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Southern California’s landmark arts event, PST ART, returns in September 2024, presenting over 70 exhibitions from organizations across the region exploring the intersections of art and science, both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit pst.art

Date: Sunday, December 8, 2023
Enter at 12:00 pm
Exhibition tour: 1:30 to 2:15 pm
Give yourself at least 30 minutes to park and take the tram up to the museum/

Venue: GETTY CENTER
1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90049

Tickets: Free but you must reserve: https://tickets.getty.edu/Online/seatSelect.asp
Select December 8 at 12:00 PM

Parking is $25.00 per car. Carpooling is recommended.

Itinerary:
11:45 am meet and greet at the entrance
12:00 pm enter the museum
12:00 - 1:00 pm Join us for lunch at the cafeteria or explore exhibits on your own
1:15 pm line up for guided tour
1:30 - 2:15 pm Guided tour of Lumens: The Art and Science of Light
2:15 pm - ? explore exhibits
5:30 pm Museum closes

Lumens: The Art and Science of Light

September 10–December 8, 2024, GETTY CENTER
Web page: https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/lumen/index.html

To be human is to crave light. We rise and sleep according to the rhythms of the sun, and have long associated light with divinity. Focusing on the arts of western Europe, Lumen explores the ways in which the science of light was studied by Christian, Jewish, and Muslim philosophers, theologians, and artists during the “long Middle Ages” (800-1600 CE). During this period science (or the study of the physical universe) served as the connective thread for diverse cultures across Europe and the Mediterranean, uniting scholars who inherited, translated, and improved upon a common foundation of ancient Greek scholarship. Several contemporary artworks, including special installations by Helen Pashgian and Charles Ross will extend the exhibition’s reach throughout the Museum.

Related event: Prismatic Effect: A Conversation with Charles Ross
Hybrid event on October 27 at 1:00 pm PST
https://4142298.xyz/la-oc-weirdo-music-and-art-group/events/304064563

This exhibition is presented in English and Spanish. Esta exhibición se presenta en inglés y en español.

Supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities

Hybrid event by Orange County Astronomers
https://ocastronomers.org/

Date: Friday, Dec. 13 7:30
Every 2nd Friday of the month

In-Person Venue: Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University
336 N Center St, Orange, CA 92866

Zoom Link: https://www.ocastronomers.org/gmreg

Speaker: Robert Nemiroff
View Organizer Website

Other:
"What's Up?" John Garrett from TVA

This is a free and open to the public hybrid event, held both inperson and online.

This meeting’s speaker will present online from Michigan.

NASA’s Best Images and Videos 2024

Some of the most amazing images and videos from the popular NASA science website Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD: apod.nasa.gov) during 2024 will be presented. The science and stories behind these images will be discussed. Topics will include recently bright aurorae and comets visible from California, Webb and Hubble images of the nearby Solar System and distant universe, our active Sun, the best of amateur astrophotography from around the world, and more.

Dr. Robert Nemiroff is a Professor at Michigan Technological University. He holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is perhaps best known as a creator and editor for one of NASA’s most popular science websites: the Astronomy Picture of the Day at https://apod.nasa.gov/ .

His recent bestseller book “Faster than Light: How Your Shadow Can Do It but You Can’t” can be found here.

Due to the newly effective insurance requirements, we regret that we can not allow people under 18 on the Chapman Campus, they are welcome to attend online.

Tickets: $28 GA
Tour is free with museum entrance
https://my.lacma.org/events/25052?pt18=1

Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures

Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures, created in collaboration with scientists at the Carnegie Observatories and the Griffith Observatory, presents a group of rare and visually stunning artworks from different cultures and time periods to explore the variety of human attempts to explain the universe’s origins, mechanics, and meaning. Nearly every ancient culture has seen the heavens as a mirror of cosmic structure and process, and ancient measurements of time were directly influenced by the movements of heavenly bodies. Mapping the Infinite reveals how, as religions evolved, cultures conceived of and depicted cosmic deities and concepts of time and space through works of art and sacred architecture. The exhibition illuminates this history of cosmologies around the globe from the Stone Age to the present, from Neolithic Europe to the present day and including Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, South and Southeast Asia, East Asia, the Islamic Middle East, the Indigenous Americas, Northern Europe, and the United States.

Related exhibit: Josiah McElheny: Island Universe

Josiah McElheny’s dramatic Island Universe, installed in the center of the Resnick Pavilion, embodies the concept of the multiverse, or multiple coexisting universes. Now a key element of contemporary cosmological thinking, the concept of the multiverse was first proposed in ancient Greece, then in Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and 18th-century astronomy. McElheny, who is interested in how scientific inquiry is conditioned by and impacts philosophical, sociological, and political thought, finds a clear connection to the historical shifts that call for the decentering of Western knowledge, and even human-centric thought. The artist worked collaboratively with astrophysicist David Weinberg in developing Island Universe, which he considers “drawings of time,” with “each rod a measure of time—every inch, time doubles.”

A companion installation to the forthcoming PST ART: Art & Science Collide exhibition Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures
Events in Huntington Beach, CACosmologyArt