Thursday, September 30
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Stories of Cinema, Hayao Miyazaki, Path to Cinema: Highlights from the Richard Balzer Collection, and Backdrop: An Invisible Art, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
LEILA RAHIMI: SIX YEARS OF SLEEP, SADE, 7–11pm. Through October 24.
Openings and Events Online
CURATORIAL WALK-THROUGH OF PIÑATAS, Craft in America, 11am–12pm.
Artists in Focus: Timothy Washington, LACMA, 12–1pm.
Hidden in Plain Sight with MONA, Museum of Neon Art, 7:30pm.
Wild Cursive Calligraphy, Poetry, and Buddhist Monks in the Eighth Century and Beyond, The Huntington, 7:30–9pm.
Friday, October 1
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Pariah, Santa Monica Playhouse, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Knot, MiM Gallery, 6–9pm. Through November 27.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
LAMAGPlay: Paint Like Me: Exploring the Process of Vanessa McConnell, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), 1pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Angel City Jazz Festival, REDCAT, 8:30pm. $25.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Get Your Kicks at 6x6 | Art Sale and Fundraiser, Riverside Art Museum (Riverside), 7–9pm. $25.
BROOKE SHADEN: REFLECTION, JoAnne Artman Gallery (Laguna Beach), 5–7pm. Through November 30.
Saturday, October 2
Openings and Events in Culver City
Kwame Brathwaite: Changing Times, Philip Martin Gallery, through November 13.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
Allan McCollum: Traces, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, 12–5pm. Through November 13.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
ANALIA SABAN: LINE TO THREAD TO WIRE TO CABLE TO LINE, Gemini G.E.L., through November 15.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Dylan Vandenhoeck: Reality Show and Dan Herschlein: Crickets in the City of Spare Parts, Matthew Brown, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Witch Craft: Rethinking Power, Pouya Afshar: The Charm of the Unfamiliar, and Consuelo Flores: The Roots of Our Resistance, Altar, Craft Contemporary, 1–5pm.
Jenn Berger: Stranger Friends, CMay Gallery, 3–6pm. Through November 6.
Greg Ito: Apparition and Faith Wilding: Fossils, Anat Ebgi, 6–8pm. Through November 20.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Artist Talk: Keith Walsh: All Good Pictures Are About the Future, r d f a, 2–4pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Artist Panel & Curator Book Signing: Knowledge Bennett: Less Is More and YoYo Lander: Onto Something, The KNOW Contemporary, 2pm.
Amelia Lockwood: Mondegreen Nursery, ODD ARK • LA, 4–7pm. Through November 6.
Promises: Through Congress, The Broad, 5–8pm.
Gosha Levochkin: Secret Button and Hyangmok Baik: The Garden of Eden, Over the Influence, 6–8pm. Through November 7.
sub/dominium, Château Shatto, through October 23.
We’re Wolves!, The Hive Gallery & Studios, through October 30.
Nash Glynn: Interior, Vielmetter Los Angeles, through November 13.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Lucia Hierro: Tal Cual, Charlie James Gallery, 6–9pm. Through November 22.
Openings and Events in San Marino
Kehinde Wiley: A Portrait of a Young Gentleman, The Huntington, through January 3, 2022.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
South Gate Art Walk, South Gate Civic Center, 12–4pm.
Family Friendly Workshop | Light Elephant, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 1–4pm.
CINTA VIDAL: Concrete, Museum of Art and History (MOAH) (Lancaster), 4–6pm. Through December 26.
Rob Mintz and Dalibor Polivka: UFORA'S IMAGINARY MUSEUM, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA), 6–10pm. Through October 30.
Openings and Events Online
Approaching Giacomelli: Then and Now, Getty Center, 11am.
Beyond Witness: Innovative Forms Toward Accountability: A Poetry Workshop with Sara Borjas, Beyond Baroque, 11am–2pm.
Fundraising Gala & Auction 2021, Los Angeles Center of Photography, 5pm.
Better not Bitter, Living in Pursuit of Racial Justice, Library Foundation of Los Angeles, 6pm.
Tuesday, October 5
Openings and Events Online
Mila Turajlić: Debris from complex vessels - fragments from the non-aligned newsreels, LA FilmForum, through October 9.
Wednesday, October 6
Openings and Events Online
Lecture: Marion Weiss, SCI-Arc, 7pm.