Saturday, February 21, 2026 Art Parties & Events spotlight numerous happenings such as the Lunar Day Parade, and a good amount of art receptions, with theatre and music too.
February 21, 2026 Art Parties & Events
photo by Jamie Pham
Chinatown…It’s time for the 127th Golden Dragon Parade Downtown. This year’s Lunar New Year parade will feature lion dancers, bands, as well as floats. Read more about Chinatown LA’ Annual Golden Dragon Parade on our sister platform – EatTravelGo.com, an art inspired travel site. Event: 1-4pm; Chinatown, Los Angeles, starting near North Hill St & Ord St, going down Hill, Broadway, and ending at Cesar Chavez; https://chinatownla.com/
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Inglewood
Serious Topics offers an opening art party for Stalking the Good Life by Jesse Wiedel. The solo show is a social commentary the American Dream. Hence the artwork includes images of once pristine resorts past their prime. Runs through March 28, 2028; Art Party; 3-6pm; Serious Topics, 1207 N. La Brea Ave., Down the Driveway, Inglewood, 90302; https://www.serious-topics.com/
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Santa Monica
Experience Sissies: Something Perfect between Ourselves at the Annenberg Community Beach House. Presented in partnership with Pieter Performance Space, choreographer and director Bernard Brown (bbmoves) offers an intimate preview of this multidisciplinary performance. Moreover, it pays tribute to the legacy, joy, and resistance of LA’s Black Queer communities through movement, sound, and also visual storytelling. Moreover, it celebrates the Black Queer parties and clubs that shaped underground queer LA. Performance 3-5pm; Annenberg Community Beach House, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, 90502; Event Info;
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Downtown
The Industry celebrates the return of its LAB series, in partnership with REDCAT, featuring new works in opera by renowned artists Guillermo E. Brown, Carmina Escobar, and Matana Roberts.
Attendees can purchase a pass for $35 that offers multiple tickets; Visit the website for more info, and also to buy tickets; Performance: 3pm & 8pm; Admission $25 (sold separately); REDCAT, 631 West 2nd Street, LA, 90012; https://www.redcat.org/
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Hollywood
Marian Goodman Gallery presents a new exhibition titled Tacita Dean: Trial of the Finger. Born in in Canterbury, England, Tacita Dean lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles. The solo show explores the relationship between time as well as chance. Art Party: 5-7pm; Marian Goodman Gallery, 1120 Seward Street, LA, 90038; https://www.mariangoodman.com
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Miracle Mile
1301PE brings us Utility by Paul Winstanley. This is the ninth solo exhibition with the renowned British painter. The artist’s four decade career has included numerous exhibitions in addition to retrospectives at prestigious museums throughout the globe. These include: ARTSPACE in Auckland, New Zealand, Tate Britain and Camden Arts Centre in London, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin and many more. The solo show runs through April 4, 2026; Art Party: 5-7pm; 1301PE, 6150 Wilshire Blvd., LA, 90048; https://www.1301pe.com
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West Adams
Hard Body Soft opens at Good Mother Gallery. The solo exhibition by Los Angeles based artist Cosmas and Damian Brown reflects on space. It is a collection of works that consider the space that they represent as a container filled with meaning. Alongside the show, Brown will also have his first major public art installation, Fountain: Sources of Light, featured at Frieze Los Angeles 2026 as part of Frieze Projects ‘Body & Soul’ public art program. Art Party: 5-7pm; Good Mother Gallery, 5103 W. Adams Blvd, LA, 90016; https://goodmothergallery.com
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Santa Monica
Gallery 169 unveils Femina curated by Sal Taylor Kydd. Artists include: JoAnn Chaus, Alexandra DeFurio, Sarah Hadley, Shari Yantra Marcacci, Aline Smithson, Sal Taylor Kydd, Catherine Just, Erica Kelly Martin and Jennifer McClure. Art Party: 5-8pm; gallery 169, 169 W Channel Rd, Santa Monica, CA 90402; http://gallery169.com
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Hollywood
Sebastian Gladstone brings us an opening art party for Dustin Hodges: Barley Patch 2. The exhibition features eight paintings as a composite landscape. Moreover elements of a rural configuration mark and qualify the landscape. Thus architectures, tree trunks, fence posts, rails, as well as cartoon figures map and unfold a space they are not. Runs through March 28, 2026; Art Party: 6-8pm; Sebastian Gladstone, 6916 Santa Monica Blvd. LA 90038; https://sebastiangladstone.com/
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Also in Hollywood…Jeffrey Deitch presents Judith F. Baca Great Wall Of Los Angeles: The 1970’S – A Decade Of Defiance And Dreams.
The extraordinary exhibition features the latest complete segment in the expansion of The Great Wall of Los Angeles mural. The art party celebrates this work fifty years after its initial production. Read more about it on the Jeffrey Deitch SPARC Feature. Art Party: 6-8pm; Jeffrey Deitch N Orange Dr., LA 90038; https://deitch.com
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Mid City
Anat Ebgi presents three new exhibitions at its Wilshire Blvd., location. 1. Prey by Los Angeles artist Veronica Fernandez is the first solo show for the artist at the gallery. It features new figurative paintings in addition to sculpture. 2. The Radiant Edge is also the first exhibition with the gallery for Heather Guertin. This New York artist will be exhibiting new abstract paintings.
And finally 3. Alejandro García Contreras: Un Rio Abrazando una Montaña opens. The artist is a graduate of National Institute of Fine Arts (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes) in Mexico City, Mexico. Art Party: 6-8pm; Anat Ebgi, 6150 Wilshire Blvd., LA 90048; https://anatebgi.com/
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Lincoln Heights
Keystone Gallery throws an opening art party for Caron G Rand: undertow. Curated by Peter Frank, Duality is consistent in Rand’s work. The slow show will remain on view through March 7, 2026; Art Party: 6-9pm; Keystone Gallery, 338 South Avenue 16, Los Angeles, CA 90031; http://www.keystoneartspace.com
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Downtown
Baert Gallery offers an opening reception for Francisco Rodríguez: Private Nightmares at Baert Gallery. The solo exhibition will remain on view through March 28, 2026; Art Party: 6 - 8pm; Baert Gallery, 1923 S Santa Fe Ave, LA, 90021; http://baertgallery.com
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Also Downtown….Gabba Gallery and Relix throws an opening art party for Echoes of Gen X: The Art of The Fillmore (1980s–2000s). A visual time capsule of one of live music’s most beloved eras, the exhibition features legendary concert art. The work was created for the historic Fillmore in San Francisco.
Read the Gabba Gallery, Gen X: The Art of The Fillmore (1980s–2000s) Feature. Art Party: 6-10pm; Gabba Gallery, 235 S. Broadway, LA, 90012; https://www.gabbagallery.com/
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Another close by…Corey Helford Gallery (CHG) throws an opening art party to celebrate new exhibitions. In the Main gallery, The Well of Dreams by figurative painter Adrian Cox opens. Then Futures by Irish oil painter Chloe Early can be found in Gallery 2. Finally in Gallery 3, enjoy the art of Clémentine Bal and also Matthew Dutton. All of the shows will continue through March 28, 2026; Art Party: 7-11pm; CHG, 571 S. Anderson St. LA, 90033; https://coreyhelfordgallery.com/
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West Hollywood
In the new West Gallery of 7811 Gallery, BLUE CHIP$ by Praisey will be celebrated with an opening art party. Praisey (Eve and Rudy Wilson) is a Christian, husband-and-wife, artist duo, who create pop art paintings that intertwine family, faith and also contemporary culture. Art Party: 7-9pm; 7811 Gallery, 7811 Melrose Ave., 90046; https://www.7811gallery.com
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The City of West Hollywood Winter Sounds Free Indoor Concert Series presents Nikka Costa as well as Julian Forest at The Sun Rose; Doors open 6pm; Performance: 7pm; The Sun Rose, 8430 Sunset Blvd., LA, 90069; https://www.weho.org/community/arts-and-culture/music
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Santa Monica
Three Coconuts continues at the Miles Memorial Playhouse. The West Coast Jewish Theatre presents the comedy and it’s written and also directed by Howard Teichman and Steven G. Simon and produced by Howard Teichman.
For additional info, see the Three Coconuts feature. Performance: 8pm Tickets: $40; Seniors and Santa Monica residents, $35; Reservations: 323-821-2449 or visit the website; Miles Memorial Playhouse, 1130 Lincoln Ave., Santa Monica, 90403; http://wcjt.org
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The New Ruskin Group Theatre Arts Center opens its inaugural production titled Honour. Written by Joanna Murray-Smith & directed by Max Mayer, it features Marcia Cross and Matthew Letscher. Synopsis: A sharp and authentic examination of love, betrayal, and the fragile agreements that hold marriages together. When a celebrated writer can’t seem to “do the right thing,” decades of loyalty, intimacy, and compromise unravel in a single evening. With wit and emotional precision, the play explores the personal cost of truth and the reverberations of a single, life-altering choice – asking whether honesty is always an act of courage, or sometimes one of cruelty.
Performance: 8pm; Honour runs through March 22, 2026; March 22, 2026. General Admission: $45; Seniors/Student/Guild: $40; Thursday Nights: $20 – keeps professional theatre accessible; Discounts for groups of 10 or more; See website or call call (310) 397-3244; Ruskin Group Theatre, 3000 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90405 (ample free parking); http://www.ruskingrouptheatre.com
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