Thursday, October 11
Openings and Events in Westwood
Adrian Piper Artist Dialogues: Simon Leung, Hammer Museum, 6pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
Takashi Murakami and Virgil Abloh: MATERIAL TOO, Gagosian, 10am–6pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Open Clay Studio with Eunice Lee, Craft and Folk Art Museum, 11am–1pm. $35–45.
Talk: Gallery Talk: The Art of Looking—Joan Mitchell and Abstract Expressionism, LACMA, 12:30pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Janette Beckman: Mash Up, Fahey/Klein Gallery, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Artist's Walkthrough, USC, 11am–12pm.
Listening to Art with Patricia Smith, California African American Museum, 2–4pm.
From Curators to Producers, The Reef, 6pm.
John Waiblinger: The Beauty of Men, LA Center for Digital Art, 6–9pm.
En Cuatro Patas: Feminist Latinx Performance, The Broad, 8:30pm. $25.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
The 14th Many Winters Gathering of Elders, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 10am–6pm.
A Kind of Song: Reading with Dana Gioia, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 5:30–7pm.
Live! at the Museum: Lavender Bass, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 7pm.
Gendering Memories of Iraq, Pomona College Museum of Art (Claremont), 7pm.
Super Flexible: CalArts MFA2 Group Show, CalArts (Santa Clarita), 8pm.
Friday, October 12
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Ten Again, Euclid, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Century City
Iris Nights: The Photo Ark – A Life's Work: An Evening with Joel Sartore, Annenberg Space for Photography, 6 and 8pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Film Screening: Operation Wedding, 7pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Film: The Sisters Brothers, and conversation with John C. Reilly, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Indigenous Resistance: Maya Intellectuals and Cultural Survival, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
A grammar built with rocks, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries, 5–8pm.
Launch: SUBLEVEL Issue Two The Speculative, The Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, 6–8pm.
LOS ANGELES WATER SCHOOL: YAANGNA (AKA L.A.), Address provided with RSVP, 7–9pm.
Angel City Jazz Festival: Noah Preminger, Myra Melford and Wadada Leo Smith, REDCAT, 8pm.
State of the ART: Skid Row, Los Angeles Poverty Department, 6–9pm.
America's Procession, NAVEL, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Matthew Lax: Brunt Drama, LACA, 6–10pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Closing Reception California Conversations: An Art Show, LAST Projects, 7–11pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
ArtNight Pasadena, various locations, 6–10pm.
Spatial Reality: Artists Explore the Future of XR, sp[a]ce, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
John Sonsini: Daywork: Portraits and FARM FRESH: Narsiso Martinez, Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach), 7–9pm.
Saturday, October 13
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Neha Choksi//Recess with Children workshop, 18th Street Arts Center, 2–4pm.
Kiwis in LA Art Show & Wine, Santa Monica Art Studios, 6–10pm.
Gay Summer Rick 2018: Skyways and Highways, bG Gallery, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Mar Vista
Kevin Hanley: Some Views Abroad, C.Nichols Project, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
The Body Politic: Hilton Als and Paul Sepuya: Intimate Bodies, Getty Center, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Century City
The National Geographic Photo Ark: One Man’s Quest to Document the World’s Animals, Annenberg Space for Photography, 11am–6pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Michael Schmelling, Melissa Catanese, Jake Longstreth, and Ed Panar, Arcana: Books on the Arts, 6pm.
JOSH KEYES: Tempest and LISA ERICSON: Border Crossing, Thinkspace, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Pine & Coil: Pine Needle Basket Workshop with Lisa Young, Craft & Folk Art Museum, 11:30am–5pm. $150–160.
Made to Play: Pamela Weir-Quiton, Craft in America Center, 12–6pm.
Artist talk: Cheryl Dimont: Looking Closer, TAG Gallery, 3pm.
Film: Free Screening—La Grande Sortie, LACMA, 3:30pm.
Alex Prager and Michael Govan, Art Catalogues at LACMA, 4pm.
I DREAM MY PAINTING AND THEN I PAINT MY DREAM, UNIT 5, 11am–6pm.
Openings and Events in Koreatown
James Benning: 31 Friends (October), O-Townhouse, 5–8pm.
Tetralogy, Gabba Gallery, 7–11pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Positioner, Matthew Marks Gallery, 3–5pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Research Group Series: Variety of Futurisms, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), 12–1:30pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
30th-Anniversary Celebration, Autry Museum of the American West, 6pm–12am.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Reuben Gordon, Wonzimer Gallery, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
38th Anniversary Brewery Artwalk, The Brewery, 11am–6pm. Continues October 14.
Artist Talk — Let ‘im Move You: Intervention with jumatatu m. poe, Jermone “Donte” Beacham, and d. Sabela grimes, The Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, 3–5pm.
Karen Green's Frail Sister, Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth, 4-6pm.
A grammar built with rocks, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries, 5–8pm.
2018 Imagine Awards Honoring Craig and Marion Benell, City Market Social House, 7pm.
Undercurrents, 515, 7–9pm.
Field of Vision, Monte Vista Projects, 7–10pm.
Robbie Conal: The Cabinet of Horrors, Track 16, 7–10pm.
But we can't say what we've seen, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Reuben Gordon: Lunatics, Wönzimer, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Fabia Panjarian: Surface Slow Deep, River, 2–5pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Invitation / Endless Song, FLAX @ Tin Flats, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Fall 2018 Brewery Artwalk, The Brewery, 11am–6pm. Continues October 14.
MYTHICAL BEASTS, Keystone Art Space, 6–10pm.
Give Plaza, in lieu, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Ellsworth Kelly: From New York to Paris and Back Again, Thrice, Norton Simon Museum, 4–5pm.
Side Street Projects 25th Anniversary Gala, CTRL Collective, 7–10pm. $100.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Laurie Stee, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 12–3pm.
Experience 37: Matriarchs, ESMoA (El Segundo), 5–8pm.
50/50, FIFTY/FIFTY: The Creative Magic of Collaboration, Progress Gallery (Pomona), 6–9pm.
Sunday, October 14
Openings and Events in Westwood
Gala in the Garden, Hammer Museum.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Introduction to Fluxus, Getty Center, 2pm.
Openings and Events in Inglewood
Shelli Tollman: Will I Grow Up?, Cubist Spinoff, 2–6pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Fantastic Fibers: Soft Sculptures with Mimi Haddon / CraftLab Family Workshop, Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1:30–3:3pm. $7–10.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Queer Noise, Jewel’s Catch One, 6–11pm. $35–60.
Openings and Events Downtown
One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art and CAMERON ROWLAND: D37, MOCA Grand Avenue, 11am–5pm.
Cheryl I. Harris, MOCA Grand Avenue, 3pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Workshop: Orgasmic Yoga with Dr. Victoria Reuveni, Pieter, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in El Sereno
KCHUNGFEST 2018, KChung Radio, 2–8pm.
Monday, October 15
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Film: International Documentary Association Screening Series with The New York Times, LACMA, 7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
For Your Consideration Advanced Screening, Downtown Independent, 7:30–9:30pm.
The 4th China Onscreen Biennial, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $9–12.
Tuesday, October 16
Openings and Events in Westwood
10 QUESTIONS: WHAT IS BEAUTY?, UCLA, 6:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Film: Bram Stoker's Dracula, LACMA, 1pm.
Gallery Talk—Personal Connections, LACMA, 1pm.
Cur-ATE—Around the Roman Table, LACMA, 6pm.
Openings and Events in Leimert Park
Points of Access: Curators in Conversation, Art + Practice, 7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Curator's Walkthrough, USC, 12pm.
An Evening with Enrique Martínez Celaya, USC, 7pm.
Tomas Koolhaas, USC, 7pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
John Mason: Firebricks and Shifting Notions of Scale and Process in Sculpture, Scripps College (Claremont), 4:30pm.
Wednesday, October 17
Openings and Events in Westwood
Sister Helen Prejean & Tim Robbins, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Garage Exchange Vienna-Los Angeles SPAN (Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger and Jay Yan), MAK Center Mackey Garage Top, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
EDGAR ARCENEAUX: Until, Until, Until…, Los Angeles Exchange (LAX) Festival, Bootleg Theater, 7pm. $20. Through October 20.