Thursday, September 26
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
New York, New York!, Fred Zinnemann: Talking Pictures, and Judy Glickman Lauder: Beyond The Shadows, Peter Fetterman, 11am–6pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
ArtWorks ADL: Justice, Advocacy & Art, private home, 6:30pm. Sold out.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Stikki Peaches: Ferragosto, Art Angels, 8–10pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
ARTCRIMES, The Burgundy Room, 8pm–12am.
Openings and Events Downtown
The Autograph Book of L.A.: Improvements on the Page of the City, LA Public Library, 10am–8pm.
Library of Ideas: A Course by Charles Gaines, Part One, Hauser & Wirth, 5pm.
L.A. DANCES, LA Dance Project, 8pm. $45.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Lambda LitFest, Armory Center, 6:30–9pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
David Alekhuogie, CalArts (Valencia), 5–7pm.
One Hour/One Painting, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 6pm.
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle CalArts (Valencia), 6pm.
Friday, September 27
Openings and Events in Venice
Prince Diabaté & Linda J. Albertano, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Circadian Regions: 2019 UCLA Southern California MFA Theme Group Exhibition, UCLA, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
WHAP! Lecture Series, West Hollywood Public Library, 7:30pm.
SASSAS: 20 years of sound., MAK Center at the Schindler House. Through September 29.
Openings and Events Downtown
Curatorial Walkthrough: Timothy Washington: Citizen/Ship, California African American Museum, 1pm.
BUBBLES X, NAVEL, 9pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Eric Sanders: Abstractions, Eastern Projects Gallery, 6–10pm.
Secret Joy, Human Resources, 8:30pm. $5–10.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
SUGAR CANE ALLEY, Amanda Theater, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
John Boskovich: Psycho Salon, O-Town House, 4–8pm.
Openings and Events in Glendale
The Art Spirit, ace/121 Gallery, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Van Nuys Arts Festival: The Glow Up!, Van Nuys Civic Center, 5–9pm.
Saturday, September 28
Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades
Drawing from Antiquity: Contrapposto, Getty Villa, 11am.
Openings and Events in Venice
Hospital Stories, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Playa Vista
Antonius-Tín Bui: Finding Heart (tìm tim), Laband Art Gallery, 2–4pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Refoundry Benefit Art Salon & Exhibition, FATHOM Gallery, 7–11pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Hammer Projects: Jasmina Metwaly, Hammer Museum, 11am–5pm.
Lari Pittman Exhibition Opening Celebration, Hammer Museum, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
DEANNA + ED TEMPLETON: NEW SUPER LABO PUBLICATIONS, Arcana: Books on the Arts, 4–6pm.
Gregg Gibbs: Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey, Blum & Poe, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
The Awt (say it out loud of Measuring Resilience with REACH LA), Marciano Art Foundation, 2pm.
Pam Douglas: Sanctuary, Fielden Harper - City Seen III, Cheryl Dimont - ASTORIA and TAG Curatorials: Arrivals - Narsiso Martinez, Fabian Debora, & Ching Ching Chen, TAG Gallery, 5–8pm.
RAW: Craft, Commodity, and Capitalism, Finding the Center: Works by Echiko Ohira, Cynthia Minet: Jacked, Craft Contemporary, 6–9pm. $12.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Pattern Language: Recent Paintings by Peter Zellner & Tyler McMartin, 4301 W Jefferson Blvd., 2–6pm.
Openings and Events in Watts
38th Annual Watts Towers Day of the Drum Festival and 43rd Annual Simon Rodia Watts Towers Jazz Festival, Watts Towers Arts Center Campus, 10am–6pm. Continues September 29.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Jasmine Nyende: Crested Crane, AA|LA, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
DEB Is the Picasso of Her Generation, LIBERTINE, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
LAMAGLearn: Pie of Trouble Performance, LAMAG, 5pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Los Angeles Libros Festival, Central Library, 11am–4pm.
Retro T for Me, California African American Museum, 1pm.
Mur Murs, a Film Series, REDCAT, 3, 5:30, and 8:30pm. $6-12.
MOVE: Dance ‘90s with E. Moncell Durden, California African American Museum, 3pm.
Bauhaus Looking Forward, Art + Design Museum, 3:30pm.
Analia Saban: Dry Clean Only, Mixografia, 4–6pm.
Brain Shower, In Heroes We Trust, 5–9pm.
Maggi Hodge: Woman, Chaos and X, Mash Gallery, 7–10pm.
Reunited in LA, 515, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Weightless, Paper Bags, and Magnetic: An Evening of Three Solo Works, a Performance Triptych
Amelia Charter, Pieter, 8:30pm.
Openings and Events in Eagle Rock
Balikbayan Box: A Care Package Workshop with Artist, Sara Chao, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, 1–4pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Between the Divide, Billie Jean King Main Library (Long Beach), 2–5pm.
Identity Flags with June Edmonds and Like the Ocean with Alexis Slickelman, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 3–6pm. Also October 26 and November 2.
The Magic Hour No. 5, The Magic Hour (Twentynine Palms), 3–9pm.
ORION MARTIN AND ALEXANDRA NOEL: BOLTHOLE, POTTS, 6–8pm.
The Edge of Light, Huntington Beach Art Center (Huntington Beach), 6:30pm.
Spirit of México, MOLAA (Long Beach), 7–10pm.
Sunday, September 29
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Chess, bG, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence, Hammer Museum, HAMMER CONVERSATIONS: Lari Pittman & Connie Butler, 2pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
A Colorful Afternoon: Cornelia Funke's Adventures Through the Bauhaus, Getty Center, 10am–5:30pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Korsi Sessions led by Orameh Bagheri, LACE, 10:30am. $20.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
LAMAGLearn Offal Artists Walk-throughs, LAMAG, 12pm.
LAMAGLearn: Taste the Wisdom – Partake the Power of Pickles Workshop, LAMAG, 2pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
NO WRONG HOLES: THIRTY YEARS OF NAYLAND BLAKE and SADIE BARNETTE: THE NEW EAGLE CREEK SALOON, ICA LA, 2–6pm.
Migrant's Bend and the Bracero Monument Unveiling, 555 North Spring Street, 2–9pm.
Jacinto Astiazarán & Veli-Matti Hoikka, QUEENS LA, 5–8pm.
SCREENING: SOUFRA, NAVEL, 7:30pm. $12.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Armchair Travels: National Geographic’s Old and New in Persia: A History of Travel and Tourism in Iran, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 2:30pm.
Monday, September 30
Openings and Events Downtown
James Benning: Two Films, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $6–12.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
FLAX Drive-In Theater: Samir Ramdani, Black Diamond, 2014 (40 min and other film to be announced), Tin Flats, 8pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Dr. Ken Brown Professor of Asian Art History California State University Long Beach: Music for the Eyes:The Worlds of Japanese Sheet Music Cover Design, 1905-1950, Williamson Gallery, Scripps College (Claremont), 7–9pm.
Tuesday, October 1
Openings and Events in Westwood
Race and the Memory of Evil, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
What is a university? Peter Sellars and Emily Carter, UCLA, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again, The Broad, 11am–5pm.
A Farewell to Angela Ricci Lucchi With Yervant Gianikian, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $6–12.
Wedneday, October 2
Openings and Events in Westwood
Susan Orlean & Roxane Gay on Libraries, Hammer Museum, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Season Launch Party (Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop!), California African American Museum, 7–9pm.
Iddris Sandu: Creative Architect, SCI-Arc, 7pm.
Entrepreneurship for Artists: Commercial Photographer, Zen Sekizawa, JACCC, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Distinguished Lecture: United by Lightning: The Transcontinental Telegraph of 1861, The Huntington, 7:30pm.