Thursday, September 13
Openings and Events in Brentwood
The Diderot Project: Transparency as Metaphor, Getty Center, 7–8:30pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Gemini G.E.L. Jazz Bakery Benefit Sale, Gemini G.E.L., 6–8pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Talk: Gallery Talk: The Art of Looking—To Rome and Back, LACMA, 12:30pm.
Frank Stella // Thomas Scheibitz, Sprueth Magers, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Prelude, Kristina Kite Gallery, 11am–5pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
CYRIELLE GULACSY: Visible Light, SHOW,
Openings and Events Downtown
Cultural Significance and Social Justice in Printmaking, Self Help Graphics, 6–7:15pm.
My Veins Do Not End In Me artist walkthrough, The Mistake Room, 7pm.
Filmforum: Deconstructing Portraiture: Embodied Landscapes, MOCA Grand Avenue, 7pm.
Embracing Identity in Chicana/o & Latinx Art, Self Help Graphics, 7:30–8:45pm.
Openings and Events in Eagle Rock
South of Fletcher: Stories from the Bowtie, Weingart Gallery at Occidental College, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Garden Talk & Sale - Embracing the Nature of California: The Trials and Rewards of Native Plant Gardening, The Huntington, 2:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
This Will Make You Happy: “The rewards of easy everyday creativity, ESMoA (El Segundo), 6–7:30pm.
COMPLEMENT., Long Beach City College (Long Beach), 7–8:30pm.
Live! at the Museum: Laurel Irene and Jaxon Williams, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 7pm.
Friday, September 14
Openings and Events in Inglewood
Plain Sight, Residency Art Gallery, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
California Conversations: An Art Show Featuring Skip Snow, LAST Projects, 7–11pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Conference: Turning Points in the Civil War, The Huntington, 8:30am.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Textile Treasures from the USC Pacific Asia Museum Collection, USC Pacific Asia Museum, 1–3pm.
Saturday, September 15
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Artist talk: Karen Sarrow: FEM, Pam Douglas: Artifacts of Grace, and K Ryan Henisey: Mythologies, TAG Gallery, 3pm.
Sharon Ellis: Blue Hour, Christopher Grimes Gallery, 4–6pm.
Elemental, William Turner Gallery, 5:30–8pm.
Plastic Fantastic Lover, Patrick Painter, Inc., 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
Reading Aloud: Poetry or Prose with Paul Lieber, Beyond Baroque, 12–3pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Hammer Projects: Petrit Halilaj, Hammer Museum, 11am–5pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Off the 405: Vagabon, Getty Center, 6pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Cinta Vidal: Viewpoints and Benjamin Garcia: Panacea, Thinkspace Gallery, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Butoh workshop with Koichi and Hiroko Tamano, we live in space, 11am–3pm. Continues September 16. $40–60.
Richard Hoblock: View From The Cheap Seats, Chimento Contemporary, 5–8pm.
MARLIE MUL, NEGASHI ARMADA, TRACY JEANNE ROSENTHAL, MOTHER CULTURE, 6–9pm.
Claire Colette: Mountains, Time, and Other Devices and NASIM HANTEHZADEH: AS I TRAVEL, Ochi Projects, 6–9pm.
HoldYou Foundtion Charity Auction, The Loft at Liz’s, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Miracle Mile
Boris Litvinov: End of Privacy, TAG Gallery, 3pm.
Free Screening—Smallfoot, LACMA, 3:30pm.
When Artists Publish: Berlin–Los Angeles, Sprüth Magers, 4–6pm.
Thomas Fougeirol : No Furniture, No Picture, Praz-Delavallade, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
Marc Chagall, Galerie Michael, 3pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet: In a Distant, M+B, 6–8pm.
Ilona Szwarc: Some women can take their eyes out, AA/LA, 6–9pm.
Edmund de Waal: -one way or other-, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
LAMAGLearn: Performance by Anna Luisa Petrisko and Adee Roberson, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 2–4pm.
Exhibition walkthrough with curator Catherine Taft and The Spatial Question: What Constitutional Law Can Learn From Sculpture with Ragen Moss, LAXART, 3 and 4pm.
The Mojave Project by Kim Stringfellow, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), 4–7pm; conversation, 2:30pm.
Olafur Eliasson: The speed of your attention, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, 5–8pm.
Joshua Nathanson and Lauren Bon & The Metabolic Studio, Portable Wetland for Southern California, Various Small Fires, 6–8pm.
Rob Wynne & Les Lalanne: Pastoral, Gavlak, 6–8pm.
Lari Pittman: Portraits of Textiles & Portraits of Humans, Regen Projects, 6–8pm.
Anthony Giannini: Mess Head, Diane Rosenstein, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), Autry Museum of the American West (Los Feliz), 1:30pm.
Openings and Events in Silver Lake
The Los Angeles Archivists Collective: The Challenges of Working as a First Archivist, Vista Hermosa Park, 1pm.
Three Walks: St. Thomas / Red Bank / Salton Sea by Elizabeth Leister, Winslow Garage, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Janet Sternburg: LIMBUS, USC Fisher Museum of Art, 2–5pm.
PAIRINGS artist walkthrough, DENK Gallery, 2–3pm.
John Baldessari: BLAH, Mixografia, 4–7pm.
**Karon Davis: Muddy Water, Wilding Cran, 5–8pm.
Edith Baumann: Early Works, parrasch heijnen gallery, 5–7pm.
My Veins Do Not End In Me curator walkthrough, The Mistake Room, 5pm.
Wyatt Mills: Pareidolia, Mugello Gallery, 6–9pm.
Eugenia P. Butler: That Which Emerges, The Box, 6–9pm.
Caitlin Mattisson & Alan Forbes, Saturn Studios, 6–9pm.
Channa Horwitz and Christine Sun Kim, Ghebaly Gallery (Downtown), 7–10pm.
Sarah Awad and Melanie Schiff, Night Gallery, 7–10pm.
#MemoryoftheUniverse | Bayesian Poisoning, Coaxial, 8pm–12am.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Ron Arad: Cuba Working Title, Over the Influence, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
TRAN TRUONG: NEWER PAINTINGS Queens, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
Michael Decker: "We're All Counting On You, Mike." - Ben D, ODD ARK • LA (Highland Park), 4–8pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Conversation@PAM: Religious Textiles of Southeast Asia, USC Pacific Asia Museum, 1–3pm.
What Can Side Street do for you community meeting, Side Street Projects, 3–5pm.
Valises for Camp Ground: Arts, Corrections, and Fire Management in the Santa Monica Mountains, Armory Center for the Arts, 3–5pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Marcia Hafif: A Place Apart, Project Series 52: Hayv Kahraman, and Mutuality in Dichotomy: Photography from the Permanent Collection, Pomona College Museum of Art (Claremont), 4–6pm; conversation, 2pm.
John Mason: Meditation on Material, Scripps College (Claremont), 7–9pm.
Sunday, September 16
Openings and Events in Westwood
Summoning the Ancestors: Southern Nigerian Bronzes, Fowler Museum, 12–5pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
The War of Nerves: Psychological Landscapes of the Cold War and Red Shoes: Love, Politics, and Dance During the Cold War, Wende Museum, 12–5pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Grove
TORBJÖRN VEJVI | WITHIN THEIR SHORES, South Willard, 3–5pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Space is Material, HOUSEHOLD, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
PERVERTED TWISTED CRIPPLED, From the Desk of Lucy Bull, 4–7pm.
Los Angeles Filmforum presents Half a Life, by Romain Goupil (Visions of Possibilities, part 8), Egyptian Theatre, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
Dustin Metz & Roni Shneior: Tatzpit and Gertrud Parker: Recent Works in Encaustic, Parker Gallery, 3–5pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Karen Lofgren: What is to Cure, Royale Projects, 12–5pm.
Artist Talk: Larry Bell in Conversation with Aram Moshayedi, Hauser & Wirth, 3pm.
Reading ♋, MOCA Grand Avenue, 3pm.
MOCA Music: HOODBOI + PROMNITE and COMFORT ZONE DJs, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 6:30–9:30pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Alice Marie Perrault and Kate Carvellas, Shoebox Projects, 3–6pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
In Conversation with Stan Lai, The Huntington, 2pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
A Matter of Course, Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University (Orange), 3–5pm.
lauren woods: Monument, University Art Museum, CSULB (Long Beach), 4–6pm.
KARBOMBZ!, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 4–7pm.
La Reina de Los Angeles, Descanso Gardens (La Canada Flintridge), 5–7pm.
Monday, September 17
Openings and Events in San Marino
Huntington-USC Western Environment Series - Slick Policy: Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill, The Huntington, 4–5pm.
Tuesday, September 18
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Pei–Yu Lee | Dig Deep Into Your Ideas of Home, 18th Street Arts Center, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Solving California’s Water Future, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
The Flight into Egypt: Drawings in Context, Getty Center,
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Film: Suspect, LACMA, 1pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Earth Works: Mapping the Anthropocene, USC Fisher Museum of Art, 2–4pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Genshitsu Sen Lecture - Peace through a Bowl of Tea, The Huntington, 7:30pm.