Welcome to art in Los Angeles! This week is chock-full of performances, lectures, panel discussions, gallery and museum events. 

Must See >>> Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha presents a museum scale survey of the postwar Japanese artistic phenomenon Mono-ha (School of Things). Blum and Poe this Saturday, 6-8pm.

In addition to the many gallery openings this week, the College Art Association will host its 100th annual conference at the LA Convention Center from February 22-25th. This international forum will bring together professionals in the visual arts through events such as lectures, performances, and a book and trade fair.

For a more personal guide to the best and undiscovered, talk to Geoff Tuck or read his blog, Notes on Looking.

Wednesday:
+ Billy Al Bengston, John Baldessari, Philp with John Mason "Roundtable moderated by Hunter Drohojowska" at Scripps College: Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery

Thursday:
+ Performance: Sanford Biggers "Moon Medicine" at Hammer Museum
+ Book launch: Dan Graham, Lee Lozano , Stephen Kaltenbach "Joint Dialogue" curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer at Ooga Booga

Saturday:
+ "Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-Ha" curated by Mika Yoshitake at Blum & Poe
+ Cara Benedetto, Davida Nemeroff "Where The Skin Gets Pinched" at Young Art
+ Performance: Sonja Gerdes "'Pie of Trouble. Let's hang.' The Energy Plan" at Elephant

Sunday:
+ "Solar Gadget Workshop" at Machine Project

Tuesday, February 21

Lecture: Glenn Adamson "Postmodernism: Style And Subversion 1970" at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
West Hollywood: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, CA 90036, 7-9pm

Workshop: "Community Printmaking Sessions with Holly Jerger" at Craft and Folk Art Museum
Miracle Mile / Mid-City: 5814 Wilshire Boulevard, CA 90036, 6:30-9:30pm

"Ansel Adams: Open to the Public" at G2 Gallery
Venice: 1503 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, CA 90291, 6-9pm

"Nature LA: Jeff Crandell" at G2 Gallery
Venice: 1503 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, CA 90291, 6-9pm

Wednesday, February 22

"3rd Annual New Media Caucus Showcase" at LACDA (Los Angeles Center for Digital Art)
Downtown: 107 West 5th street , CA 90013, 6-9:30pm

Artist Talk: "Harrell Fletcher And The Emergence Of Art And Social Practice" at Hammer Museum
Westwood / Century City: 10899 Wilshire Blvd, CA 90024, 7-9pm

+ Billy Al Bengston, John Baldessari, Philp with John Mason "Roundtable moderated by Hunter Drohojowska" at Scripps College: Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery
Claremont: 1030 Columbia avenue, CA 91711, RSVP by calling (909) 607-3397 or email kdelman@scrippscollege.edu, 7-9pm

Performance: Matthew Dear at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
Eagle Rock: 2225 Colorado BLVD, CA 90041, $15, 6-8pm

Thursday, February 23

Urs Fischer "Beds and Problem Paintings" at Gagosian
Beverly Hills: 456 North Camden Drive, CA 90210, 6-8pm

Anthony Lister at New Image Art
West Hollywood: 7908 Santa Monica Blvd. , CA 90038, 6-9pm

Lecture: "Michael Govan And Nea Chairman Rocco Landesman" at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
West Hollywood: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, CA 90036, 7:30-8:30pm

Artist Talk: Ana Prvacki, Ashley Hunt, Barbara T. Smith , Bob Bates, Charles Gaines, Chon Noriega, Cindy Smith, Dana Duff, Faith Wilding, John Tain, Kerry Tribe, Lita Albuquerque, Marcos Lutyens, Marie Shurkus, Mark Lee, Miles Coolidge "X-TRA presents The Kitchen Table, reprise" at College Art Association Conference
Downtown: 1201 South Figueroa St, CA 90015, 12:30pm

+ Performance: Sanford Biggers "Moon Medicine" at Hammer Museum
Westwood / Century City: 10899 Wilshire Blvd, CA 90024, 7-9pm

+ Book launch: Dan Graham, Lee Lozano , Stephen Kaltenbach "Joint Dialogue" curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer at Ooga Booga
Chinatown: 943 N. Broadway, CA 90012, 5-7pm

Jozef Van Wissem "N O W" at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
Eagle Rock: 2225 Colorado BLVD, CA 90041, $10, 8pm

Friday, February 24

Terry Richardson "Terrywood" at OHWOW Los Angeles
West Hollywood: 937 N La Cienega Boulevard, CA 90069, 6-9pm

"Momentum" at Gallery 825 / LAAA
West Hollywood: 825 N La Cienega Boulevard, CA 90069, 6-9pm

Conference: "New Narratives for Living in a Modern Way: California Design at Mid-century" at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
West Hollywood: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, CA 90036, 10am-5pm

Panel Discussion: "Women, Surrealism, California, And Beyond" at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
West Hollywood: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, CA 90036, 9:30-10:30am

Panel Discussion: Jim Isermann, Jorge Pardo, Pae White "Blurring the Boundaries: California Design and Contemporary Art" at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
West Hollywood: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, CA 90036, 7-9pm

Panel Discussion: "Symposium: New Narratives For "living In A Modern Way": California Design At Mid-Century" at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
West Hollywood: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, CA 90036, 10am-5pm

"These Friends 3" at This Los Angeles
Highland Park: 5906 N Figueroa St, CA 90042, 7-10pm

Performance: Julia Holter, Mark So, Rick Bahto at Jancar Jones Gallery
Chinatown: 506 Bernard Street, CA 90012, 8pm

Spencer Sweeney "Egyptian Violet" at Night Gallery
Lincoln Heights: 204 S. Ave 19 , CA 90031, 10pm-2am

"Music before Columbus: The Collection of Luis Perez" at Museum of Ventura County
Ventura: 100 East Main Street, CA 93001, 5:30-7:30pm

"The White Instruments: Recent Creations by Luis Perez" at Museum of Ventura County
Ventura: 100 East Main Street, CA 93001, 5:30-7:30pm

"Threads of Life: The Weavers of Teotitlan del Valle" at Museum of Ventura County
Ventura: 100 East Main Street, CA 93001, 5:30-7:30pm

Saturday, February 25

Os Gemeos "Miss You" at PRISM
West Hollywood: 8746 W. Sunset Boulevard, CA 90069, 6-9pm

Antonio Pelayo "Mi Familia and other pencil drawings on paper" at Launch (Gallery)
Miracle Mile / Mid-City: 5412 Wilshire Boulevard, CA 90036, 6-10pm

David O. Johnson "Goods & Goods & Goods" at Launch (Gallery)
Miracle Mile / Mid-City: 5412 Wilshire Boulevard, CA 90036, 6-10pm

Performance: Maya Gingery "Not For Nothing Do We Wait" at Native Strategies (LA Convention Center)
Downtown: Figueroa St 1201, CA 90015, 12-1pm

"Usc Roski School Of Fine Arts Graduate Open Studios" at USC Gayle and Ed Roski MFA Gallery
Downtown: 3001 S. Flower St., (Entrance on 30th St, CA 90007, 5-10pm

"Inside Hollywood" at Phil Stern Gallery
Downtown: 601 S. Los Angeles St., CA 90013, 7-11pm

Reading: Brenda Varda, Carol Ojeda-Kimbrough, Ken Cho, Kym Ghee, Rose Portillo, Simeon Den, Tomas J. Benitez, Tony Di Zino "Circa 1986" at Morono Kiang Gallery
Downtown: 218 W 3rd Street, CA 90012, 6-7:30pm

Aaron Nagel, Anna Chung, Apricot Mantle, Aunia Kahn, Casey Weldon, Cate Rangel, Charles Ketcham, Chris Peters, Christopher Umana, Chrystal Chan, Cristina Paulos, Dave MacDowell, David Bray, Delphia, Douglas Alvarez, Edith Lebeau, Gail Potocki, Jason Rudulph Pena, JAW Cooper, Jeff Ramirez, Jessica Ward, JoKa, Jose Carabes, Ken Garduno, Korin Faught, Kris Moore, L.Croskey, Lily Mae Martin, Linnea Strid, Morgan Slade, Nicole Bruckman, Nom Kinnear King, Paul Chatem , Sara Haase, Sarah Folkman, Stella Im Hultberg, Ted von Heiland, Thh70 "Femme Fatale" at Cella Gallery (Satellite Gallery)
North Hollywood: 11135 Weddington street, suite 112, CA 91601, 7-11pm

Panel Discussion: "Femme Strike: A salon on femme organizing for the win" at Beacon Arts
Inglewood: 808 N. La Brea avenue, CA 90302, 8:30-11:30pm

Corey Arnold "Wolf Tide" at Richard Heller Gallery
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue, B-5A, CA 90404, 5-7pm

Closing reception: Beatrice Wood "Career Woman--Drawings, Paintings, Vessels, and Objects" at Santa Monica Museum of Art
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue, CA 90404, 11am-3pm

Lise Sarfati "On Hollywood" at Rosegallery
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue , Bergamot Station, Gallery G5, CA 90404, 6-8pm

Dirty Donny Gillies "Vantastic Voyage" at Copro Gallery
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue, T5, CA 90404, 8-11:30pm

Shirley Tse "Vital Organs and Other Stories" at Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue, B1, CA 90404, 5-7pm

"Order and Disorder: Alighiero Boetti by Afghan Women" at Fowler Museum at UCLA
Westwood / Century City: Westwood Blvd at Sunset Plaza, CA 90069, 6-11pm

Dmitry Strakovsky "The Way We Tell The Stories That Tell The Way" at Carter & Citizen
Culver City: 2648 La Cienega avenue, CA 90232, 6-9pm

Ford Beckman "Pop Targets" at Maloney Fine Art
Culver City: 2680 S. La Cienega Blvd., CA 90034, 6-8pm

Matt Jacobs "New Works" at George Billis Gallery LA
Culver City: 2716 S. La Cienega Blvd., CA 90034, 5-8pm

Carolyn Castaño "El Jardin Femenil Y Otros Ocasos" at Walter Maciel Gallery
Culver City: 2642 S. La Cienega Blvd., CA 90034, 6-8pm

Jacqueline Bootier, Jon Pylypchuk, Kiel Johnson, Nicolas Grenier, Sara Alavikia, Thomas Whittaker Kidd at JK Gallery
Culver City: 2632 S. La Cienega Blvd., CA 90034, 6-8pm

"Hadley Holliday" at Taylor De Cordoba
Culver City: 2660 S. La Cienega Blvd., CA 90034, 6-8pm

Delia Brown "Felicity & Caprice" at Angles Gallery
Culver City: 2754 S. La Cienega Blvd., CA 90034, 6-8pm

+ "Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-Ha" curated by Mika Yoshitake at Blum & Poe
Culver City: 2727 S. La Cienega Boulevard, CA 90034, 6-8pm

Rosson Crow "Ballyhoo Hullabaloo Haboob" at Honor Fraser
Culver City: 2622 S. La Cienega Boulevard, CA 90034, 6-8pm

Christopher Davison "Jackanapes" at Mark Moore Gallery
Culver City: 5790 Washington Boulevard, CA 90232, 6-8pm

Sandow Birk "American Qur'an" at Koplin Del Rio Gallery
Culver City: 6031 Washington Boulevard, CA 90232, 6-8pm

Herakut "After the Laughter" at LeBasse Projects
Culver City: 6023 Washington Boulevard, CA 90232, 6-10pm

Eric Beltz "Spirits" at Koplin Del Rio Gallery
Culver City: 6031 Washington Boulevard, CA 90232, 6-8pm

Ali Smith "Flip Side" at Mark Moore Gallery
Culver City: 5790 Washington Boulevard, CA 90232, 6-8pm

"From a Whisper to a Roar, Women Artists Charting Their Own Course" at Avenue 50 Studio
Highland Park: 131 North Avenue 50, CA 90042, 11am-2pm

Frick Byers "Tennis Courts" at Sam Lee Gallery
Chinatown: 990 N. Hill Street , suite 190, CA 90012, 6-8pm

+ Cara Benedetto, Davida Nemeroff "Where The Skin Gets Pinched" at Young Art
Chinatown: 418 Bamboo Lane, CA 90012, 6-9pm

Screening: "Past Present | Future Imperatives: Queer Space Time" at Sabina Lee Gallery
Chinatown: 971 Chung King Road, CA 90012, 6-9pm

Performance: "David Dominique Brass with Mooey Moobau" at Human Resources (HRLA)
Chinatown: 410 Cottage Home street, CA 90012, 8-11pm

+ Performance: Sonja Gerdes "'Pie of Trouble. Let's hang.' The Energy Plan" at Elephant
Glassell Park: 3325 Division Street , CA 90065, 8-11pm

Chris Eckert, Don Ed Hardy at Sylvia White
Ventura: 1783 East Main Street, CA 93001, 3-5pm

Sunday, February 26

Performance: Cortney Andrews "In Wonderland Today" at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
West Hollywood: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, CA 90036, 2-3pm

+ "Solar Gadget Workshop" at Machine Project
Silverlake / Echo Park / Atwater: 1200 D North Alvarado Street , CA 90026, $75, 12-4pm

Panel Discussion: "General Opposition Party: The Relevance Of Painting In The 21st Century" at Raid Projects
Downtown: 602 Moulton Avenue, CA 90031, 3-5pm

Performance: "Harmonics Series" at LACDA (Los Angeles Center for Digital Art)
Downtown: 107 West 5th street , CA 90013, 6-8pm

Workshop: "My Barbarian Mask Workshop" at Human Resources (HRLA)
Chinatown: 410 Cottage Home street, CA 90012, 3pm

Closing reception: Linda Vallejo "Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building" at OTIS Ben Maltz Gallery
Westchester: 9045 Lincoln Boulevard , CA 90045, 3-5pm

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