Thursday, November 4
Openings and Events in Brentwood
ReEmerge: A LACE Benefit Art Auction, private home, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Jane Margarette: Calls from a Dominant Dream and Yotam Menda Levy: Demon Sealers, UCLA, 5–8pm. Through November 18.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
Richard Avedon: Ten Exhibition Prints from In the American West, Gagosian, 4–7pm. Through December 18.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Phil Stern & Bob Willoughby: Picture’s Up, Fahey/Klein Gallery, through January 8, 2022.
Openings and Events Downtown
The We in Me: Embodying Empathy, The Box, 6–9pm.
Kelly Akashi: Faultline, Ghebaly, 6–9pm. Through December 4.
Openings and Events in Eagle Rock
Performative Lecture by Mandy Harris Williams, Oxy Arts, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Taste the Gardens, The Huntington, 5–7:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Keith Haring in 3-D: Graffiti and Beyond, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 3pm.
Art & Nature, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), through November 7.
A Fanciful World: Jessie Arms Botke, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), through January 16, 2022.
Experience 49: blue/s, ESMoA (El Segundo), through March 26, 2022.
Openings and Events Online
Keith Haring in 3-D: Graffiti and Beyond, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 3pm.
Frankly Jazz, UCLA, 4pm.
Friday, November 5
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Francesco Clemente: Twenty Years of Painting: 2001-2021, Vito Schnabel Gallery, through January 16, 2022.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Adam Stamp: bfs&afft, O-Town House, 5–9pm. Through January 8, 2022.
Openings and Events Downtown
3 Artists in conversation with Dulce Soledad Ibarra, USC Fisher Museum of Art, 4–5pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Art & Nature Keynote Lecture with Dr. Daniel Lewis, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 7pm. $25–30.
Saturday, November 6
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Gronk and Woods Davy, Craig Krull Gallery, 4–6pm. Through December 18.
Openings and Events in Venice
Poetry & Oral Histories: How to Honor Memory with Cynthia Guardado, Beyond Baroque, 11am–2pm.
MIKAEL OWUNNA: Reconstruction of the Primordial House, Iris Project, 2–5pm. Through December 19.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Brendan Lott: Looking In and Looking Out + Pascal Shirley | Blue Skies and Golden Sunshine All along the Way, Walter Maciel Gallery, 2–7pm. Through December 23.
Penny Slinger: 50/50, Umar Rashid: En Garde / On God, and Sonia Gomes: When the Sun Rises in Blue, Blum & Poe, through December 18.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
2021 Art+Film Gala, LACMA.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Anna Valdez: My Own Private Arcadia and b chehayeb: horses in my chanclas, OCHI Projects, 2–4pm. Through December 18.
Funhouse: A Celebration of Los Angeles Painting, r d f a, 2–5pm. Through November 20.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Alone Together: Ari Marcopoulos and Joe McPhee, LAXART, 12pm.
Wolfgang Tillmans: Concrete Column, Regen Projects, 6–8pm. Through December 23.
Ilana Savdie: Entrañadas, Kohn Gallery, 6–8pm. Through January 29, 2022.
Hannah Hughes: Zeroed, LIBERTINE, 6–9pm. Through December 19.
Self-Addressed, Deitch Projects, through December 23. Reception November 7, 1–6pm.
Laura Lima: Six Feet Over, through January 22, 2022.
Openings and Events Downtown
Betye Saar Art Box Family Fun, California African American Museum, 2–3pm.
On The Ground: 2020 Protest & Untold Stories of Los Angeles, Art Share L.A., 5–8pm.
Holy Squash: Jibz Cameron, Jackie Rines, Barbara T. Smith, Cirrus Gallery, 5–7pm. Through January 8, 2022.
Griffin McPartland and Paul Urich: PARANOID TIERS, THESE DAYS, 6–8pm.
HERAKUT and Bennett Slater, Corey Helford Gallery, through December 11.
Grant Levy-Lucero: Reflections, Anne Libby: See Me So, Paul Heyer: Naked, and Elizabeth Jaeger: Piece of Cake, Night Gallery, through December 11.
Andre Magaña, Kyung-Me, Wanda Koop, Nour Mobark, Sophie Friedman-Pappas, in lieu, through December 18.
Nicole Eisenman: Man at the Center of Men, Vielmetter Los Angeles, through February 20, 2022.
Black Quantum Futurism: CPT Reversal, REDCAT, through March 5.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
M. A. Guevara: Harmonic Oscillation, Human Resources, through November 28.
Zines del Sol, Tierra del Sol Gallery, 6–9pm. Through December 23.
Eunsoo Jeong: From Korea, Leiminspace, 6–9pm. Through December 10.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Kate Durbin, Morgan Parker, Caribbean Fragoza, Stephen Van Dyk, Poetic Research Bureau, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Glassell Park
Cara Levine & Alee Peoples: Big Knot, Elephant, 12–4pm. Through December 18.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Flower Arranging: American Autumn Still Life, The Huntington, 10am–3pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Community-based Practice in Cultural Heritage Conservation: The Kamehameha I Sculpture of Hawai’i, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 1–2pm.
Art & Nature Gala 2021, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 5:30pm.
REIMAGINED, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (Santa Ana), 6–10pm. Through November 27.
Openings and Events Online
Poetry & Oral Histories: How to Honor Memory with Cynthia Guardado, Beyond Baroque Literary | Arts Center, 11am–2pm. $70–75.
Manifesto Armado (Armed Manifesto), LACE, 5–7pm.
2021 Virtual Gala, 18th Street Arts Center, 5–6pm.
Sunday, November 7
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Fall Auction, SANTA MONICA AUCTIONS, 11am–6pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
In Conversation: Amy Sherald and Elaine Welteroth, LACMA, 6–7pm.
Black American Portraits and The Obama Portraits Tour, LACMA, through January 2, 2022.
Openings and Events in Elysian Park
5 for 40, 470 Park Row Drive, 1pm.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Leonardo Bravo: Constant Relation, Stairwell LA, 2–4pm. Through December 5.
Openings and Events Downtown
Becoming Jane: The Evolution of Dr. Jane Goodall, Natural History Museum, through April 17, 2022.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
Joan Brown: The End of a Crazy Summer & Other Personal Reflections and Anna Helm: The Fourth Quarter, Parker Gallery, 2–4pm. Through January 8, 2022.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
Ramiro Hernandez: An Ideal for Living, BOZOMAG, 12–5pm.
Openings and Events in Glendale
Bringing Stories to Light on Broadway, Museum of Neon Art, 7pm.
Openings and Events Online
Underground Movies, Parts 1–3, Los Angeles Filmforum, 4pm.
Virtual Exhibition Walkthrough with Pouya Afshar, Craft Contemporary, 5pm.
Tuesday, November 9
Openings and Events Online
5 Questions, 5 Artists: Reframing Portraiture | Jordan Casteel, LACMA, 12–1pm.
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker, Library Foundation of Los Angeles, 5pm.
Wednesday, November 10
Openings and Events Downtown
The Gaze: Barry Jenkins and Joi McMillon in Conversation, California African American Museum, 7–8:30pm.
Openings and Events Online
Curator's Choice: Feather Embellishments in Mexican "Huipiles", Fowler Museum, 11am–12pm.
Black Joy and Resilience Film Series—Summer of Soul and Post-Screening Conversation, LACMA, 5–7pm.
Black Joy and Resilience Film Series—Mr. SOUL! and Post-Screening Conversation, LACMA, 5–7pm.
Imaginaries of LA: Umar Rashid and Sandy Rodriguez, Getty Center, 5–6:30pm.
Lecture: Victor Jones, SCI-Arc, 7pm.