Thursday, November 1
Openings and Events in Westwood
MFA 2019 Preview Exhibition, UCLA, 5–8pm.
Adrian Piper Artist Dialogues: Rhea Anastas, Hammer Museum, 6pm.
Dark Money, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Century City
Photographers on Photography: How the Masters See, Think & Shoot, Annenberg Space for Photography, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Los Angeles, A Migration Haven, La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, 7pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
ITSOFOMO (In the Shadow of Forward Motion), Moran Moran, 11am–6pm.
The Jerusalem Biennale in Los Angeles, LUZ Art LA, 6–8pm.
ER / TRANS, Works by Sandra Peters Book Launch, MAK Center Schindler House, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Vote For Your Lives Rally, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 5:30–7pm.
Life on the Move: Science and Implications of Migration, La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, 6–8:30pm.
Office Hours 2018, Main Museum, 7–9pm.
Conversation@PAM: Cultural Appreciation or Appropriation?, USC, 7–8:30pm.
Margaret Leng Tan, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $20–25.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Workshop: YANG: Part 2 of a 2 Part Qi Gong Series with Laurel Atwell, Pieter, 10am–12pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
CRAFT IN AMERICA: CALIFORNIA, The Huntington, 7:30–9:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Art Matters: Spirantia aera, vivos vultus – Breathing bronze, living faces: the making of portraits at Aphrodisias and Rome, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 4:30–6pm.
Pop-Up Opera, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 5:30–6:30pm.
BALAY/BAHAY: Creating Our Home, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock (Eagle Rock), 8–10pm.
Friday, November 2
Openings and Events in Culver City
Music at the Wende: Jacaranda Music - "Songs of Stones", Wende Museum, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
Dan Colen: High Noon, Gagosian, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
2nd Biennial Scent Fair LA, The Craft & Folk Art Museum, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Ricky Swallow: Shoulders and Ivan Morley: Olvera St., David Kordansky, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Alejandro Piñeiro, there-there, 10am–5pm.
Maynard Monrow: Absurdist Logic, Gavlak, 6–8pm.
Tavares Strachan: Invisibles, Regen Projects, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Curatorial Walkthrough: Los Angeles Freedom Rally, 1963, California African American Museum, 1–2pm.
45th Annual Dia de los Muertos Celebration, Mendez High School, 5–10pm.
DAVID HORVITZ: a n e m o c h o r y, Château Shatto, 6–9pm.
Alex Miller: break room, AM Gallery, 7–10pm.
Aaron Fowler, Ghebaly Gallery, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Atwater Village
Endless Life by Carmina Escobar., Bowtie Project, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Care & Repair: Feminist Spatial Practices with Elke Krasny, Women's Center for Creative Work, 6:30–8:30pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
A×S Festival: City as Wunderkammer opening reception, Armory Center for the Arts, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Art & Nature Keynote Lecture, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), reception, 6pm; lecture, 7pm.
Alissa Solomon: METAL MATRIX, The Animation Guild (Burbank), 6–9:30pm.
Saturday, November 3
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Artist at Work: French Fashion, Getty Center, 1–3pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company: Analogy Trilogy, CAP UCLA, 2pm. Continues November 4.
Deconstructing the Truism of Race as a Social Construct, Hammer Museum, 2pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Chung Sang-hwa & Shin Sung Hy and Darren Bader: Character Limit, Blum & Poe, 4–6pm.
Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley: America Rides the Breakfast Table, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; In Conversation: Mary Reid Kelley & Jenelle Porter, 5pm; conversation, 4pm.
Sophie Lourdes Knight: Everything Counts, Zevitas Marcus, 5–8pm.
Worship of Sticks and Stones, Anat Ebgi, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Art and Film Gala, LACMA.
Informality | An Evening With Ty Stephano, Fathom, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
TEA CEREMONY Mikki & Mysha, Big Pictures L.A., 4pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
DUSTIN HODGES: Soothing Tranquil Energy, Richard Telles Fine Art, 3–6pm.
Unbearable Infinite: Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Gregory Bennett, AA|LA, 6–9pm.
Aaron Fowler, M+B, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Varieties of Futurism, LACE, 12–1:30pm.
LA Tenants Union Workshop: Prop 10 for Artists and Tenants, LACE, 4–6pm.
KATSU: DRONE and Kent O’Connor: New Paintings, Diane Rosenstein, 6–8pm.
Reuven Israel: In Four Acts, Shulamit Nazarian, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Over L.A.: Aerial Accounts, USC, 9am–4pm.
Grand Ave Arts, Grand Avenue, 11am–4pm.
9TH Festival For All Skid Row Artists, San Julian Park, 12–4pm. Continues November 4.
The 2018 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, REDCAT, 3pm.
Bruce Nauman: Prints, Cirrus, 10am–5pm.
Patrice Dworkin: The Bluffs and This Body, Garis & Hahn, 5–8pm.
CIPRIAN MUREŞAN & HUGO WILSON, Nicodim, 6–8pm.
Undercurrents, 515, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
Lauren Satlowski: GADZINAS BELL, ODD ARK LA, 4–8pm.
Openings and Events in Glassell Park
Chelsea Pegram: Le Poisson est Rouge, elephant, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Crafted from the Earth: The Rugged Beauty of Shigaraki Ceramics, Shumei Arts Council, 2–5pm.
NEXUS II, Brand Library and Art Center, 6–10pm.
Opening and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Film: Leaning Into the Wind - Andy Goldsworthy, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 11am.
Nature Into Art, A Conversation, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 2:30pm.
Shoreline Project, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 5:30–7:30pm.
Sunday, November 4
Openings and Events in Brentwood
The Nude on the Road to Perdition during the Renaissance (and Today), Getty Center, 3pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Arts of Africa Festival, Fowler Museum, 12–5pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Bread and Puppet Theater, Blum & Poe, 3 and 4:30pm.
DEWEY NICKS: POLAROIDS OF WOMEN BOOK SIGNING WITH DEWEY NICKS & PUBLISHER TOM ADLER, Arcana Books on the Arts, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Veterans in the Arts and Humanities Day—Celebration and Film Screening, LACMA, 11:30am.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Talk: Artists in conversation with Hamza Walker as part of If I go there, I won't stay there, ltd los angeles, 2pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Propositional Attitudes: Election Extravaganza, LACE, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Swing Left Day of Action, leave from Night Gallery, 9:50am–4:55pm. $10.
Family Story Time, California African American Museum, 1–3pm.
Films by Morgan Fisher followed by a conversation with the artist, REDCAT, 3pm. $8.
CAAM Reads! Parable of the Sower, California African American Museum, 3–4:30pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Calligraphy Demonstration by Tang Qingnian, The Huntington, 2pm.
Openings and Events in Glendale
Step Sister, Heather Rasmussen: Pile / Plié and Tamara Gonzales: Ó Lua, The Pit, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Art & Nature Family Festival, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 2pm.
Cloak and Dagger, Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University (Orange), 3–6pm.
Sandy Rodriguez: Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón and Kathryn Clark: Refugee Stories, Riverside Art Museum (Riverside), 5–7pm; talk, 4pm.
Monday, November 5
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
At Eternity's Gate, and a conversation with Julian Schnabel, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Raha Raissnia: Expanded Film Performances, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $9–12.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Los Angeles Artist Census Presentation and Community Meeting, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Saving the World's Threatened Plant Species, The Huntington, 4:30pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
LASER artist talk and performance, Williamson Gallery, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Kip's Desert Book Club: The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea, Joshua Tree Retreat Center (Joshua Tree), 7pm.
Tuesday, November 6
Openings and Events in Westwood
General Election Polling Place, Hammer Museum, 7am–8pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Hell's Angels, LACMA, 1pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Second Nature Workshop - Nature in Focus: Wildlife Photography, Natural History Museum, 7–9pm. $20–23.
Openings and Events in San Marino
America's Costliest Natural Disaster: Rust, The Huntington, 7:30pm.
Wednesday, November 7
Openings and Events Downtown
Lorcan O’Herlihy, LOHA, USC School of Architecture, 6pm.
Alexandria PDF Library, NAVEL, 7pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Chamber Music Concert: Camerata Pacifica, The Huntington, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Fulcrum Arts Annual Benefit, Carnegie Observatories, 6–9pm. $150–200.