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This weekend in Los Angeles An art-filled morning, a market lunch or a garden pause. Keep the distances in mind and let one good destination anchor the day. The weekend runs from Friday evening through Sunday. Find dated events first, then places to visit, tables to book and rooms to explore after dark.
On the calendar Event Exhibitions
An invitation to participate, imagine and listen at The Broad. Seven decades of Yoko Ono’s work, in a separately ticketed exhibition.
Sat 26 Sept US$21
On the house Event Exhibitions
An exhibition about the art trade and its consequences. Follow the movement of Mexican antiquities through a Los Angeles dealer’s archive.
Fri 25 Sept Free
On the house Event Exhibitions
Sound, moving image and memory meet at the Hammer. Gê Viana’s first institutional presentation in the United States is free to visit.
Sat 26 Sept Free
Event Culture
Live music, cultural performances and family activities turn the Autry’s grounds into a Saturday gathering.
Sat 26 Sept Check price
On the house Event Exhibitions
Plants, cables and the movement of electrical energy meet in a new installation at the Hammer Museum.
Sat 26 Sept Free
On the house Event Concerts
A free Friday evening with jazz vocalist Judy Wexler at LACMA’s Smidt Welcome Plaza.
Fri 25 Sept Free
Event Concerts
Bilal and DJ Rashida are part of this night devoted to Prince.
Fri 25 Sept Check price
Event Concerts
An ABBA tribute band turns the Bowl into a singalong, with songs including Dancing Queen, Mamma Mia and Take a Chance on Me.
Fri 25 Sept Check price
Event Concerts
Pat Benatar and guitarist Neil Giraldo bring their shared rock catalogue into Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Fri 25 Sept Check price
Event Concerts
The Sound of Music becomes an audience singalong at the Bowl.
Sat 26 Sept Check price
Event Concerts
Mariachi Tierra Mia brings mariachi arrangements to songs associated with The Smiths.
Sun 27 Sept Check price
Event Concerts
Jon Batiste brings his mix of jazz, gospel, blues and pop to an outdoor headline concert.
Sun 27 Sept Check price
Beyond the calendar
A little more of the city. Places selected from our city guide, alongside the dated events above. Check opening hours and reservations before setting out.
Build your itinerary Free entry Place Activities
A view across Los Angeles and a reason to look up. The observatory building and grounds are free; planetarium shows are separate.
Free entry Place Activities
A free contemporary-art visit on Bunker Hill, in Arata Isozaki’s Grand Avenue building. Reserve ahead if you want a firmer plan.
Free entry Place Culture
Free core science galleries in Exposition Park, with plenty of room for curiosity. IMAX and ticketed extras are separate from general admission.
Free entry Place Culture
A free museum on the UCLA campus, with exhibitions that open conversations about art, objects and cultural life.
Free entry Place Culture
An outdoor pause between Exposition Park’s museums, with rose beds, a fountain and room to sit when the garden is in season.
Free entry Place Culture
Ancient art and garden courtyards in Pacific Palisades, for a day planned around the coast.
Place Activities
A Downtown food stop with room for different appetites. Browse the stalls before committing to lunch.
Restaurant Mexican
Oaxacan cooking in Koreatown, with mole and tlayudas at the heart of the menu. A meal worth giving its own place in the day.
Mexican $$
Restaurant American
French-dipped sandwiches on North Alameda Street. A straightforward food stop near Chinatown and El Pueblo.
American $
Restaurant American
A daytime deli stop at Seventh and Alvarado. Pastrami on rye is the reason to build a lunch around this Westlake address.
American $$
Place Food & drink
A Riviera-inflected rooftop on Wilcox Avenue, for a Hollywood evening with music, open air and a livelier finish.
Place Food & drink
An onyx bar and blue armchairs in Beverly Hills, for a composed first drink before dinner and the brighter lights further east.
Place Food & drink
A Sunset Tower dinner with old-Hollywood atmosphere, discreet service and a room that asks you to put the camera away.
Place Concerts
A small-room live-music finish on Sunset Boulevard, close enough to make Echo Park the evening’s centre of gravity.