ART EXHIBITS & MUSEUMS.Byline: - Valerie Kuklenski Angelenos have a love-hate relationship with major art exhibitions. We love that we're in a major metropolitan area, ensuring our museums are favored with - or sometimes assemble - the most popular collections in the world, from the relics of Pompeii and Tutankhamen Tutankhamen or Tutenkhamon (t  t'ängkä`mən, –ĕngk–), fl. c.1350 B.C., king of ancient Egypt, of the XVIII dynasty. He was the son-in-law of Ikhnaton and succeeded to the throne after a brief reign by Ikhnaton's successor. to the best- known paintings of the impressionists and Pablo Picasso. We hate that, in order to view such shows, we are herded through galleries by the hundreds at a pace set by a taped tour guide. We muscle our way to the front of the throng to get a peek at the title and artist's name before being shouldered aside or rammed in the shins by a baby stroller, then practically log-flumed out of the building through the overstocked gift shop. Not so this fall. There are no big headline-grabbing exhibits, which means time to enjoy art for art's sake. A chance to sit down on a gallery bench, catch your breath, listen to the quiet and savor every detail of an artist's work. Some exhibits will sell more tickets than others, but art lovers' tastes vary, and there is something now and in the coming months for every palate. Or is that palette? Now open ``Work and Play: Everyday Life in Drawings, 1520-1820,''Getty Center Getty Center, art museum complex in Brentwood, Calif. operated by the J. Paul Getty Trust. It consists of six buildings on 124 acres (50 hectares) located on a spectacular promontory overlooking Los Angeles. Designed by architect Richard Meier, the center opened in 1997. The museum houses the Getty collections of European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, and decorative arts as well as European and American and European photographs. (through Oct. 14). ``David Hockney Retrospective: Photoworks,'' Museum of Contemporary Art at California Plaza (through Oct. 21). ``The Chromatic Eye: New York Paintings and Prints From the 1960s,'' Norton Simon Museum (through Oct. 22). ``The American Tradition and Walker Evans: Photographs From the Getty Collection,'' Getty Center (through Oct. 28). ``Color, Myth and Music: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism,'' Los Angeles County Museum Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, Calif. The original museum opened in 1913. Among its important patrons was William Randolph Hearst, whose enormous collection brought the museum major status among the country's art houses. The museum's collections include European, Asian, and American painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts. It also has an extensive collection of mosaics. The museum buildings on Wilshire Boulevard (1965) were designed by W. L. of Art (through Oct. 28). ``A Century of Fashion, 1900-2000,'' Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Installation to be updated in December, continues through Jan. 5, 2003. ``The Armenian Gospels of Gladzor,'' Getty Center (through Dec. 2). ``The Art of Play: Games and Amusements,'' Norton Simon Museum (through Dec. 3). ``What's Shakin': New Architecture in L.A.,'' two-part exhibit open through Dec. 30 at Museum of Contemporary Art at the Pacific Design Center, through Jan. 20 at MOCA at the Geffen Contemporary. ``Matta in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940s,'' MOCA at California Plaza (through Jan. 6). ``Aaron Siskind and Franz Kline: Expression Through Abstraction,'' MOCA at California Plaza (through Jan. 6). ``Douglas Gordon,'' MOCA at the Geffen Contemporary (through Jan. 20). ``A Room of Their Own: From Rothko to Rauschenberg,'' MOCA at California Plaza (ongoing). ``A Room of Their Own: From Arbus to Gober,'' MOCA at the Geffen Contemporary (ongoing). ``A Royal Menagerie: Porcelain Animals from Dresden,'' Getty Center (ongoing). ``Statue of an Emperor: A Conservation Partnership,'' Getty Center (ongoing). #Thursday ``Contemporary Projects 6: Los Carpinteros' Transportable City,'' Los Angeles County Museum of Art (through Jan. 13). Friday ``Freestyle,'' Santa Monica Museum of Art (through Nov. 18). Saturday ``Flo Oy Wong: Kindred Spirit,'' Japanese American National Museum (through March 31). Oct. 2 ``Lure of the West: Treasures From the Smithsonian American Art Museum,'' Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens (through Dec. 16). Oct. 5 ``13th Anniversary Gala,'' Autry Museum of Western Heritage. Oct. 6 ``Founder's Day exhibit,'' Autry Museum of Western Heritage (through Nov. 11). Oct. 7 ``Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (through Jan. 6). Oct. 17 ``The World From Here,'' UCLA Hammer Museum (through Jan. 13). Oct. 20 ``How the West Was Worn,'' Autry Museum of Western Heritage (through Jan. 21). Oct. 27 ``Living in Color: The Art of Hideo Date,'' Japanese American National Museum (through April 7). Oct. 30 ``Posing for Posterity: Portrait Drawings From the Collection,'' Getty Center (through Jan. 20). Nov. 4 ``Luca Giordano,'' Los Angeles County Museum of Art (through Jan. 20). Nov. 13 ``Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen,'' Getty Center (through Feb. 3). ``Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Optical Parables,'' Getty Center (through Feb. 17). Nov. 16 ``Pop Culture!,'' Norton Simon Museum (through Feb. 11). ``Lewis Baltz: Tract House Photographs, 1969-1971,'' Norton Simon Museum (through Feb. 11). Nov. 18 ``Seeing, LACMALab, Boone Children's Gallery (through Sept. 2). Dec. 1 ``A Day Without Art. Several local museums will shroud one or more works of art in recognition of AIDS' impact on the arts. Dec. 2 ``Liz Larner,'' MOCA at California Plaza (through March 10). Dec. 8 ``Mary Kelly: The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi,'' Santa Monica Museum of Art (through Jan. 20). Dec. 11 ``Museum Storage,'' Santa Monica Museum of Art (through Jan. 20). Dec. 13 ``The Kindness of Friends: Notable Gifts of Drawings and Prints, 1920-2001,'' Los Angeles County Museum of Art (through April 7). Dec. 14 ``Richard Diebenkorn,'' Norton Simon Museum (through April 8). Dec. 18 ``Artful Reading in Medieval and Renaissance Europe,'' Getty Center (through March 10). Dec. 21 ``Exploding Landscape: Naples and Vesuvius Vesuvius (vəs `vēəs), Ital. Vesuvio, only active volcano on the European mainland, S Italy, on the eastern shore of the Bay of Naples, SE of Naples. on the Grand Tour,'' Getty Research Institute Gallery (through March 24). CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Laylah Ali's untitled work is among the pieces in ``Freestyle'' at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Friday through Nov. 18. |
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