ARTS.Byline: - Valerie Kuklenski While King Tut and his family were being enshrined with lavish possessions signifying their royal lineage and a promise of a comfortable afterlife, on the other side of the world just a few centuries later, the Mayan kings were having their images incorporated into icons reflecting their oneness with the gods of maize, the sun and other important divinities. Ticket demand remains high for the King Tut exhibit at LACMA LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA Los Angeles County Medical Association LACMA Latin American and Caribbean Movers Association West, but with much less fanfare the main museum last week opened ``Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship.'' The show displays some 150 elements ranging from large altarpieces to polished jewels, about half of which have never been displayed before in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. lack the dazzle of Tut's gold-leafed treasures; jade was the most precious commodity in Central America and Southern Mexico 2,000 years ago. But they are remarkable for their storytelling functions, their workmanship and their very survival of the passage of time, erosive e·ro·sive adj. Causing erosion. elements and often mishandling by looters. Here are details on those and other museum exhibits this fall. TODAY Max Liebermann: From Realism to Impressionism impressionism, in painting impressionism, in painting, late-19th-century French school that was generally characterized by the attempt to depict transitory visual impressions, often painted directly from nature, and by the use of pure, broken color to , 70-plus works by the famed German painter, Skirball Cultural Center  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , through Jan. 29, $6-$8; (310) 440-4500, www.skirball.org. ONGOING Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, LACMA West, through Nov. 15, $15-$30 (plan ahead); (323) 857-6000, www.lacma.org. Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship, 150 objects from ancient Mexico and Central America, LACMA, through Jan. 2, $5-$9; (323) 857-6000, www.lacma.org. An Assortment of Beauties: Japanese Woodblock wood·block n. 1. See woodcut. 2. also wood block Music A hollow block of wood struck with a drumstick to produce percussive effects in an orchestra. Prints Collected by Frank Lloyd Wright, a source of the architect's inspiration, Norton Simon Museum This article is for the Norton Simon Museum in California. See this link for the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida.'' The Norton Simon Museum is a premier art museum located in Pasadena, California. , through Jan. 9, $4-$8; (626) 449-6840, www.nortonsimon.org. Patty Chang: Shangri-La, multimedia installation about a South China farming village, Hammer Museum, through Oct. 16, $3-$5; (310) 443-7000, www.hammer.ucla.edu. Collapse?, multimedia exhibit on impact of civilizations on environments and vice versa VICE VERSA. On the contrary; on opposite sides. , Natural History Museum, through Jan. 15, $6.50-$9; (213) 763-3466, www.nhm.org. SEPT. 20 Scene of the Crime: Photo by Weegee, collection of images by crime photographer Arthur Fellig, also known as Weegee, Getty Center, through Jan. 22, free admission; (310) 440-7300, www.getty.edu. SEPT. 25 Spider Pavilion, Natural History Museum, through Nov. 6, $1-$3; (213) 763-3466; www.nhm.org. OCT. 20 Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro, 1865-1885, 40 paintings apiece by the two artists who often worked side by side, LACMA, through Jan. 16, $5-$9; (323) 857-6000, www.lacma.org. OCT. 27 Contemporary Projects 9: Gajin Fujita and Pablo Vargas Lugo, LACMA, through Feb. 12, $5-$9; (323) 857-000, www.lacma.org. NOV. 6 Damian Ortega: The Beetle Trilogy and Other Works, MOCA MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA Multimedia over Coax MoCA Museum of Chinese in the Americas MOCA Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance MOCA Montezuma Castle National Monument (US National Park Service) , through Jan. 9, $4-$8; (213) 626-6222, www.moca.org. NOV. 20 Masters of the American Comics, joint exhibition of Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, through March 12, $3-$5; (310) 443-7000, www.hammer.ucla.edu. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1) 'THE ARTIST'S WIFE AT THE BEACH' FROM 'MAX LIEBERMANN: FROM REALISM TO IMPRESSIONISM,' TODAY THROUGH JAN. 29, SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER (2) PAUL CEZANNE'S 'THE HOUSE OF THE HANGED MAN' FROM 'PIONEERING MODERN PAINTING: CEZANNE AND PISSARRO, 1865-1885,' OCT. 20 THROUGH JAN. 16, LACMA (3) 'COSMIC THING, 2002' FROM 'DAMIAN ORTEGA: THE BEETLE TRILOGY AND OTHER WORKS' NOV. 6 THROUGH JAN. 9, MOCA |
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