Saturday August 23, 2025 Art Parties & Events offer a broad variety of experiences taking place all over Los Angeles. We have chosen to spotlight Art Fairs, a book lauch, free shakespeare, musicals, and plays, and of course lots of opening receptions.
August 23, 2025 Arts and Entertainment
In Culver City…The Actors’ Gang continues its annual tradition of Free Shakespeare in the Park. Roswell That Ends Well takes place today 11:00am. This rendition and interpretation of Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well features outer space and the Wild West. A cowgirl with dreams of dance-battling in outer space finally gets her wish, thanks to a four-armed alien king.
The show takes place in downtown Culver City at Media Park and is free to the public. Performance 11am; Media Park, 9070 W. Venice Blvd., Culver City 90232 and is adjacent to The Actors’ Gang Theater. Reservations are advised for the FREE show; theactorsgang.com
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Baldwin Hills…PAFF Artfest is back again this year. The four-day celebration of Black art, culture, and creativity kicks off tonight and runs through the weekend. Shop one-of-a-kind fine art, fashion, jewelry & home goods. Meet local, national and international Black artists, Family-friendly vibes including an exciting children’s program, Public Forums, Town Halls and Book Signings. This year’s featured artist is Bakari Santos. I also wanted to mention one of my favorite artists is exhibiting. Zebi, a painter and ceramicist creates the most beautiful as well as functional artwork. Event: 11am-7pm; Free Admission; Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, 3650 W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd., LA, 90008; https://www.paff.org
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Downtown
VinylCon! makes its West Coast debut this weekend to celebrate the very popular vinyl culture. It takes place at the California Market Center (CMC) today and tomorrow. The Los Angeles edition will feature 79 vendors including collectors, as well as professional shops & dealers.
The event will feature a full lineup of vinyl DJs curated by DJ and collector Skeme Richards. Plus the show will have giveaways, engaging sponsor activations, and a full bar. The DJ lineup includes Cut Chemist, House Shoes, Large Pro, Skeme Richards, Double Peas, Sky Society, Zach Cowie, PWC, Raquiqui and Con Safos. Amoeba Records, Coachella vinyl record curator Record Safari, Pasadena’s artist owned and operated Sibylline, and Silver Lake’s beloved record & memorabilia store Rockaway Records. Event: 12-5pm; Tickets: $14.74, or a two day pass runs $17.84; California Market Center (CMC), 110 E 9th St, Los Angeles, CA 90079; https://www.thevinylcon.com/
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LA Theatre
Also Downtown…Run, don’t walk to see & Juliet at the Ahmanson Theatre. This witty, high-energy musical turns the world’s most famous romance upside down. & Juliet dares to ask: what if Juliet’s story didn’t end with Romeo? Instead, she seizes control, rewriting her fate for a second shot at life and love—on her own terms.
Rachel-Simone (from the North American Tour) & Juliet; Photo by Matthew Murphy
Read more about it on the & Juliet at the Ahmanson Feature. Performances: 1pm & 7pm; Ahmanson Theatre, 135 North Grand Avenue, LA, 90012; CenterTheatreGroup.org
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Downtown Arts District
Art Bug Gallery presents Neo-Chicanonismo in Abstraction, Surrealism, and Latinidad, the second chapter of the LA Futurism – Summer Series, a curatorial journey examining contemporary painting in Los Angeles through Chicano legacy, futurism, and the ever-shifting visual languages of culture, memory, and resistance, reclaiming historically Eurocentric genres—abstraction and surrealism—and reshaping them through lived experience, cultural memory, and migration.
This exhibition traces the influence of Chicano and Latinx artists on European-rooted movements—abstraction and surrealism—and how those genres have been reworked through migration, hybridity, and lived experience. Here, abstraction is no longer purely formal, and surrealism is no longer solely psychological; both become tools to reflect the layered realities of identity, displacement, and cultural inheritance. Art Party: 2-7pm; RSVP for Art Bug Gallery Free Art Party HERE. Art Bug Gallery, 2441 Hunter Street, Unit B, Los Angeles CA 90023; https://artbug.net/
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Venice
Fleeting Bloom invites you into a quiet, immersive space to pause, reflect, and soften. This two-day photo exhibit centers stillness, inviting you to stop and notice the beauty that so often slips by. In addition to the artists listed on the flyer, the group exhibition also features the work from 7 photographers and youth artists from Venice Arts. They include: Bodhi N. (15), Dominic R. (14), Maia A. (14) and Kiara R. (14). This show offers tender glimpses into moments often missed. It is a celebration of what it means to bloom, even if for a moment.
Event 2-6pm; Opening night begins at 2pm, and includes a panel conversation with featured artists at 3:30pm; Albion Garden, 1043 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice, 90291; https://www.albiongarden.com
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Downtown
Hauser Wirth hosts intimate walkthroughs with friends and family of Luchita Hurtado on the occasion of ‘Yo Soy’—the first exhibition dedicated to the Venezuelan-born, LA-based artist at Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles. The show runs through October 5, 2025. Find out more about this exhibition on our Hauser Wirth New Exhibitions Feature. Exhibition Walkthrough: 2pm; Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, 901 East 3rd Street Los Angeles, CA 90013; https://www.hauserwirth.com/events/
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In West LA…The Motherf**cker with the Hat continues at Odyssey Theatre. The revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ popular play brings five powerhouse performers in one show. The compelling story features love, commitment, as well as redemption. Performance: 2pm; General Admission: $45; Seniors: $35; Students $30 (with student ID); The Odyssey Theatre, 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd, LA, 90025. Reservations: https://www.tmfwth.com https://odysseytheatre.com/whats-on/
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Culver City
Arcana: Books on the Arts presents renowned Arthur Jafa with the release of his new publication Live Evil. In addition to signing copies, he will engage in a discussion of the book and his work with art historian Julian Myers. Event: 4-6pm; Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City 90232; https://www.arcanabooks.com/
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Park La Brea area
LAUNCH Gallery hosts an artist led walk-through of its current exhibition Natural Patterns. The grouo show features three Los Angeles-based artists: Danielle Eubank, Zo Frampton, and Katie Elizabeth Stubblefield. Walk-through: 4pm; Launch, 170 S. La Brea Ave. LA, 90036; https://launchla.org
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Glendale
The Pit is celebrates a group exhibition titled Hi-Dose tonight. Organized in collaboration with artists Tamara Gonzales as well as Roxanne Jackson, the exhibition includes 30 artists. The show will feature all types of media.
Erik Frydenborg, daxk unifonn, 2025, Acrylic on basswood, 38 x 61 x 5 in
Per Roxanne Jackson: “Hi-Dose is an exhibition of psychonauts, witches, and dreamers — artists who vigorously explore the depth of human realities through paint, clay, textiles, crystals, wax, wood, feathers, photography and glitter. With various practices embracing craft, surrealism, abstraction and maximalism, the selected artworks may function as screenshots into portals and hallucinations, glimpses of transcendence and profound changes in perception. In a world obsessed with social media, on the brink of a climate apocalypse and continually overwhelmed by the tragedies of war, these artists go inward. Like the monkey who ate the magic mushroom, heightening human senses and hastening human evolution — we are reminded of the earliest tools that can teach us new truths and lead us into a new way of being. Art Party: 5-7pm; The Pit Los Angeles, 3015 Dolores St., LA, 90065; http://www.the-pit.la
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Pasadena
AMPHI Gallery debuts When The Music’s Over by Catherine Wang. Curated by Dasha Matsuurathe the exhibition includes scenes of suburban LA engulfed in overgrown, abstracted vegetation, and portraits where the inhabitant is just out of frame thus allowing the viewer to feel like they arrived too late. Art Party: 5-8pm; AMPHI Gallery, 49 W Del Mar Blvd, Pasadena, 91105; https://www.amphigallery.com
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Downtown in the Fashion District
NeoLA Gallery brings us a group invitational exhibition titled Threefold. The three person show features Los Angeles–based artists Marc Dyen, Sandy Kupfer, Valerie Wilcox. Threefold will features a variety of different media. Art Party: 5-8pm; NeoLA Gallery, 1020 S. Los Angeles St. #A&B, LA 90015; https://www.neolagallery.com
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Also Downtown…Eastern Projects Gallery offers an opening reception for LA Real. This is the first retrospective survey of work by veteran Chicano muralist and painter Ernesto de la Loza at Eastern Projects. Curated by his sister, Sandra de la Loza, this landmark exhibition features a wide range of paintings—both small- and large-scale— alongside ephemera and archival materials that trace de la Loza’s nearly five- decade-long artistic journey. A lifelong resident of Los Angeles, Ernesto de la Loza has served as both a witness to and participant in the city’s ever-unfolding story. Art Party: 5-8pm; Eastern Projects Gallery, 900 N Broadway Suite 1090, LA, 90012; https://www.easternprojectsgallery.com
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Hollywood
839 Gallery unveils Echoes by Vanessa Wallace-Gonzales. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. The exhibition brings together cyanotypes, sculptural vessels, and a multimedia installation. Art Party: 5-8pm; 839 Gallery, 839 N Cherokee Ave, LA, 90038; https://839gallery.com/
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The Torrance Art Museum (TAM) presents two compelling exhibitions opening this summer. They include the SUR: biennial, examining the influence of Latin American cultures on contemporary art, and Affective Territories, Alternate Belongings, an international, media-focused exploration of identity and technology. Also on view will be Backstreet to the American Dream, a film by Patricia Nazario that examines the experiences of Latin immigrants in Los Angeles. Art Party: 6-9pm; Torrance Art Museum, 3320 Civic Center Dr., Torrance, CA 90503; https://www.torranceartmuseum.com/
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Lincoln Heights
LAST Projects presents a Gaza Relief Show and Art Auction benefitting the Sameer Project. The group exhibition features over 30 artists, LAST projects seeks to raise emergency funds for an organization providing food, shelter, medical equipment and trauma support for the people of Gaza who are facing starvation and a violent military occupation. Art Party: 7-11pm; LAST Projects Gallery, 206 S Ave 20 LA, 90031; http://lastprojects.org
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Santa Monica
The Fantasticks continues at Ruskin Group Theatre for a limited run. This enchanting multi-award-winning musical, is still to this day the longest running off Broadway play. This is a wonderful show. I saw it when it when I lived in NYC (a very long time ago). The original off-Broadway production opened in 1960 and ran for 42 years. Although I didn’t catch the original cast (Hey, I’m not that old), I did thoroughly enjoy it.
Director Elina de Santos takes the story into the 21st century, keeping the same wit, sensitivity and beauty of the original story. Furthermore, her staging brings fresh insight with an imaginative flair to a cherished classic. Actors include: Michael D. Cohen, Danny Bernardo, Rhett Hemingway, Kiel Kennedy, Sophie Pollono, Michael Redfield, Raven Scott, John Wuchte, and Silas Shultz. Run time is approximately 120 minutes (including one 10-minute intermission). The show runs through August 24, 2025;
Performance: 8pm; Tickets are $45 (student/senior discounts $30 and also groups 10+ $33) and can be purchased in advance at www.ruskingrouptheatre.com or by calling (310) 397-3244. Free parking available on-site. Ruskin Group Theatre, 3000 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90405; https://www.ruskingrouptheatre.com/
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