Thursday, November 29
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Style Firm Los Angeles Holiday Pop Up, Santa Monica Place, 6–10pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Undergraduate Scholarship Award Exhibition, UCLA, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Caught, and a conversation with Karina Longworth, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Mark Seliger: PHOTOGRAPHS, Fahey/Klein Gallery, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Leimert Park
Dancing Through Prison Walls: A Conversation with Suchi Branfman and D. Sabela Grimes, Art + Practice, 7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Ellen Reid: p r i s m, REDCAT, 8pm. Through December 2.
Position 3, NAVEL, 8:30pm.
Openings and Events in Silver Lake
WCCW: Literary Pairings: Katya Apekina and Anne-Marie Kinney, with Dana Johnson, VinoVore, 7–9pm. $32–40.
Openings and Events in Eagle Rock
BALAY/BAHAY: Creating Our Home Closing Reception, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock (Eagle Rock), 6:30–8:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Egypt’s Sunken Cities: Recent Underwater Archaeology Discoveries, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 4:30–6pm.
In Person: Lita Albuquerque, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 6pm.
An Artist's Perspective: Materiality and Process, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego), 6:30–7:30pm.
Friday, November 30
Openings and Events Downtown
George Balanchine's The Nutcracker® by Miami City Ballet, The Music Center, 7:30pm. Through December 2.
Openings and Event in Lincoln Heights
Katya Grokhovsky: Nothing Personal, LAST Projects, 7–11pm.
Saturday, December 1
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Nina Jun: Equilibrium and Shalene Valenzuela: Home State, Skidmore Contemporary Art, 4–6pm; talk, 3pm.
James Griffith, Craig Krull Gallery, 3pm.
Neha Choksi & Poyen Wang, 18th Street Arts Center, 5–8pm.
Jay Mark Johnson: It’s About Time and Michel Tabori: Reflections of Nature in Motion, William Turner Gallery, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
Jim Storm: Ain't My First Rodeo: The Show, Beyond Baroque, 4–7pm.
Michael Lally: Another Way to Play, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
A CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF BILL BERKSON, Arcana, 4–6pm.
Bonita Helmer: In the Midst of Chaos, Lauren Kasmer: Re:Creation, and Merge: Bonita Helmer & Lauren Kasmer, George Billis Gallery, 6–9pm.
Sarah Cromarty: Wizards, Healers, Portals and Prophets: A tribute to Sarah Cromarty, Klowden Mann.
2018 Pablove Shutterbugs Gallery Show, Kopeikin Gallery, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Century City
iPhoneography Pet Photography A Workshop with Grace Chon, Wallis Annenberg PetSpace, 11am–1pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Luciana Souza: The Book of Longing Featuring Chico Pinheiro and Scott Colley, CAP UCLA, 8pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Deborah Decker: Memory, Joe Pinkelman: America, and Shelley Lazarus: H20 Works, TAG Gallery, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
CRAFT IN AMERICA: CALIFORNIA, Memorial Branch Library, 1pm.
Nicole Miller: For Now, Kristina Kite Gallery, 5–7pm.
Los Angeles HOLIDAY Print SHOW, MuzeuMM Gallery, 6–10pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Dale Lewis and Blair Saxon Hill, Nino Mier Gallery, 6–8pm.
Vivian Maier: LIVING COLOR, KP Projects, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Artist Talk & Book Signing with Guest Moderator, DJ Jason Bentley (KCRW), Fahey/Klein Gallery, 2–4pm.
SEXY X-MAS, The Lodge, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Juliette Blightman: RELATIONS, O-Town House, 4–8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Holiday Market, Hauser & Wirth, 11am–6pm. Continues December 2.
Jesse Mockrin: Syrinx and Vanessa Maltese: How long is a piece of string?, Night Gallery, 7–10pm.
Art Collector Starter Kit, Corey Helford Gallery, 7–11pm.
Spine: Madeline Hollander, Eva LeWitt, Ragen Moss, JOAN, 7–9pm.
Foursome closing reception, 515, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
(de Color-Es Primera Generación Dance Collective), Human Resources, 5 and 8:30pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Park
The 14th annual Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival, Plaza De La Raza Cultural Center for the Arts & Education, 1–5pm. Through December 29.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Workshop: Embodiment, Empathy, Symbiosis with Flora Wiegmann, Pieter, 12–3pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Our Garden of Dreams, Side Street Projects, 2–5pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Open Studios Day, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 12–4pm.
EXHIBITION WALKTHROUGH WITH JANE BRUCKER, Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach), 2–3pm.
Holiday Festival: ¡Fiesta Navideña!, Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), 2–7pm.
Equal and Meaningful Art Access For All: A Panel and Conversation for Actionable Strategies and Pathways towards Art World Equity, Torrance Art Museum (Torrance), 4:30–5:30pm.
Sunday, December 2
Openings and Events in Venice
Holly Prado & Harry Northup, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Elizabeth Gilbert & Cheryl Strayed in Conversation, CAP UCLA, 3pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Wet Plate Collodion Photography, Getty Center, 1–3pm.
The Body Politic: Roxane Gay and Firelei Báez: Unruly Bodies, Getty Center, 2pm.
Drawing from the Masters: Artistic Anatomy, Getty Center, 3:30–5:30pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
ED TEMPLETON: TANGENTIALLY PARENTHETICAL, Arcana Books on the Arts, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
sound.: Fahad Siadat and Stephanie Cheng Smith, Kings Road Park Pavilion, 3–5pm.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Open House, Echo Park Pottery, 1–5pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Record Launch, Ooga Booga, 2–4pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Katya Grokhovsky: Nothing Personal Artist Talk with Margarethe Drexel, LAST Projects, 3–5pm.
Monday, December 3
Openings and Events in Westwood
Cold War, and Q&A with Pawel Pawlikowski, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Talk: Mindful Monday: Cultivating Empathy and Connectedness, LACMA, 4pm.
Talk: Exhibition Tour with Cauleen Smith—Outliers and American Vanguard Art, LACMA, 7pm.
Talk: Distinguished Architects Lecture Series—Amanda Levete, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Tuesday, December 4
Openings and Events in Westwood
Black Panther, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
MONUMENTality, Getty Center, 10am–5:30pm.
Maira and Alex Kalman: Sara Berman's Closet, Skirball Cultural Center, 12–5pm.
Signs of Life: Aspects of Global Performance in the 1970s, Getty Center, 7:30–9pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Film: Blast of Silence, LACMA, 1pm.
Wednesday, December 5
Openings and Events in Westwood
Widows, and Q&A with Steve McQueen, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Century City
Conservation: Not Just the Cute Stuff: A Discussion with the Bug Chicks, Dr. David Steen,
and National Geographic’s Lucy Cooke, Annenberg Space for Photography, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Braided Waters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii, The Huntington, 4-5pm.
Reading a Photograph: Stories from the 19th-Century West, The Huntington, 7:30–8:30pm.