Thursday, September 27
Openings and Events in Westwood
Stones to Stains: The Drawings of Victor Hugo, Hammer Museum, 11am–8pm.
We, Activeast—UCLA 2018 International Biennial, UCLA, 5–8pm.
David Antin: Talking, Always Talking, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Free Screening—The Old Man & the Gun, LACMA, 8pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Lionel Smit: DIVIDE, Art|Life, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Maestras, Self Help Graphics, 6–7:15pm.
https://www.sothebysinstitute.com/news-and-events/events/cultures-of-art-and-tech/ : Cultures of Art and Tech, The Reef, 6pm.
MOCA Music: Danke & Yialmelic Frequencies, MOCA Grand Avenue, 7pm.
Challenging the Binary: Queerness in Printmaking, Self Help Graphics, 7:30–8:45pm.
DakhaBrakha, Ace Hotel, 8pm. $29–49.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Marsian De Lellis' OBJECT OF HER AFFECTION, Automata, 8pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Botany Bay Series: Plant Science for Gardeners & Citizen Scientists, The Huntington, 4:30–5:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
wild Up at SBMA: GRADIENT, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 6–7pm.
A Different 1%, Cypress College Art Gallery (Cypress), 6–8pm.
Inside the Museum: Laguna Art Museum Directors, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 6pm.
artist talk with Barry McGee, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 6–7pm.
Friday, September 28
Openings and Events on Venice
Life is a Carousel with Judy Juanita, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Ai Weiwei: Life Cycle, Marciano Art Foundation, 11am–5pm.
Talk: The Director’s Series: Michael Govan and Ai Weiwei, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
SUMMER HAPPENINGS: A JOURNEY THAT WASN’T, PART 2 The Broad, 8pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
MCASB x Channel Islands Surfboards: The Art of Shaping, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 5:30–7:30pm.
Van Nuys Arts Festival, Van Nuys Civic Center (Van Nuys), 6–10pm.
Saturday, September 29
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
**Life In This Ocean, The Annenberg Community Beach House Gallery, 2–4pm.
Jack Reilly: Eros (September), bG Gallery, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Sawtelle
Tran(smundo), JAUS, 6:30–9:30pm.
Yusei Abe: Monochromanic, GR2, 6:30–10pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Hammer Projects: Math Bass, Hammer Museum, 11am–5pm.
Uncovering Victor Hugo: A Conversation with the Curators, Hammer Museum, 2pm.
Openings and Events in Inglewood
New Works by Xavier Fumat and Isaac Osher, The Nook Gallery, 4–6:30pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Grand Re-Opening, Robert Frost Auditorium, 6–9:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Talk: Teresita de la Torre in Conversation with Amy Sánchez and Misael Diaz, LACMA, 1:30pm.
Free Screening—Native America, Episode 4: "New World Rising", LACMA, 2pm.
Special: David Antin: Sky Poems, LACMA, 4pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Here’s Looking at You, Kid, The Loft at Liz’s, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Open Conversation & Tasseography for Oar Tatig, The Lodge, 3–6pm.
Irving Penn Lecture: with Colin Westerbeck, Fahey/Klein, 2–4pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
Gene Autry’s 111th Birthday, Autry Museum of the American West (Los Feliz), 10am–5pm.
Jason Moran & The Bandwagon: Finding a Line: Skateboarding, Music & Media, Ford Theatres, 8pm. $30–45.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Graphic Design Hacks (Part 1), Women’s Center for Creative Work, 11am–1pm. $80-100.
DUBLAB 19th Anniversary Celebration, Zebulon Café Concert, 5pm–1am. $10.
The Tender Revolution Tour, Women's Center for Creative Work, 5–7pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
MADWORLD, Keystone Art Space, 7–11pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Dino Fest, Natural History Museum, 9:30am–5pm.
In Conversation: Nina Chanel Abney with Jamillah James and Naima Keith, California African American Museum, 1–3pm.
The Kitchen Table Book Launch, The Box, 2pm.
Paolo Colombo Baert Gallery, 6–8:30pm.
Wrath, Destruction, & The Supramundane, THESE DAYS, 6–9pm.
Closing: Linda King: New Paintings, 515, 7–9pm.
thebroad.org/programs/summer-happenings-a-journey-that-wasn-t-part-2, The Broad (Downtown), 8pm. $30.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
A grammar built with rocks, Human Resources, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Silver Lake
Untitled: a procession on the borders of something that has already shifted, Materials & Applications, 5–7pm.
Arthur King Presents: Above the Arroyo - A Dream of the Stairs of Los Angeles, Dangerbird Records HQ, 8–10pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Workshop@PAM: Shibori, USC Pacific Asia Museum, 10am–1pm.
A Night in Focus: India, Norton Simon Museum, 5–7:30pm. $15.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
DAVID ANTIN: SKY POEMS, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego), 10:30am.
Elana Mann: Instruments of Accountability and Cassie Riger: Automatic Vaudeville, Pitzer College Art Galleries (Claremont), 2–4pm.
Ella de Búrca: Flat As The Tongue Lies and First Glimpse: Introducing The Buck Collection, CTSA Gallery, 2–5pm.
Elana Mann: Instruments of Accountability, Emerging Artist Series #13: Resident Artist:
Cassie Riger: Automatic Vaudeville, Pitzker College (Pomona), 2–4pm; performances, 2:30pm.
A Wake at the Gate!, Angels Gate Cultural Center, 6–9pm.
Centennial Bash, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 6–11pm.
Cabinets of Curiosities, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 6pm. $100.
Sunday, September 30
Openings and Events in Venice
Lambda Litfest: Are We Still Writing Endings?, Beyond Baroque, 4pm.
Openings and Events in Westchester
Otis College 100th Birthday Party!, Otis College of Art and Design, 12–4pm.
Some of Our Favorite Things, Ben Maltz Gallery, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
West of Modernism: California Graphic Design, 1975–1995, LACMA, 10am–7pm.
Uzumaki Cepeda: Daydreaming, Merion Estes: Unnatural Disasters, and Sherin Guirguis: Of Thorns and Love, Craft and Folk Art Museum, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Alex Olson, Park View/Paul Soto, 3–6pm.
Openings and Events in Koreatown
Dennis Reed: Police Culture, 2016-2018 and Light Dissipaters and Season Tracers, 1968-1970, as-is.la, 2–5pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
LA Phil 100 x CicLAvia, L.A. Phil, 9am.
B. Wurtz: This Has No Name, Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush, Adrian Piper: What it’s Like, What it is. #3, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 12–2pm.
In Conversation: Robert Pruitt and Tananarive Due, California African American Museum, 1–3pm.
READING: Harry Dodge, My Meteorite (or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing | Followed by a Closing Reception), JOAN, 2pm.
Fran Lebowitz in Conversation with Matt Holzman, Ace Hotel, 7pm. $29–59.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Alchemizing Our Inheritance: Poetry Workshop With Giselle Buchanan, Women’s Center for Creative Work, 6:30–8:30pm. $8–11.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Nick McPhail: Pictures, HOLIDAY, 3–6pm.
Monday, October 1
Openings and Events in Westwood
A.UD LECTURE SERIES: ARI SELIGMANN, UCLA, 6:30pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Martino Stierli - Montage and the Metropolis Book Release & Panel, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, 6:30–8:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Kip's Desert Book Club: In God's Trailer Park by Susan Lang, Palms Restaurant and Bar (Twentynine Palms), 7pm.
Tuesday, October 2
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Come as You Are: Fashion Photography in the 1990s, Getty Center, 7pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Film: Alien: Resurrection, LACMA, 1pm.
Film: Artist Film Screening—Zach Blas's Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Sessions in Contemporary Art: Art and Public Space, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego), 6–7pm.
Wednesday, October 3
Openings and Events in Westwood
Barbara Pollack: Brand New Art from China, Damoka, 5–7pm.
Three Megacities: A Comparative Approach, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Talk: Future of Cities—Leading in LA, LACMA, 5pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
LECTURE: ANDREW WATTS AND YASMIN WATTS, NEWTECNIC, USC School of Architecture, 6pm.