Thursday, June 2
Openings and Events in Westwood
Protecting the Amazon Rainforest: Averting the Ecological Tipping Point, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
UCLA Department of Art 2022 Undergraduate Senior Exhibition: I Just Went To Go Smoke, But No One Was There, UCLA, 5–8pm. Through June 11.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Maker Night: Ceramic Mezcal Cups, Craft Contemporary, 6–8pm. $12.
Openings and Events Downtown
Alina Bliumis: Borders and Bruises, 5–8pm. Through July 9.
International Whores' Day 2022: Organized with Kink Out, in conjunction with Free Speech Coalition and Strippers' United, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 6–9pm.
Summer Salon, FARAGO, 6–9pm. Through June 25.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
The Multiple Surrealisms of Wifredo Lam, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 5:30pm.
Friday, June 3
Openings and Events in Venice
A Reading & Conversation with traci kato-kiriyama & Noriko Nakada, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Songs My Brothers Taught Me / The Rider, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
Nicholas Kontaxis: Catch Me, UTA Artist Space, 5pm. Through July 3.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Uta Barth: Figure/Ground, Figure/Ground, 1301PE, 5–8pm. Through July 16.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Uta Barth: Figure/Ground, Figure/Ground, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Heidi Duckler Dance: MAP Lab, Bendix Building, 2pm.
Stanya Kahn: Forest for the Trees, Vielmetter Los Angeles, 4–6pm. Through July 16.
KNEES, SCHOOLS, URGES, The Box, 4:30–8:30pm. Through June 18.
NHM FIRST FRIDAYS 2022: June, Natural History Museum, 5pm.
LA FREEWAVES: X-aMENing Masculinities, Coaxial Arts Foundation, 7–9pm.
Dance DTLA, The Music Center, 7–11pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
California Voices: Borderlands Fest 2022, The Huntington, 5:30–9:30pm. Through June 4.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Avantika Bawa, Lazy Eye Gallery (Yucca Valley), 5–7pm. Through July 2.
Saturday, June 4
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
J.J. MARTIN: ROLE MODELS, Building Bridges Art Exchange, 6–8:30pm. Through August 6.
Openings and Events in Westwood
My Brother's Wedding / Residue, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Scott Listfield: The Multiverse, and TRNZ: Cotton Harlequins, Thinkspace Projects, 6–10pm. Through June 25.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Dakarai Akil: Enigma, Band of Vices’ coLAB, 4–7pm. Through June 26.
Tony Smith, Pace Gallery, through July 16.
Openings and Events in Inglewood
Felix Quintana: Cruising Below Sunset, Residency Art Gallery, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Alic Brock: Screen Shot, Simchowitz, 4–6pm. Through June 25.
CINDY PHENIX: Merged Without Edge, JANA SCHRÖDER: RUDDYSYNC ILILAC, and CASEY MCCAFFERTY: Power of Myth, Nino Mier Gallery, 5–8pm. Through July 9.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Amir Zaki: On Being Here, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, 6–8pm. Through July 16.
Doctor Von: Beyond Good and Evil, Symposium, LIBERTINE, 3-5pm, symposium; 8-10pm, reception.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Ann Craven, Flowers (Watercolors), Hannah Hoffman Gallery, 3–5pm. Through July 9.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Naomi White: Excavations, Keystone Art Space, 5–7pm. Through June 13.
Openings and Events Downtown
The History of Forgetting, Château Shatto, 12–6pm. Through August 6.
Liz Collins: Staring Into the Sun, Vian Sora: Subduction, and Lavi Daniel: The Fruits of an Enigma, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 5–8pm. Through July 16.
Laggardism, Canary, 7:30–10pm. Through August 4.
Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $8–25.
Houses of Zodiac, The Broad, through June 5. $30.
Charlotte Fox: You Always Break My Things When You Sleepwalk, As It Stands, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
PHILTH HAUS: LYLEX 1.0, Human Resources, 6–9pm.
There is No Outside and Kristopher Raos: No Escaping the Housework, Charlie James Gallery, 6–9pm. Through July 9.
Omari Douglin, Sebastian Gladstone, 6–8pm. Through July 16.
Openings and Events in Silver Lake
CUT UP, SEWN, PRINTED, AND GLUED, Tetrapod Gallery, through June 26.
Openings and Events in San Pedro
soundpedro2022, Angels Gate Cultural Center, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Heidi Schwegler: 7 Wonders of the World, Quality Coins (Yucca Valley), 6–8pm. Through July 3.
FIRST SATURDAY ART WALK, various locations (Santa Ana), 7–10pm.
Getty + the Long Beach Museum of Art: Willmore, resurrected, Houghton Park (Long Beach), through June 5.
Openings and Events Online
Juan Sebastián Bollaín: A Most Wanted Idea of Utopia, Los Angeles Filmforum, through June 19.
Sunday, June 5
Openings and Events in Westwood
Family Flicks: The Triplets of Belleville, Hammer Museum, 11am.
Flowers of Shanghai (Hai shang hua), Hammer Museum, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Yasmine Amitai-Murro's Closing Reception, Matter Studio Gallery, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Family Day, MOCA Grand Avenue, 1–4pm.
Openings and Events Online
Oil Drilling in Los Angeles, a Talk with Bhavna Shamasunder and Sandy Navarro from L.A. Grit Media, LACE, 1pm.
Monday, June 6
Openings and Events Downtown
In Conversation: Chuck D and Joan Morgan, California African American Museum, 7pm.
Dana Berman Duff: Short Films, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $6–12.
Openings and Events in Long Beach
Long Beach Architecture Week 2022, various locations, through June 12.
Wednesday, June 8
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Book launch: The Galaxy Song, David Kordansky Gallery, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events Online
By Time Erased: Renaissance Rome and the Painted Facade, Italian Cultural Institute Los Angeles, 6pm.