Thursday, November 15
Openings and Events in Culver City
Liza Philosof: L A Y E R S, Helms Design Center, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Adrian Piper Artist Dialogues: Kandis Williams, Hammer Museum, 6pm.
Poetry: Mary Ruefle, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
Sally Mann: Selection, Gagosian, 10am–6pm.
JOAN's Fall Celebration, private home, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Bridget Riley: Painting Now, Sprüth Magers, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
History of Central Avenue, Session 2, California African American Museum, 2–4pm.
Artist-in-Residence Program: Travis Diehl - A Snake Whistles (Three American Poems), Main Museum, 7–9pm.
Screening: Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf, Hauser & Wirth, 7:30pm.
EN CUATRO PATAS: NAO BUSTAMANTE + GINA OSTERLOH, The Broad, 8:30pm. $15.
Kaneza Schaal: JACK &, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $16–20.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Cheryl Swannack: Magic Happens, Metabolic Studio, 5–9pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Zine Better Days: A Zine Workshop, Women’s Center for Creative Work, 6:30–8:30pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
LAX ATTITUDE: Lauren Anderson, AWHRHWAR, 8–10pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism, The Huntington, 4pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Downtown at Sundown, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego), 5–8pm.
Film Night: Laguna Art Museum at 100, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 7pm.
Friday, November 16
Openings and Events in Venice
Southern California Poetry Festival, Beyond Baroque, Through November 18.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings, Getty Center, 10am–5:30pm.
Sally Mann, Getty Center, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
David Sedaris, CAP UCLA, 8pm. $49–99.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
We Choose Art: Shades of Water, The Montalban, 6–11pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Quality World, FARAGO, 6–8pm.
Robert Patrick's LAST INTERVIEW, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries, 7pm.
Art Buzz: B. Wurtz, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 5:30–7pm.
Miriam Laura Leonardi: Oh, là, là, Cookies, Bel Ami, 7–10pm.
Saturday, November 17
Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades
Drawing from Antiquity: Fragments, Getty Villa, 11am–12:30pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Gordon Getty Concerts: Cappella Pratensis, Getty Center, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
SUPERSONIC: THE DESIGN AND LIFESTYLE OF CONCORDE BOOK SIGNING AND DISCUSSION WITH LAWRENCE AZERRAD, Arcana Books on the Arts, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
Lee Mullican: The Marble Drawings 1966 - 1970, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
One Day at a Time: Kahlil Joseph's Fly Paper, MOCA Pacific Design Center, 11am–6pm.
WOMAN | WOMAN: Victoria May and Lisa Diane Wedgeworth, Louis Stern Fine Arts, 5–8pm.
John Baldessari: Emoji Series, Gemini G.E.L., 6–8pm.
Tomasz Kowalski: Release of Everlasting Somersault, Nino Mier Gallery, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Toshio Matsumoto: Selected Works and Keita Matsunaga, NONAKA-HILL, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Mimbres—Then & Now, LACMA, 2pm.
Elegant Science, Unit 5, 6–8pm.
BLAKE RAYNE: Burn It Clean, 1301PE, 6–8pm.
En Plein Error, ltd los angeles, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Meet & greet with choreographer Salia Sanou, we live in space, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Koreatown
Liz Ahn | homebody, Emily Marchand | nature, red in tooth and claw, Jimena Sarno | taracatá trabaja, and Noah Spindler | First Wish, Visitor Welcome Center, 5–8pm.
Anthony Burdin, Benevento, 6–8pm.
Wishlist 6, Gabba Gallery, 7–11pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
Investigating Griffith Park Project Launch, Autry Museum of the American West (Los Feliz), 10am–5pm.
Young Guns (1988), Autry Museum of the American West (Los Feliz), 1:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Workshop with Artist Cynthia Minet, USC, 12–2pm.
The Biddy Mason Story, California African American Museum, 1–3pm.
Simone Forti: The Bear in the Mirror, Hauser & Wirth, 2pm.
Vikky Alexander: Vertical Dreams and Jen Stark: Multiplicity, Wilding Cran, 5–8pm.
INFLUENCES: Ciprian Muresan and Hugo Wilson and the Fashion of Sánchez-Kane with Mezcal El Silencio, Nicodim Gallery, 5pm. RSVP to info@nicodimgallery.com
Carla Issue 14 Launch Party + Gadzinas Bell by Lauren Satlowski, Odd Ark LA, 6–9pm.
Sarah Conaway: Head of a Woman, The Box, 6–9pm.
DONNIE MOLLS: UNTITLED, KASPER KOVITZ: EDUCATIONAL DEVICES, and TIM EBNER: METAL PAINTINGS, Denk Gallery, 6–8pm.
Sara Gernsbacher: Threefold Body, Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, 6–8pm.
hannah hughes: veuve fraîche, Track 16, 7–9pm.
Ishi Glinsky: WOVEN PATH, These Days, 7–9pm.
Amiri Baraka's Dutchman, NAVEL, 7:30pm. $10–15.
Kira Nova & Ana Prvački: FACIA SLAPSTICK, JOAN, 8pm.
Craig Kucia: Unnatural Disasters, Ibid, 6–9pm.
CoutureMash, Mash Gallery, 7–10pm.
Absence, the Landscape of Objects, Monte Vista Projects, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Being with Things: Abigail Levine, Pieter, 12–3pm.
Peter Makela: Ah La La Ho Artist Talk and Closing Reception, LAST Projects Gallery, 3–7pm.
DANCE ‘N SHOW: a work-in-progress showing curated by Chantal Cherry, Pieter, 8:30–10pm.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Adam Mars: My Favorite Color is Red Flag, River, 2–5pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Into the white cube, Over the Influence, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Atwater Village
Joyce Pensato: L.A. Show, Grice Bench, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Jackalope Pasadena's Indie Artisan Fair, Central Park, 10am–4pm. Continues November 18.
Bodies in Motion, Norton Simon Museum, 1–2pm.
Conversation@PAM: Cultural Appreciation or Appropriation?, USC Pacific Asia Museum, 7–8:30pm.
Openings and Events in Glendale
Leo Eguiarte & Melly Trochez : Ritual/s, ace/121 Gallery, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Favorite Things From the Glass Collection of Arlene and Harold Schnitzer, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 10am–5pm.
Sunday, November 18
Openings and Events in Venice
Christopher Richmond: SPACE 2, DXIX Projects, 3–6pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Artist at Work: Wet Plate Collodion Photography, Getty Center, 1–3pm.
Medieval Armenia's Artistic Beauty, Getty Center, 3pm.
Openings and Events in Bel-Air
Cross Sections: A Day of Art Events, AJU, 3:30pm.
The Grotesque and Moments of Waking Up: Avital Burg and Ester Schneider, AJU, 5pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Outliers and American Vanguard Art, LACMA, 10am–7pm.
Lynne Cooke and Stephen Prina in Conversation—Outliers and American Vanguard Art, LACMA, 1pm.
Artist Talk: Of Thorns and Love with Sherin Guirguis & Holly Jerger, Craft & Folk Art Museum, 2pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Cultural Traffic, That That Gallery, 11am–8pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Varieties of Futurism, LACE, 12–1:30pm.
Tête-à-Tête with Patrick Martinez and Anna Sew Hoy, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1:30–3:30pm.
GRETTA JOHNSON: THIRD BODY, From the Desk of Lucy Bull, 3–5pm.
Los Angeles Filmforum presents The Festival of (Inappropriation #10, the Egyptian, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE, Wilding Cran, 1–3pm.
In Conversation: Brenda Stevenson and Tyree Boyd-Pates, California African American Museum, 2–4pm.
In Performance: ‘As If Your Ears Were Hands’ by lucky dragons, Hauser & Wirth, 3pm.
Bennett Simpson: Laura Owens Walkthrough, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 3pm.
Alison O'Daniel: The Sea, The Stars, A Landscape, Pollution.tv Studios, 5–8pm.
AuMAR's Nocturnal Cycles, NAVEL, 6pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
"Thank You Notes" Zine Workshop with Misa Chhan, Ooga Booga, 2–5pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Native American Collections, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 1–3pm.
Tuesday, November 20
Openings and Events in Westwood
What is work?, UCLA, 6:30pm.
The Story of Adèle H. (L’histoire d’Adèle H.), Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Red Dust, LACMA, 1pm.
Gallery Talk—Personal Connections, LACMA, 1pm.
Wednesday, November 21
Way Back Wednesday, Autry Museum of the American West (Los Feliz),