Detail of a sculpture by Lacee King. Part of the group show Life of the World to Come, organized by Timothy Buckwalter, at NIAD’s Gallery, in Richmond, Calif., opens today. Reception on Saturday, Jan. 22 at 2pm. (Image courtesy of King.)

• S.F.: Humming Summit, featuring work by Alex Case and Dan Grayber, opens Thursday. Reception will be held on Friday, Feb. 4 at 5pm.
• Indian Wells, Calif.: Tom Friedman, So Much Depends, at Royale Projects, opens Saturday at 4pm.
• L.A.: Thomas Houseago at L&M Arts in Venice, opens Saturday.
• L.A.: Detroit: A Brooklyn Case Study, at SuperFront LA, opens Thursday at 5pm, in West Hollywood.
• L.A.: Game Night 4 at Giant Robot, in West L.A., this Saturday at 7pm.
• Torrance: What’s New Pussycat, with Robert Irwin, Juan Capistran, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, Paul McCarthy and many others, at the Torrance Art Museum, opens Saturday.
• Fort Worth: Ed Ruscha: Road Tested, at the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, opens Sunday.
• Chicago: John Marin’s Watercolors at the Art Institute of Chicago, opens Sunday.
• NYC: Novelist Matthew Gallaway, of The Metropolis Case, and music critic Sasha Frere-Jones, in conversation at Rand McNally Bookstore, this Wednesday at 7pm.
• NYC: Orange Sky and The Salon, at RH Gallery in TriBeCa, opens Wednesday at 6pm.
• S.F.: NYC: Girls, Girls, Girls, at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, through Feb. 24.
• NYC: I Like the Art World and the Art World Likes Me, at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, through Mar. 5.
• NYC: Ellen Gallagher, at Gagosian Gallery on 24th Street, opens Friday.
• NYC: A free screening of Les Triplettes de Belleville, at Rabbit Hole Studio, in Dumbo, on Wednesday at 8pm.
• Budapest: Ed Templeton, The Cemetery of Reason, at the Mücsarnok Kunsthalle at the Ernst Museum, opens Saturday.