Events for October 13th, 2008
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Monday - October 13th
Events / Museum Exhibit
Spider Pavilion
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles - 900 Exposition Boulevard - Los Angeles
Stroll amongst 800 creepy-crawly legs as you enter the spiders' stomping ground
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 / 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 / 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 / Art
Marcel Duchamp redux
Norton Simon Museum of Art - 411 W. Colorado Blvd. - Pasadena
45 years ago, a little venue in Pasadena opened their doors and thrust a retrospective exhibition of Marcel Duchamp into the faces of an unsuspecting Southern California audience. To mark that anniversary, the little venue, now called the Norton Simon Museum, is taking a look back at the iconic...
Events / Art
A Garland of Melodies: Ragamala Paintings from India and Nepal
Norton Simon Museum of Art - 411 W. Colorado Blvd. - Pasadena
Indian and Nepalese ragamala paintings—pictorial 'translations' of melodies, either male or female—on display at the Norton Simon. Through Nov. 3
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
The Art of War - American Posters from World War I and World War II
Norton Simon Museum of Art - 411 W. Colorado Blvd. - Pasadena
The Norton Simon Museum unveils their collection of 33 posters created specifically for the First World War effort
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
Events / Art
Five Centuries of Indonesian Textiles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA - 5905 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Sept. 18 - March 15: Over ninety extremely rare examples of Indonesian textile work from the 15th Century through the 20th—some of it dating back as far as 1403.
