Thursday, October 7
Openings and Events in Culver City
Christopher Udemezue, Anat Ebgi, 5–7pm. Through November 2.
Openings and Events in Leimert Park
Lens on Life Project, Azadeh Shladovsky Studio, through October 9.
Openings and Events Downtown
Synesthesia, Los Angeles Athletic Club, 5–10pm.
New Original Works Festival 2021, REDCAT, through October 23. $10–20.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Enigmatic Architecture: R. M. Schindler's Los Angeles: Art Matters Lecture with Todd Cronan, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 5:30pm.
First Thursdays Art Walk, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 6–9pm.
More Dreamers of the Golden Dream, Riverside Art Museum (Riverside), 6–9pm. Through January 2, 2022.
Openings and Events Online
Fluxus: What’s Changed?, Getty Center, 4:30–5:30pm.
Responding to Humanitarian Crises via Immigration Support, Craft Contemporary, 5pm.
Encoding Futures: Speculative Monuments for L.A., OxyArts, 7pm.
Friday, October 8
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Cao Fei, Sprüth Magers, through December 22.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Kristin Calabrese: How Things Feel, AF Projects, 6–8pm. Through November 21.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Ian James: UR-TEMPLE, The Fulcrum, 6–9pm. Through November 14.
Openings and Events Downtown
Reflecting A Year Later, USC Fisher Museum of Art, 2pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
ArtNight Pasadena, Armory Center for the Arts, 6–10pm.
Family Fridays: Movie Nights: Coco, The Huntington, 6:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Weekend of Architecture and Design, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 7pm.
Openings and Events Online
Art Break / Remaking a Monster: Medusa from Antiquity to Today, Getty Center, 12pm.
Getty Get-Together: Mythology & Legends, Getty Center, 5pm.
Saturday, October 9
Opening and Events in Santa Monica
Kajahl: Tabula Rasa, Richard Heller Gallery, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
White Pine Press Reading with Christopher Merrill, Dennis Maloney, Gail Wronsky, and Yun Wang, Beyond Baroque, 4pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Joel Daniel Phillips: Killing the Negative Pt. 2, Hashimoto Contemporary, 12–8pm; Artist Talk and reading with Qurayash Ali Lansana, 4pm. Through October 30.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Clarie Whitehurst: Mississippi Shade, Steve Turner, through November 9.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
CLAY LA 2021, Craft Contemporary, 11:30am–5pm. $9.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Matthew Moret: Exchange of Time, The Loft at Liz’s, through November 16.
Openings and Events in Koreatown
Jack Winthrop, Christina Ramos, and Judy Ostro, Gabba Gallery, 7–11pm. Through October 30.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Emery Lambus: Can a Brother Get Some Love?, HENRY TAYLOR'S GALLERY, 12–6pm.
Pride Publics, LA State Historic Park, 3pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
All Them Witches, Cactus Gallery at The Last Bookstore, 1–6pm.
Paul McCarthy: PARTS MAKE UP A HOLE, The Box, 4–8pm. Through December 18.
48th Annual Día de los Muertos Exhibition, Self Help Graphics & Art, 6pm. Through November 24.
David Gutierrez: Ancestral Projection, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles, 7–10pm. Through October 31.
Monique van Genderen: Afterimages, Vielmetter Los Angeles, through November 20.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
the body is a blade (that sharpens by cutting), Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA), through December 4.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Hair-pulling Between Good & Evil, Angels Gate Cultural Center, 2–4pm.
Revolution Everywhere and Michael Moshe Dahan: The Messiah Triangle, UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts (Irvine), 2–5pm. Through December 11.
Keith Boadwee: Frogs & Dogs, The Pit (Palm Springs), 5–7pm. Through November 20.
Before the Wilt: Renée A Fox & Mary Warner, Porch Gallery (Ojai), 5–7pm. Through January 3, 2022.
Artist Joy Ray: Ghost Visions, Shockboxx Gallery (Hermosa Beach), 6–8pm.
Openings and Events Online
REPLICANTS, EPOCH, 12pm. Through January 14, 2022.
White Pine Press Reading with Christopher Merrill, Dennis Maloney, Gail Wronsky, and Yun Wang, Beyond Baroque, 4pm.
Sunday, October 10
Openings and Events in Westwood
Witch Hunt and No Humans Involved, Hammer Museum, through January 9, 2022.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Rya Kihlstedt: ALL THAT MATTERS, Matter Studio Gallery, 4–7pm. Through November 7.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Artist Talk moderated by Scarlet Cheng, Luna Anaïs Gallery, 5pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Witch Hunt, ICA LA, through January 9, 2022.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Call Card book launch, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, 4–6pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Wayne Thiebaud-Inspired All Ages Circus Day, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 11:30am–2:30pm.
Openings and Events Online
The Fragment Transformed, Getty Center, 10:30am–12pm.
Tuesday, October 12
Openings and Events Online
Vital Matters: Stories of Belief – Wixárika (Huichol Yarn Painting), Fowler Museum, 11am.
Wednesday, October 13
Openings and Events in San Marino
War Torn Californios: The Civil Wars of Antonio and Porfirio Jimeno, The Huntington, 7:30–9pm.
Openings and Events Online
Curator's Choice: Jason De León and the Undocumented Migration Project, Fowler Museum, 4–5pm.
Queering Technique, Reclaiming Space, & Decolonizing the Body: Annielille Gavino, Pieter, 6:30–8pm.
Lecture: Florian Idenberg, SCI-Arc, 7pm.