 The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, a place worthy of your visit for its own merits...Los Angeles County Museum of Art 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036 Tel. 323-857-6000 http://www.lacma.org/ Exhibitions: Transformation Phase I featuring the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM), BP Grand Entrance, and outdoor works by Chris Burden, Robert Irwin, Jeff Koons, and Charles Ray. Tradition as Innovation in African Art This exhibition will include the works of over thirty African artists, most from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA's Collection Images of both the utopian and the dystopic took shape in the vision of artists working in the 1960s and 70s in southern California, emerging on the one hand in the sleek, elegant, at times even transcendental works of the so-called "light and space" and "finish fetish" artists; and on the other hand in the gritty, even tawdry imagery and materials of assemblage and California pop. This exhibition will look at both these strands in the art of southern California in the 1960s and 70s, with echoes into the 1980s and 1990s. Permanent Collection African Art, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Art of the Ancient Americas, Art of the United States, Chinese Art, Contemporary Art, Costume and Textiles, Decorative Arts and Design, Egyptian Art, European Painting, European Sculpture, German Expressionist Art (The Robert Gore Rifkind Center), Greek and Roman Art, Islamic Art, Japanese Art, Korean Art, Latin American Art, Modern Art, Photography, Prints and Drawings and South and Southeast Asian Art.  Hancock Park, the home of the Page Museum and the La Brea Tar Pits.
Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits 5801 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036 (323) 934-PAGE (7243) Hours: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm http://www.tarpits.org Admission Prices: Adults: $7.00 Seniors 62 and older and Students with I.D.: $4.50 Youths 13-17 years old: $4.50 Children 5-12 years old: $2.00 Members and Children under 5: Free The Page Museum is located at the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in the heart of Los Angeles. Rancho La Brea is one of the world’s most famous fossil localities, recognized for having the largest and most diverse assemblage of extinct Ice Age plants and animals in the world. Visitors can learn about Los Angeles as it was between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age, when animals such as saber-toothed cats and mammoths roamed the Los Angeles Basin. Through windows at the Page Museum Laboratory, visitors can watch bones being cleaned and repaired. Outside the Museum, in Hancock Park, life-size replicas of several extinct mammals are featured. 
The Petersen Automotive Museum6060 Wilshire Blvd.(at Fairfax,) Los Angeles, CA 90036 10:00 am - 6:00 pm http://www.petersen.org/ Adults $10.00 Seniors (62 and over) $5.00 Students with I.D. $5.00 Active Military with I.D. $5.00 Children (5-12 years) $3.00 Children under 5 Free The Petersen Automotive Museum, recognized internationally for its innovative design, is dedicated to the interpretive study of the automobile and its influence on our culture and lives. Encompassing more than 300,000 square feet, its exhibits and lifelike dioramas feature more than 150 rare and classic cars, trucks and motorcycles. Exhibitions: LA VIDA LOWRIDER: CRUISING THE CITY OF ANGELS, ALTERNATIVE POWER : Lessons from the Past, Inspiration for the Future, Hollywood and the Car. 
The Craft and Folk Art Museum5814 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90036 323-937-4230 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm http://www.cafam.org/ General: $5 Students and Seniors: $3 Children under 12 FREE Mythical Creatures and Characters: Tales from Around the World An homage to arguably the oldest art form, this exhibit examines the history and role of storytelling in the preservation of culture and transference of community values. Showcasing puppets, mythical characters and creatures are presented as heroes, villains, wise elders, or tricksters on their journey to fulfillment. This exhibit celebrates the universal human experience captured so sublimely in our stories. Featuring puppets from the Conservatory of Puppetry Arts, Pasadena. |