THE ARTS AROUND TOWN STEAM Machines: A Contest of Curious Contraptions November 15, 11:30am-5pm, Santa Monica Pier The 2nd annual S.T.E.A.M. event at the Santa Monica Pier is a celebration of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math with an infusion of Art throughout. Pilot a mini-sub, check out Steve Craig’s drawing machines, enjoy ultimate recycling inventions and 3D printed objects. This one is not to be missed!! Montrose -Verdugo City Art Walk Sunday November 16th, 9:00am-4:00pm, 2300 Honolulu Block in Montrose The hillside community tucked between Glendale and the foothills puts together a street exhibition for its local artists. Event is free and open to the public. Visitors will enjoy art demonstrations, live music, and local food discoverlosangeles/what-to-do/events/montrose-verdugo-city-art-walk-1 Family Jam: City Sounds’ Beat Boxing Sunday, November 16, 2-4pm, UCLA Fowler Museum, Free Artist Pascale Marthine Tayou overlays sounds of urban life with visual materials in his installation Favelas. Carlo Nick Paredes layers various mouth sounds to create music. Learn about the beat boxing art form and make your own music using your mouth and a handmade microphone. Performance from 2–3 pm. fowler.ucla.edu/events/family-jam-city-sounds%E2%80%99-beat-boxing Pompeii: The Exhibition California Science Center Thru January 4 This exhibition features over 150 precious artifacts on loan from the Naples National Archaeological Museum in Italy, which offer a glimpse into the opulent lifestyle and tragic end of this ancient Roman society forgotten for centuries until its rediscovery over 250 years ago. From garden frescoes and marble statues to gladiator armor, coins and currency to religious altars and shrines — all set in their original surroundings — experience daily life in this once vibrant Roman city. Give More Than You Take Thru January 18th, UCLA Hammer Museum, Free American artist Jim Hodges is known for his singular ability to infuse emotion and narrative into the objects of daily life, creating poignant studies based in temporality, life, and love. This is the first comprehensive survey to be organized in the United States on the work of the New York–based artist. Featuring some 75 pieces produced from 1987 through the present, Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take brings together photography, drawing, works on paper, and objects rendered in mirror, light bulbs, silk flowers, and glass alongside several major room-size installations. hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2014/jim-hodges-give-more-than-you-take/ Bearing Witness: Embroidery as History is Post-Apartheid South Africa Thru December 7th, UCLA Fowler Museum, Free Artists from two community art groups—The Mapula Embroidery Project, founded in 1991 in the Winterveldt area outside Pretoria, and Kaross Workers, founded in 1989 on a citrus farm in Limpopo Province—have for several decades used the art of embroidery to express views on diverse issues affecting life in South Africa. See a selection of these fantastically-hued pictorial embroideries—all produced circa 2000, six years after the demise of apartheid—which reveal the deeply political imaginations that have inspired them. fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/bearing-witness-embroidery-history-post-apartheid-south-africa
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