Thursday, December 13
Openings and Events in Venice
Out of Our Heads: Rolling Stones, Beatles and Me, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
The Hate U Give, and Q&A with George Tillman Jr. and Amandla Stenberg, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Can You Ever Forgive Me?, and Q&A with Melissa McCarthy, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Graduate Open Studios, UCLA Department of Art, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Janna Ireland: Looking, Past and Through: Paul R. Williams, West Hollywood, and The Spotless Mirror, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, 7:30–9pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Talk: Gallery Tour: The Art of Looking—Outliers, LACMA, 12:30pm.
Film: Welcome To Marwen, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
History of Central Avenue, Session 3, California African American Museum, 2–4pm.
Ty Joseph: The Meaning of L, Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts, 6–10pm.
Blame the Audience #2: A Film Series Organized by Jason Simon, MOCA Grand Avenue, 7pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Holiday Music: Vox Feminae, The Huntington, 1–2pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Curator's Choice Lecture: Charles Brock: A Painter Gets Hold of Something Real: The Snow Paintings of George Bellows, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 5:30–7:30pm.
Live! at the Museum: Celtic Consort of Hollywood, Laguna Asrt Museum (Laguna Beach), 7pm.
Friday, December 14
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
A Soul Family Affair, Lost Art Los Angeles, 8–11pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
Marci Vogel & Janet Fitch, Beyond Baroque, 4pm.
The Typewriter Underground, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Eagle Rock
Little Masters, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, 5–9pm.
Saturday, December 15
Openings and Events in Malibu
The Weather In Malibu and Marie, Is That You?, DEPART Foundation Malibu Village, 5–9pm.
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
closing of Don Edler: 6871 California Ave with sound performance by Andrea Lauren Brown, Five Car Garage, 12–4pm.
Open House, Skidmore Contemporary Art, 11am–6pm.
Openings and Events in Beverlywood
CRAIG DRAKE V, Hero Complex Galaxy, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Todd Hido - Book Signing for Bright Black World, Arcana: Books on the Arts, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Michael Govan and Thomas Demand at Art Catalogues, LACMA, 4pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Liza Ryan: The Unreal Real book launch, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Tête-à-Tête with Sandy Rodriguez and Fran Siegel, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1:30–3:30pm.
Book signing: Photography: Yoshihiro Makino, C Project, 5–7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Year End Dish, NAVEL, 12–2pm.
Los Angeles Water School, address provided with RSVP, 3–6pm.
Book signing: Jean Pigozzi, Dover Street Market, 5pm.
Koak: Breaking the Prairie, Ingrid Luche: They can't live without it. We can. And Christine Sun Kim: Finish Forever, Ghebaly Gallery, 6–9pm.
Holiday Party and Benefit Auction, The Mistake Room, 6–9pm. $125.
Screening: Cal State LA Community Impact Media Documentaries Premiere, Hauser & Wirth, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Views from Here: Los Angeles, Human Resources, 2–4pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Workshop: A Body of Infinite Folds, Discursive Pathways to the Choreographic with Cheng-Chieh Yu, Pieter, 1–4pm.
Find an ending: Pieter's year end holiday celebration, Pieter, 8:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Todd Gray: Pluralities of Being, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 10am–5pm.
Sunday, December 16
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Math Bass and Lauren Davis Fisher, Euclid, 5–7pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT COLLECTING FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY: PETER FETTERMAN IN CONVERSATION WITH LEE KAPLAN, Arcana: Books on the Arts, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Artist Talk: Unnatural Disasters with Merion Estes & Howard N. Fox, Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Matt Paweski: Look out, Switch - Switch, Couples, Fountain, Park View/Paul Soto, 3–6pm.
Closing Party for sweet cheeks, Big Pictures LA, 4–6:30pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
DART by AIMÉE PARROTT, From the Desk of Lucy Bull, 2–4pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
MAK Center Hosts: Ennis and Sowden House Tours + Reception, Ennis and Sowden houses, 10am–7pm. $125.
Openings and Events Downtown
Sound Bath Meditation in Calder: Nonspace, Hauser & Wirth, 11am.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Closing reception for Divided Brain, LAVA Projects (Alhambra), 5–8pm.
Tuesday, December 18
Openings and Events in Westwood
Sorry to Bother You, and Q&A with Boots Riley, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Artful Words: Calligraphy in Illuminated Manuscripts, Getty Center, 10am–5:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Film: Eyes Wide Shut, LACMA, 1pm.
Talk: Michael Govan and Theaster Gates, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
In Conversation with Narsiso Martinez, University Art Museum, CSU Long Beach (Long Beach), 5–7pm.
Wednesday, December 19
Openings and Events Downtown
LAND's 2018 HOLIDAY MOVEABLE FEAST, Ace Hotel, 7–10pm. $65–80.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Titian’s 'Portrait of a Lady in White,' c. 1561, on loan from the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Norton Simon Museum, 12–5pm.