Events on Friday, May 30
Friday 5/30 @ The Getty Center
The May installment of Flavorpill and the Getty Center's Fridays Off the 405 party features DJ Dirty Finger with support from...
Friday 5/30 @ Spaceland
Pop music is putty in the hands of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger (aka the Fiery Furnaces). Brother and sister pay no...
Friday 5/30 @ Molly Malone's
Like some hazy dream of a psychedelic gypsy circus, the Vagabond Opera are one of those acts that intrigue even the...
Ongoing Events
Friday 5/30 @ Morono Kiang Gallery
As Internet galleries and portfolio sites make it increasingly easy to navigate the deep waters of the international emerging art scene,...
Friday 5/30 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
Tiffany Bozic's paintings and drawings are interpretations of the natural world — as seen through a warped microscope, in brilliant color,...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ The Getty Villa
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ Honor Fraser
Painter Tillman Kaiser invokes the legacy of dadaist Marcel Duchamp, who famously flipped a ceramic urinal on its side, signed it...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Friday 5/30 @ 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....
Friday 5/30 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
With this series of works, Gary Palmer addresses one of the most ancient concerns in art: the representation of landscapes. Using...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Don Ed Hardy and Michael McCabe
Friday 5/30 @ Track 16 Gallery
If you live in California, you've most likely heard of Don Ed Hardy — or at least of his ubiquitous fashion...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ Barnsdall Art Park
The Cultural Affairs Department recently issued a statement to declare its unprecedented satisfaction with the state's arts budget — proof that...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Deedee Cheriel and Louise Bonnet
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ Peres Projects
Anyone who can sell his own bodily fluids for thousands of dollars on the art market has "made it" as an...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ Various locations
The British are coming! But this time there's no need to run for cover, as the Cool Britannia crowd of expats...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Friday 5/30 @ Fraternal Order of Eagles Hall
The folk-gypsy invasion was just an excuse to bring the accordion back into the common parlance of indie rock, but it's...
Friday 5/30 @ Hammer Museum
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ REDCAT
Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a...
Friday 5/30 @ 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....
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ 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
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ Grind Gallery
Including comic-book writers, fashion photographers, and magazine illustrators, the eclectic collection of emerging artists at the Grind Gallery may be under...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
The Legendary Times of Bulgakov
Friday 5/30 @ Art|Works Theatre
American Russian Theatre Ensemble Laboratory produces interdisciplinary events that illuminate Russia's darkly poetic, politically charged history. Now, ARTEL focuses on the...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ Gagosian Gallery
For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with...
Friday 5/30 @ Thinkspace Gallery
Consider it Ladies' Choice at Thinkspace this month, as the gallery devotes its wall space to the work of four women...
Friday 5/30 @ 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,...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical...
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
Friday 5/30 @ LAXART
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo, both making their solo debuts in Los Angeles, meditate on the meaning of objects in human...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at...
Friday 5/30 @ 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."...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ 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,...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Friday 5/30 @ The Getty Center
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition...
Friday 5/30 @ 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...
Liat Yossifor and Aaron Sandnes
Friday 5/30 @ See Line Gallery
In the midst of war, there seems to be no shortage of news on the subject. But though we may often...
Friday 5/30 @ 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,...
