Thursday, December 1
Openings and Events in Playa Vista
Dance Performance: Moving Meditations,, LMU Laband Art Gallery, 12:15pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Decision to Leave, with writer Chung Seo-kyung, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Steve Schapiro: I Love You...Leave A Message, Fahey/Klein Gallery, through January 31.
Openings and Events Downtown
Energizing the Climate Movement, MOCA Grand Avenue, 6:30pm.
Openings and Events in Glendale
Made Out of WHAT, Brand Library, 6:30–8:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Looking at Impressionism and Thinking About Climate Change, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 5:30pm.
Friday, December 2
Openings and Events in Hollywood
CAVERNOUS: Publication Launch, LACE, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
One Story’s Not Enough, Face A Gallery, 4–7pm.
LACE: CAVERNOUS: Publication Launch, Heavy Manners Library, 7–10pm.
CalArts Winter Dance: RE: Repertory, REDCAT, through December 3. $20.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
LACE: CAVERNOUS: Publication Launch, Heavy Manners Library, 7–10pm.
Saturday, December 3
Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades
Discovering a Lost Nubian City: Archaeology of Jebel Barkal, Sudan, Getty Villa, through December 4.
Tim Story and Felix Kubin, Villa Aurora, through December 4.
Openings and Events in Venice
Beyond the Binding: A Beyond Baroque Book Club hosted by Dana Johnson, Beyond Baroque, 12–2pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Perceptual Shift: Thoughts on the Photographs of Uta Barth, Getty Center, 1pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Book Signing with Roger Davies for Beyond the Canyon: Inside Epic California Homes, Arcana Books on the Arts, 4pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Uncertainty Principles, Artspace Warehouse, 4–6pm. Through December 30.
Jaimie Coffee, Shirley Asano Guldimann, Eric Sanders, Karen Sarrow and Arlene Weinstock, TAG Gallery, 5–9pm.
Holiday Marketplace, Craft Contemporary, through December 4.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Cerith Wyn Evans: The Changing Light At Sandover and Juliette Blightman: Baby, you’re a firework!, O - Town House, 3–8pm. Through January 14, 2023.
Openings and Events Downtown
Holiday Sing Along, LA Phil, 11:30am.
One Story’s Not Enough, Face A Gallery, 2–5pm.
Visual AIDS, Being & Belonging, MOCA Grand Avenue, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
HDTS Winter Benefit, private residence, 11am–2pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Inland Pacific Ballet’s The Nutcracker, Lewis Family Playhouse (Rancho Cucamonga), through December 11.
Latent Community: NEROMANNA, Grand Central Art Center (Santa Ana), 7–10pm.
Sunday, December 4
Openings and Events in Brentwood
The Secrets We Keep featuring Roland Betancourt, Getty Center, 4pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Michele and Peter Berton Memorial Lecture—The Five Directions: Lacquer Through East Asia, LACMA, 3:30pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Malka Nedivi Artist Talk and Performance, Matter Studio Gallery, 2–5pm.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Los Angeles Filmforum presents Smears, Tears, and Thumbprints: Queer Coming of Age, 2220 Arts + Archives, 1pm. $8–12.
Openings and Events Downtown
Healing through Movement with Tatiana Zamir, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 11am–1pm.
Better Balance: Imagining equity among humanity and the natural world with Nina Simons and Jerry Tello, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 4pm.
Celebrating Anthony Braxton, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $25.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Ed Johnson in conversation with Domenick Ammirati, Soldes, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Closing Celebration: At the Table, Armory Center for the Arts, 4–6pm.
Monday, December 5
Openings and Events in Westwood
Corsage, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Only Big Ideas Turn Into Large Art, Artplex Gallery, 4–6pm. Through December 30.
Openings and Events Downtown
Sergi Pedro Ros: Laberinto Yo’eme (Yo’eme’s Labyrinth), REDCAT, 8:30pm. $12.
Tuesday, December 6
Openings and Events in Westwood
Everything Everywhere All At Once, with directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Wednesday, December 7
Openings and Events in Westwood
The Whale, with Brendan Fraser, Ty Simpkins, and Samuel D. Hunter, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Image courtesy of the Getty Center.