ART BEAT : ARTISTIC APPETITE.Byline: Lori Moody Would you be willing to pay $500 to dine with Monty Hall of ``Let's Make a Deal''? How about $500 for cocktails at the House of Harry Winston, where you can don a bauble before heading off to a black-tie dinner at Fred Hayman in Beverly Hills? Or $150 for a ``fantasy party'' at Neiman Marcus? The Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California, located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. is presenting ``Art of the Palate '96,'' a series of 50 fund-raising dinners throughout town on Sept. 26 and 27. The dinners are hosted by museum benefactors and arts patrons and take place at a variety of venues, including Mayor Richard Riordan's Brentwood residence with guest chef Wolfgang Puck, Walt Disney Studios The name Walt Disney Studios may refer to:
The invitees are museum members, L.A. arts patrons and Museum Council members. Proceeds are earmarked for the museum to acquire CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). gallery guides. Funds raised from a similar event in 1994 helped reopen the museum on Tuesdays. For information, call (213) 857-6515. Universal appeal Beginning his weekend, the monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery in India will create a sand painting mandala mandala (mŭn`dələ), [Skt.,=circular, round] a concentric diagram having spiritual and ritual significance in Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism. , a ritualistic design symbolizing the universe, at the Pacific Asia Museum The Pacific Asia Museum is an Asian art museum located at 46 N. Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, California, United States. The museum was founded by Grace Nicholson who was a dealer in Native American and, later, Asian art and antiques. in Pasadena to commemorate a visit by the Dalai Lama. The sand painting will begin with an opening ceremony Sunday and continue through a closing ceremony on Aug. 8. The Dalai Lama is expected to visit the museum during a three-day visit to Pasadena beginning July 31. Sand painting, an artistic tradition of Tantric tan·tra n. Any of a comparatively recent class of Hindu or Buddhist religious literature written in Sanskrit and concerned with powerful ritual acts of body, speech, and mind. Buddhism, is done by layering colored sand through a funnel onto a flat platform. The mandala usually is destroyed after its completion to represent life's impermanence im·per·ma·nent adj. Not lasting or durable; not permanent. im·per  ma·nence, im·per . Seating for the opening and closing ceremonies is limited, and reservations are required. Admission is $50 for either day. Regular admission to see the sand mandala between Sunday and Aug. 8 will be $7 per person per viewing. For information and reservations, call (818) 449-2742, Ext. 30. Once upon a time The UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History The Fowler Museum at UCLA or more commonly, The Fowler is a museum on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) which explores art and material culture primarily from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, past and present. will present storytelling and dance on Sunday in conjunction with its exhibit of fanciful ceramic creatures from Mexico. Olga Loya will tell stories of mythic creatures and animals from 2 to 3 p.m. A dance program derived from Mexican folkloric traditions will be held between 4 and 5:30 p.m. For information, call (310) 825-4361. |
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