Events for July 8th, 2008
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Tuesday - July 8th
Events / Movie Event
The Phantom Tollbooth
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA - 5905 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
1 p.m.
In this Mel Blanc-animated film, a young boy named Milo stumbles across a fantasy world where numbers and letters are at war. Based, of course, upon Norton Juster's book.
Restaurants / Dining Event
Fifth Anniversary Tasting Menu @ Grace
Grace Restaurant - 7360 Beverly Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Grace celebrates five years with a five-course tasting menu from chef Neal Fraser. Starting May 6, the special menu will be available for the rest of 2008. It’s a greatest hits list of Grace’s finest: Dungeness crab salad with English peas, mint and meyer lemon...
Restaurants / American Contemporary
Tuesday Night Wine Bar
The Whisper Lounge - 189 The Grove Dr #F-90B - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Tuesday Night Wine Bar is a celebration of wines at discount prices. The Whisper Lounge, arguably the Grove’s most upscale restaurant, offers wine deals on Tuesday evenings along with live jazz. On offer are half-price bottles of wine from the restaurant’s cellar, three-ounce tastings...
Restaurants / American Contemporary
"Close to Home" at Grace
Grace Restaurant - 7360 Beverly Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Chef Neal Fraser’s endlessly popular restaurant Grace takes contemporary American fine dining to a blissful level. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings guests can enjoy many courses of Fraser’s most inspired cooking with his “Close to Home” tasting menu. The concept is that all the...
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 / 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 / Folk Crafts
Ironings - Mung Lar Lam
Craft and Folk Art Musuem - 5814 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
When does a laundry chore become performance art?
Events / Art
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA - 5905 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Photographs from Philip-Lorca diGarcia cover previous series such as "Hustler," "Streetwork," "Heads," and "Lucky 13." As one might imagine, his photos depict men and boys from the "wild side" that Lou Reed famously sang of. Like Gregory Crewdson, but on a more intimate scale, the photos assign a...
Events / Photography
Brian Finke - Flight Attendants
Stephen Cohen Gallery - 7358 Beverly Boulevard - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
For two years, Brain Finke "embedded" himself on airplanes traveling all over the world. His new photo exhibit (to celebrate the release of his corresponding photo book of the same name) documents the ladies of the sky—from Icelandair to Hooters Airlines. The opening reception will be held in...
Events / Paintings and Drawings
HK Zamani - Shelter From the Storm
Solway Jones - 5377 Wilshire Blvd - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
HK Zamani, otherwise known as Habib Kheradyar, presents variations on iconography and symbolic forms through a series of paintings, sculptures and video. Also be sure to check out his chrome-lathered renderings of Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome. June 14 - July 19Opening reception June 14, 6...
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