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| Calendar of All Events |
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| Now through September 22, see website for hours |
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Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave, Exhibition
The first mid-career survey of the work of Marlene Dumas (b. 1953, Cape Town, lives in Amsterdam) to be organized by an American institution. Dumas’s rigorous investigation of the human condition is manifested through portraiture, figuration, and her ongoing, painterly exploration of the body. The exhibition includes over 100 paintings and drawings and is organized according to specific subjects Dumas has examined throughout her 30-year career, including children, pregnant women, the dead, and the female nude.
MoCA, 250 S. Grand Ave., LA
Phone: (213) 621-2766
Visit the website: http://www.moca.org/
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| Now through August 31, call for hours |
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Women of Art and Science, Exhibition
This exhibition charts the artistic and scientific explorations of German artist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) and her daughters Johanna Helena and Dorothea Maria. Enterprising and adventurous, these women raised the artistic standards of natural history illustration and helped transform the field of entomology, the study of insects. The exhibition presents books, prints, and watercolors by Merian and her contemporaries and features one of the greatest illustrated natural history books of all time, The Insects of Suriname.
J. Paul Getty Museum, 1200 Getty Center Dr., LA
Phone: (310) 440-7330
Visit the website: http://www.getty.edu/
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| Every Wednesday from August 6 - October 1, 7 pm |
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Organizing Events for Radical Woman, Meetings
Volunteers are invited to attend weekly meetings to plan Radical Women's 41st Anniversary Conference, to be held October 3-6 in San Francisco. Discuss current campaigns, outreach and other ideas.
Solidarity Hall, 2170 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City
Phone: (323) 732-6416
Visit the website: http://www.radicalwomen.org/
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| Every Wednesday from August 6 - October 1, 7 pm |
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Organizing Events for Radical Woman, Meetings
Volunteers are invited to attend weekly meetings to plan Radical Women's 41st Anniversary Conference, to be held October 3-6 in San Francisco. Discuss current campaigns, outreach and other ideas.
Solidarity Hall, 2170 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City
Phone: (323) 732-6416
Visit the website: http://www.radicalwomen.org/
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| August 21, 7 pm |
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Keeping an Eye on Earth's Changing Climate: The Ocean Surface Topography Mission, Talk
Following in the footsteps of Topex/Poseidon and Jason-1 spacecrafts, the Ocean Surface Topography Mission has the responsibility of continuing one of the most important on-going chronicles of Earth's changing climate - the detailed measurements of global sea level. The spacecraft will use a JPL-built advanced microwave radiometer with state-of-the-art integrated circuit technologies along with a new, larger antenna design. These improvements have reduced its mass and power requirements and yet will provide better resolution, improved performance and reliability. Speaker is JPL's Dr. Parag Vaze.
von Kármán Auditorium at JPL, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena
Phone: (818) 354-0112
Visit the website: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
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| August 22, 7 - 10 pm |
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Kidspace After Dark, Outdoor Events
Explore Kidspace after dark with interactive games and programs that teach about our natural world at night. Children and adults will participate in fun-filled activities that explore astronomy, night bugs/animals, and night life. Also enjoy free time in the Digging Deeper Gallery, s'mores for desert, and a night hike through the Kidspace gardens!
Kidspace Children’s Museum, 480 N. Arroyo Blvd., Pasadena
Phone: (626) 449-9144
Visit the website: http://www.kidspacemuseum.org
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| September 3, 7:30 pm |
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L.A. versus Seattle: Whose Pacific Rim is it?, Panel
Los Angeles and Seattle have different histories, economies, leaders, ambitions, and demographic profiles. But both rely upon huge harbor, shipping, and transportation infrastructures as vital to metropolitan and regional growth; both claim intimate and expanding trade and other relationships with the Pacific Rim. The panel includes UCLA political scientist Steve Erie, David Olson of the University of Washington, and Thomas O’Brien from the Center for International Trade and Transportation at Cal State Long Beach to discuss these two urban giants' approach toward Asia.
Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., LA
Phone: (213) 403-0416
Visit the website: http://www.zocalola.org/
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| September 3 - November 8, check website for hours |
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Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence, Exhibition
The shadow — literally, the absence of light — represents something that is beyond the object yet inseparable from it. In many of the works in Phantasmagoria, shadows are used to allude to death, the obscure and the unnamable, and to construct allegories of loss and disappearance. The artists evoke the history of the shadow theater in several of these pieces, including a video animation by South African artist William Kentridge; and the shapeshifting shadow cast by French artist Christian Boltanski's revolving doll, which recalls imagery from the carnival as well as figurines used to celebrate the Mexican Day of the Dead. Mist, breath and fog are often associated with mystery as in works by Rosângela Renno and Jeppe Hein's work.
USC Fisher Museum of Art, 823 Exposition Blvd., USC, LA
Phone: (213) 740-4561
Visit the website: http://www.uscfishermuseumofart.org
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| September 18, 11:30 am |
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Meg Whitman, Outgoing CEO eBay, Lunch, Talk
During her tenure, eBay grew from 30 employees and a little over $4 million in revenue to more than 15,000 employees and $7.7 billion in revenue. Prior to eBay, Meg was general manager of Hasbro Inc.'s Preschool Division, responsible for global management and marketing of two of the world's best-known children's brands, Playskool and Mr. Potato Head. Whitman announced that she would step down from the helm of eBay to spend more time on philanthropy and politics. She previously worked as a fund-raiser for McCain's rival, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who bowed out of the presidential race.
Omni Hotel, 251 South Olive St., LA
Phone: (213) 628-8141
Visit the website: http://www.townhall-la.org
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| September 27 & October 18, 9 am - 1 pm |
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California Native Plant Garden Design with Andreas Hessing, Classes
This comprehensive course for home gardeners offers a sound foundation in the design process, the importance of sustainability, design styles, how to model a garden after patterns in nature, devising a base/plot plan, hardscape materials, irrigation, soils and more.
Theodore Payne Foundation, 10459 Tuxford St., Sun Valley
Phone: (818) 768-1802
Visit the website: http://www.theodorepayne.org/
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