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What to do in Los Angeles in December 2026

117 events from Tuesday, December 1 to Thursday, December 31, 2026. Busiest venues: Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Hollywood Palladium, Getty Center.

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

Cinema
until Apr 4

The Godfather Photo Experience

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures · Miracle Mile
- Cinema
Tickets
Music
until Jan 2

Common Ground

Skirball Cultural Center · Brentwood
- Music
- Visual arts
Tickets
Visual arts
until Dec 31

Expansive Presentation of Andy Warhol

The Broad · Downtown
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Dec 31

Expansive Presentation of Jean-Michel Basquiat

The Broad · Downtown
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Dec 31

Expansive Presentation of Roy Lichtenstein

The Broad · Downtown
- Visual arts
Cinema
until Oct 24

Director's Inspiration: Bong Joon Ho

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures · Miracle Mile
- Cinema
Tickets
Cinema
until Feb 21

Stories of Cinema: Identity

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures · Miracle Mile
- Cinema
Tickets
Visual arts
until Jun 27

Creative Continuities: Family, Pride, and Community in Native Art

Autry Museum of the American West · Griffith Park
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Apr 18

Unearthed: Raw Beauty

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County · Exposition Park
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 3

Collecting Impressionism at LACMA

LACMA · Miracle Mile
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Dec 20

john gerrard: SPIRITS

LACMA · Miracle Mile
- Visual arts
Cinema
until Mar 21

Studio Ghibli's Ponyo

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures · Miracle Mile
- Cinema
Tickets
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Visual arts
until Dec 1

Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.: In Between Stops

LACMA · Miracle Mile
- Visual arts
Cinema
until Oct 24

19 Branches of the Academy

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures · Miracle Mile
- Cinema
Tickets
Visual arts
until Jan 10

Hammer Projects: Mike Cloud

Hammer Museum · Westwood
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 31

Mountain Spirits: Rice and Indigeneity in the Northern Luzon Highlands, Philippines

Fowler Museum at UCLA · Westwood
- Visual arts
Tickets
Visual arts
until Apr 25

Orcas: Our Shared Future

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County · Exposition Park
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 31

Life, Liberty, and Los Angeles

Autry Museum of the American West · Griffith Park
- Visual arts
Cinema
until Feb 28

Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures · Miracle Mile
- Cinema
Tickets
Music
until Feb 28

Inventing America: The Comic Book Revolution

Skirball Cultural Center · Brentwood
- Music
- Visual arts
Tickets
Visual arts
until Dec 6

Danse Macabre: Death in Print from Dürer to Dix

LACMA · Miracle Mile
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Dec 6

Pablo Picasso - Portraits in Disguise

LACMA · Miracle Mile
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 11

The Declaration in Progress

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County · Exposition Park
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Mar 14

The Making of a Medieval Manuscript

Getty Center · Brentwood
- Visual arts
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Visual arts
until Jun 27

Textiles as Monument

Fowler Museum at UCLA · Westwood
- Visual arts
Tickets
Visual arts
until Jan 3

Eileen Cowin: Between Panic and Paradise

LACMA · Miracle Mile
- Visual arts
Cinema
until May 21

Glow: A Cinematic Moodscape

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures · Miracle Mile
- Cinema
Tickets
Visual arts
until Jan 3

Every Minute Is History: Five Views of Los Angeles

Getty Center · Brentwood
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 3

Instante/revelación: Moments in Mexican Photography

Getty Center · Brentwood
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Feb 8

The Art of Kandy: Sri Lanka's Last Kingdom

Norton Simon Museum · Pasadena
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 17

Hammer Projects: Vibeke Mascini

Hammer Museum · Westwood
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Mar 14

Joshua Reynolds's Portrait of Mai and 18th-Century Portraiture

Getty Center · Brentwood
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Feb 7

Hammer Projects: Gê Viana

Hammer Museum · Westwood
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 3

Alexander Apóstol Regime: Dramatis Personae

MOCA Grand Avenue · Downtown
- Visual arts
Tickets
Visual arts
until Jan 3

In These Times: Recent Acquisitions at MOCA

MOCA Grand Avenue · Downtown
- Visual arts
Tickets
Visual arts
until Jan 10

The Holy Family at Home

Getty Center · Brentwood
- Visual arts
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Visual arts
until Jul 30

Promised Lands: California's Unratified Treaties and Native Resilience

Autry Museum of the American West · Griffith Park
- Visual arts
Cinema
until Jul 25

The Horror Show

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures · Miracle Mile
- Cinema
Tickets
Cinema
until Jul 25

Zombies!

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures · Miracle Mile
- Cinema
Tickets
Visual arts
until Feb 28

Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines

Hammer Museum · Westwood
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Mar 2

Scientia Sexualis

Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles · Arts District
- Visual arts
Tickets
Visual arts
until Jan 14

Barbara T. Smith: Proof

Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles · Arts District
- Visual arts
Tickets
Visual arts
until Feb 28

Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images

Hammer Museum · Westwood
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Mar 1

Samar Al Summary: Excavating the Sky

Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles · Arts District
- Visual arts
Tickets
Visual arts
until Feb 28

Reggie Burrows Hodges: A Theater of Passions

Getty Center · Brentwood
- Visual arts
Theatre
until Jan 17

The Farce Awakens: Feydeau x 2

Odyssey Theatre Ensemble · West Los Angeles
- Theatre
Tickets
Theatre
until Dec 20

Purpose

Geffen Playhouse · Westwood
- Theatre
Tickets
Visual arts
until Mar 1

Making History: Manet's "Execution of Maximilian" from the National Gallery, London

Norton Simon Museum · Pasadena
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jun 6

Julian Charrière: Deep End

MOCA Grand Avenue · Downtown
- Visual arts
Tickets
Visual arts
until Jun 6

The Dream of Water: Quipu of Encounters Maricunga

MOCA Grand Avenue · Downtown
- Visual arts
Tickets
Visual arts
until Apr 4

Has the myth been shattered

The Broad · Downtown
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Mar 1

Feminist Press: Timeline

Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles · Arts District
- Visual arts
Tickets
Visual arts
until Mar 14

A Light in the Dark: Joseph Wright of Derby

Getty Center · Brentwood
- Visual arts
Music
7 PM

Babyfxce E - The Xperience Tour

The Belasco · Downtown
- Music
Theatre
until Dec 13

Elf The Musical

Hollywood Pantages Theatre · Hollywood
- Theatre
Tickets

Wednesday, December 2, 2026

Music
7 PM

The Music of Hey Arnold Live! Feat. Jim Lang and The PS 118 AllStars

The Belasco · Downtown
- Music
Music
8 PM

Steve Vai

YouTube Theater
- Music
Tickets

Thursday, December 3, 2026

Music
7 PM

KROQ Presents Reel Big Fish - Turn The Radio Off 30th Anniversary

The Wiltern · Koreatown
- Music
- Ska punk
Music
7 PM

Lil Tracy

The Belasco · Downtown
- Music

Friday, December 4, 2026

Music
6:35 PM

Orbit Culture

YouTube Theater
- Music
Tickets

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