Events for July 5th, 2008
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Saturday - July 5th
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
Ten Years in Focus - The Artist and the Camera
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Drive - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
In keeping with their spring theme, "Ten Years of [fill in the blank]," the Getty unleashes a collection of photographic treasures from their vault. The results stray from the "realistic" images of, say, André Kertész or Graciela Iturbide, showing instead how a more "painterly" approach can...
Events / Art
August Sander - People of the Twentieth Century
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Drive - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
A commercial photographer with a portrait studio in a suburb of Cologne, August Sander set out to create an "atlas" of his fellow citizens. Starting in 1910, Sander photographed a social cross-section of the German people, filing away his images into seven groupings (farmers, skilled tradesmen,...
Events / Art
Bernd and Hilla Becher - Basic Forms
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Drive - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
A husband and wife team, Bernd and Hilla Becher have been photographing industrial architecture for almost 50 years (he died in 2007). Using a large-format camera, they've travelled through Western Europe and America capturing lonely, massive structures—often abandoned remnants of vanished...
Style / Apparel and Accessories
Just opened: Steven Alan - Brentwood
Steven Alan - Brentwood - 11677 San Vicente Blvd. No. 111 - Brentwood (Brentwood)
Plaid, stripes, chambray, oh my!
