Thursday, May 20
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Grant Shumate: Various Positions, Dries Van Noten, through June 19.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Fixed Imagination, Stanley's, through June 20.
Openings and Events Online
His Excellency Omar Saif Ghobash of the UAE Discusses the Abraham Accords, American Jewish University, 9:30am.
Engaging Lived Religion: Muslim Communities in LA, Fowler Museum, 12pm.
Workshop@PAM: Flower Mandala Drawings, USC Pacific Asia Museum, 4pm.
Reduction Screenprinting Techniques, Self Help Graphics & Art, 4pm.
The Labor of Good Governance: Cultivation Real and Imagined in the Imperial Garden of Clear Ripples in 18th-Century China, The Huntington, 4pm.
Together in Contradiction: Asian American Unity Now | A Roundtable Discussion with Dan Kwong, Carol Zou, Janelle Wong, and Dan S. Wang, 18th Street Arts Center, 5pm.
Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in WW II, Library Foundation of Los Angeles, 6pm.
Active Voice Part 3: Home Studio, Teaching Art, and Learning During the Pandemic, Armory Center for the Arts, 6pm.
Film Night: Act of Violence, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 6pm.
Social Sparks: A conversation about celebrating resilience and fortifying communities through art with Tanya Aguiñiga, Grand Park, 6pm.
Arte, Música, and Teatro in the Movimiento, Riverside Art Museum (Riverside), 6–8pm. $25.
Chitra Ganesh: UCLA Department of Art Lecture, UCLA, 6:30pm.
Film Screening and Conversation—Undine, LACMA, through May 22.
Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, through May 27.
Friday, May 21
Openings and Events in Venice
AKEA BRIONNE BROWN: In the Center, but not Seen, Iris Project, through July 4.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Holly Coulis: Orbit, Philip Martin Gallery, through July 2.
Openings and Events Downtown
Small World LP Release: Robot (Takuji Kogo & John Miller “Singles Collection”), The Box, 7pm.
Openings and Events Online
Art Break: Touching Pictures, Getty Center, 12pm.
Big Read: Native American Beading with Meztli Projects, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1pm.
Graphite XII Launch Party, Hammer Museum, 6pm.
Saturday, May 22
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
INTO THE BLUE, ROSEGALLERY, through August 21.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Andy Kolar | Head in the Clouds/Left Hanging, Walter Maciel Gallery, through August 20.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Wade Guyton: The Undoing, Matthew Marks Gallery, through August 14.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Ring Down the Curtain, Ochi Projects, through June 19.
Openings and Events Downtown
Patrizio di Massimo: Close at Hand, Ghebaly, through June 19.
Danielle Mckinney: Smoke and Mirrors, Night Gallery, through June 19.
Anniversary Group Exhibition Part 2, Corey Helford Gallery, through June 26.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Chouinard Art Institute, Benches (1921 – 1972), Marta, through June 27.
Openings and Events in Glendale
Anthony Miler: WITNESS, Jennifer Rochlin, Bella Foster and Viola Frey, and Adrianne Rubenstein: BARK OF THE TOWN, The Pit, through July 3.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Andrew Freire: ex-tradition acts, Riviera Parking (Santa Barbara), through May 23.
Openings and Events Online
Federico Solmi & Lawrence Weschler in Conversation, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 11am–1:30pm.
The Politics of Street Vendors in Los Angeles, LACMA, 12pm.
GRONK Studio Tour Hosted by Marisela Norte, Craft Contemporary, 1pm.
ANOTHER BODY, Cactus Gallery, 3pm.
Armory 2021 Virtual Benefit, Armory Center for the Arts, 6pm.
2021 Virtual Benefit & Art Auction, Armory Center for the Arts, 6pm.
Spring Show 2021, SCI-Arc, 6pm.
33rd annual Spotlight, The Music Center, 7:30pm.
COLA 2021, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, through July 22.
Sunday, May 23
Openings and Events Online
Material Realities: At Work, Materials & Applications, 10am–12pm.
Conversation on Eat of Me: I am the Savior (1972 with Arnold Kemp, Lynne Tillman and Gregg Bordowitz), JOAN, 2pm.
Monday, May 24
Openings and Events in Venice
Rebecca Campbell: Infinite Density, Infinite Light and Gwen Martin: Nerve Lines and Fever Dreams, L.A. Louver, through July 2.
Openings and Events Online
Provenance Research and Repatriation to African Communities, Fowler Museum, 11am.
Lecture with Eric Höweler and J. Meejin Yoon, UCLA, 12pm.
Please wait here: MFA Second Year Exhibition, UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, through June 4.
Tuesday, May 25
Openings and Events Online
Global Cuisine Cooking Lessons: Dumpling Monster, Fowler Museum, 5pm.
Cooking with LACMA: Chirashi Zushi Inspired by Yoshitomo Nara, LACMA, 6pm.
Wednesday, May 26
Openings and Events Downtown
THE SUPER VILLAINZ: A TAP DANCE ACT FOR THE MODERN AGE, The Music Center, through May 30.
Invisible Sun, The Broad, through October 3.
April Bey: Atlantica, The Gilda Region and Rights and Rituals: The Making of African American Debutante Culture, California African American Museum, through January 17, 2022.
Openings and Events Online
MOLAA Zoom Project: Marta Minujín, Museum of Latin American Art, 11am.
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History, The Huntington, 12pm.
White Supremacy in the West: Immigration and Racial Justice in Southern California, The Huntington, 4pm.
FOWLER TALKS: AN ARTIST’S JOURNEY WITH SORAYA SARAH NAZARIAN, UCLA, 5pm.
We Run the Tides: A Novel, ALOUD a program of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, 5pm.
WE RISE - Healing Centered Art: Many Paths to Wellness, Angels Gate Cultural Center, 6:30–8pm.