Thursday, February 28
Openings and Events in Westwood
Diedrich Diederichsen Lecture, UCLA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Mary Schmidt Campbell: An American Odyssey, Getty Center, 11am.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Nick Brandt: This Empty World, Fahey/Klein Gallery, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Felix Treadwell: Community, ltd los angeles, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Artists on Artists: Frances Stark on Laura Owens, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Medium Judith: The Plumbing Tree, Human Resources, 8pm. $10. Also March 1.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Contested: On Blackness With Gabbah Baya, Women’s Center for Creative Work, 7:30–9:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
School of Music Visiting Artist: Carole Kim, CalArts (Valencia), 4:15–6pm.
Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Ron Athey, CalArts (Valencia), 5pm.
Art Matters Lecture: Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby: Creole Degas, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 4:30–6pm.
Lecture: Conversation with Ed Ruscha and Andrea Zittel, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 6pm.
Desert, Why?, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 6-8pm. Through March 3.
Friday, March 1
Openings and Events in West L.A.
Mapplethorpe screening and Q&A with director Ondi Timoner, Landmark's Nuart Theatre, 7pm. Also March 2.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Music at the Wende: MAYME A. CLAYTON LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Presents Kamau Daáood and A Band of Griots in Concert: "Through Walls of Thought and Feeling", Wende Museum, 7pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
The Gutter Art of Stephen Varble: Genderqueer Performance Art in the 1970s, photographs by Greg Day, ONE Gallery, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Symposium: Expanding Outliers in American Art, LACMA, 9am.
Genesis Be - People Not Things, TAG Gallery, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Secrets from the Vaults, Natural History Museum, 5–10pm.
Humble Beauty, Skid Row History Museum and Archive, 7pm.
Courtney Bryan, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $10–20.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Mulan, Make Up!, Human Resources, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
gloria galvez's Get Free: An Abolitionist Framework Applied To All Things, Women’s Center for Creative Work, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
DESERT X SYMPOSIUM: Desert, Why?, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 6pm. Through March 3.
Saturday, March 2
Openings and Events in Venice
The Language of Pain: A Poetry Workshop with Estella Ramirez, Beyond Baroque, 11am–3pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Meredith Monk: Cellular Songs, CAP UCLA, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
ARTIST TALK > CHRIS ENGMAN: REFRACTION, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 2pm.
Dafi Kühne: True Print Book Signing and Conversation with Lars Müller and Gloria Kondrup, Arcana: Books on the Arts, 4–6pm.
Kim Dingle: I Will Be Your Server (The Lost Supper Paintings), Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, 5–7pm.
Lisa Solomon: Hinan // Evacuation, Walter Maciel Gallery, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Artist talk: Toni Reinis: Soul Searching, Brian Reed: Hooray for Hollywood!, and Dwayne Wilbert - New! Money, TAG Gallery, 2pm.
California Visionaries: Seminal Studio Craft Featuring Works from the Forrest L. Merrill Collection, Craft Contemporary; Q&A with Collector Forrest L. Merrill, 4pm; reception, 5pm.
Meow Wolf: Origin Story, LACMA, 7:30–9:30pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Color Out of Space, Lowell Ryan Projects, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Tyler Healy: PST, AA|LA, 6–9pm.
Artist Talk & Book Signing: Nick Brandt: This Empty World, Fahey/Klein Gallery, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Close to Home, Shulamit Nazarian, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
CORNERSTONE, Brannan Mason Gallery, 6–9pm.
Closing party: Robert Wilhite: Art and Design, as-is.la, 3–6pm.
Cristian Răduță: The Diamond Hunters, Nicodim Gallery, 6–8pm.
Servane Mary, Remakes 2006-2018, JOAN, 6–8pm.
the assembly, A + D Museum, 7–10pm.
LOS ANGELES FOTOFOLIO #14 LAUNCH, THESE DAYS, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Real Abstraction, Coagula Curatorial, 6–9pm.
Breadth, Good Luck Gallery, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events at Atwater Village
Nicky Giraffe: Casually Intimate: Portraits of Hollywood at Home, Tropico Beauty, 7–11pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Flower Arranging: Spring Bulbs, The Huntington, 10am.
Children's Flower Arranging: Spring Flowers, The Huntington, 1pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Exhibition Walkthrough: Marie Thibeault, Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach), 1pm.
Collecting Clay Conversation, Scripps College (Claremont), 4pm.
20th Anniversary, CSUF Grand Central Art Center (Santa Ana), 7–10pm.
Sunday, March 3
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Maj Hasager, Ask Kaereby, and the Santa Monica Youth Orchestra Performance and Sound Walk, 18th Street Arts Center, 2–4pm.
Molly Larkey, Euclid, 2–5pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Gerrymandering at Its Worst: A North Carolina Case Study, Hammer Museum, 2pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Mysteries, Discoveries, and Time Travel, Getty Center, 3pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Los Angeles Filmforum presents Private Imaginings: The Films of Edward Owens, Egyptian Theatre, 7:30pm. $6–10.
Openings and Events Downtown
Art+Feminism edit-a-thon, ICA LA, 12–5pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
UPEND presents Alex Zhang Hungtai, Ka Baird, Yek Koo, Human Resources, 8pm. $10.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Ineffable, Keystone Art Space, 1–4pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Titi, Nunu, and Klembolo: Helena Modjeska’s Fairy Tale Book, Centennial Gifts: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection, Kehinde Wiley: Equestrian Portrait of Prince Tommaso of Savoy-Carignan, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 11am–5pm.
Monday, March 4
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Tuesday Matinee: Hello, Dolly!, LACMA, 1pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Sharon Lockhart: Rudzienko and Podwórka New Films From Poland, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $6–12.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Kip's Desert Book Club: The Solace of Fierce Landscapes by Belden C. Lane, private home (Joshua Tree), 7pm.
Tuesday, March 5
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
International Women's Day Celebration: Iranian Girls' Dreams Post-Revolution Iran - Film Screening and Photo Exhibition, Monica Film Center, 7pm. $30.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Erin Cooney: I NEED THE SEA BECAUSE IT TEACHES ME, UCLA, 5–8pm.
Wednesday, March 6
Openings and Events in Westwood
Hal Foster & Charles Ray, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
GROUP XLVII FINAL PROJECTS, MAK Center Mackey Apartments & Garage Top, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Is There an L.A. Sensibility? Place and Politics in Los Angeles Design, Barnsdall Gallery Theater, 7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Martine Syms, SCI-ARC, 6pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Huntington U: Shakespeare & the witty soul of Ovid, The Huntington, 10am.
Wines of Burgundy France, The Huntington, 5pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Art Forensics or How to Tell Real Art from Fakes, Scripps College (Claremont), 7–9pm.