Events on Thursday, May 29
Thursday 5/29 @ El Rey
Jamie Lidell has arrived. In his performances since 2005's fantastically received, surprisingly soulful Multiply, the demi-founder of the now-defunct...
Thursday 5/29 @ Hollywood Bowl
R.E.M.'s last outing Around the Sun was a critical and commercial flop — but their "great American band" tenure isn't up...
Thursday 5/29 @ Skirball Cultural Center
The Skirball continues its ongoing exhibition Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966 with a screening of unreleased Dylan documentary Eat the Document....
Thursday 5/29 @ Little Temple
Anchored by drummer/songwriter Adam Topol and guitarist/engineer Franchot Tone, the Culver City Dub Collective play an amorphous blend of bossa nova,...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 5/29 @ Morono Kiang Gallery
As Internet galleries and portfolio sites make it increasingly easy to navigate the deep waters of the international emerging art scene,...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ Gagosian Gallery
For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with...
Thursday 5/29 @ New Image Art
Anthony Lister's newest installation, strewn with pop-culture tragedies and unfortunate vagabonds, erupts in New Image Art's white-walled gallery space. Hailing from...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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,...
Thursday 5/29 @ Richard Heller Gallery
In New Jersey-based artist Jon Rappleye's world, eyeless horned owls flit around a cluster of vultures, deer, and snakes while, in...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Thursday 5/29 @ 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....
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
Thursday 5/29 @ LAXART
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo, both making their solo debuts in Los Angeles, meditate on the meaning of objects in human...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ Western Project
Sculpture is LA's latest claim to art-world fame, and the medium's reemergence is due partly to the city's new generation of...
Thursday 5/29 @ The Ford Theater
After directing Broadway's mega-musical The Lion King, Tony Award-winner Peter Schneider moved in a surprising direction: he traded in big-budget spectacle...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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,...
Deedee Cheriel and Louise Bonnet
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ The Getty Center
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Liat Yossifor and Aaron Sandnes
Thursday 5/29 @ See Line Gallery
In the midst of war, there seems to be no shortage of news on the subject. But though we may often...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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,...
Thursday 5/29 @ Jail Gallery
The globally diverse artists in JAIL's latest endeavor have one thing in common: their work ignores the ugly cable-news cycle of...
Thursday 5/29 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
Tiffany Bozic's paintings and drawings are interpretations of the natural world — as seen through a warped microscope, in brilliant color,...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ Los Angeles Convention Center
BookExpo, the equivalent of Fashion Week for the book-readin' crowd, lands in Los Angeles this weekend. The literary industry's largest trade...
Thursday 5/29 @ The Getty Villa
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only...
Thursday 5/29 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Still feeling the love from last month's star-studded tribute to his 40 years in Los Angeles, Plácido Domingo returns to the...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ Honor Fraser
Painter Tillman Kaiser invokes the legacy of dadaist Marcel Duchamp, who famously flipped a ceramic urinal on its side, signed it...
Thursday 5/29 @ REDCAT
Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a...
Thursday 5/29 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
With this series of works, Gary Palmer addresses one of the most ancient concerns in art: the representation of landscapes. Using...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Don Ed Hardy and Michael McCabe
Thursday 5/29 @ Track 16 Gallery
If you live in California, you've most likely heard of Don Ed Hardy — or at least of his ubiquitous fashion...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ Barnsdall Art Park
The Cultural Affairs Department recently issued a statement to declare its unprecedented satisfaction with the state's arts budget — proof that...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ Sam Lee Gallery
Misato Suzuki is acutely aware of nature's palette and geometry. With soothing shades of yellow, orange, brown, and blue, she paints...
Thursday 5/29 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Thursday 5/29 @ Thinkspace Gallery
Consider it Ladies' Choice at Thinkspace this month, as the gallery devotes its wall space to the work of four women...
Thursday 5/29 @ Peres Projects
Anyone who can sell his own bodily fluids for thousands of dollars on the art market has "made it" as an...
Thursday 5/29 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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,...
Thursday 5/29 @ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at...
Thursday 5/29 @ Various locations
The British are coming! But this time there's no need to run for cover, as the Cool Britannia crowd of expats...
Thursday 5/29 @ 01 Gallery
Back in the late 1970s, Steve Olson became a celebrity in the world of professional skateboarding for his vertical-shredding ability. He's...
Thursday 5/29 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Thursday 5/29 @ Hammer Museum
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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....
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
Thursday 5/29 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
SMMoA gathers an eclectic array of work by 30 impressive artists — from Kara Walker to Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Nauman, and...
Keep Your Pantheon and Duck Variations
Thursday 5/29 @ 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...
