Thursday, October 24
Openings and Events in Venice
Edward and Nancy Kienholz: The Merry-Go-World or Begat by Chance and the Wonder Horse Trigger, L.A. Louver, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
The Creative Impulse: Jae Jarrell and Sylvia Snowden in Conversation, Getty Center, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Stephen Wilkes: Day to Night, Fahey/Klein, 7–9pm.
The Art of Change, iv gallery, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Curator Walkthrough & Tea Ceremony—Mineo Mizuno: Harmony, LACMA, 6pm.
Eric Bost of auburn, Jon and Masa Kleinhample of Klein Agency, and Delphine Lippens of Humble Ceramics, Craft in America Center, 7pm.
Film Screening—The Bold, The Corrupt and The Beautiful, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Thomas Joshua Cooper. The Capes of California, Hauser & Wirth, 11am–6pm.
The Logic of Poetry and Dreams - Sholeh Wolpé and Sahba Motallebi, The Broad, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
The Ballad of Lady M, The Ruby Street, 7:30pm. $45.
X-TRA Fall Launch: Some Among Others Screening, Now Instant, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Experience 22: Love Letter to the California Coast with Jasmine Nyende, ESMoA (El Segundo), 1–4pm.
Diwali Celebration, CalArts (Valencia), 4–7:30pm.
Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Gala Porras-Kim, CalArts (Valencia), 5–7pm.
Todd Gray: Euclidean Gris Gris Christina Sharpe | PART 2 Museums as Site for Cultural Change: Curating with Care and Careful Curation - Lecture and Discussion, Pomona College Museum of Art (Claremont), 5–10pm.
Thomas Hunt: California Modernist, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 6pm.
Root Cause, Long Beach City College (Long Beach), 6:30–8:30pm.
Scholar Talk | Glenn Wharton: Collecting the Ephemeral, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 7pm.
Friday, October 25
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
WHAP! Lecture Series: Sarah Roberts: Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media, West Hollywood Public Library, 7:30–9:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
MICHAEL GOVAN ON DAN FLAVIN: Light in Sacred Space, Bridge Projects, 5:30–8pm.
A Blindly Realized Possibility: Part I: Hallucinatory Power & Image-Sorcery, The Box, 6–9pm.
The Advocates, Skid Row History Museum and Archive, 6:30pm.
Exhibition & Book Launch: Claude Parent – Visionary Architect, SCI-Arc, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Line Starts Here: Alexis Branger & Devin Andersen, LAST Projects, 7–11pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
North by Northwest (1959, NR), Norton Simon Museum, 5:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Date Night | Kunsthalle for Music, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 3:30–7pm.
Saturday, October 26
Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades
The Meaning of Beards from Antiquity to Today, Getty Villa, 3pm. Also October 27.
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Anja Salonen: THE KEY OF CHIRON and Thomas McDonell: SPECIAL DAY, Five Car Garage, 12–5pm.
Peter Holzhauer: First Stone for a Film, Gallery Luisotti, 6–8pm.
NADIA JABER: About:Blank, NO FREE BREAD GALLERY, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
Alvaro & Salomon Huerta: Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in West L.A.
Ako Castuera: Dance the Worm, GR2 Gallery, 6:30–10pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Saturday Nights at the Getty: Martin Creed's Getting Changed, Getty Center, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
DIANE KEATON: CALIFORNIA ROMANTICA, Arcana: Books on the Arts, 4–6pm.
Joe Rudko: Tiny Mirrors, Von Lintel, 5–8:30pm.
Les Sewing Sisters and Rebecca Bird: Circles, Kopeikin Gallery, 8pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Artist talk and book signing: Stephen Wilkes: Day to Night, Fahey/Klein, 2–4pm.
Laura Owens: Books and Tables, Matthew Marks, 5–7pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Luis Flores: Prende la Luz Que Tengo Miedo, Matthew Brown Los Angeles, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Jaime Coffey Bateman: Red Earth, Miyuki Sena: Insomnia, Danny Janotta: PARASIDE, and Lynne Russo: #thismotherfucker, TAG Gallery, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Koreatown
emi kuriyama book release + spirit award, Visitor Welcome Center, 12–6pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
10th Festival for All Skid Row Artists, Gladys Park, 1–5pm. Continues October 27.
Artist tour: ANDREW SCHOULTZ: VESSELS, Denk Gallery, 2–4pm.
MOVE: Dance ‘90s with Tatiana Zamir, California African American Museum, 3pm.
SKIN STEALERS, Nicodim Gallery, 4–7pm.
Inaugural group exhibition, Gavlak, 4–7pm.
Tadashi Moriyama and Rachael Pease: Frontiers, Jason Vass, 5–8pm.
Cherisse Gray: Hello Baby, Terroir, Murmurs Gallery, 5–8pm.
Jonathan Harkham: City of Mysteries, Werkärtz, 5–8pm.
ERIN CALLA WATSON / HAENA YOO, AS IT STANDS, 6–9pm.
Noche de Ofrenda (Night of Altars), Grand Park, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
THE CINEMA OF: JOHN SINGLETON, Amanda Theater @ ARRAY, 12pm.
Jesse Clark presents: At Your Service, Garden, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Empowerment Self Defense Workshop and Book Reading: Janet (Jay O’Shea), Pieter, 12pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
HARD, WIGGLES, 12–5pm.
Jasmine Orpilla: GO HOME: Where the Heart Is. Feed My Heart. Free My Hate., Oxy Arts on York, 7–9pm. Continues October 27.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
CREATE: Joyful Mini Puppet Making & Play with Allison M Keating, ESMoA (El Segundo), 1–4pm.
Foodscapes Festival, Reseda Rec Center (Reseda), 12–4:30pm.
17th Annual Scary Stories, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 6:30pm.
Mariachi Night, MOLAA (Long Beach), 7–10pm.
Pit-Fired Ceramics Workshop with Stray Ceramics, High Desert Test Sites (Joshua Tree). $125. Continues October 27.
Sunday, October 27
Openings and Events in Brentwood
True Guilt: Edward Hopper and the Death of George Bellows, Getty Center, 4pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
VAN GOGH IN LA: Vincent in Arles, UCLA, 2:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Andell Family Sundays—Animals of the Land, Water, and Sky, LACMA, 12:30–3:30pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Artist Talk: Cody Trepte & Charles Gaines, Meliksetian | Briggs, 2pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
Loitering is delightful, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 2–5pm.
Franklin Williams: The Inimitable Professor Emeritus and Nickola Pottinger: Little theatre, Parker Gallery,
Forming Matter closing reception, Studio Matter Gallery, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Pattern and Decoration, and WITH PLEASURE: PATTERN AND DECORATION IN AMERICAN ART 1972–1985 and Open House: Gala Porras-Kim, MOCA Grand Avenue, 11am–5pm.
Family Studio Workshop: Layers and Systems, Hauser & Wirth, 12–3pm.
Alexis Smith, A Survey: 1974 - 2016, Parrasch Heijnen, 12–3pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
ANCESTOR, Keystone Art Space, 2–6pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Unpacking Anti-Blackness In POC Communities, Women’s Center for Creative Work, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Free Family Day: Día de los Muertos, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 1–4pm.
Monday, October 28
Openings and Events in Westwood
SUPERPOSITION, UCLA, 6pm.
Openings and Events in Bel-Air
Introduction to Israeli Art: Past, Present, Future, AJU, 12–2pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Mindful Monday: Cultivating Empathy and Connectedness, LACMA, 4pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
FLAX Drive-In Theater: Maura Brewer, The Surface of Mars, (12min and other film to be announced), Tin Flats, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist, The Huntington, 2pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Dr. Robert Mintz Deputy Director, Asian Art Museum: Meiji Arts, Williamson Gallery, Scripps College (Claremont), 7–9pm.
Tuesday, October 29
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Peasants in Pastel: Millet and the Pastel Revival, Getty Center, 10–5:30pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
WHAT IS LOVE?, UCLA, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones: Daniel Mendelsohn in conversation with Richard Kramer, Kirk Douglas Theatre, 7:30pm.
Openings and Evens Downtown
Salon Series in the Garden: Dorothy Iannone’s ‘A Cookbook’, Hauser & Wirth, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Fall 2019 Graduate Seminar Lecture Series: Hans Ulrich Obrist, ArtCenter, 7:30pm.
Wednesday, October 30
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Exploding-Pumpkin-Carving Laboratory and Workshop, Craft Contemporary, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Science Talk | Alan Macy: Embodied Music, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 6pm.