Thursday, May 2
Openings and Events in Venice
Pat Thomas & Robin Lane, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
MFA #4, UCLA, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events in Century City
Photoville LA, Annenberg Space for Photography, 5–9pm. Through May 5.
An Evening with Lynsey Addario and John Moore, Annenberg Space for Photography, 7pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Arnold Newman - Mary Ellen Mark, Fahey/Klein Gallery, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
CraftNight: Radical Ceramics Workshop with POT, Craft Contemporary, 7–9pm. $15.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Garage Exchange: Constanze Schweiger and 69 Continuous Composition, Mackey Apartments & Garage Top, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA presents Kevin Jerome Everson, MOCA Grand Avenue, 7pm. $10–15.
Gallery talk: Eric Hanks, The Broad, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Perpetual Burn, Werkartz, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Look.At.Us Issue 2 Release Party, Bad Dog, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Art Matters: Matisse’s Hands, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 4:30–6pm.
School of Art Visiting Lecture Series: Adrian Wong, CalArts (Valencia), 5–7pm.
Artswalk, Riverside Art Museum (Riverside), 6–9pm.
Quire of Voyces, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 6:30–7pm.
How to Collect Great Art on a Shoestring New Release Book Signing with David Gersh, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 6:30pm.
Friday, May 3
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Back to Back: Artist-led Tours of Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary @ CAAM and Charles White: A Retrospective @ LACMA, California African American Museum and LACMA, 2–5pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Guy Bourdin / Selections, AFP, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Back to Back: Artist-led Tours of Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary @ CAAM and Charles White: A Retrospective @ LACMA, California African American Museum and LACMA, 2–5pm.
Flood, Natural History Museum, 5–10pm.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The Conspiracy of Art: Part I, Château Shatto, 6–9pm.
Paper Fashion Gala & Runway Show, Self Help Graphics, 6–10pm. $125–250.
Bridging The Divide: Tom Bradley And The Politics Of Race, Skid Row History Museum and Archive, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Gardens: A Group Show, LAST Projects, 7–11pm.
Openings and Events in Glassell Park
Davis & Davis: Hauling Ice, elephant, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
CalArts World Music and Dance Festival 2019, CalArts (Valencia). Through May 5.
Saturday, May 4
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Bradley Hankey: Watch The Sunset with Me and Clay Vorhes: Dessert Counters, Skidmore Contemporary Art, artist talk, 3pm; reception, 4–6pm.
Fortoul Brothers: Cultivation, NO FREE BREAD GALLERY, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Omniaudience, Hammer Museum, 1:30–5pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Leonardo at the Getty, Getty Center, 3–4:30pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Otomo Yoshihide & David Novak In Conversation, Blum & Poe, 2–4pm.
Music at the Wende: SASSAS (Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound Presents TBA), Wende Museum, 3pm.
MELODIE McDANIEL: RIDING THROUGH COMPTON BOOK SIGNING + CONVERSATION WITH AMELIA FLEETWOOD, MAYISHA AKBAR, Arcana: Books on the Arts, 4–6pm.
Fahamu Pecou: Trapademia and Melissa Casey: New Work, Kopeikin Gallery, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Grove
DAPPER DERBYWARE: FASCINATORS & COUTURE HEADWARE WORKSHOP, Craft in America, 1–4pm. $100.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
feketePROJECTS: anatomy of a bee, we live in space, 2pm.
Johanna Breiding | Souvenir and CONRAD RUIZ | BLACK, RED AND DEADLY, Ochi Projects, 6–9pm.
Amanda Valdez: Wild Child, The Landing, 6–9pm.
SYMPATHETIC MAGIC, Big Pictures L.A., 7–11pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
ARTICLE, Craft Contemporary, 11am–5pm.
Performance: Portrait of Charles White, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Koreatown
Exquisite, Gabba Gallery, 7–11pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Pavement Nymphs and Roadside Flowers: Prostitutes in Paris After the Revolution Curator walk-through and talk, Steve Turner, 4pm.
Homeward LA, LACE, 4pm. $20.
Openings and Events Downtown
Gaëlle Choisne artist talk & closing performance, The Mistake Room, 3pm.
Tell Me A Story and I'll Sing You A Song Artists Panel and Walkthrough – Artists’ Panel Discussion and Walk-through, Charlie James Gallery, 3–5pm.
Eric Wesley: TIMBUCTOO, Pio Pico, 4–8pm.
Alfredo Romero: Vestiges of Our Times, Simard Bilodeau Contemporary, 5–8pm.
Cliff Benjamin: Corpus, Jason Vass, 5–7pm.
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, JOAN, 7–9pm.
EL GATO MONTES: THE WILDCAT, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Honda Rivera: BELOVED., Leiminspace, 1–6pm.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Daniel Gerwin: All Joy and No Fun, river, 2–5pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
SAICOBAB and Yoshihide Otomo, Zebulon, 2–4pm.
Otomo Yoshihide and SAICOBAB, Zebulon, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Capoeira Angola Workshop with Guest Mestre Cabello, Pieter, 10am–3pm. Continues May 5.
smoky counsel: floating fire on the river anger workshop: Shruti Bala, Pieter, 8:30–10pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Fiber Arts Day, The Huntington, 10am–5pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
ROBOT REMIX, sp[a]ce, 7–10pm.
Portraiture in the Norton Simon, Norton Simon Museum, 1–2pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
SOUNDS OF THE AMERICAS, Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), 7–10pm.
The Arnoldis: Selected Works by Charles Arnoldi & Natalie Arnoldi, Porch Gallery (Ojai), conversation, 4–5pm; reception, 5–7pm.
NOW MORE THAN EVER, Teresita de la Torre: antes muerta que sencilla, and Lucas Murgida: None of This is Real: an evolving project - Phase 5, CSUF Grand Central Art Center (Santa Ana), 7–10pm.
Let's Talk About Food, ESMoA (El Segundo), 1–3pm.
Renée Petropoulos: Experts and Amateurs Directed Scores Workshop, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), workshop, 11am; performance, 2pm.
Sunday, May 5
Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades
The Villa Council Presents: Personal Data, Online Privacy, and Fake News—According to the Greeks, Getty Villa, 3pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Family Flicks Film Series: The Music Man, Hammer Museum, 11am.
India’s Subterranean Stepwells: Photographs by Victoria Lautman, Fowler Museum, 12–5pm.
Openings and Events in Bel Air
Cross Sections: A Day of Art Events, AJU, 10am–2pm.
Orr Herz: Compressor Cycle, American Jewish University, 12–2pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Isaac Julien: Playtime and Frank Stella: Selections from the Permanent Collection, LACMA, 10am–7pm.
Artist Walkthrough—Charles White: A Retrospective with Ulysses Jenkins and Gary Lloyd, LACMA, 11am.
Collecting Images: A Panel Discussion, Craft Contemporary, 3pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Oral Histories of Environmental Resistance, LACE, 2–4pm.
MAXIMILIAN SCHMOETZER + NINA WIESNAGROTZKI: REBELLION, FROM THE DESK OF LUCY BULL, 5–8pm.
Los Angeles Filmforum presents Kevin Jerome Everson, Egyptian Theatre, 7:30pm. $6–10.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Dr. Cynthia Wang and Nevin Kallepalli, LACA, 7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Gary Lang in conversation with Sarah Jones, Wilding Cran, 2pm.
CAAM Reads! While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement, California African American Museum, 3–4:30pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
Adam Rabinowitz: Hello Earth, Bozo Mag, 1–7pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Cole Sternberg Solo Exhibition Book Singing & Closing Reception, Peter Blake Gallery, 12–2pm.
CINCO DE DOGGO, Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), 12–4pm.
Renée Petropoulos: Experts and Amateurs Hannah Arendt Table Reading with Fred Dewey, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 2pm.
Monday, May 6
Openings and Events Downtown
Between Three Worlds: Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $6–12.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Raphaele Cohen-Bacry: Folded-Unfolded, Newport Beach Central Library gallery, 9am–9pm.
KIP'S DESERT BOOK CLUB: BONELIGHT BY MARY SOJOURNER, Glass Outhouse Art Gallery (Wonder Valley), 7pm.
Tuesday, May 7
Openings and Events in Brentwood
MONUMENTALITY, Getty Center, 9am–5:30pm. Continues May 8.
Dance of Malaga, Getty Center, 7pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Tuesday Matinee: True Grit, LACMA, 1pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
FURTH YASHAR &: Peter Shire: Good Taste, Farrow & Ball, 12–4pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective, California African American Museum, 10am–5pm.
THE ORDER OF NATURE: Science Fiction, Ghebaly Gallery, 7pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, The Huntington, 7:30pm.
Wednesday, May 8
Openings and Events in Westwood
The Prosecutors, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Theaster Gates: Dance of Malaga, Getty Center, 7–8:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
The 57th Annual Press-Enterprise Riverside County High School Art Show, Riverside Art Museum (Riverside), 6:30–8pm.