Thursday, October 14
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Fossilized and Realized: La Brea Tar Pits in Art and Popular Culture, La Brea Tar Pits, 6–7pm.
Book launch: Jorge Pardo and Jan Tumlir Conversations, 1301PE, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
FILM SCREENING: THE LOST RECORD, Deitch, 7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Sun & Sea, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, through October 16.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Live! at the Museum: Duo Apollon, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 7pm.
Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1990–2003, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs).
Openings and Events Online
2021 State of the Arts Summit, Arts for LA, 10am–3pm.
The Chinese Massacre of 1871, The Huntington, 4pm.
Controlling the Narrative: Both/And, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 5:30pm. $10.
Friday, October 15
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2021 - The Secret Garden, ITSLIQUID Art Space, through November 5.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
Conrad Egyir: Inauguration and Maya Seas: Between Us, UTA Artist Space, through November 13.
Openings and Events Downtown
LAYERS: The Art of Hadi Salehi's Photography, USC Fisher Museum of Art, 2pm.
Where Do We Go From Here?, 700 South Main Street, through March 1, 2022.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
The Expressive Body: Memory, Devotion, Desire (1400–1750), Norton Simon Museum of Art, through March 7, 2022.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Coco: Family Fridays: Movie Nights, The Huntington, 6pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
David A. Peters: Beyond Shapes, Manhattan Beach Art Center, through December 15.
Openings and Events Online
Learning From What We Are Not, High Desert Test Sites, 12pm.
Share the Mic: Frontearte, Fowler Museum, 4–5pm.
Adrift: Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner, Los Angeles Filmforum, through October 19.
Saturday, October 16
Openings and Events in Culver City
New Languages: Code, Screen, Simulation, Honor Fraser, 2pm.
Terry Thompson: Just Neon: New Sign Paintings, George Billis Gallery, 3–7pm. Through November 13.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Vincent Fecteau and Florian Pumhösl: I hear the ancient music of words and words, yes, that’s it., MAK Center, 7–9pm. Through February 20, 2022.
Julia Phillips: Between Love and Loss and Terry Winters: Works and Days, Matthew Marks, through December 23.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
ARTIST TALK: Ariana Papademetropoulos, Deitch, 3pm.
Leigh Salgado: As The World Turns, LAUNCH Gallery, 3–7pm. Through November 13.
Alexa Guariglia: Curl Memory and Anthony Miserendino: New Drawings, Moskowitz Bayse, 6–8pm. Through November 13.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Hilda Palafox (aka PONI: Un día a la vez and Olga Esther: Princesses, Gender Mandates, and Other Stories), Thinkspace Projects, 6–10pm. Through November 9.
Helen Chung: Redreaming My Borrowed Dreams in Colors of Spring 2022, When Everything Will Be Ok, Cooper Design Space, 3–6pm. Through December 11.
Conversation: Pippa Garner, Summer Guthery & Christina Linden, JOAN, 4pm.
Counterpoise, 515, 7–9pm. Through November 13.
Pieter Parking Space: Performance: Stacy Dawson Stearns, The Box, 8–9pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Christine Atkinson - Disturbing Ecology: We Basically Ruined the LA River, Rio de Los Angeles State Park, 5–7pm. RSVP to contact@ceatkinson.com.
DUBLAB 22D ANNIVERSARY FUNDRAISER, Zebulon, $10–15.
Openings and Events Downtown
12th Festival for All Skid Row Artists, Gladys Park, 12–5pm.
Closing & Exhibition Walkthrough with Artist Dan McCleary, USC Fisher Museum of Art, 1–2pm.
Reuben Gordon: New Paintings, Baert Gallery, 5–8pm. Through November 27.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Michelle Robinson: You Are Not Here, Keystone Art Space, 5–8pm.
Gabriel Madan: Dogs Who Are Poets and Movie Stars, Gattopardo, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Family Art Workshop - October 2021, Angels Gate Cultural Center, 1–2:30pm.
Lynne Marsh: Who Raised It Up So Many Times?, Pachappa Camp: The First Koreatown in the United States, Brandon Lattu: Empirical, Textual, Contextual, and Anna Wittenberg: The Ruminant, UCR ARTS (Riverside), 5–9pm. Through January 9.
Our Ojai Launch Party, Porch Gallery (Ojai), 5–7pm.
Are You with Me?, Riverside Art Museum (Riverside), through February 13, 2022.
Sunday, October 17
Openings and Events Downtown
The Messenger, Lacy Studio Lofts, 5 and 7pm. $50.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Amanda Maciel Antunes: Where We Go From Here: Public Film Premiere and Performance, Luna Anaïs Gallery at Tin Flats, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Day of the Dead Festival, MOLAA (Long Beach), 11am–5pm.
Monday, October 18
Openings and Events Downtown
John Jennings and the Visual World of Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch, California African American Museum, 7pm.
Openings and Events Online
Lunch & Learn: Stuffed Birds from the Dickey Collection, Fowler Museum, 12–12:30pm.
Tuesday, October 19
Openings and Events Online
Art & Conversation: Stephen Berkman and Britt Salvesen, LACMA, 7–8pm.
Wednesday, October 20
Openings and Events Online
The Book of Form and Emptiness, Library Foundation of Los Angeles, 5pm.
Lecture: Alison Saar, SCI-Arc, 7pm.
Picture More: Interventions into Filmed Space, Los Angeles Filmforum, through October 26. Live Q&A with Filmmakers and Programmer on October 24, 12pm.