Thursday, May 19
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Siavash Jaraiedi: Dance of Silence, ADVOCARTSY, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
The Un-Private Collection: Takashi Murakami + Benoit Pagotto + Ed Schad, The Broad, 7:30pm.
Mark-n-Sparks: The Most Beautiful Home...Maybe, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $8–25. Through May 21.
Openings and Events in Long Beach
Lex Morgan Lancaster: Dragging, Flaming, Glitching Queer Abstraction and the work of Linda Besemer, California State University, 6:30pm.
Openings and Events Online
BP (Before Pandemic | Online Performance with Angela Washko), 18th Street Arts Center, 12pm.
Friday, May 20
Openings and Events in Venice
Married to the Word: A Reading with Lou Mathews & Alison Turner, Beyond Baroque, 8–10pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Chasing the Eccentrics: Takashi Murakami in Conversation with Etsuko Price about Edo-period Painting, Creativity, and Collecting, JAPAN HOUSE, 4:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
HI, SOLO #11: Organized with Alexsa Durrans and Miles Brenninkmeijer, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, through May 21.
Saturday, May 21
Openings and Events in Malibu
Gwynn Murrill: Animal Nature, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, 4–7pm. Through July 31.
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Ivan Seal: Today Rots Through Tomorrow and Liam Fallon: On the Other Side of a Locked Door, Richard Heller Gallery, 3–5pm. Through June 25.
Spring Open House & Studios, 18th Street Arts Center, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
James Spooner's L.A. Book Launch: "The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere", Beyond Baroque, 5pm. $5–15.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Exhibition Walk-through: Gassia Armenian on Communication Systems in a Global Context, Fowler Museum, 1pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Off the 405: Zsela, Getty Center, 6pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Alec Egan: Look Out and Mark Ryan Chariker: Lost Hours, Anat Ebgi, 6–8pm. Through June 25.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Charlotte Hallberg: Sharper Still and Quentin James McCaffrey: Limina, Ochi Aux, 5–8pm. Through July 2.
Benjamin Echeverria, Benevento, 5–7pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
JP Munro: Rainbow Bridge, Clare Grill: Oyster, and Falk Gernegross: Connected, M+B, 6–8pm. Through June 30.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Jacci Den Hartog and Ashton Cooper in conversation, STARS, 2pm.
Ken Gun Min: Silverlake Dog Park, Shulamit Nazarian, 5–8pm. Through June 25.
Openings and Events Downtown
Days of Rage, ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, 3:30–5pm.
Black Ark: Gary Simmons and Elvis Mitchell in Conversation, Hauser & Wirth, 4pm.
Gregory Michael Hernandez: Akedah Altar and Hannah Van Bart: New Paintings, Vielmetter Los Angeles, 5–7pm. Through July 2.
Fawn Rogers: Your Perfect Plastic Heart, Wilding Cran, 5:30–7:30pm. Through June 25.
Amelia Carley: Thinking About Forgetting, Otra Vox, 6–9pm. Through June 12.
Bug Fair, Natural History Museum, through May 22.
Takashi Murakami: Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow and This Is Not America's Flag, The Broad, through September 25.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Community & Unity: second annual People’s Kite Festival, Los Angeles State Historic Park, 2–6pm.
Hollywood, Camera, Action!, Tierra del Sol Gallery, 6–9pm. Through July 9.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Spring Salute to Sidney Poitier!, ARRAY, 1–4pm.
Openings and Events in Silver Lake
Masamitsu Shigeta: Walking Around, Tyler Park Presents, 5–8pm. Through June 25.
Suzanne Warren: OR, 2413 Hyperion [project space], 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Open Studios, Keystone Art Space, 5–9pm.
Openings and Events in Glassell Park
ETHAN COOK: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog, Nino Mier, through June 15.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
how we are in time and space: films and videos by Nancy Buchanan, Marcia Hafif, Babsi Loisch, and Jennifer West, Armory Center for the Arts, 1pm.
Openings and Events in San Pedro
May Family Art Workshop, Angels Gate Cultural Center, 1pm.
Openings and Events Online
how we are in time and space: films and videos by Nancy Buchanan, Marcia Hafif, Babsi Loisch, and Jennifer West, Los Angeles Filmforum and Armory Center for the Arts, 1pm.
Sunday, May 22
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Mining Peace in a Troubled World and How Artists Survive Part of Collective Acts of Peace, 18th Street Arts Center, 3–5pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Andrea Fraser: This meeting is being recorded and A Decade of Acquisitions of Works on Paper – Part II, Hammer Museum, through June 9.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Yasmine Amitai- Murro's Artist Talk, Matter Studio Gallery, 2–4pm.
Openings and Events in Inglewood
RADICAL DAWN, Luna Anais Gallery, 1–8pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Nadia Lee Cohen: HELLO, My Name Is, Deitch, through July 9.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Los Angeles Filmforum presents BIOGENESIS: 16mm Films on the Origins of Weird Life, 2220 Arts + Archives, 7:30pm. $8-12.
Openings and Events Downtown
Family Fun Sunday: Creative Coloring, California African American Museum, 11:30am–3:30pm.
Los Angeles Poverty Department: Come Together presentations and Visual art by Creative I and Piece by Piece, Inner City Arts, 2–5pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
The Sound of Stars: Parallel Stories with Jake Heggie, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 3pm.
Monday, May 23
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Wadada Leo Smith's RedKoral Quartet, LAXART, 8pm. Also May 24.
Openings and Events Downtown
Los Otros: The Kalampag Tracking Agency, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $5–12.
Tuesday, May 24
Openings and Events in Westwood
Share the Mic: Printing and Activism in Los Angeles, Fowler Museum, 5pm.
Openings and Events in Long Beach
ABSTRACT ART BEYOND THE FRAME: A CONVERSATION WITH PATRICK FRANK, PHD, MOLAA, 11am–12:15pm.
Wednesday, May 25
Openings and Events Downtown
Curatorial Tour of Matthew Thomas: Enlightenment, California African American Museum, 2pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Pieter Open Air Studio, Lewis Macadams Riverfront Park, 12–3pm.
Openings and Events Online
Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565–1898), Getty Center, 4pm.