Events for October 8th, 2008
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Wednesday - October 8th
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 / 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
Mexican Calendar Girls
California Heritage Museum - 2612 Main Street - Santa Monica (Main Street)
More than 30 lithographic prints of Mexican calendar girls from the "Golden Era," 1930 - 1960. Keep an eye out for the corresponding book, "Mexican Calendar Girls" by Angela Villalba. A Cinco de Mayo reception for the exhibit will be May 5th, from 6 - 8 p.m.May 7 - Feb. 1, 2009
Events / Art
Lights! Camera! Glamour! - The Photography of George Hurrell
California Heritage Museum - 2612 Main Street - Santa Monica (Main Street)
Hurrell, a studio photographer for MGM, enjoyed a 60-year career that put him in the same room (camera in tow) with personalities from the Golden Age through to the '90s—Jean Harlow and Arnold Schwarzenegger snuggle up to Joan Collins and Clark Gable. Through June 29
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 / 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...
