10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This May

This month's Los Angeles art guide highlights exhibitions that explore how people tell their stories through material culture. Kwame Brathwaite: Things Well Worth Waiting For at the ArtCenter presents roughly 50 photos from the 1960s and 1970s, including portraits of Miles Davis and Marvin Gaye. Jackie Amézquita's "soil paintings" at Charlie James Gallery incorporate earth from along the US-Mexico border, and the 3B Collective's Highway Hypnosis at Craft Contemporary pairs its members with artisans in their families' home regions. Hollywoodland at the Academy Museum examines how largely Jewish filmmakers, many of them immigrants, built the Hollywood studio system.