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Cold War Secrecy
Aug 2·7:30 PM

How Cold War vigilance and secrecy shaped Southern California culture.

Downtown Draws
Downtown Draws
Aug 2·11:00 AM
Open Site Day: Art Adventures
Aug 2·12:00 PM

Join us for two special Art-Themed Open Site Weekends at the Homestead Museum and explore the site at your own pace.

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Seeds of Resilience: Barrio Americano
Aug 2·1:00 PM

The Story of Long Beach (Seeds of Resilience)

The Making of a Medieval Manuscript Exhibition
Aug 4

Manuscript illumination of a haloed figure sitting at a stand with writing implements in hand.

Cold War Secrecy
Aug 4·1:30 AM

How Cold War vigilance and secrecy shaped Southern California culture.

After-Hours Tour: Danielle Dean on SPACE IS THE PLACE: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection
Aug 5·6:00 PM

Join artist Danielle Dean for an after-hours tour of SPACE IS THE PLACE: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection.

Free First Wednesdays
Aug 5

Enjoy free access on the first Wednesday of each month to all the Autry's exhibitions, including Imagined Wests, Art of the West, and more! Visitors will now have a full day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to enjoy everything the Autry has to offer.

Lunchtime Art Talk on Sheroanawe Hakiihiwe
Aug 5·12:30 PM

The Hammer's curatorial department leads free, insightful, short discussions about artists every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. This talk on artist Sheroanawe Hakiihiwe is led by curatorial assistant Jessi DiTillio.

Short & Sweet: Art That Makes an Immediate Impact
Aug 5

TAG Gallery invites artists to submit artwork that makes an instant connection with the viewer - work that is visually compelling, emotionally engaging, thought-provoking, or simply unforgettable.

Seeds of Resilience: Barrio Americano
Aug 5·1:00 PM

The Story of Long Beach (Seeds of Resilience)

Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Aug 6·6:00 PM

An "unauthorized" Banksy’s exhibition, dedicated to the enigmatic artist, lets visitors dive into the controversial artistic universe of the most influential creator of present time. The experience is designed as an immersion in the mysterious universe of the Bristol street artist and offers a unique journey through more than 100 genuine and certified works.

tierra
tierra
Aug 6·6:00 PM

Throughout the exhibition, tierra artist Jackie Amézquita will be on-site at Craft Contemporary as part of our Maker-in-Residence program on select Fridays. Visitors are invited to meet and speak with Jackie, and get a glimpse into her studio practice. Using soil gathered from around the United States, Jackie will be mixing the gathered soil with masa, cacao, spring water,…

DTLA Art Night
Aug 6·6:00 PM

Visit Downtown LA on the first Thursday of the month for our monthly Art Night! Liz Huston’s Studio Shoppe inside The Last Bookstore.

Seeds of Resilience: Barrio Americano
Aug 6·1:00 PM

The Story of Long Beach (Seeds of Resilience)

Rising Voices
Rising Voices
Aug 7

This exhibition will be the first installment of an annual showcase that exclusively celebrates emerging artists.

Fine Art
Fine Art
Aug 7

Fine Art America is the world's largest art marketplace and print-on-demand technology company, home to hundreds of thousands of artists, photographers, graphic designers, illustrators, and iconic brands.

Norton Simon, the Collector
Aug 7·5:00 PM
First Friday Open Studio Mixer
First Friday Open Studio Mixer
Aug 7·7:00 PM

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Infinite Possibilities 8x8 Show and Benefit
Aug 7

The 2nd Annual 8”x8” INFINITE POSSIBILITIES Art Show and Sale features original 8x8 masterpieces where the artist remains a mystery until after purchase. 50% of proceeds support Young at Art, a non-profit bringing art lessons to kids in the South Bay.

Open Site Day: Art Adventures
Aug 7·12:00 PM

Join us for two special Art-Themed Open Site Weekends at the Homestead Museum and explore the site at your own pace.

Concert
Concert
Aug 7

Photography Exhibition Black and White Silence Between The Notes

Aug 7·5:00 PM
Seeds of Resilience: Barrio Americano
Aug 7·1:00 PM

The Story of Long Beach (Seeds of Resilience)

First Fridays Art on the Patio
Aug 7

Whether you're looking for a fun night out, unique local artwork, or simply a chance to connect with friends and neighbors, First Fridays is the perfect way to kick off your weekend. Browse and shop artwork from talented local artists while enjoying live music by guitarist Oscar Leon.

Artist Walkthrough: Jeffrey Gibson Flags
Aug 8·11:00 PM
PIZZA N BEER ART FEST
PIZZA N BEER ART FEST
Aug 8·7:00 PM

The Pizza N Beer Art Fest is a no-holds-barred Art Fair! This is a show focused on giving artists of all degrees of style n skill a chance to showcase their art. This event brings together all of our favorites...Pizza, Drank, Art and Music.

dear artists...Los Angeles - Streets, Structures and Stories
Aug 8·5:00 PM

Helms partners with Band of Vices to present dear artists...Los Angeles - Streets, Structures and Stories inside the Helms Design Center.

Petersen Labs | Worlds Fastest
Aug 8·12:00 PM

Petersen Labs | Worlds Fastest. Saturday, August 08, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

Carol Roemer
Carol Roemer
Aug 8

Carol Roemer solo art exhibit in the Front gallery. More details coming soon.

dear artists…Los Angeles: Open Gallery Hours
Aug 8·11:00 AM

Helms partners with Band of Vices to present dear artists...Los Angeles - Streets, Structures and Stories inside the Helms Design Center.

Artists In the Gallery Meet & Greets at the 115th Gold Medal Exhibition
Aug 8·11:00 AM
Free

Join featured 115th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition artists for themed conversations and informal gallery discussions ...

Opening Celebration: Textiles As Monument
Aug 8·6:00 PM
Free

Come celebrate the opening of Textiles as Monument, an exhibition featuring three contemporary artists—Suchitra Mattai, Jagdeep Raina, and Swapnaa Tamhane—who activate textiles as a powerful medium of memory, storytelling, and historical reimagining. The launch will include a preview as well as food, music, and a lively conversation between the artists and the curator of textiles, Syona Puliady.

Gallery AF Mini's Series
Aug 8·7:00 PM

Each month we will be featuring a solo exhibit, small group exhibit, curator or even DJ's and Bands in the smaller street front portion of our Gallery. These shows are held in our smaller viewing space and typically involve a single artist for a solo exhibit.

Infinite Possibilities 8x8 Show and Benefit
Aug 8

The 2nd Annual 8”x8” INFINITE POSSIBILITIES Art Show and Sale features original 8x8 masterpieces where the artist remains a mystery until after purchase. 50% of proceeds support Young at Art, a non-profit bringing art lessons to kids in the South Bay.

Open Site Day: Art Adventures
Aug 8·12:00 PM

Join us for two special Art-Themed Open Site Weekends at the Homestead Museum and explore the site at your own pace.

115th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition
Aug 8·11:00 AM

June 14 through September 13 The Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University ...

Oscars
Oscars
Aug 8·11:00 AM

An immersive simulation in which you can finally accept that Oscar—and take a video home to prove it.

Seeds of Resilience: Barrio Americano
Aug 8·10:00 AM

The Story of Long Beach (Seeds of Resilience)

Gallery Spotlight: Cinematic Makeup and Hairstyling with Ve Neill
Aug 9·3:30 PM

Three-time Academy Award winner Ve Neill (Ed Wood, 1994 and Mrs. Doubtfire, 1993) explores the secrets behind Hollywood’s most memorable character looks. She also highlights the design of dark and macabre characters from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), currently on display in the Identity gallery.

MARKING MATTER
MARKING MATTER
Aug 9·4:00 PM

Work Will Set You Free: Sharpie on Discarded Plexi.

Rafael Silveira and Flavia Itibere
Aug 9·6:00 PM
Aug 9·5:00 PM

CALIFORINIA ART LEAGUE showing from AUGUST 5TH - AUGUST 24TH.

A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE
Aug 9·4:00 PM

Titled: Water Boy, featuring Archival print.

Aug 9
Open Site Day: Art Adventures
Aug 9·12:00 PM

Join us for two special Art-Themed Open Site Weekends at the Homestead Museum and explore the site at your own pace.

Exhibition Walk-through: Textiles As Monument
Aug 9·1:00 PM
Free

Syona Puliady, curator of textiles, together with participating artists, will lead a special walk-through of Textiles as Monument, an exhibition that explores how textiles can serve as powerful vessels of memory, storytelling, and historical reimagining. The conversation will illuminate how these works function as “counter-monuments,” honoring intimate, everyday contexts and the ways touch, labor, and collaboration shape each piece.

Aug 9
ROSAS
ROSAS
Aug 10
Sports Week
Sports Week
Aug 11·10:00 PM

Welcome to Sotheby’s Sports Week, a dynamic series of auctions celebrating iconic athletes and historic moments. Explore unique memorabilia spanning eras and sports—from Pele to Michael Jordan to Victor Wembanyama.

East L.A. Dreaming: Raven Sanchez, Alice Bag, and Amina Cruz
Aug 12·7:00 PM

Organized in conjunction with Raven Sanchez: Así Sea / So Be It, this panel discussion brings together featured artist Raven Sanchez, punk singer Alice Bag, and photographer Amina Cruz, whose shared roots in East L.A. and connections to Chicanx culture deeply influence each of their creative practices. Moderated by ICA LA Curatorial Associate Emilia Shaffer-Del Valle, this intergenerational conversation will reflect on place and community as integral catalysts in their life and work.

In the Open Air
In the Open Air
Aug 12·11:59 PM

In the Open Air explores the rich tradition of plein air painting and captures the fleeting ...

AMERICANA CAR SHOW
Aug 12·10:00 AM

We are highlighting the technologies that helped shape the American experience! Visitors will see vintage cars from early 1900’s to the muscle cars of the 1970’s, enjoy historic printing demonstrations, and get hands-on with activities inspired by American history.

Altars, Saints, and Sacred Forms Across the Americas
Aug 13·2:00 PM
Free

Patrick A. Polk, Lilly Endowment Curator of Art and Religion, will lead an in-depth exploration of three Fowler Museum’s kiosks focused on devotional practices in Mexico, Haiti, and Guatemala. Together, these installations present the artistic traditions underlying the religious objects in the museum’s collection and reflect living belief systems of the communities that sustain them.

Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Aug 13·6:00 PM

An "unauthorized" Banksy’s exhibition, dedicated to the enigmatic artist, lets visitors dive into the controversial artistic universe of the most influential creator of present time. The experience is designed as an immersion in the mysterious universe of the Bristol street artist and offers a unique journey through more than 100 genuine and certified works.

Krishna Fluting in Vrindavan (1100–1150)
Aug 13·1:00 PM
UHF Gallery @ CRE8
Aug 13
Pebble Beach
Pebble Beach
Aug 14

Presented by Gooding Christie’s, the official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance

ReDesigned Online
Aug 14·12:00 PM
Highlights of the Collection
Aug 15·1:00 PM

Tour some of the most exquisite and celebrated works of art in the Norton Simon Museum collections.

dear artists…Los Angeles: Open Gallery Hours
Aug 15·5:00 PM

Helms partners with Band of Vices to present dear artists...Los Angeles - Streets, Structures and Stories inside the Helms Design Center.

LUMINI
LUMINI
Aug 15

A Luminarium is a sculpture people enter to be moved to a sense of wonder at the beauty of light and colour. It is a cocoon—described as somewhere between a womb and a cathedral—where visitors are immersed into a world of shifting subtle and saturated hues.

dear artists...Los Angeles - Streets, Structures and Stories
Aug 15·5:00 PM

Helms partners with Band of Vices to present dear artists...Los Angeles - Streets, Structures and Stories inside the Helms Design Center.

Little Sparks: Concours d'Elegance
Pebble Beach
Pebble Beach
Aug 15

Presented by Gooding Christie’s, the official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance

ReDesigned Online
Aug 15·12:00 PM
Oscars
Oscars
Aug 15·11:00 AM

An immersive simulation in which you can finally accept that Oscar—and take a video home to prove it.

Krishna Fluting in Vrindavan (1100–1150)
Aug 15·1:00 PM
Japanese Dolls | Yukari-Kai
Walkthrough with Nancy Buchanan
Aug 16·1:00 PM

Please join curator Hannah Burstein and Nancy Buchanan for a very special walkthrough of Nancy's retrospective Truthfully, Nancy Buchanan.

Academy Museum Free Day 2026
Academy Museum Free Day 2026
Aug 16·1:00 PM3:00 PM
Free

A day of free fun, including a movie, a workshop and access to all of our galleries.

LUMINI
LUMINI
Aug 16

A Luminarium is a sculpture people enter to be moved to a sense of wonder at the beauty of light and colour. It is a cocoon—described as somewhere between a womb and a cathedral—where visitors are immersed into a world of shifting subtle and saturated hues.

Japanese Dolls | Yukari-Kai
Aug 16·2:00 PM

Cantos y Cuentos, part of the Markings/Huellas project, is a Los Angeles public art and oral history initiative celebrating Indigenous immigrant communities, preserving cultural heritage, and sharing stories from Westlake and Pico Union.

Sports Week
Sports Week
Aug 17

Welcome to Sotheby’s Sports Week, a dynamic series of auctions celebrating iconic athletes and historic moments. Explore unique memorabilia spanning eras and sports—from Pele to Michael Jordan to Victor Wembanyama.

ReDesigned Online
Aug 17·12:00 PM
POP FICTION
Aug 17
RECEPTION
Aug 17
Odilon Redon: Otherworldly Visions Exhibition
Aug 18·3:00 PM

French artist Odilon Redon (1840–1916) is known for his enigmatic art that celebrated the beauty of nature and mined the dreamlike depths of the imagination.

20|21 ART: THE LA EDITION
ReDesigned Online
Aug 18·3:00 PM
discussion on the complex history of museum collections and their role in shaping narratives around race and identity
Aug 19

A powerful discussion on the complex history of museum collections and their role in shaping narratives around race and identity. In conversation with Ken Gonzales-Day, Luke Fidler, and Tatiana Flores, moderated by Amelia Jones.

USC Welcome Week at Fisher Museum
Aug 19

Paul R. Williams: An Architect Considered debuts recently acquired archival drawings, photographs, and plans and pairs them with newly commissioned works by leading contemporary artists, architects, and filmmakers, reframing Paul R Williams’s long under-recognized work and addressing urgent conversations about race, equity, and the future of American cities.

Exhibition Walk-through: Mountain Spirits
Aug 20·2:00 PM
Free

Gassia Armenian will lead a walk-through of Mountain Spirits, an exhibition exploring the sacred landscapes and cultural traditions of the Ifugao of northern Luzon. Discover carved guardians, ritual bowls, woven blankets, and farming tools that reveal how labor, generosity, and spirituality are intertwined in everyday life.

The Making of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey'. 45th Ed.
Aug 20

This behind-the-scenes spectacular of 2001: A Space Odyssey sheds light on the lead actors, senior production designers, special-effects experts and masterminds of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. This comprehensive visual record includes on and off set photographs, pre-production paintings, and conceptual designs from the Kubrick archives.

IAN BATES
IAN BATES
Aug 20·6:00 PM

These Days is pleased to present MEADOWLARK, a solo exhibition by photographer Ian Bates. To produce the photographs that make up this exhibition Ian Bates spent years driving the vast, sparsely-populated spaces of the American West, often sleeping in his car.

Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Aug 20·6:00 PM

An "unauthorized" Banksy’s exhibition, dedicated to the enigmatic artist, lets visitors dive into the controversial artistic universe of the most influential creator of present time. The experience is designed as an immersion in the mysterious universe of the Bristol street artist and offers a unique journey through more than 100 genuine and certified works.

TIMISIEN
TIMISIEN
Aug 20·11:00 AM

Luminarium is an incredible inflatable installation by Architects of Air that invites visitors to wander through a spectacular series of colour drenched domes and tunnels. Named TIMISIEN, this year’s structure takes its name from the Romanian city of Timișoara.

Aug 21·1:00 PM

Tour some of the most exquisite and celebrated works of art in the Norton Simon Museum collections.

tierra
tierra
Aug 21·5:00 PM

Throughout the exhibition, tierra artist Jackie Amézquita will be on-site at Craft Contemporary as part of our Maker-in-Residence program on select Fridays. Visitors are invited to meet and speak with Jackie, and get a glimpse into her studio practice. Using soil gathered from around the United States, Jackie will be mixing the gathered soil with masa, cacao, spring water,…

More Than Love: The Life & Art of Natalie Wood
Aug 21·5:00 PM

An exhibition that celebrates Ms. Wood’s unrelenting curiosity and passion for art, design, literature, music, family & friends; with rarely seen artwork by Don Bachardy, Henry Jaglom, Margaret Keane, and Natalie Wood herself. Including many of her personal possessions, the exhibition offers an intimate glimpse into a thoughtfully curated collection of the world's most beloved film icons.


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The Making of a Medieval Manuscript Exhibition
Aug 4

Manuscript illumination of a haloed figure sitting at a stand with writing implements in hand.

Cold War Secrecy
Aug 4·1:30 AM

How Cold War vigilance and secrecy shaped Southern California culture.

After-Hours Tour: Danielle Dean on SPACE IS THE PLACE: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection
Aug 5·6:00 PM

Join artist Danielle Dean for an after-hours tour of SPACE IS THE PLACE: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection.

Free First Wednesdays
Aug 5

Enjoy free access on the first Wednesday of each month to all the Autry's exhibitions, including Imagined Wests, Art of the West, and more! Visitors will now have a full day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to enjoy everything the Autry has to offer.

Lunchtime Art Talk on Sheroanawe Hakiihiwe
Aug 5·12:30 PM

The Hammer's curatorial department leads free, insightful, short discussions about artists every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. This talk on artist Sheroanawe Hakiihiwe is led by curatorial assistant Jessi DiTillio.

Short & Sweet: Art That Makes an Immediate Impact
Aug 5

TAG Gallery invites artists to submit artwork that makes an instant connection with the viewer - work that is visually compelling, emotionally engaging, thought-provoking, or simply unforgettable.

Seeds of Resilience: Barrio Americano
Aug 5·1:00 PM

The Story of Long Beach (Seeds of Resilience)

Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Aug 6·6:00 PM

An "unauthorized" Banksy’s exhibition, dedicated to the enigmatic artist, lets visitors dive into the controversial artistic universe of the most influential creator of present time. The experience is designed as an immersion in the mysterious universe of the Bristol street artist and offers a unique journey through more than 100 genuine and certified works.

tierra
tierra
Aug 6·6:00 PM

Throughout the exhibition, tierra artist Jackie Amézquita will be on-site at Craft Contemporary as part of our Maker-in-Residence program on select Fridays. Visitors are invited to meet and speak with Jackie, and get a glimpse into her studio practice. Using soil gathered from around the United States, Jackie will be mixing the gathered soil with masa, cacao, spring water,…

DTLA Art Night
Aug 6·6:00 PM

Visit Downtown LA on the first Thursday of the month for our monthly Art Night! Liz Huston’s Studio Shoppe inside The Last Bookstore.