The FOWLER MUSEUM: Reflecting Culture
2022-08-18 12:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Fowler Museum at UCLA, 308 Charles E Young Dr N,, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
ON PERMANENT DISPLAY- Westwood Village, UCLA
UCLA Fowler Museum presents

Reflecting Culture: The Francis E. Cowler, Jr. Collection of Silver

Comprising 251 objects representing 16th through 19th century Europe, Great Britain, and the United States, this exhibition interprets silver in its social contexts. Gleaming vessels from renowned workshops—such as those of British silversmith Paul de Lamerie (c.1800), Russian jeweler Karl Fabergé (c.1900), and American patriot silversmith Paul Revere (c.1760)—highlight important styles and techniques.

308 Charles E. Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA 90024

FREE EVERY DAY! @ UCLA
The Fowler Museum at UCLA explores global arts and cultures with an emphasis on works from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas—past, and present. The Fowler enhances understanding and appreciation of the diverse peoples, cultures, and religions of the world through dynamic exhibitions, publications, and public programs, informed by interdisciplinary approaches and the perspectives of the cultures represented.
Also featured is the work of international contemporary artists presented within the complex frameworks of politics, culture, and social action.
Fowler Museum at UCLA provides exciting, informative, and thought-provoking exhibitions and events for the UCLA community and the people of greater Los Angeles and beyond.

﻿

Areas of the Collection

ARTS OF AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

One of the largest and finest in the United States, and one of the top twenty African collections worldwide, this collection offers a superb representation of the arts of many African nations, including objects from Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), Kenya, Zambia, and South Africa. The Yoruba collection alone is one of the three finest in the world. It contains a spectacular array of beaded objects, including a majestic throne, elaborate chiefly gowns and sophisticated divination regalia.
A collection of post-apartheid election materials and contemporary South African art is being developed, as are a number of collections of popular urban arts from countries including Tanzania and Muslim Senegal. Recently, more than 400 textiles made by the Kuba peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo were gifted by the Christensen Foundation.
The collection represents some of the finest examples of men’s embroidered raffia pile cloths and women’s appliqué cloths. This collection complements already significant holdings of West African textiles from countries such as Mali and Ghana, including kente and adinkra cloth and Asafo flags. The museum also has significant holdings of arts from the African Americas, and notable arts from Haitian Vodou, Brazil, and Suriname.

ARTS OF THE AMERICAS

These holdings include a comprehensive collection of pre-Columbian ceramics with the best representations from West Mexico, the Valley of Mexico, and pre-Columbian Peru (with special strengths in the art of the Moche). The Fowler also possesses a cohesive collection of Guatemalan costumes; an extensive collection of Mexican clothing; textiles of Peru; and a comprehensive representation of field-collected market materials from Michoacan, Mexico. Complementing the pre-Columbian collections are field collections of the Warao and Yecuana Indians of the Orinoco Delta of Venezuela and contemporary Latin American popular arts including Mexican trees of life, Day of the Dead figures, and masks from Metepec, Oaxaca, Michoacan, Jalisco, Puebla, and Guanajuato.
Native American materials from the U.S. and Canada are a small but significant part of the collection. Materials from the United States and Canada include well-known Northwest Coast material, as well as a notable cross-section of late nineteenth-century Inuit art and material culture.

ARTS OF ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

The Fowler Museum at UCLA collections from Insular Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and aboriginal Taiwan, are among the strongest in the United States. The Indonesian and Philippine textiles reinforce the Fowler Museum’s standing as a major repository for the textile arts. Also included are significant collections of sculptural material from Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, and Luzon, puppetry from Java and Bali, basketry from Indonesia and the Philippines, and metalwork from the Philippines. The primary strength of the Pacific collections lies in materials from Papua New Guinea, especially the Papuan Gulf, Trobriand Islands, Sepik River, and Maprik region. Australia and Polynesia are also represented by sizeable collections, including 45 rare Maori cloaks.
The collections from mainland Asia are smaller but growing rapidly, due to current collecting priorities. A collection of betel-chewing paraphernalia, representing several countries in South and Southeast Asia, is considered one of the finest in the world. Other holdings include textiles from Bhutan, Pakistan, India, and Japan, baskets and decorative arts from Japan, puppetry from China, Thailand, India, and Turkey, and art and artifacts from Nepal.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS

The Fowler Museum at UCLA also serves as a repository for archaeological collections acquired during research conducted by UCLA faculty, staff, students, and other professional archaeologists. Documentation of the collections includes artifact catalogs, excavation notes, maps, and photographs. These collections serve primarily as an archive for teaching and research. The Museum is compliant with guidelines mandated by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and has been signaled out by the State of California for its exemplary efforts.
Archaeological collection areas include:
California
Collections from approximately 1100 sites, mostly in Southern California.
Southwest
Significant collections from the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition of 1933-1938 and several Parowan Fremont sites in Utah were excavated in the 1950s, and other Anasazi and Hohokam sites.
Mexico
Includes objects from 218 sites, mostly in western and central Mexico.
Sudan
The Nubian/Egyptian fortress site at Askut is the source of approximately 60,000 artifacts excavated by UCLA archaeologist Alexander Badawy in conjunction with the Aswan High Dam Salvage Campaign, 1962-1964.
Old World stone tool collection
Includes tools from Europe and the Middle East.

MUSEUM HOURS

Admission is FREE
Monday – Tuesday: closed
Wednesday – Sunday: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

For additional information, visit the website @
fowler.ucla.edu

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Learn How To Meditate
2022-08-18 12:30 - 13:00 | ZOOM, CA
EVERY THURSDAY 12:30–1:00PM- Online via ZOOM.

Would you like to learn how to meditate? Join the Hammer Museum each Thursday for Mindful Awareness Meditation Online. Mindfulness Meditation is the moment-by-moment process of actively and openly observing one’s physical, mental, and emotional experiences. Mindfulness has scientific support as a means to reduce stress, improve attention, boost the immune system, reduce emotional reactivity, and promote a general sense of health and well-being. These half hour weekly sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently in life. No special clothing is required, and participants are welcome to join for five minutes or enjoy the entire 30 minutes.

These free weekly drop-in sessions usually take place in the Hammer’s Billy Wilder Theater but are now offered live online via Zoom.
Mindful Awareness Meditation is provided by UCLA & The Hammer Museum

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Sessions are led by Diana Winston and other instructors from the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. Visit www.marc.ucla.edu to learn more about the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center.
Winston has been practicing mindfulness meditation for more than 20 years, and when she began it was fairly unknown in this country. But today secular mindfulness meditation is taught to executives, war veterans and schoolchildren; it is used in prisons and hospitals, and is written about in women’s magazines.

ATTENDING THIS PROGRAM?
Learn How to Meditate live: RSVP to receive an email reminder on the day of the Mindful Awareness Meditation program with the link to tune in. The link to join will also be posted here 2 hours before the program starts. This program will not be recorded.
Help with Zoom: This program will be held on the Zoom platform. Visit zoom.us/test to join a test meeting, then follow the instructions to test your video and audio. If you have never used Zoom before, you will be prompted to download the Zoom app or join from your browser. Zoom works best on the Chrome browser.
Having trouble? Contact our visitor experience team at 310-443-7000.

RSVP for Mindful Awareness
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She starts by asking people to notice their breathing as they work toward “paying attention to present moment experiences with openness, curiosity and a willingness to be with what is.”

Can’t do this online class? Try the UCLA Mindfulness FREE APP and learn how to meditate anytime.
With this easy-to-use app, you can practice mindfulness meditation anywhere, anytime with the guidance of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. Scientific research shows mindfulness can help manage stress-related physical conditions, reduce anxiety and depression, cultivate positive emotions, and help improve overall physical health and well-being.

For additional information, visit the website @
https://hammer.ucla.edu

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Santa Monica History Museum
2022-08-18 15:00 - 20:00 | Santa Monica History Museum, 1350 7th Street, Santa Monica, CA, 90401, United States
OPEN THURSDAY – SUNDAY- Santa Monica
The Santa Monica History Museum was founded under the “Historical Activities Committee” of Santa Monica’s Centennial Celebration in 1975 and by a public poll, with their goal to collect, preserve, and be the caretaker of history. Its name at that time was the Santa Monica Historical Society and it was designated as the official collector and preserver of the history, art, and culture of the Santa Monica Bay Area. Former Mayor Clo Hoover, the first woman mayor of Santa Monica, was elected the first president.

The museum, one of the largest in the country for a city the size of Santa Monica, has grown far beyond expectations with an expansive collection of artifacts, photographs, and memorabilia. Thousands of hours have been dedicated to public education and museum services.

With the help of Louise and Bob Gabriel who had been active in the community for years and had a strong love for Santa Monica and its history took on the responsibility to make the museum a reality. Within three years, with determination, perseverance, and countless hours of work, Bob headed the fundraising committee and raised the necessary funds. Louise was able to get all the furnishings for the museum donated by companies that were going out of business. Bob found a temporary rent‐free location on Colorado Avenue.

Our Mission
The Santa Monica History Museum’s mission is to collect, preserve and share the history and culture of Santa Monica for generations to come.

Our Vision
The Santa Monica History Museum is the steward of the rich history of the Santa Monica Bay area. We are committed to enriching our community by providing public access to our extensive collection with interpretive exhibitions, public programs, community partnerships, and through archival and research services.

CURRENT EXHIBITION FROM APRIL 1 – DECEMBER 23, 2022
Broadway to Freeway:
Life and Times of a Vibrant Community

In the mid-20th century, the Broadway neighborhood was a thriving, tight-knit community in Santa Monica. Built by African American, Mexican American, and immigrant communities, the Broadway neighborhood was a haven for those who were excluded from other parts of the city by racist and anti-immigrant policies and practices.
This exhibition tells the story of how residents built Broadway into a flourishing community of color – and how the Interstate 10 freeway destroyed it in the 1960s. The vibrant lives of pioneering individuals – like the first African American teacher and social worker hired in Santa Monica – are knitted into the neighborhood they built together. The community populated Broadway with welcoming schools, homes, and businesses – from beauty parlors and jazz clubs, to the malt shop, tortilleria, and Jewish deli.

Featuring period photographs, advertisements, oral histories, and songs, the exhibition draws on the wealth of archival material collected by the Quinn Research Center, which is dedicated to preserving the history of African American life in Santa Monica.
Today, little evidence remains of the community on the blocks between 13th Street and 20th Street, once the heart of the Broadway neighborhood. Though physically erased, Broadway lives on in the stories that are preserved and shared to illuminate past inequities and spotlight the inspirational individuals who created a center of social and civic life on their own terms.

Admissions

General – $5.00
Seniors & Students – $5.00
Children under 12 – Free
Museum members – Free
Veterans & Active-duty military – Free

Hours
Monday – Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: 3:00pm – 8:00pm
Friday – Sunday: 11:00am – 5:00pm
Museum Holiday Hours
We are closed in observance of the following holidays: New Year’s Day, President’s Day, Easter, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and the day after, Christmas

For additional information, visit the website @
santamonicahistory.org

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The Museum of Contemporary Art
2022-08-18 17:00 - 20:00 | MOCA- Museum Of Contemporary Art, 250 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
ONE MUSEUM. TWO LOCATIONS- Free Every Thursday

Welcome to The Museum of Contemporary Art. With two distinct venues—MOCA Grand Avenue and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA—and Michael Heizer’s seminal artwork Double Negative (1969-70) in the Nevada desert, we engage audiences through an ambitious program of exhibitions, educational programs, and publishing.

Welcome to The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

We are contemporary.
We question and adapt to the changing definitions of art.

We are a museum.
We present, collect, and interpret the art of our time.

We care
for the experience of art, the inevitability of change, the multiplicity of perspectives, the urgency of contemporary expression.

With 2 distinct venues in Los Angeles

MOCA Grand Avenue
250 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Architect Arata Isozaki designed MOCA Grand Avenue in 1986 with classical architecture and Los Angeles popular culture in mind. Today this location hosts the museum’s main galleries, Lemonade café, the flagship location of the MOCA Store, and staff offices.
more info at: Grand Ave

250 S Grand Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90012

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The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
A former police car warehouse in L.A.’s Little Tokyo Historic District, renovated by the noted California architect Frank Gehry, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (formerly The Temporary Contemporary) opened in 1983. This location offers 40,000 square feet of exhibition space.
more info at: Geffen

and Michael Heizer’s seminal artwork Double Negative (1969-70) in the Nevada desert,
Overton Airport- Mormon Mesa, Overton, Nevada (80 miles from Las Vegas)
1110 Airport Road
Overton, NV 89040
Double Negative was constructed by Michael Heizer in the Nevada desert in 1969 and remains one of the few still extant examples of what are commonly referred to as earthworks, land art, or environmental sculpture. The land art movement first appeared in the late 1960s and served to challenge the location, material, size, and temporal existence of a work of art. Double Negative consists of two long straight trenches, 30 feet wide and 50 feet deep, cut into the “tabletop” of Mormon Mesa, displacing 240,000 tons of desert sandstone. The cuts face each other across an indentation in the plateaus’ scalloped perimeter, forming a continuous image, a thick linear volume that bridges and combines the “negative” space between them.
more info at: Double Negative

Admission to Double Negative by artist Michael Heizer is always free.

Hours
Monday: 11:00 a.m.-6:00p.m.
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 11:00 a.m.-6:00p.m.
Thursday: 11:00 a.m.-8:00p.m.
Friday: 11:00 a.m.-6:00p.m.
Saturday – Sunday: 11:00 a.m.-5:00p.m.

General Admission: Free
Special exhibitions: $18
Members: Free
Children under 12: Free
Seniors and students: $10
Special exhibitions are free every Thursday, 5-8pm.

For additional information, visit the website @
www.moca.org

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The FOWLER MUSEUM: Intersections
2022-08-19 12:00 - 17:00 | Fowler Museum at UCLA, 308 Charles E Young Dr N,, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
ONGOING EXHIBIT- Westwood Village, UCLA
UCLA Fowler Museum presents

Intersections: World Arts, Local Lives

The Fowler’s permanent collection exhibition, Intersections: World Arts, Local Lives explores how arts from cultures in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas conceptually intersect with each other.
Most of this gallery is currently closed as we update the existing installation and contend with the lasting impact of violent colonial histories on museum collecting, interpretation, and display. While we undertake this work, we invite you to experience a portion of Intersections: Art and Transformation, which explores how objects intervene in the lives of those who make or use them—whether to heal through meditation and prayer; help with the transition to the afterlife; or communicate social, political, and cultural changes.

308 Charles E. Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA 90024

FREE EVERY DAY! @ UCLA
The Fowler Museum at UCLA explores global arts and cultures with an emphasis on works from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas—past, and present. The Fowler enhances understanding and appreciation of the diverse peoples, cultures, and religions of the world through dynamic exhibitions, publications, and public programs, informed by interdisciplinary approaches and the perspectives of the cultures represented.
Also featured is the work of international contemporary artists presented within the complex frameworks of politics, culture, and social action.
Fowler Museum at UCLA provides exciting, informative, and thought-provoking exhibitions and events for the UCLA community and the people of greater Los Angeles and beyond.

﻿

Areas of the Collection

ARTS OF AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

One of the largest and finest in the United States, and one of the top twenty African collections worldwide, this collection offers a superb representation of the arts of many African nations, including objects from Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), Kenya, Zambia, and South Africa. The Yoruba collection alone is one of the three finest in the world. It contains a spectacular array of beaded objects, including a majestic throne, elaborate chiefly gowns and sophisticated divination regalia.
A collection of post-apartheid election materials and contemporary South African art is being developed, as are a number of collections of popular urban arts from countries including Tanzania and Muslim Senegal. Recently, more than 400 textiles made by the Kuba peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo were gifted by the Christensen Foundation.
The collection represents some of the finest examples of men’s embroidered raffia pile cloths and women’s appliqué cloths. This collection complements already significant holdings of West African textiles from countries such as Mali and Ghana, including kente and adinkra cloth and Asafo flags. The museum also has significant holdings of arts from the African Americas, and notable arts from Haitian Vodou, Brazil, and Suriname.

ARTS OF THE AMERICAS

These holdings include a comprehensive collection of pre-Columbian ceramics with the best representations from West Mexico, the Valley of Mexico, and pre-Columbian Peru (with special strengths in the art of the Moche). The Fowler also possesses a cohesive collection of Guatemalan costumes; an extensive collection of Mexican clothing; textiles of Peru; and a comprehensive representation of field-collected market materials from Michoacan, Mexico. Complementing the pre-Columbian collections are field collections of the Warao and Yecuana Indians of the Orinoco Delta of Venezuela and contemporary Latin American popular arts including Mexican trees of life, Day of the Dead figures, and masks from Metepec, Oaxaca, Michoacan, Jalisco, Puebla, and Guanajuato.
Native American materials from the U.S. and Canada are a small but significant part of the collection. Materials from the United States and Canada include well-known Northwest Coast material, as well as a notable cross section of late nineteenth-century Inuit art and material culture.

ARTS OF ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

The Fowler Museum at UCLA collections from Insular Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and aboriginal Taiwan, are among the strongest in the United States. The Indonesian and Philippine textiles reinforce the Fowler Museum’s standing as a major repository for the textile arts. Also included are significant collections of sculptural material from Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, and Luzon, puppetry from Java and Bali, basketry from Indonesia and the Philippines, and metalwork from the Philippines. The primary strength of the Pacific collections lies in materials from Papua New Guinea, especially the Papuan Gulf, Trobriand Islands, Sepik River, and Maprik region. Australia and Polynesia are also represented by sizeable collections, including 45 rare Maori cloaks.
The collections from mainland Asia are smaller but growing rapidly, due to current collecting priorities. A collection of betel-chewing paraphernalia, representing several countries in South and Southeast Asia, is considered one of the finest in the world. Other holdings include textiles from Bhutan, Pakistan, India, and Japan, baskets and decorative arts from Japan, puppetry from China, Thailand, India, and Turkey, and art and artifacts from Nepal.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS

The Fowler Museum at UCLA also serves as a repository for archaeological collections acquired during research conducted by UCLA faculty, staff, students, and other professional archaeologists. Documentation of the collections includes artifact catalogs, excavation notes, maps, and photographs. These collections serve primarily as an archive for teaching and research. The Museum is compliant with guidelines mandated by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and has been signaled out by the State of California for its exemplary efforts.
Archaeological collection areas include:
California
Collections from approximately 1100 sites, mostly in Southern California.
Southwest
Significant collections from the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition of 1933-1938 and several Parowan Fremont sites in Utah were excavated in the 1950s, and other Anasazi and Hohokam sites.
Mexico
Includes objects from 218 sites, mostly in western and central Mexico.
Sudan
The Nubian/Egyptian fortress site at Askut is the source of approximately 60,000 artifacts excavated by UCLA archaeologist Alexander Badawy in conjunction with the Aswan High Dam Salvage Campaign, 1962-1964.
Old World stone tool collection
Includes tools from Europe and the Middle East.

MUSEUM HOURS

Admission is FREE
Monday – Tuesday: closed
Wednesday – Sunday: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

For additional information, visit the website @
fowler.ucla.edu

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Griffith Observatory
2022-08-19 12:00 - 22:00 | Griffith Observatory, 2800 East Observatory Road, Los Angeles, CA, 90027, United States
NOW OPEN FRIDAY – SUNDAY- Griffith Park
Griffith Observatory is a free-admission facility located on the south side of Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park. The building and grounds are accessible for all visitors. The building is busiest on weekends, during summer and holiday periods, and at sunset.

Griffith Observatory’s grounds and roads are generally open the same hours as Griffith Park, 5:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., every day. Access to Griffith Park is free, though there is paid parking closest to the Observatory. There are public restrooms located next to the Observatory parking lot. Trailheads on Observatory grounds lead to Mount Hollywood, the Greek Theatre area, and Fern Dell.

Daily Programs

Samuel Oschin Planetarium

Our most prominent daily programs are the shows in the Samuel Oschin Planetarium, With its spectacular Zeiss star projector, digital projection system, state-of-the-art aluminum dome, comfy seats, sound system, and theatrical lighting, the 290-seat Samuel Oschin Planetarium theater is the finest planetarium in the world. Every show is presented by a live, engaging storyteller, and one of our three current shows is offered every 60 to 90 minutes each day the Observatory is open.

Public Telescopes
the Observatory offers many other stellar experiences while you visit. During the day, you can see the live image of the Sun on our coelostat (solar telescope) in the Ahmanson Hall of the Sky. Each evening, there are free public telescopes on the roof and lawn for you to observe the night sky.

Leonard Nimoy narrates The Once and Future Griffith Observatory movie profiling the Observatory’s history, renovation, and current offerings. You can join our staff for talks about local noon, the Tesla Coil,and The Big Picture, or just walk through the exhibit galleries.

Don’t forget to take in the views of Los Angeles, get a bite to eat in the Café at the End of the Universe, or buy a souvenir at the Stellar Emporium. That’s a busy day!

Closed Monday – Thursday
Weekday (Friday) Hours
Open 12:00 noon – 10:00 p.m.
Weekend (Saturday – Sunday) Hours
Open 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Hours
Monday-Thursday: Closed
Friday: 12:00pm – 10:00pm
Saturday & Sunday: 11:00am – 10:00pm

For additional information, visit the website @
https://griffithobservatory.org/

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Odd Night at the Autry Museum
2022-08-19 17:00 - 22:00 | Autry Museum of the American West, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA, 0027-1462, United States
EVERY THIRD THURSDAY- Autry Museum

Join us monthly at the Autry Museum to enjoy an evening al fresco at the Odd Market, an “indie” bazaar with food trucks, live music, and the coolest SoCal vendors for crafts, vintage items, home goods, and oddities. Select museum galleries will be open from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
For a list of vendors and other event updates, visit TheOddMarket.com.

We are over the moon to announce this one. After a 2 year covid induced sabbatical, we are coming back with Odd Nights at The Autry for our 7th season. For those that have enjoyed Odd Nights in the past, we are excited to see you again with new sellers, new food trucks, and some new additions, such as these cool picnic tables to rent and we have a couple food vendors that are looking at pre-selling charcuterie boards and other specialty items.
Those of you have never experienced Odd Nights, you are in for a treat! Odd Nights is the hidden gem of events located at the Autry Museum which is directly across from the LA Zoo. You can park at either the Autry or the LA Zoo for free.

Admission is only $5. Kids under 12 are free.
Bring a blanket, your appetite and arrive early and stay late every third Friday from 6pm – 10PM. Odd Nights at The Autry runs April through September.

Don’t forget our live music lineup, full bar and insane inflatables. Odd Nights is perfect for the entire family.

Hours
EVERY THIRD FRIDAY: 6:00pm – 10:00pm

For additional information, visit the website @
theautry.org/events

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Hammer Museum Free Screening Gender Adventures
2022-08-19 19:30 - 21:00 | Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
TONIGHT- The Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum and the UCLA Film & Television Archive present a free screening of

Gender Adventures
FRI AUG 19, 7:30 PM

Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive series Cinema’s First Nasty Women. Register at cinema.ucla.edu to attend this in-theater screening.

From the Old West to the (now not so) distant future, women take center stage and drive the action in this program of adventures.

THE RED GIRL AND THE CHILD

U.S., 1910
DCP, b&w, silent, 17 min.

THE GIRL SPY BEFORE VICKSBURG

U.S., 1910
DCP, b&w, silent, 15 min.

A RANGE ROMANCE

U.S., 1911
DCP, b&w, silent, 13 min.

THE NIGHT RIDER

U.S. 1920
DCP, b&w, silent, 25 min.

WHAT’S THE WORLD COMING TO?

U.S., 1926
DCP, b&w, silent, 23 min.

ATTENDING THIS PROGRAM?
Ticketing: Admission to Archive screenings at the Hammer is free. Registration is required via the Film & Television Archive website, and tickets must be picked up at the box office. Hammer members receive priority ticketing until 15 minutes before showtime. Please review the Archive’s ticketing policy and COVID-19 admission policy. Questions should be directed to the Archive at programming@cinema.ucla.edu or 310-206-8013.
Parking: Parking is available under the museum. Rates are $7 for the first three hours with museum validation, and $3 for each additional 20 minutes, with a $20 daily maximum. There is a $7 flat rate after 6 p.m. on weekdays, and all day on weekends.

10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

The Billy Wilder Theater, home of UCLA Film & Television Archive’s public programs, is among a handful of venues nationwide able to exhibit an entire century’s worth of moving images in their original formats. From the earliest silent films requiring variable speed projection all the way up to cutting-edge digital cinema, the Wilder can accommodate an array of screen technologies.

The theater’s modern design by Michael Maltzan Architecture stylishly interprets cinema’s play of light and movement in real space, and the 285-seat interior features comfortable leather seats with superb sightlines. The theater is made possible by a generous gift from Audrey L. Wilder and named in honor of Mrs. Wilder’s late husband, the legendary screenwriter, director and producer. Born on the outskirts of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Billy Wilder fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s to become a master of Hollywood film language and a shrewd comic observer of the American scene. Among the many classics Wilder co-wrote and directed were Double Indemnity (1944), Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Some Like It Hot (1959).

Please note that food is not permitted inside the theater. There are dining options in the surrounding Westwood Village. You may also opt to bring your own food and eat in the courtyard just outside the theater.

The Hammer Museum champions the art and artists who challenge us to see the world in a new light, to experience the unexpected, to ignite our imaginations, and inspire change.
The Hammer understands that art not only has the power to transport us through aesthetic experience but can also provide significant insight into some of the most pressing cultural, political, and social questions of our time. We share the unique and invaluable perspectives that artists have on the world around us.
A vibrant intellectual and creative nexus, the Hammer is fueled by dynamic exhibitions and programs—including lectures, symposia, film series, readings, and musical performances—that spark meaningful encounters with art and ideas.
And through our unwavering commitment to free admission and free public programs, the Hammer Museum is open for all and FREE FOR GOOD.

Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday – Sunday: 11:00am – 6:00pm

For additional information, visit the website @
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/calendar

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PLAY @ ESMoA
2022-08-20 10:00 - 11:00 | ESMOA, 208 Main Street, El Segundo, CA, 90245, United States
SATURDAY – El Segundo
Have your kids get a start-up at art! PLAY @ ESMoA, our early childhood program designed for 3-5 year olds and their favorite adult companion. Join us once a month and explore Experience 51: TIME with artist and teacher Natalie Strong. PLAY @ ESMoA will introduce the youngest visitor to art through age-appropriate short stories, gallery play activities, and an art activity.
Class size is limited to 10 children. Siblings of all ages welcome! Reserve your spot by sending and email to rsvp@artlab21.org with PLAY in the subject line.

208 Main Street, El Segundo, California 90245

ESMoA is an art laboratory located in El Segundo, California and it is run by artlab21 Foundation, a public non profit organization funded 100% by donations.
Our mission is to Spread the Spark of Creativity with a focus on experimental exhibitions, community engagement, and arts education. ESMoA functions as a catalyst for creative thinking and recalibrates rules of understanding, knowing, and doing through the arts.

REOPENING INFORMATION
ESMoA is pleased to announce that following the updated guidelines of June 15, we have reopened at full capacity and ticket reservations are no longer needed. Drop by during our open hours!
ESMoA is committed to maintaining a safe environment for all visitors, therefore the following safety guidelines are still in effect when visiting ESMoA:

Stay home if you feel sick or you have been in contact with someone who has COVID-19 or COVID-19 symptoms in the last 10 days.
To protect vulnerable community members, please wear a mask during your visit.
Public programs will remain online. Some hybrid options will be announced for specific programs. Please check our Calendar section for more information.

Admission to ESMoA is FREE.
TOURS
During open hours an Educator will be available to discuss the artworks and answer questions you may have. Schools and groups of 10 people or more can book private tours upon appointment.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Cameras. Still photography is permitted in ESMoA for private, non-commercial use. The use of flash photography and/or tripods is prohibited at all times. For inquiries related to press or commercial filming/ photography opportunities at ESMoA, please contact esmoa@artlab21.org
Photography/Video Policy. As a visitor to ESMoA, you hereby grant to ESMoA the irrevocable and unrestricted right to use and publish photographs or video of you for ESMoA publications, electronic reproductions (websites, social media) and/or promotional materials or any other purpose and in any manner or medium. In addition, you grant permission to alter the same without restriction: and to copyright the same.
You further acknowledge that by entering the property of ESMoA that your participation is voluntary and you will not receive financial compensation of any type associated with the taking or publication of photographs and or videos or participation in company marketing materials or other publications. You acknowledge and agree that publication of said photos and or videos confers no rights of ownership or royalties whatsoever.
You hereby release ESMoA, its contractors, its employees, and any third parties involved in the creation or publication of marketing materials, from liability for any claims by you or any third party in connection with your participation.
Food and drinks. Food and drink are not allowed in ESMoA.
Pets. Pets are not allowed, only animals defined by the ADA as Service Animals are allowed into ESMoA.
Sketching. Sketching is permitted in the ESMoA gallery. You may write down notes or sketch in the gallery, using dry media approved by ESMoA staff. Please refrain from leaning against walls or glass cases while sketching.
Hours
Monday – Wednesday – Sunday: Closed
Thursday: 12:00pm – 5:00pm
Friday – Saturday: 10:00am – 5:00pm
For additional information, visit the website @
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Experience 51: TIME @ ESMOA
2022-08-20 10:00 - 17:00 | ESMOA, 208 Main Street, El Segundo, CA, 90245, United States
NOW EXHIBITING – El Segundo Museum of Art
Experience 51: TIME, a project by artist and production designer Rick Carter, is an immersive collage that contemplates the concept of time. The exhibition features paintings, drawings, and collages by Carter along with photographs, movie memorabilia, and additional works by eight other artists who were invited to participate.
TIME envelops visitors in floor-to-ceiling layered imagery that extends 25 feet high and includes portraits by Carter hung from above on thirteen, four-sided displays; ​​preliminary sketches and collages from his many production designs; and props and memorabilia including a park bench from which Forrest Gump narrated his life story.
ON DISPLAY UNTIL March 25, 2023

Carter, a longtime painter, is a two-time Academy Award®-winning production designer acclaimed for his work with directors including Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, James Cameron, and J.J. Abrams. Often he has envisioned designs that convey notions of time itself, including for the blockbuster films A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Amistad, Avatar, Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, Jurassic Park, Lincoln, and Star Wars.

Featured as well in our TIME exhibition are pieces inspired by our visit to the Getty Research Institute with David Brafman. As curator of rare books for The Getty, David was able to show our TIME artist collective books that express aspects of time—whether through their content or format.

208 Main Street, El Segundo, California 90245

ESMoA is an art laboratory located in El Segundo, California and it is run by artlab21 Foundation, a public non profit organization funded 100% by donations.
Our mission is to Spread the Spark of Creativity with a focus on experimental exhibitions, community engagement, and arts education. ESMoA functions as a catalyst for creative thinking and recalibrates rules of understanding, knowing, and doing through the arts.

REOPENING INFORMATION
ESMoA is pleased to announce that following the updated guidelines of June 15, we have reopened at full capacity and ticket reservations are no longer needed. Drop by during our open hours!
ESMoA is committed to maintaining a safe environment for all visitors, therefore the following safety guidelines are still in effect when visiting ESMoA:

Stay home if you feel sick or you have been in contact with someone who has COVID-19 or COVID-19 symptoms in the last 10 days.
To protect vulnerable community members, please wear a mask during your visit.
Public programs will remain online. Some hybrid options will be announced for specific programs. Please check our Calendar section for more information.

Admission to ESMoA is FREE.
TOURS
During open hours an Educator will be available to discuss the artworks and answer questions you may have. Schools and groups of 10 people or more can book private tours upon appointment.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Cameras. Still photography is permitted in ESMoA for private, non-commercial use. The use of flash photography and/or tripods is prohibited at all times. For inquiries related to press or commercial filming/ photography opportunities at ESMoA, please contact esmoa@artlab21.org
Photography/Video Policy. As a visitor to ESMoA, you hereby grant to ESMoA the irrevocable and unrestricted right to use and publish photographs or video of you for ESMoA publications, electronic reproductions (websites, social media) and/or promotional materials or any other purpose and in any manner or medium. In addition, you grant permission to alter the same without restriction: and to copyright the same.
You further acknowledge that by entering the property of ESMoA that your participation is voluntary and you will not receive financial compensation of any type associated with the taking or publication of photographs and or videos or participation in company marketing materials or other publications. You acknowledge and agree that publication of said photos and or videos confers no rights of ownership or royalties whatsoever.
You hereby release ESMoA, its contractors, its employees, and any third parties involved in the creation or publication of marketing materials, from liability for any claims by you or any third party in connection with your participation.
Food and drinks. Food and drink are not allowed in ESMoA.
Pets. Pets are not allowed, only animals defined by the ADA as Service Animals are allowed into ESMoA.
Sketching. Sketching is permitted in the ESMoA gallery. You may write down notes or sketch in the gallery, using dry media approved by ESMoA staff. Please refrain from leaning against walls or glass cases while sketching.
Hours
Sunday – Wednesday – : Closed
Thursday: 12:00am – 5:00pm
Friday – Saturday: 10:00am – 5:00pm

For additional information, visit the website @
esmoa.org/experience/time

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The Broad Museum
2022-08-20 11:00 - 17:00 | The Broad, 221 South Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
FREE TUE – SUN- Bunker Hill, DTLA

The Broad Museum presents An in-depth installation of Andy Warhol, opening May 26, 2021, features 26 works (11 on view for the first time at The Broad), including Mao (1973), 40 Gold Marilyns (1980), and a major new acquisition, Liz [Early Colored Liz] (1963).
Liz [Early Colored Liz] is a celebrated work featuring a silkscreened image of Elizabeth Taylor, who represented both celebrity and beauty as well as tragedy for the artist.
An outcome of sustained and ongoing engagement with artists and artwork, the Broad collection is distinctive in its exceptional dedication to the full arc of artists’ careers. The Broad has highlighted this depth through expansive presentations in the third floor galleries, featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, and Christopher Wool, along with works by many others.

Highlighted Artwork

40 Gold Marilyns

Andy Warhol

1980

silkscreen ink and synthetic polymer paint on canvas

80 x 111 in. (203.2 x 281.94 cm)

Mao

Andy Warhol

1973

acrylic, clear acrylic medium, and silkscreen ink on linen

26 x 22 in. (66.04 x 55.88 cm)

The Kiss (Bela Lugosi)

Andy Warhol

1963

screenprint on paper

30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)

Campbell’s Soup Can (Clam Chowder – Manhattan Style) [Ferus Type]

Andy Warhol

1962

casein and pencil on linen

20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)

221 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
The Broad makes its collection of contemporary art from the 1950s to the present accessible to the widest possible audience by presenting exhibitions and operating a lending program to art museums and galleries worldwide.
By actively building a dynamic collection that features in-depth representations of influential contemporary artists and by advancing education and engagement through exhibitions and diverse public programming, the museum enriches, provokes, inspires, and fosters appreciation of art of our time.

The Broad was founded by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler, the museum offers free general admission and presents an active program of rotating temporary exhibitions and innovative audience engagement. The Broad is home to 2,000 works of art in the Broad collection, which is one of the world’s leading collections of postwar and contemporary art.

The Broad from Home
The Broad is committed to inspiring and fostering an appreciation of contemporary art through our digital initiatives. Experience #TheBroadFromHome to find inspiration through music, poetry, performance, workshops, and conversations centered around the Broad collection.
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The Broad Collection
Eli and Edythe Broad have been building their collection of postwar and contemporary art over the last 50 years. With a belief that the greatest art collections are built when the art is being made, the Broads took to collecting art of their own time.
The Broad is home to 2,000 works in the Broad collection by more than 200 artists, and is one of the world’s leading collections of postwar and contemporary art. The collection features in-depth holdings of influential contemporary artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mark Bradford, Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Yayoi Kusama, Kerry James Marshall, Julie Mehretu, Takashi Murakami, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, and more, plus an ever-growing representation of younger artists.

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In Under the Table, 1994, the viewer is both in the world of imaginary giants and in the world of remembered childhood. Fusing Alice in Wonderland with the Duchampian tradition of the readymade, Artist Robert Therrien constructs a doppelganger from an everyday object, both displaying his visual wit and actualizing literary or imaginative fantasy in three-dimensional space. The table exudes an extraordinary aura, compelling one to walk underneath the table and conjuring the physical memory of being under the table of one’s childhood home. Complicated and powerful, the work offers fresh ideas of what a table, sculpture, and memory can mean.

Using the recognizable form of a balloon twisted into the shape of a dog, Koons has frozen a moment in time, exaggerating both scale and material.
Balloon Dog (Blue) is literal and abstract. When standing close to it, one’s own distorted reflection bends around smooth pert curves.

General Admission is Free
All visitors must reserve timed tickets in advance. Some exhibitions and events carry a separate charge.

Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday – Wednesday: 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Thursday – Friday: 11:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.
Saturday: 10:00 a.m.-8:00p.m.
Sunday: 10:00 a.m.-6:00p.m.

For additional information, visit the website @
www.thebroad.org

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FOWLER MUSEUM: How Do You See This World?
2022-08-20 12:00 - 17:00 | Fowler Museum at UCLA, 308 Charles E Young Dr N,, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
NOW AND EXTENDED THROUGH NOVEMBER 20- Westwood Village, UCLA
The Fowler Museum at UCLA presents
‘How Do You See This World?’: The Art Of Almighty God

‘How Do You See This World?’ is a retrospective of paintings by the prolific Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto (b. 1950). Addressed as “Almighty” by friends and acquaintances, Akoto is the owner of Almighty God Art Works in the city of Kumasi, the capital of the Asante kingdom. His studio, established in 1972, produced signs for small businesses, cloth banners for evangelical events, and tin portraits for grave monuments. As the market for such works shrank, Akoto turned his attention to another part of his practice, which he calls “creativity arts”—the focus of the current exhibition. These pictures are produced largely for an international clientele and range in subjects from portraiture to Christian themes to commentaries on the world’s problems. Almighty continued to apply his sign-writing skills in the form of extensive texts added to his paintings and their frames. Nearly every piece in the exhibition combines image and text, an interplay characteristic of Akan arts of southern Ghana. The universe of themes in Almighty’s repertoire continues to expand as he widens the scope of his commentaries on the human condition. His recognition has also grown: since 1995, he has been included in at least thirty exhibitions of contemporary African art outside of Ghana: in Italy, Poland, Netherlands, France, Denmark, Portugal, and the U.S. His works are held in museums and private collections worldwide.

308 Charles E. Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA 90024

FREE EVERY DAY! @ UCLA
The Fowler Museum at UCLA explores global arts and cultures with an emphasis on works from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas—past, and present. The Fowler enhances understanding and appreciation of the diverse peoples, cultures, and religions of the world through dynamic exhibitions, publications, and public programs, informed by interdisciplinary approaches and the perspectives of the cultures represented.
Also featured is the work of international contemporary artists presented within the complex frameworks of politics, culture, and social action.
Fowler Museum at UCLA provides exciting, informative, and thought-provoking exhibitions and events for the UCLA community and the people of greater Los Angeles and beyond.

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Areas of the Collection

ARTS OF AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

One of the largest and finest in the United States, and one of the top twenty African collections worldwide, this collection offers a superb representation of the arts of many African nations, including objects from Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), Kenya, Zambia, and South Africa. The Yoruba collection alone is one of the three finest in the world. It contains a spectacular array of beaded objects, including a majestic throne, elaborate chiefly gowns and sophisticated divination regalia.
A collection of post-apartheid election materials and contemporary South African art is being developed, as are a number of collections of popular urban arts from countries including Tanzania and Muslim Senegal. Recently, more than 400 textiles made by the Kuba peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo were gifted by the Christensen Foundation.
The collection represents some of the finest examples of men’s embroidered raffia pile cloths and women’s appliqué cloths. This collection complements already significant holdings of West African textiles from countries such as Mali and Ghana, including kente and adinkra cloth and Asafo flags. The museum also has significant holdings of arts from the African Americas, and notable arts from Haitian Vodou, Brazil, and Suriname.

ARTS OF THE AMERICAS

These holdings include a comprehensive collection of pre-Columbian ceramics with the best representations from West Mexico, the Valley of Mexico, and pre-Columbian Peru (with special strengths in the art of the Moche). The Fowler also possesses a cohesive collection of Guatemalan costumes; an extensive collection of Mexican clothing; textiles of Peru; and a comprehensive representation of field-collected market materials from Michoacan, Mexico. Complementing the pre-Columbian collections are field collections of the Warao and Yecuana Indians of the Orinoco Delta of Venezuela and contemporary Latin American popular arts including Mexican trees of life, Day of the Dead figures, and masks from Metepec, Oaxaca, Michoacan, Jalisco, Puebla, and Guanajuato.
Native American materials from the U.S. and Canada are a small but significant part of the collection. Materials from the United States and Canada include well-known Northwest Coast material, as well as a notable cross section of late nineteenth-century Inuit art and material culture.

ARTS OF ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

The Fowler Museum at UCLA collections from Insular Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and aboriginal Taiwan, are among the strongest in the United States. The Indonesian and Philippine textiles reinforce the Fowler Museum’s standing as a major repository for the textile arts. Also included are significant collections of sculptural material from Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, and Luzon, puppetry from Java and Bali, basketry from Indonesia and the Philippines, and metalwork from the Philippines. The primary strength of the Pacific collections lies in materials from Papua New Guinea, especially the Papuan Gulf, Trobriand Islands, Sepik River, and Maprik region. Australia and Polynesia are also represented by sizeable collections, including 45 rare Maori cloaks.
The collections from mainland Asia are smaller but growing rapidly, due to current collecting priorities. A collection of betel-chewing paraphernalia, representing several countries in South and Southeast Asia, is considered one of the finest in the world. Other holdings include textiles from Bhutan, Pakistan, India, and Japan, baskets and decorative arts from Japan, puppetry from China, Thailand, India, and Turkey, and art and artifacts from Nepal.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS

The Fowler Museum at UCLA also serves as a repository for archaeological collections acquired during research conducted by UCLA faculty, staff, students, and other professional archaeologists. Documentation of the collections includes artifact catalogs, excavation notes, maps, and photographs. These collections serve primarily as an archive for teaching and research. The Museum is compliant with guidelines mandated by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and has been signaled out by the State of California for its exemplary efforts.
Archaeological collection areas include:
California
Collections from approximately 1100 sites, mostly in Southern California.
Southwest
Significant collections from the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition of 1933-1938 and several Parowan Fremont sites in Utah were excavated in the 1950s, and other Anasazi and Hohokam sites.
Mexico
Includes objects from 218 sites, mostly in western and central Mexico.
Sudan
The Nubian/Egyptian fortress site at Askut is the source of approximately 60,000 artifacts excavated by UCLA archaeologist Alexander Badawy in conjunction with the Aswan High Dam Salvage Campaign, 1962-1964.
Old World stone tool collection
Includes tools from Europe and the Middle East.

MUSEUM HOURS

Admission is FREE
Monday – Tuesday: closed
Wednesday – Sunday: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

For additional information, visit the website @
fowler.ucla.edu

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Getty Concerts For Kids
2022-08-20 16:00 - 18:00, 2022-08-21 16:00 - 18:00 | The Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90049, United States
TODAY- The Getty Center’s Central Garden
Garden Concerts for Kids is a free outdoor music series for kids and their families in the Getty Center’s Central Garden featuring some of the best children’s musical artists from across the nation.
Please feel free to bring a picnic blanket, but lawn chairs are not allowed.
TODAYS SCHEDULE PERFORMANCE: Jazzy Ash & Red Yarn

Date: Saturday & Sunday, August 20 & 21, 2022
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: Central Garden
Admission: Free; general admission tickets available starting August 6.
Acclaimed family jazz performer Jazzy Ash and folksinger and puppeteer Red Yarn team up to celebrate the release of their lively new EP, Sing Together. United by an appreciation of traditional American music, Jazzy Ash and Red Yarn stir their styles into a unique musical gumbo. Their new collaborative songs blend jazz, folk, soul, country and early rock’n’roll into a playful, varied sound. In performance, they also back each other up singing hits from their respective repertoires. Their friendship and the fun they have singing together are infectious – audiences will be singing and dancing right along!
Jazzy Ash, aka Ashli St. Armant, is a celebrated vocalist, writer, arts educator, and founder of Leaping Lizards Music, a music and theater education program for students, preschool through twelfth grade. She tours the United States with her band, Jazzy Ash and the Leaping Lizards, performing jazz for young audiences. Together they have performed at numerous venues including Lincoln Center and Sprout Network (NBC), produced six albums, and have been featured by NPR and LA Times.
Red Yarn, aka Andy Furgeson, is a Texas-born, Oregon-based family performer who weaves folksongs and puppetry into high-energy shows for all ages. With his engaging performances, lush folk-rock recordings, and playful music videos, this red-bearded bard reinvigorates American folklore for younger generations. Red Yarn has performed at festivals and venues across the country, and has been voted “Portland’s Best Kindie Performer” by PDX Parent Picks for five years straight.

1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90049

The Getty Museum, located on the west side of the Sepulveda Pass, is one of the most visually stunning locations in Los Angeles. The Getty is an architectural master piece, over looking a garden like no other, featuring some of the best views of the Los Angeles basin. The J. Paul Getty Trust is a cultural and philanthropic institution dedicated to the presentation, conservation, and interpretation of the world’s artistic legacy.

One of the most visually stunning locations in the Los Angeles

The J. Paul Getty Museum seeks to inspire curiosity about, and enjoyment and understanding of, the visual arts by collecting, conserving, exhibiting and interpreting works of art of outstanding quality and historical importance. To fulfill this mission, the Museum continues to build its collections through purchase and gifts, and develops programs of exhibitions, publications, scholarly research, public education, and the performing arts that engage our diverse local and international audiences. All of these activities are enhanced by the uniquely evocative architectural and garden settings provided by the Museum’s two renowned venues: the Getty Villa and the Getty Center.

The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and photography from its beginnings to the present, gathered internationally.
See all current exhibitions and installations here

Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday – Thursday: 10:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Sunday: 10:00 a.m.-7:00p.m.

For additional information, visit the website @
http://www.getty.edu/

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Hammer Museum Free Screening: Islands / You and the Night
2022-08-20 19:30 - 21:00 | Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
TONIGHT- The Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum and the UCLA Film & Television Archive present a free screening of

Islands / You and the Night
SAT AUG 20, 7:30 PM

Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive series Outfest UCLA Legacy Project. Register at cinema.ucla.edu to attend this in-theater screening.

ISLANDS

Les îles, France, 2017
Winner of the Queer Palm for Best Short Film at the 2017 edition of the Cannes Film Festival, Islands sees characters wandering through an erotic maze of love and desire.
DCP, color, in French with English subtitles, 23 min. Director/Screenwriter: Yann Gonzalez. Cinematographer: Simon Beaufils. Editor: Raphaël Lefèvre. With: Sarah-Megan Allouch, Mathilde Mennetrier, Alphonse Maîtrepierre, Romain Merle. Courtesy of Altered Innocence.

YOU AND THE NIGHT

Les rencontres d’après minuit, France, 2013
In his first feature-length film after a substantial effort in short-form filmmaking, Nice-born writer-director Yann Gonzalez riffs on character tropes à la The Breakfast Club with a sexy and markedly queer twist, underscored by the synthpop music of M83, Yann’s brother Anthony’s band. A longtime couple and their trans maid assemble a motley crew, including The Slut, The Teen, The Stud and The Star, for another of the trio’s frequent orgies. To everyone’s initial chagrin and eventual shared catharsis, a theater of the pansexual absurd, fueled by a collective hallucination, unfolds as a dreamlike tableaux of memories instead of the suck-and-f*ck they all showed up for. A tribute to the power of chosen families and the possibilities offered by pure cinematic imagination.
DCP, color, in French with English subtitles, 92 min. Director/Screenwriter: Yann Gonzalez. Cinematographer: Simon Beaufils. Editor: Raphaël Lefèvre. With: Kate Moran, Niels Schneider, Nicolas Maury, Eric Cantona, Fabienne Babe. Courtesy of Strand Releasing.

ATTENDING THIS PROGRAM?
Ticketing: Admission to Archive screenings at the Hammer is free. Registration is required via the Film & Television Archive website, and tickets must be picked up at the box office. Hammer members receive priority ticketing until 15 minutes before showtime. Please review the Archive’s ticketing policy and COVID-19 admission policy. Questions should be directed to the Archive at programming@cinema.ucla.edu or 310-206-8013.
Parking: Parking is available under the museum. Rates are $7 for the first three hours with museum validation, and $3 for each additional 20 minutes, with a $20 daily maximum. There is a $7 flat rate after 6 p.m. on weekdays, and all day on weekends.

10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

The Billy Wilder Theater, home of UCLA Film & Television Archive’s public programs, is among a handful of venues nationwide able to exhibit an entire century’s worth of moving images in their original formats. From the earliest silent films requiring variable speed projection all the way up to cutting-edge digital cinema, the Wilder can accommodate an array of screen technologies.

The theater’s modern design by Michael Maltzan Architecture stylishly interprets cinema’s play of light and movement in real space, and the 285-seat interior features comfortable leather seats with superb sightlines. The theater is made possible by a generous gift from Audrey L. Wilder and named in honor of Mrs. Wilder’s late husband, the legendary screenwriter, director and producer. Born on the outskirts of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Billy Wilder fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s to become a master of Hollywood film language and a shrewd comic observer of the American scene. Among the many classics Wilder co-wrote and directed were Double Indemnity (1944), Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Some Like It Hot (1959).

Please note that food is not permitted inside the theater. There are dining options in the surrounding Westwood Village. You may also opt to bring your own food and eat in the courtyard just outside the theater.

The Hammer Museum champions the art and artists who challenge us to see the world in a new light, to experience the unexpected, to ignite our imaginations, and inspire change.
The Hammer understands that art not only has the power to transport us through aesthetic experience but can also provide significant insight into some of the most pressing cultural, political, and social questions of our time. We share the unique and invaluable perspectives that artists have on the world around us.
A vibrant intellectual and creative nexus, the Hammer is fueled by dynamic exhibitions and programs—including lectures, symposia, film series, readings, and musical performances—that spark meaningful encounters with art and ideas.
And through our unwavering commitment to free admission and free public programs, the Hammer Museum is open for all and FREE FOR GOOD.

Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday – Sunday: 11:00am – 6:00pm

For additional information, visit the website @
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/calendar

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Western Museum of Flight
2022-08-21 10:00 - 15:00 | Western Museum of Flight, 3315 Airport Drive, Torrance, 90505, United States
FREE FOR KIDS UNDER 12- Torrance
The Western Museum of Flight is a non-profit, educational institution dedicated to preserving and displaying aircraft history and artifacts of Southern California’s aviation heritage. The Air Museum’s educational programs give children an opportunity to see and touch the airplanes that made aviation history. The Air Museum offers an inside look at completed and in-progress aircraft restoration projects. The Western Museum of Flight’s collection includes numerous Warbirds, aircraft and target drones, piston and jet aircraft engines, aircraft components, aircraft ejection seats, World War II instruments, aircrew accessories, and an extensive model aircraft collection. Please visit us at www.wmof.com. at
Western Museum of Flight, is located at historic “Louis Zamperini Field”, in Torrance.

The Western Museum of Flight (WMOF)
is operated by the Southern California Historical Aviation Foundation. It houses not only historic aircraft, many of which were built in Southern California, but also has an extensive collection of historic photographs and blueprints.

The WMOF is one of two museums that house the only surviving Jack Northrop flying wings. The museum has several other rare aircraft among its collection, including:

North American F-86Sabre Jet

Northrop YF-17 “Cobra” (Prototype #1)

The Northrop N-3PB World War II single engine seaplane built in 1940. Twenty four N-3PB’s were built, this is the only remaining example.

Plus numerous other notable jet- and propeller-drive airplanes.

The Western Museum of Flight- Aircraft Model Collection
is quite extensive. The over 300 models include numerous wind tunnel models including the Northrop “Alpha”, the Northrop A-9A, Hundreds of plastic scale models are also included in the collection.
Hours
Tuesday – Sunday: 10:00 a.m.-3:00p.m.

General Admission $5.00
Members Free
Children under 12 years Free

For additional information, visit the website @
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Mount Wilson Observatory
2022-08-21 10:00 - 16:00 | Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OPEN WEEKENDS- Mt Wilson
Mount Wilson Observatory is located on the summit of Mount Wilson above Pasadena at an altitude of 5715 feet. Mount Wilson Observatory is visible from much of the Los Angeles area. Free of charge, this is a must see experience.

Viewing through the 100-Inch Hooker Telescope
The world’s largest telescope from 1917 to 1949, the 100-inch Telescope forever changed our understanding of the scale and nature of our Universe and launched a revolution in astronomy that continues through today. This world-heritage class instrument, used by many of the greatest astronomers of the Twentieth Century, has only recently been made available for regular public viewing. It is the largest telescope in the world that you can rent! Imagine looking through the telescope used by astronomers Edwin Hubble and Milton Humason in the late 1920s to measure the expansion of the Universe.

The 60 inch Telescope
Mount Wilson Observatory’s 60-inch telescope was completed in 1908 by Observatory founder George Ellery Hale with funding from Andrew Carnegie. It was the world’s largest operational telescope until Hale went on to complete the Mt. Wilson 100-inch telescope in 1917. For a more detailed history of this revolutionary instrument, which became the model for all large observatory telescopes of the future, see the article “Building the 60-inch Telescope.” Among the many important discoveries from the 60-inch telescope was Harlow Shapley’s revelation in 1918 that the accepted view of the time, that our Sun was near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, was wrong. Shapley used the light gathering power of the 60-inch to show that our solar system is instead half way out toward the edge of our Galaxy. The telescope was a workhorse instrument for astronomy for over half a century and used by astronomical luminaries such as Edwin Hubble, Walter Baade, and Allan Sandage to unravel the secrets of stars and galaxies. Now retired from active scientific service, the 60-inch and the 100-inch telescopes are the largest in the world made exclusively available to the public. With their large light-collecting mirrors and the exquisite skies over Mount Wilson, these historic telescopes provide an unrivaled and unique astronomical experience.

CHARA (Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy)
Mount Wilson’s newest astronomical instruments are Georgia State University’s optical interferometric array of six telescopes. This facility, located here because of the exceptional seeing conditions, puts Mount Wilson back on the cutting edge of astrophysics. The full array was completed in 2004. Each telescope of the CHARA Array has a light-collecting mirror 1-meter in diameter. The telescopes are dispersed over the mountain to provide a two-dimensional layout that provides the resolving capability (but not the light collecting ability!) of a single telescope a fifth of a mile in diameter. Light from the individual telescopes is conveyed through vacuum tubes to a central Beam Synthesis Facility in which the six beams are combined together. When the paths of the individual beams are matched to an accuracy of less than one micron, after the light traverses distances of hundreds of meters, the Array then acts like a single coherent telescope for the purposes of achieving exceptionally high angular resolution. The Array is capable of resolving details as small as 200 micro-arcseconds, equivalent to the angular size of a nickel seen from a distance of 10,000 miles. In terms of the number and size of its individual telescopes, its ability to operate at visible and near infrared wavelengths, and its longest baselines of 330 meters, the CHARA Array is arguably the most powerful instrument of its kind in the world.
Science Objectives
The Array is applicable to problems in almost all areas of contemporary astronomy. It is particularly suited to stellar astrophysics where it will be used to measure the diameters, distances, masses, and luminosities of stars, as well as to image features such as spots and flares on their surfaces. Other projects range from detecting planetary systems, imaging stars in process of formation, and studies of bright transient phenomena like novae.
For more information on this amazing research facility and the science that is emerging from it, please go to the CHARA array homepage. There you can find a video, Sizing up the Stars, that explains how interferometry works.

Astronomical Museum
Also on the mountain, next to the 100-inch telescope, there is a new exhibit hall that displays Albert Michelson’s original interferometer, used to get the first measurement of stars other than our Sun. The exhibit hall reveals in detail how the light is combined in the new CHARA area.
Weekend Public Guided Tours

Docent-led walking tours of the observatory take place on Saturdays and Sundays through November 29. The two hour tours depart at 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. sharp from the Cosmic Cafe located above the large parking lot at the entrance to the Observatory. A special feature of these tours is entrance into both the 60-inch and 100-inch telescope domes, as well as the observing room of the 150-foot Solar Tower Telescope. On rare occasions, a telescope may be closed to the tour due to a special event or maintenance.

Purchasing Tickets
Tickets are $15 (adults) and $13 (ages 12 and under & 62 and older). Tour tickets are available for same-day purchase at the Cosmic Café, and rarely sell out. For each tour, 15 spots are available.
If you have a large group, we urge you to opt for a private tour instead. These can be arranged by sending an email request to tours@mtwilson.edu.
Children under age 6 are not permitted. The tours involve about a mile of walking and climbing some stairs. Please read the Health Notice in the information tab.

Private Group Tours
Private guided tours may be arranged by individuals or groups in advance. A modest per-person fee is charged. More information is available here. Please contact tours@mtwilson.edu for more details and a private tour request form. Private tours are held in the daytime only and do not include looking through a telescope.

Weather conditions may occasionally result in unscheduled closures. Access to Mount Wilson is via the Angeles Crest Highway (CA Hwy 2) from the 210 Freeway at La Canada Flintridge. You can download a printable PDF map with directions here.

The Cosmic Café Sandwich Shop
Come up the mountain for a wonderful lunch in an incomparable setting. Located in the Pavilion above the main parking lot, serves fresh-made sandwiches and other treats and souvenirs on Saturdays and Sundays through early November, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Free Self Guided Tours
If you are planning ahead and would like a nice guide of your visit, Print your own free brochure for a self-guided tour and map of Mount Wilson.

An Interactive Map
To explore the telescopes and other sites on observatory online, click on the interactive map of the Observatory, above.

A 13-page Visitors Guide is also available for purchase at the Cosmic Café. Written by Hal McAlister, the second director of the Mount Wilson Institute and founder of CHARA, it is a well-illustrated guide to all the points of interest on the mountaintop.

Elevation Warning
The high elevation of the Observatory (5715 ft) and the change in elevation during the approximately one-mile and two-hour long tour are unsuitable for individuals with respiratory and heart problems or with limited mobility.
The century-old facilities are not ADA-compliant and, except for the Astronomical Museum and the Cosmic Cafe, offer no access to those who cannot climb multiple flights of stars. Thus, tours of the Observatory, either guided or unguided, are inappropriate for some elderly people and for those who are not in good health.
Visitors should take these factors into consideration before touring the Observatory.

Parking

A U.S. Forest Service Adventure Pass is required to park at the Observatory, as it is located on U.S. Forest Service land. A day pass may be purchased at the Cosmic Cafe (when it is open from April 4 to November 29 in 2020) on weekends between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Other times, the $5 day pass or the $30 dollar annual pass may be purchased at many locations around Los Angeles before you head up. Click here to go to the U.S. Forest Service website for more information about the Adventure Pass and where to buy them. Their website has a place to enter your location to search for nearby vendors. The Shell station in La Canada at the bottom of the Angeles Crest Highway should be selling them as well.

Hours
April 1 – November 1 Saturday – Sunday: 10:00am – 5:00pm
December 1 – March 31 Saturday – Sunday: : 10am – 4:00pm

For additional information, visit the website @
www.mtwilson.edu/

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SELF CARE YOGA @ CAAM
2022-08-21 11:00 - 12:00 | California African American Museum, 600 State Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90037, United States
MONTHLY YOGA- The California African American Museum (CAAM)
Experience our popular monthly yoga class at this 60-minute yoga flow with yoga and meditation teacher Constance Hartwell. No previous experience necessary. Please bring your own yoga mat and water. Indoors.

Sunday, August 21- 11:00am- 12:00pm

600 State Drive, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California 90037

FREE! TUES – SUNDAY- Exposition Park
The California African American Museum (CAAM) focuses on enrichment and education on the cultural heritage and history of African Americans with a focus on California and western United States.

Admission is free to all visitors. The California African American Museum’s mission is to research, collect, preserve, and interpret for public enrichment the history, art, and culture of African Americans with an emphasis on California and the western United States.

CAAM’s permanent collection consists of over 4,000 objects ranging from the 1800s to the present. It encompasses paintings, photographs, film, sculpture, historical documents, and artifacts, and it spans nineteenth-century landscape paintings to modern artworks to contemporary mixed-media reflections on cultural and political events.

The Museum’s first acquisitions included a bronze bust of civil rights activist Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune by artist Richmond Barthé and a sculpture by artist Maren Hassinger, then at the start of her career. These laid the perfect groundwork for CAAM’s mandate to assemble a comprehensive, thoughtful, and wide-reaching collection.
CAAM’s deepest holdings include art made or connected to African Americans in California and the western United States. However, the Museum also has significant works of contemporary art from the African diaspora (including Haiti, Brazil, and Jamaica), as well as traditional African art from Western, Central, and Sub-Saharan Africa. CAAM aims to represent the diverse contributions of African Americans in the United States, but also to interpret how the past has affected identity in the present.

Today, CAAM oversees, exhibits, and conserves a rapidly growing collection. Each quarter, curators review the current holdings and decide as a committee on future acquisitions. We view our collection as a living body — constantly evolving, growing, and reflecting the world in which we live.

Some examples of CAAM’s collection include the Walter Burrell Collection of audio recordings of Burrell’s interviews with African American celebrities, broadcast by a local radio station in the early 1970s; the oral histories of Celes King, who was both a local civil rights activist as well as a former Tuskegee airman; and selections from the collection of visual artist John Outterbridge.

Hours
Tuesdays – Saturdays: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Sundays: 11:00 a.m.-5:00p.m.
Mondays: Closed

For additional information, visit the website @
caamuseum.org

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FREE DAY AT WALT DISNEY'S BARN
2022-08-21 11:00 - 15:00 | Walt Disney’s Barn, 5202 Zoo Dr., Los Angeles, CA, 90027, United States
OPEN EVERY THIRD SUNDAY- in Holmby Hills
In 1950, Walt built the The Carolwood Pacific Railroad in the backyard of his house in Holmby Hills, California. He named the railroad for the street where he lived: Carolwood Drive. The first run on the Carolwood Pacific Railroad took place on May 7, 1950. The 2,615 feet of track included a 46 foot long trestle and a 90 foot long tunnel under his wife’s flower bed. Amidst the railroad, he had a barn built where he could monitor and remotely control the switches on the track. The barn also served as a workshop and a place for Walt and his friends to relax.

When the Holmby Hills home was sold, the new owners had plans to preserve the house, but discovered that due to structural issues and asbestos, they demolished the existing structures and built a new home. Fortunately, Walt’s daughter Diane Disney Miller recognized the importance of the Barn and began the process of saving it before escrow closed. Diane contacted Michael and Sharon Broggie, founders of the Carolwood Society, who began planning what to do with the Barn. A general contractor, Bill Abel, was hired to dismantle the Barn and it was stored until an agreement was secured with the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Live Steamers Museum. It opened in Griffith Park as a loan to the people of Los Angeles on July 19, 1999, and is located inside the 1/8th scale track, the same scale that Walt had at his home.

Walt Disney’s Barn
Walt spent many hours in the Barn not only working on his trains, but thinking about new projects and ideas. One could say that this Barn is the birthplace of Imagineering.

Today, the Barn is in a beautifully landscaped part of the park, with several nice picnic tables and many benches. Bring your family and a picnic basket to enjoy your lunch and some Walt Disney, railroad, and Disneyland history. The Barn is small, but full of many interesting items to learn about, and lots of wonderful stories.

The Barn is open on the 3rd Sunday of each month from 11 am to 3 pm. Parking is free, and admission is free. Donations to the Los Angeles Live Steamers Museum are accepted.

Hours
Every 3rd Sunday: 11:00am – 3:00pm

For additional information, visit the website @
carolwood.com

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The Broad Museum
2022-08-21 11:00 - 17:00 | The Broad, 221 South Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
FREE TUE – SUN- Bunker Hill, DTLA
The Broad Museum presents two of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms are in the Broad collection. Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away (2013) is now open with reservations required in advance. Kusama’s Longing for Eternity (2017) is on view on the third floor and doesn’t require reservations. Learn more below, and read our exclusive interview with the artist.
Artworks on view are subject to change. Please note that Longing for Eternity may be closed on short notice.

How to see Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away

Obtain a timed-entry ticket for “Infinity Mirrored Room + General Admission” by booking online. This new reservation procedure will provide you access to this immersive installation at the start of your museum visit.For the best chance to get tickets to view this Infinity Mirrored Room, visit ticketing.thebroad.org and select “Infinity Mirrored Room + General Admission” at 10 a.m. PT on the day of our monthly ticket release. See our ticket release schedule.
Please arrive on time. All members of your group must be present for entry. Early entry is not allowed, and entry is only guaranteed within 10 minutes of your ticketed time.
After checking in with our Visitor Experience Staff outside of the museum, you will be instructed to proceed to the installation.
After viewing this Infinity Mirrored Room, enjoy the rest of the museum! Tickets include general admission access. Special exhibitions require a separate paid ticket.

Notice: This installation is a mirror-lined room with flashing LED lights that you physically enter with a door that closes behind you. If you are uncomfortable with flashing lights and/or enclosed, dark spaces, please bypass this experience.

How to see Longing for Eternity

Longing for Eternity is located on the third floor of The Broad. Ask any Visitor Experience Team Member for directions to this artwork.
Once you have arrived at Longing for Eternity, join the line to view the artwork, or ask a Visitor Experience Team Member for help.

Notice: This installation is a mirror-lined chamber with flashing LED lights that viewers look into. If you are uncomfortable with flashing lights and/or enclosed, dark spaces, please bypass this experience.

221 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012

The Broad makes its collection of contemporary art from the 1950s to the present accessible to the widest possible audience by presenting exhibitions and operating a lending program to art museums and galleries worldwide.
By actively building a dynamic collection that features in-depth representations of influential contemporary artists and by advancing education and engagement through exhibitions and diverse public programming, the museum enriches, provokes, inspires, and fosters appreciation of art of our time.

The Broad was founded by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler, the museum offers free general admission and presents an active program of rotating temporary exhibitions and innovative audience engagement. The Broad is home to 2,000 works of art in the Broad collection, which is one of the world’s leading collections of postwar and contemporary art.

The Broad from Home
The Broad is committed to inspiring and fostering an appreciation of contemporary art through our digital initiatives. Experience #TheBroadFromHome to find inspiration through music, poetry, performance, workshops, and conversations centered around the Broad collection.
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The Broad Collection
Eli and Edythe Broad have been building their collection of postwar and contemporary art over the last 50 years. With a belief that the greatest art collections are built when the art is being made, the Broads took to collecting art of their own time.
The Broad is home to 2,000 works in the Broad collection by more than 200 artists, and is one of the world’s leading collections of postwar and contemporary art. The collection features in-depth holdings of influential contemporary artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mark Bradford, Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Yayoi Kusama, Kerry James Marshall, Julie Mehretu, Takashi Murakami, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, and more, plus an ever-growing representation of younger artists.

View Our Collection Here

In Under the Table, 1994, the viewer is both in the world of imaginary giants and in the world of remembered childhood. Fusing Alice in Wonderland with the Duchampian tradition of the readymade, Artist Robert Therrien constructs a doppelganger from an everyday object, both displaying his visual wit and actualizing literary or imaginative fantasy in three-dimensional space. The table exudes an extraordinary aura, compelling one to walk underneath the table and conjuring the physical memory of being under the table of one’s childhood home. Complicated and powerful, the work offers fresh ideas of what a table, sculpture, and memory can mean.

Using the recognizable form of a balloon twisted into the shape of a dog, Koons has frozen a moment in time, exaggerating both scale and material.
Balloon Dog (Blue) is literal and abstract. When standing close to it, one’s own distorted reflection bends around smooth pert curves.

General Admission is Free
All visitors must reserve timed tickets in advance. Some exhibitions and events carry a separate charge.

Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday – Wednesday: 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Thursday – Friday: 11:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.
Saturday: 10:00 a.m.-8:00p.m.
Sunday: 10:00 a.m.-6:00p.m.

For additional information, visit the website @
https://www.thebroad.org/visit/mirror-rooms

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Mario Moore: Enshrined
2022-08-21 11:00 - 17:00 | California African American Museum, 600 State Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90037, United States
NOW ON EXHIBIT – CAAM, Expositions Park
Witness as California African American Museum opens exhibit on Mario Moore’s “Enshrined: Presence + Preservation”, on display until October 2.
Mario Moore, born and based in Detroit, is a figurative painter whose subjects stand tall, gazing confidently at the viewer. They convey a dignified presence without regalia, a type of depiction that places Moore’s portraiture within a lineage of artists such as Kerry James Marshall, Barkley L. Hendricks, and one of Moore’s earliest influences, the seventeenth-century Spanish painter Diego Velázquez.
Mario Moore | Enshrined: Presence + Preservation, Moore’s first solo exhibition in California, brings together work from early in his career as well as his most recent series, The Work of Several Lifetimes (2019), created with the support of Princeton University’s esteemed Hodder Fellowship. Together, these works represent the artist’s desire to make visible the dedicated work of marginalized groups in this country. For many years, Moore has foregrounded the contributions of essential and frontline workers in his paintings, an effort that has become even more poignant during this time of global pandemic, as their labors have enabled and ensured the well-being of us all. This exhibition brings to light Moore’s commitment to celebrating his subjects—both their labor and leisure. His paintings encourage us to question who is deserving of portraiture and, thus, preservation.
This presentation of Enshrined: Presence + Preservation debuts two new portraits made especially for the exhibition at CAAM that feature women who have worked as custodians at the Museum. By recognizing them, Moore provides us with an opportunity to honor all of the workers whose labor, often behind the scenes, is integral to the success of museums such as CAAM.
Mario Moore | Enshrined: Presence + Preservation is curated by Taylor Renee Aldridge, visual arts curator.
CAAM recently interviewed Mario Moore about this exhibition:

600 State Drive, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California 90037

FREE! TUES – SUNDAY- Exposition Park
The California African American Museum (CAAM) focuses on enrichment and education on the cultural heritage and history of African Americans with a focus on California and western United States.

Admission is free to all visitors. The California African American Museum’s mission is to research, collect, preserve, and interpret for public enrichment the history, art, and culture of African Americans with an emphasis on California and the western United States.

CAAM’s permanent collection consists of over 4,000 objects ranging from the 1800s to the present. It encompasses paintings, photographs, film, sculpture, historical documents, and artifacts, and it spans nineteenth-century landscape paintings to modern artworks to contemporary mixed-media reflections on cultural and political events.

The Museum’s first acquisitions included a bronze bust of civil rights activist Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune by artist Richmond Barthé and a sculpture by artist Maren Hassinger, then at the start of her career. These laid the perfect groundwork for CAAM’s mandate to assemble a comprehensive, thoughtful, and wide-reaching collection.
CAAM’s deepest holdings include art made or connected to African Americans in California and the western United States. However, the Museum also has significant works of contemporary art from the African diaspora (including Haiti, Brazil, and Jamaica), as well as traditional African art from Western, Central, and Sub-Saharan Africa. CAAM aims to represent the diverse contributions of African Americans in the United States, but also to interpret how the past has affected identity in the present.

Today, CAAM oversees, exhibits, and conserves a rapidly growing collection. Each quarter, curators review the current holdings and decide as a committee on future acquisitions. We view our collection as a living body — constantly evolving, growing, and reflecting the world in which we live.

Some examples of CAAM’s collection include the Walter Burrell Collection of audio recordings of Burrell’s interviews with African American celebrities, broadcast by a local radio station in the early 1970s; the oral histories of Celes King, who was both a local civil rights activist as well as a former Tuskegee airman; and selections from the collection of visual artist John Outterbridge.

Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday: 11:00am – 5:00pm
For additional information, visit the website @
https://caamuseum.org/exhibitions/2022/enshrined-presence-preservation

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Now On Exhibit @ The FOWLER- Gosette Lubondo: Imaginary Trip
2022-08-21 12:00 - 17:00 | Fowler Museum at UCLA, 308 Charles E Young Dr N,, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
NOW THRU NOVEMBER 13TH- Westwood Village, UCLA
The Fowler Museum at UCLA presents
Gosette Lubondo: Imaginary Trip

Gosette Lubondo: Imaginary Trip

Extended through September 18!

Congolese photographer Gosette Lubondo’s Imaginary Trip series probes the intersections of memory and architecture, examining tensions between residual colonial constructs and contemporary life in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lubondo places herself in these pictures, wearing a range of guises and interacting with other subjects. Bodies fluctuate in and out of corporeality; some are solidly in the present while others seem to emerge from a ghostly past. Staged in stylized, almost nostalgic tableaux, the characters inhabit one of two settings: a train car and a school, both abandoned and devoid of the vitality that historically characterized these key nodes of colonial infrastructure. With each photograph, Lubondo imagines her way through the lingering remnants of her country’s colonial past. Schools and stations once humming with movement and exchange now conjure the ghosts of a bygone waystation—a fitting metaphor for Lubondo’s journey and the memory of previous generations who passed through.

PRESS RELEASE: Gosette Lubondo: Imaginary Trip
Gosette Lubondo: Imaginary Trip is organized by the Fowler Museum at UCLA and curated by Erica P. Jones, curator of African arts, and Elaine Ericksen Sullivan, Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral curatorial fellow at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Support comes from the Fowler Contemporary Council Fund.
Image: Gosette Lubondo (b. 1993, Kinshasa, DRC), Imaginary Trip I, 2016; © Gosette Lubondo, Courtesy Axis Gallery, NY & NJ.

308 Charles E. Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA 90024

FREE EVERY DAY! @ UCLA
The Fowler Museum at UCLA explores global arts and cultures with an emphasis on works from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas—past and present. The Fowler enhances understanding and appreciation of the diverse peoples, cultures, and religions of the world through dynamic exhibitions, publications, and public programs, informed by interdisciplinary approaches and the perspectives of the cultures represented.
Also featured is the work of international contemporary artists presented within the complex frameworks of politics, culture and social action.
Fowler Museum at UCLA provides exciting, informative and thought-provoking exhibitions and events for the UCLA community and the people of greater Los Angeles and beyond.

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Areas of the Collection

ARTS OF AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

One of the largest and finest in the United States, and one of the top twenty African collections worldwide, this collection offers a superb representation of the arts of many African nations, including objects from Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), Kenya, Zambia, and South Africa. The Yoruba collection alone is one of the three finest in the world. It contains a spectacular array of beaded objects, including a majestic throne, elaborate chiefly gowns, and sophisticated divination regalia.
A collection of post-apartheid election materials and contemporary South African art is being developed, as are a number of collections of popular urban arts from countries including Tanzania and Muslim Senegal. Recently, more than 400 textiles made by the Kuba peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo were gifted by the Christensen Foundation.
The collection represents some of the finest examples of men’s embroidered raffia pile cloths and women’s appliqué cloths. This collection complements already significant holdings of West African textiles from countries such as Mali and Ghana, including kente and adinkra cloth and Asafo flags. The museum also has significant holdings of arts from the African Americas, notably arts of Haitian Vodou, Brazil and Suriname.

ARTS OF THE AMERICAS

These holdings include a comprehensive collection of pre-Columbian ceramics with the best representations from West Mexico, the Valley of Mexico, and pre-Columbian Peru (with special strengths in the art of the Moche). The Fowler also possesses a cohesive collection of Guatemalan costumes; an extensive collection of Mexican clothing; textiles of Peru; and a comprehensive representation of field-collected market materials from Michoacan, Mexico. Complementing the pre-Columbian collections are field collections of the Warao and Yecuana Indians of the Orinoco Delta of Venezuela and contemporary Latin American popular arts including Mexican trees of life, Day of the Dead figures, and masks from Metepec, Oaxaca, Michoacan, Jalisco, Peubla, and Guanajuato.
Native American materials from the U.S. and Canada are a small but significant part of the collection. Materials from the United States and Canada include well-known Northwest Coast material, as well as a notable cross section of late nineteenth-century Inuit art and material culture.

ARTS OF ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

The Fowler Museum at UCLA collections from Insular Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and aboriginal Taiwan, are among the strongest in the United States. The Indonesian and Philippine textiles reinforce the Fowler Museum’s standing as a major repository for the textile arts. Also included are significant collections of sculptural material from Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, and Luzon, puppetry from Java and Bali, basketry from Indonesia and Philippines, and metalwork from the Philippines. The primary strength of the Pacific collections lies in materials from Papua New Guinea, especially the Papuan Gulf, Trobriand Islands, Sepik River, and Maprik region. Australia and Polynesia are also represented by sizeable collections, including 45 rare Maori cloaks.
The collections from mainland Asia are smaller but growing rapidly, due to current collecting priorities. A collection of betel-chewing paraphernalia, representing several countries in South and Southeast Asia, is considered one of the finest in the world. Other holdings include textiles from Bhutan, Pakistan, India and Japan, baskets and decorative arts from Japan, puppetry from China, Thailand, India, and Turkey, and art and artifacts from Nepal.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS

The Fowler Museum at UCLA also serves as a repository for archaeological collections acquired during research conducted by UCLA faculty, staff, students, and other professional archaeologists. Documentation of the collections includes artifact catalogs, excavation notes, maps, and photographs. These collections serve primarily as an archive for teaching and research. The Museum is compliant with guidelines mandates by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and has been signaled out by the State of California for its exemplary efforts.
Archaeological collection areas include:
California
Collections from approximately 1100 sites, mostly in Southern California.
Southwest
Significant collections from the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition of 1933-1938 and several Parowan Fremont sites in Utah excavated in the 1950’s, and other Anasazi and Hohokam sites.
Mexico
Includes objects from 218 sites, mostly in western and central Mexico.
Sudan
The Nubian/Egyptian fortress site at Askut is the source of approximately 60,000 artifacts excavated by UCLA archaeologist Alexander Badawy in conjunction with the Aswan High Dam Salvage Campaign, 1962-1964.
Old World stone tool collection
Includes tools from Europe and the Middle East.

MUSEUM HOURS

Admission is FREE
Monday: closed
Tuesday: closed
Wednesday: 12 – 8pm
Thursday: 12 – 5pm
Friday: 12 – 5pm
Saturday: 12 – 5pm
Sunday: 12 – 5pm

For additional information, visit the website @
fowler.ucla.edu

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Museum of Jurassic Technology
2022-08-21 12:00 - 18:00 | Museum of Jurassic Technology, 9341 Venice Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232, United States
THURSDAY TO SUNDAY – Culver City
The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, California is an educational institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the public appreciation of the Lower Jurassic.

THE MUSEUM IS OPEN
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY FROM 2:00 pm TO 8:00 pm
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY FROM 12:00 pm TO 6:00 pm
The Museum has instituted an online reservation and timed ticketing system to ensure the greatest possible safety and experience for our patrons. For the foreseeable future, visits to the Museum must be booked in advance.
It is advised to arrive at least 15 min before your appointment time to allow for time to park and check in. When you arrive please have your confirmation email available for the front desk attendant. If you would care for a glass of tea during your visit, we ask you to partake one-hour following your scheduled appointment to mitigate overcrowding at any one time.
The Tula Tea Room and Borzoi Kabinet Theater are located on the second floor and available to the public during museum hours.
ADMISSION
Children 12 and under, Free
Adults, $ 12.00
Children aged 13 to 21, $ 10.00
For students in full time education, $ 10.00
Persons 62 years or older, $ 10.00
Unemployed persons, $ 10.00
Disabled Persons, $3.00
Active service personnel in uniform, $ 3.00

CELL PHONE USE AND PHOTOGRAPHY
The Museum of Jurassic Technology does not allow cell phone use, including text messaging and photography while in the Museum.
Photography is not permitted anywhere in the Museum. However, photographs of objects and exhibits can be obtained through the S.F.D.U.I. Scenes and Views Archive, by writing info@mjt.org
GROUP AND CLASS VISITS
Due to the unique nature of our space, we ask that all group and school visits be coordinated at least two weeks in advance, so that we may schedule your visit outside of our public open hours. Tea in the Museum’s Tula Tea Room may be prepared for your group upon request.
Please note that visits to the Museum are entirely self-guided, and we do not customarily offer tours.
To arrange your visit, please write to brin@mjt.org, or leave a message at (310) 836-6131

9341 Venice Boulevard, Culver City, California 90232
The public museum as understood today is a collection of specimens and other objects of interest to the scholar, the man of science, and the more casual visitor, arranged and displayed in accordance with the scientific method. In its original sense, the term “museum” meant a spot dedicated to the muses – “a place where man’s mind could attain a mood of aloofness above everyday affairs.” By far the most important museum of antiquity was the great institution at Alexandria founded by Ptolemy Philadelphus in the third century before Christ, (an endeavor supported by a grant from the treasury). And no treatment of the museum would be complete without mention of Noah’s Ark in which we find the complete Museum of Natural History the world has ever seen.
The Museum of Jurassic Technology traces its origins to this period when many of the essential collections of today were beginning to take form. Many exhibits which we today have come to know as part of the Museum were, in fact, formally part of other less well-known collections and were subsequently consolidated into the single collection which we have come to know as The Museum of Jurassic Technology and thus configured, received great public acclaim as well as much discussion in scholastic circles.

Hours
Monday – Wednesday: Closed
Thursday – Friday : 2:00pm – 8:00pm
Saturday – Sunday: 12:00pm – 6:00pm

For additional information, visit the website @
www.mjt.org

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African American Firefighter Museum
2022-08-21 13:00 - 16:00 | African-American Firefighter Museum, 1401 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90021, United States
EVERY SUNDAY – Los Angeles
Visit The African American Firefighter Museum! The African American Firefighter Museum is dedicated to promote diversity and to stand up for inequality against all races and genders.
The first floor contains vintage fire apparatus, stories and pictures of pioneering African American Los Angeles Firefighters. The Museum gallery is located on the second floor with pictures, artifacts and other memorabilia of African American Firefighters from around the country.
OPEN EVERY SUNDAY FROM 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

1401 S Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90021

HISTORY
The AAFFM opened it’s doors as a Museum on December 13, 1997. The dedication of the Museum also served as the acknowledgement of what was believed to be the city’s first 100 years of service by African American Firefighters (1897-1997). In 2002, the Los Angeles Times contacted the AAFFM and stated they had discovered factual information to indicate the history started before 1897 with a man named Sam Haskins, who was listed as the first Los Angeles Fireman of African decent when he was hired in 1892 and killed while responding to a fire in 1895.
Today the Museum is open to the public and is strictly volunteer and donation driven. It is a 501 c(3) non-profit organization and it is available for use by organizations and individuals that desire to host events such as; meetings, luncheons, dinners, banquets, book signings, film viewings, jazz festivals, social dances, receptions and retreats. Our beloved historian, 96 year old retired Firefighter Arnett Hartsfield, who passed away in 2014 was our most cherished volunteer. As a Los Angeles Firefighter during the 1940s and 50’s he lead the integration of the Los Angeles Fire Department. As a graduate of USC law school, he and his fellow firemen known as the Stentorians, the NAACP and the local community were instrumental in successfully integrating the LAFD. The stories of the men that endured that horrific fight are told by the museum’s photographs, paintings, and artifacts.
MISSION STATEMENT
The African American Fire Fighter Museum is dedicated to collecting, conserving, and sharing the heritage of African American Fire Fighters through collaboration and education.

For additional information, visit the website @
www.aaffmuseum.org

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Hammer Museum Free Screening: Phil For Short
2022-08-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
TONIGHT- The Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum and the UCLA Film & Television Archive present a free screening of
Phil For Short

SUN AUG 21, 7 PM

Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive series Cinema’s First Nasty Women. Register at cinema.ucla.edu to attend this in-theater screening.

LE MÉNAGE DRANEM

The Dranems, France, 1913
Monsieur Dranem cooks, cleans, and sews “like an elephant threading a needle”, as per Ciné-Journal, while his militant wife gambols in pantaloons, smokes pipes, drinks pints, plays cards (with “Léontine”), and assaults her cowed spouse.
DCP, b&w, silent, 11 min.

PHIL FOR SHORT

U.S., 1919
The daughter of an eccentric professor of Greek antiquity, Damophilia (Evelyn Greeley) has never been one for convention. Shortening her name to Phil, she manages the family farm in overalls and short bobbed hair much to the horror of the local busy bodies. When her father dies and the busy bodies come to reign her in, Phil hits the road disguised as boy and meets another professor of ancient Greece (Charles Walcott), an avowed women-hater who takes a shine to Phil’s well-versed “twin.” Misperceptions and misunderstandings—orchestrated and otherwise—abound from there until love wins out—on Phil’s terms—in this charmingly subversive romantic comedy.
DCP, b&w, silent, 82 min. Director: Oscar Apfel. Screenwriters: Clara Beranger, Forrest Halsey. With: Evelyn Greeley, Charles Walcott, James A. Furey.

ATTENDING THIS PROGRAM?
Ticketing: Admission to Archive screenings at the Hammer is free. Registration is required via the Film & Television Archive website, and tickets must be picked up at the box office. Hammer members receive priority ticketing until 15 minutes before showtime. Please review the Archive’s ticketing policy and COVID-19 admission policy. Questions should be directed to the Archive at programming@cinema.ucla.edu or 310-206-8013.
Parking: Parking is available under the museum. Rates are $7 for the first three hours with museum validation, and $3 for each additional 20 minutes, with a $20 daily maximum. There is a $7 flat rate after 6 p.m. on weekdays, and all day on weekends.

10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

The Billy Wilder Theater, home of UCLA Film & Television Archive’s public programs, is among a handful of venues nationwide able to exhibit an entire century’s worth of moving images in their original formats. From the earliest silent films requiring variable speed projection all the way up to cutting-edge digital cinema, the Wilder can accommodate an array of screen technologies.

The theater’s modern design by Michael Maltzan Architecture stylishly interprets cinema’s play of light and movement in real space, and the 285-seat interior features comfortable leather seats with superb sightlines. The theater is made possible by a generous gift from Audrey L. Wilder and named in honor of Mrs. Wilder’s late husband, the legendary screenwriter, director and producer. Born on the outskirts of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Billy Wilder fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s to become a master of Hollywood film language and a shrewd comic observer of the American scene. Among the many classics Wilder co-wrote and directed were Double Indemnity (1944), Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Some Like It Hot (1959).

Please note that food is not permitted inside the theater. There are dining options in the surrounding Westwood Village. You may also opt to bring your own food and eat in the courtyard just outside the theater.

The Hammer Museum champions the art and artists who challenge us to see the world in a new light, to experience the unexpected, to ignite our imaginations, and inspire change.
The Hammer understands that art not only has the power to transport us through aesthetic experience but can also provide significant insight into some of the most pressing cultural, political, and social questions of our time. We share the unique and invaluable perspectives that artists have on the world around us.
A vibrant intellectual and creative nexus, the Hammer is fueled by dynamic exhibitions and programs—including lectures, symposia, film series, readings, and musical performances—that spark meaningful encounters with art and ideas.
And through our unwavering commitment to free admission and free public programs, the Hammer Museum is open for all and FREE FOR GOOD.

Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday – Sunday: 11:00am – 6:00pm

For additional information, visit the website @
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/calendar

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Life! Beginnings
2022-08-22 08:00 - 17:00 | California Science Center, 700 Exposition Park Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90037, United States
OPEN DAILY- California Science Center
The California Science Center Life! Beginnings celebrates life’s incredible ability to make more life. Discover how humans and all living creatures reproduce, develop, and pass on their genes to bring new life into the world.
Perform a mating dance with other animals, build a baby pigeon by mixing and matching its parents’ genes, and practice different parenting strategies from the animal kingdom. Step inside an immersive womb room to experience the human journey from conception to birth, and marvel at real fetal specimens. Experience the wonder of animal life cycles as live sphinx moths transform from hungry green caterpillars to fuzzy moths the size of your hand.
Life! Beginnings is located on the second floor World of Life gallery. This new exhibition is the first phase of a planned renovation of the entire World of Life gallery.

Discover how humans and living creatures reproduce, develop, and pass on the genes to bring new life into the world.

Experience the human journey, from conception to birth, inside an immersive womb room, and view real plastinated fetal specimens.

Build a baby pigeon and learn how genes from parents mix to create unique offspring.

Practice different parenting strategies from the animal kingdom and try to help your offspring reach adulthood.

Discover how different species reproduce by exploring brilliant, life-size models.

Hours
Open Daily: 10:00am – 5:00pm
General Admission is FREE! Timed-entry reservations are required

For additional information, visit the website @
californiasciencecenter.org/exhibits/life-beginnings

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FULL MUSEUM VIRTUAL TOUR
2022-08-23 | https://www.petersen.org/watch-page
STREAM NOW- TWO HOUR VIRTUAL TOUR- Petersen Auto Museum

Petersen Auto Museum welcomes you to join us as we do our first ever, 2+hour Full Museum & Vault Virtual Guided Tour. This tour will walk through almost all of the vehicles in the museum and cover the 5 newest exhibitions including Supercars, Extreme Conditions, Reclaimed Rust (the James Hetfield Collection), and Redefining Performance (Porsche).

Petersen Auto Museum Virtual Tour includes over 200 makes and models spanning over 120 years
of automotive history. You will also see the Vault presented by @Hagerty​, which includes celebrity cars like the @TheSmokingTire​‘s
Matt Farah’s Lamborghini, @Tavarish​‘s Lamborghini,
and Bruce Canepa’s #Porsche​ 959.

VAULT ABSTRACT
After an extensive renovation, the Vault presented by Hagerty® has more than doubled in size and now features over 250 vehicles from around the world. Discover some of the most iconic and rare cars, motorcycles, and trucks spanning over 120 years of automotive history. Visitors get to explore the history of the automobile, from early legends to stunning modern supercars. Visitors will see turn-of-the-twentieth-century cars, head-of-state vehicles, American classics, the personal rides of Hollywood legends, award-winning hot rods, cars that pushed the boundaries of innovation, and many other surprises.

Timestamps below for each floor.
​ Skip to 2nd Floor: 33:45​ (Motorsports, Motorcycles, James Hetfield’s Collection, Offroad & Porsche)
Skip to 1st Floor: 1:13:06​ (Science Fiction Cars)
Skip to Vault: 1:23:53​ (200+ car collection underground)

For additional information, visit the website @
https://www.petersen.org/watch-page

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Buffalo Soldiers in CA
2022-08-23 11:00 - 17:00 | California African American Museum, 600 State Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90037, United States
NOW ON EXHIBIT- CAAM, Expositions Park
Witness as California African American Museum opens exhibit on “For Race and Country: Buffalo Soldiers in California”, on display until October 30.
Buffalo Soldiers have been mythologized in movies, television programs, and popular songs. Despite this romanticism, the history of Buffalo Soldiers is complex, and their stories are relevant and worthy of deeper understanding.
For Race and Country: Buffalo Soldiers in California explores the surprising history surrounding all-Black US Army regiments whose members—both in and out of uniform—left powerful traces in the Golden State. Venturing beyond myths, the exhibition confronts the role of Black soldiers in the Army’s history of violence against Native American people, explores historical debates in the Black community over participation in wars, and exposes cracks in a society permeated by racism, in which African American soldiers faced the searing conflict between commitment to equality for their people and to the country they chose to serve. Such is the “double life” African Americans live, in the words of scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, including in the armed forces.
Through artifacts, audio interviews, photographs, historical records, period uniforms, newspapers, musical scores, and media representations, the exhibition presents a sweeping narrative of Black soldiers and their families who made California home during the era of government-sanctioned racial segregation in the US military. For Race and Country highlights Californians, from Northern California to the Mexican border, whose little-known influence transformed the state, and the nation.
For Race and Country: Buffalo Soldiers in California is curated by Susan D. Anderson, history curator, with consultant Anthony J. Powell and researcher Caroline Collins.
CAAM recently interviewed Susan D. Anderson and Anthony Powell about this exhibition:

600 State Drive, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California 90037
FREE! TUES – SUNDAY- Exposition Park
The California African American Museum (CAAM) focuses on enrichment and education on the cultural heritage and history of African Americans with a focus on California and western United States.

Admission is free to all visitors. The California African American Museum’s mission is to research, collect, preserve, and interpret for public enrichment the history, art, and culture of African Americans with an emphasis on California and the western United States.

CAAM’s permanent collection consists of over 4,000 objects ranging from the 1800s to the present. It encompasses paintings, photographs, film, sculpture, historical documents, and artifacts, and it spans nineteenth-century landscape paintings to modern artworks to contemporary mixed-media reflections on cultural and political events.

The Museum’s first acquisitions included a bronze bust of civil rights activist Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune by artist Richmond Barthé and a sculpture by artist Maren Hassinger, then at the start of her career. These laid the perfect groundwork for CAAM’s mandate to assemble a comprehensive, thoughtful, and wide-reaching collection.
CAAM’s deepest holdings include art made or connected to African Americans in California and the western United States. However, the Museum also has significant works of contemporary art from the African diaspora (including Haiti, Brazil, and Jamaica), as well as traditional African art from Western, Central, and Sub-Saharan Africa. CAAM aims to represent the diverse contributions of African Americans in the United States, but also to interpret how the past has affected identity in the present.

Today, CAAM oversees, exhibits, and conserves a rapidly growing collection. Each quarter, curators review the current holdings and decide as a committee on future acquisitions. We view our collection as a living body — constantly evolving, growing, and reflecting the world in which we live.

Some examples of CAAM’s collection include the Walter Burrell Collection of audio recordings of Burrell’s interviews with African American celebrities, broadcast by a local radio station in the early 1970s; the oral histories of Celes King, who was both a local civil rights activist as well as a former Tuskegee airman; and selections from the collection of visual artist John Outterbridge.

Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday: 11:00am – 5:00pm

For additional information, visit the website @
caamuseum.org/exhibitions

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Marion Davies Guest House Tour
2022-08-23 12:00 - 14:00 | Annenberg Community Beach House, 415 East Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, CA, 90402, United States
OPEN WEEK DAYS – Santa Monica State Beach
Discover the history and architecture of the Marion Davies Guest House! Take a glimpse at the great costume parties Davies hosted, which included guests like Clark Gable and Greta Garbo. And learn about the transformation of the landmarked Guest House and pool, which survive as the historic core of the estate today.

TOURS ARE ON FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY AT 12:00 pm TO 2:00 pm
Santa Monica Conservancy docents will be on hand to share the rich history of the Beach House site from the 1920s onward.

Free 20-minute docent tours are available on a walk-up basis, for groups of up to six people. Just head to the Marion Davies Guest House where you will be greeted by a docent.
Please mask up, masks are required indoors at City of Santa Monica facilities. Please do not visit if you are sick or experiencing COVID-19 symptoms.
*Hours are subject to change with a short notice from October through May. Please check the website calendar or call 310-458-4904 to confirm dates and closures.

GALLERY

Stop by the Beach House for Art Bank: Selected Works from the City of Santa Monica Art Collection and view pieces by standout artists from Southern California and further afield. Paintings, prints, photography, and sculpture join public art project maquettes and preparatory drawings for an eclectic mix of style and subject. The Art Bank municipal art collection was instituted in 1984 to bring art into Santa Monica’s public spaces and is funded through the City of Santa Monica’s Percent for Art Program.

415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, CA, 90402

Year-round, enjoy a varied schedule of cultural programs, classes, and recreational amenities. The site is fully accessible, including a pool lift and beach wheelchair.
During the summer, explore amenities and programs including summer-inspired classes and the pool. Annual events include the Community Picnic and Cardboard Yacht Regatta. Reservations are available – though not required – for the canopies and beach courts. Beach courts reservations are available year-round.
Fall, winter, and spring offer more contemplative programming including Audubon Society Bird Walks, Happy Birthday Marion! and Julia Morgan Legacy Tours. This time of year also provides ample opportunity for businesses, organizations, and individuals to rent event spaces for meetings and special events. The site is also available for commercial film and photo shoots. Pop Up Pool Days may be scheduled around holiday weekends depending on weather and event bookings.
THINGS TO KNOW

The Annenberg Comunity Beach House is a public site, open to all. No membership or reservations are required!
The grounds including the playground, beach courts and fields, beach access, and the parking lot are open daily.
The public spaces including the courtyard, splash pad, and sandy areas open daily excluding select holidays, and are first-come, first-served with no charge to access. Reservations are not available for these areas
Tables, chairs, and umbrellas are available for use in the courtyard, splash pad, & view deck
The pool is open daily during the summer, with select weekends in late spring and early fall. The pool is closed for the season from October through May. See pool schedule and admission fees.
Reservable canopies in the sand are available during the summer through Reserve Santa Monica.
Year-round, guests are welcome to bring their own canopy, tables, and chairs to set up in the sandy areas. Please refer to below Beach House Rules for prohibited items
BEach volleyball courts and soccer fields are available to reserve year-round. First come, first served courts are also available.
Free Santa Monica wi-fi is available

FREE AMENITIES

Courtyard
Splash Pad
View Deck
PLayground
Beach Wheelchairs
First-come, first-served Beach Volleyball & Soccer Courts
Beach Access
City of Santa Monica

PAID AMENITIES

Parking
Pool
Classes
Reservable Canopies in the Sand
Standup Paddleboard Rentals
Reservable Beach Volleyball Courts

For additional information, visit the website @
annenbergbeachhouse.com

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