Thursday, April 28
Openings and Events in Westwood
UCLA Department of Art 2022 MFA #4 Exhibition, UCLA, 5-8pm. Through May 6.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Reclaiming Performance: Reverence of Self, LACE, through April 29.
Ana Corrigan and Lily Clark: A Ceramic House & Garden, Stroll Garden, through June 11.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Charles Bernstein with Johanna Drucker & Susan Bee, Poetic Research Bureau, 7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Artists and Curators Discuss Elegies: The Art of the Still Life, California African American Museum, 6:30pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Ben Quinn: Night Paintings and Jonathan DeDecker, 6–9pm. Through May 28.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Taste of Art: Women in the Collections, The Huntington, 5pm. $30-45.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Gagaku: Music of the Imperial Ceremonies of Japan, One Thousand Years of Elegance and Harmony, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 6pm.
Openings and Events Online
Fowler Talks: The African Arts in Venice Forum, Fowler Museum, 11am.
Jangueo: Artist Talks on Home: César García-Alvarez & Marcel Alcalá, The Mistake Room, 12pm.
Collecting Mesoamerican Art, 1940–1968: Forging a Market in the United States and Mexico, Getty Center, through April 29.
Friday, April 29
Openings and Events in Westwood
Hit the Road, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
Mandy El-Sayegh: Units of Measure, UTA Artists Space, 6-8pm. Through May 28.
Openings and Events in Atwater Village
Vellum LA x Marcel.Art Community: Hotel Blue Immersive Pop Up, SVStudios, 8–11pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
The Music Center's Very Special Arts Festival, The Music Center, 9:30am–1pm.
Artist walkthrough of Steffani Jemison: End Over End, JOAN, 4pm.
South of Expo: Art, Artists, and Cultural Spaces Since the 1960s, USC, 7–8:30pm.
Honor, an artist lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra starring Lili Taylor, MOCA Grand Avenue, through April 30.
Openings and Events in Atwater Village
THANK YOU FOR COMING 2012-2022, Thank You for Coming, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events Online
Jangueo: Artist Talks on Home: César García-Alvarez & Esteban Ramón Pérez, The Mistake Room,
12pm.
Saturday, April 30
Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades
Villa Theater Lab: Cassandra, an Agony, Getty Villa, 1pm.
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Art Auction to benefit Ukraine, Bergamot Station, 11am–6pm.
Mark Steven Greenfield: HALO, William Turner Gallery, 5-8pm. Through July 9.
Openings and Events in Venice
Poetry Film Festival, Hollywood, 2022, Beyond Baroque, 2pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Ever Present: Dissonant Days, Getty Center, 2pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Absence, Hammer Museum, 3pm.
Titi, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Collins Obijiaku: Unexpected Sittings, Roberts Projects, 4–7pm. Through June 4.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Knopp Ferro: Levitating Lines, Louis Stern Fine Arts, 4–7pm. Through June 18.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Krzysztof Strzelecki: Forbidden Fruit and Angela Lane: Beside the Sun, Anat Ebgi, 11am-2pm. Through June 11.
Merricks Adams, Tommy May and Dani Tull, Blue Door Gallery, 2-4pm.
REPORT, a film by Bruce Conner, Kohn Gallery, 5-7pm. Through June 25.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
CLAY LA, Craft Contemporary, through May 1.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Will Rawls: I make me [sic], Pace Gallery, 12 and 2pm.
Max Colby: Revival, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, through June 4.
Michael Queenland: House, Kristina Kite, through June 11.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Michaela Eichwald, Reena Spaulings.
Openings and Events in Koreatown
Cosmic Shift, Gabba Gallery, 6-9pm. Through May 14.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Jared Joseph, Jordan Nakamura, Angie Sijun Lou & Kendall Grady, Poetic Research Bureau, 7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
EASY MORNINGS, Grand Park, 10am–1pm.
Hans Koesters, Modest Common, 5–8pm. Through May 28.
Mitch Iburg: Diagenesis, Sage Culture DTLA, 6-8pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Screening of Hazel Hill McCarthy III's Via Cruxis, Graf Lantz Design Studio, 7-10pm.
Openings and Events in San Pedro
Folding the Maze, Loft Art Studios & Galleries, through May 12.
Openings and Events in El Segundo
Experience 51: TIME, ESMoA, 5-8pm. Through September 17.
Sunday, May 1
Openings and Events in Venice
Love Poems: A Reading with Kaaren Kitchell & David St. John, Beyond Baroque, 4pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Family Flicks: Kedi, Hammer Museum, 11am.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Alissa Warshaw's artist talk and closing reception, Matter Studio Gallery, 2-6pm.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Stan Brakhage’s DOG STAR MAN (new 16mm print! with Jane Brakhage, by Barbara Hammer), 2220 Arts + Archives, 7pm. $8-12.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
MAY DAY, Human Resources, 6pm.
Openings and Events in Glassell Park
Raina Lee: Blow Up, Niche Gallery, through May 22.
Openings and Events Online
CounterIntelligence: The Story of Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka, Part 1, Heidi Duckler Dance, 6pm.
Monday, May 2
Openings and Events Downtown
L.A. Underwater: The Prehistoric Sea Beneath Us, Natural History Museum,
Tuesday, May 3
Openings and Events Downtown
Let the Record Show: A Conversation with Sarah Schulman, Central Library, 7pm.
Wednesday, May 4
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Rinella Alfonso: Protect the meat from the flies, Park View/Paul Soto, through June 4.
Alejandro Cesarco: TRIANGULATION, Tanya Leighton, 5-8pm. Through June 25.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Conversation with Devin Reynolds, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 6pm.
Openings and Events Online
Poetry & Cooking Inspired Writing Workshop, Angels Gate Cultural Center, 6:30–8pm.