Image courtesy of the Hammer Museum.
PLAN ForYourArt: May 17–23
Thursday, May 17
Westwood Openings and Events
READINGS: Poetry: Jennifer Moxley, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.
DMA M.F.A. FINAL EXHIBITION, UCLA (Westwood), 5pm.
Century City Openings and Events
Iris Nights: The Restless Genius of Garry Winogrand: A Conversation with Geoff Dyer and Sasha Waters Freyer, Annenberg Space for Photography (Century City), 7pm.
West Hollywood Openings and Events
ART DE RUE, 5Art Gallery (West Hollywood), 6–9pm.
Alain Laboile: Quotidian and Deborah Anderson: Women of the White Buffalo, Leica Gallery (West Hollywood), 6–9pm.
Openings and Events on West Adams
Americus: The Past Speaks To The Present, William Grant Still Arts Center (West Adams).
Hollywood Openings and Events
LAND IS MOVING SALE, LAND (Hollywood), 2–8pm. Performance, 8pm.
Pippa Garner: Autonomy n’ Stuff (Garnerhea), Redling Fine Art (Hollywood), 6–8pm.
Downtown Openings and Events
MOCA Music: THE MARIAS, Jarina De Marco, Sister Mantos, and Chulita Vinyl Club, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (Downtown), 6:30–9:30pm.
Screening and Panel: Far Out Black, California African American Museum (Downtown), 7–9pm.
Between a rock and a hard place, werkartz (Downtown), 7–10pm.
The Broad and X-TRA present Lynne Tillman + Kerry Tribe in Conversation, The first in a series of talks addressing the legacy of Joseph Beuys, The Broad (Downtown), 7:30pm. $15.
Nataki Garrett & Andrea LeBlanc: The Carolyn Bryant Project, REDCAT (Downtown), 8:30pm.
Chinatown Openings and Events
SUSAN SIMPSON: MACHINE FOR LIVING, Automata (Chinatown).
Openings and Events in Leimert Park
In Conversation: Taisha Paggett & Ashley Hunt, Art + Practice (Leimert Park), 7pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Dibner Lecture - The Search for Perfection in an Imperfect World, The Huntington (San Marino), 7:30pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
AAMD Art Museum Day, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 11am–9pm.
Book Signing with Michael Imperioli and Colin Gardner, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 5:30–7pm.
Arts for Inclusion: BEST BUDDIES 5TH ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION, Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), 6–8:30pm.
Third Thursday Studio | Digital Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 6pm.
Andy Coolquitt: …i need a hole in my head, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 6–8pm.
Factory Line with the Coachella Valley Art Scene, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 6:30–8pm.
Film Night: Dr. Strangelove, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 7pm.
Friday, May 18
Openings and Events in Westwood
INSIGHT WACD SENIOR PROJECTS FESTIVAL 2018, UCLA (Westwood), 8pm. Continues May 19.
Miracle Mile Openings and Events
Film: Free Screening: American Animals, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Kimiyo Mishima: Paintings and Shomei Tomatsu: Plastics, Nonaka-Hill (Hollywood), 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in Los Feliz
Odd Nights, Autry Museum of the American West (Los Feliz), 6–11pm.
Downtown Openings and Events
Movie Nights at the Museum: William Kunstler: Disturbing The Universe, Los Angeles Poverty Department (Downtown), 7pm.
THE PEOPLE’S HOME | Winston Street 1974, THESE DAYS (Downtown), 7–10pm.
Cal State LA Community Impact Media Documentaries Premiere, Hauser & Wirth (Downtown), 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Chinatown
Susan Simpson: A Machine for Living, Automata (Chinatown), 8pm. $15–20.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Lawrence Jordan’s Three Ring Circus, Bob Baker Marionette Theater (MacArthur Park), 8pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Rehearsal: The Bevy, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 7pm. $175.
Nour Mobarak & Bana Haffar: YOU ARE THE AUDIENCE, POTTS (Alhambra), 9pm.
Saturday, May 19
Openings and Events in the Pacific Palisades
Drawing from Antiquity: Birds, Getty Villa (Pacific Palisades), 11am–12:30pm.
Plato in America: Edward Hopper, Mark Rothko, Mike Kelley, Getty Villa (Pacific Palisades), 2pm.
Openings and Events in West L.A.
Joanne Greenbaum: Things We Said Today, Otis College of Art and Design (West L.A.), 4–6pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
URBAN HUMANITIES ALUMNI SYMPOSIUM, UCLA (Westwood), 12pm.
Openings and Events in Venice
Frame Rate: We Eat Art Live Podcast Taping, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center (Venice), 1–2:30pm.
Chasing Ansel Adams, Arcane Space (Venice), 2–6pm.
La pérdida / perdido, DXIX (Venice), 3–6pm.
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
Pico Block Party: Empowering Youth Voices!, 18th Street Arts Center (Santa Monica), 3–6pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
Off the 405: Allah-Las, Getty Center (Brentwood), 6pm.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Sister Corita Kent’s “International Signal Code Alphabet” Book Launch and Discussion, Arcana: Books on the Arts (Culver City), 4–6pm.
Michael Dopp: Shining Desert and Tragedy Plus Time, Roberts Projects (Culver City), 6–8pm.
Jamison Carter: Hallelujah Anyway, Klowden Mann (Culver City), 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills Art Show, Beverly Gardens (Beverly Hills). Continues May 20.
Miracle Mile Openings and Events
Talk: Exhibition Tour: A Universal History of Infamy—Those of This America, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 1:30pm.
Carole Garland: Streaming Color, Tom Wheeler - Painted Light in Western Landscapes, Isabelle Hope Grahm - My Color Garden, TAG Gallery (Miracle Mile), 5–8pm.
CAMERON PLATTER: Teen Non_Fiction, 1301PE (Miracle Mile), 6–8pm.
Families: Teen Night: Middle School, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Carla Issue 12 Launch Party, Karma International (Mid-City), 6–9pm.
Openings and Events in Koreatown
Yarn Bomb Gabba Arts District!, Gabba Gallery (Koreatown), 10am–5pm.
Middle Voice walkthrough, Visitor Welcome Center (Koreatown), 2–4pm.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Express Yourself/ William Grant Still Birthday Celebration, William Grant Still Arts Center (West Adams).
Openings and Events in Atwater Village
Metafork, Thank You For Coming (Atwater Village), 11am–3pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Plant Communication & Radical Communion: Spring Flower Essence Making, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 11am–1:30pm. $20–25.
Openings and Events in West Hollywood
In the Name of the Place by the GALA Committee, West Hollywood Public Library (West Hollywood), 3–5pm.
Nathaniel Mary Quinn: Soundtrack, M+B (West Hollywood), 6–8pm.
Openings and Events in Hollywood
Fay Ray in conversation, Shulamit Nazarian (Hollywood), 4pm.
Marilyn Minter, Regen Projects (Hollywood), 6–8pm.
Julie Curtiss: Altered States, Various Small Fires (Hollywood), 6–8pm.
Double Vision, Steve Turner (Hollywood), 6–8pm.
Patrick Braden Woody: Cloth Mother, Wire Mother, there-there (Hollywood), 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
Bailey Scieszka: Soul Dolphin, Park View (MacArthur Park), 6–8pm.
Downtown Openings and Events
Bug Fair, Natural History Museum (Downtown), 9:30am–5pm. Continues May 20.
Artist Talk: Matthew Day Jackson in Conversation with Hamza Walker, Hauser & Wirth (Downtown), 2pm.
ARTIST WALKTHROUGH with Folkert de Jong and Nathan Redwood, DENK Gallery (Downtown), 2–3pm.
Bounty, Grice Bench (Downtown), 6–9pm.
Undisrememberable Curios, PØST (Downtown), 7–10pm.
Soft Bytes Feminist Animation Festival, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles (Downtown), 7:30pm.
Anne Guro: Rule of a High Priest Vol. I, JACE (Downtown), 8–11pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Workshop: The Dancing Spine: Freedom, Power & Pain Relief with the Alexander Technique with Sharon Jakubecy Klehm, Pieter (Lincoln Heights), 1–3pm.
Openings and Events in Glendale
ONE-DAY NEON ART IMMERSIVE WITH DAVID SVENSON, Museum of Neon Art (Glendale), 10am–4pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Taste of Art: English Tea Time, The Huntington (San Marino), 9am.
Out of the Woods: Celebrating Trees in Public Gardens, The Huntington (San Marino).
SkillShare: Veterans & Immigrants Oral History Recording, Side Street Projects (Pasadena), 1–4pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego), 11am–7pm.
MFA Thesis Exhibitions, Part II, CTSA Gallery (Irvine), 2–5pm.
Mona Kuhn: Selected Works, Porch Gallery (Ojai), 5–7pm.
2018 Old Bags & Baubles Luncheon, Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach).
Sunday, May 20
Openings and Events in Venice
Venice Art Walk, Google (Venice), 12–6pm.
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
8th Annual Beyond Baroque Awards Dinner, The Church in Ocean Park (Santa Monica), 6–9:30pm.
Openings and Events in Mar Vista
George Stoll: Spirograph Drawings (1995–2017), c.nichols project (Mar Vista), 5–8pm.
Openings and Events in Westwood
2018 K.A.M.P., Hammer Museum (Westwood), 10am–2pm. $100–150.
Openings and Events in Culver City
Promote-Tolerate-Ban: Art and Culture of Cold War Hungary and Socialist Flower Power: Soviet Hippie Culture, Wende Museum (Culver City), 12–5pm.
Miracle Mile Openings and Events
Talk: Gallery Course: European Art, 1750–1850—Neoclassicism and the Barbizon School, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 8:30am.
Mark Grotjahn: 50 Kitchens and Decoding Mimbres Painting: Ancient Ceramics of the American Southwest, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 10am–7pm.
Seeing Stars: A Bamboo Sculpture Workshop with Akio Hizume, Craft and Folk Art Museum (Miracle Mile), 1–3pm. $40–50.
Downtown Openings and Events
On The Wall! Street Art Youth Workshop, 356 Mission (Downtown), 1–4pm.
Place It Workshop with James Rojas, California African American Museum (Downtown), 1–3pm.
Listening Session #2 with Noah Copelin, MOCA Grand Avenue (Downtown), 3pm.
The World Is My Home, THE SPACE by ADVOCARTSY (Downtown), 4–7pm.
Openings and Events in Frogtown
Feminist Manifesto Writing Workshop, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 2–6pm. $12–15.
Openings and Events in Echo Park
Luca Francesconi: Eternal Digestion, 67 Steps (Echo Park), 7–9pm.
Openings and Events in MacArthur Park
The Circus, Bob Baker Marionette Theater (MacArthur Park), 5:30pm.
Openings and Events in Lincoln Heights
Orgasmic Yoga: Dr. Victoria Reuveni, Pieter (Lincoln Heights), 6–10pm. $30–40.
Openings and Events in Highland Park
Miller Robinson: Of this body; of this earth, Southwest Museum (Highland Park), 1–3pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
In Conversation with Susan Whitfield and Peter Sellars, The Huntington (San Marino), 2pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Nam June Paik: TV Clock, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara).
Artist talk: Scott Froschauer: Echo Enigma closing, Ark Gallery and Studios (Altadena), 3–5pm.
Rehearsal: The Harvest, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 6pm.
Monday, May 21
Openings and Events in Santa Monica
A Conversation with L.A. Artists Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Charles Gaines, Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center (Santa Monica), 6:30pm. $35.
Openings and Events in Westwood
BRETT STEELE, UCLA (Westwood), 6:30pm.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Carnegie Astronomy Lecture - Astronomical Alchemy: The Origin of the Elements, The Huntington (San Marino), 7pm.
Openings and Events Beyond Los Angeles
Families: On-Site: North Hollywood—Comic-inspired Art Series, North Hollywood Amelia Earhart Regional Library (North Hollywood), 2pm.
High Desert Test Kitchen: may ingredient: cholla, Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center (Joshua Tree), 7pm
Tuesday, May 22
Openings and Events in Westwood
INA CONRADI + MARK CHAVEZ: MEDIA ART NEXUS NTU SINGAPORE, UCLA (Westwood), 6pm.
CONVERSATIONS: The Sex Ed with Liz Goldwyn, Nina Hartley, and Dita Von Teese, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
In Focus: Expressions, Getty Center (Brentwood), 10am–5:30pm.
Miracle Mile Openings and Events
Film: The Magician, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 1pm.
Downtown Openings and Events
Youth Now, California African American Museum (Downtown), 12–3pm.
Wednesday, May 23
Openings and Events in Westwood
FOWLER OUT LOUD: JOHNNIE YAJ, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 6pm.
Openings and Events in Brentwood
India and the World: A History in Nine Stories, Getty Center (Brentwood), 7pm.
Openings and Events in Mid-City
Back to the 80s, The Loft at Liz’s (Mid-City), 7–9pm.
Openings and Events Downtown
wasteLAnd premieres Wolfgang v. Schweinitz’s Cantata, or You are the star in God’s eye, REDCAT (Downtown), 8:30pm. $10–20.
Openings and Events in Pasadena
Curator Tour: Radiant Beauty, The Huntington (San Marino), 5pm.
Crotty Lecture - Remembering the Reformation, The Huntington (San Marino), 7:30pm.
