Thursday, September 5
Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades
The Heal, Getty Villa, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
The Other Art Fair, Barker Hangar, 6–10pm. Through September 8.
Light the Barricades, Annenberg Community Beach House, Grand Park, and Natural History Museum.
Openings and Events in Venice
A History of Venice: A Night of Storytelling, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Film screening: Citizen Lane, Getty Center, 7pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
CraftNight: Fiber Sculptures and Wearables with Mimi Haddon, Craft Contemporary, 7–9pm. $12.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Final Projects: Group XLVIII: Michael was a good neighbor, MAK Center Mackey Apartments & Garage Top, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Comfort Noise, Family, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
STURTEVANT, Freedman Fitzpatrick, 6–9pm.
Math Bass & Nevine Mahmoud, The Gallery @, 7–9pm.
Paolo Roversi: Intangible Presence, Fahey Klein, 7–9pm.
Vincent Valdez: It Was Never Yours, MATTHEW BROWN LOS ANGELES, 7–9pm.
Josué Thomas: Galleries are boring without us, AF Projects, 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Rhizome x Dominica Publishing Presents First and Negative Two, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 7pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Healing Pain Through Energetic Love with Peter Bedard, MA, C.Ht., Pieter, 8–10pm.
Openings and Events in Eagle Rock
Voices Making Waves: Native American Women from the Eastern US, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, 8pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Art Matters Lecture: Chris Hallett: Mummies with Painted Portraits from Roman Egypt and Personal Commemoration at the Tomb, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 5:30pm.
Summer Film Series: Zabriskie Point, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 6pm.
Friday, September 6
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
CLASSIC PHOTOGRAPHS LOS ANGELES, ROSEGALLERY, 6–8pm. Through September 8.
Openings and Events in Venice
Matt Lipps: Selections 2008-2016, Euclid Gallery, 5–7pm.
Four L.A.Writers, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
…Only to Meet Nothing That Wants You, Klowden Mann, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Movement, Material, Media, USC School of Architecture, 6:30–7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Hoard Inaugural, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, 8–10pm.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
Kitty Bungalow Art Fundraiser, MorYork Gallery, 7–10pm. Continues September 7.
Saturday, September 7
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Galia Linn: Note to Self and Visions + Structures: David McDonald and Raychael Stine, Five Car Garage, 12–5pm.
Eric Nash: DRIVE and Terry Leness: Road Trip, Skidmore Contemporary Art, 4–6pm.
The Body in Parts, bG Gallery, 5–9pm.
Jackie Feng: Mothership, Greg Colson: Trending and Non-trending, and Laura Forman: New Work, Craig Krull Gallery, 5–7pm.
Inaugural exhibition, IKON Ltd., 5–7pm.
David Jien: All is Not Lost and Top Wizards, Richard Heller Gallery, 5–8pm.
Truthiness and Joan Robey: Expect the Unexpected, Lois Lambert Gallery, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
Surviving the Path Complex: A Poetry Workshop with Lauren Ann Bogen, Beyond Baroque, 11am–3pm. $35–50.
Lynn Thompson & Susan Terris, Beyond Baroque, 8pm.
Openings and Events in Westchester
Centennial: 100 Years of Otis College Alumni, Ben Maltz Gallery, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
BILLY AL BENGSTON: PAINTINGS & WATERCOLORS BOOK SIGNING + DISCUSSION WITH JOAN AGAJANIAN QUINN, Arcana: Books on the Arts, 4–6pm.
Tammi Campbell: Boring Art, 5–7pm.
Brittney Leeanne Williams : To Tarry in Prayer / To Terri in Prayer, Zevitas Marcus, 5–8pm.
Jennifer Joseph: Disruptive Spirit and Bruce Everett: Capturing Light: New Landscapes, George Billis Gallery LA, 5–8pm.
Tomory Dodge, Philip Martin Gallery, 6–8pm.
RUTH PASTINE: SUBLIME TERROR and Lester Monzon: Fail Better, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, 6–8pm.
Mark Sheinkman | New Paintings, Von Lintel, 6–9pm.
Kenny Scharf: Optimistically Melting!, Honor Fraser, 6–8pm.
Modern Masters, Bruce Lurie Gallery, 6–9pm.
Mitch Dobrowner: Still Earth and Eric Beltz: The Sun, The Moon and Stars, and The Void, Kopeikin Gallery, 6–8pm.
LAURA KRIFKA: The Game of Patience, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Ever Present: Mother Earth’s Plantasia, Getty Center, 3–9pm.
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
CLAY LA, Craft Contemporary, 11:30am–5pm; VIP preview brunch, 10am. Continues September 8.
The Human Beast - The Art of Jan & Maxine Kim Stussy, Sunny Kim: Cosmic Dream, Ernie Marjoram: Looking East, and Marion Wood: Tumblewood, TAG Gallery, 5–8pm.
Judy Ledgerwood: Color Walks, 1301PE, 5–7pm.
Muse ’til Midnight, LACMA, 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Pamela Smith Hudson: Marking Space and April Bey: Little Room, Chimento Contemporary, 5–8pm.
Pattern Language: Recent Paintings by Peter Zellner & Tyler McMartin, 4301 W Jefferson Blvd., 6–9pm.
Tala Madani: Shit Moms, David Kordansky Gallery, 6–8pm.
Jonathan Ryan, The Landing, 6–9pm.
Erin Morrison: Colony, Ochi Projects, 6–9pm.
Erin Trefry: If The Moon Turns Green, Lowell Ryan Projects, 7–9pm.
Maja Ruznic & Joshua Hagler: From a Corner the Sound of a Small Bird, Big Pictures Los Angeles, 7–10pm.
LOVE JOYFUL, The Loft at Liz’s, 7–10pm.
Openings and Events in Inglewood
The Regenerates: A Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, The Nook Gallery Los Angeles, 2:30–5pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
Nayland Blake’s Opening, Matthew Marks Gallery, 3–5pm.
RICHARD HAWKINS / JOHN MCALLISTER, Richard Telles Fine Art, 5–7pm.
Eve Fowler: These Sounds Fall Into My Mind, Morán Morán, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Beyond/Within, Launch LA, 5pm.
Naudline Pierre: For I Am With You Until the End of Time, Shulamit Nazarian, 6–9pm.
Robin F. Williams: With Pleasure, Various Small Fires, 6–8pm.
Francisco Rodriguez | Rebecca Shippee | Jon Key, Steve Turner, 6–8pm.
Anthony Miserendino: Come Together, Moskowitz Bayse, 6–9pm.
Julian Stanczak: The Eighties, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, 6–8pm.
Judy Chicago: Los Angeles, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, 6–8pm.
Freewaves presents LOVE &/OR FEAR: A Celebration of Genders, LACE 6500-6600 Hollywood Blvd, 8–11pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
Offal Family Day, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 12–6pm.
Air is Art and Air is Air, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 4–5:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Moffat Takadiwa: SON OF THE SOIL, Nicodim, 4–7pm.
The Light Touch and Nick Aguayo: WAKE THE TOWN, AND TELL THE PEOPLE, Vielmetter Los Angeles, 4–6pm.
Robert Moreland: Deliberation and February James: A Place to Belong, Wilding Cran, 5–8pm.
Douglas Tausik Ryder: Body Language, Jason Vass, 5–8pm.
Brendan Lott: color shape texture scale and Cynthia Ona Innis: Hitch, Walter Maciel Gallery, 6–8pm.
Christofer Churchill / Mike Kelley, Parrasch Heijnen, 6–8pm.
Bad Peach closing reception, Ghebaly Gallery, 6–9pm.
Still Bearing Visible: Machine & Jenny Sonenberg, Cirrus Gallery & Cirrus Editions, 6:30pm.
Colin Burns: EVERYTHING MUST GO, THESE DAYS, 7–9pm.
Reunited in LA, 515, 7–9pm.
Cynthia Daignault: Elegy and Michael Berryhill: Romancing the Stoned, Night Gallery, 7–10pm.
Elyse Pingolet: You Should Calm Down, Track 16 Gallery, 7–10pm.
https://aplusd.org/ The Assembly, A + D Museum, 7–9pm.
Warmly Persuasive: ICOSA in L.A., Tiger Strikes Asteroid, 7–10pm.
Sofra Daymeh, may your table always be plenty, NAVEL, 7pm. $45–75.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Tim Tsang & Scarlett KIm--- talk show episode 1: demo(nstration), Automata, 3–8pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Patricia Krebs: Power, Cactus Gallery, 5pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Flower Arranging: Huntington Inspired, The Huntington, 10am. $85.
Camp SCUM: A Free Day of Creativity and Community for Queer Youth Ages 12 to 17, Armory Center for the Arts, 10:30am–8pm.
Children's Flower Arranging: Huntington Inspired, The Huntington, 1pm. $35.
Openings and Events in Glendale
Brand 47, Brand Library, 6–9pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
MakingMeaning: Make Something From Nothing, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 9am–12pm.
Collecting Long Beach, Seven Decades From The Permanent Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach), 11am–5pm.
Yong Sin: She Who Paints with Scissors, TransVagrant (San Pedro), 4–7pm.
Dr. Kathleen Ryor Tanaka Memorial Professor of International Understanding and Art History, Carleton College: Style, Meaning and Function in Traditional Chinese Painting: Case Studies from the Scripps Collection, Scripps College (Claremont), 4–5pm.
Beatrice Wood: Bed Stories and More, Porch Gallery (Ojai), 5–7pm.
43rd Annual Monte Carlo Gala, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego), 6:30–11:30pm.
ASIAN ART TREASURES, Scripps College (Claremont), 7–9pm.
Sunday, September 8
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Every Living Thing: Animals in Japanese Art, LACMA, 10am–7pm.
Artist Talk: Liz Glynn on the work of Frank Stella, LACMA, 2–3pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Jeanette Mundt: If the Devil Could Kill You Right Now He Would, Overduin & Co., 3–6pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
Irving Marcus: Works from the 1980s and Hannah Greely: Busy Box, Parker Gallery, 3–5pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Susan Mogul: Less is Never More closing reception, as-is.la, 2–5pm.
Todd James: THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME, Over the Influence, 5–8pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Art Under Cover, Shoebox Projects @ The Brewery, 2–4pm.
Openings and Events in Glendale
Allison Miller, Jennifer Paige Cohen, Adams and Ollman, SASSAS 20th Anniversary Corpse Auction, The Pit, 4–7pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Philippines Cultural Day, USC Pacific Asia Museum, 11am–5pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
A Tribute to Tony DeLap UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts (Irvine), 1–4pm.
Open Studio, Hawthorne Arts Complex (Hawthorne), 2–6pm.
Salt & Silver: Early Photography, 1840 – 1860, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), Public Lecture: Hope Kingsley, 2:30pm.
B.A.T. State III: Women Artists in Conversation with El Nopal Press, Kleefeld Contemporary, 4–6pm.
Monday, September 9
Openings and Events on Miracle Mile
Mindful Monday: Cultivating Empathy and Connectedness, LACMA, 4–5pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
The Southland Institute Public Lecture Series presents Laura Coombs: Forever New, Hoffmitz-Milken Center for Typography at ArtCenter, 7–9pm.
Tuesday, September 10
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Talk with artist Ian Trout and UCLA law professor Adam Winkler, there-there, 6:30pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
Dust My Broom: Southern Vernacular from the Permanent Collection and LA Blacksmith, California African American Museum, 10am–5pm.
Dust My Broom: Southern Vernacular from the Permanent Collection and LA Blacksmith, California African American Museum, 1pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
These Creatures, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art (Rancho Cucamonga), 6–8pm.
Wednesday, September 11
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
Nathaniel Mary Quinn: Hollow and Cut, Gagosian, 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
KRISTA MARY MARTIN: PASSION TAKES, Leadapron, 12–7pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Art Life Practice: Mixed Media Embroidery Series, Wilhardt & Naud, 6:30–9pm. Continues September 18 and 25.