Events for October 7th, 2008
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Tuesday - October 7th
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 / Museum Exhibit
Sun Xun - exhibition
Hammer Museum - 10899 Wilshire Blvd - Los Angeles (Westwood)
Chinese-born artist Sun Xun brings his series of metriculously-rendered animations to the Hammer Museum. July 11 - Oct. 12
Events / Museum Exhibit
Between Earth and Heaven - the architecture of John Lautner
Hammer Museum - 10899 Wilshire Blvd - Los Angeles (Westwood)
July 13 - Oct. 12: Architect John Lautner is single-handedly responsible for those space-age buildings in Los Angeles that made people stop and stare, dreamily imagining a future of sleek "Jetsons"-like proportions. The Hammer Museum takes a look back at six decades of his iconoclastic, often...
Events / Museum Exhibit
Tomma Abts - exhibition
Hammer Museum - 10899 Wilshire Blvd - Los Angeles (Westwood)
Small, severe, abstract paintings by German-born, London based artist Tomma Abts. July 27 - Nov. 9
Events / Art
The Marvel and Measure of Peru - Three Centuries of Visual History, 1550–1880
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Dr. - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
July 8 - Oct. 18: With an exhibition title that pole-vaults way over the bounds of brevity, it's fitting to keep this blurb short. Imagine an enormous vault in which lay the finer examples of artistic "reporting back" by the painters who came across the ocean with the Spanish conquistadors. An...
Events / Art
The Society of Dilettanti - Grecian Taste and Roman Spirit
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Dr. - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
Aug. 7 - Oct. 27: In 1734, a group of well-heeled Englishmen formed a private society based around the appreciation of art. Focusing on antiquities and archeology, while keeping a strict sense of aesthetic refinement (this means drinking), they called themselves the Society of Dilettanti (from the...
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!
