Events on Tuesday, May 6
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Tangier Restaurant
Hot on the heels of last month's supersized West Coast GrandSLAM, the Moth returns to its more intimate monthly rhythm with...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Last year, London art-gallery impresarios Simon Rumley and Zavier Ellis curated The Future Can Wait, an ambitious group show spotlighting some...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Patrick Painter Gallery
Salomón Huerta is one of LA's most popular painters — although personally, he seems somewhat reserved. His best-known works are smallish,...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Black Maria Gallery
Not everyone's childhood memories contain happy-go-lucky images of bubblegum chewing and bicycle riding. As the artists in Black Maria Gallery's upcoming...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ The Getty Center
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Samuel Freeman
Cheeky artist Masami Teraoka is most famous for his ukiyo-e woodblock paintings, which combine Japanese imagery, themes from American culture, and...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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,...
Scott Harrison, Sam Saga, and Thomas Wargin
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ The Getty Villa
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only...
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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....
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Honor Fraser
Toronto-based André Ethier's grotesque, surreal paintings are psychedelic allegories illustrating misconceptions about modern history and culture. In his latest collection, Vancouver...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Agnes B.
Filmmaker Harmony Korine's newest movie, Mister Lonely, follows a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living in a remote French castle with...
A Narrative History of the Light Bulb
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Gallery Luisotti
Photographer Catherine Wagner used the Baltimore Museum of Industry's impressive collection of lightbulbs as the inspiration for her latest exhibition, which...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ McCadden Place Theatre
Los Angeles has long been a breeding ground for the hilarious, thanks to veteran improv groups like the Groundlings and relative...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ SCI-Arc
"Merletti" means lace in Italian; for architects, it refers to the pattern of folds along a watchtower's defensive rims and other...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ LA Louver Gallery
The title of UK painter Jason Martin's latest exhibition evokes the South Pacific's warm, breezy environs — but his abstract, mostly...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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,...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ REDCAT
Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Regen Projects II
After capturing the essence of SoCal beach life with her surfer portrait series, photographer Catherine Opie tackles another bastion of American...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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,...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
With this series of works, Gary Palmer addresses one of the most ancient concerns in art: the representation of landscapes. Using...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Various locations
The British are coming! But this time there's no need to run for cover, as the Cool Britannia crowd of expats...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Gagosian Gallery
For his latest show, Gregory Crewdson churns out a new line of epic photo tableaux. Shot on a blockbuster budget with...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Hammer Museum
Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ 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...
Tuesday 5/ 6 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
While Ryan McLennan's Audubon-inspired drawings of woodland animals seem innocent enough, the graphite-and-acrylic works on paper reveal the animal kingdom's vicious...
