Thursday, December 5
Openings and Events in Venice
Satellite of Lou, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Lari Pittman Artist Walk-throughs: Catherine Opie, Hammer Museum, 6pm.
MoMA Contenders 2019: One Child Nation, with director Nanfu Wang, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm,
Openings and Events in Century City
Photography: In and Out of Prison: Screening and Conversation with Nigel Poor, Raymond Thompson Jr., Pete Brook, and Lucas Foglia, Annenberg Space for Photography, 6:30–10pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Frank Ockenfels 3: Volume 3, Fahey/Klein Gallery, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
Los Angeles Filmforum and Dirty Looks present Salome, a Film by Teo Hernández, Scored Live by Dorian Wood, Philosophical Research Society, 8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
The Logic of Poetry and Dreams - Jazmin Garcia, The Broad, 7pm.
STILL BEGINNING: The 30th Annual Day With(out Art), MOCA Grand Avenue, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Film Screening: Ziascope by Nikki Darling & Dean Erdmann, Armory Center for the Arts, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Ishi Glinsky, CalArts (Valencia), 5–7pm.
First Thursdays Art Walk, various locations (Laguna Beach), 5–9pm.
Keynote Lecture- Artists and Books: What is Happening Now?, Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach), 6pm.
Friday, December 6
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Esther Lin: Revolving Corridor, 18th Street Arts Center (Airport Campus), 6pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
J. Ryan Stradal, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Successful Constitution Happy Hour, Hammer Museum, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
We Will Be Heard: A Retrospective on AIDS, 1981–2019, ONE Gallery, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Skid Row Marathon, Skid Row History Museum & Archive, 7pm.
RIGHT WING (MEDIA SPACES), NAVEL, 7:30pm.
CAP UCLA presents Bill Morrison’s Dawson City: Frozen Time LIVE!, Ace Hotel, 8pm.
Agency of Assets x El Clasificado, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 5–7pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Secret Ceremony / Queerness and Spirituality at the Dawn of the New Decade, Human Resources, 7:30pm. $10–30.
Openings and Events in Silver Lake
Echo Park Craft Fair, 6pm. Through December 8.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
Virtual Reading of Ancient Egyptian Papyri from Elephantine Island, Getty Villa, 3pm.
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Purveyors of Fine Objects: ROSEGALLERY's Annual Holiday Shop, ROSEGALLERY, 10am–6pm.
Astrid Preston & Ezra Stoller, Craig Krull Gallery, 5–7pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
A Tribute to Holly Prado, Beyond Baroque, 2pm.
The Sprawwl: Readings from Coast to Canyon, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Don Suggs Memorial, UCLA, 2pm.
RINA BANERJEE: MAKE ME A SUMMARY OF THE WORLD, Fowler Museum, 6pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Artist at Work: Fashion and Impressionism, Getty Center, 1–3pm.
Manet and Modern Beauty: A Conversation, Getty Center, 4pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Apsara Diquinzio and Suzanne Hudson on Harvey Quaytman, moderated by Lindsay Preston Zappas, Blum & Poe, 2–4pm.
TODD HIDO: HOUSE HUNTING (REDUX), Arcana: Books on the Arts, 4–6pm.
Holiday Bazaar, IRVING PLACE STUDIO and SLOAN PROJECTS, 5–7pm.
They found ritual and order but couldn’t see the real (year 3008), Klowden Mann, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Artist walkthrough: Danny Janotta: PARASIDE, K Ryan Henisey: installations, and Damon Reinagle: Endangered, TAG Gallery, 3pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
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Openings and Events in Hollywood
Book signing: Frank Ockenfels 3: Volume 3, Fahey/Klein Gallery, 2–4pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
Loitering is delightful Family Day, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 12–3pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Art in A Continuous Future: Here, Now, and Tomorrow, NeueHouse Bradbury, 11am.
The Streets Are Queer closing party, In Heroes We Trust, 5–9pm.
Boudry Lorenz: Moving Backwards, JOAN, 7–9pm. Conversation with the artists and ICA LA Executive Director Anne Ellegood, Sunday, December 8, 4pm.
Contents May Have Shifted, 515, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Showrunners, Bel Ami, 7–10pm.
Ecology of the Edge closing reception, Human Resources, 7–10pm.
Ahree Lee, Women’s Center for Creative Work, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events in Silver Lake
Jon Huck: Parts & Labor, Bestor Architecture, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Workshop: Dance in Frame, Pieter, 12–3pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Ceramic Ornament Workshop, Armory Center for the Arts, 4–6pm. $75.
The Nib Geebles 2020 Highland Park Calendar Event, Armory Center for the Arts, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Open Studios Day, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 12–4pm.
2019 ESMoA Video Art + Film Festival: SPROUT, ESMoA (El Segundo), 2pm.
Vanguard: Origins of Tierra del Sol Arts in Claremont featuring Helen Rae, Claremont Museum of Art (Claremont), 6–9pm.
Chris Kallmyer: Faded Love & All Possible Music, Grand Central Art Center (Santa Ana), 7–10pm.
Spencer Day, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 8pm.
Imaging Change: History, Memory, and Social Justice, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 10am–5pm.
Sunday, December 8
Openings and Events in Venice
Soap Box Poets Open Reading, Beyond Baroque, 2pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Cur-ATE: A Vegan Adventure to Japan, LACMA, 5:30pm.
The Thirty-Second Annual Michele and Peter Berton Memorial Lecture on Japanese Art, LACMA, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Veronique d’Entremont & Danny Mekonnen: Her Body Became and Antenna, Transmitting the Message of God, Nothing Special #5, 3–6pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Los Angeles Filmforum presents The 11th Festival of (InAppropriation), Egyptian Theatre, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Holiday Open House, Echo Park Pottery, 1–5pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Through Nature’s Lens - Wildfire, community, wilderness, and memory, Gateway to Nature Center, 11:30am.
Sunday Studio: Self Help Graphics and Art's Barrio Mobile Art Studio, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 1–4pm.
Student Art Connection, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 1–3pm.
We Ride at Dawn, Ghebaly Gallery, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
SABOTEURS Issue #5: bitter/sweet Launch, Armory Center for the Arts, 3–5pm.
Berman Board: Berman Objects Reading Group w/ Michala Paludan, Armory Center for the Arts, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Open Studios & Holiday Boutique, Hawthorne Arts Complex, 1–5pm.
Lighten the Load Art Fundraiser, Gregory Adamson Studio (2242 Karendale Circle, Riverside, 1–4pm.
Artist Walk-Through Series: Carolee Campbell, Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach), 1pm.
Strategies of Survival: Arpilleras de Chile, Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), 2pm.
Monday, December 9
Openings and Events in Westwood
MoMA Contenders 2019: The Farewell, with director Lulu Wang, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Mindful Monday: Cultivating Empathy and Connectedness, LACMA, 4pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Alexandra Cuesta: Camera Notes (Part One / Notas de Cámara (Parte Uno)), REDCAT, 8:30pm. $6–12.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
KIP'S DESERT BOOK CLUB: MEMORY DAM BY ANNELIES KUIPER, BOXO House (Joshua Tree), 7pm.
Tuesday, December 10
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Why We Need Ruskin Now, Getty Center, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
MoMA Contenders 2019: Booksmart, with director Olivia Wilde, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Charles Gaines: Manifestos 3, Hauser & Wirth, 7:30pm.
Wednesday, December 11
Openings and Events in Westwood
MoMA Contenders 2019: The Irishman, with Sebastian Maniscalco, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
FALL GRADUATE OPEN STUDIOS, UCLA, 5–7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Isaura String Quartet: hum, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $14–27.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Lunchtime Lecture: Landscape, Modernism, Abstraction: The Century of Change, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 1pm.