Thursday, April 25
Openings and Events in Venice
Old and New, Both Ends of Venice: Jim Smith & Laura Shepard Townsend, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Stan Douglas: UCLA Department of Art Lecture, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Leimert Park
Documenting Los Angeles: A Conversation with Alima Lee and Kya Lou, Art + Practice, 7–8:30pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Urs Fischer: PLAY, Jeffrey Deitch, 6–8pm.
MARIE VOIGNIER ON TINSELWOOD, LAXART, 7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Exhibition Walkthrough: Elliott Hundley on Open House, MOCA Grand Avenue, 7pm.
BUILT-IN Chapter 4: Land for Artists, NAVEL, 7–9:30pm.
Salon Series in the Garden: Natural Winemakers of California, Hauser & Wirth, 7–10pm.
John Kelly: Time No Line, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $9–18. Through April 27.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Echo Park Film Center closing potluck party, Human Resources, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Art Matters Lecture: Joan Kee: What Art Has to Say About the Law, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 4:30–6pm.
School of Art Visiting Lecture Series: Yasmine Diaz, CalArts (Valencia), 5pm.
Shakespeare Dwelling: Architecture of Experience, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 6pm.
School of Music Visiting Artist Series: Natalie Robehmed, CalArts (Valencia), 7–8pm.
Newport Beach Film Festival, various locations (Newport Beach), 7:30pm. Through May 2.
Friday, April 26
Openings and Events in Century City
Photoville LA and Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop, Annenberg Space for Photography, Through April 28, also May 2–5pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Bittersüß, James Wright, 7–9pm.
Laura Lancaster and Vaughn Spann, Night Gallery, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Body Disco, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 7–10pm.
Saturday, April 27
Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades
Drawing from Antiquity: Hands, Getty Villa, 11am–12:30pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
I Read Your Book And ... With David Kipen, Beyond Baroque, 4pm.
Openings and Events in Sawtelle
Inside The Rock Revolution | Jeffrey Mayer Q&A, FATHOM Gallery, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
In Conversation: Michael Shaw and Chris Trueman, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, 1pm.
LIA HALLORAN: Artist Talk, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 2–3pm.
ALEX McWHIRTER: PUBLIC - ISSUE NUMBER TWO LAUNCH PARTY + SIGNING, Arcana: Books on the Arts, 4–6pm.
The Influencers Mean No Harm, Zevitas Marcus, 5–8pm.
Jo Ann Callis: Lighting Matches and Robert Russell: Book Paintings, Anat Ebgi, 5–7pm.
Jil Weinstock: False Truth: Uprooted and Barry Anderson: Oblique Phases, Walter Maciel Gallery, 6–8pm.
Carlos Ramirez: Lost in Paradise, FP Contemporary, 6–8pm.
Casey Weldon and Liz Brizzi, Thinkspace Projects, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Grove
ARTIST TALK: ANNA SILVER, Craft in America Center, 4pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Kellyann Burns: Form, Color, Surface, Louis Stern Fine Arts, 5–7pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Gallery Course—The Bauhaus and Modern Art, LACMA, 8:30–10am.
David Leeds, Taft McWhorter, & Douglas Teiger, TAG Gallery, 5–8pm.
THE PEOPLE'S WORKSHOP ON RADICAL ORGANIZING AND MAKING: FELT FLOWER WORKSHOP, Craft Contemporary, 7–9pm. $10.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Opera, William Grant Still Arts Center, 2–4pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Our L.A. Voices, Grand Park, 11am–5pm. Continues April 28.
Exhibiting Black Art in 1970s Los Angeles, The Broad, 2pm.
Conversation@PAM: Faces, Identities, and the Visual Culture of the Selfie, USC, 2–4pm.
Homophobia's Roots in the Aftermath of World War II, ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, 7–9pm.
MAIN EVENT 2019, SCI-Arc, 7–11pm.
Dan Monick: Goodbye To Romance, These Days, 7–9pm.
SCI-Arc Main Event 2019, SCI-ARC, 7–11pm.
Benefit Party, JOAN, 8–11pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Ilona Szwarc: Unsex me here, Make Room, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Open Studios, Keystone Art Space, 6–10pm.
EN DEUX // PERFORMANCE IN TWOS, LAST Projects Gallery, 7–11pm.
Ritual for Mass Suicide (In-Process Workshop Showing: Maya Gurantz), Pieter, 8:30–10pm.
Openings and Events in Silver Lake
Barnett Cohen: congrats and condolences, Neutra VDL Studio and Residences, 6:15pm.
Openings and Events in Eagle Rock
Tres Preguntas / Three Questions: FREE Mural Making Workshop, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, 12–4pm. Continues April 28.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Family Drop-In Program: Garden Party, The Huntington, 1–2pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Touch Tour - A Multi-sensory Tour for the Visually Impaired, ESMoA (El Segundo), 1 and 3pm.
Imagination Celebration, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 1–4pm.
MFA Thesis Exhibitions, Part I, UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts (Irvine), 2–5pm.
Off the Wall, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 5:30pm. $200–400.
Shoulder to Shoulder: Depicting the Figure, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 10am–5pm.
Sunday, April 28
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Ruth Weisberg: Time and Time Again, Providence Saint John's Health Center, 3–5pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
Sim-Cinema, FLOAT LAND. Through April 28.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
CRAFTING A FUTURE: A CONVERSATION ON THE FUTURE OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFT, Craft Contemporary, 1pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Unraveling Collective Forms, Egyptian Theatre, 7:30pm. $6–10.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Lucy Bull: Loofah, QUEENS LA, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Roy Dowell: New and Recent Paintings (and a Sculpture), as-is.la, 2–5pm.
Facing History and Ourselves: The Liberator, California African American Museum, 3:30pm.
Openings and Events in Glendale
Hilary Pecis | Dani Tull | Jennifer King | The Pit presents... Left Field, The Pit, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Closing Celebration: Clipped Ears Don’t Serve A Weeping Wolf, Sang The Coyote To The Blood Moon, Side Street Projects, 3–6pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Public Lecture: Gülru Çakmak: What Do Sculptures Do?, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 2–3:30pm.
Last Look Walkthrough | Abaseh Mirvali & Maiza Hixson, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 4–5pm.
Monday, April 29
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Guy Bourdin, Los Angeles, Louise Alexander Gallery.
Openings and Events Downtown
James Benning: Two Films, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $6–12.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
FLAX Drive-In Theater: Smith, Traum, 2016 (22 min and IKARIE XB1 (Voyage to the End of the Universe) by Jindrich Polák, 1963 (88 min)), Tin Flats, 8pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
The DNA of Galaxies, The Huntington, 7:30pm.
Tuesday, April 30
Openings and Events in Westwood
Thomas Crow & Alexander Dumbadze, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
The Wondrous Cosmos in Medieval Manuscripts, Getty Center, 10am–5:30pm.
From the Buddhas of Bamiyan to the Temples of Palmyra: Why Is the World's Cultural Heritage Being Erased?, Getty Center, 7pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Dina Abdulkarim lecture, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, 7:30pm.
Wednesday, May 1
Openings and Events in Venice
Mark di Suvero: Painting and Sculpture, L.A. Louver, 10am–6pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Annual Student Exhibition and Suppression, Subversion, and the Surreal: The Art of Czechoslovakian Resistance, USC Fisher Museum, 12–4pm.