Thursday, February 21
Openings and Events in Westwood
Poetry: Susan Wheeler, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Andrew Dawson: Space Panorama & Spirit of the Ring, CAP UCLA, 8pm. Through February 24.
Openings and Events in Bel-Air
Lunch and Learn: A Conversation with Raida Adon, American Jewish University, 12–2pm. $10 + 14.
Universe of Stories: A Storytelling Workshop, American Jewish University, 7–10pm. $20.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
Takashi Murakami: GYATEI², Gagosian, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Artist Talk with Karla Klarin, USC Fisher Museum of Art, 1–4pm.
In Conversation: Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Eve Xelestiál Moreno-Luz, California African American Museum, 7–9:30pm.
Blame the Audience #4: A Film Series Organized by Jason Simon, MOCA Grand Avenue, 7pm.
Christiane Jatahy: What if they went to Moscow?, REDCAT, 7:30pm. $10–30. Through February 24.
KALIANTE, NAVEL, 10pm–4am.
PAPER FASHION GALA AND RUNWAY SHOW, Self Help Graphics.
Shizu Saldamando: Selected Works, Hotel Figueroa. Through March 24.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Art Matters Lecture: Keith Christianson: Making Connections: Representations of Reflections/Refractions of Light, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 4:30–6pm.
Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Adam Marnie, CalArts (Valencia), 5pm.
Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego), 5–8pm.
Film Night: In a Lonely Place, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 6pm.
Krump Evolved, CalArts (Valencia), 7–11pm.
Mashacare: Home of the Freaks, Misfits, & Weirdoes (An Exhibition & Fashion Event), CalArts (Valencia), 8pm.
Friday, February 22
Openings and Events in Venice
Michael Harnish: Efflorescence, Merchant Gallery, 6–9pm.
Night Fever, Amiga Wild, 6–11pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
MFA3 UPSTARTS SERIES PRESENTS "YOU SELF HELP ME" BY PEARL MARILL, UCLA, 8pm. Also February 23.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Artist talk: Keith Collins, The Loft at Liz’s, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Poverty Scholarship, Skid Row History Museum & Archive, 1pm.
Personal Problems: A Film Series Organized by Charles Gaines, Hauser & Wirth, 7:30pm. Continues February 23.
2:22 REFLECTIONS RELEASE PARTY, NAVEL, 7:30pm. $5–10.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Artist talk: Serge Serum, LAST Projects, 7–11pm; talk, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Glendale
There’s No End to Her, ace/121 Gallery, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Lonesome (1928, NR), Norton Simon Museum, 6pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego), 11am–5pm.
A Soft Lunacy, CalArts (Valencia), 8–9pm.
Saturday, February 23
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Clarissa Tossin | 21st Century Wisdom: Healing Frank Lloyd Wright's Textile Block Houses and Maj Hasager: Iterations, 18th Street Arts Center, 5–8pm.
Stan Edmondson: Alchemy for Idiots, Lou Beach: An Attractive New Sense, Pierre Picot: Landscape Yo-Yo, Craig Krull Gallery, 5–7pm.
H A Y T I E M P O : G R A C I E L A I T U R B I D E, ROSEGALLERY.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Raymond Logan: Everyday Icons, George Billis Gallery, 5–8pm.
Closing reception, Von Lintel, 6–10pm.
Openings and Events in Leimert Park
Cardboard Revival: Slauson Avenue, Los Angeles and FRESH 2019, South Bay Contemporary, SoLA Gallery, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Toni Reinis: Soul Searching, Brian Reed: Hooray for Hollywood!, and Dwayne Wilbert - New! Money, TAG Gallery, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
LYDIA MARIA PFEFFER | VENUS IN PISCES and DANIEL GIBSON | EARTHLINGS, Ochi Projects, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Koreatown
Anyes Galleani, Kate Carvellas, Patrick Haemmerlein, Henry Niller, Gabba Gallery, 7–11pm.
Openings and Events on Mid-City
William Downs, A Soft Place To Lay and Pamela Smith Hudson: Variations on Mapping, E.C. LINÁ, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Victor Estrada and Martel Window Project: Roni Shneior, Richard Telles Fine Art, 5–7pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Osceola Refetoff and Chelsea Dean: Paradox California, LAUNCH LA, 6–9pm.
Silke Otto-Knapp: Land and Sea, Regen Projects, 6–8pm.
Graham Collins: The Working Sky, Camilo Restrepo: El Bloc Del Narco, and Mitsuko Brooks: Return to Sender, Steve Turner, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Talk: Artists on Art—Analia Saban, LACMA, 2pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Sleuthing the Secret Life of Science Fiction, ONE Gallery, 5:30–7:30pm. $40.
Camille Rose Garcia: A Web of Stars and Psychedelia, Corey Helford Gallery, 7–11pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Bob Baker Day 2019, Los Angeles State Historic Park, 10am–5pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
A Night in Focus: Titian, Tapestries and the Italian Renaissance, Norton Simon Museum, 5–7:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Blinky’s Graveside Performance with Jeffrey Vallance, Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park (Calabasas), 1pm.
Exhibition Walkthrough of "LeRoy Grannis / Sandow Birk" in Spanish, Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach), 1pm.
Spa Day, UC Irvine, 2–5pm.
Sake: Talk and Tasting, Scripps College (Claremont), 4–6pm.
EAT: Experience 39, ESMoA (El Segundo), 5–8pm.
ADC Fundraiser Cocktail Party: Kaptur the Moment!, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 6–9pm.
Kaptur the Moment!, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 6–9pm.
Sunday, February 24
Openings and Events in Westwood
Gallery Games, Winter 2019, Hammer Museum, 11am and 12pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Kathi Flood: Street Sweet, NCJW, 1–3pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Pattern Relays: Mushroom Inoculation Workshop, The Reef, 1–4pm. $10–20.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
AFRO-LATINX FESTIVAL, Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), 11am–5pm.
Public Lecture: Ellis Tinios: The Erotic Art of Japan’s Ukiyo-e Masters in a Comparative Context, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 2:30–4pm.
Event: Roundtable at RAM: Eyes Wide Open—Discoveries in the IE, Riverside Art Museum (Riverside), 12:30–2:30pm.
Monday, February 25
Openings and Events in Westwood
AUD DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI LECTURE: ALICE FUNG, UCLA, 6:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Who Killed Kenisha?, NAVEL, 6pm–12am.
ASSEMBLIES Quarterly #1, NAVEL, 7–10pm.
Tuesday, February 26
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Mapping Space: Recent Acquisitions in Focus, Getty Museum, 10am–5:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Film: Vanishing Point, LACMA, 1pm.
Talk: Conversation on The Sea Ranch with SFMOMA curators Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher and Joseph Becker, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Leimert Park
Exhibition Walkthrough of Time is Running Out of Time: Experimental Film and Video from the L.A. Rebellion and Today with Ben Caldwell and Jheanelle Brown, Art + Practice, 7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Leveraging Influence: Black Celebrity and Activism, California African American Museum, 7–9pm.
Wednesday, February 27
Openings and Events in Westwood
Tressie McMillan Cottom & Roxane Gay, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
How Letterforms & Typefaces Change the World, Getty Center, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Leimert Park
Exhibition Walkthrough with Ben Caldwell and Jheanelle Brown, Art + Practice, 7–8:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
In Search of Baba Singh, ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, 6–8pm.