Events on Monday, May 26

Ride on Rides w/ Foreign Born, Restaurant, and Willoughby

Music

Foreign Born

Monday 5/26 @ The Viper Room

Dim Mak darlings and rising LA institution Foreign Born aren't above a little indie-rock anthemry. Drawing on the stringy guitars of... 

Monday Social feat. DJ Colette and Jesse Brooks

Music: DJ

DJ Colette

Monday 5/26 @ Nacional

The sultry DJ Colette has long been associated with names like Paul van Dyk, Kaskade, Mark Farina, and other earth-shakin', booty-bumpin'... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Monday 5/26 @ 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... 

Art

Michael Kalish

Monday 5/26 @ 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... 

<em>100% Other: Artists and Psycho-Demographic Transitions</em>

Art

100% Other

Monday 5/26 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Bob Dylan's American Journey

Monday 5/26 @ 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... 

BritWeek 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

BritWeek 2008

Monday 5/26 @ Various locations

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

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Art: Photography

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Monday 5/26 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia's meticulously planned pictures look as effortless as Polaroids. Most of his works feature a single person — who... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Monday 5/26 @ 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... 

<em>California Video </em>

Art

California Video

Monday 5/26 @ 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,... 

<em>Heavy Metal in Baghdad </em>

Film: Documentary

Heavy Metal in Baghdad

Monday 5/26 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5

Heavy-metal rebelliousness is one of the many luxuries that US freedom affords us. In Baghdad, on the other hand, it's just... 

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

Art

Las Vegas Diaspora

Monday 5/26 @ 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... 

Cadence Pearson: <em>Disjointed</em>

Art

Cadence Pearson

Monday 5/26 @ Kara Wily Pilates

When dancer and art enthusiast Kara Wily wanted to open her own Pilates studio (having learned the ropes from the movement's... 

<em>Lush</em>

Art

Lush

Monday 5/26 @ Salon Oblique

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

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Monday 5/26 @ Norton Simon Museum

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

35th Annual Topanga Days

Festival: Performing Arts

Topanga Days

Monday 5/26 @ Topanga Canyon Community Club

Leave the city's hustle and bustle behind and head for the hills (or, better yet, the canyon) for the 35th Annual... 

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

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Monday 5/26 @ 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,... 

Lightning in a Bottle

Festival: Performing Arts

Lightning in a Bottle

Monday 5/26 @ Live Oak Campground Santa Barbara

It's time once again for the Do Lab's annual Lightning in a Bottle festival — a four-day camping adventure in the... 

UCLA Jazz Reggae Festival feat. the Roots and Stephen Marley

Music

Stephen Marley

Monday 5/26 @ UCLA Main Campus

A counterpoint to the often somber tone of Memorial Day weekend, the UCLA Jazz Reggae Festival offers the looming summer season's... 

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

Monday 5/26 @ 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... 

<em>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Monday 5/26 @ 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...