Events on Thursday, May 14

Cornelius w/ Deerhoof
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Music
Cornelius
@ Mayan Theater
Even if Cornelius' orange-cream-soda dream of an album Fantasma didn't net him the pop crossover status he so richly deserved when...  View details »
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Indigo Girls
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Music: Rock/Pop
Indigo Girls
@ El Rey
Produced by Mitchell Froom (Elvis Costello, Paul McCartney), the latest Indigo Girls arrival, Poseidon and the Bitter Bug, signals a scaled-down...  View details »
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Matahati ke Matadunia
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
Matahati ke Matadunia
@ Seni Contemporary
Art critic Peter Frank and gallerist Delia Cabral want you to see what they've seen. On a recent curatorial reconnaissance trip...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_15
Art: Architecture/Design
Cool Globes
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>Screwball Asses</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
Screwball Asses
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Yassi Mazandi & Michael Wilson: <em>Architectonic</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art: Architecture/Design
Architectonic
@ JF Chen
JF Chen is one of LA's most respected dealers of the kind of Art Deco and Modernist design that people call...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Photograph 51</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
Photograph 51
@ 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....  View details »
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C.O.L.A. 2009
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
C.O.L.A. 2009
@ Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
The City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowships in the Arts, granted by the Department of Cultural Affairs, are distinguished...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>L8S ANG3LES</em>: 11 LA Photographers
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art: Photography
L8S ANG3LES
@ 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...  View details »
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Sam Flores: <em>Ego, Addiction, and Other Bedtime Stories</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
Sam Flores
@ Subliminal Projects
Sam Flores has brand recognition in the skate-deck and design worlds, but as a fine-art painter, his work might surprise even...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA
@ Hammer Museum
Exploring the idea of reinvention, Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA illuminates the creative undercurrent of a city that has long...  View details »
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<em>ZAP! POW! BAM!</em><em> The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books, 1938-1950</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
ZAP! POW! BAM!
@ 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...  View details »
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<em>Matisse's Amours: Illustrations of Pierre de Ronsard's Love Poems</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
Matisse's Amours
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>James Hueter: A Retrospective</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
James Hueter
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Featured
Steve Lambert: <em>Everything You Want, Right Now!</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
Steve Lambert
@ 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!...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Yoskay Yamamoto: <em>Hello and Goodbye</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
Yoskay Yamamoto
@ LeBasse Projects
Yoskay Yamamoto is all about fusion. His art, illustration, and design have become wildly popular among the urban-romantic set, whose aesthetic...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_15
More Flavor: Exhibition
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
@ 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...  View details »
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Paul Outerbridge: <em>Command Performance</em> and Jo Ann Callis: <em>Woman Twirling</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art: Photography
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>Ain't Misbehavin'</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_15
Performing Arts: Theatre
Ain't Misbehavin'
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Daniel Nicoletta: <em>Harvey Milk and the San Francisco Scene</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art: Photography
Daniel Nicoletta
@ Overtones Gallery
Starting in 1975 as a staff photographer for The Advocate and an employee in the Harvey Milk-owned Castro Camera shop, Daniel...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>Occupation Dreamer: The Photography of Moshe Brakha</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art: Photography
Occupation Dreamer
@ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
Spanning the decade between 1976 and 1986, the GRAMMY Museum's first photography exhibition features 30 pictures of rock stars by Israeli-born,...  View details »
Ongoing
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Zadok Ben-David: <em>Blackfield</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
Zadok Ben-David
@ Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Every once in a while, an art exhibition comes along that defies expectation, blows stodgy rules apart, and gets right to...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Ugo Wine Bar
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
@ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Celestial Ash: Assemblages from Los Angeles</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
Celestial Ash
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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Fatima Jamil Faiz: <em>Refracted Memoirs</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
Fatima Jamil Faiz
@ Deborah Martin Gallery
This month's Downtown Art Walk event is ideal for lovers of quirky paintings in all shapes and sizes. Deborah Martin Gallery...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Vahid Sharifian: <em>My father is a democrat and through his chimney there are always hearts flying to the sky</em> and Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
Vahid Sharifian and Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar
@ Khastoo Gallery
Two Iranian artists share the rooms at Khastoo Gallery this month, as Vahid Sharifian and Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar — both of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Lizabeth Eva Rossof and David Fokos
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
Lizabeth Eva Rossof and David Fokos
@ Kopeikin Gallery
While much of Lizabeth Eva Rossof's visual art might recall the colorful confectionary treats of our youth, it actually focuses on...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
Edward Walton Wilcox
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
Edward Walton Wilcox
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Allegedly: The Hugh Brown Chainsaw Collection</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
Hugh Brown
@ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana
The Grand Central Art Center Gallery at Cal State Fullerton features over 40 original works by the Grammy-winning Creative Director of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
More Flavor: City Gem
Scribble Press
@ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>ICONS of Mutt</em> by Macky
Month_05 Friday Day_15
Art
ICONS of Mutt by Macky
@ DAP Studios
Thomas "Macky" McNamara has been looking for a way to earn a living as an artist since handcrafting toys as an...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Fernando Sanchez: <em>With Blood, Guts, a Stiff Lust</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
Fernando Sanchez
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: <em>We Chose Our Words With Care, That Neon-Moonlit Evening; It Was as If We Were, Party to a Wonderful Alchemy</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Hello Herman</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hello Herman
@ Edgemar Center for the Arts
Although last month saw the tenth anniversary of the Columbine shootings, John Buffalo Mailer's raw, stylish morality play Hello Herman was...  View details »
Ongoing
Susan Feniger's Street
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Susan Feniger's Street
@ Street
Celebu-chef Susan Feniger of Too Hot Tamales serves up everything from Malaysian Kaya Toast to Moldavian Meatballs at her latest, most...  View details »
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Rush Street
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Rush Street
@ Rush Street
Rush Street may be the loudest bar/restaurant in Culver City, but that's just part of its authentic Chicago style. The creative,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Get Rich Quick! </em>and Thais Beltrame: <em>When All the Stars Are Gone</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
Thais Beltrame
@ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
It's a perfect confluence of art and events at Carmichael Gallery this month, with two shows and a book-release party stoking...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Kehinde Wiley: <em>The World Stage: Brazil</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
Kehinde Wiley
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Gary Baseman: <em>La Noche de la Fusi&oacute;n</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
Gary Baseman
@ Corey Helford
Whether as a commercial or fine artist, Gary Baseman always seeks to erase boundaries; in the case of his latest solo...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Chaka
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
Chaka
@ Mid-City Arts Gallery
Longtime Southland residents likely recall seeing Chaka's moniker on thousands of LA street signs, overpasses, and any other public space the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
My Barbarian: <em>Suspension of Disbelief</em>
Month_05 Thursday Day_14
Art
My Barbarian
@ Steve Turner Contemporary
Don't worry, it's not another Geico commercial gone wrong. Despite its faux-savage name, this decidedly polished experimental-art troupe uses a sophisticated...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Month_05 Friday Day_15
More Flavor: Exhibition
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
@ 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...  View details »
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