May 22-23 2025 Art Parties & Events
Thursday, Friday May 22-23, 2025 is busy with art parties and a whole bunch of other events. Thursday events bring new exhibitions opening at Fahey/Klein, Regen Projects, Michael Werner Gallery, and KCCLA. Then Friday, we have a brand new art festival debuting – The Inglewood Photography Festival. In addition to openings at Wonzimer, and Night Gallery, WeHo Pride Presents Friday Night at OUTLOUD is happening as well. So get out there!
Thursday, May 22, 2025
The City of West Hollywood presents its annual celebration for Harvey Milk Day and kick-off for WeHo Pride. Also the third annual José Sarria Drag Pageant takes place. The event is co-sponsored by the Imperial Court as well as by Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath, Third District. In addition to the Drag Pageant, there will be a voter registration table, milk and cookies, and a Harvey Milk photo opportunity.
Art Party: 6-8pm; West Hollywood Park’s South Lawn, at the base of the Aquatic and Recreation Center’s Great Staircase, 8750 El Tovar Place, West Hollywood, 90069; https://www.weho.org
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In the Mid Wilshire area…The Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles (KCCLA, Director Haedon Lee) and the Korean Artists Association of Southern California (KAASC, President Yun Sun Jeon) present the 56th Annual Exhibition of Korean Artists Association of Southern California.
This year’s exhibition, held under the theme Unity in Diversity, celebrates the KAASC’s long-standing dedication to fostering artistic dialogue and cross-cultural connection. Seventy association artists will present a dynamic range of works—including painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics, and mixed media—demonstrating the diversity of creative expression within the Korean American artistic community. Art Party: 6-8pm; KCCLA Art Gallery, 5505 Wilshire Blvd, LA, 90036; https://www.kccla.org
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Fahey/Klein Gallery
In the Park La Brea area…The Fahey/Klein Gallery presents Lauren Greenfield: Social Studies, a new photographic exhibition that revisits the terrain of youth culture and identity formation in the digital age. Expanding on her acclaimed five-part docu-series of the same name, Social Studies (FX/Hulu) marks Greenfield’s return to a subject she has explored since her groundbreaking 1997 debut, Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood. Art Party: 7-9pm; The Fahey/Klein Gallery, 148 North La Brea Ave., LA 90036; http://www.faheykleingallery.com
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In Hollywood…Regen Projects debuts The Hubris of Modernity by Kader Attia. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.
Attia’s practice highlights and challenges the enduring legacies of Western colonialism via a rigorous, research-based process. It examines the psychoanalytical and sociological effects of shared histories. This presentation of new sculptures and large-scale installations builds upon the artist’s longstanding critical inquiries. Therefore it delves into the complex exchanges between nature and society, history and culture, and tradition and modernity. Art Party: 6-8pm; Regen Projects, 6750 Santa Monica Blvd., LA 90038; https://www.regenprojects.com
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Beverly Hills
Michael Werner Gallery celebrates the opening of Francis Picabia: Femmes. The exhibition features the paintings of the French modern master Francis Picabia (b. 1879 in Paris, d. 1953 in Paris). Starting in the 1920s and extending into the 1950s, the exhibition charts the last three decades of Picabia’s career through the singular, classic, and favored subject matter of women. Art Party: 5 – 7pm; Michael Werner Gallery, 417 N Camden Dr, Beverly Hills, 90210, https://www.michaelwerner.com
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Let’s not forget you can still catch Life of Pi at the Ahmanson – see more info below on Friday’s events. Or visit the LAArtParty Life of Pi feature HERE. You can also read the ETG Life of Pi Review on our sister site EatTravelGo.com, an art inspired travel site. Performance: 8pm; Admission starts at $40.25; The Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N. Grand Ave., LA 90012; https://www.centertheatregroup.org
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Friday May 23, 2025
The City of West Hollywood hosts its annual WeHo Pride Arts Festival.
This is an annual celebration of LGBTQ+ creativity, featuring performances, film, literary arts, art-making workshops and more. Held as part of WeHo Pride, the arts festival takes place May 23-25, 2025, at The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Village at Ed Gould Plaza. Event: 1-5pm; Ed Gould Plaza, 1125 N McCadden Pl, LA 90038; https://www.wehopride.com
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In Lincoln Heights…Wönzimer throws an opening art party for a group exhibition titled Slipping Glimpser. The exhibition features the art of five painters working in Los Angeles. Moreover the artists are connected through a shared commitment to process, improvisation, and dialogue. Through a series of informal studio visits over the past two years, these artists exchanged ideas, and shared works in progress. In addition they explored the slipperiness of looking, making, and understanding. Art Party: 5-10pm; Wonzimer, 341-B South Avenue 17, LA, 90031; https://www.wonzimer.com
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Downtown
Night Gallery presents new exhibitions – Reflections by Esiri Erheriene-Essi, and Autofiction by Anna Rosen. Both will take place at the Night Gallery North location.
Esiri Erheriene-Essi, A memory from your youth (London Trocadero), 2024, oil, ink and xerox transfer on linen, 53 1/2 x 53 1/2 in (136 x 136 cm)
This is the Erheriene-Essi’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. She is based in Amsterdam. In this new series, the artist embraces the flatness of photographic source material while deepening the emotional and chromatic complexity of brown skin. Therefore bringing dimension, variation, and also luminosity to the surface.
This is the Anna Rosen’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, following Skechers Shape-Ups Work (2013) and Egg and Dart (2021). Art Party: 6-8pm; Night Gallery North, 2050 N Imperial St, LA, 90021; https://www.nightgallery.ca
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LA Theatre
The Ahmanson Theatre presents Life of Pi a winner of three Tony Awards® as well as the Olivier Award for Best Play. It is a stirring fantasy style tale of wonder and adventure. Lolita Chakrabarti has an adapted dazzling stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel (over 15 million copies sold). The show opened to critical acclaim on Broadway and the West End. It is attracting audiences from around the world. The plot features a shipwrecked sixteen-year-old boy named Pi. He survives on a lifeboat with four other companions—a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The magical story is unpredictable and the performance includes extraordinary puppetry and also stunning visuals.
This is an exceptional production – read my Review of Life of Pi, as well as the LAArtParty Life of Pi Feature.
Life of Pi – Anna Leigh Gortner, Shiloh Goodin, Toussaint Jeanlouis and Taha Mandviwala in the national tour cast
This is an exceptional production – read my Review of Life of Pi, as well as the LAArtParty Life of Pi Feature. Performance: 8pm; Admission starts at $40.25; The Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N. Grand Ave., LA 90012; https://www.centertheatregroup.org
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West Hollywood
Jetpack Comedy is LA’s best Friday stand-up comedy showcase. Comics from HBO, Netflix, and also SNL cast members, all drop-in for a night of laughter. Headliners and surprise drop-ins have included: Sarah Silverman, Kevin Nealon, Fred Armisen, Bob Odenkirk, Pete Holmes, Hannibal Buress, Kumail Nanjiani, Maria Bamford, Hasan Minhaj, Jeff Garlin, Ali Wong, Demetri Martin, as well as many more. Event begins: 8:30pm; Admission starts at $20; Visit the website to RSVP for events (multiple dates); FB Page; Bar Lubitsch, 7702 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, 90046; https://jetpackcomedy.com/
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For additional art exhibitions, and performances as well as culinary events, see LAArtParty’s Upcoming Events Page.
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