Events on Sunday, May 18
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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....
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."...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
