All events on Sunday May 04

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Music: Rock/Pop
Blood on the Wall
Sunday May 4 (10pm) @ The Echo in Echo Park
Giveaway
Bouncy Brooklynites Blood on the Wall aren't afraid of anything — least of all the judgmental eyes of indie-rock elitists. Whether cozying up to a... View details »
Blood on the Wall
Music: Rock/Pop
The Dead Science
Sunday May 4 (9pm) @ The Smell
The Dead Science singer Sam Mickens makes no bones about being a total and complete nut. Like fellow over-emoters Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu) and Casey... View details »
The Dead Science
Film
Instant Films 25
Sunday May 4 (8pm) @ LA Center Studios in Downtown
The writers draw two words at random at 8pm on Friday and hand their hastily written scripts off to the directors and actors at 8am... View details »
Instant Films 25

The following events are ongoing.

Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Sunday May 4 @ 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 »
My Kid Could Paint That
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Sunday May 4 (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 »
La Vida Lowrider
Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Sunday May 4 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum in Santa Monica 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 »
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Art
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Sunday May 4 @ Skirball Cultural Center in Brentwood 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 »
Bob Dylan's American Journey
Art
Kara Walker
Sunday May 4 (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 »
Kara Walker
Art
Make Art/Stop AIDS
Sunday May 4 (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 4 @ The Getty Center in Brentwood More times »
Free
As video art's growing reach now extends from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to commuters watching YouTube on their iPhones, the Getty... View details »
California Video
Art
James Turrell
Sunday May 4 (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 »
James Turrell
More Flavor: City Gem
Vinum Populi
Sunday May 4 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi in Culver City More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Vinum Populi, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one key... View details »
Vinum Populi
Art
Las Vegas Diaspora
Sunday May 4 (11am–5pm) @ Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach 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 »
Las Vegas Diaspora
Art
Good Doll Bad Doll
Sunday May 4 (noon–5pm) @ Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena 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 »
Good Doll Bad Doll
Art
The Color of Life
Sunday May 4 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Villa in Malibu 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 »
The Color of Life
Performing Arts: Theatre
He Asked for It
Sunday May 4 (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 »
He Asked for It
Art: Architecture/Design
Elena Manferdini
Sunday May 4 (10am–6pm) @ SCI-Arc in Downtown More times »
Free
"Merletti" means lace in Italian; for architects, it refers to the pattern of folds along a watchtower's defensive rims and other secure rooftops. In Elena... View details »
Elena Manferdini
Art: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
Sunday May 4 @ Materials & Applications in Silver Lake 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 »
Phalanstery Module
Art: Photography
Mister Lonely
Sunday May 4 @ Agnes B. More times »
Filmmaker Harmony Korine's newest movie, Mister Lonely, follows a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living in a remote French castle with a group of fellow... View details »
Mister Lonely
Art
Sue-Ling Hyde
Sunday May 4 (noon–4pm) @ Ghettogloss in Silverlake More times »
Free
Sue-Ling Hyde is more than a pretty face. You might recognize her from modeling gigs with Shiseido, Versus, and Moshino, but the Puerto Rican artist... View details »
Sue-Ling Hyde
Art
Dave McKenzie
Sunday May 4 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT in Downtown 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 »
Dave McKenzie
Art
Lush
Sunday May 4 @ 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 »
Lush
More Flavor: Festival
BritWeek 2008
Sunday May 4 @ 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 »
BritWeek 2008
Film
Polish Film Festival
Sunday May 4 @ Various locations More times »
Krzysztof Kieslowski may have set the bar too high for Polish cinema with his mid-'90s Three Colors trilogy. In the years since, though, Polish filmmakers... View details »
Polish Film Festival
Art
Witnessed from Afar
Sunday May 4 (2–7pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art in W Hollywood 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 »
Witnessed from Afar
More Flavor: City Gem
Downtown Scavenger Hunt
Sunday May 4 (2–5pm) @ Location TBA with registration More times »
Whether you walk or drive, your brain will surely work a mile a minute for the latest Hidden in Downtown Scavenger Hunt. Arranged by the... View details »
Art
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Sunday May 4 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon in Pasadena 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 »
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Art: Architecture/Design
Peter Gronquist
Sunday May 4 (11am–6pm) @ Gallery 1988 in W Hollywood More times »
Free
"Weapons of mass designer," Peter Gronquist's tongue-in-cheek label for his hilarious and poignant sculptures, is actually a quite literal description of his work: think tanks... View details »
Peter Gronquist
Performing Arts: Comedy
Los Angeles Comedy Festival
Sunday May 4 @ McCadden Place Theatre in Hollywood 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 »
Los Angeles Comedy Festival
Art
Xin Lu Video Bus Tour
Sunday May 4 (12:30pm) @ Directors Guild of America Theater in W Hollywood More times »
Los Angeles-based media artist Ming-Yuen S. Ma takes the notion of a traveling art show quite literally with the Xin Lu project. Presented as part... View details »
Xin Lu Video Bus Tour
Art
Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin
Sunday May 4 (noon–6pm) @ La Luz de Jesus in Hollywood 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 »
Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin
Art
Amir H. Fallah
Sunday May 4 (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 »
Amir H. Fallah
Performing Arts: Theatre
Compleat Female Stage Beauty
Sunday May 4 (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 »
Compleat Female Stage Beauty
Art
Heng Peng
Sunday May 4 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space in Atwater More times »
Free
Los Angeles-based painter and installation artist Heng Peng has always had a fascination with fabric — both its design and the industry surrounding its production.... View details »
Heng Peng
Art
Mark Bradford
Sunday May 4 @ 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 »
Mark Bradford
Art: Photography
Ten Years in Focus
Sunday May 4 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Center in Brentwood 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 »
Ten Years in Focus