Events on Monday, May 5

Mania Akbari: <em>10 + 4</em>
Month_05 Monday Day_05
Film
Mania Akbari
@ REDCAT
As part of the Jack H. Skirball Screening Series, REDCAT presents the West Coast premiere of Iranian painter/video artist Mania Akbari's...  View details »
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Go Betty Go w/ Monte Negro, No Way Jose, and Nuestra Sangre
Month_05 Monday Day_05
Music: Rock/Pop
Go Betty Go
@ The Troubadour
The Troubadour's Cinco de Mayo party features the all-lady pop-punk sounds of Go Betty Go along with fellow bilingual bands Monte...  View details »

Ongoing Events

<em>Icon</em>: The Nature of Worship In Contemporary Culture
Month_05 Tuesday Day_06
Art
Icon
@ DCA Fine Art
In Icon, two innovative, European-born painters explore the concept of worship in postmodernist life. Bogdan Dumitrica's portraits of animals and pop-art...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Pavilion of Wings
Month_05 Monday Day_05
More Flavor: City Gem
Pavilion of Wings
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_06
Art
Mark Bradford
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
BritWeek 2008
Month_05 Tuesday Day_06
More Flavor: Festival
BritWeek 2008
@ Various locations
The British are coming! But this time there's no need to run for cover, as the Cool Britannia crowd of expats...  View details »
Ongoing
Month_05 Monday Day_05
Art: Architecture/Design
Michael Kalish
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin
Month_05 Monday Day_05
Art
Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Phalanstery Module </em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_06
Art: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Elena Manferdini: <em>Merletti</em>
Month_05 Monday Day_05
Art: Architecture/Design
Elena Manferdini
@ SCI-Arc
"Merletti" means lace in Italian; for architects, it refers to the pattern of folds along a watchtower's defensive rims and other...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Lush</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_06
Art
Lush
@ Salon Oblique
With Lush, West Side sensation Salon Oblique upholds its growing reputation for intellectually and aesthetically engaging multimedia group exhibitions. As in...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Brent Stewart: <em>Mister Lonely</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_06
Art: Photography
Mister Lonely
@ Agnes B.
Filmmaker Harmony Korine's newest movie, Mister Lonely, follows a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living in a remote French castle with...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>
Month_05 Monday Day_05
Art
Mexican Calendar Girls
@ 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...  View details »
Opening
Ongoing
<em>100% Other: Artists and Psycho-Demographic Transitions</em>
Month_05 Monday Day_05
Art
100% Other
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>California Video </em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_06
Art
California Video
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
James Turrell: <em>Dividing the Light</em>
Month_05 Monday Day_05
Art
James Turrell
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Randall Sellers and Evah Fan
Month_05 Tuesday Day_06
Art
Randall Sellers and Evah Fan
@ Richard Heller Gallery
Consummate visual storyteller Evah Fan continues her Scheherazade-like seduction with a new batch of works at Richard Heller Gallery. Her small...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Sue-Ling Hyde
Month_05 Monday Day_05
Art
Sue-Ling Hyde
@ Ghettogloss
Sue-Ling Hyde is more than a pretty face. You might recognize her from modeling gigs with Shiseido, Versus, and Moshino, but...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
<em>Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966</em>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_06
Art
Bob Dylan's American Journey
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Los Angeles Comedy Festival
Month_05 Tuesday Day_06
Performing Arts: Comedy
Los Angeles Comedy Festival
@ McCadden Place Theatre
Los Angeles has long been a breeding ground for the hilarious, thanks to veteran improv groups like the Groundlings and relative...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>
Month_05 Monday Day_05
Art
Marcel Duchamp Redux
@ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>
Month_05 Tuesday Day_06
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art from the Neon Homeland</em>
Month_05 Monday Day_05
Art
Las Vegas Diaspora
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing