Thursday, October 4
Openings and Events in Westwood
Midterms Primer, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
Ai Weiwei: Cao / Humanity, UTA Artists Space, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
It’s Time to Leave, The Causes of Migration, La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, 7pm.
CraftNight: A Cochineal Dye and Embroidery Workshop, Craft & Folk Art Museum, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Ai Weiwei: Zodiac, Jeffrey Deitch, 11am–7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Life on the Move: Science and Implications of Migration, Natural History Museum, 6–8:30pm. Also October 18 and November 1.
The Changing Landscape of Arts Philanthropy, The Reef, 6pm.
45th Annual Commemorative Print unveiling and exhibition opening, How We Remember and How We Survive, Self-Help Graphics, 7–10pm.
In Conversation: E. Moncell Durden and Vida L. Brown, California African American Museum, 7–9pm.
Movie Nights at the Museum: Do Not Resist, Skid Row History Museum and Archive, 7pm.
In Concert: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra with Four Larks, Hauser & Wirth, 8pm.
David Roussève: Halfway to Dawn, REDCAT, 8:30pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Conversation@PAM: Foods of the Silk Road, USC Pacific Asia Museum, 7–8:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Artist Talk with Cassie Riger, Pitzker College (Pomona), 2–3pm.
Lecture: Sustainability in Fashion and Design, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 6–7pm.
Altura Credit Union and Riverside Art Museum Art Float - Riverside Art & Photography Contest Award Reception, Riverside Art Museum (Riverside), 6–8pm.
Friday, October 5
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Kate Spencer Stewart, The Gallery at Michael’s, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Music at the Wende: Monday Evening Concerts Presents Cage, Foss, Stockhausen, and Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, Wende Museum, 7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Photo Independent, The Reef. Through October 7.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Closing Weekend, Pasadena Museum of California Art, 12-5pm. Through October 7.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Fortnight Concert Series, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 7pm. $30.
Saturday, October 6
Openings and Events in Westwood
Fall Exhibitions Opening Celebration, Hammer Museum, 8–11pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Special: Challenging Infamy, LACMA, 1pm.
Cheryl Dimont: Looking Closer, Elyse Wyman: Sign of the Times. and Sunhee Joo: Message of Love, TAG Gallery, 5–8pm.
Talk: Cur-ATE—Around the Roman Table, LACMA, 6pm.
Uzumaki Cepeda: Daydreaming, Merion Estes: Unnatural Disasters, and Sherin Guirguis: Of Thorns and Love, Craft and Folk Art Museum, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Grove
Milieu, Launch LA, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Richard Serra: Equals, Gemini G.E.L, 4–7pm.
BERNHARD BUHMANN: My Automatic Me and MADELEINE PFULL, Nino Mier Gallery.
Openings and Events on West Adams
Teresa Tolliver: Making The Divine From The Disposable, William Grant Still Arts Center, 3–6pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Nature Worship, Mash Gallery, 6–9pm.
RENÉE LOTENERO: SPRAWL and SOO KIM: HOMESICK FOR A BETTER WORLD, Denk Gallery, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Silver Lake
In Search of the First Line: Artist talk with Noémie Goudal & Lyra Kilston, VDL Neutra House, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Art Photography Workshop: Part 1, Women's Center for Creative Work, 10:30am-2:30pm.
Openings and Events in Eagle Rock
19th Annual Eagle Rock Music Festival, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, 4–10pm.
Openings and Events in Glassell Park
Pilot, Elephant, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Architects of a Golden Age: Highlights from The Huntington’s Southern California Architecture Collection, The Huntington, 10am–5pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Perspectives on Non-Binary Parenting, Armory Center for the Arts, 10am–12pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Towers & Walls: New Works by Sally England and China Adams, Porch Gallery (Ojai), 5–7pm.
Sunday, October 7
Openings and Events in Venice
The Satiation Ratio, DXIX, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Adrian Piper: Concepts and Intuitions, 1965-2016, Hammer Museum, 11am–5pm.
Symposium: Adrian Piper: The Long View, Hammer Museum, 11am–6:45pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Historical Witness Project: Oral Histories Live, Wende Museum, 3pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Talk: Ken Jacobs: A Swim Through Open Space, LACMA, 1pm.
Talk: Mural Painting in Pre-Columbian Mexico, LACMA, 2pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
CAAM Reads! My Soul to Keep, California African American Museum, 3–4:30pm.
Openings and Events in Mount Washington
Ann Hirsch: The Real Artwork, Gallery1993, 3–6pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Let it Snow! Paintings of Winter, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 11am–5pm.
Centennial Trolley Tours, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 10 and 11:30am.
John Toki: Fault Lines, AMOCA - American Museum of Ceramic Art (Pomona), 2–5pm.
Monday, October 8
Ken Jacobs: Metropolis Looms And The Bad Maria Is Tuned Up, REDCAT, 8:30pm.
Tuesday, October 9
Openings and Events in Westwood
Aruna D’Souza & Tomashi Jackson, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Film: Edward Scissorhands, LACMA, 1pm.
Film: King Lear, and a conversation with Sir Anthony Hopkins, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Second Nature Workshop - Nature in Focus: Wildlife Photography, Natural History Museum, 7–9pm. $20–23.
Los Angeles Filmforum, Acropolis Cinema, REDCAT, LACMA, and 3-D SPACE present the LA Premiere of The Guests, by Ken Jacobs, The Downtown Independent, 8pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Sessions in Contemporary Art: Postcolonial Legacies, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego), 6–7pm.
Wednesday, October 10
Openings and Events in Mar Vista
Sister Corita Kent Exhibit Reception and Panel, Windward School, 6pm.
Openings and Events in Leimert Park
Artist Talk: Texas Isaiah, Art + Practice, 7pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Walter Hood, Hood Design Studio, Berkeley USC School of Architecture, 6pm.
X-TRA: Simone Forti and Dorit Cypis in Conversation, NAVEL, 7:30–9:30pm.
Reidemeister Move, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $20.