Thursday, August 8
Openings and Events in Westwood
JazzPOP: Alex Cline's Limitless Light Ensemble: Remembering Joseph Jarman, Hammer Museum, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
>BTWN x PERFORMANCE< Lizzi Bougatsos + Kim Gordon x Penny Slinger, Blum & Poe, 9pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
The Art of Looking: The Allure of Matter, LACMA, 12:30–1:30pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
MOoW Trash Art Exhibition, Symposium, and Book Launch Party, 936 Mei Ling Way, 6pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
Failure Machines, Now Instant Image Hall, 8–10pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Delicious Dishes with Jet and Ali Tila, The Huntington, 5:30pm. $150.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
contemporary art UNLOCKED, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 6–7pm.
Live! at the Museum: AlmaNova Duo, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 7pm.
Friday, August 9
Openings and Events in Venice
Night of Poetic Language Festival, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Nude on the Moon / Smut without Smut: Bizarro Horror Nite, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Salsa, Grand Park, 7–11pm.
Good Times: Simone Forti & Jason Underhill, The Box, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Paul Pescador: Jurassic Park: The Musical, Human Resources, 8pm. Through August 10.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Susan Mogul: Mom’s Move, Echo Park Film Center, 8pm. $5.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
QUEEN OF DIAMONDS BY NINA MENKES, POTTS, 9pm.
Saturday, August 10
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
LACP (The Los Angeles Center of Photography), dnj Gallery, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Grand Prix, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Garden Concerts for Kids: Okee Dokee Brothers, Getty Center, 4–5pm. Also August 11.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Vision Board Curator Walk Thru, Kopeikin Gallery, 12pm.
>BTWN x FILM + MUSIC< Jim Shaw and Jodi Wille Present Shorts from the Counterculture Film Vaults + Music by Shaw and Friends, Blum & Poe, 9pm.
Openings and Events in Century City
Nas: Time Is Illmatic, Annenberg Space for Photography, 6–10pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Mineo Mizuno: Harmony, LACMA, 10am–7pm.
CraftSocial: I’m Blue, An Indigo Dye Workshop, Craft Contemporary, 1–3pm.
Faith Wilding: Embodiment, Ritual, and Cyberfeminism, Marciano Art Foundation, 2pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Patrisse Cullors performance: Fuck White Supremacy, Let's Get Free, ltd los angeles, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Koreatown
Remix, Gabba Gallery, 7–11pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Every Struggle is an Ecological Struggle: Towards a Radical Arts Activism, LACE, 2–4pm. Continues August 11.
RELAX INTO THE INVISIBLE CLOSING EVENTS: Performances By Barnett Cohen And Emily Mast, LAXART, 3–5pm.
art + ecology month, Various Small Fires, 6pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Docent Led Tour of Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary, California African American Museum, 1–2pm.
Our Home Collage Workshop, California African American Museum, 2–4pm.
Walkthrough & Conversation: Genevieve Gaignard, Samuel Levi Jones & Leigh Raiford, Vielmetter, 3–4pm.
Ryan Heshka: Freeks, Jana Brike, Corey Helford Gallery, 7–11pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Jonathan Potter: Beyond the Visual, Automata, 4–9pm.
Openings and Events in Silver Lake
25th Anniversary | Celebrating "Sad People in Modernist Homes…, Oliver House, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Summer party, river, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
A Seat at a Bar with Hard Feelings, Namaste, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
RESISTENCIA GRÁFICA: THE PRINTS OF CARLOS BARBERENA, Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), 2–4pm.
The Truth in Information: Towards a More Democratic Internet, OCMA (Orange County), 3pm.
I Love Science Kids' Art Show, Leanna Lin’s Wonderland (Eagle Rock), 4–7pm.
Badass Women and the Road to the Promised Land, Riverside Art Museum (Riverside), 5:30–7:30pm.
Sunday, August 11
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Jazz on the Lawn, Gandara Park, 5–7pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Family Flicks Film Series: The Secret of NIMH, Hammer Museum, 11am.
El Cid, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Printmaking: Envelopes and Stationery with Art Division: A CraftLab Family Workshop, Craft Contemporary, 1:30–3:30pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
Offal, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 2–5pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
TINY TECH ZINES, NAVEL, 11am–7pm.
F IS FOR FUN!, Boomtown Event Space, 12–5pm.
Makers Fest, California African American Museum, 1–4pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Art and Food, USC Pacific Asia Museum, 11am–5pm.
Club SCUM Exhibition Walkthrough, Armory Center for the Arts, 12–2pm.
Monday, August 12
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Anne Ward: The Garden Portal, 4pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Made Out of WHAT “The Universal Sea” Symposium, Casa Italiana, 6–9pm.
Artist Lecture & Book Launch: Imagining Eurasia: Visualizing a Continental History by Kyong Park, SCI-Arc, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Workshop: action is Sacred / The Something primary with Meg Foley & Alison D'Amato, Pieter, 10am–12pm.
Tuesday, August 13
Openings and Events in Westwood
Poetic Justice, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Cur-ATE—Contemporary Chinese Art and Cuisine, LACMA, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Leimert Park
Film Screening + Discussion: Brick by Brick with Jheanelle Brown and Yusef Omowale, Art + Practice, 7pm.
Wednesday, August 14
Openings and Events in Westwood
Anne Ellegood, Jack Halberstam, Candice Lin & Jenni Sorkin, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Hasef: Kitchen video screening, Chimento Contemporary, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
The Complications of Hilma af Klint, Philosophical Research Society, 7:30–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
BLACK FIRE SESSIONS: Anthony Braxton + Jacqueline Kerrod, Kelsey Lu, Beans, Jimetta Rose, and Maurice Harris, The Broad, 8–11pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Huntington 101, The Huntington, 5:30pm.