SATURDAY Spend your Saturday afternoon soaking up the sun & art in Culver City for their 3rd annual ARTWALK. Neighborhood galleries & eateries near the intersection of Washington & La Cienega Boulevards will be open, along with live jazz. A listing of participating galleries is available here. Also in the afternoon, The Folk Tree in Pasadena is showcasing Anything Goes: A Small Works Show. This “mini” exhibit will present tiny works from dozens of participating......

Friday Kick off your Memorial Day weekend at a few cool art happenings around town. Friday night Pawshop Gallery is presenting the solo show of Justin Hansch with Surfing and Art are the Same; They’re Both Cool. The Van Nuys native, who is the owner of JMOCA (Justin’s Museum of Contemporary Art) a gallery out of his own LA home, will debut several paintings & sculpture exploring the relationship of language as a perpetrator of......

Thursday Look at the news in a different light tonight in North Hollywood, as NoHo Gallery presents Art of News II. Photographs, paintings, and sculpture make up this exhibit of works by various broadcasting professionals. - thru June 1st Opening reception – 6:30-10:30pm 5108 Lankershim Blvd. NoHo 818.761.7784 www.nohogalleryla.com......

Thursday While at today's Downtown Art Walk, check out the fabulous retro imagery of Melissa Sims in Neon Vacation at M.J Higgins. Crediting her inspiration to Doris Day and Elvis movies & the golden age of TV; this exhibit will be a fun Technicolor time capsule! Runs thru June 8th. Opening reception tonight from 6-9 p.m. M.J Higgins Fine Art & Furnishings 400 S. Main Street, Suite 103 (enter on 4th-east of Main) 213.617.1700 www.mjhiggins.com......

Friday Forty-five years ago, a small museum in Pasadena garnered an exhibit of the modern art forefather's first retrospective. Beginning today, that small museum, now known as the Norton Simon, is presenting Marcel Duchamp Redux. The installation will display several works owned by the Norton Simon including Boite-en-Valise (some of the artists works reproduced in miniature), The Bottle Rack, and L.H.O.O.Q, his famous poster of Mona Lisa with moustache & goatee, which was embraced by......

Because George Harrison was my favorite Beatle, I devoured Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me, a memoir by his first wife Pattie Boyd (of whom I confess I was, in my Beatle phase, horribly jealous) within days of its publication last year. Since recovering from her marriages, Pattie has become known as a photographer. This Sunday from 12 to 5 p.m., a show of her photographs opens at the Morrison Hotel Gallery......