Saturday, June 21, 2025 Art Parties & Events offer a fabulous assortment of diverse happenings all over LA. Continue LA’s Pride celebration in Santa Monica. In addition to opening receptions, theater and opera, partake in your choice of summer festivals on the Westside. Don’t forget Free Summer Music Events are NOW happening, see our sister site for more info – EatTravelGo.com
Also Art Basel is happening in Switzerland this weekend. Find more info on EatTravelGo.com
June 21 2025 Art Parties & Events
Keep the party going with Pride month…During this fun-filled activation, the community will take over the Third Street Promenade. Expect musical performances, giveaways, family-friendly activities, a retail pop-up highlighting local LGBTQIA+ businesses and lots more. Event: 10am-3pm; Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica; SaMo Pride
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Santa Monica’s Main Street holds its Summer SOULstice Street Festival today. The annual community festival features live music up and down Main Street (no cars). Event 12-7pm; Summer SOULstice, Main Street from Strand to Pier; https://www.mainstreetsm.com
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Venice Summer Fest takes place today. The free community festival features local bands and musicians. Enjoy food, artistic goods from artisan vendors. Visit wellness booths, and do some yoga at the event. This is a family and dog friendly free festival. As always Venice parking can be a bitch, so ride your bike, walk, take bus or a lyft. Event: 12-7pm; Venice Summer Fest, 12257 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90066; https://www.thevenicefest.com/
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Union/Pico area
as-is offers an art talk between Victor Estrada and Vincent Ramos at noon.
The conversation takes place in conjunction with the gallery’s current exhibition. Seating is limited; Limited Parking is available behind the gallery entrance on Constance Street; Art Talk: 12pm; as-is Gallery, 1133 Venice Boulevard, LA, 90015; https://www.as-is.la
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West Hollywood
ADVOCARTSY hosts an exhibition walkthrough of Nahid Hagigat: Female Gaze, A Mini Retrospective. A pioneering force in Iranian contemporary art, Hagigat continues her focus on the resilience of women, and also the female experience. Walkthrough: 2-5pm; ADVOCARTSY West Hollywood, 434 N. La Cienega Blvd., West Hollywood, 90048; https://advocartsy.com
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Park La Brea area
Launch Gallery hosts a closing art party as well as an artist walk-through for its current exhibition. The Age of Heroes by Abel Alejandre honors twelve pivotal figures whose brilliance forged modern Xicanoland.
Art Party: 3-5pm; Walk-through: 4pm; LAUNCH Gallery, 170 S. La Brea Ave., LA, 90036; https://launchla.org
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Mid City
Pace Gallery unveils an exhibition of new works by Mary Corse at its Los Angeles gallery. This is the artist’s first gallery show in LA since 2017 as well as her first solo exhibition in the city since her 2019 survey at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Moreover, Corse’s show at Pace in Los Angeles will feature new paintings and her Halo Room, a new architectural installation that she has been developing over the past few years. Art Party: 4-6pm; Pace Gallery, 1201 S La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90019; https://www.pacegallery.com
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Glendale
El Nido by VC Projects brings us an opening art party for its new exhibition. Cutting Through Space: Works on Paper (2003–2004) is a solo show of drawings by Icelandic artist Bjarni Sigurbjörnsson. This will be a U.S. debut exhibition featuring these large-scale works on paper. These works trace the origins of a foundational concept in Sigurbjörnsson’s career: the act of cutting through space. Art Party: 3-6pm; El Nido, 1028 1/2 N. Western Ave. LA, 90029; https://www.vcprojects.art/
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West Hollywood
Enjoy a closing event for Through the Brush by Andrew Max Modlin. Curated by Peter Frank the solo show includes Modlin’s large scale paintings. Moreover the artist has traveled all over the globe and recorded his excursions as iPad drawings. Hence his new artworks were inspired by those iPad images.
“Pond,” Amsterdam; by Andrew Max Modlin
Read more on the Andrew Max Modlin Feature on LAArtParty. Art Party: 4-9pm; 411 N. La Cienega Blvd., West Hollywood, CA, 90048; https://maxmodlin.com/
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Central Los Angeles
Celebrate the grand opening of Art by Presa‘s new Koreatown studio. Meet the artist while enjoying artworks from her Feminine Divinity series. Moreover the event will feature exclusive hand-signed prints, and a live painting and music performance. Attendees can partake in light refreshments, good vibes, and also meet new people. Art Party: 4-7pm; Art by Presa Studio, 3416 West Olympic Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90019; https://www.artbypresa.com/
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Miracle Mile
1301PE debuts its eleventh solo exhibition with internationally acclaimed Los Angeles based artist Diana Thater. Art Party 5-7pm; 1301PE, 6150 Wilshire Blvd., LA, 90048; https://www.1301pe.com
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Also in the Miracle Mile area…TAG Gallery presents six solo artists. All types of media will be included. Artists include: Marianna Baker, Laurence Barbera, Somaya Etemad, Pedrin Garcia, Sally Lamb, and Gina Leon-Gutiérrez. Art Party: 5-8pm; TAG Gallery, 5458 Wilshire Blvd, LA, 90036; https://www.taggallery.net/
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West Hollywoood
Nice Girl continues its run at Rogue Machine tonight at 5pm. This poignant play was written by two-time Lecomte du Noüy Prize winner Melissa Ross, and directed by Ann Bronston.
Anaïs Fairweather, Bailey Humiston in Nice Girl; Photo by Jacques Lorch
Performance: 5pm; Tickets are $45 – $60; Seniors: $35; Students with ID: $25; Call for more information 855-585-5185 and reservations or visit the website; Rogue Machine at the Matrix Theatre, upstairs on the Henry Murray Stage, 7657 Melrose Ave., LA, 90046; https://www.roguemachinetheatre.org/
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Santa Monica
William Turner Gallery unveils two exhibitions tonight with an opening art party. True Romance, a solo exhibition by Greg Miller. Known best for his layered collages, Greg Miller continues his decades-long excavation of American media. In True Romance, Miller revisits signature blend of photorealism, gestural abstraction, and mixed-media collage of past era. Furthermore Miller’s longtime home of LA is an enduring muse. It reappears here as both setting and subject with a nostalgic sentiment.
In addition Utopalypse by Jennifer Wolf also opens. The solo exhibition merges two seemingly opposing forces. While utopia signifies the perfect place, apocalypse brings to mind a drastic ending. Thus the works uncover a dichotomy of sorts. Art Party: 5-8pm; William Turner Gallery, Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Ave., E1, Santa Monica, 90404; https://www.williamturnergallery.com/
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West Adams
Lowell Ryan Projects presents The Weight of It All by the Los Angeles-based artist Elizabeth Shull. This solo exhibition also marks her debut show with the gallery.
Elizabeth Shull, The Weight of It All, 2025, Colored pencil on paper, 8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm, Framed 14 x 14 in, ES-22
The exhibition features over 30 scaled drawings rendered in colored pencil on black paper. The artist’s use of black paper, rather than representing absence, becomes a generative space where light illuminates through layered, gentle marks. Repetition, restraint, and also variation function here as quiet resistances to urgency, cultivating visual and emotional spaciousness. The works were created between 2022 and 2025. Moreover Shull describes drawing as a form of listening. Therefore much of her art is a reaction to the world around her.
Art Party: 5-8pm; Lowell Ryan Projects, 4619 W Washington Blvd., LA 90016; https://www.lowellryanprojects.com/
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Mar Vista
As you may remember, we recently featured the grand opening of Duncan Miller’s new location. Well tonight it’s time to celebrate the closing of the gallery’s Mar Vista location on Venice Blvd. Furthermore, the goodbye celebration also doubles as a closing reception for Ukrainian photographers, Alexander Prymak and Egor Guschin. Art Party: 6-9pm; Duncan Miller – The gallery is in an unmarked building on the North side of Venice Blvd between Greenfield and Military avenues. You’ll notice a small doorway in the middle of a bougainvillea covered wall. Street Parking; Duncan Miller Gallery, 10959 Venice Blvd LA 90034; http://duncanmillergallery.com
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Hollywood
St. Vincent Meals on Wheels presents its 2025 Hollywood Under the Stars gala fundraiser. The fourth annual benefit will be held at the iconic Paramount Pictures lot. Support a great cause and enjoy a fantastic food festival. Read the 2025 Hollywood Under the Stars Feature for additional info about this event.
Event: 6:30pm-10pm; 2025 Hollywood Under the Stars at Paramount 5515 Melrose Ave,. Hollywood, 90038; https://www.svmow.org/hollywood
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Downtown
Baert Gallery debuts I Hear a New World by Jordan Rountree. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Creating a multi-sensory space that combines woodcut prints, woodblocks, radio art, music, text on paper, and the solo show will also feature video installation, as well as performance. Art Party: 7-9pm; Baert Gallery, 1923 S Santa Fe Ave, LA 90021; https://www.baertgallery.com/
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Beverly Hills
Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles presents an evening of dining, dancing and also revelry for its annual gala. In addition to honoring Tristan Schukraft and Bruce Vilanch, the fundraiser will benefit youth education through GMCLA’s Alive Music Project. Performance: 7pm; Saban Theatre, 8440 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211; http://gmcla.org/gala
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Downtown
LA Opera presents Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto, conducted by Music Director James Conlon. A timeless tale of betrayal and revenge, Rigoletto is a cornerstone of the repertoire, featuring some of Verdi’s most beloved arias. Tickets begin at $37.50 and are on sale now. Purchase tickets online at LAOpera.org, as well as by phone at 213.972.8001, or in person at the LA Opera box office at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (135 N. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90012). For disability access, call 213.972.0777 or email LAOpera@LAOpera.org
See the LA Opera Rigoletto Feature for more info as well as a synopsis. Performance: 7:30pm; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Avenue, LA, 90012; LAOpera.org/Rigoletto
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In Westwood…As of Wednesday, June 18, 2025 the world premiere of The Reservoir previewed at the Gil Cates Theater at the Geffen Playhouse. Written by Jake Brasch (Trip Around the Sun, How to Draw a Triangle) and directed by Shelley Butler (A Doll’s House, Part 2; The Scarlet Letter), the show will officially open on Thursday, June 26, 2025.
This production is presented in partnership with Denver Center for the Performing Arts and Alliance Theatre. The Reservoir runs through July 20, 2025; Read more on The Reservoir at the Geffen Feature.
Tickets begin at $36; Purchase tickets by phone at 310.208.2028 or online at www.geffenplayhouse.org. Fees may apply. Performances: 3pm and 8pm; Gil Cates Theater atThe Geffen Playhouse, 10886 Le Conte Ave., LA, 90024; https://secure.geffenplayhouse.org/
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