Thursday, March 14
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Karen McCartney: The Alchemy of Things Interiors Shaped by Curious Minds, Mehraban, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA presents Babette Mangolte: The Sky on Location, MOCA Grand Avenue, 7pm.
Free LA: The New Frontier of Abolition?, California African American Museum, 7–9pm.
An Evening with the Karrabing Film Collective, The Mistake Room, 7pm.
My Live Art Adventure, Mayfair Hotel, 9pm.
Tao Of Maceo: Book Release and Performance, NAVEL, 7:30–9:30pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Historia Plantarum, The Huntington, 4:30–6pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
CalArts Center for Life and Work: Opportunity Fest 2019, CalArts (Valencia), 11:30am–2:30pm.
Art Matters Lecture:: Britt Salvesen: View-Master: Novelty and Nostalgia, Santa Barbara Museum of At (Santa Barbara), 4:30–6pm.
Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Rosha Yaghmai, CalArts (Valencia), 5pm.
Friday, March 15
Openings and Events in Venice
Jeff McMahon Six Monologues, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Ohad Naharin/Batsheva Dance Company: Venezuela, CAP UCLA, 8pm. Also March 16.
Openings and Events Downtown
Peace N Hood Round Table Conversation, Skid Row History Museum and Archive, 6–8pm.
Refest Los Angeles 2019: Salon, NAVEL, 6–10pm.
On The Bride's Side, Skid Row History Museum and Archive, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Thick Thigh Collective “Hometown” Zine Release And Bingo Night!, Women’s Center for Creative Work, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
Reto Pulfer: Ein Nebel aus Prä-Adamitischen Sternensprossen, A Nebula Made From Pre-Adamite Star-Sprouts, AWHRHWAR, 6–8pm; performance, 9:30pm.
Saturday, March 16
Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades
Depicting the Dead: From Ancient Syria to Social Media, Getty Villa, 2pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
Beyond Spanish, Beyond Baroque, 4pm.
Overpopulation & Art, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Between Two Seas, Santa Monica Art Studios, 12–8pm.
Artist Talk with Kelly Berg, Santa Monica College, 3pm.
Oli Epp: Contactless, Richard Heller Gallery, 5–7pm.
Allen Harrison: Three Decades and Larisa Safaryan: The Art of the Egg, Lois Lambert Gallery at Bergamot Station, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Rock 'N" Roll Photo Show, Fathom Gallery, 7–11pm.
Sounds of L.A.: Aditya Prakash Ensemble, Getty Center, 7pm. Also March 17.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Ry Rocklen: Food Group: Genesis, Honor Fraser, 2–5pm.
Betye Saar: Spirit Catcher and Behind Face, Roberts Projects, 6–8pm.
Jason Bailer Losh: Three Holes in a Parachute and Sarah Ann Weber: Tropical Disease, Anat Ebgi, 6–8pm.
Martin Alexander Spratlen Etem and Haleigh Nickerson: Embodiment and Julia Rooney: paper paper, Kopeikin Gallery, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Poetry Reading: Gabriele Tinti’s “Mercury”, LACMA, 4pm.
Pierre Ardouvin: Ohlala, Praz-Delavallade, 5–7pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Music is Art, Music is Philosophy, Music is History: The Legacy of Dr. William Grant Still, William Grant Still Arts Center, 3–6pm.
Sam Gilliam: Starting: Works on Paper 1967 – 1970 and Chris Martin: The Eighties, David Kordansky, 6–8pm.
Paul Jacob Bashour and Sarah Stockstill: UNTITLED, Stockstill Studios, 6–9:30pm.
Openings and Events in Koreatown
Alice Wang, Visitor Welcome Center, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events in Inglewood
Mappings, Residency Art Gallery, 6–10pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Grove
An Afternoon with The Smudge, 2pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
JANA SCHRÖDER: Kadlites, ANDREAS BREUNIG: The Windowing System- as a (hyperstatic problem, and CAMERON WELCH: Monolith), NINO MIER GALLERY, 6–8pm.
Cecilia Miguez: Transitions, Louis Stern Fine Arts, 5–7pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Trouble Screening and Artist Q & A, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1–3:30pm.
Conversation with Silke Otto-Knapp and Darby English, Regen Projects, 2pm.
Haim Steinbach: appear to use, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, 5–8pm.
Anna Sew Hoy: The Wettest Letter and Diedrick Brackens: unholy ghosts, Various Small Fires, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
Trouble Screening and Artist Q & A, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1–3:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
L.A. Nature Fest, Natural History Museum, 9:30am–5pm. Continues March 17.
FRED WILSON: AFRO KISMET, Maccarone, 11am–6pm.
Matthew Adam Ross: I EXIST, James Wright Gallery, 6–9pm.
David Korty: Howl and Ridley Howard: Shapes and Lovers, Night Gallery, 7–10pm.
Stephanie Rose Guerrero: The Language of Our Ghosts, Monte Vista Projects, 7–10pm.
Stuck Together, Track 16, 7pm.
Flora & Fauna, 515, 7–9pm.
MATERIAL GIRLS: Palms, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Vegan Indian Cooking Class With The League Of Kitchens, Women’s Center for Creative Work, 12–2pm. $24–30.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
A Consuming Fire | Paintings by Eric Anderson and Luke Whitlatch, Keystone Art Space, 6–9pm.
The Urgency of Quiet & Cops Are Actors Barnett Cohen & Tova Mozard, Pieter, 8:30–10pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
NOT REAL ART CONFERENCE, Ebell Club, 7am–9pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Tea Tasting: Subtlety, Complexity and Beyond, The Huntington, 9am.
Family Curator Tour: PlanTastic!, The Huntington, 9:30am.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Fate and the Heroine: Dido, Queen of Carthage, Norton Simon Museum, 6pm.
Spring Gala, USC Pacific Asia Museum, 6pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
OPaf 2019 (Other Places art fair), Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 12–5pm. Also March 3.
Find Your Food Story – A Writing Workshop with Karla T. Vasquez, ESMoA (El Segundo), 1–3pm.
Artists Talk: Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet, Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach), 1pm.
Everyday Grappling Operations: Learning from Randori, OCMA (Orange County), 3pm.
Sunday, March 17
Openings and Events in Venice
Sheree Hovsepian & Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Team, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Dressed with Distinction: Garments from Ottoman Syria, Fowler Museum, 12–5pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Book presentation and panel discussion celebrating the new Bauhaus publications, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, 2–4pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Art+Feminism edit-a-thon, LACMA, 12–5pm.
The Formative Years of Charles White, LACMA, 1pm.
CRAFTING A HISTORY: A CONVERSATION ON THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF THE CRAFT & FOLK ART MUSEUM, Craft Contemporary, 1pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Martha Harlan Morgan & William Wasserman, Nothing Special, 3–6pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Los Angeles Filmforum presents Honoring Peter Mays, Los Angeles Treasure, Egyptian Theatre, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Butterfly Pavilion, Natural History Museum, 9:30am–5pm.
Artists on Artists: Rodrigo Valenzuela on Zoe Leonard, MOCA Grand Avenue, 3pm.
Patty Chang: The Wandering Lake, 2009-2017 and Brognon Rollin: Maybe Some of Us Will Change This, ICA LA, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
A Conversation with Kavior Moon and Althea Sircar, Garden, 2–4pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Tin Flats + Redling Fine Art present event for RAKISH LIGHT PRESS, 1989 Blake Avenue, 4–10pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Chiachio & Giannone: Celebrating Diversity, Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), 11am–5pm.
Monday, March 18
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Mindful Monday: Cultivating Empathy and Connectedness, LACMA, 4pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Artist Lecture by Marnie Weber, Pasadena City College, 7pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Artrageous Auction, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 3:30–8pm. $150–275.
Tuesday, March 19
Openings and Events in Westwood
The Growing YIMBY Movement, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Tuesday Matinee: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, LACMA, 1–3pm.
The OA: Part II, LACMA, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Artist Talk: Valerie J. Bower and Cynthia Navarro, University Art Museum, CSULB (Long Beach), 4–6pm.
Wednesday, March 20
Openings and Events Downtown
Season Launch Party (Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop!), California African American Museum, 7–9pm.
Artist talk with Brognon-Rollin, ICA LA, 7–9pm.
An Evening with Lettuce & John Scofield, Ace Hotel, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Lookism, Faceism, & The Working Artist, Women’s Center for Creative Work, 7:30–9:30pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Curator Tour: Celia Paul, The Huntington, 5pm.