All events on Sunday May 18
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- Venice Art Walk
- Sunday May 18 (11am–6pm) @ 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 Art Walk (and its... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Custom Sundaze
- Sunday May 18 (1–9pm) @ Custom Hotel
- Free
- 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
- Noisy People
- Sunday May 18 (7pm) @ 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 percussion instruments with vegetables;... View details »
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- Moonlight Rollerway Jubilee
- Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ Moonlight Rollerway
- Charles Phoenix is LA's cultural ambassador to its own gloriously kitschy past. His wildly popular slide shows and bus tours showcase (and lovingly mock) the... View details »
- Music: Global
- Cuban Music Festival
- Sunday May 18 (noon–7pm) @ Echo Park Lake
- Free
- 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 »
- Music: DJ
- The Do-Over
- Sunday May 18 (2–10pm) @ 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 Tavern. Hosted by Haycock,... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Film: Documentary
- My Kid Could Paint That
- Sunday May 18 @ Various locations More times »
- Free
- An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That, Amir Bar-Lev documents the... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- La Vida Lowrider
- Sunday May 18 (10am–6pm) @ Peterson Automotive Museum More times »
- The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the need for expressing cultural... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Lights! Camera! Glamour!
- Sunday May 18 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
- George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups, "The grand seigneur of... View details »
- Art
- Bob Dylan's American Journey
- Sunday May 18 @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
- 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 »
- Art
- Kara Walker
- Sunday May 18 (11am–5pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
- 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 »
- Art
- Make Art/Stop AIDS
- Sunday May 18 (noon–5pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Art
- California Video
- Sunday May 18 @ The Getty Center More times »
- Free
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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
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- James Turrell
- Sunday May 18 (10am–8pm) @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Ugo Wine Bar
- Sunday May 18 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
- Free
- Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Keep Your Pantheon and Duck Variations
- Sunday May 18 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre More times »
- Brilliantly contrasting old with new, Center Theatre Group places one of David Mamet's earliest works alongside his latest production. In the classic Duck Variations, two... View details »
- Art
- Las Vegas Diaspora
- Sunday May 18 (11am–5pm) @ Laguna Art Museum More times »
- 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 »
- Art
- Good Doll Bad Doll
- Sunday May 18 (noon–5pm) @ Armory Center for the Arts More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Art
- The Color of Life
- Sunday May 18 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Villa More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- He Asked for It
- Sunday May 18 (7pm) @ Theatre of NOTE More times »
- Erik Patterson's provocative play He Asked for It explores the dark underbelly of one-night stands: the HIV-indifferent behavior of "bug chasers." A character study of... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Phalanstery Module
- Sunday May 18 @ Materials & Applications More times »
- Free
- M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents the central challenge, as... View details »
- Art
- Dave McKenzie
- Sunday May 18 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Art
- Lush
- Sunday May 18 @ Salon Oblique More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- More Flavor: Festival
- BritWeek 2008
- Sunday May 18 @ Various locations More times »
- The British are coming! But this time there's no need to run for cover, as the Cool Britannia crowd of expats and Anglophiles celebrates the... View details »
- Art
- Witnessed from Afar
- Sunday May 18 (2–7pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Art
- Marcel Duchamp Redux
- Sunday May 18 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon More times »
- 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 »
- Art
- Mexican Calendar Girls
- Sunday May 18 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Los Angeles Comedy Festival
- Sunday May 18 @ McCadden Place Theatre More times »
- Los Angeles has long been a breeding ground for the hilarious, thanks to veteran improv groups like the Groundlings and relative newcomers like the Upright... View details »
- Art
- Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin
- Sunday May 18 (noon–6pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
- Free
- When he's not busy inking clients like Master P and Kiki Smith, internationally known tattoo artist Scott Harrison maintains a sweet little reputation as a... View details »
- Art
- Amir H. Fallah
- Sunday May 18 (11am–6pm) @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Compleat Female Stage Beauty
- Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ Rogue Machine More times »
- Jeffrey Hatcher's critically acclaimed comedy takes it first LA bow at Theatre Theatre's brand-new Rogue Machine stage. Inspired by a real Shakespearean-era actor named Edward... View details »
- Art
- Uncommon Gardens
- Sunday May 18 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- More Flavor: Festival
- Joshua Tree Music Festival
- Sunday May 18 @ Hi Desert Cultural Center More times »
- Those who didn't get enough banging spoons and blazing temperatures during Coachella 2008 should take the 10 back east for more indie rock and experimental... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Anatomy of a Slap
- Sunday May 18 (8pm) @ Son of Semele Theater More times »
- It isn't often that eight different writers put their heads together to craft a single play, but that's the case in Anatomy of a Slap... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Speech & Debate
- Sunday May 18 (4pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
- 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 »
- Art
- Vexing
- Sunday May 18 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art More times »
- 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Dream Man
- Sunday May 18 (3pm) @ Skylight Theatre More times »
- 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 »
- Art
- COLA Artist Fellowships
- Sunday May 18 (noon–5pm) @ Barnsdall Art Park More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Art
- Mark Hobley
- Sunday May 18 (noon–5pm) @ Applegate Gallery More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Art
- Jasmine Murrell
- Sunday May 18 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Art
- Mark Bradford
- Sunday May 18 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Ten Years in Focus
- Sunday May 18 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
- Free
- In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition draws parallels between photography... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Pavilion of Wings
- Sunday May 18 (10am–5pm) @ Natural History Museum More times »
- Pavilion of Wings returns to the Natural History Museum for the exhibition's tenth anniversary. Now, anyone jealous of the Shins' experience in Mexico can walk... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
- Sunday May 18 (10am–5pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
- Free
- Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs looks at Israel's female citizenry as a reflection of the state's 60-year history of independence. Drawing on documentary and... View details »
