Saturday, November 8 2025 Art Parties and Events offer tons of fantastic happenings all over LA and the surrounding area. You will have to pick and choose, there are just too many events. It’s a busy night. Some of our top picks include: Kathleen Ryan: Souvenir at Karma, as well as Marion Goodman’s group show Casting a Glance: Dancing with Smithson. There are also several openings in the West Hollywood and Hollywood area. In addition, in Lincoln Heights, you can park and pop into Wonzimer Gallery, and also the Keystone Open Studios event.
November 8 2025 Art Parties and Events
In Santa Monica…Renegade Craft holds its fall event at the Interim Open Space at Santa Monica Airport. The fair features of 100 vendors and artisans selling all kinds of original items.
Event: 10am-4pm; Santa Monica Airport, Interim Open Space, 3233 Donald Douglas, Loop S Santa Monica, CA 90405; https://www.renegadecraft.com/city/los-angeles/
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Orange County Wine Fest takes place today and tomorrow. Get ready for a weekend filled with sunshine, music, delicious bites, and the best lineup yet of wineries, makers, and food vendors from across California, New Zealand, France, Portugal, Mexico, Switzerland (and beyond!). Hours: 12-3pm and 5-8pm; Tickets start at $64.29; Visit the website for more info and to purchase tickets; Orange County Wine Fest, 88 Fair Dr, Costa Mesa, CA 92626; https://www.orangecountywinefest.com/
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South LA
LASC Library Art Gallery holds a closing art party tonight for My Name’s Not Damien by Damon Casarez. The exhibition is presented in conjunction with Hispanic Heritage Month. The artist brings his perspective of growing up as a fourth-generation Mexican American in suburban Los Angeles County. Find out more about the artist on his website – https://www.damoncasarez.com/
Art Party: 2-4pm; Los Angeles Southwest College, 1600 West Imperial Highway in South Los Angeles; The art gallery is located on the second floor of the Cox Building; https://www.lasc.edu/
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DTLA
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding enjoys its final weekend at the Mark Taper Forum. Tomorrow is the last day. Written by Tony-nominated playwright Jocelyn Bioh and directed by Whitney White, the Tony-nominated and Obie-winning director, the show is set in a bustling Harlem salon. Amongst the many laughs, secrets are revealed and soon a poignant immigrant story unfolds.
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding; Photo by Charles Erickson
Find out more about the show on the Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Feature. Performance: 2 & 8pm; Mark Taper Forum, 135 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90012; CenterTheatreGroup.org
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Downtown
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles presents new exhibitions – Ken Gonzales-Day: Afterlife as well as John M. Valadez: A Two Second Gaze—Photography from the 1970s and 80s. The gallery presents its sixth solo exhibition with artist Ken Gonzales-Day. Afterlife will be on exhibit in Gallery 1 and Gallery 2. Additionally, the gallery will display a selection of rarely and never exhibited photographs by John M. Valadez from his seminal body of work, the East Los Angeles Urban Portrait Portfolio. Art Party: 4-7pm; Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 1110 Mateo St, Los Angeles, CA 90021; https://www.luisdejesus.com
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Echo Park
Musée du Al debuts Early Warnings featuring the paintings of Gary Matteson. The solo show features his pivotal years 1988 to 1993. His paintings juxtapose the iconic with the everyday, offering images that feel at once grounded in their time and also uncannily resonant with ours. Art Party: 4-7pm; Address will be given to the free event when attendees RSVP at museedual.com
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Lincoln Heights
Wonzimer’s Artist Residency Program (W.A.R.P.) is back for an open studios at the gallery. The event is one night only. Meet artists and preview in-progress projects. Art Party: 4 -8pm; Wönzimer, 341-B S Avenue 17, Los Angeles, CA 90031; https://www.wonzimer.com/
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Just around the corner, also in Lincoln Heights…Keystone Art Space: Fall Open Studios takes place today. This is a great chance to meet the artist and purchase incredible works directly from them. Open Studio Event: 4-9pm; Keystone Gallery, 338 South Avenue 16, LA, 90031; https://www.keystoneartspace.com/
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Beverly Hills
Marc Selwyn Fine Art brings us an opening reception for Ben Sakoguchi: Chin Music, the gallery’s first exhibition with the Pasadena-based artist. The solo show features over fifty of Sakoguchi’s iconic Orange Crate Label paintings. In addition Mexican Americans, 2008, a twelve-panel grid from his Unauthorized History of Baseball series, and three works from his Postcards from Camp series.
Ben Sakoguchi: Chin Musicprecedes his first major traveling survey exhibition, organized by The Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara, opening in 2027. Art Party: 5-7pm; Marc Selwyn Fine Art, 9953 S Santa Monica Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90212; https://www.marcselwynfineart.com/
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Pasadena
AMPHI Gallery offers an opening for A Boat Made of Dreams curated by Robert Wilhite. The exhibition includes three Los Angeles artists: Scott Grieger, Margaret Nielsen, and Axel Wilhite. A Boat Made of Dreams” invites viewers to move through these interior landscapes, to encounter the masks, symbols, and sensations that live just beneath the surface of thought. Art Party: 5-8pm; AMPHI Gallery, 49 W Del Mar Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91105; https://www.amphigallery.com
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Chinatown
Charlie James Gallery throws an opening art party for Shizu Saldamando: May the Ground Seethe. The solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture by the Los Angeles spotlights community members who embody resistance to the prevailing currents of division and hate. Therefore Saldamando provides an alternative path of joyful, beautiful revolution. Art Party: 5-8pm; Charlie James Gallery 969 Chung King Road, LA, 90012; https://www.cjamesgallery.com
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West Hollywood
Karma presents Kathleen Ryan: Souvenir. The exhibition brings together two new bodies of work. The first is a trio of cast-concrete peaches, their pits supplanted by engines. The sculptor pulls everyday objects to the brink of uncanniness, revealing new formal and associative possibilities in turn. Following her first institutional survey at Hamburger Kunsthalle and Kistefos Museum, the nine sculptures in Souvenir present a cross-section of the motifs, techniques, and conceptual decisions integral to Ryan’s entire practice.
Dreamhouse, 2025. Malachite, azurite, lapis lazuli, amazonite, aventurine, turquoise, chrysocolla, magnesite, howlite, amethyst, garnet, serpentine, quartz, chalcedony and quartz stalactite, fluorite, coral chalcedony, zeolite, larimar, sodalite, calcite, acrylic, steel, aquaresin, stainless-steel nails, and steel pins on coated polystyrene, 83 1⁄2 × 83 1⁄2 × 86 1⁄2 in. (212.1 × 212.1 × 219.7 cm)
Dreamhouse (as seen in the above photo), the center piece of the exhibit is a rotting raspberry roughly the size of a minivan. It took the artist over three years to create it. It is the first fruit of its kind in the series for which Ryan is perhaps best known; the Bad Fruit sculptures epitomize the subversive play with material that is the crux of her artistic project. The raspberry’s magenta flesh is composed of a grid-like expanse of plastic beads. The foil to this neat formalism is the mold, ornately rendered in gemstones in a contrasting palette such as lapis lazuli, malachite, and turquoise. Inside the sculpture’s yawning mouth is a glittering interior dripping with stalactites and stalagmites: within this berry is a crystal cave. Art Party: 6-8pm; Karma, 7351 Santa Monica Blvd., LA, 90046; https://karmakarma.org
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More in West Hollywood
James Fuentes presents Drip Loop by Chanel Khoury. The exhibition spotlights works realized from this world over the past two years, as well as site-responsive elements. Art Party: 6-8pm; James Fuentes, 5015 Melrose Ave., LA, 90038; https://jamesfuentes.com
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And one more in West Hollywood…Fabian Perez Gallery of Neo-Emotionalism hosts an opening of Noche de Tango, a unique art show showcasing the works that capture the passion, intimacy, and elegance of Argentinean tango. Fabian Perez explores the language of Tango dancing in the context of navigating cultural and emotional representation in America. Art Party: 6-9pm; Fabian Perez Gallery, 6715 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038; https://fabianperez.com/
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Hollywood
Marion Goodman debuts a group show titled Casting a Glance: Dancing with Smithson.
Artists include: Robert Smithson with Leonor Antunes, Nairy Baghramian, Daniel Boyd, Tony Cragg, Tacita Dean, Pierre Huyghe, An-My Lê, Steve McQueen, Julie Mehretu, Ana Mendieta, Delcy Morelos, Bruce Nauman, Gabriel Orozco, Giuseppe Penone, Tavares Strachan, Álvaro Urbano, Adrián Villar Rojas, and James Welling. Th show runs through January 24, 2025; Art Party: 6-8pm; Marian Goodman Gallery, 1120 Seward St, LA, 90038; https://www.mariangoodman.com/
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Also in Hollywood…Jeffrey Deitch presents Still Life by Los Angeles-based artist Kohshin Finley. The solo exhibition of new works brings together monumental oil portraits integrated with ceramic vessels. Therefore combining painting, poetry, sculpture, as well as design into an immersive installation. Art Party: 6-8pm; Jeffrey Deitch, 7000 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90038; https://deitch.com/
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Mid City
Moskowitz Bayse unveils a solo exhibition titled Who’s Laughing Now? by New York-based artist Michela Griffo. A prominent activist in the LGBT civil rights movement since the 1960s, Griffo has dedicated her life and art-making to the cause of incisive protest and sociopolitical critique. The artist advocates for the reconsideration of pervasive cultural standards around gay rights, women’s rights, fair wages, and much more.
Also opening tonight Kenneth Kendall: Friends, Acquaintances and Idols. Art Party: 6-8pm; Moskowitz Bayse, 743 N. La Brea Ave., LA, 90038; https://www.moskowitzbayse.com
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Downtown
Unkindness by Camilla Taylor opens at Track 16’s East Hollywood space. The artist explores loss and hope, as well as a new beginning, since being impacted by the January 7, 2025 LA fire. Art Party: 6-9pm; Track 16, 706 Heliotrope Dr, LA, 91030; https://www.track16.com/
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West Adams
Thinkspace Projects brings us several new exhibitions. The list of shows include: Inward by Cinta Vidal. Roots of Steel by Dragon76 as well as a group show titled EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES.
Plus enjoy FRESH SERIES: Session Seven a three person exhibit curated by Cannibal Flower. Artists include: Bloomer, Lauren Mendelsohn-Bass, and Katie Middleton. Art Party: 6-10pm; Thinkspace Projects, 4207 W. Jefferson Blvd. & 4217 W. Jefferson Blvd., LA 90016; https://thinkspaceprojects.com
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In Santa Monica…The Los Angeles Wine & Food Festival is back. This year, it is hosted by Tastemade. It runs through Sunday at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. Discover new restaurants, and meet local chefs. Sample food, as well as wine, beer and spirits. VIP: 6:30pm; GA: 7:30pm; Tickets start at $175; Barker Hangar, 3021 Airport Ave Suite 203, Santa Monica, CA 90405; https://www.lawineandfood.com/
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Hollywood
You only have two more shows to catch of Emmy Award winner Elliot Shoenman’s Paper Walls at the Inkwell Theater at Broadwater Main Stage. The show closes tomorrow. The play tells a poignant story very sim ilar to what is happening today. A family who is profoundly affected by Hitler’s rise to power, finds themselves desperately fleeing persecution while awaiting entry into the United States. Restrictive U.S. immigration policies as well as antisemitism intensify their struggle. Tickets are $35, with PWYC tickets available; Performance: 8pm; Broadwater Main Stage, 1076 Lillian Way, LA, 90038; or https://inkwelltheater.com/
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