Black light! Ping pong! Shepard Fairey DJ-ing! Plus Ryan McGinness' new book, Women: New (Re)Presentations! All of this at the Standard Hotel Downtown! What a way to spend a Thursday evening! RSVP is a must (mcginniss@standardhotel.com) for extreme revel which begins at 8pm. Eschew basic black and go for for the glow!

  Hold on to your eyeballs and be prepared to take your brain on a wild ride as Ron English  guides you into the culture-crazed landscape of "POPagandanstan," opening October 26 at Corey Helford Gallery. English, whose work is included in major collections, appropriates brand and advertising iconography and morphs them into pointed social and political commentary and will be at the opening which runs from 7pm to 10pm. The show is up through November 16, and regular gallery hours…

Subliminal Projects presents Ravi Zupa's works, with the artist in attendance and music provided by Ben Lee Ritchie Handler and your host Shepard Fairey. Make sure to email preview@sumliminalprojects.com and  RSVP for the reception (and don't forget to tip the valet parking dudes, who are a blessing!). The show runs through November 23, but the  reception is just for an hour on October 26.

Rev up your horror engines and get a jump on Halloween--along with some inspiration for a costume or haunted house as Copro presents the closing event for Chet Zar's monument to monsters "Ego Death" and Nikko Hurtado's first solo show "Renati." This is a one-night-only, over top event. Along with the Ego Death series presented at Beyond Eden expect a hearse, a funeral procession, a coffin with Black Magick playing the role of The Ego, a eulogy, a live organ…

Step beyond the veil into the haunting and beautiful world of the dead as the California State University Fullerton's Begovich Gallery  presents "Beyond the Dark Veil: Post­Mortem and Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive," curated by Jacqueline Ann Bunge Barger, running November 2 though December 12, 2013. The Thanatos Archive houses an extensive collection of early post‐mortem, memorial, and mourning photographs dating as far back as the 1840s, from which "Beyond the Dark Veil" was drawn. Over 180 extraordinary photographs…