Thursday, September 19
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Willa Wasserman: Pretty Rooms, The Gallery @ Michael’s, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
In Conversation: Michael Govan and Thomas Joshua Cooper, LACMA, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Leimert Park
Points of Access: Contemporary Art Writing, ART + Practice, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
I Like To Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution: Emily Nussbaum in conversation with Maria Semple, Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Filmforum at MOCA Presents Makino Takashi: Memento Stella, MOCA Grand Avenue, 7pm.
Another Place for Food, ICA LA, 7–9pm.
Adam Linder: THE WANT, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $18–35. Through September 22.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Healing Pain Through Energetic Love with Peter Bedard, MA, C.Ht., Pieter, 8–10pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
Future Preservation, Now Instant Image Hall, 8pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Place, Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach), 11am–8pm.
Empty Vessel -- Amir Zaki, Orange Coast College (Costa Mesa), 3–5pm.
Downtown at Sundown, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego), 5–8pm.
GENERATIONAL: Local Latinx LGBTQIA Artists, Long Beach City College Art Gallery (Long Beach), 5–9pm.
Todd Gray: Euclidean Gris Gris Bridget R. Cooks | PART 1 Museums as Site for Cultural Change: Curating with Care and Careful Curation - Gallery Tour, Lecture, and Conversation, Pomona College Museum of Art (Claremont), 5–10pm.
Film Night, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 6pm.
Experience 20: QUEENS & KINGS - A Royal Drag Show, ESMoA (El Segundo), 6:30pm.
Friday, September 20
Openings and Events Downtown
Sayre Gomez: X-Scapes, Ghebaly Gallery, 6–9pm.
Louise Fishman: The Tumult in the Heart and Shana Lutker: An Analphabet, Vielmetter Los Angeles, 6–8pm.
The Mustang, Los Angeles Poverty Department, 7pm.
Selected Thesis Exhibition 2019, SCI-Arc, 7pm.
The Zapatista Wi-Fi Rebellion, NAVEL, 7:30pm. Continues September 22.
Openings and Events in Silver Lake
Eric Ernest Johnson: Down to Earth, LSH CoLab, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Dimensions of Form: Tamayo and Mixografia, Bowers Museum, 6–9pm.
Saturday, September 21
Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades
Sophocles's Philoctetes—From Wounding to Healing, Getty Villa, 3pm.
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Jimi Gleason: CROSS/REFERENCE, WILLIAM TURNER GALLERY, 6–8pm.
The Room, bG Art Dealings, 6–9pm.
Vicky Steckel: Residency, No Free Bread Gallery, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
Martin Mull: Harvest, Iris Project, 1–6pm.
Small Press Book Festival, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Art Circles, Getty Center, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Hammer Projects: Max Hooper Schneider, Hammer Museum, 11am–5pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
Michelle Stuart, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, 11am–6pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Cody Trepte: By Any Possibility, Meliksetian | Briggs, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
4th annual HoldYou Foundation benefit, TAG Gallery, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Inglewood
Devin B Johnson: Atmosphere of Certain Uncertainty, Residency, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Koreatown
iris yirei hu | ivan forde | Geoff Tuck, Visitor Welcome Center, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Reading & Book Signing with National Gallery of Art Curator James Meyer, Hauser & Wirth, 12pm.
Walkthrough: Louise Fishman: The Tumult in the Heart, Vielmetter Los Angeles, 2:30pm.
Louise Fishman: THE TUMULT IN THE HEART and Shana Lutker: AN ANALPHABET, Vielmetter Los Angeles, 4–6pm.
Theme Park Artists Pop-Up Art Show, Art Share LA, 5–10pm.
KATJA SEIB: chasing rabbits, Château Shatto, 6–9pm.
Andrew Schoultz, DENK Gallery, 6–8pm.
Dennis Osadebe: Field of Dreams, Avenue des Arts, 6–9pm.
Jebila Okongwu, Baert Gallery, 6–9pm.
Jerome Lagarrigue: Dreams & Descendants, Patrick Painter Inc., 6–9pm.
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The Pleasure Principle, Maccarone, 7–9pm.
Terry Hoff: MARIPOSA, James Wright Gallery, 7–9pm.
Kai and Sunny: In the Drift, Ian Francis: The Call of the Void, and Kristen Liu-Wong: Not a Flower Alone and Jillian Evelyn, Corey Helford Gallery, 7–11pm.
The Los Angeles Schools, Art + Design Museum, 7pm.
We Got Your Back... Pack!, Aratani Theatre, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Dublab's 20th Anniversary, Bedrock LA, 7pm–3am.
Openings and Events in Atwater Village
Ralph Dee Corners: Procession and Sarah Sarchin: Smoking Visage, Grice Bench, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Nineteen Nineteen, The Huntington, 10am–5pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Not Your Parents’ Norton Simon Museum—or is It?, Norton Simon Museum, 4pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Ari Benjamin Meyers: Kunsthalle for Music, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 11am–5pm.
OPENING DAY FOR SEASON 3, OCMA (Orange County), 11am–6pm.
Gas, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 12–4pm.
Dimensions of Form: Tamayo and Mixografia, The Bowers Museum (Santa Ana), Presentation by Dr. Karen Cordero, Guest Curatorial Consultant for Dimensions of Form: Tamayo and Mixografia, 1:30pm.
Wickedly Trans - Voices from the Rainbow, ESMoA (El Segundo), 2pm.
Reseda Rising 2019, Sherman Way between Reseda Boulevard and Lindley Avenue (Reseda), 5–10pm.
Gala 2019, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 5:30–11pm.
Sunday, September 22
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Artist at Work: The Camera, Getty Center, 12:30–3:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Every Living Thing: Animals in Japanese Art, Betye Saar: Call and Response and Thomas Joshua Cooper: The World's Edge, LACMA, 10am–7pm.
Artist Talk: teamLab, LACMA, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Forming Matter, Matter Studio Gallery, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Outside/In: Phil Peters and Karen Reimer, LAXART, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Family Garden Workshop: California Wheat and Ancient Grains, Hauser & Wirth, 12–3pm.
James Meyer Lecture and Book Event, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 3pm.
CAAM Reads! The Warmth of Other Suns, California African American Museum, 3pm.
Reading & Book Signing of ‘Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971’ with Musa Mayer, Hauser & Wirth, 6pm.
Children of the Sun, Ladies’ Room, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Los Angeles Filmforum presents Apparitions: Recent Handmade Wonders from the French Film Lab L’Abominable, Echo Park Film Center, 7:30pm. $6–10.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Post-Capitalism Ball, Pieter, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Glassell Park
The Book of Goliath, Elephant, 6pm. $6.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
Shobun Baile: Marathon Screenings, private home, 6:30–8pm. RSVP to marathonscreenings@gmail.com.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
GIVE PIECES A CHANCE, Gallery 62 (Joshua Tree), 5:30–8:30pm.
Monday, September 23
Openings and Events in Westwood
NEXT GEN DORMS, UCLA. Through September 27.
Openings and Events in Bel-Air
Soraya Sarah Nazarian Program in Fine Arts: Visual Storytelling, AJU, 7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
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Juan Pablo González: Caballerango, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $6–12.
Tuesday, September 24
Openings and Events in Venice
DAVID ONDAATJE: FIRST LOOK, ROSEGALLERY, 10am–6pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
In Conversation: Michael Govan and Mary Corse, LACMA, 7pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Christopher Gray Geotechnics USA, Inc.: Capturing Architecture: A Personal History, Williamson Gallery, Scripps College (Claremont), 7–9pm.
Wednesday, September 25
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Is Journalism Really About Social Justice?, Getty Center, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Cross Colours: Black Fashion in the 20th Century, Making Mammy: A Caricature of Black Womanhood, 1840–1940, Timothy Washington: Citizen/Ship, California African American Museum, 10am–5pm.
Walead Beshty: Artist and writer, SCI-Arc, 7pm.