Thursday, May 12
Openings and Events in Westwood
Pilar Quinteros: UCLA Department of Art Lecture, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
DMA ANNUAL 2022: POETIC REALITIES, UCLA, through May 26.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Stefania Nazzal: After the Rain, Art Angels, 7–9pm. RSVP to show@artangels.net.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Niki Ford: Kneeling At The Mouth, The Lodge, 5–8pm. Through June 18.
Openings and Events Downtown
Art Share Spring Benefit + Auction, Art Share L.A., 6pm. $100–2,000.
Tracing the Geographies of Queer South Asian Diaspora, USC, 6:30–8pm.
Raised by a Voice: Mothers, Daughters, and Healing through History, California African American Museum, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Long Beach
Doris Sung: sm[ART]box and Sustainable Design, Kleefeld Contemporary (Long Beach), 6:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Pattern Play: The Contemporary Designs of Jacqueline Groag, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), through November 20.
Friday, May 13
Openings and Events in Venice
Book Launch: The Stan Poems by Linda Ravenswood, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Westchester
O-Launch ‘22, Otis College of Art and Design, through May 15.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Gala Porras-Kim: Artist Talk, Getty Center, 12pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Grove
Artist Talk: Ferne Jacobs: Finding the Feminine Principle at the Bottom of the Well, Craft in America, 12pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Pieter: Vanessa Hernández Cruz: Exit?, The Box, 6–7:30pm. $18–35.
Interrogating the Future (Body through the Present (Plague): Mario Bellatin + David Shook), The Broad, 7pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Shakespeare and the Poetics and Politics of Relevance, The Huntington, 8:30am–5pm.
Saturday, May 14
Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades
Richard Lynch & Daniel Allen Cohen & Orange Juice: Texts and Messages, Bruce Lurie Gallery, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Ekta Aggarwal: Time Travel, Five Car Garage, 12–4pm. Through July 9.
Kyong Boon Oh: On the Path, Lois Lambert Gallery, 6–9pm. Through July 16.
Shell film screening, publication launch, & exhibition closing, Del Vaz, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
Poetry Performance with Mary Lou Newmark, Beyond Baroque, 11am. $60-75.
Saj Issa: I Was Out Partying While You Were Home Making Prayers, Le Maximum, 6–8pm. Through June 19.
Book Launch: Allison Hedge Coke's “Look at This Blue” feat. Shonda Buchanan, Beyond Baroque, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation Curator Walk-through, Hammer Museum, 2pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Katherine Sherwood: Fierce Women and Their Flowers and Shine Light on an Owl's Face, Walter Maciel Gallery, 3–7pm. Through July 2.
Lorien Stern & Katie Kimmel: You Are Good, Hashimoto Contemporary, 4–8pm. Through June 4.
Lauren Quin: Pulse Train Howl and Lynda Benglis: Excavation, Blum & Poe, 5–7pm. Through June 25.
Ron Rizk: Of Structure and Place and Audra Weaser: Open Waters, George Billis Gallery Los Angeles, through June 18.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Hyegyeong Choi: Whisper Temptations in My Ear, Harper’s, 5–8pm. Through July 2.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Here After, Bridge Projects, 4–7pm.
Christian Quin Newell: Siena and Amelia Lockwood: Eighth Lane, Various Small Fires, 6–8pm.
Kyle Staver: Show of Strength, Moskowitz Bayse, 6–9pm. Through June 18.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Rhonda C R Burton, Robert Zent Chew, and K Ryan Henisey, TAG Gallery, 5–9pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Aviary curator walkthrough, The Loft at Liz’s, 3:30–5pm.
Antonio Adriano Puleo: Una Cosa È Una Cosa, Lowell Ryan Projects, 4–7pm. Through June 25.
Les Biller: Out Of The Past, LA TATE, 4–8pm. Through June 25.
Openings and Events in Inglewood
Getty Center’s 25th Anniversary, Inglewood Open Studios, through May 15.
Openings and Events Downtown
Self Care: Yoga, California African American Museum, 11am.
Docent-Led Tour of Troy Montes-Michie: Rock of Eye, California African American Museum, 2pm.
LAURA KRIFKA: Artist Talk & Exhibition Walk-Through, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 2pm.
Panel Discussion - Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Self Help Graphics & Art, 3pm.
Sonya Clark: Confederate, surrender, Mixografia, 3–6pm.
Willa Wasserman: Quickening and Farah Al Qasimi: Surge and Carla Issue 28 Launch Party, Ghebaly, 5–8pm. Through June 18.
Evening of Song and Poetry, USC, 5:30pm.
Scot Sothern: GENERATIONS, These Days, 6-9pm.
CarWash Collective: POOL, JOAN, 6-8pm. Through June 5.
Kathleen Henderson: Bluebeard & Other Poolings, Track 16, 6–9pm. Through July 2.
I Don’t Want to Be, I am and Kai & Sunny: Future Seasons, Corey Helford Gallery, 7–10pm. Through June 18.
Jesse Mockrin: Reliquary and Tahnee Lonsdale: True Romance, Night Gallery, through June 18.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
a line and a long gaze: The Cold Read Session III, Phase Gallery, 6–10pm. Through June 2.
Openings and Events in Glendale
Neon Through the Lens 1930s - 1970s, Museum of Neon Art, 7:30pm. $10.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
how we are in time and space: Annotations with Tashi Wada, Armory Center for the Arts, 5:30–7:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Part 2, UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts (Irvine), 2–5pm. Through May 28.
Teen Arts Collective: Footprints, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 3–5pm.
Mr. Wash Talk and NFT Launch, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 3pm. $5–10.
Francis De Erdely: Striking Figures, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), through October 23.
Openings and Events Online
CRYOSPHERE, EPOCH, 12pm. Through August 5.
Sunday, May 15
Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades
Villa Council Presents: A Lecture by Artist and Filmmaker Shirin Neshat, Getty Villa, 4pm.
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Meditation and Sound Bath Closing Event hosted by Institute of United Minds Part of Collective Acts of Peace, 18th Street Arts Center, 10:30am–12:30pm.
Live Auction, Santa Monica Auctions, 1pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Outdoor Film Screening and Artist Talk with Sofía Córdova, Pan Pacific Park Amphitheater, 7:30–9:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Family Weekend Workshops: Ka Pow! Roy Lichtenstein, The Broad, 11am–5pm.
Truth or Consequences: A series of transdisciplinary salons, Bendix Building, 6–9pm.
May 16
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Desert Research Library Book Club, High Desert Test Sites (Joshua Tree), 7pm.
Tuesday, May 17
Openings and Events in Brentwood
The Polykleitos Problem: Illusions of the Ideal in European Anatomical Images, Getty Center, 12pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Vital Matters: The Gifts of Sheikh Amadou Bamba, Fowler Museum, 11am.
Openings and Events Downtown
Midday Movement: Yoga for Children and Caretakers, California African American Museum, 11am.
Wednesday, May 18
Openings and Events in Westwood
Fowler Talks: A Live Reading by Alain Mabanckou, Fowler Museum, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Anise Hines: Hip Magix : Spring Renewal Evening Softening Gatherings, 6:30–8pm.