Thursday, May 6
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Regan Russell: Something Out There Waiting for Us, Gabba Gallery, through May 22.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Ernest C. Withers: I'll Take You There, Fahey/Klein Gallery, through June 5.
Openings and Events Online
Artists Tobias Pils and Michael Williams in conversation, David Kordansky Gallery, 11am.
Book Launch: Michael Oren’s To All Who Call in Truth, American Jewish University, 12pm.
Virtual Art Talk: Art + Materiality, Venice Family Clinic, 12pm.
Revisiting One Life: Marian Anderson Art Matters Lecture with Leslie Ureña, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 3pm.
Artist Talk: Richard Nielsen & John Collins, Track 16, 4pm.
Creating the Compassionate City, Los Angeles Poverty Department, 4pm.
Frankly Jazz: Three Preserved Episodes, UCLA, 4pm.
In Conversation | Arts Writing & Publishing, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, 4pm.
Against Criticism: Notes on Decipherment and the Force of Art, Hammer Museum, 5pm.
Reading: Sarah Kessler reads from Six Scripts for Not I, LACMA, 5pm.
Conversation with Misty Copeland and Dada Masilo, The Music Center and Dance Magazine, 5pm.
Bring-Your-Own-Craft (B.Y.O.C.), Craft Contemporary, 5pm.
Against Eden: A Threshold Conversation with Luis “xago” Juárez and Enid Baxter Ryce, Armory Center for the Arts, 6pm.
Artist talk: Ray Howlett, Museum of Neon Art, 6:30pm.
Beyond This Moment: A Beyond Baroque Virtual Benefit, Beyond Baroque, 7–8pm. $25 and up.
Film Screening and Conversation—Phoenix, LACMA, through May 8.
The Annual Student Art Show, Long Beach City College Art Gallery, through June 4.
Friday, May 7
Openings and Events Downtown
Their Body Became (an Offering), Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 6:30pm.
Dorian Wood and Carmina Escobar: 'Sed (Thirst'), REDCAT, through May 30.
Openings and Events Online
Artful Affairs: Auction 80, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, through May 21.
Saturday, May 8
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Emil Alzamora: Waymaker,
Lowell Ryan Projects, through June 19.
Sarah Crowner: Landscape, Kayne Griffin, through July 2.
Tara Walters: Dropping In, Kristina Kite Gallery, through July 3.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Jon Key: Lean On Me and Kiyomi Quinn Taylor: a river gets wide, Steve Turner, through June 19.
Openings and Events Downtown
Cheryl Humphreys: In Color, Otra Vox, through June 5.
HK Zamani: Protagonists & Erasures, PRJCT LA, through June 5.
Keith Walsh: Walsh and Young, PRJCTLA, through June 5.
Ariel Dill: Four O’Clocks and Julika Lackner: Twilight, Ladies’ Room, through July 24.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Mona Kuhn: Works: Book Signing and Artist Talk, Porch Gallery (Ojai), 3–5pm.
Max Cleary: I Heard the Twig Snap, next weekend, Riviera Parking, through May 9.
Openings and Events Online
Home Is Where the Haunts Are: An Epistolary Workshop with Sabrina Tarasoff, Hammer Museum, 11am.
Arts Learning Lab @ Home: Flores de Papel with Carmela Morales, 18th Street Arts Center, 11am–12:30pm.
Virtual Family Workshop with Joan Zamora (Ni Santas), Self Help Graphics and Art, 1pm.
Workshop@PAM: Pop-Up Flower Card for Mother's Day, USC Pacific Asia Museum, 1pm.
Unpacking Empire and Ourselves III: Reading, listening and conversation with Gelare Khoshgozaran and Arshia Fatima Haq of Discostan, UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, 2pm.
Virtual Reading of The Normal Heart, ONE Gallery, 5pm.
Into the Deep, Unto the New, Dea Studios, through June 30. Reception, 5pm.
Virtually Cool, Otis College of Art and Design, 7pm.
Sunday, May 9
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Making Time, Tomoshibi: Glass Works by Kazuki Takizawa, Cathy Cooper: Dramatis Personae, Craft Contemporary, through September 12.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Patricia Treib: Sleeve Variations, Overduin & Co., through June 19.
Openings and Events Online
New Moon Realness en Tiempos de Quebrantamiento: Estrellx Supernova, Pieter, 4:44–7:44pm.
Monday, May 10
Openings and Events Online
Leading Los Angeles: A Conversation with LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, American Jewish University, 12pm.
Lunch & Learn: Conserving Striking Iron, Fowler Museum, 12pm.
taisha paggett: com.pleats.we (housecoat), REDCAT, through May 22.
Tuesday, May 11
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
The Los Angeles Open 2021, Chung-Ping Cheng, Bruce Sanders, Rhonda C R Burton, and Sean Yang, TAG Gallery, through June 5.
Openings and Events Downtown
Maysha Mohamedi: Sacred Witness Sacred Menace, Parrasch Heijnen, through June 12.
Openings and Events Online
Seeing/Speaking—A Creative Writing Workshop with Chris Wells, LACMA, 4pm.
Virtual Art Talk: Art + Education, Venice Family Clinic, 12pm.
Politics of the Invisible Man Group Discussion, Hammer Museum, 5pm.
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, ALOUD a program of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, 5pm.
Black in Mayberry Premiere, ESMoA, 7:30pm.
Wednesday, May 12
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Iris Kensmil: Something Still Comes Back, Matthew Brown Los Angeles, through June 11.
Openings and Events Downtown
Entwined Roots: Symbiotic Relationships, Wonzimer , through June 4.
Openings and Events Online
Black in Mayberry Panel Discussion, ESMoA, 4:30pm.
Queering Technique, Reclaiming Space, & Decolonizing the Body: Jay Carlon, Pieter, 6:30pm.