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Fall Exhibitions Celebration

In 3 days · Oct 10 Free Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd…

A museum at nine at night, with a drink in your hand and the galleries still unlocked, is a completely different building. It stops being homework. The courtyard has music, the rooms stay unlocked late, and the two shows being opened are retrospectives of women who spent their careers making abstraction and getting written out of the story for it - Huguette Caland and Mavis Pusey, both finally getting the wall space. The crowd at these is the actual Los Angeles art world plus everyone who follows it: studio assistants, grad students, people who came for the party and end up standing quietly in front of something. It is free, which is the whole reason it works - a free opening is the only kind where the room is not sorted by who could afford to be in it. Pusey was a Jamaican-born printmaker who built her abstraction out of demolition sites and scaffolding in New York, and almost nobody on the west coast has seen a room of it. Doors at eight, Saturday October 10. The exhibitions stay up for months afterward, and the galleries around here are free on the same afternoons.

After-Hours Tour: Phil Chang on Five Centuries of Works on Paper

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After-Hours Tour: Phil Chang on Five Centuries of Works on Paper

Oct 1, 2026 Free Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd…

Museums are different after closing. The light changes, the guards relax, and the rooms stop feeling like a place you are visiting and start feeling like somewhere you were let into. That is most of why an after-hours tour is worth rearranging a Thursday for. The other reason is who is leading it: Phil Chang is an artist whose whole practice is about photographic materials failing on purpose - images that fade, paper that refuses to hold the picture - which makes him a genuinely strange and good choice to walk a group through five hundred years of drawings and prints. Expect him to talk about surfaces and decay rather than subjects and dates. Chang teaches at Art Center and shows with Praz-Delavallade, and he is the rare artist who can talk about a Rembrandt etching and a bleached-out C-print as the same problem. The group size is whatever fits comfortably in a gallery, so it is worth being early rather than on time. Free admission, six o'clock, Thursday October 1, at the Hammer in Westwood.

Brigitte Caland & Aram Moshayedi on Huguette Caland

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Brigitte Caland & Aram Moshayedi on Huguette Caland

Sep 30, 2026 Free Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd…

Being somebody's daughter and being the person who explains them to the world are two different jobs, and doing both at once in public is a peculiar thing to watch. Huguette Caland left Beirut and a political family behind to make some of the most frankly physical painting of the last century - bodies rendered as landscape, erotic and funny and completely unbothered - and spent decades being undervalued for it. Her daughter Brigitte has spent years since making sure that stopped, and she is sitting down with an independent curator to talk about the work and the person at the same time. This is the kind of evening a museum does when it is not trying to fill seats: no ticket, no pitch, a room of maybe a hundred people who came because they actually wanted to hear it. Free, and free means the crowd skews younger and stranger than a paid lecture would. Wednesday September 30 at 7:30pm in Westwood.

Hammer Summer Concert 2026 — Open Mike Eagle (August 19)

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Hammer Summer Concert 2026 — Open Mike Eagle (August 19)

Aug 19, 2026 Free Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd…

Rap that makes you lean in instead of back is rarer than it ought to be. His records have been called art rap since the first one — introspective, literary, frequently surreal, moving between music and visual art without ever announcing which one it is being. Which makes a museum courtyard exactly the right room. The live show is quiet in a way that forces attention; it does not work as background and it is not trying to. A crowd standing on stone at dusk in Westwood with the galleries still open behind them is the environment that material was built for, even if it took an art museum to notice. Happy hour first, main set after, outdoors on Wilshire, free and first-come. Bring the friend who keeps saying nobody is writing anything interesting anymore, and let him answer it in person.

Hammer Summer Concert 2026 — Very Be Careful (July 31)

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Hammer Summer Concert 2026 — Very Be Careful (July 31)

Jul 31, 2026 Free Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd…

You cannot explain Colombian vallenato to someone in a paragraph - you have to stand in a courtyard at sunset while a seven-piece band drives it home on an accordion, and then they understand it in their body before their brain catches up. That is the whole gift of this night. Very Be Careful, the Los Angeles-based Colombian vallenato group that has been carrying the accordion-centered sound of Colombia's Caribbean coast to Southern California since the early 2000s, plays the Hammer courtyard in Westwood. They have filled venues twice this size; here it will be intimate. Vallenato is not salsa, and not cumbia as most Americans know it - it is older, more accordion-centered, rooted in the Colombian Caribbean coast, and this band is one of the best introductions to it anywhere in LA. Happy hour 6:30-7:30 PM. Concert at 7:30 PM. After-hours gallery access throughout the evening. Free admission, first-come, first-served. July 31, 2026 - 6:30 PM. Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024.

Hammer Summer Concert 2026 — Dummy (July 17)

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Hammer Summer Concert 2026 — Dummy (July 17)

Jul 17, 2026 Free Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd…

The most underused space on the Westside might be a museum courtyard on a summer evening — an institution built on free admission, sitting quiet when it could be where the city's most interesting music converges. On July 17, the Hammer Summer Concerts series opens its 2026 season with Dummy, the Los Angeles rock band whose catalog crosses dream pop and guitar noise in a way that sounds exactly like it was made for a museum courtyard at dusk. The evening begins with a happy hour from 6:30 to 7:30 PM, with cocktails available and discounted drinks before the concert. The main set begins at 7:30 PM. After-hours gallery access runs through the evening — the Hammer's current exhibitions stay open, which means you can move between the music outside and the art inside. This is what free admission actually enables when the programming is committed. Free. First-come, first-served. RSVP encouraged but not required. Arrive by 7 PM to secure a good spot in the courtyard. July 17, 2026 — 6:30 PM. Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024.

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Jazz at LACMA 2026 — Free Friday Evenings at the Museum

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Jazz at LACMA 2026 — Free Friday Evenings at the Museum

Every Friday · Next Oct 9 Free 6067 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, C…

Every Friday evening from spring through fall, the BP Grand Entrance at LACMA becomes a concert hall with no roof. The musicians aren't there because the pay is exceptional — they're there because the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has been building this program since the 1960s, and the stage means something. Jazz at LACMA draws players who tour internationally and fill the Wiltern for five hundred dollars a ticket. On Friday evenings, they're playing for whoever walked in off Wilshire Boulevard. The doors open at 5. Music starts at 6. The crowd fills in by 6:30. You can sit on the steps, walk the grounds, or stand near the back and let it happen to you. The galleries are open behind you. The Chris Burden urban light installation gives the whole plaza a particular quality at dusk that's hard to plan around but impossible to miss when it happens. 6067 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036. Free. No ticket, no reservation. The concert is outdoors — check weather and bring a layer for after dark. Fridays through October.

Aymeric Hainaux and Francois Chaignaud: Mirlitons

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Aymeric Hainaux and Francois Chaignaud: Mirlitons

Every day · Next Oct 23 UCLA Nimoy Theater, 1262 Westwood …

Halfway through you stop being able to tell which of the two men the sound is coming from, and that confusion is the entire point rather than a side effect. Hainaux works as a beatboxer the way a percussionist works, building rhythm out of breath and lip and throat with no instrument anywhere in the room. Chaignaud is a dancer who sings while asking his body to do things that ought to make singing physically impossible, and he has spent a career refusing to let audiences separate the voice from the labour that produces it. A mirliton is the little reed pipe handed to children at carnival, the kind that sounds nearly like a human voice and never quite gets there, which is a fair warning about what these two are after. Two nights only, in a room small enough to hear the breath between phrases. October 23 and 24 at 8 PM, the Nimoy on Westwood.

Self Help Graphics Día de los Muertos 2026 — East Los Angeles

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Self Help Graphics Día de los Muertos 2026 — East Los Angeles

Nov 7, 2026 East LA Civic Center Park, 4801 E …

East LA does not remember quietly. Not politely, not behind glass — out loud, on the street, in color, with printmaking ink still drying on the posters and the smell of pan de muerto mixing with screen-print solvent in the November air. This is the longest-running public Día de los Muertos commemoration in the country, and it has never been a curated museum event. It is a neighborhood tradition that professional artists and first-time altar builders share without any sense that one of those is more legitimate than the other. The 2026 celebration runs November 7 and 8 at the East LA Civic Center Park, and the season begins weeks earlier with workshops, exhibitions, and the annual Noche de Ofrenda — an evening altar ceremony that is one of the most quietly devastating community rituals in Los Angeles. Expect altars built by families and by collectives. Expect Aztec ceremonial dance. Expect a mercado of local artisans who have been setting up at this same event since before you were born. Expect to feel something you did not plan to feel on a Saturday in November. East LA Civic Center Park, 4801 E 3rd St. Free. The season starts weeks earlier, in the workshops.

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Comic Arts Los Angeles 2026

Dec 12, 2026 Homenetmen Ararat North Campus, 30…

Small press comics are made by people who mostly lose money doing it, which is exactly why the work is interesting, and why a room full of them feels different from a convention floor. No celebrity photo ops here, no film studios, no queue for a Funko exclusive — just long tables of risograph zines, hand-bound books, and cartoonists sitting behind their own work explaining it to whoever stops. Los Angeles has an unusually deep bench of independent cartoonists because the animation industry pays some of them to live here, and this is the weekend they show what they make when nobody is art-directing. Admission is deliberately low-barrier and the crowd skews toward art students, working illustrators, and people who will spend forty dollars on something printed in an edition of sixty. December 12 and 13, 2026, at the Homenetmen Ararat North Campus on Dolores Street in Glassell Park. It runs annually, and the same cartoonists turn up year over year, which is how you watch a scene grow in real time.

Emerald City Comic Con 2027 — Seattle, WA

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Mar 4, 2027 Seattle Convention Center, 705 Pik…

Comic conventions mostly stopped being about comics some time in the last twenty years, which is a reasonable business decision and a real loss. The Seattle one is the largest that never quite let go. Artist alley here is not an afterthought tucked behind the celebrity photo ops — it is enormous, central, and full of people who make the actual books, which is why working comics professionals treat this as the show they look forward to rather than the one they are contractually obliged to attend. What it feels like is a very large city being unusually generous for four days in March. The Seattle Convention Center sits right in the middle of downtown, so the convention spills into the surrounding blocks in a way that walled-off complexes never allow — bars fill with people in costume, restaurants run specials, the whole neighborhood participates. Inside, the programming leans hard into craft: how pages get made, how a script becomes art, panels where writers talk about work rather than about announcements. The crowd is noticeably more mixed in age than most conventions, and considerably more likely to be carrying a stack of books they are getting signed. Is it worth it? If you read comics — actually read them, not just watch the adaptations — this is the best large convention in the country for you, and the artist alley alone justifies the trip. If you are chasing exclusive collectibles or a specific film cast, the bigger coastal shows do that better. What Seattle does better than anyone is put you in a room with the people who make the thing you love, at a scale where you can actually talk to them. What to know: March in Seattle is grey and wet and nobody minds. Buy artist alley prints early on Thursday or Friday because the good ones sell out. Bring a portfolio bag if you are collecting anything on paper. The convention center's layout has two buildings now; check which one your panel is in before you walk. And the small-press section, which most attendees walk straight past, is consistently where the next few years of comics are sitting on folding tables. It is here because a convention that still centers the artists is genuinely rare, and because knowing there is one place where that is still true tells you something worth knowing about the form. Emerald City Comic Con 2027 runs March 4–7, 2027 at the Seattle Convention Center.

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Saiyan Paint Night 2027 — Long Beach

May 28, 2027 Ambitious Ales, Long Beach, CA

Everyone at your table is painting the same scene and every canvas is going to come out different, and at some point somebody will say it's over nine thousand and the whole room will groan and not one person will actually be annoyed. That is the appeal. A fan-organized paint night with an instructor walking the room, a predetermined anime subject, and every material handed to you, so the barrier is zero — you do not need to be able to draw, and nobody is judging the proportions on your Goku. What you leave with is a thing you made and a table of people who needed none of it explained. The brewery in Long Beach keeps the beer and the food coming, cosplay is fair game, and these sell through ahead of time. Bring the friend who insists they cannot draw. That is precisely the person this was built for.

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