Saturday, November 1, 2025 Art Parties & Events offers an exciting weekend highlight. I wanted to remind everyone, if you have seen Draw Them In, Paint Them Out at the Skirball – hop to it. Plus you have to stop byPatricia Sweetow Galleryfor some extraordinary exhibitions. Moreover, there are many more art parties taking place at OCHI, 839 Gallery, The Pit LA, as well as many more. While the Broad Stage brings us Kevin Nealon, we have also listed more theatre too.
November 1, 2025 Art Parties & Events
Draw Them In, Paint Them Out is a must-see show at the Skirball Cultural Center, so be sure to stop by. The exhibition just opened in October, and brings together Philip Guston and Trenton Doyle Hancock. Guston, the child of Jewish immigrants from Odessa, created biting satirical paintings addressing evil and injustice. Hancock, a Houston-based contemporary Black artist, responds with bold works examining identity, otherness, and activism.
Trenton Doyle Hancock, Coloration Coronation, 2016, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 90 x 132 in (228.6 x 335.3 cm); Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio; ©Trenton Doyle Hancock 2016; Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York
Together, their art confronts oppression while revealing humor within darkness. Guston’s Ku Klux Klan paintings appear alongside Hancock’s powerful responses. Through this dialogue, both artists question complicity, institutional power, and the human capacity for transformation. Moreover, they share an embrace of comic-inspired language, turning satire into sharp cultural commentary. Hours: 10am-5pm; Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., LA, 90049; https://www.skirball.org
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Downtown
Patricia Sweetow Gallery holds an opening reception for two exhibitions. Our Lady of the Bathhouse by John Paul Morabito as well as House of Roses by Jamie Vasta. An art talk with John Paul Morabito and Patricia Sweetow in conjunction with Our Lady of the Bathhouse will precede the opening art party for solo shows. Moreover, there will be an additional art talk with Jamie Vasta later in the month.
Growing up in the Bronx of the immigrant Italian-American community, has clearly influencedJohn Paul Morabito’s work. Our Lady of the Bathhouse features religious tapestries with a subtle but explicit intervention, cloaking 15th- and 16th-century Renaissance paintings of Madonna and Child in flamboyant colors of drag—a Queer allegory turning sacred to Camp. Morabito remediates devotional paintings by artists such as DaVinci and Botticelli with accentuated day-glow colors and a stigmata presentation shimmering with gold beaded fringe. With this joyful celebration of sensorial imaginings, Morabito reframes the historic stigmatization and hypocrisy of the Catholic Church through queer transubstantiation.
House of Roses is a celebration of the shimmering, diverse expressions of queer identity. The composite glitter portraits draw inspiration from the opulence, bearing, and metaphor found in Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Jamie Vasta’s ficitve family are gorgeous, tattooed, costumed, commanding and heralded by community—they refuse the lassitudes of erasure and closeted thinking. As a queer youth growing up in Rochester, New York, Vasta found hope and inspiration in Paris Is Burning—a film that elevates queerness as jubilant, communal, and fierce. Art Talk: 2pm; Art Party: 3-5:30pm; Patricia Sweetow Gallery, 1700 S Santa Fe Ave Ste 351, LA, 90021; https://www.patriciasweetowgallery.com
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The Fowler Museum at UCLA will hold a Panel Discussion: Fire, Land Stewardship, and Indigenous. Inspired by the Fire Kinship exhibition, this panel will bring together Indigenous scholars, fire practitioners, and land trust leaders to discuss the role of land conservancies in the Land Back movement. The program will highlight Indigenous-led efforts to reclaim stewardship, revitalize ancestral practices, and navigate legal pathways for land return. Event: 2-4pm; RSVP on the website; The Fowler Museum at UCLA, 308 Charles E Young Dr N Los Angeles, CA 90024; https://fowler.ucla.edu/
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Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw
Artfully Spaced Gallery presents Memories in Nature by Willy Karekezi. The exhibition spotlights the bond between memory and the natural world. Just as nature witnesses the passing of civilizations, our memories witness the journey of our lives. Both fragile yet resilient, they remind us of what endures, what heals, and what time preserves. Find out more about the artist on his website –https://www.willykart.com; Art Party: 3-7pm; Artfully Spaced Gallery, 4114 Crenshaw Blvd, LA, 90008; https://artfullyspacedgallery.com
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West Adams area
Shoshana Wayne Gallery debuts Absinthe, Smoke, Sugar, Choice, an exhibition by Sabrina Gschwandtner. This is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Art Party: 4-6pm; Shoshana Wayne Gallery, 5247 W. Adams Blvd., LA, 90016; http://shoshanawayne.com
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Downtown
Vielmetter Los Angeles unveils new works by Yunhee Min. The LA based artist was born in Seoul, Korea. In addition to previously exhibiting at Vielmetter, her work at Miles McEnery Gallery in New York, the Hammer Museum, and many more. Art Party: 4-7pm; Vielmetter Los Angeles, 1700 S Santa Fe Ave, LA, 90021; https://vielmetter.com/
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The Valley
Carter Sexton throws an opening art party for Monochromatic Show! Free food, drink, and good company for all. Art Party: 5-7pm; Carter Sexton, 5308 Laurel Canyon Blvd.,North Hollywood, 91607; https://www.cartersexton.com/
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Atwater Village
The Pit LA celebrates new exhibitions Kevin Umaña: Moonglow Metanoia as well as Ryan Schneider: Earth Canal. This is Kevin Umaña’s first solo in his hometown of LA, as well as with the gallery. Born in 1989, the artist grew up in El Salvador and Los Angeles. Umaña’s recent works, “hybrid paintings,” combine glazed ceramics on painted canvas and fuse together conflicting styles—mess and order, biomorphic and geometric, thin and thick, matte and sheen.
Earth Canal by Joshua Tree, CA–based artist Ryan Schneider features new sculptures, This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. This body of work continues the artist’s ongoing exploration begun in Last Human Teachers, his European institutional debut currently on view at La Citadelle – Centre d’art & Musée, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France through November 23, 2025. Art Party: 5-7pm; The Pit LA, 3015 Dolores St, LA 90065; http://www.the-pit.la
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Hollywood
839 Gallery brings us an opening art party for a new exhibition titled Union Station by Yunghun Yoo. This is the Seoul-born, Los Angeles-based artists’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. This exhibition surveys Yoo’s new and recent paintings, exploring the interstices of movement, infrastructure, and the body as it navigates urban space. Art Party: 5-8pm; 839 Gallery, 839 N Cherokee Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038; https://839gallery.com/
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Melrose Hill area
OCHI unveils Three Moments of an Explosion, an exhibition of new paintings by Serbian-American artist Nevena Prijić, marking her first solo presentation with the gallery. The works on view begin as drawings and material studies on transparent and translucent sheets of mylar. Layering these sheets, the artist composes scenes that harmonize their chaotic and discrete parts. Through photography, the sensuous qualities of the stacks’ dimensionality, shadows and edges, are captured, projected and enlarged onto canvas. Scaled-up lines, marks and forms, rendered in oil with studious precision, reveal new worlds teeming with strange life. Art Party: 5-8pm; OCHI, 605 N. Western Ave, LA, 90004; https://ochigallery.com
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Also in Melrose Hill area…Wilding Cran Gallery hosts an opening art party to honor the work of Robert Gunderman. The artist’s oil paintings are inspired by Southern California’s landscapes, weather systems, flora, as well as fauna. His belief is that everything is connected on a molecular level, thus he incorporates this into his work. Art Party: 6-8pm; Wilding Cran Gallery, 607 N. Western Ave LA 90004; https://wildingcran.com
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Westwood
The Geffen Playhouse presents LittleBoy/LittleMan written by Rudi Goblen directed by Nancy Medina.
Synopsis: Nicaraguan brothers Fíto and Bastian clash over their visions of the American Dream. Soon their choices send them on a collision course with fate. The cast includes: Alex Hernandez, Dee Simone, Tonya Sweetsand Marlon and Alexander Vargas; Performance: 7:30pm; Tickets range from $36-$139; Available by phone at 310.208.2028 or on website; Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at Geffen Playhouse, 10886 Le Conte Avenue, LA, 90024; www.geffenplayhouse.org
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Santa Monica
The Broad Stage presents a night of comedy with Kevin Nealon. The comedian’s distinctive blend of dry wit, laid-back charm, and insightful humor will keep Santa Monica audiences laughing at his BroadStage debut. Of course, everyone knows Nealon due to his nine year tenure on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. He achieved additional success on Showtime’s hit series Weeds. He is also an Emmy and SAG-nominated actor and comedian. This performance will have no intermission. Performance: 7:30pm; The Broad Stage, 1310 11th St., Santa Monica, 90401; https://broadstage.org/
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Downtown
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding continues its run at the Mark Taper Forum. 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. Find out more on the Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Feature. Performance: 8pm; Mark Taper Forum, 135 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90012; CenterTheatreGroup.org
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Hollywood
The Inkwell Theater at Broadwater Main Stage presents Emmy Award winner Elliot Shoenman’s WORLD PREMIERE of Paper Walls. Be aware tonight’s performance is a preview. The show runs through November 9, 2025. The play tells a poignant story very similar 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.
Director: Darin Anthony; Cast includes Casey J. Adler, Warren Davis, Derek Manson, Dana Schwartz; Creative Team: Justin Hearn (Set Design), Nita Mendoza (Lighting Design), Marc Antonio Pritchett (Sound Design), Sarah Curran Ice (Costume Design), and also Ben Rock (Projection Design). 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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