Thursday, January 31
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Photo LA 2019, Barker Hangar, 4–6pm. Through February 3.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Voting Rights and Wrongs, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
The Body Politic: Male Bodies, Getty Center, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
PEN USA 2019 Emerging Voices Welcome Party, LACE, 7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
MOCA Music: Los Globos, MOCA Grand Avenue, 7pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Examining Michelangelo’s First Painting: In the Conservation Studio, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 4:30–6pm.
The Los Angeles Tapes, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 6pm.
Lecture: Ana Teresa Fernández, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 6pm.
Spike Lee Book Signing, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 6pm.
Entre Tinta y Lucha: 45 Years of Self Help Graphics & Art, Todd Madigan Gallery, 6–8pm.
Crazy Rich Asians: Kevin Kwan in Conversation, Scripps College (Claremont), 7–8pm.
Friday, February 1
Openings and Events in Westwood
I'M RARELY HOME: A NOTE ON MICRO-UNITS IN DOWNTOWN, UCLA, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Music at the Wende: HEAR NOW presents "Civil Disobedience", Wende Museum, 7pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Joseph Klibansky: All I Ever Wanted Was Everything, HOFA Gallery, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
NAME THAT TUNE: FRANCES STARK, LAXART, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Talk: Finding One's Place: Photography and Its Many Dimensions, LACMA, 1pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
babycakes one-night stand, Big Picture Los Angeles, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Inglewood
Our Deep Waters, Residency Art Gallery, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Movie Nights at the Museum: YOUNG TURKS, Los Angeles Poverty Department, 7pm.
La Nuit des idées Los Angeles, Natural History Museum, 6pm–12am.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
gloria galvez: Get Free: An Abolitionist Framework Applied To All Things, Women’s Center for Creative Work, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Eagle Rock
Industrious: Folke, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Talking Photography with Steve McCurry, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 10–11:30am.
Beast: Masquerade, Riverside Art Museum (Riverside), 7–11pm.
Saturday, February 2
Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades
The Future of Palmyra in the Digital Age, Getty Villa, 2–4:30pm.
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Sal Taylor Kydd Janus Rising, Gallery 169, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
Poetic Union of Mother & Son, Beyond Baroque, 2pm.
Fantastic Four: Bob Branaman, Gay Summer Sadow Rick, Catherine Ruane, Mike Street, Beyond Baroque, 2–5pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Torquato Says, "Love More...", FATHOM Gallery, 7–11pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Hammer Projects: Tschabalala Self, Hammer Museum, 11am–5pm.
Jérôme Bel: Gala, UCLA, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Closing Reception for No Permanence Is Ours: Jane Brucker & Park Chel-Ho (featuring a performance by Jane Brucker), Baik Art, 6–8pm.
Kisung Koh: Way of Life II, Thinkspace, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Live Painting even with Ash Almonte, Artspace Warehouse, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
K-CON, LACE, 1–6pm.
Danny Fox book release and installation, there-there, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Koreatown
ARTISTS TALK: Nina Palomba, Stephen Levey, Jennifer Verge, Pastey Whyte, Gabba Gallery, 1pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Spine: Madeline Hollander, Eva LeWitt, Ragen Moss performance, JOAN, 3–6pm. Also February 3.
Openings and Events in Leimert Park
Time is Running Out of Time: Experimental Film and Video from the L.A. Rebellion & Today, Art + Practice, 2–5pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Justin Lowman, Windows: A four-part project over the course of a year, The Homer Project, 6:24–9:24am and 3:21–6:21 pm.
TOTEMISTS, LY Los Angeles, 5–8pm.
Pierre Guyotat & Christoph von Weyhe, The Box, 6–9pm.
Derek Fordjour and Tau Lewis, Night Gallery, 7–10pm.
Zhang Ruyi: Bonsai and Kelly Akashi: Figure Shifter, Ghebaly Gallery, 7–10pm.
Maura Brewer and Paul Pescador: Groundhog’s Day, NAVEL, 8–10pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Introduction to Prison Industrial Complex & Abolition workshop, Women’s Center for Creative Work, 11am–3pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Dena Robertson: Impact, Keystone Art Space, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Year of the Pig/Boar Exhibition, Art Salon Chinatown, 5–7pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Chinese New Year Festival, The Huntington, 10am–5pm. Continues February 3.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Imagination Dwells Here, Southern California Children’s Museum, 9:30am–4:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Publishing Against the Grain and Cathy Akers: A Utopia for Some: Morningstar and Wheeler’s Ranches Reconsidered, Pitzker College Art Galleries (Claremont), 2–4pm.
X-TRA Forum #5: One Text Two Minutes, Pitzker College Art Galleries (Claremont), 2–4pm.
JEFFREY VALLANCE: BLINKY THE FRIENDLY HEN 40TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION, CSUN Main Art Gallery (Northridge), 4–6pm.
HER CONCERT, Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), 7–10pm.
Sunday, February 3
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Tabari Lake Quintet | Performance at Sam First Bar, 18th Street Arts Center, Sam First Bar, 8 and 9:30pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
United States–Saudi Relations, Hammer Museum, 2pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Power of Pattern: Central Asian Ikats from the David and Elizabeth Reisbord Collection, LACMA, 10am–7pm.
Talk: Artist Laura Anderson Barbata on Social Justice and Artistic Practice: The Story of Julia Pastrana, LACMA, 1pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Rebecca Lieb: My Trash, Jan Weenix, 12–4pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
Nancy Shaver & Emi Winter: Gathering texture, following shape and Jim Drain: Half a Hole, Parker Gallery, 2–4pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
BEFRIENDING HYPEROBJECTS, NAVEL, 6pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Family Art Day, University Art Museum, CSU Long Beach (Long Beach), 1–3pm.
Reading and Conversation: Maggie Nelson, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 2:30–4pm.
Monday, February 4
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Film: Birds of Passage, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Madison Brookshire: Pure Time, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $6–12.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Kip's Desert Book Club: Death Valley Scotty by Mabel, Mother House (Joshua Tree), 7pm.
Tuesday, February 5
Openings and Events in Westwood
Speaking Truth to Power: From Thomas to Kavanaugh, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Pontormo: Miraculous Encounters and Marks of Collaboration: Drawings in Context, Getty Center, 10am–5:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Film: Easy Rider, LACMA, 1pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Adia Millett: Breaking Patterns, California African American Museum, 10am–5pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Rachel Kushner presents James Benning, ArtCenter College of Design, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Art@Work: a New Gallery, Angels Gate Cultural Center, 6–8pm.
Wednesday, February 6
Openings and Events in Westwood
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT: ACTIVISM & TRANSFORMATION THROUGH THE ARTS, AN EVENING WITH FAVIANNA RODRIGUEZ, UCLA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
L.A. Bridges and Artisans, Fine Arts Gallery | West Los Angeles College, 6–7pm.
Quote Unquote Collective in association with Why Not Theatre: MOUTHPIECE, CAP UCLA, 8pm. Through February 10.
Openings and Events Downtown
Tslil Tsemet: BEFORE WE SAY GOODBYE, 939 Maple Ave 90015, #200, 6–11pm.
Alexandra Leykauf, SCI-ARC, 7pm.
Artist Talk: Noa Yekutieli, Track 16, 7pm.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
The Future of Music in Los Angeles, Bootleg Theatre, 12–6pm.