Thursday, March 3
Openings and Events in Westwood
UCLA Department of Art 2022 MFA #1 Exhibition: Luz Carabaño, Blake Jacobsen, Tess Rafael, UCLA, 5–8pm. Through March 11.
First Thursdays, UCLA, 6:30–9:30pm.
Mass of Images: Experimental Music Videos, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Maker Night: Paper Weavings with Alyson Toone, Craft Contemporary, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Archival Intimacies: Queering South/east Asian Diasporas, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries, 6pm.
Elevator Repair Service: Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $8–35. Through March 5.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
EJ Hill in conversation with Paul Holdengräber, Oxy Arts, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Glendale
In Liquid Light, Museum of Neon Art, through March 5.
Openings and Events in Long Beach
In Lak'ech Dance Academy, organizers of the Queer Afro-Latin Dance Festival, MOLAA, 7pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Curated Cocktails, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 6–8pm.
Openings and Events Online
Beyond & Within: On Spiritual Practices & Narrative Forms, Beyond Baroque, 6pm.
Friday, March 4
Openings and Events in Westwood
Ruhr, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Plants with Benefits, Natural History Museum, 5pm.
Saturday, March 5
Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades
Ed Ruscha: MYSTERIES (2021 and Michael Gorman: Tour de Force), Bruce Lurie Gallery, 7–9pm. Through March 29.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Opening Celebration: How Do You See this World?’: The Art of Almighty God, Fowler Museum at UCLA, 6–9pm.
Stemple Pass, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Selected Shorts: It Takes Two, Getty Center, 4 and 7pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Ed Templeton: The Spring Cycle and Ruth Ige, Roberts Projects, through March 5. Reception March 5.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Roy Ben-Shai – "Where Are We When We Think?" and Gabriel Rockhill – "The Power of Aesthetics: Four Tactics of Artistic Intervention", MAK Schindler House, 4pm.
Phil Chang: Pictures, Pigment and Canvas, Chase Wilson: Americana Extravaganzoid: Table Edge World of False Empire: Window Time Thoughts of the Center Game of Spirit: Seeing into the Negative, and Edgar Bryan: Rodeo, M + B, 6–8pm. Through April 2.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Abraham Cruzvillegas: Tres sonetos and Sue Williams, Regen Projects, 6–8pm. Through April 23.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Rhea Carmi & Yoella Razili, The Loft at Liz’s, 3–5pm. Through April 19.
VICTORIA CASSINOVA: Without Ornament, LANGSTON ALLSTON: Blue City, YOUNG-JI CHA: Seesaw, WILLEM HOEFFNAGEL: Mixed Emotions, and JAMIAH CALVIN (aka MIAH THE CREATOR: Brown Sugar), Thinkspace Projects, 6–10pm. Through March 26.
Openings and Events Downtown
Ode to Nature, Gateway to Nature Gallery at El Pueblo de Los Angeles, 10am–3pm. Through March 23.
Larry Dunbar: Hello, Monte Vista Projects, 1–5pm. Through April 12.
ALLAN BENNETTS: POPULAR ELECTRONICS and MARIKA THUNDER: COTILLION, de boer gallery, 4–8pm. Through April 16.
Thomas Dolan: GIMME GIMME THIS, GIMME GIMME THAT, These Days, 6–9pm. Through April 3.
Betbeze and del Sol: Sarcophagus Telephone, The Box, through March 26.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Xandra Ibarra: Nothing lower than I, a solo exhibition, Human Resources, until March 20.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Closing reception: George Sherman, Marta, 12–5pm.
Openings and Events in Glassell Park
Luke Aleckson: Mats [Alpha (Release]), Elephant, 7–10pm. Through March 26.
Openings and Events in Glendale
Yoshito in the Forest, 121 N. Kenwood Street, 11am.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
It's My House!, Porch Gallery (Ojai), 3–6pm.
Sometimes it is a Murmur, Sometimes it is a Pulse, High Desert Test Sites (Joshua Tree), 4:30pm.
SPLIT DIOPTER, Guggenheim Gallery (Orange), 6–10pm.
40th Annual California Cool Art Auction, Laguna Art Museum, (Laguna Beach), 6pm. $160.
YUMI JANAIRO ROTH: SPIN (AFTER SOL LeWITT, CHARLOTTE GINSBORG: 22:22, and JYNX PRADO: INTIMIDATING INTIMACY), Grand Central Art Center (Santa Ana), 7–10pm.
Openings and Events Online
Cruising through Forms: There's More Than Sonnets with Douglas Manuel, 11am–2pm.
Sunday, March 6
Openings and Events in Westwood
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Hammer Museum, 7pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Philosophy Dialogues: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, MAK Schindler House, 4pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
A Reading with Karl Holmqvist, Shakey's Pizza Parlor, 4pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Forged in Fire: Blacksmithing Demonstration, Craft Contemporary, 11am.
Openings and Events Online
Exhibition Walkthrough with Jaishri Abichandani, Craft Contemporary, 11am.
The Stay Home and Read a Book Ball, Library Foundation of Los Angeles, 6am.
Monday, March 7
Openings and Events in Westwood
Trevor / Word is Out, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Desert Research Library Book Club, private home (Twentynine Palms), 7pm.
Openings and Events Online
Exploring Your Subconscious Portal: An Introduction to Hypnosis with Diana Seva, Angels Gate Cultural Center, 7:30pm.
Tuesday, March 8
Openings and Events in Westwood
Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber performs Cosmic Riddem, Esoteric Rambunction & Eclectic Blue Cheer~Conduction #4, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
confirm humanity, Hammer Museum, through March 13.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Philosophy Dialogues: Robin Mackay & Amy Ireland, MAK Schindler House, 4pm.
Openings and Events Online
Caleb Duarte and Umar Rashid in conversation with curator Bill Kelley, Jr., PLATFORM, 5pm.
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times, ALOUD a program of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, 7pm.
Wednesday, March 9
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Anise Hines: Hip Magix: Stir Up that Winter Pot, Lewis MacAdams Riverfront Park, 11:30am. $10–20.
Openings and Events in San Marino
In Conversation with Ourselves: Wright of Derby’s “Air Pump” as a Modern Moral Subject, The Huntington, 7:30–9pm.
Openings and Events Online
G.R.I.T.: Generating Radical Inclusion & Transformation, MOLAA, 6pm.
I Am… Film Series—Summertime and Post-Screening Conversation, LACMA, 7–11pm.