Events on Tuesday, May 20

Pavilion of Wings
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
More Flavor: City Gem
Pavilion of Wings
@ 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... View details » View details »
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
Terence Koh
@ Peres Projects
Anyone who can sell his own bodily fluids for thousands of dollars on the art market has "made it" as an... View details » View details »
Free
Gregory Crewdson
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art: Photography
Gregory Crewdson
@ Gagosian Gallery
For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with... View details » View details »
Free
Jerome Witkin: <em>Revelations in Drawing</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
Jerome Witkin
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
<em>The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present </em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
The Color of Life
@ The Getty Villa
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only... View details » View details »
Free
Anna Dusi: <em>Da Cosa Nasce Cosa</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
Anna Dusi
@ The Loft at Liz's
Long known for fantastic salvage store Liz's Antique Hardware (a favorite with high-end interior designers and industry art directors), Liz Gordon... View details » View details »
Free
<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
@ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... View details » View details »
<em>Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art: Photography
Ten Years in Focus
@ The Getty Center
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition... View details » View details »
Free
Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art: Discussion
Nicole Cohen
@ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... View details » View details »
Free
Kara Walker: <em>My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
Kara Walker
@ Hammer Museum
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks... View details » View details »
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
@ LAXART
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo, both making their solo debuts in Los Angeles, meditate on the meaning of objects in human... View details » View details »
Free
<em>100% Other: Artists and Psycho-Demographic Transitions</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
100% Other
@ 18th Street Arts Center
For the next installment of Future of Nations exhibition series 100% Other, curator Tyler Stallings asked artists Matthew Bryant, Cheryl Gilge,... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Vexing: Female Voices from East LA Punk</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
Vexing
@ 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... View details » View details »
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
Gary Palmer
@ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
With this series of works, Gary Palmer addresses one of the most ancient concerns in art: the representation of landscapes. Using... View details » View details »
Free
Masami Teraoka
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
Masami Teraoka
@ Samuel Freeman
Cheeky artist Masami Teraoka is most famous for his ukiyo-e woodblock paintings, which combine Japanese imagery, themes from American culture, and... View details » View details »
Free
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
Don Ed Hardy and Michael McCabe
@ Track 16 Gallery
If you live in California, you've most likely heard of Don Ed Hardy — or at least of his ubiquitous fashion... View details » View details »
Free
Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art from the Neon Homeland</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
Las Vegas Diaspora
@ 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... View details » View details »
<em>Blood & Glitter </em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
Blood & Glitter
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
<em>KC in LA</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
KC in LA
@ Milo Gallery
Curator Ashley Emenegger went all the way to the unlikely art capital of Kansas City, Missouri, and brought back a little... View details » View details »
Free
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
It's a Beautiful World
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
Dave McKenzie: <em>Screen Doors on Submarines</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
Dave McKenzie
@ REDCAT
Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a... View details » View details »
Free
Yoskay Yamamoto: <em>The Upside of Down</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
Yoskay Yamamoto
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art: Architecture/Design
Michael Kalish
@ MODAA gallery
While Michael Kalish's early work is marked by portraits of iconic figures (Jimi Hendrix, Jesus), his new exhibition at Culver City's... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art: Photography
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
@ 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.... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Newer Topographics: Photographs of Digitally Altered Urban Landscapes</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art: Photography
Newer Topographics
@ 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... View details » View details »
<em>Good Doll Bad Doll </em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
Good Doll Bad Doll
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
Elizabeth McGrath: <em>The Secret Party</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
Elizabeth McGrath
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Menace & Charm: The Nostalgia of Childhood</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
Menace & Charm
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
Culmination
@ Morono Kiang Gallery
As Internet galleries and portfolio sites make it increasingly easy to navigate the deep waters of the international emerging art scene,... View details » View details »
Free
Deedee Cheriel and Louise Bonnet: <em>New Works</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Art
Deedee Cheriel and Louise Bonnet
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
My Brightest Diamond
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Music: Rock/Pop
My Brightest Diamond
@ The Hotel Café
While up to 19 members have been known to circulate in and out, Shara Worden remains the driving force behind indie-rock... View details » View details »
Rich Ferguson
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Performing Arts: Spoken Word
Rich Ferguson
@ Tangier Restaurant
This evening's program fuses Rich Ferguson's self-immolating poetry with the energy of rock music, as this veteran free-versifier is backed by... View details » View details »
Clinic w/ Shearwater
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Music: Rock/Pop
Clinic
@ The Troubadour
Since their inception over a decade ago, Liverpool psych-retro-whatever wizards Clinic have been frequently described as "spooky," "cryptic," and "creepy."... View details » View details »
Let's Independent feat. Karabal Nightlife w/ the Soft Hands and the Savages
Month_05 Tuesday Day_20
Music: Rock/Pop
Karabal Nightlife
@ Boardner's
This month's edition of Radio Free Silverlake's Let's Independent features three spotlight-deserving acts from the Southland. Three-piece Karabal Nightlife headline with... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Phalanstery Module </em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_21
Art: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
@ 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... View details » View details »
Free
<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_21
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
@ 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,... View details » View details »
Free
Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Mark Bradford
@ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery
Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Keep Your Pantheon</em> and <em>Duck Variations</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_21
Performing Arts: Theatre
Keep Your Pantheon and Duck Variations
@ 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... View details » View details »
BritWeek 2008
Month_05 Wednesday Day_21
More Flavor: Festival
BritWeek 2008
@ Various locations
The British are coming! But this time there's no need to run for cover, as the Cool Britannia crowd of expats... View details » View details »
<em>California Video </em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_21
Art
California Video
@ 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,... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Lush</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Lush
@ Salon Oblique
With Lush, West Side sensation Salon Oblique upholds its growing reputation for intellectually and aesthetically engaging multimedia group exhibitions. As in... View details » View details »
Free
<em>Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966</em>
Month_05 Wednesday Day_21
Art
Bob Dylan's American Journey
@ 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... View details » View details »
Pacific Division w/ J*DaVeY and The Gray Kid
Month_05 Wednesday Day_21
Music: Hip-Hop
Pacific Division w/ J*DaVeY and The Gray Kid
@ Key Club
Comprising a rhyme-spitting trio from Palmdale, a soulful electro duo fronted by a gorgeous girl with a mohawk, and an 8-bit... View details » View details »