Thursday, May 23
Openings and Events in Westwood
Carmen Winant Visiting Artist Lecture, UCLA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Architecture & Music: High Concept Takes Center Stage, Wende Museum, 6pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
Robert Barry: Paintings and Works on Paper from the 1960s, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, 11am–6pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Camille Hannah: AVA, HOFA Gallery, Los Angeles, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Southland Tales: The Cannes Cut, and a Conversation with Richard Kelly, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
HENRY VINCENT: WE CAN BE HEROES, Desert Center, 6–9pm.
John Paul Fauves: Alts iz Farloyrn (All is Lost), private home, 7–11pm. RSVP to info@jmartmanagement.com for address.
Amalia Ulman: SHANGHAI FIRE, The Gallery @, 7–9pm.
Of Survival, Celebration, and Unlimited Semiosis, Freedman Fitzpatrick, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Silver Lake
Los Angeles and the Birth of the American Gay Rights Movement, Los Angeles City College, 12:45–2pm.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Gallery Goosebumps an original choose-your-own-adventure by Jake Swinson and friends, O-Town House.
Openings and Events Downtown
Frozen in Time: Images of Antarctica, Natural History Museum, 9:30am–5pm.
The Magic Hour Book Launch with Golden Spike Press, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 5:30–7:30pm.
2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition, USC, 6–9pm.
Gallery talk: Savannah Wood, The Broad, 7pm.
In Conversation: Arlene Shechet with Catherine Taft, Vielmetter Los Angeles, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, Women’s Center for Creative Work, 7:30–9:30pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Aspect, Contact, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
America’s First Botanical Garden, The Huntington, 2:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Summer Celebration painting show, Weinberg Jewish Federation Campus (Long Beach), 7am–6pm.
Artist Talk: James Benning, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 5:30–6:30pm.
Creating Our Own World Where We Belong: The Cultural Value of Self-Help Graphics & Art, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 6pm.
Jeff Frost: California on Fire, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 6pm.
Friday, May 24
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Southland Institute Public Lecture Series: “The Architecture of the Unremarkable” by Niloufar Emamifar, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Curatorial Walkthrough of Aspects of Nude: Selections from the Permanent Collection, California African American Museum, 1–2pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Pépé le moko (1937, NR), Norton Simon Museum, 6pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Pacific Visions, Aquarium of the Pacific (Long Beach), 9am–6pm.
Beth Elliott: Bees and Butterflies, Audubon Society at Debs Park (Monterey Hills), 5–8pm.
Saturday, May 25
Openings and Events in Venice
TWIN VISIONS: Joel-Peter Witkin & Jerome Witkin, Beyond Baroque, 4:15pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Ever Present: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Getty Center, 6pm.
Openings and Events in Inglewood
Steve Shriver & Candice Gawne, South Bay Contemporary SoLA Gallery, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
MONA KUHN: SHE DISAPPEARED INTO COMPLETE SILENCE BOOK SIGNING + CONVERSATION WITH NORMAN KLEIN, Arcana: Books on the Arts, 4–6pm.
Does not Reproduce, Von Lintel Gallery, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Kayla Ephros, Nicole-Antonia Spagnola, Diamond Stingily & Mckenzie Toma, Taralyn Thomas, Chelsea Tuggle, Mona Varichon, and Audrey Wollen, Plummer Park, 4:30–9pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Closing performance: An Infected Sunset by Demian DinéYazhi’ in collaboration with Holland Andrews, LACE, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Gallery Course—The Bauhaus and Modern Art, LACMA, 9–10:30am.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
Tête-à-Tête with Juan Capistrán and Kim Fisher, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1:30–2:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Let's Talk About Puerto Rico: LGBTQIA+ Community & History, Mi Centro LGBTQ Community Center, 12–3pm.
Plant Healing with Zizia and Sun Song, ICA LA, 4–6pm.
Lynn Aldrich: O, Magnify, DENK Gallery, 6–9pm.
Relatively Calm, Monte Vista Projects, 7–10pm.
Lise Holm, 515, 7–9pm.
GALIA LINN: EVIDENCE OF CARE, Track 16, 7–10pm.
Orbits, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Influx Collectiv(e Presents Queer Poetry Night!), Pieter, 8–10pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
DIY Days: Woodbus W/ Sarah Espinoza, Side Street Projects, 11am–1pm.
Verbal Description Tour for the Visually Impaired, Norton Simon Museum, 1–2pm.
Sunday, May 26
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Steven Hull: Performance & Record Release,
Meliksetian | Briggs, 2pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Family Studio Workshop: Book Collages, Hauser & Wirth, 12–3pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Black Ocean Atlantic Ocean, Women’s Center for Creative Work, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
INTO THE WILD: Kerry Buchman and Michael Blasi, Keystone Art Space, 1–4pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
A Walk in the Garden, Norton Simon Museum, 1–2pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Screening | Twenty Cigarettes, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 3–5pm.
NORA SLADE: SESAME BE DIAMOND SENSITIVE, POTTS (San Gabriel Valley), 5–8pm.
Santa Ana Haunted House Ghost Tour, The Howe-Waffle House (Santa Ana), 6–10pm. $50.
Tuesday, May 28
Openings and Events in Westwood
The Rise of Nonprofit Journalism, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Tuesday Matinee: The Last Movie, LACMA, 1pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
HONEYSUCKLE HUGS BOOK SIGNING, The Loft at Liz’s, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Monsters are Made, The Fountain Theatre, 8–10pm. Continues May 29.
Openings and Events Downtown
MacBeth Pro presents CHTHONIC ARCHIVE No, 1, Baert Gallery, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Eagle Rock
Bob's Petite Theater and Compass Rose, Oxy Arts, 5–7pm.
Wednesday, May 29
Openings and Events in Westwood
Artist Talk: Porfirio Gutiérrez, Fowler Museum, 7–8pm.
Flux, Spring 2019, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Benefit Art Auction, LACE, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Becky Kolsrud: Compression and Fragmentation, Phil Gallery, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Community Screening | Twenty Cigarettes, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 6–8pm.