Events for November 18th, 2008
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Tuesday - November 18th
Events / Museum Exhibit
"Please Be Seated" - Nicole Cohen
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Dr. - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
Nicole Cohen saw the Getty's collection of 18th Century French chairs and wanted to sit in them. Of course she couldn't, but she made the chairs the subject of a video installation piece wherein participants get to see what they would look like sitting in the chairs. Working with Mike Fair to...
Events / Natural History
‘Thomas the T-rex’ lab
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles - 900 Exposition Boulevard - Los Angeles
A T-rex, under glass
Events / Science
Masters of the Night: The True Story of Bats
Discovery Science Center - 2500 N. Main St. - Santa Ana
Discovery Science Center is bringing the mystery surrounding bats out of the dark!
Events / Art
In Focus: The Landscape
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Dr. - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
Aug. 26 - Jan. 11: Gustave Le Gray, Alfred Stieglitz, and Robert Adams are just some of the 25 photographers whose work graces the walls of the Getty.
Events / Folk Crafts
Josh Dorman - Within Four Miles
Craft and Folk Art Musuem - 5814 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Aug. 21 - Jan. 11: Working from old textbooks, vintage maps, scientific diagrams and other topographically-minded material, Josh Dorman presents large-scale visions of travel. Forget about linearity or mileage, Dorman collages together disparate dream-scapes couched in the geographies of M.C....
Events / Museum Exhibit
Martin Kersels - Heavyweight Champion
Santa Monica Musuem of Art - 2525 Michigan Ave. - Santa Monica (Bergamot Station)
Sept. 13 - Dec. 13: Defying categorization, claiming that he's neither a photographer, a sculptor nor a performer, 6-foot, 7-inch, 350-pound Martin Kersels works in all three mediums, always subverting the expectations of each. This retrospective, his first, looks back on thirteen years of...
Events / Folk Crafts
Identity - Unlimited Editions
Craft and Folk Art Musuem - 5814 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Sept. 21 - Jan. 11: A juried exhibition in collaboration with the Los Angeles Printmaking Society, "Identity: Unlimted Editions" explores the varied ways in which artists express their personal and cultural make-up. With work from Nancy Jo Hasselbacher, Judith Amdur, Joseph Vorgity and more....
Events / Art
A Light Touch - Exploring Humor In Drawing
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Dr. - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
Sept. 23 - Dec. 7: The Getty museum celebrates its silly side with an exhibition of light-hearted works from Da Vinci, Goya, Thomas Rowlandson, Urs Graf and more.
Events / Art
Sur le motif - Painting in Nature around 1800
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Dr. - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
Sept. 23 - March 8: European works from the late 1700s and early 1800s; all pastoral settings, painted in the great outdoors. With recent acquisitions from artists such as Jean-Victor Bertin, Jean-Joseph Xavier Bidauld, Camille Corot, Simon Denis and Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes.
Events / Art
Hard Targets - Masculinity and Sport
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) - 5905 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Hard layups / bulging muscles
