Friday is Liz Glynn: The Myth of Getting it Right the First Time at LACMA at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday is Kaz Oshiro from 6-8 p.m.
Today is the Art and Queer Culture Book Launch. It starts at 6 p.m.
Sunday is the Ed Ruscha: Reception and Book Signing, Art Catalogues at LACMA from 4-6 p.m.
TEDxCalArts: Performance, Body & Presence is the first TEDxCalArts conference by the CalArts Center for New Performance.
In the Good Name of the Company is the opening reception for an exhibition of works from Colby Poster Printing Company curated by Jan Tumlir, with Christopher Michlig and Brian Roettinger.
Saturday is opening day of an exhibition presenting Vermeer's 1663-64 painting Women in Blue Reading a Letter.
ForYourArt selects the best opportunities to see, collect, learn about and support art each week.
Presented by performance-art journal Native Strategies, the two-night Rituals and Congregations event features artist Amanda Yates channeling the spirit of Los Angeles.
In theater news, the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Water by the Spoonful, extends its run by two weeks. This play is the second in a trilogy by Quiara Alegría Hudes.
Tonight is opening night of Art Los Angeles Contemporary. Now in its fourth year, the fair presents 70 international and emerging galleries with a focus on Los Angeles.
photo l.a. 2013 Benefit Gala s the opening night gala for the 22nd annual photograph exposition.
Friday is the opening reception for an exhibition of Frank Gehry's Fish Lamps. Gehry produced the new lamps in 2012 and they will be divided between Gagosian Beverly Hills and Gagosian Paris at concurrent exhibitions.
Los Angeles Ballet returns to Valley Performing Arts Center with its production of The Nutcracker. Follow Clara and her Nutcracker to the magical Land of Snow, and to the enchanted Palace of the Dolls.
This Bergamot Station Holiday Open House features holiday food and drinks, performances by Pop Wagon, and affordable art for gifting throughout the Bergamot's various galleries. The free open house also includes a variety of family friendly events.
Art.Music. is the last of the Hammer's music residency wild Up. For this final concert, the orchestra examines the intersection of visual art and music by exploring the museum's collections and creating new site-specific work.
With rain in the rearview and the holidays on the horizon, you've got barely one more weekend of 2012 to enjoy yourselves before the madness sets in.
Saturday is the closing reception for the Third Annual Queer Pile-up! presented by Darin Klein and Friends with Suzanne Wright.
Our picks this week tend to include A/C -- when will this heat leave us alone!?
The fifth event of the Made in L.A. Music series features a live set by KCRW's Jeremy Sole in the Hammer's courtyard. This free event includes extended gallery hours.
Cinespia kicks off its 10th season of film screenings at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery with Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train. Guests are welcome to bring blankets and picnic supplies.
To commemorate the centennial of the cherry trees gifted to the United States from Japan, the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center will celebrate its first annual spring festival: LA Bloom.
