Thursday, April 4
Openings and Events in Westchester
Art & Activism, Otis College, 7–8:30pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
MFA #2, UCLA, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
CRAFTNIGHT: SOCK ANIMALS!, Craft Contemporary, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Artist Talk with Diaz Lewis Collective, USC Fisher Museum, 5:30–6:30pm.
Poets, Priests, Martyrs: Henry Dumas, Joseph Jarman, MLK, Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 7pm.
Performance@PAM: Artists at Play Readings, USC, 7–9:30pm.
Los Angeles Poverty Department (L.A.P.D.: I Fly! or How to Keep the Devil Down in the Hole), REDCAT, 8:30pm. $9–18. Through April 6.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Public Fiction: Dylan Mira & Sarah Rara, Human Resources, 12pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Arrival of Paris and Helen at the Court of Priam, King of Troy, Norton Simon Museum, 1:30–2:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Memory and Place: Gerald Clarke and Todd Gray in Conversation, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 4–5:30pm.
Seven Gifts From Southern California Kitchens to the World with Richard Foss, El Segundo Museum of Art (El Segundo), 6–7:30pm.
Spectacular Grammar: Infrastructure as a Universal Language, Claire Trevor School of the Arts (Irvine), 6–8pm.
Curated Cocktails | Facciamola Ancora!, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 7–9pm.
Friday, April 5
Openings and Events in Westwood
The White Album by Joan Didion Performance created by Lars Jan/ Early Morning Opera, CAP UCLA, 8pm. Through April 7.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Music at the Wende: PIANO SPHERES presents Vicki Ray: "21 Bricks", Wende Museum, 7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Droughts, Natural History Museum, 5–10pm.
Openings and Events in Eagle Rock
Sweet Earth / Bitter Earth, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, 5–8pm.
Closing reception: Candice Lin: The inscrutable speech of objects and Ako Castuera: Soil, Occidental College, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
TEN PAINTINGS BOOK LAUNCH & PAVEMENT KARAOKE, POTTS, 7–10pm.
Saturday, April 6
Openings and Events in Westwood
Guatemalan Masks: Selections from the Jim and Jeanne Pieper Collection, Fowler Museum, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Artist walkthrough: Kayla Sweet-Newhouse: Interactions, Helms Design Center, 11am–12pm.
Gina Minichino: CHILDHOOD DREAMS and Introducing: Shawn Huckins, George Billis, 5–8pm.
Amadea Bailey: Expressions, Fabrik Projects, 6–9pm.
Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s Part II, Blum & Poe, 6–8pm; performance.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Artist walkthrough: Femina Spina - Anahid Boghosian, Laura Fisher, & Rebecca Marie, TAG Gallery, 11am.
Art & Music: Gerald Clayton, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Michi Meko: When It's Black Outside, E.C.LINÅ Gallery, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Matthew Porter: Skyline Vista and Rob Thom: The Beast, M+B, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Christina Quarles: But I Woke Jus’ Tha Same, Regen Projects, 6–8pm.
The Seven Year Itch, Diane Rosenstein, 6–8pm.
Heidi Hahn: Burn Out In Shredded Heaven with Jarvis Boyland: On Hold:, Kohn Gallery, 6–10pm.
Leigh Salgado: Soliloquy, LAUNCH LA, 6–9pm.
Michele Asselin: COMMONS, there-there, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Josef Strau: The Prototype, House of Gaga/Reena Spaulings Fine Art, 4–8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Mathew Hale - LA CALIFORNIE., Grice Bench, 12–4pm.
Arlene Shechet: Sculpture, Vielmetter Los Angeles, 5–7pm.
Julia Haft-Candell / Suzan Frecon, Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, 6–9pm.
AUGUSTA WOOD, THE SHAPE OF MY HEAD and JOSÉPHINE WISTER FAURE, WHAT DO YOU SEE WHEN YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES?, Denk Gallery, 6–8pm.
Bradley Duncan: SUN WORSHIP, 3.1 Phillip Lim, 6–9pm.
Lucky 13, Josie Morway: The Remediators, Corey Helford Gallery, 7–11pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Alexandra Bell: Counternarratives and Tell Me A Story and I'll Sing You A Song, Charlie James Gallery, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Silver Lake
YUKI KIMURA: REFLECTING IN SIZES, Jenny's, 5–8pm.
X-TRA SPR!NG TH!NG, Bestor Architecture, 8–11pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Introduction to Backpacking, Women’s Center for Creative Work, 10am–1pm. $8–10.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Spring 2019 Brewery Artwalk, The Brewery, 11am–6pm. Continues April 7.
BEING IS MAGIC: Alexx Shilling, Pieter, 12:30–3pm.
BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD: Barry Brannum, Pieter, 8:30–10pm.
Openings and Events in Glassell Park
Rachel Roske: a single set, a glass aswarm, elephant, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Shakespeare Day, The Huntington, 11am–3pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Spectacular Grammar: Infrastructure as a Universal Language workshops, Claire Trevor School of the Arts (Irvine), 9am–5:30pm.
Sunday, April 7
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Molly Larkey Artist Talk with William J. Simmons, Euclid, 2–5pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
Littoral: Bryan Ida, MB Boissonnault, Annie Seaton, Beyond Baroque, 1–4pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
FOCUS IRAN 3: YOUTH CULTURE: GALLERY CONVERSATION, Craft Contemporary, 3pm.
George Condo: What’s The Point? And Thea Djordjadze: If I Were An Early Person, Sprüth Magers, 5–7pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Ensayos Libertarios: Maaynok (Libertarian Essays: Making, LACE, 12–3pm.
Artist Roundtable with Kenjiro Okazaki, Yukinori Yanagi, Kenji Yanobe, and curator Mika Yoshitake, Japan House, 2–4pm.
Los Angeles Filmforum presents Ariana Gerstein, Egyptian Theatre, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
CAAM Reads!, California African American Museum, 3–4:30pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
KEIJI HAINO: A NIGHT OF HURDY-GURDY MUSIC, Zebulon, 8pm. $30–35.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Dido and Aeneas, Norton Simon Museum, 1–2pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
OCMAExpand, Orange County Museum of Art (Orange County), 11am–4:30pm.
Desert as Situation, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 1–4pm.
Peter Sturman: Emotion and Belonging—A New Look at Literati Aesthetics in China, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 2:30pm.
Monday, April 8
Openings and Events Downtown
Note to Self: Films by Nazlı Dinçel, 8:30pm. $6–12.
Tuesday, April 9
Openings and Events in Westwood
GELARE KHOSHGOZARAN, UCLA, 6pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Flight of Fancy: The Galle Chandelier, Getty Center, 10am–5:30pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Perennial Exhibition, Koplin Del Rio.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Richard Maxwell, ArtCenter College of Design, 7:30pm.
Wednesday, April 10
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Mieke Marple: God is an Audiobook, 1301PE, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Angela Brooks and Larry Scarpa Lecture, USC, 6–8pm.
LA ARTISTS: WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT OURSELVES?, NAVEL, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Whiz World HELLMOUTH Launch, Ooga Booga, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
From Duck Lane to Lazarus Seaman: Buying and Selling Old Books in England During the 16th and 17th Centuries, The Huntington, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Feminist Open Mic with MCs Vanessa Acosta and Erin Foley (Long Beach G.R.R.R.L. Collective), University Art Museum, CSU Long Beach (Long Beach), 6–8pm.
Art Detective Object Lessons, Scripps College (Claremont), 7–9pm.