Events on Sunday, May 4

Instant Films 25

Film

Instant Films 25

Sunday 5/ 4 @ LA Center Studios

The writers draw two words at random at 8pm on Friday and hand their hastily written scripts off to the directors... 

The Dead Science w/ BARR and Jesus Makes the Shotgun Sound

Music

The Dead Science

Sunday 5/ 4 @ The Smell

The Dead Science singer Sam Mickens makes no bones about being a total and complete nut. Like fellow over-emoters Jamie Stewart... 

Part Time Punks feat. Blood on the Wall

Music

Blood on the Wall

Sunday 5/ 4 @ The Echo & Echoplex

Bouncy Brooklynites Blood on the Wall aren't afraid of anything — least of all the judgmental eyes of indie-rock elitists. Whether... 

Ongoing Events

Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin

Art

Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin

Sunday 5/ 4 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Sunday 5/ 4 @ 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... 

Amir H. Fallah: <em>Pedestal</em>

Art

Amir H. Fallah

Sunday 5/ 4 @ 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.... 

Elena Manferdini: <em>Merletti</em>

Art

Elena Manferdini

Sunday 5/ 4 @ SCI-Arc

"Merletti" means lace in Italian; for architects, it refers to the pattern of folds along a watchtower's defensive rims and other... 

City Gems

Downtown Scavenger Hunt

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Location TBA with registration

Whether you walk or drive, your brain will surely work a mile a minute for the latest Hidden in Downtown Scavenger... 

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

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Sunday 5/ 4 @ 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,... 

<em>Good Doll Bad Doll </em>

Art

Good Doll Bad Doll

Sunday 5/ 4 @ 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... 

BritWeek 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

BritWeek 2008

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Various locations

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

Kara Walker: <em>My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love</em>

Art

Kara Walker

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Hammer Museum

Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Sunday 5/ 4 @ 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>He Asked for It </em>

Theatre

He Asked for It

Sunday 5/ 4 @ 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."... 

<em>Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera</em>

Art: Photography

Ten Years in Focus

Sunday 5/ 4 @ The Getty Center

In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition... 

Ming-Yuen S. Ma: <em>Xin Lu</em> Video Bus Tour

Art

Xin Lu Video Bus Tour

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Directors Guild of America Theater

Los Angeles-based media artist Ming-Yuen S. Ma takes the notion of a traveling art show quite literally with the Xin Lu... 

<em>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Sunday 5/ 4 @ 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... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Norton Simon Museum

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

Los Angeles Comedy Festival

Comedy

Los Angeles Comedy Festival

Sunday 5/ 4 @ McCadden Place Theatre

Los Angeles has long been a breeding ground for the hilarious, thanks to veteran improv groups like the Groundlings and relative... 

Peter Gronquist: <em>The Revolution Will Be Fabulous</em>

Art

Peter Gronquist

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Gallery 1988

"Weapons of mass designer," Peter Gronquist's tongue-in-cheek label for his hilarious and poignant sculptures, is actually a quite literal description of... 

<em>The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present </em>

Art

The Color of Life

Sunday 5/ 4 @ The Getty Villa

Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only... 

<em>Witnessed from Afar</em>

Art

Witnessed from Afar

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art

Some of the most talented, recognizable practitioners of Carmichael Gallery's trademark urban-romantic aesthetic show new work in Witnessed from Afar. Highlights... 

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

Art

Bob Dylan's American Journey

Sunday 5/ 4 @ 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... 

Art

Make Art/Stop AIDS

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical... 

<em>Lush</em>

Art

Lush

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Salon Oblique

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

<em>Lights! Camera! Glamour!</em>

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Sunday 5/ 4 @ 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,... 

<em>Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs

Sunday 5/ 4 @ 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.... 

Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Sunday 5/ 4 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... 

Heng Peng: <em>Unnatural Selection</em>

Art

Heng Peng

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Pounder-Koné Art Space

Los Angeles-based painter and installation artist Heng Peng has always had a fascination with fabric — both its design and the... 

<em>California Video </em>

Art

California Video

Sunday 5/ 4 @ 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,... 

Sue-Ling Hyde

Art

Sue-Ling Hyde

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

Sue-Ling Hyde is more than a pretty face. You might recognize her from modeling gigs with Shiseido, Versus, and Moshino, but... 

Polish Film Festival

Film

Polish Film Festival

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Various locations

Krzysztof Kieslowski may have set the bar too high for Polish cinema with his mid-'90s Three Colors trilogy. In the years... 

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

Art

Las Vegas Diaspora

Sunday 5/ 4 @ 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... 

<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... 

<em>Compleat Female Stage Beauty</em>

Theatre

Compleat Female Stage Beauty

Sunday 5/ 4 @ 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... 

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

Sunday 5/ 4 @ 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... 

Dave McKenzie: <em>Screen Doors on Submarines</em>

Art

Dave McKenzie

Sunday 5/ 4 @ REDCAT

Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a... 

Brent Stewart: <em>Mister Lonely</em>

Art: Photography

Mister Lonely

Sunday 5/ 4 @ Agnes B.

Filmmaker Harmony Korine's newest movie, Mister Lonely, follows a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living in a remote French castle with...