Thursday, May 31
Westside Openings and Events
Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art: JOHANNA DRUCKER, Otis College (Westchester), 7:30pm.
Set It Off, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Art, Censorship and Civic Engagement, Wende Museum, 3pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Oskar Fischinger: Paintings from the Permanent Collection, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, 11am–9pm.
Laguna Art Museum: A Centennial History, Laguna Art Museum, 6pm.
Friday, June 1
Openings and Events in Venice
Jocelyn Saidenberg and Johanna Drucker, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Westchester
Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art: SANFORD KWINTER, Otis College (Westchester), 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Texas, Philip Martin Gallery, 6–8pm.
Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Sheets, Kohn Gallery, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
Jasmine Worth: Future Past, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, 8–11pm.
Downtown Openings and Events
First Fridays, Natural History Museum, 5–11pm.
Rattlesnake Bells In The Desert: CalArts School of Art MFA Class of 2018 Group Exhibition, The Box, 6–9pm.
Twist the Pine and Becca Mann: Protea, Ghebaly Gallery, 7–10pm.
Anne Libby: Earthflash and Andrea Marie Breiling: Have you loved me for the last time (Laid Bare), Night Gallery, 7–10pm.
Grand Performances: Higher! The Psychedelic Soul and Genius of Sly and the Family Stone, California Plaza, 8pm.
Queer Biennial 2018: What if Utopia, NAVEL, 8pm.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
IAN MARKELL, Bad Reputation, 6–9pm.
The Cassandra Cat, Bob Baker Marionette Theater, 8pm.
Saturday, June 2
Openings and Events in Malibu
Bacchus Uncorked: Drinking and Thinking, Getty Villa, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Tracey Sylvester Harris: Golden Glamour and James David Thomas: The Wheel, Skidmore Contemporary Art, 4–6pm.
Dan McCleary, Craig Krull Gallery, 5–7pm.
Theodore Boyer: Big Rip, Patrick Painter (Santa Monica), 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Imagined Cities: Innovative Uses of Architecture in Film and Literature, Taiwan Academy in Los Angeles, 2–4pm.
Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths, Fowler Museum, 6–9pm.
Made in L.A. 2018 Opening Celebration, Hammer Museum, 8–11pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Family Festival, Getty Center 10am–6pm.
Gyula Gazdag and Cold War Hungarian Cinema, Getty Center, 4:30pm.
Openings and Events in West L.A.
UCLA Graduate Open Studios, UCLA, 2–5pm.
Fresh Awards Exhibition, 2018, South Bay Contemporary SoLA Gallery, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events in Century City
Photographing the President Featuring Sharon Farmer, Eric Draper, and Lawrence Jackson, Moderated by Slate's Jamelle Bouie, Annenberg Space for Photography, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Kahn & Selesnick: Madame Lulu’s Book of Fate and Kirsten Tradowsky: Time Echo, Kopeikin Gallery, 6–8pm.
Thinkspace Art Opening with Fintan Magee + David Rice, Thinkspace Projects, 6–9pm.
Marc Cohen: Perspectives, Whole 9 Gallery, 6–10pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
ANNEX Summer Edition, M+B, 12–6pm.
AIDS DIVA: The Legend of Connie Norman, West Hollywood City Council Chambers, 7–8:30pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
From Pangs to Pangolins, Shulamit Nazarian, 4–6pm. Walkthrough, 4pm.
JORDI ALCARAZ: defying boundaries, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Will Boone: Garage and Torbjørn Rødland: Backlit Rainbow, David Kordansky, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Koreatown
Palm-Weaving with BukoBomba and Middle Voice Readings, Visitor Welcome Center, 2–5pm.
Alex Achaval: Altered Panorama, Christina Ramos: Manipulating the Masters, Jim Donnelly: Just Deserts, Septerhed: Nervous Lines, Gabba Gallery, 7–11pm.
Downtown Openings and Events
A.M. Rousseau: Lines of Inquiry Artist Talk/Book Signing, Jason Vass, 2–4pm.
Juliao Sarmento: L.A. Prints, Mixografia, 4–7pm.
Michael Maxwell: Neo-American Transcendental, Garis & Hahn, 5–8pm.
Diss / embodied, Oil and Charcoal, 6pm–12am.
Daniel Silva: WE ARE EXPERIENCING SOME TURBULENCE – PLEASE STOW AWAY YOUR ELECTRONIC DEVICES LHR | HND | BOG | LAX, Baert Gallery, 6–8:30pm.
KATY ANN GILMORE: VISUAL FIELD and Asad Faulwell: Phantom, DENK Gallery, 6–8pm.
Undisrememberable Curios, POST, 7pm.
Grand Performances: The Secret City: Shine & Shimmer Show, California Plaza, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Nery Gabriel Lemus in conversation with Edgar Arceneaux, Charlie James, 3–5pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Workshop: INHABITANTS \ A Physical Theatre Activation Lab with Emily Meister, Pieter 11:30am–3pm. $25.
Silvia Rigon: Trypophobia and Other Epithelial Reveries, Keystone Art Gallery (Lincoln Heights), 6–8:30pm.
Queer Biennial 2018: Opening Reception, LAST PROJECTS, 7–11pm.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Jacques Tati's Parade, Bob Baker Marionette Theater (MacArthur Park), 5:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Talk and Book Signing with Lisa See, Author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, The Huntington (San Marino), 2pm. $10.
No. 2, The Magic Hour (Twentynine Palms), 3pm–sunset.
Experience 35: GROUNDED - John Divola and Zoe Crosher Approach LAX from Different, ESMoA (El Segundo), 5–8pm.
Where is this Place, I Pinch Myself: performance by Kim Zumpfe, CSUF Grand Central Art Center (Santa Ana), 7–10pm.
Soundpedro, Angels Gate Cultural Center, 7–11pm.
4 Threads: New Work by Jamie Chavez, Gerardo Monterrubio, Jaime Muñoz, and Jaime "GERMS" Zacarias, Riverside Art Museum (Riverside), 8–11pm. $20.
Sunday, June 3
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Make A Mess Day!, Bergamot Station, 12–4pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Wonders of Art and Science: A Day of Discovery, Getty Center, 11:30am–5pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
826LA@Hammer: Mapping the L.A. I Love, Hammer Museum, 11am.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Curatorial Hub Outpost Launch with David P. Earle and Emily Joyce, Arcana: Books on the Arts, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Steven Hull Book Launch, Meliksetian | Briggs, 2pm.
Miracle Mile Openings and Events
The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 10am–7pm.
Talk: Neither Here nor There: The Mobility of Modernism in 1920s Latin America, LACMA, 2pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Everyday Muse, ltd los angeles, 12–2pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Bethany C. Morrow Launches MEN, Book Soup, 3–4pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Benefit, LAXART, 6–10pm.
Downtown Openings and Events
Open House at ICA LA: This Brush for Hire: Norm Laich & Many Other Artists, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 11am–6pm.
Austin Irving: Cornered and Andy Dixon: On the Ceiling of My Suite in the Royal Palace, Wilding Cran, 2–4pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Daniel Brice: Polaroid Paintings / Group Show: Carole Caroompas, Dion Johnson, Patrick Lee, Wayne White, Werkartz, 2–4pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
Artists Swap-Meet, ODD ARK • LA, 11am–4pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Altadena Open Studios Tour, various locations (Altadena), 11am–5pm.
High & Dry: Land Artifacts, Museum of Art & History (Lancaster), 1pm.
Film screening of 47 Samurai (Chūshingura), Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 2:30–4:45pm.
LSV:Human/Nature, LAVA Projects (Alhambra), 4–7pm.
Rock The Glass Launch Party and Ojai Music Festival Fundraiser, Porch Gallery (Ojai), 5–7pm. $20.
Vinyl Moon Listening Party, Space Gallery at Ayzenberg (Pasadena), 5–8pm.
Rehearsal: The Causerie, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 7pm.
Monday, June 4
Openings and Events in Brentwood
On the String of the Tear's Bow: A Conversation with Mohsen Namjoo, Shirin Neshat, and Shoja Azari, Getty Center, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Ambrose Akinmusire and Peter Evans, LAXART, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Kip's Desert Book Club: The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner, Kip's Desert Book Club (Landers), 7pm.
Tuesday, June 5
Openings and Events in Westwood
Looking for Oum Kulthum with Shirin Neshat, Hammer Museum, 7:30–9pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Film: The Kid, LACMA, 1pm.
Film: Free Screening: StarTalk, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Wednesday, June 6
Openings and Events in Westwood
Charles Long on Nikita Gale & Carmen Argote, Hammer Museum, 6pm.
CONVERSATIONS: You Are on Tongva Land: Mercedes Dorame, Angela R. Riley & Wendy Teeter, Hammer Museum 7:30pm.
Downtown Openings and Events
Grand Performances: Good Things Happen When We…Speak Up! Stories from the Frontline, California Plaza, 7:30pm.
Grand Performances: L.A. Dance Party USA, California Plaza, 9pm.