Thursday, November 7
Openings and Events in Venice
Matt Lipps in conversation with Catherine Opie, Euclid, 6:30–7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Lari Pittman Artist Walk-throughs: Silke Otto-Knapp, Hammer Museum, 6pm.
Openings and Events in Bel-Air
CalArtsX: 4th Annual Art Auction, The Bel-Air Restaurant, 6:30–9pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
ROSAMUND’S CHOICE, West Los Angeles College, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
CraftNight: Surprise Activity, Craft Contemporary, 7–9pm. $12.
Openings and Events Downtown
Library of Ideas: A Course by Charles Gaines, Part Two, Hauser & Wirth, 5pm.
The Creative Thinking Project, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 7pm. Also November 10.
0.1%: Demystifying genomics to inform identity in the age of the quantified self., NAVEL, 7:30pm. Through November 11.
Nao Bustamante is DELUSIONAL (on screen), REDCAT, 8:30pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
Lecture by Sami Siegelbaum on Agnes Denes' work: Wheatfield – A Confrontation, Oxy Arts, 7–9pm.
Lori Felker’s Future Language: The Dimensions of VON LMO, Now Instant Image Hall, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Glendale
The Jaunt, Face Guts, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Nancy Riegelman: A Path of Myriad Views, 5–7pm.
FRANK OCKENFELS 3: Artist Lecture & Book Signing, Art Center, 7pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
School of Music Visiting Artist: Myka 9, CalArts (Valencia), 2pm.
John Ziqiang Wu: The Third Thing, Todd Madigan Gallery (Bakersfield), 5–7pm.
Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Farah Al Qasimi, CalArts (Valencia), 5–7pm.
Pop-up Opera, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 5:30pm.
Art Matters Lecture: Matthew Robb, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 5:30pm.
Around Town: First Thursdays Art Walk, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 6pm.
Yorgo Alexopoulos: 360° Azimuth, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 6pm.
Collective Phantom Ring, CalArts (Valencia), 7–10pm.
School of Music Visiting Artist: Ro Rowan, CalArts (Valencia), 7pm.
Friday, November 8
Openings and Events in Hollywood
LAXART 2019 Annual Benefit, LAXART, 6pm. $500.
Doctor Von: The Analysand as Artist, LIBERTINE, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
ALON PORAT: THUNDERHEAD, The Finley Gallery, 5–6pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Nick Paul & Diane Prozeller, Skid Row History Museum & Archive, 6–8pm.
In Performance: ‘HA-M-LET’ from CalArts Center for New Performance, Hauser & Wirth, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Eagle Rock
anotherspace: 4 Filipinx-American Artists Transform Space, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, 6:30pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Le Plaisir (1955, NR), Norton Simon Museum, 5:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Art & Nature Keynote Lecture, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 6pm.
Tangled Dimensions, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 6–8pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
School of Music Visiting Artist: Marc Sabat, CalArts (Valencia), 4pm.
ArtOASIS Showcase, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego), 10am.
Saturday, November 9
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Jimena Sarno: Score for the Near Future, 18th Street Arts Center, 5–8pm.
Kayla Mattes: Cat-astrophe and A Common Thread, Richard Heller Gallery, 5–7pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
Jenene Nagy: The future does not exist and Mark Licari: The Way Things Blow, Iris Project, 3–6pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
SITE: MARMOL RADZINER IN THE LANDSCAPE, Arcana: Books on the Arts, 4–6pm.
Harvey Quaytman and Matt Johnson, Blum & Poe, 5–7pm.
HUGO CROSTHWAITE: TIJUAS: Death March, Tijuana Bibles and Other Legends, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 6–8pm.
Adam Silverman: Punctum, Philip Martin Gallery, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
Billy Morrison: Humanity, 5–10pm.
Channing Hansen: Entanglements, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Sète, SHOW Gallery, 12–10pm. Continues November 10.
The Karl Benjamin X Comme des Garçons Project, Louis Stern Fine Arts, 5–7pm.
Alessandro Pessoli: The Woodstock’s Boy, Imi Knoebel: Works from the Seventies, and Natalie Ball: Mama Bear, II, Nino Mier Gallery, 6–8pm.
The Art for Life Project, Pacific Design Center, 7pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Print Release: Morgan Fisher, 1301PE, 11am–12:30pm.
Jaime Coffey Bateman: Red Earth, Miyuki Sena: Insomnia, Danny Janotta: PARASIDE, and Lynne Russo: #thismotherfucker, TAG Gallery, 6–9pm.
The Art for Life Project Art Auction & Fundraiser, Matter Studio Gallery, 7pm.
The Glitch, The Loft at Liz's, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
OPEN STUDIO PARTY: MIYA ANDO, 2419 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90018, 3–5pm.
Openings and Events in Koreatown
Mark Roeder, Michael Benevento, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Octavio Abúndez: Facts, contradictions, puzzles, an explanation and a few lies, Kohn Gallery, 6–8pm.
IMAGIC - A DREAMER’S QUEST, EPIPHANY SPACE, 6–9pm.
Annie Lapin: Strange Little Beast, Shulamit Nazarian, 6–9pm.
Deep Listening Festival: Birgit Ulher (Trumpet, Electronics + Gino Robair (Electronics)), LAXART, 7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Cross Colours Friendship Bracelets, California African American Museum, 1–3pm.
The Streets Are Queer, 127 East 5th Street, 5–9pm.
Facing the Giant: Three Decades of Dissent & New Works by Shepard Fairey and REKO RENNIE: CAMOFLEUR, Over the Influence, 5–8pm.
Sharif Farrag: Laugh in the Dark and Philip Hanson: Gridded Ether, Ghebaly Gallery, 6–9pm.
Katy Ann Gilmore: OF SEGMENTS AND FORMS, Anna Freeman Bentley: Second Home, and Ephraim Puusemp: Receding Horizon, DENK Gallery, 6–8pm.
IRRATIONAL EXHIBITS 11: PLACE-MAKING AND SOCIAL MEMORY, Track 16 Gallery, 7pm.
Rose Marcus: Front and Rachelle Sawatsky: Toy Dust, Night Gallery, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Mary Lou Dimsdale: Left and Right Hand, Tierra del Sol Gallery, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Klas Ernflo: Anorak, Marta, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events in Silver Lake
Larry Johnson & Asha Schechter, Jenny’s, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Sarah McMenimen: Mud, Garden, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Open Studios, Keystone Art Space, 6–10pm.
Hi, Solo #9, Pieter, 8:30–11pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
A STORE SHOW, ODD ARK • LA, 4–8pm.
Openings and Events in Glassell Park
Imagoholics: Barbara Signer and Natalie Price Hafslund, Elephant, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Beside the Edge of the World, The Huntington, 10am–5pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Free Radicals: On the Provocations of Awe, ArtCenter College of Design, 10am–5pm. Continues November 10.
Hillary Mushkin: The Invisible 100-mile American Border, Armory Center for the Arts, 2–4pm.
Private Paris: Bonnard and Vuillard, Norton Simon Museum, 4–5pm.
Openings and Events in Glendale
Neon Fabrication Demo with David Otis Johnson, Neon Museum of Art, 5pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Beside the Edge of the World, The Huntington, 10am–5pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Amazing Grace Gospel Brunch, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 11am–2pm.
Film: A Boy's Dream, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 11:30am.
Book Signing with Elizabeth Turk, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 12:30pm.
Badass Women: Family Day, Riverside Art Museum (Riverside), 1–3pm.
Dye Workshop with Common Threads, ESMoA (El Segundo), 2–5pm. $25.
Art in a Time of Climate Change, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 2:30pm.
Fathom with Blue McRight, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 3–6pm. Also November 23 and December 14.
In Person: Yorgo Alexopoulos, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 6pm.
Sunday, November 10
Openings and Events in Venice
Annual Awards Dinner, Beyond Baroque, 5pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain, Wende Museum, 10am–5pm.
Openings and Events in Bel Air
Imagine: Annual Student and Faculty Exhibition, AJU, 1–3pm.
Openings and Events in Inglewood
Bio-Cultures, The Nook Gallery, 2:30–5pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Do Ho Suh: 348 West 22nd Street, LACMA, 10am–7pm.
Recycled Papermaking with Sophia Allison: A CraftLab Family Workshop, Craft Contemporary, 1:30–3:30pm. $7–10.
Peter Plagens on Mary Corse: A Survey in Light, LACMA, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
The Rose Brunch, Big Pictures Los Angeles, 10am–2pm.
Carla Issue 18 Launch Party + i’ll see you in the ether, Hunter Shaw Fine Art, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Korsi Sessions led by Orameh Bagheri, LACE, 10:30am. $20.
Los Angeles Filmforum presents Erin Espelie: True Life Adventures, the Egyptian, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Studio: Fall 2019, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $11–22.
Openings and Events in Silver Lake
MAD SKILLS, LSH coLAB, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Art & Nature Family Festival, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 11am–2pm.
Daniel Callis: Casting Nets, Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach), 11am–5pm.
El Nopal Press as a Project, Kleefeld Contemporary (Long Beach), 12–2pm.
Walk through and tour of the exhibition with Shaye Remba, Bowers Museum (Santa Ana), in English at 1:30pm and Spanish at 2:30pm.
Bilingual Tours of "Alfredo Ramos Martínez: On Paper", Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 1:30–4:30pm.
Family Festival Concert, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 2pm.
Monday, November 11
Openings and Events Downtown
In Performance: Morton Feldman’s ‘For Philip Guston’ with Monday Evening Concerts, Hauser & Wirth, 6:30–11pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
G O L D E N P R A C T I C E S, Pieter, 10:30am–12:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Dr. Patricia Graham Independent Scholar and Asian Arts Appraiser Langdon Warner, Impassioned Advocate of Japanese Art and Culture, Williamson Gallery, Scripps College (Claremont), 7–9pm.
Tuesday, November 12
Openings and Events in Westwood
WHAT IS CREATIVITY?, UCLA, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
JOAN Fall Celebration, private home, 6:30–8:30pm. $250.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Full Moon Sound Healing with Roxie, 1 Hotel, 6:30pm. $35.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
Firmly Rooted: Chili Peppers & POC Cuisines - A Conversation and Tasting Led by Food-Based Collective Across Our Kitchen Tables, Oxy Arts, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
OCEAN RESILIENCY: A CALL TO ACTION, Aquarium of the Pacific (Long Beach), 6:30–9pm. $50–200.
Wednesday, November 13
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Phase One Foundation: Art vs. Cancer, Various Small Fires, 7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Natasha Case, CEO Coolhaas, SCI-Arc, 7pm.
How to house 7,000 people in Skid Row, Skid Row History Museum & Archive, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Hands On Weaving, Women’s Center for Creative Work, 7–10pm. $4–5.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Lunchtime Lecture: Romantic Landscape, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 1pm.
Artist Talk | Ann Weber, Los Angeles Harbor College (Wilmington), 1pm.