Events for September 8th, 2008
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Monday - September 8th
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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Art
Marlene Dumas - Measuring Your Own Grave
Museum of Contemporary Art - MOCA - Grand Avenue - 250 South Grand Avenue - Los Angeles (Downtown)
With just over one hundred paintings and drawings, Marlene Duras's exhibit at MOCA is, at its simplest, a study of people through portraiture. Born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1953, Duras has spent more than 30 years distilling issues of race, family and (of course) personal identity into her...
Events / Art
The Age of Imagination - Japanese Art, 1615–1868
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA - 5905 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
A collection of Japanese art through the ages. Through September 14
Events / Art
A Garland of Melodies: Ragamala Paintings from India and Nepal
Norton Simon Museum of Art - 411 W. Colorado Blvd. - Pasadena
Indian and Nepalese ragamala paintings—pictorial 'translations' of melodies, either male or female—on display at the Norton Simon. Through Nov. 3
