Events on Friday, May 22

dtox to Retox

Special Event

dtox to Retox

Friday 5/22 @ dtox day spa

Every third Friday of the month, Bigfoot Lodge teams up with neighboring dtox for a spa-to-bar crawl tailored to the pampering... 

The Kills w/ the Horrors and Magic Wands

Music

The Kills

Friday 5/22 @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater

The Kills spent much of their early career dodging a barrage of White Stripes comparisons. While more astute reviewers identified bluesy... 

Van Hunt

Music

Van Hunt

Friday 5/22 @ Zanzibar

On cursory listen, Van Hunt's M.O. seems conspicuously obvious. He's a solo artist who displays an uncommon depth of talent (he's... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Occupation Dreamer: The Photography of Moshe Brakha</em>

Art: Photography

Occupation Dreamer

Friday 5/22 @ 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,... 

<em>Ain't Misbehavin'</em>

Theatre

Ain't Misbehavin'

Friday 5/22 @ 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

Art

Lizabeth Eva Rossof and David Fokos

Friday 5/22 @ Kopeikin Gallery

While much of Lizabeth Eva Rossof's visual art might recall the colorful confectionary treats of our youth, it actually focuses on... 

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

Friday 5/22 @ Vinum Populi

Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie... 

Barkley L. Hendricks: <em>Birth of the Cool: Paintings, 1964-2007</em>

Art

Barkley L. Hendricks

Friday 5/22 @ 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,... 

Gary Baseman: <em>La Noche de la Fusi&oacute;n</em>

Art

Gary Baseman

Friday 5/22 @ Corey Helford Gallery

Whether as a commercial or fine artist, Gary Baseman always seeks to erase boundaries; in the case of his latest solo... 

Yassi Mazandi & Michael Wilson: <em>Architectonic</em>

Art

Architectonic

Friday 5/22 @ JF Chen

JF Chen is one of LA's most respected dealers of the kind of Art Deco and Modernist design that people call... 

<em>Screwball Asses</em>

Art

Screwball Asses

Friday 5/22 @ 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... 

<em>Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy</em>

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Friday 5/22 @ 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... 

<em>Celestial Ash: Assemblages from Los Angeles</em>

Art

Celestial Ash

Friday 5/22 @ 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... 

<em>Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo</em>

Theatre

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

Friday 5/22 @ 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.... 

My Barbarian: <em>Suspension of Disbelief</em>

Art

My Barbarian

Friday 5/22 @ 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... 

<em>Get Rich Quick! </em>and Thais Beltrame: <em>When All the Stars Are Gone</em>

Art

Thais Beltrame

Friday 5/22 @ 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... 

Matahati ke Matadunia

Art

Matahati ke Matadunia

Friday 5/22 @ Seni Contemporary

Art critic Peter Frank and gallerist Delia Cabral want you to see what they've seen. On a recent curatorial reconnaissance trip... 

Chaka

Art

Chaka

Friday 5/22 @ 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... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Friday 5/22 @ Scribble Press

Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with... 

C.O.L.A. 2009

Art

C.O.L.A. 2009

Friday 5/22 @ 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... 

<em>ICONS of Mutt</em> by Macky

Art

ICONS of Mutt by Macky

Friday 5/22 @ DAP Studios

Thomas "Macky" McNamara has been looking for a way to earn a living as an artist since handcrafting toys as an... 

Kehinde Wiley: <em>The World Stage: Brazil</em>

Art

Kehinde Wiley

Friday 5/22 @ 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... 

dredg w/ Torche and Judgement Day

Music

dredg

Friday 5/22 @ The Troubadour

Like At the Drive-In, Rival Schools, and other post-hardcore Judases who had the nerve to make knotty art-punk riffs more palatable,... 

Yoskay Yamamoto: <em>Hello and Goodbye</em>

Art

Yoskay Yamamoto

Friday 5/22 @ LeBasse Projects

Yoskay Yamamoto is all about fusion. His art, illustration, and design have become wildly popular among the urban-romantic set, whose aesthetic... 

<em>ZAP! POW! BAM!</em><em> The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books, 1938-1950</em>

Art

ZAP! POW! BAM!

Friday 5/22 @ 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: <em>Command Performance</em> and Jo Ann Callis: <em>Woman Twirling</em>

Art: Photography

Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis

Friday 5/22 @ 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.... 

Steve Lambert: <em>Everything You Want, Right Now!</em>

Art

Steve Lambert

Friday 5/22 @ 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!... 

<em>L8S ANG3LES</em>: 11 LA Photographers

Art: Photography

L8S ANG3LES

Friday 5/22 @ 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... 

<em>Photograph 51</em>

Theatre

Photograph 51

Friday 5/22 @ 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.... 

<em>James Hueter: A Retrospective</em>

Art

James Hueter

Friday 5/22 @ 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... 

Sam Flores: <em>Ego, Addiction, and Other Bedtime Stories</em>

Art

Sam Flores

Friday 5/22 @ 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... 

Castillo: <em>Strand</em>

Art

Castillo

Friday 5/22 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery

A lot of women in LA are obsessed with their hair, but installation artist Castillo takes the prize. Her large-scale sculptural... 

<em>Matisse's Amours: Illustrations of Pierre de Ronsard's Love Poems</em>

Art

Matisse's Amours

Friday 5/22 @ 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... 

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>

Art

Marc Camille Chaimowicz

Friday 5/22 @ 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... 

Daniel Nicoletta: <em>Harvey Milk and the San Francisco Scene</em>

Art: Photography

Daniel Nicoletta

Friday 5/22 @ Overtones Gallery

Starting in 1975 as a staff photographer for The Advocate and an employee in the Harvey Milk-owned Castro Camera shop, Daniel... 

<em>Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet</em>

Art

Cool Globes

Friday 5/22 @ 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... 

<em>Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA</em>

Art

Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA

Friday 5/22 @ Hammer Museum

Exploring the idea of reinvention, Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA illuminates the creative undercurrent of a city that has long... 

<em>Hello Herman</em>

Theatre

Hello Herman

Friday 5/22 @ 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... 

<em>Allegedly: The Hugh Brown Chainsaw Collection</em>

Art

Hugh Brown

Friday 5/22 @ 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... 

Fatima Jamil Faiz: <em>Refracted Memoirs</em>

Art

Fatima Jamil Faiz

Friday 5/22 @ 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... 

Edward Walton Wilcox

Art

Edward Walton Wilcox

Friday 5/22 @ 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

Special Event

Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum

Friday 5/22 @ 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

Special Event

Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City

Friday 5/22 @ 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... 

Pompeii and the Roman Villa

Special Event

Pompeii and the Roman Villa

Friday 5/22 @ LACMA