Talks in Los Angeles: which venues?

Busiest venues: Wilshire Ebell Theatre (4), Hammer Museum (4), LACMA (4).

Talks in Los Angeles: is anything free?

Yes. Free: 14, including As Ocean People: Symposium, Screenings, and Performance, Roam the Bouquet!: Introducing Jan Davidsz. de Heem.

Talks in Los Angeles: which day has the most?

Sunday, October 25, 2026, with 6 events.

Los Angeles

Talks in Los Angeles: what’s on?

50 events from Sunday, October 25 to Monday, November 23, 2026. Highlights: A Conversation With THE-DREAM (GRAMMY Museum at L.A. LIVE, Monday, October 26), Lunchtime Art Talk on Mavis Pusey (Hammer Museum, Wednesday, October 28), Writers Bloc and L.A. Material Present Jacob Weisberg and Julia Turner (Wilshire Ebell Theatre, Monday, November 2). Free: 14. Busiest venues: Wilshire Ebell Theatre, Hammer Museum, LACMA.

Sunday, October 25, 2026

Visual arts
until Oct 25

As Ocean People: Symposium, Screenings, and Performance

REDCAT · Downtown
- Visual arts
Free

Going Interested
Other
12 PM

Witness to Truth: Dr. Jack Wetter

Museum of Tolerance · Century City
Going Interested
Other
1 PM

Who Did Your Hips? Salon: Aging in Place

The Wende Museum · Culver City
Going Interested
Other
2 PM

Descendants of Remembrance Talk: Arianne Neumark

Holocaust Museum LA · Fairfax
Going Interested
Visual arts
2 PM

Roam the Bouquet!: Introducing Jan Davidsz. de Heem

Getty Center · Brentwood
- Visual arts
Free Tickets

Going Interested
Other
2 PM

Witness to Truth: Rita Weiser

Museum of Tolerance · Century City
Free

Going Interested

Monday, October 26, 2026

Music
7:30 PM

A Conversation With THE-DREAM

THE-DREAM

GRAMMY Museum at L.A. LIVE · Downtown
- Music
Tickets

Going Interested
Literature
7:30 PM

Writers Bloc: Sam Wasson & Todd Purdum

Wilshire Ebell Theatre · Mid-Wilshire
- Literature
Tickets

Going Interested

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Visual arts
6:30 PM

A Painterly Pursuit with Reggie Burrows Hodges

Getty Center · Brentwood
- Visual arts
Free Tickets

Going Interested
Literature
7:30 PM

Author Talk | He Has the People: Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1860

Autry Museum of the American West · Griffith Park
- Literature
Going Interested

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Visual arts
12:30 PM

Lunchtime Art Talk on Mavis Pusey

Hammer Museum · Westwood
- Visual arts
Tickets

Going Interested
Literature
7 PM

Built for the Future - Saved for the Next Century

Richard J. Riordan Central Library · Downtown
- Literature
Tickets

Going Interested
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Visual arts
7:30 PM

Chef Marcus Samuelsson in Conversation with Laurie Ochoa & Sandra Jackson-Dumont

Hammer Museum · Westwood
- Visual arts
Going Interested

Thursday, October 29, 2026

Visual arts
Time not announced

Plática – Made in L.A.: Young Artists in Conversation

LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes · Downtown
- Visual arts
Free

Going Interested

Friday, October 30, 2026

Cinema
Time not announced

Gallery Spotlight: Creating The Horror Show

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures · Miracle Mile
- Cinema
Tickets

Going Interested

Sunday, November 1, 2026

Visual arts
2 PM

A Journey through the Grand Egyptian Museum

Getty Villa · Pacific Palisades
- Visual arts
Free Tickets

Going Interested

Monday, November 2, 2026

Other
11 AM

Distinguished Voices: The Art of Enchantment: Women in Puppetry featuring Winona Bechtle from Bob Baker Marionette Theater

Wilshire Ebell Theatre · Mid-Wilshire
Going Interested
Music
7:30 PM

A Conversation With Boys Noize

Boys Noize

GRAMMY Museum at L.A. LIVE · Downtown
- Music
- Nights out
- Electronic
- Techno
Tickets

Going Interested
Literature
7:30 PM

Writers Bloc and L.A. Material Present Jacob Weisberg and Julia Turner

Wilshire Ebell Theatre · Mid-Wilshire
- Literature
Tickets

Going Interested

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Other
5:30 PM

Artist Talk: Olinda Silvano, Erick (Ronin) Arias Silvano, and Sadith Esther Silvano Inuma

Fowler Museum at UCLA · Westwood
Going Interested
Visual arts
6 PM

Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena: Interactions with History

Frank Escher · Ravi GuneWardena

SCI-Arc · Arts District
- Visual arts
Free

Going Interested

Saturday, November 7, 2026

Visual arts
11 AM

Two Buses Set Out: Japanese American Photography, History, and Memory

Japanese American National Museum · Little Tokyo
- Visual arts
Going Interested
Visual arts
2 PM

Curator's Talk | Behind the "JAPAN CRAFT" Exhibition

Takahiro Nagata

JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles · Hollywood
- Visual arts
Free

Going Interested
Visual arts
4 PM

When the Holy Family Went Viral

Getty Center · Brentwood
- Visual arts
Free Tickets

Going Interested
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Sunday, November 8, 2026

Cinema
12 PM

Next/Gen Champions Roundtable

Egyptian Theatre Hollywood · Hollywood
- Cinema
Tickets

Going Interested
Cinema
2:30 PM

Next Steps: From a Short to a Feature

Egyptian Theatre Hollywood · Hollywood
- Cinema
Tickets

Going Interested
Other
5 PM

L.A. Culture in a Cup: Bats, Birds, and Agave

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County · Exposition Park
$75 Tickets

Going Interested
Other
5:30 PM

The Rescue of Ethiopian Jewry

Museum of Tolerance · Century City
Free

Going Interested

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Visual arts
7 PM

We Make the World: Guided Aesthetics Practices for Art, Power, and Healing

Skirball Cultural Center · Brentwood
- Visual arts
- Literature
Tickets

Going Interested

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Other
6:30 PM

Veterans Day: Three Generations of Jewish Service

Holocaust Museum LA · Fairfax
Going Interested

Thursday, November 12, 2026

Visual arts
6 PM

Wolf dPrix: LOVE, PEACE & ICE CREAM

Wolf D. Prix

SCI-Arc · Arts District
- Visual arts
Free

Going Interested
Music
7 PM

A Century of Humanity: Jazz in Los Angeles

Richard J. Riordan Central Library · Downtown
- Music
- Literature
- Jazz
Free Tickets

Going Interested

Friday, November 13, 2026

Other
until Nov 14

Marshall McKay Seminar for Empowering Native Knowledge | W. Richard West Jr.

Autry Museum of the American West · Griffith Park
Going Interested
Music
3:30 PM

A Conversation With Peter Hook of Joy Division & New Order

Peter Hook

GRAMMY Museum at L.A. LIVE · Downtown
- Music
- Post-punk
Tickets

Going Interested
Visual arts
6 PM

Dominique Jakob + Brendan MacFarlane: Creating With…

Dominique Jakob · Brendan MacFarlane

SCI-Arc · Arts District
- Visual arts
Free

Going Interested
Cinema
Time not announced

Community Conversation: Horror, Representation, Culture, and the Stories We Tell

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures · Miracle Mile
- Cinema
Tickets

Going Interested
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Saturday, November 14, 2026

Cinema
Time not announced

Inside Horror: Capturing the Sinister with Michael Goi

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures · Miracle Mile
- Cinema
Tickets

Going Interested

Sunday, November 15, 2026

Visual arts
3 PM

Cecilia Vicuña in Conversation with Elizabeth DeLoughrey

MOCA Grand Avenue · Downtown
- Visual arts
Free Tickets

Going Interested
Visual arts
7 PM

Archive Talks: Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds

Hammer Museum · Westwood
- Visual arts
Going Interested

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

Other
9:45 AM

More Than Just Talk with Jessie Kornberg, featuring Kurt Petersen

Skirball Cultural Center · Brentwood
Tickets

Going Interested

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

Visual arts
7 PM

Paul R. Williams and the Idea of Home

LACMA · Miracle Mile
- Visual arts
Tickets

Going Interested
Visual arts
7:30 PM

Archive Talks: Trouble in Paradise

Hammer Museum · Westwood
- Visual arts
Going Interested

Thursday, November 19, 2026

Other
6 PM

Fowler Talk: Vodou, Art, and Resilience

Fowler Museum at UCLA · Westwood
Going Interested
Visual arts
7 PM

A Century of The New Yorker Covers

LACMA · Miracle Mile
- Visual arts
Tickets

Going Interested

Saturday, November 21, 2026

Other
2 PM

Special Program: Counter-Histories: Memory, Materiality, & South Asian Artistic Practices

Fowler Museum at UCLA · Westwood
Going Interested
Other
2 PM

Visualizing the Cosmos: Science | Art | History

Kip Thorne · Lia Halloran · Lois Rosson

The Wende Museum · Culver City
Going Interested
Other
7 PM

An Evening with Alex O'Connor

Wilshire Ebell Theatre · Mid-Wilshire
Tickets

Going Interested

Sunday, November 22, 2026

Visual arts
2 PM

Eileen Cowin and Fred Tomaselli on Making Art in Turbulent Times

LACMA · Miracle Mile
- Visual arts
Tickets

Going Interested
Literature
3 PM

Book Talk: Soccer Under the Swastika

Kevin Simpson · Jordanna Gessler

Holocaust Museum LA · Fairfax
- Literature
Going Interested

Monday, November 23, 2026

Visual arts
6 PM

An Evening with Catherine Opie

LACMA · Miracle Mile
- Visual arts
Tickets

Going Interested

Everything on in Los Angeles

Questions and answers

Talks in Los Angeles: how many events?: 50 events from Sunday, October 25 to Monday, November 23, 2026.
Talks in Los Angeles: what are the highlights?: Highlights: A Conversation With THE-DREAM (GRAMMY Museum at L.A. LIVE, Monday, October 26), Lunchtime Art Talk on Mavis Pusey (Hammer Museum, Wednesday, October 28), Writers Bloc and L.A. Material Present Jacob Weisberg and Julia Turner (Wilshire Ebell Theatre, Monday, November 2).
Talks in Los Angeles: which venues?: Busiest venues: Wilshire Ebell Theatre (4), Hammer Museum (4), LACMA (4).
Talks in Los Angeles: is anything free?: Yes. Free: 14, including As Ocean People: Symposium, Screenings, and Performance, Roam the Bouquet!: Introducing Jan Davidsz. de Heem.
Talks in Los Angeles: which day has the most?: Sunday, October 25, 2026, with 6 events.