Featured Events in Los Angeles in May, 2025 (May Updated)

Explore Los Angeles Sparks v Atlanta Dream sporting information for 27th May, as well as links for Basketball tickets and more with Fixture Calendar. The Los Angeles Sparks are a professional women's basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. They are one of the eight teams in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The Sparks were founded in 1997 and have since been one of the top teams in the league. They have won three WNBA championships, with their most recent title in 2016. The team plays their home games at the Staples Center, which they share with the Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers. The Sparks have produced numerous star players, including Lisa Leslie, Candace Parker, and Nneka Ogwumike, who have all won WNBA MVP awards. With a talented roster and a dedicated fan base, the Los Angeles Sparks continue to be a dominant force in the WNBA. The Atlanta Dream is a professional women's basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are members of the Eastern Conference of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and were founded in 2007. The team has had a strong presence in the league, qualifying for the playoffs nine times and advancing to the WNBA Finals three times. Notable players on the team include two-time WNBA scoring champion Angel McCoughtry and all-star center Elizabeth Williams. The team plays their home games at State Farm Arena, which has a capacity of over 17,000 and has hosted numerous high-profile events, including the Los Angeles Sparks0 All-Star Game and the NCAA Final Four. With a winning history and a talented roster, the Atlanta Dream is a force to be reckoned with on the court. Information Source: fixturecalendar.com

Explore LA Galaxy v San Jose Earthquakes sporting information for 28th May, as well as links for Football tickets and more with Fixture Calendar. The LA Galaxy, founded in 1994, is a professional football team based in Los Angeles, California. They are one of the ten founding teams of the Major League Soccer (MLS) and have a total of five MLS Cup wins, making them one of the most successful teams in the league. The team plays their home games at the Dignity Health Sports Park, which has a seating capacity of over 27,000. Their roster boasts of renowned players such as Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who is their all-time leading scorer, and Javier Chicharito Hernandez, a Mexican international. Over the years, the LA Galaxy have also won four Supporter's Shields and two U.S. Open Cups. They have a strong fanbase and are considered one of the most iconic and successful teams in American football. The San Jose Earthquakes are a professional soccer team based in San Jose, California. The team competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) and is one of the eleven original teams in the league. The Earthquakes have won two MLS Cup championships, one Supporters' Shield, and two Supporters' Shields. Some notable players on the current roster include forward Chris Wondolowski, who holds the record for most goals scored in MLS history, and midfielder Magnus Eriksson, who was named to the MLS Best XI in 2019. The team plays their home matches at Avaya Stadium, a state-of-the-art facility with a capacity of over 18,000 fans. With their strong roster and impressive track record, the San Jose Earthquakes are a force to be reckoned with in the MLS. Information Source: fixturecalendar.com

Explore Los Angeles Dodgers v New York Yankees sporting information for 30th May, as well as links for Baseball tickets and more with Fixture Calendar. The Los Angeles Dodgers have been a prominent team in Major League Baseball since their establishment in 1883. With a rich history of 7 World Series championships, 24 National League pennants, and 9 West Division titles, the Dodgers have solidified their place as one of the most successful franchises in MLB. The team's legendary players, including Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, and Sandy Koufax, have helped shape the Dodgers' legacy and continue to inspire future generations. Today, the Dodgers can be found playing home games at their state-of-the-art stadium, Dodger Stadium, which has been their home since 1962. As the second oldest ballpark in MLB, Dodger Stadium has hosted numerous iconic moments and remains a beloved landmark for fans. With a talented roster and dedicated fanbase, the Los Angeles Dodgers are a force to be reckoned with in the world of professional baseball. The New York Yankees are one of the most iconic and successful teams in Major League Baseball. Founded in 1901, the team has won a staggering 27 World Series titles, more than any other team in MLB. Their impressive list of players includes famous names such as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, and Derek Jeter. Currently, the team boasts star players like Aaron Judge, Gerrit Cole, and Giancarlo Stanton. The Yankees play their home games at the famous Yankee Stadium, nicknamed The House That Ruth Built. With its rich history and talented roster, the New York Yankees continue to be a powerhouse in the world of baseball, captivating fans with their dynamic gameplay and unparalleled success. Information Source: fixturecalendar.com

Make your free dinner reservation to eat at our Margins Café before the show! You must have a general admission ticket for the show to gain entry for dinner. Doors will open for early dinner ticket holders between 18:30-18:50pm, so please ensure you arrive promptly. The Margins Café serves delicious, freshly prepared food at gigs and events. All profits go towards The Margins Project, based here at the Chapel which works with people who face issues of homelessness and crisis. * Please note, dinner is not included in the ticket. This ticket is a seat reservation only* Information Source: Union Chapel | eventbrite

Los Invasores, Banda R-15, Control De Lupe Degollado, La Grande de Jerez Evento Familiar para todas las edades Puertas abren a las 5:30pm Niños 54 pulgadas y menos son GRATIS No reembolsos No Paypal No refunds acepted Information Source: Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet | eventbrite

ICON Gala 2025 – A Night of Excellence & CelebrationJoin us for an unforgettable evening at the ICON Gala, where culture, achievement, and influence converge. This premier event honors the trailblazers shaping Africa and the Diaspora across business, entertainment, and innovation. Beyond celebration, the ICON Gala serves as a fundraising platform to support the welfare and education of students in our community. A portion of the evening’s proceeds will support scholarships and mentorship programs for immigrant students, helping them access education, career resources, and leadership opportunities. Expect an elegant night featuring: ✨ Red Carpet & VIP Reception 🎤 Live Performances & Special Guests 🏆 Awards Honoring Industry Icons 🍽️ Exquisite Dining & Networking Celebrate excellence, connect with global changemakers, and experience the magic of the ICON Gala. 📍 Los Angeles, CA | 📅 Date: May 31st, 2025 Information Source: Amplify Africa | eventbrite

This site-specific work explores the fragility of the Earth’s ecosystem, as well as the destruction of the forest and its potential for regeneration. The sculpture celebrates the beauty of wood in its natural state and emphasizes its potential as a reusable and renewable resource. California-based Japanese American artist Mineo Mizuno’s site-specific sculpture, titled Homage to Nature, is crafted from fallen timber gathered in the forests of the Sierra Nevada, where the artist lives and works. Views of the San Gabriel Mountains in the background will frame the work. The sculpture explores the fragility of the Earth’s ecosystem, as well as the destruction of the forest and its potential for regeneration. Homage to Nature celebrates the beauty of wood in its natural state and emphasizes its potential as a reusable and renewable resource. Using yakisugi (shou sugi), a traditional Japanese method of wood preservation known in the West as burnt timber cladding, the charred surfaces of the reclaimed timber in the sculpture speak not only to fire’s destructive power but also to its ability to reinvigorate the land. As a companion and response to the sculpture, a “fire landscape” will be planted near the sculpture to mimic new growth that occurs naturally after a fire. This new sculpture marks the culmination of a series of installations by the artist designed to reflect on The Huntington’s collections and link the gardens and art galleries. Homage to Nature will be unveiled on May 25, 2024, and will remain on view for five years.

Spectrum 14 is a calibrated array of prisms that cast a dazzling display of luminous color across the Museum’s rotunda. Bands of spectral light traverse the space in relation to the sun, which follow a slightly different arc through the sky every day. Over time, Ross’s work changes in response to Earth’s rotational orbit, connecting us to the premodern experience of astronomical observation and calculation that defined cycles of days, seasons, and rituals. This project was commissioned for PST ART as part of the exhibition Lumen: The Art and Science of Light. This is the second “Rotunda Commission,” a series of art installations inspired by the Getty Museum’s collection, architecture, and site.

In September 2024, Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967, Copenhagen; lives and works in Berlin) presents a new site-specific installation made for The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. In line with Eliasson’s career-long exploration of light and color, geometry, and environmental awareness, the installation playfully engages with material and immaterial qualities of the museum’s architecture. A series of large-scale optical devices designed specifically for MOCA Geffen will respond to the building itself, as well as to the everchanging atmosphere of Los Angeles. Visitors will encounter a dazzling range of sensory experiences that harness the laws of geometric optics to address feelings and concepts of embodiment, perception, and participation.

In the early decades of the 20th century, automobile ownership saw tremendous growth in the United States—with one motor vehicle per every five Americans by 1929—and a new motoring landscape evolved to accommodate the increase in car travel. For over a century, civil engineers, automotive designers, architects, and graphic artists have worked, often without credit, to create highway systems and the vehicles that traverse them, along with standardized signage and roadside amenities that have become so commonplace that they are largely taken for granted. Modern and contemporary artists, however, have long noticed and been inspired by the world in which the automobile operates and have responded to it in their work. Eyes on the Road brings the often-overlooked “art” of the highway together with artistic representations of this visual culture, highlighting the role of the car in shaping the country’s built environment and drawing new attention to the world around us.

Explore 30 years of music history, from blues, folk, and rock ‘n’ roll to hip-hop and alternative music, through the lens of photographer Jay Blakesberg. Featuring more than 150 photographs shot on film between 1978 and 2008, RetroBlakesberg captures three decades of pivotal moments in music history. The dynamic exhibit showcases multiple genres and iconic musicians, ranging from Snoop Dogg, B-40, and Bob Dylan to PJ Harvey, Pearl Jam, and the Grateful Dead. Renowned photographer Jay Blakesberg was originally inspired by the Grateful Dead, whom he followed around the country as a teenager, capturing their live shows with his camera. Inspired by his experience, he moved from New Jersey to San Francisco to become part of the city’s vibrant music scene, which he’s photographed for more than 30 years. RetroBlakesberg reflects his remarkable body of work, from live performances to portraits to album and magazine covers.

The exhibition explores the aesthetic connections between nearly 60 artists from Africa, Europe and America. The 70 paintings, sculptures, photographs and works on paper are divided into several different themes, including speech and silence, movement and transformation, imagination and expression.

In 2025, the Norton Simon Museum marks the 50th anniversary of its founding in 1975. The exhibition Retrospect: 50 Years at the Norton Simon Museum, on view in the main-level Focus Gallery from February 14, 2025, to January 12, 2026, celebrates five decades of art, education, research and community. Coinciding with the Exterior Improvement Project, which will transform the Museum’s gardens and grounds, Retrospect offers not only a reflective view of the past but also one of the horizon for decades to come.

L.A. Louver celebrates the 50th anniversary of the formation of the gallery with an exhibition surveying the gallery’s history from 1975 to now. One of the longest-established contemporary art galleries on the West Coast, L.A. Louver has presented over 660 exhibitions over the course of what has been the most significant period of creative growth in Southern Californian history. L.A. Louver commemorates this achievement in 2025 with a presentation filling all gallery spaces.

David Hammons has been exploring the complexity of American identity from the perspective of a black artist living in New York since the 1960s, including its history, manifestations, and possibilities. Hammons's awareness of equal rights was awakened when he was studying at Otis Art Institute, and he was influenced by internationally renowned African American artists such as Charles White, Bruce Nauman, and John Baldessari. After settling in New York in the 1970s, he turned to minimalist and post-minimalist art, and many of his works reflect his implementation of the spirit of the civil rights movement and the black human rights movement. Hammons' iconic work "Black and Blue Concerto" is exhibited at Hauser & Wirth Gallery's Los Angeles space. This is the second appearance of this work since its first exhibition in 2002. Just like the scene at Ace Gallery 20 years ago, the audience is invited to enter a dark space with only a tiny blue flashlight. That exhibition is also the artist's first exhibition in New York in more than a decade.

Artists in the Romantic period found endless inspiration in the beauty and power of nature. This exhibition highlights how these artists depicted the landscape, from detailed botanical studies to vast vistas. Important Romantic motifs are explored, including the melancholic appeal of ruins and the threat of destructive natural forces. Drawing upon the strengths of the Getty collection, the exhibition features works by important figures in the movement including Caspar David Friedrich, J.M.W Turner, and Théodore Géricault.

This February, Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles hosts ‘The Bleed, Part II,’ British artist George Rouy’s first US solo exhibition with the gallery. Following upon Rouy’s recent London presentation, this ‘second chapter’ will feature all new works extending his exploration of human mass, multiplicity and movement. In works characterized by a distinctive dynamism, Rouy captures essential experiences of contemporary life—desire and vexation, the urge to connect frustrated by alienation—to address emotional extremities in a globalized, technologically-driven age.

Wonder takes flight at the Museum! Walk among beautiful butterflies in our seasonal Butterfly Pavilion. This springtime exhibition features hundreds of butterflies, colorful native plants, and plenty of natural light to help you see these creatures shimmer. With lots of flight space and a variety of resting spots, come get one of the best views in Los Angeles of these amazing insects.

Robert Irwin was a leading figure in “Light and Space,” and this retrospective focuses on Irwin’s works created between 1960 and 1971—the first exhibition of his works organized by Pace since the artist’s death in 2023, and the first exhibition of his posthumous works in California.

Lisson Gallery is pleased to announce its first exhibition with Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019), one of the boldest and most influential artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, whose foundation has been represented by the gallery since October of last year. This inaugural show also marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Known for her groundbreaking and multidisciplinary practice, which spanned six decades, Schneemann challenged societal and artistic conventions by using her own body and diverse media to address issues of sexual expression, gender, politics, and war.

Lisson Gallery is pleased to announce its first exhibition with Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019), one of the boldest and most influential artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, whose foundation has been represented by the gallery since October of last year. This inaugural show also marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Known for her groundbreaking and multidisciplinary practice, which spanned six decades, Schneemann challenged societal and artistic conventions by using her own body and diverse media to address issues of sexual expression, gender, politics, and war.

David Zwirner is pleased to announce Sidewalk Chalk, an exhibition of new paintings by American artist Katherine Bernhardt at the gallery’s 616 N Western Avenue location in Los Angeles. Featuring Bernhardt’s signature lively brushwork and vibrant palette, the works in this presentation continue to expand the artist’s unique visual lexicon, which culls from an irreverent pop vernacular as well as her own life and the broader culture. Here she focuses on newer motifs such as Lucky Charms cereal marshmallows and sticks of butter, which are playfully combined with iconic imagery from her oeuvre, including the Sesame Street character Cookie Monster, the Pink Panther, and Garfield.

Xiao Jiang's oil paintings are mostly based on his daily life scenes - mainly landscapes and interior landscapes - and unfold the narrative through the silent language of colors and shapes. In the exhibition "By the Window", the artist continues his consistent method of transcending time and depicting eternal landscapes, while adding attention to the fleeting moment - the light and shadow of the moment flash by, but are captured by the picture.

Tumble down the rabbit-hole of Key Hiraga’s work in the late-60s and early-70s and find yourself in a comical world of swollen extremities and orifices: boobs, dicks, noses, and tongues, licking, waggling, penetrating, and pimpled. This is a mute floating world where sex, lurid and illogical, is everywhere, and biology operates according to chaotic rules. Bodies might interpenetrate, split apart, or open a window into their innards, exposing gurgling intestines or a fetus waving happily from inside a womb. A central character of this universe is Mr. K, whose goggling, bloodshot eyes and bowler hat make him an avatar of the artist himself, and whose “elegant life” these pictures describe.

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles presents Laura Karetzky: Liar, Liar, the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Laura Karetzky's artistic approach involves challenging traditional narrative structures. She achieves this by merging multiple moments into a unified, believable instance, which alters the viewer's understanding of time and perspective. Her works evoke the feeling of simultaneously experiencing multiple narratives, rather than being confined to a single, linear story.

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles presents Robert Kushner: Dahlias—Fields of Steadfastness, the artist’s second exhibition with the gallery. I have known Robert Kushner for three decades, a serendipitous blessing that I chalk up to our mutual commitment to art and meditation. I’m equally pleased to share this personal note from him, below. This small window into his life and work captures the essence of who he is as a person and an artist: generous and kind, with a sharp, inquisitive mind and exquisite vision—but perhaps even more, a sagacious spirit and sense of self. This new series of paintings pays tribute to one of his favorite flowers, the dahlia—symbol of beauty, eternal love, resilience and inner strength—and marks a unique moment in his long and distinguished career. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do. - Luis De Jesus

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles presents Jim Adams: Flight of Mirrors, the artist's second solo exhibition with the gallery. The paintings in Flight of Mirrors continue Jim Adams’ long-standing exploration of portraiture and mythology, as he reimagines himself within landscapes and interiors that merge past and present. Created over the past six years during the pre- and post-Covid period, but also including self-portraits from the mid-1990s and 2000s, Adams sparks a dialogue across history, identity, and social change, drawing from his deep engagement with history and current events to reinterpret timeless narratives for our contemporary world.

H Art Foundation and AT Gallery present Aurora Rainbow, an exhibition of new abstract works by renowned Chinese artist Pan Jian (b. 1975). Co-curated by AT Gallery's Allison Thompson and H Art Foundation's Rong Peng, the exhibition continues in the vein of Pan Jian's previous Fire Rainbow series, inspired by the celestial beauty of the aurora borealis and rainbow. A total of 15 works are on display, 10 of which are being shown for the first time in Los Angeles, providing a rare opportunity for viewers to experience the latest transformation of Pan Jian's artistic career up close. Through his strong abstract language, the artist invites viewers to experience the collision of color, light and emotion, and to rediscover the magnificence and magic of the natural world.

The Broad presents Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me, a special exhibition of the artist’s multidimensional work, adapted from its original presentation at the U.S. Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024, where Jeffrey Gibson was the first Indigenous artist to represent the United States with a solo exhibition. Gibson’s first single-artist museum exhibition in Southern California, The Broad’s presentation includes over thirty artworks joyously affirming the artist’s radically inclusive vision. The exhibition will highlight Gibson’s distinct use of geometric design and saturated color alongside references to 19th and 20th century foundational American documents and modern music, critiquing systemic injustices and imagining a more equitable future. The show will be on view in the museum’s first-floor galleries from May 10 through September 28, 2025.