Thursday, October 17
Openings and Events in Venice
Rachel Zucker and Sarah Vap, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Successful Constitution Happy Hour, Hammer Museum, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Curatorial Walkthrough: Cross Colours: Black Fashion in the 20th Century, California African American Museum, 1pm.
CYNTHIA DAIGNAULT: Light Atlas book launch, Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
4 Waters: Deep Implicancy & Serpent Rain, Now Instant Image Hall, 8pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Black Ocean Atlantic Ocean – Sound and Song, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 4:30pm.
Peregrinus, La Jolla Playhouse (San Diego), 5pm. Through October 20.
Purvi Shah, CalArts (Valencia), 6pm.
Friday, October 18
Openings and Events in Westwood
MAYA BEISER/WENDY WHELAN/LUCINDA CHILDS/DAVID LANG, UCLA, 8pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Marco Grassi: Don’t be Just a Pretty Face, HOFA Gallery, 6–9pm.
Nandita Biswas Mellamphy: Larval Warfare and Predatory Politics, West Hollywood Public Library, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
SKID ROW ARTS MAP, Skid Row History Museum & Archive, 1–3pm.
Fabian Marcaccio: Paintant Lab, SCI-Arc, 7pm.
WITKACY / Two-Headed Calf, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $14–27. Through October 25.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Feliz Lucia Molina and Dan Poppick, Poetic Research Bureau,
Openings and Events in San Marino
Conference: In America, Nineteen Nineteen, The Huntington, 9am.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Strangers on a Train (1951, PG), Norton Simon Museum, 5:30pm.
Saturday, October 19
Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades
Reading the Herculaneum Papyri: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, Getty Villa, 4pm.
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Renée Petropoulos and Arturo Hernández: Directed Reading, Tongva Park, 2–4pm.
James Griffith, Stephen Aldrich, & Lavaughan Jenkins, Craig Krull Gallery, 5–7pm.
Brooks & Scarpa: DENSE-CITY: Housing for Quality of Life and Social Capital, 18th Street Arts Center Airport Gallery, 5–8pm.
Portal, bG, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
Gentler Way: A Poetry Workshop with R.D. Armstrong, Beyond Baroque, 11am–3pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Family Festival, Getty Center, 10am–5pm.
Openings and Events in Century City
America's Invisible Walls, Annenberg Space for Photography, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
MAGDALENA SUAREZ FRIMKESS, Arcana: Books on the Arts, 4–6pm.
Audra Weaser: Gathering Light, Mitra Fabian: Iterations, and Sharon Feder: i n b e t w e e n, George Billis Gallery LA, 5–8pm.
Ardeshir Tabrizi: Persian Blue and Wangari Mathenge: Aura of Quiet, Roberts Projects, 6–8pm.
Viewfinder, Klowden Mann, 6–8pm.
Alicia Piller: Spirit of the Times, Lowell Ryan Projects, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
The Beverly Hills Art Show, Beverly Garden Park, 10am–5pm. Continues October 20.
Openings and Events in Hancock Park
Familiar Presence, Agility, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Recycled Plastic and Found Object Sculpture Workshop with Cynthia Minet, Craft Contemporary, 1–4pm. $30–40.
Hwang Seon Tae: Night Windows, CMay, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
FULL BLEDE Issue Ten launch, Lowell Ryan Projects, 7–9pm.
Laurie Nye / The Sick Rose, Big Pictures Los Angeles, 6–10pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Hugh Holland: Silver. Skate. Seventies, M+B,, 4–7pm.
A Love Letter featuring Lynne McDaniel and Lindsey Warren, Launch LA, 6–9pm.
Kevin McNamee-Tweed: Literature, John Dilg: Features, and Jillian Mayer: Render Room, Steve Turner, 6–8pm.
Gail Stoicheff: Bad Actor, AF Projects, 7–9pm.
RAVENSWOOD MANOR, Celebration Theatre, 8pm. $30–40. Through November 24.
Openings and Events Downtown
Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again, The Broad, 10am–8pm.
DILATED PUPILS | A Group Show of Contemporary & Classic Blacklight Art, THESE DAYS, 7–9pm.
L.A. Dance Project Gala, Hauser & Wirth. $2,500.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Jared Joseph, Cathy Thomas, Jose Antonio Villaran, Kirstin Wagner, Poetic Research Bureau.
Openings and Events in Silver Lake
stock-a-studio: [ a kit of these some parts ] x budget gym ], Materials & Applications, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Reclaiming Narratives, Amanda Theater @ ARRAY, 12pm.
The Broad @ ARRAY: Shirin Neshat + Garrett Bradley, Amanda Theater @ ARRAY, 3pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
What Now: Collecting for the Library in the 21st Century, Part I, The Huntington, 10am–5pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Loteria game night and exhibition viewing with live music performances, Bowers Museum (Santa Ana), 10am–4pm.
THE 11th ANNUAL LOS ANGELES PRINTERS FAIR, International Printing Museum (Carson), 10am–5pm. Continues October 20.
Palos Verdes Coastal Architecture Tour, Palos Verdes Art Center (Rancho Palos Verdes), 10am–4pm. $95.
Local Notions, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 12–4pm.
Artist Panel Discussion: Contemporary Landscape Painting, Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach), 1–3pm.
George Rodriguez: Double Vision, Vincent Price Art Museum (Monterey Park), 5–7pm.
EXPERIENCE 43: PLANT, ESMoA (El Segundo), 5–8pm.
Sunday, October 20
Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades
From the Ashes: New Discoveries from Herculaneum and the Bay of Naples, Getty Villa, 10am–5pm.
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Chess, bG, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
VAN GOGH IN LA: A Dutchman in Paris, UCLA, 4:30pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Art as Transformation: Photography for Social Change, Getty Center, 4pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
One Nation Under a Groove: Party Flyer Workshop, ONE Gallery, 2–4pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Korsi Sessions led by Orameh Bagheri, LACE, 10:30am. $20.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
A Panel Discussion at The Philosophical Research Society in conjunction with the exhibition Graven Images, The Philosophical Research Society, 1pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Russell Crotty: Painting Distant and Perilous, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, 3–5pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Gallery Talk: Finding the Center with Echiko Ohira and Holly Jerger, Craft Contemporary, 1pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
MARGIE SCHNIBBE: MARY AND MASOUD IN HEAVEN, The Finley, 2–4pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Family Garden Workshop: Pumpkin Decorating in the Garden, Hauser & Wirth, 12–3pm.
Through Nature’s Lens panel discussion, Gateway to Nature Center, 2pm.
CAAM Reads! The Underground Railroad, California African American Museum, 3pm.
Los Angeles Studio Conversations: Working Site-Specific, Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 3–5pm.
COLLECTIVE SKILLSHARES: EMBODIMENT WORKSHOP WITH HAYDEN DUNHAM, NAVEL, 6–9pm.
The Un-Private Collection: Shirin Neshat, Colburn School, 6pm. $25.
Nonfood, Atrium at The Bonaventure Hotel, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Readings by Hannah Black and Kyle Thomas Hinton, Garden, 5:30pm.
Los Angeles Filmforum presents A Song Dissolved in the Dawn: Films by Phil Solomon, program 1, Echo Park Film Center, 7:30pm. $6–10.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Golden Hour, Keystone Art Space, 1–4pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Life and Times of Ethnobotanist Richard Schultes in the Amazon, The Huntington, 2:30pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Fall Family Festival, Norton Simon Museum, 1–3:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Parallel Stories Lecture: Susan Straight: In the Country of Women, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 2:30pm.
Tuesday, October 22
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
TANIA FRANCO KLEIN: PROCEED TO THE ROUTE, B7, 10am–6pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
MOREHSHIN ALLAHYARI, UCLA, 6pm.
WHAT IS TRUTH?, UCLA, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Between the Lines, AIA Los Angeles, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
WORLDS OF HOMELESSNESS, various locations. Through October 27.
Wednesday, October 23
Openings and Events in Venice
Edward & Nancy Kienholz: The Merry-Go-World or Begat By Chance And The Wonder Horse Trigger, L.A. Louver, 5pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS ART OF SURVIVAL: Artists in Residency Programs, LACE, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Tom Wiscombe, AIA: OBJECTS MODELS WORLDS, SCI-Arc, 7pm.
Entrepreneurship for Artists: Bet Tzedek, JACCC, 7–9pm.
An Evening with American Artist/Filmmaker Doug Aitken, USC, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Ahree Lee In Conversation With Kayleigh Perkov, Women’s Center for Creative Work, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Haynes Lecture: The Founder and the Future: Becoming Henry Huntington, The Huntington, 7:30pm.