Events on Thursday, May 28
Thursday 5/28 @ Henry Miller Library (Big Sur)
Oceanside idyll, live performances from pulse-slowing experimental acts, and psychedelic dance sets from some of SoCal's finest DJs: Three of Tonalism's...
Memphis & the Delta Blues Trail: A Complete Guide
Thursday 5/28 @ Stories Books
There's more to Memphis than Graceland — a fact that LA-based writers Melissa and Justin Gage tackle in their recent collaboration...
Thursday 5/28 @ El Rey
After stunning critics with her 2007 debut, Marry Me, crystal-voiced Brooklyn crooner St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) returns with an impressive...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 5/28 @ 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...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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...
Paul Outerbridge and Jo Ann Callis
Thursday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles
As a photography student at LA's Occidental College in 1980, Lisa Jack took a series of portraits with a handsome, charismatic...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ Hammer Museum
Exploring the idea of reinvention, Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA illuminates the creative undercurrent of a city that has long...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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,...
Lizabeth Eva Rossof and David Fokos
Thursday 5/28 @ Kopeikin Gallery
While much of Lizabeth Eva Rossof's visual art might recall the colorful confectionary treats of our youth, it actually focuses on...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Thursday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ Overtones Gallery
Starting in 1975 as a staff photographer for The Advocate and an employee in the Harvey Milk-owned Castro Camera shop, Daniel...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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...
Thursday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Thursday 5/28 @ 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 5/28 @ 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...
