Calendar. 02.15.12.

Aakash Nihalani at work. Pieces by the artist will be on view as part of the group show All Talk, with Destroy & Rebuild, Jesus Saves and many others, at Pandemic Gallery, opening this Friday at 7pm. (Image courtesy of the artist and Pandemic.)

• L.A.: Zefrey Throwell, Entropy Symphony: Movement III — Los Angeles, the 1000 car horn symphony. Today at 6:00pm, for five minutes, all over.
• L.A.: Ansel Adams Los Angeles, at drkrm. Opens Saturday at 7pm, in downtown.
• L.A.: Common Places: Printing, Embroidery and the Art of Global Mapping, at LACMA. Opens Saturday in the Fairfax District.
• S.F.: Mark Bradford, at SFMOMA. Opens Saturday.
• S.F.: Rineke Djikstra: A Retrospective, at SFMOMA. Opens Saturday.
• Minneapolis: Punk Attitudinal: Film and Video, 1977-87, a video series, at the Walker. Thursday at 7:30pm.
• Chicago: Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art, at the Smart Museum of Art, at the University of Chicago. Opens Thursday.
• Pittsburgh: Maya Lin, at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Through May 13, at the Heinz Architectural Center.
• Northampton, Mass.: Pursuing Beauty: The Art of Edo Japan, at the Smith College Museum of Art. Opens Friday.
• Washington, D.C.: Ñew York: Latin American and Spanish artists in New York, at the Art Museum of the Americas, at the OAS. Opens Thursday at 6pm.
• Miami: Michael Vasquez, Rites of Passage, at Fredric Snitzer Gallery. Opens Friday at 6pm.
• NYC: Cake and Don Pablo Pedro, Inside Out, at Mighty Tanaka. Opens Friday at 6pm, in Dumbo.
• NYC: Paul Chan: On Not Working, at the School of Visual Arts (136 W 21st St, 220F). This Friday at 6:30pm.
• NYC: Matt Freedman, The Golem of Ridgewood, at Valentine. Opens Friday, in Ridgewood/Bushwick.
• Plus: Get the rest of my New York recommends over on Gallerina and get a run-down of the pieces to see at the New Museum’s triennial…