Thursday, April 11
Openings and Events in Venice
Noah Blaustein, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Dorothy Barresi & Kevin Prufer, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Poetry: David Baker, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite, Skirball Center, 12–5pm; panel, 8pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
The Art of Looking: The Bauhaus and Modern Art, LACMA, 12:30–1:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
An evening with Bruce Talamon, USC, 5:30pm.
LA Art Book Fair 2019, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 6–9pm. Through April 14.
Zhiliang Zhao: Sanitized Bodies, Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, 6–9pm.
Visions of Freedom and Independence, Skid Row History Museum and Archive, 6–8pm.
Alice Smith: The Sound of Freedom, USC, 7pm.
BlackStar Film Festival, MOCA Grand Avenue, 7pm.
Stuck Together ~ Artist Talk, Track 16, 7pm.
Gaëlle Choisne: TEMPLE OF LOVE— Adorable, The Mistake Room, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Erin Christovale, CalArts (Valencia), 5pm.
UAM@NITE: Slanguage Performing Arts Festival, University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach, 6–10pm.
Friday, April 12
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
A Journey of Time group exhibition and opening reception for Celia Center Arts Festival, Highways Performance Space, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
The Gloaming, CAP UCLA, 8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Servane Mary, Remakes 2006-2018 book launch, JOAN, 6–9pm.
DISORDER, Disorder DTLA, 7–10pm.
Carla after party, El Cid, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
3rd International Global Karaoke World Championships with Kim Jong Un, Human Resources, 8pm. Also April 13.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Alex Andrew Sanchez: I’m not really sure what Visceral Realism is. closing reception, LAST Projects, 7–11pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Dido & Aeneas (1995, NR), Norton Simon Museum, 6–7pm.
Saturday, April 13
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Spring Open House, Bergamot Station, 11am.
Don Bachardy: Self-Portraits, Carol Es: Memoir, Gwynn Murrill: Figures, Craig Krull Gallery, 5–7pm.
Rachelle Sawatsky: Tiny Shells Colliding, The Gallery @ Michael’s, 6–8pm.
Month of Photography LA: American Photographic Artists, Arena 1 Gallery & Hangar Gallery South, 6–9pm and 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
American Poets Read Canadian Poetry, Beyond Baroque, 4pm.
Aleida Rodríguez: Embracing the Feral Beauty of Los Angeles, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
KRAFTWERK: DANCE FOREVER EXHIBITION AND DANCE PARTY IN COLLABORATION WITH CULTURAL TRAFFIC, Arcana: Books on the Arts, 6–9pm.
UNTITLED, Ed I, Bruce Lurie Gallery, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Staged reading of "Little David Had No Fear" by Judith Anne Still, William Grant Still Arts Center, 3pm.
CLAUDIA PARDUCCI IN CONVERSATION WITH PHYLLIS GREEN AND ELIZABETH TREMANTE, Ochi Projects, 4pm.
The Fourth Wall: David Hendren, Sami Korkiakoski, Lowell Ryan Projects, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
A COLORFUL LIFE: GERE KAVANAUGH, DESIGNER BOOK LAUNCH AND SIGNING, Craft Contemporary, 3pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Rubbish and Dreams: The Genderqueer Performance Art of Stephen Varble in 1970s New York, West Hollywood City Council Chambers, 2–4pm.
Charles Ray: two ghosts, Matthew Marks, 3–5pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Invisible College: Future Sacred, Libertine, 4–6pm.
Artist Rant: Wendy White, Shulamit Nazarian, 5pm.
Dylan Bartolini-Volk: I HAD TO DO IT, Substrate Gallery, 5–10pm.
Joanne Greenbaum and Martel Window Project: KIM SCHOEN, Richard Telles, 5–7pm.
Raymond J. Barry & Timothy Isham, A Dual Exhibition, The Lodge, 6–9pm.
Miho Dohi, Naotaka Hiro and Wataru Tominaga, Nonaka-Hill, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
Gravity and Trouble Closing Events, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1:30–3:30pm.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Adam Stamp: the little meander, O-Town House, 4–8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Curatorial walkthrough: Suppression, Subversion and the Surreal, USC, 1pm.
Biddy Mason, Slavery, and Resistance in the Building of LA’s African American Community, California African American Museum, 2–3pm.
The Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference, Tateuchi Lab at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, 4pm.
Deborah Roberts: Native Sons: Many thousands gone, Vielmetter Los Angeles, 4–6pm.
Writing While BLK: A conversation on the history of BLK, ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, 5–7pm.
Barbara T. Smith: The 21st Century Odyssey, The Box, 6–8pm.
Mark Whalen: Ramble Ramble, Over the Influence, 6–9pm.
RANGE by Toshy and Design Objects by S. Sandifer, Brannan Mason Gallery, 6–9pm.
Extract, bitforms, 6–9pm.
Nick Waplington, Little Big Man Gallery, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
2019 FOCAFellowships, FOCA, 6:30–9:30pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
WE SPOKE: a durational reading event, Women’s Center for Creative Work, 1–9pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Lindsey Warren: NATIVE, Keystone Art Space, 5–8pm.
Divinjnowshoe: Rikki Rothenberg, Pieter, 8:30–10pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
Garrett Gould: Puppet in an Envelope, Gallery1993, 3–7pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Family Day: Celebrating Planet Earth, The Huntington, 11am–3pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Conservation of the Dido Tapestry: A New Chapter, Norton Simon Museum, 4–5pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Open Studios Day and GANAS DE EXISTIR!, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 12–4pm.
Sunday, April 14
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Erica Mahinay: Sun Seekers, Euclid, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Reflecting Matter, Matter Studio Gallery, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events in Koreatown
Conversation between Alice Wang & Anna Milone, Visitor Welcome Center, 3–5pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
Roy De Forest and Graham Hamilton, Parker Gallery, 3–5pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Alejandro Diaz Sampler, Royale Projects, 12–5pm.
In Conversation: Lonnie Bunch III and George O. Davis, California African American Museum, 2–4pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Elisabeth Kley and Sanou Oumar, South Willard, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Erotic Embodiment Practice (OYoga: Dr. Victoria Reuveni), Pieter, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
Kristy Luck exhibition viewing and artist talk, ODD ARK • LA, 3pm.
Openings and Events in Glendale
11 Steps Ahead: Future Forward Armenian American Visionaries, 7–10pm; performance, 8:30pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Household Effects, La Loma Projects (1357 Brixton Road), 4–7pm.
Monday, April 15
Openings and Events in Westwood
EMANUEL CHRIST, UCLA, 6:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Performance and Death in Queer Portuguese Cinema: A Screening of Joao Pedro Rodrigues’ To Die Like a Man, Downtown Independent, 11am–2pm.
Allan Sekula: Selected Films & Books, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $6–12.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Stars Under the Microscope: Ancient Stardust in Meteorites, The Huntington, 7:30pm.
Tuesday, April 16
Openings and Events in Westwood
Hail Satan?, with Q&A, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event, CAP UCLA, 8pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Camerata Pacifica, The Huntington, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Graduate Art Seminar: Negar Azimi presents Eric Baudelaire, ArtsCenter College of Design, 7:30pm.
Wednesday, April 17
Openings and Events in Westwood
Beyond the Wall: Progressive Border Policy, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
I Am Nature artist talk, The Loft at Liz’s, 7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
One Another, NAVEL, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Off the Beaten Tracks: Little-Known Facts and Well-known Fiction about Chinese Railroad Workers, The Huntington, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Lecture: N. Katherine Hayles, James B. Duke Professor of Literature at Duke University, Claire Trevor School of the Arts (Irvine), 9am–5:30pm.
T.C. Boyle: Outside Looking In, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 5:30pm.