Events for September 6th, 2008
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Saturday - September 6th
Events / Recreation Event
Naked at the Getty Scavenger Hunt
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Drive - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
4:30 p.m.
There's something that makes us feel a little sexy stepping into the quiet of a museum, blame all those statues of Grecian gods and portraits of busty Renaissance women. The Getty gets it. The museum is hosting an afternoon dedicated to nakedness, where teams of scavenger hunters will tackle...
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
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 / Cultural Center
All the Saints of the City of the Angels - J. Michael Walker
Autry National Center - 4700 Western Heritage Way - Los Angeles
J. Michael Walker traces the origins of Los Angeles through the Saints and the streets that bear their names.Feb. 29 - Sept. 7
Events / Museum Exhibit
All the Saints of the City of the Angels
Autry National Center - 4700 Western Heritage Way - Los Angeles
Tangible history and unlikely associations are revealed in All the Saints of the City of the Angels at the Autry National Center. Artist J. Michael Walker unlocks a treasure trove of voices amidst the saintly named city streets of Los Angeles, where stories carry metaphorical qualities, and...
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 / Science
Body Worlds 3
California Science Center - 700 State Drive - Los Angeles
Just in case you didn't know, the pseudo-notorious Body Worlds exhibit is back in its third incarnation—now with The Story of the Heart. Real live cadavers are used (in a process called plastination) to show us how all those muscles and tendons and things operate in such a harmonious fashion....
Events / Antique
The Hope Hygieia: Restoring a Statue’s History
The Getty Villa - 17985 Pacific Coast Highway - Pacific Palisades
The Roman marble stature of Hygieia, a goddess of health, has changed hands more times than that "Where's George" dollar bill. Found at Ostia in 1797, the sculpture was owned by British interior designer Thomas Hope, then by American newspaper tycoon extraordinaire William Randolph Hearst. In...
Events / Cultural Center
Cowboys and Presidents
Autry National Center - 4700 Western Heritage Way - Los Angeles
The Autry Museum presents a look back at the history of the free-swinging cowboy propaganda that's helped elect more than one Commander in Chief. April 12 - Sept. 7
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
