Events on Friday, May 1
Friday 5/ 1 @ The Silent Movie Theatre
The multimedia impresarios at Dublab are back with the sixth edition of their Labrat flight of fancy. This incarnation features a...
Friday 5/ 1 @ El Rey
In 1971, Lester Bangs published an essay called "James Taylor Marked for Death," in which he heralded the Troggs as the...
Ongoing Events
Friday 5/ 1 @ De Soto Gallery
The performances and video, audio, and sculptural installations of LA-based artist Fernando Sanchez are often as sparse and DIY as it...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Ahmanson Theatre
The joint is jumpin' at the Ahmanson Theatre's revival of the 1978 off-Broadway musical Ain't Misbehavin'. Based on the life and...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
For the third installment of his World Stage series (the first two spotlighted China and Africa, respectively), Harlem's hip-hop-styled conceptualist painter...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Claremont Museum of Art
The Claremont Museum of Art makes no secret of its mission: the preservation, study, and dissemination of the legacy left by...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Jerry Robinson, cartoonist and creator of Batman's iconic villain, the Joker, guest curated ZAP! POW! BAM! The Golden Age of Comic...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Every once in a while, an art exhibition comes along that defies expectation, blows stodgy rules apart, and gets right to...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Painter and sculptural-installation artist Edward Walton Wilcox manifests an unforgettable hybrid vision. His work is torn between the edgy urban modernism...
Friday 5/ 1 @ LA Memorial Coliseum & Exposition Park
Artists, scientists, public-policy makers, and concerned citizens find common ground at unique outdoor art installation Cool Globes. The result of a...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Joseph Cornell's surrealist shadowboxes reconfigured found objects into multidimensional creations, classified as neither sculpture nor collage, but as assemblages. The Craft...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Phyllis Stein Art
In the hands of gallerist Phyllis Stein and the artists in this exhibition, the notion of sweetness gets a humorous, and...
Friday 5/ 1 @ The Fountain Theatre
In the early '50s, British biophysicist Rosalind Franklin labored in a King's College London lab to unravel the structure of DNA....
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Friday 5/ 1 @ The Getty Center
Over 100 prints by prolific New York photographer Paul Outerbridge (1896-1958) are on view at the Getty Center through August 9....
Friday 5/ 1 @ Norton Simon Museum
The French Fauvist painter Henri Matisse began a simple, 30-lithograph portfolio in 1941, and seven years later transformed it into a...
Friday 5/ 1 @ The Company
Curated by Hedi El Kholti and David Jones, this wide-ranging group show uses broken-down stereotypes to reveal the multiplicity of a...
South-East European Film Festival
Friday 5/ 1 @ Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
The only festival in the USA to showcase films from the Balkans and surrounding countries, the fourth annual South-East European Film...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Track 16 Gallery
After documenting the Great Depression in San Francisco, Sam Cherry photographed the seeds of the Beat Generation at the city's Black...
Friday 5/ 1 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
Taking the ancient craft of origami to a new extreme, Giant Robot invited artists and the art-minded to cut, tear, sew,...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Overduin and Kite
In his first US solo exhibition, UK artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz presents four-dimensional spacial poetry realized in the form of a...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Frank Pictures Gallery
The visionary photography mavens behind the annual Lucie Awards are LA natives (though the awards are presented in NYC), and this...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
John Baldessari, Catherine Opie, Douglas Kirkland, Lauren Greenfield and Julius Shulman are a few of the world-class photographers whose images are...
Lizabeth Eva Rossof and David Fokos
Friday 5/ 1 @ Kopeikin Gallery
While much of Lizabeth Eva Rossof's visual art might recall the colorful confectionary treats of our youth, it actually focuses on...
Friday 5/ 1 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
Anglelin Preljocaj again shatters preconceptions about the classical canon with a interpretation of Vivaldi's iconic Baroque concertos. Not seen in LA...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Mr. Musichead Gallery
Alan Aldridge was a legend in the world of psychedelic illustration even before he created his landmark 1969 book, The Beatles...
Vahid Sharifian and Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar
Friday 5/ 1 @ Khastoo Gallery
Two Iranian artists share the rooms at Khastoo Gallery this month, as Vahid Sharifian and Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar — both of...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Charlie James Gallery
Chinatown's Charlie James Gallery becomes more appliance store than art space during Steve Lambert's solo show Everything You Want, Right Now!...
Friday 5/ 1 @ DAP Studios
Thomas "Macky" McNamara has been looking for a way to earn a living as an artist since handcrafting toys as an...
Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA
Friday 5/ 1 @ Hammer Museum
Exploring the idea of reinvention, Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA illuminates the creative undercurrent of a city that has long...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
Guest curated by Iranian-American arts writer Yasmine Mohseni, All Under One Roof features a range of creations by ten artists who...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
Friday 5/ 1 @ JF Chen
JF Chen is one of LA's most respected dealers of the kind of Art Deco and Modernist design that people call...
Friday 5/ 1 @ Sam Lee Gallery
For artist Phung Huynh, a keen awareness of her Vietnamese culture's long memory and claim on her affections combines with an...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 5/ 1 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
The recently opened GRAMMY Museum at Downtown's mammoth entertainment complex LA Live offers visitors a rare, intimate glimpse into the life...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Friday 5/ 1 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents a selection of artworks donated to the Museum since 2002. Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the...
