Events for August 28th, 2008
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Events / Natural History
Pavilion of Wings at the Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles - 900 Exposition Boulevard - Los Angeles
Lepidopterists can breathe a sigh of relief as the Natual History Museum's "Pavilion of Wings" comes back for it's tenth summer. Stroll through the Museum's South Lawn where the landscape is brimming with free-flying butterflies. The span of summer will see forty different butterfly and moth...
Events / Museum Exhibit
"Please Be Seated" - Nicole Cohen
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Drive - 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 / Art
Tradition as Innovation in African Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA - 5905 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Including the work of over 30 artists, this exhibition covers a late 19th to early 20th Century's worth of African groundbreakers who paved the way for such better-known (read: whiter, or if you will, "European") movements of art like cubism, Dada and surrealism. Jan. 22 - Nov. 12
Events / Cultural Center
All the Saints of the City of the Angels - J. Michael Walker
Autry National Center - 4700 Western Heritage Way - Los Angeles
J. Michael Walker traces the origins of Los Angeles through the Saints and the streets that bear their names.Feb. 29 - Sept. 7
Events / Museum Exhibit
All the Saints of the City of the Angels
Autry National Center - 4700 Western Heritage Way - Los Angeles
Tangible history and unlikely associations are revealed in All the Saints of the City of the Angels at the Autry National Center. Artist J. Michael Walker unlocks a treasure trove of voices amidst the saintly named city streets of Los Angeles, where stories carry metaphorical qualities, and...
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
Body Worlds 3
California Science Center - 700 State Drive - Los Angeles
Just in case you didn't know, the pseudo-notorious Body Worlds exhibit is back in its third incarnation—now with The Story of the Heart. Real live cadavers are used (in a process called plastination) to show us how all those muscles and tendons and things operate in such a harmonious fashion....
Events / Art
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA - 5905 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
LACMA's new exhibition takes on the more experimental side of the Chicano art movement—think conceptual art, performance, film, photo- and media-based art, and "stealthy" artistic interventions in urban spaces. With over 125 different works from artists like Christina Fernandez, Julio Cesar...
Events / Antique
The Hope Hygieia: Restoring a Statue’s History
The Getty Villa - 17985 Pacific Coast Highway - Pacific Palisades
The Roman marble stature of Hygieia, a goddess of health, has changed hands more times than that "Where's George" dollar bill. Found at Ostia in 1797, the sculpture was owned by British interior designer Thomas Hope, then by American newspaper tycoon extraordinaire William Randolph Hearst. In...
Events / Cultural Center
Cowboys and Presidents
Autry National Center - 4700 Western Heritage Way - Los Angeles
The Autry Museum presents a look back at the history of the free-swinging cowboy propaganda that's helped elect more than one Commander in Chief. April 12 - Sept. 7
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