Thursday, October 25
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
The Other Art Fair, Barker Hangar, 6–10pm. Through October 28.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Adrian Piper Artist Dialogues: Rodney McMillian, Hammer Museum, 6pm.
Rebecca Solnit in Conversation with Jon Christensen, UCLA, 8pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Meltforms by Videre Licet, THE NEW, 6–9pm.
SuperPak, Paper Chase Press, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Exploding-Pumpkin-Carving Workshop and Laboratory, Craft and Folk Art Museum, 6–8pm. $25–30.
Openings and Events Downtown
History of Central Avenue, Session 1, California African American Museum, 2–4pm.
redcat.org/exhibition/morgan-fisher-passing-time?ct=t(&mc_cid=bcdd5e4e2f&mc_eid=fcf2fcf00d text: Morgan Fisher/Passing Time), REDCAT, 6–9pm.
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez: At the Forefront of Climate Change, USC, 7pm.
Rebecca Lowery: One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art Walkthrough, MOCA Grand Avenue, 7pm.
Artist talk with Shana Nys Dambrot, Track 16, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
What: Los Angeles Filmforum presents Nature Preserves What The People Forget: Films by Ute Aurand & Margaret Tait Part 1, Echo Park Film Center, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Workshop@PAM: Sashiko Embroidery, USC Pacific Asia Museum, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
EXPERIENCE 16: EMPATHY, ESMoA (El Segundo), 5–8pm.
One Hour/One Painting, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 6pm.
eXit pARTy: Homegrown, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego), 7–10pm.
Friday, October 26
Openings and Events in Westwood
CULTURE FIX: YANIQUE HUME ON STRIKING IRON, UCLA, 12pm.
DR. YANIQUE HUME WORKSHOP, UCLA, 2pm.
Fascism, Aesthetics and Politics: A Conversation with Yale University Professor and Author Jason Stanley and USC Architecture Dean Milton S. F. Curry, USC School of Architecture, 6pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Culver City Happy Hour in the Wende Garden, Wende Museum, 6pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Talk: Conversation with Jason Wu and Sharon Takeda, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Recent Films by Robert Beavers: The Poetry of Living Space, Downtown Independent, 8:30pm. $9–12.
ANXIETY: HALLOWEEN 2018, NAVEL, 10pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Screening, Adam Khalil and Jackson Polys: The Informants, Followed by a conversation with Adam Khalil, Jackson Polys, K. Wayne Yang, and Oscar Gutiérrez, Human Resources, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Justin Chance: Long Distance, Smart Objects, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1976, PG), Norton Simon Museum, 5:30–7:30pm.
Saturday, October 27
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Farshad Farzankia: Welcome to America, Richard Heller Gallery, 4–6pm.
Melissa Chandon: Far and Beyond and Eric Nash: A Golden State, Skidmore Contemporary Art, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
CALIFORNIA SON – The Art of Matt Mahurin, ARCANE Space, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in West L.A.
Visionary Hearts, Ivan Gallery, 12–5pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
JOSH FOX: THE TRUTH HAS CHANGED, UCLA, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Betye Saar: Something Blue and Holding Up 1/2 the Sky, Roberts Projects, 6–8pm.
Hayv Kahraman: US and THEM, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, 6pm.
Joseph Stashkevetch: Remains of the Day and Rosemarie Fiore: Fumogeno, Von Lintel, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
One-Day Workshop—Sunprints, LACMA, 10am–1pm.
Go Woon Choi - METAPHOR, Camey McGilvray - Wire World, Katie Crown - Waterworks, and Damon Reinagle - Hidden Agendas, TAG Gallery, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Closing reception: Matthew Craven - PRIMER, Big Pictures L.A., 4–6pm.
BREA OR TAR Dan Johnson | Book Launch, Big Pictures L.A., 6pm.
Openings and Events in Koreatown
Totenpass, Visitor Welcome Center, 3–6pm.
Opening and Events in Hollywood
SOU FUJIMOTO: FUTURES OF THE FUTURE, Japan House LA, 10am-8pm.
Artist talk: On Painting, there-there, 2pm.
Chad Attie "Eulogies" & FULL BLEDE, The Lodge, 6–9pm.
Joaquín Boz: Bruselas y Nueva York and George Rouy: Smothered Awake, Steve Turner, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Jennifer Bolande: The Composition of Decomposition, Pio Pico, 3–6pm.
In Conversation: Julian Rosefeldt, Cate Blanchett, and Kristy Edmunds, Hauser & Wirth, 3pm.
Art Head Workshop with Scrapkins, The Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, 3–5pm.
Sharon Lockhart: Pine Flat, REDCAT, 3pm. $12.
Calder: Nonspace, Julian Rosefeldt. Manifesto and Zoe Leonard. Analogue, Hauser & Wirth, 6–9pm.
Noche de Ofrenda, Grand Park, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Genevieve Belleveau: Circlusion, Garden, 4–8pm; performance, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Maggi Payne / Maria Chavez / Kaori Suzuki / Joseph Hammer, Human Resources, 8pm. $15.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Countertechnique®: Rosanna Tavarez, Pieter, 12–3pm.
Alicia McDaid: Everything is nothing and nothing is everything, 8:30–10pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Workshop: Countertechnique® with Rosanna Tavarez, Pieter, 12–3pm. $30.
Openings and Events in Glendale
Paul Pescador: THE PYT, The Pit, 7, 8, and 9pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
The Ski Club Milwaukee>>>High Desert Test Sites, various locations (Wonder Valley), 11am–5pm. Through October 28.
50/50, FIFTY/FIFTY: The Creative Magic of Collaboration, Progress Gallery (Pomona), 6–9pm.
Scary Stories 16, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 6:30–8pm.
Sunday, October 28
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Don Edler: 6871 California Ave, Five Car Garage, 2–5pm.
Skyways and Highways poetry afternoon, bG Gallery, 2–4pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
Trudy Benson: Cuts, Paints, Team (bungalow), 4–7pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Merce Cunningham, Clouds and Screens and Rauschenberg: The 1/4 Mile, LACMA, 10am–7pm.
Upgrade Available—with Julia Christensen and Dr. Anthony Freeman, LACMA, 1pm.
STAYING IN SHAPE with Bob Dornberger & Mike Slack, LACMA, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Sound for the Long Hole, Gas, 8–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
In Conversation: Alexander S.C. Rower & George Baker on ‘Calder: Nonspace’, Hauser & Wirth, 1pm.
Are These Apple Headphones?, 3011 E Pico Blvd, UNIT C, Los Angeles, CA 90023, 6–9pm.
Studio: Fall 2018, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $12. Continues October 29.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Conversation between Cauleen Smith and Raquel Gutiérrez, Human Resources, 2pm.
Pippa Garner: Signs of Life, Leroy's, 6pm. $10.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
What: Los Angeles Filmforum presents In and Around a House: Films by Ute Aurand and Margaret Tait, part 2, Echo Park Film Center, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
SASSAS Listening Party 29, private home, 4–8pm. $100–200.
Monday, October 29
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Film: They'll Love Me When I'm Dead, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
ARRAY @ The Broad: Ganja & Hess, Egyptian Theater, 7:30pm. $15–20.
Tuesday, October 30
Openings and Events in Brentwood
The Renaissance Nude, Getty Center, 10am–5pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
What is Memory?, UCLA, 6:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Film: Frankenweenie, LACMA, 1pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Klaus Voormann, NAVEL, 7:30–10pm.
Wednesday, October 31
Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades
Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife Getty Villa, 10am–5pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
FOWLER OUT LOUD: MARIACHI DE UCLATLÁN, Fowler Museum, 6pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
REUNION: Halloween Fundraising Party, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), 7pm–1am.
Openings and Events Downtown
Diane Ghirardo, USC School of Architecture, 6pm.