// Thursday, July 31 

• David Hendren: Echo’s Drift closing event + sound performance, at MJBriggs, West Hollywood. The LA artist performs for the closing event of the one man/two space show of paintings and sculptures at MJBriggs and 5 Car Garage. Closing: 7-9pm
• Poltergeist: James Cordas x Zac Tomaszewski, at South of Sunset, Echo Park. Collaborative exhibition featuring site-specific video installations, UV liquid painting, sculpture, and experimental wall works at the intersection of the perceptual and extra-sensory. Opening: 8-10pm thru Aug 24
• Thanks for the Mammaries, at ForYourArt, Mid-City. LA artist Bettina Hubby presents a group exhibition of boob-themed art, including over 100 artists.  Live auction benefiting The Cancer Support Community Benjamin Center. Opening: 7-9pm thru Aug 17
• NATIVE STRATEGIES: N (enter) S, at LACE, Hollywood. Closing performances for Native Strategies’ month-long residency. Closing: 7-10pm
• Waves of Concerts Future: Telecaves | The Faraday Trippers | Sleepy Cycle, at Echo Chamber, Echo Park. Sounds from Telecaves, The Faraday Trippers & Sleepy Cycle (Axel Enoc Estrada).  Hosted by Grant Capes. 8-11pm

• Thema Collective presents The Edible Whistle, Echo Park. Three selections from JULIACKS’ global Infinite Whistle film series with food pairings by Chef Gary Campbell. 8-11pm
• 75 DOLLAR BILL | THE PARK DETAILS BAND | THEGNAGORIAC, at Human Resources, Chinatown. Live music performances. 9-11:45pm

Saturday, Aug 2

• Dennis DeHart: Concentrate to the Quiet, at SPOT Photo Works, Hollywood. Connecting conflicts in nature and culture, DeHart’s images weave elements of landscape, portraiture and still life into pristine color photographs. Inaugural exhibition at this new photo gallery, curated by Director, Kathleen Clark. Opening: 6-9pm thru Sep 16
• The Forgetting of Objects and Tides, at Echo Park Film Center, Echo Park. Screenings of Daphne Rosenthal’s ‘The Forgetting of Objects,’ a portrayal of in-between time and space and Bertha Aguilar’s ‘Tides,’ a documentary exploring LA’s hidden geography through the live and work sites of three 1930’s artists: Sergei Eisenstein, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Carlos Bulosan. 8pm
• Actually Huizenga: Viking Angel, at Night Gallery, DTLA. Screening and performance of the latest phantasmagoric meta-melodrama art/music/fashion/news/philosophy/lifestyle video project from the LA artist’s self-professed ‘maverick mind and body.’ 8pm
• British Knights presents MAX D | ANTHONY NAPLES | JAMES FERRARO, at Top40, Highland Park. Curated by Gene’s Liquor 9pm-2am
• Sexperiments: a collection of turned-on shorts, at Cinefamily, West Hollywood. Encore screening! Doors 9:15pm | Screening 9:45pm
• Heavy Midnites: Flash Gordon, at Cinefamily, West Hollywood. If you need a reason… just go. Midnight Screening

• Experimental Half-Hour 4th Anniversarty X-travaganza, at Made In LA at the Hammer Museum, Westwood. Happy Birthday Experimental Half-Hour!  Celebrating EHH’s 4th anniversary with a 1-hour live taping feat. performances from Rind and Lauren Bousfield; live video synthesis by Sam Newell and Brock Fansler; Interview with the Ghosting.tv crew.  Tune-in IRL or online at Kchung.tv 3-4pm
• Spirits in the Material World?, at Hiatus, DTLA. Does spirituality exist in the art world? If so, what does it look like?  Group show feat. Shiva Aliabadi, Virginia Katz, Aragna Ker, Zach Kleyn, Gil Kuno, Constance Mallinson, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Gina Stepaniuk. Opening: 4-8pm
• Liam Mooney presents…Forget-me-not: Music of Balloons and Fiberglass, at the wulf, DTLA. Final event of the season feat. Daniel Corral, Scott Cazan, Jack Doutt, Christine Tavolacci, Claire Chenette, David Kendall, Stephanie Smith, James Klopfleisch, Todd Lerew, Mari, Morgan Gerstmar, Archie Carey, Saul Alpert-Abrams, Orin Hildestad. Closing performances: 8pm

Monday, Aug 4 

• K-Hole, at Top40, Highland Park. A night of kinetic activation with performances by Brian Getnick, Geneviève Belleveau, Jil Stein, Jos McKain. Doors 8pm | Performances 9pm
• Ex im Ot #15: Banetoriko, Brent Mitzner,Vehicle Reversing Systems, Jeremy Kennedy, at pehrspace, Glendale. 9-11pm

• EARTHMASTERS + GX JUPITTER-LARSEN + JOSEPH HAMMER + G.S. SULTAN, at Human Resources, Chinatown. GX Jupitter-Larsen, Joseph Hammer, EarthMasters, & G.S. Sultan.  Hosted by Grant Capes. 8pm-12am

• Sarah McMenimenL EXOcise, at Commonwealth & Council, Koreatown. Influenced by scientific and ritualistic lexicons, the artist presents three videos converting the space into a laboratory for carrying out procedures and cycles of transformation. thru Aug 2
• Openness and Clarity: Color Field Works from the 1960s and 1970s, at Honor Fraser, Culver City. Group show feat. Josef Albers, Anthony Caro, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, and Frank Stella. thru Aug 2
• Never Cargo Terminal…, at Smart Objects, Echo Park. New works by Kareem Lotfy, Simone C. Niquille and Adriana Ramić.  Curated by Lucy Chinen. thru Aug 8
• Animal Charm, at China Art Objects, Culver City. Object-and-projection works born from the collaboration of Richard Bott and Jim Fetterley. thru Aug 9