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Glow .. Santa Monica

Glow Event - Santa Monica

Admission is free for the spectacular art event produced by the City of Santa Monica, California: Glow will take place Saturday, September 25, 2010 between 7 p.m. & 3 a.m., featuring site-specific artworks appearing on the famed Santa Monica Beach, Pier, and the Palisades Park.

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Getty Villa: Elegant Symmetry .. Echoes Ancient Rome

Getty Villa Outer Peristyle Hedge and Pool Photo © Alice Joyce

Located along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, the Getty Villa first opened in 1974 as the original J. Paul Getty Museum; the architecture of the site patterned after the Villa dei Papiri – a Roman country house dating to the first century. The Villa closed for renovation in 1997, just as The Getty Center opened to great fanfare in Los Angeles. After a 12-year closure, the cultural cognoscenti were abuzz by 2006 as the Getty Villa reopened with stunning exhibition spaces; presenting an unparalleled showcase for Greco-Roman & Etruscan antiquities. An overall stunning redesign by architects, Machado and Silvetti Associates of Boston received widespread praise.

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