“Fridays Off the 405″ featuring Monsters Are Waiting
and Justin Warfield & DJ Adam 12
The Getty Center
6 - 9pm
Start your weekend on top of the world, or at least atop LA, at the Getty’s “Fridays Off the 405†series. This weekly installment of FREE music at Los Angeles’s most monolithic museum couples twilight views of everything south of Mullholand as an alternative to the grinding gridlock of the 405. Tonight is the last Friday performance at the Getty, as the end of summer will end the program until the spring when it will be moved to Saturdays, the day when everyone is free to crowd up the galleries and gardens and ruin the vibes.
The series is sponsored by KCRW, so it is no surprise that the band offerings are worth pulling off the freeway for. For instance, this week you can enjoy Monsters Are Waiting, a band that is automatically cool and legit as they hail from Echo Park. Opening the evening will be DJ combo of Justin Warfield & Adam 12 of She Wants Revenge.
And what better accompaniment to said music than the Getty’s permanent collection of art from garden sculptures to Bernini’s Baroque works. This particular evening has perfect timing, as it coincides with the closing of “Women of Art and Science†show, featuring the work of Maria Sibylla Merian and her daughters Johanna Helena and Dorothea Maria. This collection of natural history illustrations was originally intended to be useful and didactic, and is therefore just plain pretty, uncomplicated, and easy to look at, perfect for a Friday evening brain that is ready to relax and has been enjoying a few post-workday refreshments.
Likely, as a proud (or otherwise) citizen of Los Angeles, you have meandered the Getty’s various gardens and terraces, maybe even read or picnicked there. It is less probable however that you have gotten to enjoy it’s unique hill-top views during an orange-pink-purple LA sunset to the sounds of up-and-coming, atmospheric, indie rock. The art, views, and tunes will likely be all the sweeter as you watch, from a distance, the red brake lights snake slowly down the 405 (which you escaped by exiting at Getty Center Drive).
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