. Although... View details »
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Mark Hobley
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Sunday May 18 (noon–5pm) @ Applegate Gallery in Santa Monica
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Venice-based painter Mark Hobley takes iconic logos, scantily-dressed women, and playing cards (often at the same time) and transforms them into graphically rich pop heroes.... View details »
