Thursday, October 10
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
The Art of Looking—Thomas Joshua Cooper: The World’s Edge, LACMA, 12:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Natural History of Horror: The Science of Scary, Natural History Museum, 9:30am–5pm.
HIDDEN TREASURES, Skid Row History Museum & Archive, 4–10pm.
Ancestral Lights, Self Help Gallery, 7–10pm.
Dreams, Genes, and Machines: Are We Living Science Fiction? – Gene Editing: April Pyle in conversation with Karen Kaplan, Central Library, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Atwater Village
Neil Simon: Musical Fools, Open Fist Theatre, 8pm. Through November 17.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Rafa Esparza, CalArts (Valencia), 5pm.
Live! at the Museum: Duo Ondine, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 7pm.
contemporary art UNLOCKED, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 7pm.
School of Music Visiting Artist: Kristina Warren, CalArts (Valencia), 7pm.
15th Many Winters Gathering of Elders, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro). Through October 13.
Friday, October 11
Openings and Events in Westwood
AIN GORDON, UCLA, 8pm. Continues October 12.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
Dark Fantasy, UTA Artist Space, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Light Switch, Good Naked, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Hassan Hajjaj: My Rockstars Experimental, Ford Theatres, 8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
“Shadows Crossing: Tones of Voice Continued,” a lecture by Cedar Sigo, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $10–20.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
A story forms, Bel Ami, 7–10pm.
Current:LA Food: The Penitential Tyrant: Dolores Is Pain, LA State Historic Park, 7pm.
Rob Fitterman, Kim Calder, Danny Snelson, Poetic Research Bureau.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
ArtNight at the Armory (feat. dublab), Armory Center for the Arts, 6pm.
Pasadena Art Night 2019 with Alan Nakagawa, Pasadena Buddhist Temple, 6–10pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
School of Music Visiting Artist: Dan Weiss, CalArts (Valencia), 2pm.
Annual Gala, Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), 5:30pm.
State of the Arts 2019, Scottish Rite Event Center (Long Beach), 6–9pm.
Shadows Crossing: Tones of Voice Continued, a lecture by Cedar Sigo, CalArts (Valencia), 8:30pm.
Saturday, October 12
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Maxine Smith Artists' Wives and Lovers and Jhina Alvarado: Singular Glamour, Skidmore Contemporary Art, 5–7pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
The Fight To be Seen: A Deeper Perspective, Freud Playhouse, 9:15pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Culver City Art Walk, various locations, 11am–6pm.
LAURA KRIFKA: Artist Talk, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 2pm.
PUBLICATION LAUNCH WITH AUTHOR MICHAEL MURPHY AND PHOTOGRAPHER JENS LUCKING: SANTA MONICA PLEASURE PIER: A LOOK BACK TO 1917 FROM TODAY, Arcana Books on the Arts, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Edges, Corners, Shapes, Beads: Kim Conaty and Jennifer King on Mary Corse, LACMA, 3pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Soft Schindler, MAK Center for Art & Architecture at the Schindler House, 6–8pm.
Brian Belott, Morán Morán, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
PHILLIP K. SMITH III: 10 COLUMNS, Bridge Projects, 3–7pm.
Tatsumi Hijikata and Eikoh Hosoe: Collaborations with Tatsumi Hijikata, Nonaka-Hill, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Artist walk through, Chimento Contemporary, 1pm.
TANYA BRODSKY: TONGUE TIED, Ochi Projects, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Leimert Park
Stephen Towns: Rumination and a Reckoning and Ramsess: The Gathering, Art + Practice, 2–5pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Michael Queenland: California Food Chains, Exposition Park, 10am.
Docent-Led Tour of Timothy Washington: Citizen/Ship, California African American Museum, 1pm.
2019 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, REDCAT, 3pm. $6–12.
Saturno Butto: The Sanctity of Desire, Simard Bilodeau Contemporary, 6–9pm.
in a white room, 515, 7–9pm.
Omniscopic, Fathom & Form, 8:30pm.
Margaret Griffith: Perforations, Monte Vista Projects, 7–10pm.
Gerardo Monterrubio, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Silver Lake
Mark Cottle The Cost Of Money, Neutra VDL House, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Collateral, Amanda Theater @ ARRAY, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Glassell Park
Lauren McElroy: NOW. MORE. YOU., elephant art space, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
My Mother Laughs, Now Instant Image Hall, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Glendale
Artist Walkthrough with David Otis Johnson, Museum of Neon Art, 2pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Pasadena Art Walk, various locations, 11am–6pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
SCOUT BOOK SERIES 04: ANNELIES KUIPER BOOK LAUNCH, High Desert Test Sites (Joshua Tree), 2–4pm.
The Wild Beast Concert Series at CalArts: 'Propositional Music: David Rosenboom Portrait Concert', CalArts (Valencia), 6pm.
Sunday, October 13
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Artist talk: Karen Amy Finkel Fishof, dnj gallery, 11:30am.
Openings and Events in Culver City
ZANDRA RHODES: FIFTY YEARS OF FABULOUS, Arcana: Books on the Arts, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Clay Creatures with Alyson Iwamoto: A CraftLab Family Workshop, Craft Contemporary, 1:30–3:30pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Deep Listening Festival: 02: Bow Hard At The Frog Live (Fred Lonberg-Holm, Cello + Gustavo Matamoros, Field Recordings), LAXART, 7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Toothtone with Nour Mobarak, Pershing Square, 5pm.
Mural Viewing of Nostra Fiesta (2019), The New Jalisco Bar, 8–10pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Dear ONE: Love & Longing in Mid-Century Queer America, A Noise Within Theatre, 1:30pm.
Gerald Davis: New Works, La Loma Projects, 3–7pm.
Monday, October 14
Openings and Events in Westchester
Mandy & Cliff Einstein Visiting Artist Series Fall 2019: Shirin Neshat, Otis College of Art and Design, 6pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
KAI-UWE BERGMANN, UCLA, 6:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Dr. Alice Tseng Professor of the History of Art and Architecture of Japan Boston University: Modern Kyoto, Williamson Gallery, Scripps College (Claremont), 7–9pm.
Tuesday, October 15
Openings and Events in Brentwood
True Grit: American Prints and Photographs from 1900 to 1950, Getty Center, 10am–5:30pm.
The Burning Child, Getty Center, 6:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Gallery Talk: Personal Connections, LACMA, 1pm.
Openings and Events in Leimert Park
Stephen Towns and Ramsess, Art + Practice, 7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
V. Mitch McEwen: Uses of the Normal: The Normal as Power, SCI-Arc, 7pm.
Wednesday, October 16
Openings and Events in Westwood
10 QUESTIONS: WHAT IS BEAUTY?, UCLA, 6:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Handbuilding for Pet Lovers Open Clay Studio with Eunice Lee, Craft Contemporary, 1–3pm.
Openings ands Events in West Hollywood
DANY MAYER, Louis’ Dimension, 11am–5pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Enrique Martínez Celaya and Philippe de Montebello, Kohn Gallery, 6pm.
PEN PRESENTS: Jose Olivarez & Jennine Capo Crucet, LACE, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Lecture with Sojin Kim, curator at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, USC, 6–8pm.
Film Screening of ¡Viva 16! (1994), ONE Archives at USC Libraries, 7pm.
Entrepreneurship for Artists: Shopify Consultant, Chris Snyder, JACCC, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Color Film: Draw Your Line (Boundaries At Work), Women’s Center for Creative Work, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Poetry Slam! Santa Barbara, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 7pm.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall Host Generosity of Eye, The Marjorie Luke Theatre (Santa Barbara), 7:30pm. $25.