Thursday, February 7
Openings and Events in Venice
David Hockney: Something New in Painting (and Photography [and even Printing]), LA Louver, 6–8pm.
Reading Tea Leaves After Trump, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
JESMYN WARD & MITCHELL JACKSON IN CONVERSATION, UCLA, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Century City
RxArt 2019 LA PARTY, Westfield Century City, 6–8pm. $250–10,000.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Craft Night with Billy Kheel, Craft Contemporary, 7–9pm. $12.
Talk: Conversation with Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Promise Zone Arts Year 2 LAUNCH, LACE, 6–8pm.
NAME THAT TUNE: LAUREN HALSEY, LAXART, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
That was then. This is now., Natural History Museum, 9:30–5pm.
Curator's Walkthrough, USC, 3–4pm.
CULINARY CONTACT ZONE, USC, 5–7pm.
PAM on Campus: Japanese Prints and Illustrated Books, USC, 5pm.
Lanka Tattersall: Cameron Rowland D37 Walkthrough, MOCA Grand Avenue, 7pm.
Ralph Ziman: The Casspir Project, The Rendon Gallery, 8–10pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
One, Again / Against One, Human Resources, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Glassell Park
SENTRY, Cactus Gallery, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Curator Tour: Rituals of Labor and Engagement, The Huntington, 5pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Death of Dido, Norton Simon Museum, 1:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
AMERICA TO ME: A Retrospective featuring America Martin, JoAnne Artman Gallery (Laguna Beach), 6–8pm.
ORÉNDA: First you gave me, CalArts (Valencia), 6:30–8:30pm.
The Black Wax Museum, CalArts (Valencia), 8–10pm.
Friday, February 8
Openings and Events in Venice
America We Call Your Name, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
ALBERT OEHLEN DRAWINGS, Gagosian (420a North Camden Drive), 10am–6pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Doug Aitken: Don’t Forget To Breathe, 12–8pm.
People, Deitch, 6–8pm.
Street Shooting Around the World, Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP), 7–10pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Friedemann Heckel and Luzie Meyer, Sweetwater (6150 Wilshire Boulevard), 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Jacob Robichaux, Activity for A Dark Room and Dean Spunt, Police Car in conjunction with Matt Paweski: Look Out, Switch - Switch, Couples, Fountain, PARK VIEW / PAUL SOTO, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
__topia, James Wright Gallery, 6–9pm.
Tsuruya Kōkei: Modern Kabuki Prints Revised & Revisited, USC; discussion, 7pm.
New Yorker Poetry Editor Kevin Young, REDCAT, 8:30pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Orpheus (1950, NR), Norton Simon Museum, 6pm.
Saturday, February 9
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Laurie Raskin - LA Story and Richard Baker - Luminosity, Skidmore Contemporary Art, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
Tuscon Salvage: Tales and Recollections from La Frontera, Beyond Baroque, 4pm.
Dark Ink, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Opening party: Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968–2018 and Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, 8–11pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Artist-at-Work: French Fashion, Getty Center, 1–3pm.
Tradition and Innovation in Florentine Painting: Pontormo's Visitation, Getty Center, 3pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
LAUNCH PARTY AND BOOK SIGNING FOR COLE STERNBERG: THE NATURE OF BREATHING IN SALT, Arcana: Books on the Arts, 4–6pm.
Rona Pondick: Works 2013-2018, Zevitas Marcus, 5–8pm.
Mel Greet: The Truth of Consequences, Bruce Lurie Gallery, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Shelter or Playground: House of Dust, MAK Center, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Lisa Anne Auerbach: Libraries, Gavlak, 4–6pm.
Emma Webster: ARCADIA, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Talk: Gallery Course—Matisse and the School of Paris, LACMA, 8:30am.
Talk: 3D Comics Alive! with Jason Little, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in West Adams
Master Class Doll Making Work Shop with Artist Pat Shivers, William Grant Still Arts Center, 1–4pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
COMPANY COMPANY BY JÉRÔME BEL, LAXART, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
22nd Annual Masters of the American West® Art Exhibition and Sale, The Autry Museum of the American West, 10am–4pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Future Ladies of Wrestling Fundraiser to support Women’s Center for Creative Work, Zebulon, 1–4pm. $30–125.
Experimental Choreography/Ankoku Butoh: Maya Gingery, Pieter, 12–3pm.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Suzanne Jackson: holding on to a sound, O-Town House, 4–8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Mercadito de Amor, hosted by Ni Santas for SHG, Self Help Graphics, 12–5pm.
Lenny Salazar: Truly, DAC Gallery, 3–6pm.
Harrison Pearce: Maladapted, Baert Gallery, 6–8:30pm.
Faith Wilding: Scriptorium Revisited, Wilding Cran, 6–8pm.
On Death, Pollution.tv Studios, Los Angeles, 7–10pm.
Keeper of Magnets, 515, 7–9pm.
Lost + Found, Tiger Strikes Asteroid), 7–10pm.
Sleepless: The Music Center After Hours: Quinceañera Reimagined / Reimaginada, The Music Center, 11:30pm–3am. $20–30.
Molly Jo Shea: I'll Stop the World and Melt With You, Monte Vista Projects, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Chinese New Year Festival & Parade, Central Plaza, 12–8pm.
There is almost not an interval, Human Resources, 7–11:30pm.
Julien Monnerie: Talking Alone, Bel Ami, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Future Ladies Of Wrestling: Fundraiser for the WCCW, Zebulon, 1–4pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Experimental Choreography/Ankoku Butoh with Maya Gingery, Pieter, 12–3pm. $25–40. Continues February 10.
Openings and Events in East L.A.
Heather Cleary: New Age, Dread Lounge, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
John Parot | ASCENDANT SCENES UNFOLD AT NIGHT, AWHRHWAR, 8–10pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
47th Annual Camellia Show and Sale, The Huntington, 1–5pm.
Celia Paul, The Huntington, 10am–5pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
From Carpaccio’s “Saint Ursula” to Titian’s “Lady in White”: The Feminine Mystique in Renaissance Venice, Norton Simon Museum, 4–5pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
A Tribute to Steve Chase, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 10am–5pm.
Desert X, various locations (Palm Desert, Palm Springs, Indio). Through April 21.
Sunday, February 10
Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades
Imagining the Underworld: Life after Death in Ancient Greek Religion, Getty Villa, 3pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
ALLEN RUPPERSBERG & SIRI ENGBERG, Hammer Museum, 2pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Crumbling Empire and Upside-Down Propaganda, Wende Museum, 11am–5pm.
Openings and Events in Inglewood
Botany and the Body, The Nook Gallery at the Beacon Arts Building, 2:30–5pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Pale White, Ibid @ 8825 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles CA 90048, 3–6pm.
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer and Despina Stokou: Henry is Blue, private home, 12pm–sunset. RSVP to henry0000FF@gmail.com.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Rattle Road, Overduin & Co., 12–5pm.
Sean Mellyn: Old MacDonald Had a Farm, Suzanne Egeran Projects at Galerie Half, 3–5pm.
Nicolas Roggy: Caught Between the Eye, Freedman Fitzpatrick, 6–8pm.
ZEENA PARKINS (HARP & SUSAN ALCORN (PEDAL STEEL GUITAR)), LAXART, 7–9:30pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Artists' Talk, Matter Studio Gallery, 2–4pm.
And I'll have a pepper shaker in my cave, so laugh., ltd los angeles, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events in Koreatown
Ann Greene Kelly, Benevento, 3–7pm.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Entangled Matter, Garden, 1–4pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Maryam Jafri: I Drank the Kool-Aid But I Didn’t Inhale and Lucas Blalock: An Enormous Oar, ICA LA, 11am–7pm.
Artbook/D.A.P. Los Angeles Showroom Sample Sale, 818 South Broadway, Suite 700, 11am–4pm.
Patricia M. Torkan: Universal Heartbeat, Patricia’s Art Gallery, 2–4pm.
Sunday Studio: Jimena Sarno, MOCA Grand Avenue, 1–4pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
For A World Without Prisons Closing Event, Women’s Center for Creative Work, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Workshop: Erotic Embodiment Practice (OYoga with Dr. Victoria Reuveni), Pieter, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Cypress Park
Greg Kozaki: CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST, Rogers, 12–4pm.
Openings and Events in Montecito Heights
Julienne Fusello: Under the Sun, Nothing Can Hurt Me, Gallery1993, 1–4pm.
Monday, February 11
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
ARTISTS, ACTIVISM, AGENCY, The Broad Stage, 6:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Talk: Mindful Monday: Cultivating Empathy and Connectedness, LACMA, 4pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Malcolm Le Grice: Before and After Cinema, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $6–12.
Tuesday, February 12
Openings and Events in Westwood
ZEYNEP ABES, UCLA, 5pm.
ASTRA TAYLOR MOVIE: WHAT IS DEMOCRACY?, UCLA, 6pm.
City of Joy, with Q&A, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
Glenn Ligon and CALIFORNIA ARTISTS IN THE MARCIANO COLLECTION, Marciano Art Foundation, 11am–5pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Film: Five Easy Pieces, LACMA, 1pm.
Sterling Ruby: DAMNATION, Sprüth Magers, 6–8pm.
Film: The Favourite, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
TONY COKES: DELLA'S HOUSE, Hannah Hoffman Gallery.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Alex Hubbard: Projectors, GAGA.
Openings and Events Downtown
Activating Artists: Know Your Rights, California African American Museum, 7–9pm.
Christopher Myers: Nobody is my Name, The Mistake Room, 6–8pm.
Japanese American Cultural and Community Center x Compose LA, Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, 7:30pm.
The Un-Private Collection: Jenny Saville + Jennifer Doyle, The Broad, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Lara Favaretto, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 6–8pm.
Wednesday, February 13
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Barker Hangar, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
FOWLER OUT LOUD: SAMANTHA SHEN, Fowler Museum, 6pm.
UNITED SKATES, WITH Q&A, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
DREAMWEAVERS, UTA Artist Space, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Tosh Berman, in Conversation with Lisa See, Book Soup, 8:30am.
Red Bull Music Academy and Film Festival x Compose LA, Ukrainian Cultural Center, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Conversation with Glenn Ligon and Hamza Walker, Regen Projects, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
BOOK RELEASE & SIGNING: MARY WEATHERFORD: LIKE THE LAND LOVES THE SEA, David Kordansky, 5–6:30pm.
Chuck Arnoldi: Then and Now, Karma International, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Barbara Imhauf, SCI-ARC, 7pm.
Black Composers Songversation, California African American Museum, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Beyond The Couple Form: Intimacy, Interdependence, & Ethical Non-Monogamy, Women’s Center for Creative Work, 7:30–9:30pm.