As the PST Performance and Public Art Festival wraps up, we've got to get back to the grind, unless we want to keep going to bars every night. Here are some lectures, exhibitions and performances to keep things exciting.

Thursday, Hammer Museum, 7pm: Artist Mari Eastman will give a talk about her painting practice. You can see some of her work at the Cherry and Martin website. 
 
Thursday, Night Gallery, 10pm: Hosted by Nick Flanagan and Nathan Fielder, they will present performance art as stand-up comedy that is actually supposed to be really funny. BYOB.

On Friday at Weekend Gallery, 7-10pm: Hide the Evidence is an exhibition of photographic works by Suzanne Adelman, in which she explores the physiological experience of vision and perception through a series of images depicting mundane urban environments. 
  
On Saturday at REDCAT, 6-9pm: For his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Ming Wong creates a series of videos and scenic backdrops that center around the making of Roman Polanski’s 1974 film Chinatown. Shot on location in the Gallery at REDCAT, Wong’s reinterpretation, Making Chinatown, transforms the exhibition space into a studio backlot and examines the original film’s constructions of language, performance and identity.

Thursday:
+ Lecture: "Mari Eastman" at Hammer Museum
+ Performance: Nathan Fielder, Nick Flanagan "Night Comedy 2: Leaving the Dream" at Night Gallery

Friday:
+ Suzanne Adelman "Hide the Evidence" at Weekend

Saturday:
+ Ming Wong "Making Chinatown" at REDCAT @ CalArts Theater (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater)

Tuesday, January 31

Thomas Demand "The West Coast Gala Dinner" at American Friends of Israel Museum (Beverly Hills Hotel)
Beverly Hills: 9641 Sunset Boulevard, CA 90210, 7-10pm

Amy Howden-Chapman "Apologies" at Night Gallery
Lincoln Heights: 204 S. Ave 19 , CA 90031, 11pm-2am

Thursday, February 2

+ Lecture: "Mari Eastman" at Hammer Museum
Westwood / Century City: 10899 Wilshire Blvd, CA 90024, 7pm

"Exuberance: New Works by Colombian-American Artist America Martin" at JoAnne Artman Gallery
Laguna Beach: 326 N Coast Highway, CA 92651, RSVP: 949.510.5481, 6-9pm

+ Performance: Nathan Fielder, Nick Flanagan "Night Comedy 2: Leaving the Dream" at Night Gallery
Lincoln Heights: 204 S. Ave 19 , CA 90031, 10pm-2am

Friday, February 3

Andrew Foster, Anne-Elizabeth Sobieski, Kimberly Brooks, Rives Granade, Sean P. McGaughey, Sydney Littenberg "Coming Together: A Pop-Up Group Painting Exhibition" curated by Laura Grover, Sonny Ruscha Bjornson at Fabien Fryns Fine Art
West Hollywood: 314 N. Crescent Heights Blvd., CA 90048, 7-10pm

Christine Wu "Shhh..." at La Luz de Jesus Gallery
Hollywood: 4633 Hollywood Blvd, CA 90027, 8-11pm

Soey Milk "Malus Sieversii" at La Luz de Jesus Gallery
Hollywood: 4633 Hollywood Blvd, CA 90027, 8-11pm

Matthew Bone "Paradise Lost" at La Luz de Jesus Gallery
Hollywood: 4633 Hollywood Blvd, CA 90027, 8-11pm

Bonni Reid "Cartes de Visite" at La Luz de Jesus Gallery
Hollywood: 4633 Hollywood Blvd, CA 90027, 8-11pm

+ Suzanne Adelman "Hide the Evidence" at Weekend
Hollywood: 4634 Hollywood Boulevard, CA 90027, 7-10pm

Kurt Halsey "What Went From a Whisper" at Gallery 1988 (Venice)
Santa Monica: 214 Pier Avenue, CA 90405, 7-10pm

Saturday, February 4

John Reiff Williams "The Edge of Collapse" at Thomas Paul Fine Art
West Hollywood: 7270 Beverly Boulevard, CA 90036, 6-9pm

Dan McCleary, Eowyn Wilcox, Javier Carrillo, John Nava, June Wayne, Karen Carson, Lucas Reiner, Merion Estes, Patricia Yossen "Portraits by the Students and Teachers of Art Division" curated by Art Division teachers and students at Harris & Ruble Gallery Hollywood: 6424 Santa Monica Boulevard, CA 90038, 4-8pm

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"Faraway, So Close" at Morono Kiang Gallery
Downtown: 218 W 3rd Street, CA 90012, 6-9pm

+ Ming Wong "Making Chinatown" at REDCAT @ CalArts Theater (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater)
Downtown: 631 West 2nd Street, CA 90012, 6-9pm

"Blow Up L.A.!" at Crewest
Downtown: 110 Winston street, CA 90013, 6-10pm

David Twamley, Jane Peterson, Ty Bowman "Our Shifting Subconscious: Form vs. Perception" at TAG Gallery
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue, CA 90404, 5-9pm

Rudy Gernreich "Fashion Show" at Italian Cultural Institute
Westwood / Century City: 1023 Hilgard Avenue, CA 90024, 7-9pm

Performance: "La Santa Cecilia + Paper Fashion with Patssi Valdez" at Fowler Museum at UCLA
Westwood / Century City: Westwood Blvd at Sunset Plaza, CA 90069, 7-10pm

Ana Bagayan "There is Time to Kill Today" at Thinkspace Gallery
Culver City: 6009 Washington Boulevard, CA 90232, 5-8pm

Sunday, February 5

"Korean International Exchange Show" at LA Artcore (Union Arts Center)
Downtown: 120 N Judge John Aiso street, CA 90012, 1-3pm

Alina Szapocznikow "Sculpture Undone. 1955-1972" at Hammer Museum
Westwood / Century City: 10899 Wilshire Blvd, CA 90024, 11am-5pm

"Intimate Immensity" at Hammer Museum
Westwood / Century City: 10899 Wilshire Blvd, CA 90024, 11am-5pm

Artist Talk: Monica Majoli, Tom Knechtel "Artists' Response" curated by Carol S. Eliel at Pasadena Museum of California Art
Pasadena: 490 East Union Street, CA 91101, 3-4pm

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