Events on Thursday, May 21
Woman Twirling: A Conversation
Thursday 5/21 @ The Getty Center
In the 1980s, innovative photographer Jo Ann Callis resurrected the tableau vivant, capturing elaborately staged scenarios on film while continuing to...
Thursday 5/21 @ Aero Theatre
Once famously critiqued by Hollywood for its over-the-top theatricality, '70s rock-opera juggernaut Tommy is actually a bold piece of filmmaking for...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 5/21 @ 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,...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Lizabeth Eva Rossof and David Fokos
Thursday 5/21 @ Kopeikin Gallery
While much of Lizabeth Eva Rossof's visual art might recall the colorful confectionary treats of our youth, it actually focuses on...
Thursday 5/21 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
Thursday 5/21 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
Imagine the florid, hyper-decorative seduction of Kehinde Wiley's large-scale portraits of young black men, only rendered with an urban, folk-outsider edge,...
Thursday 5/21 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Whether as a commercial or fine artist, Gary Baseman always seeks to erase boundaries; in the case of his latest solo...
Thursday 5/21 @ JF Chen
JF Chen is one of LA's most respected dealers of the kind of Art Deco and Modernist design that people call...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Thursday 5/21 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre
It's always refreshing to see a work that speaks with such striking originality that it reaffirms the value in taking risks....
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Thursday 5/21 @ Seni Contemporary
Art critic Peter Frank and gallerist Delia Cabral want you to see what they've seen. On a recent curatorial reconnaissance trip...
Thursday 5/21 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Thursday 5/21 @ DAP Studios
Thomas "Macky" McNamara has been looking for a way to earn a living as an artist since handcrafting toys as an...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Thursday 5/21 @ Los Angeles Opera
Expect knife-twisting drama in LA Opera's lush staging of Verdi's masterpiece, La Traviata. Long considered one of opera's most significant works,...
Thursday 5/21 @ LeBasse Projects
Yoskay Yamamoto is all about fusion. His art, illustration, and design have become wildly popular among the urban-romantic set, whose aesthetic...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Thursday 5/21 @ 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....
Thursday 5/21 @ 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!...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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....
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Thursday 5/21 @ Overtones Gallery
Starting in 1975 as a staff photographer for The Advocate and an employee in the Harvey Milk-owned Castro Camera shop, Daniel...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA
Thursday 5/21 @ Hammer Museum
Exploring the idea of reinvention, Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA illuminates the creative undercurrent of a city that has long...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Thursday 5/21 @ 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...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Thursday 5/21 @ The Getty Museum
The city of Algiers, on the north coast of Africa, historically sheltered a diverse population. During the Ottoman centuries (1529-1830), this...
