Thursday, February 27
Openings and Events in Westwood
Poetry: Joy Harjo, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Century City
Selma, Annenberg Space for Photography, 7pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Poetry Reading—Robin Coste Lewis on Betye Saar: Call and Response, LACMA, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Lawrence Weiner and Catherine Opie: Rhetorical Landscapes, Regen Projects, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
CNP/Duende CalArts presents: 'These Are My Papers', El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, 7–10pm.
Minority Report: Update, ArtCenter DTLA, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Making History: How Historians and Librarians Have Changed Our Understanding of the Civil War, The Huntington, 3pm.
Why It Matters: Drew Gilpin Faust and Karen R. Lawrence, The Huntington, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
From Fez to Montecito: Moroccan Architectural Aesthetics in Situ and in Spirit, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 11:30am.
Artemio Sepúlveda in Laguna Beach, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 6pm.
Friday, February 28
Openings and Events in Westwood
Passion Fish, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
Cameron: Madame X and Hardy Hill: The Easy Yoke, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
For Freedoms Congress (FFCON), The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 5:30–7:30pm.
JENNIFER WEST: FUTURE FORGETTING, JOAN, 7–9pm.
Tim Feeney: Two Fables, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $11–22.
Sula Bermúdez-Silverman: Neither Fish, Flesh, nor Fowl, California African American Museum, through August 23.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Testament of Orpheus (1959, NR), Norton Simon Museum, 6pm.
Saturday, February 29
Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades
Dangerous Women: From Antiquity to Pop Culture, Getty Villa, 2–4:30pm.
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Fifth Annual Black History Greens Festival, Virginia Avenue Park, 10am–2pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
Look Who's Talking: a Persona Poem Workshop with F. Douglas Brown, Beyond Baroque, 11am. $35–50.
Residency Open Studio: Elizabeth Spavento/Closing Reception: Alisha Sofia, Iris Project, 1–4pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Eight Men Out, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Michael Rey, Philip Martin Gallery, 6–8pm.
ETHAN GILL: New Paintings and Britton Tolliver: Bend To Play, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 6–8pm.
JAMES BULLOUGH: Parallel Truths and GIORGIKO: Horizon Light, Thinkspace, 6–9pm.
Nike Schroeder: TAKE AWAY, Walter Maciel Gallery, 6–9pm.
Rodrigo Valenzuela: Journeyman, Klowden Mann, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Cynthia Minet: Urgent Matter closing reception, Matter Studio Gallery, 4–7pm.
Xavier Schipani: They Laughed With Pleasure, Lowell Ryan Projects, 7–9pm.
Iteration III, MAK Center Mackey Apartments, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Connections Across Centuries: Rufino Tamayo, Raul Baltazar, and the Ancient Americas, LACMA, 1pm.
Barro: Bilingual Clay Workshop with POT Studio, Craft Contemporary, 4:30–7pm. $35–45.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
An Infrequent Day: Readings and food work on time, timing, loss, and memory, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, 12:30pm.
Particularly Evasive Workshop, LACE, 2–4pm.
Conversation: Catherine Opie & Lawrence Weiner, moderated by Dagny Corcoran, Regen Projects, 2pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
ARTBOOK | D.A.P. Sample Sale, ARTBOOK Showroom, 11am–4pm.
Dangerous Erotics: A Tribute to CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN, REDCAT, 3 and 8pm. $9–12.
Richard Sandler: The Eyes of the City, 515, 6:30–9:30pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
AN AFTERNOON OF POEMS, Tierra del Sol Gallery, 4pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Jen Dunlap: Scream Chimney, Keystone Art Space, 6–10pm.
deux: Zena Bibler, Emily Jones + Hannah Krafcik, Pieter, 8:30pm.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Connections Across Centuries: Rufino Tamayo, Raul Baltazar, and the Ancient Americas, Charles White Elementary School Gallery, 1–2pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
Bob Baker Day 2020, Bob Baker Marionette Theater, 10am–5pm.
Openings and Events in Glendale
Community Day, ace/121 Gallery, 2–5pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
“Unscholarly” Gardens: Rethinking the Gardens of China, The Huntington, 8:30am.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
A Night in Focus: Paris in the Belle Époque, Norton Simon Museum, 5–7:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Bridging San Pedro Artist Talk, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 1pm.
Adobe Punk. PLUS a 30-minute concert by mike watt + the secondmen, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 1–3:30pm.
ARTIST PANEL DISCUSSION CONTEMPORARY DESIGN, Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach), 2–4pm.
Armchair Travels with Daniel Stone: The Mysterious Origins of Our Favorite Foods: The Global Travels of David Fairchild and His Team, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 3pm.
Todd Gray: Euclidean Gris Gris NIC Kay Performance: pushit!! [an exercise in getting well soon] in partnership with the Office of Black Student Affairs, Pomona College Museum of Art (Claremont), 5–8pm.
Empty Vessel – Amir Zaki, Culver Center of the Arts (Riverside), 6–8pm.
Sunday, March 1
Openings and Events in Westwood
For Freedoms Congress (FFCON), Hammer Museum, 1–5pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
The Industry: Sweet Land, Los Angeles State Historic Park, 4pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Sensitive Systems, a contact-based workshop with Emily Jones and Hannah Krafcik, Pieter, 12–3pm.
Openings and Events in Glassell Park
Sarah Julig: Flowers Body, Elephant, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
MARATHON SCREENINGS: Erdem Taşdelen, Adjunct Positions, 2–6pm.
Monday, March 2
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Panel: Feminist Perspectives on Julie Mehretu, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
For Freedoms: Town Hall on Freedom of Speech, California African American Museum, 7–9pm.
MANIA AKBARI and DOUGLAS WHITE: A Moon for My Father, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $9–12.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Kip's Desert Book Club: SONGS OF JOSHUA TREE, private residence (Joshua Tree), 7pm.
Tuesday, March 3
Openings and Events in Westwood
Super Tuesday Bash 2020, Hammer Museum, 5:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Cinema Series: Pleasantville (1998), SCI-Arc, 7pm.
Robeson Taj Frazier, Roski Graduate Gallery, 7pm.
Cecilia Vicuña: New And Selected Poems, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $6–12.
Wednesday, March 4
Openings and Events Downtown
Lecture, Michael Murphy, MASS Design Group, USC School of Architecture, 6–8pm.
Lecture: Eva Franch i Gilabert, SCI-Arc, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Graduate Art Seminar: Calvin Tomkins in conversation with Dodie Kazanjian, ArtCenter, 7:30pm.