The Getty Center

Despite not being renowned as a “Museum city,” Los Angeles has its fair share of good art and good artifacts. They’re a great place to visit even as a native Angeleno and definitely a great idea if you’re a student, since many museums around L.A offer special deals and discounts to college students.

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The Feds are busting the museum? Just after 7:30 this morning, warrants to the LACMA, Pasadena’s Pacific Asia Museu, The Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, and in the Mingei International Museum of San Diego’s were granted to search the galleries, offices, stories, computers, and everything else, for an investigation on the possibly art smugglers Robert Olson and the owner of the Los Angeles Asian art gallery Jonathan Markell. An unnamed agent presented himself as a eager collector to Olson and Markell, both man allegedy sold him looted objects.

The warrants are based on an undercover investigation by an unnamed agent with the National Park Service, who presented himself as an eager new collector to Olson and Markell. Both men allegedly admitted their illegal activities to the agent and sold him recently looted objects.

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We all know the French are responsible for most of the good things in America.

But who knew that they played an instrumental part much closer to home? Namely, well, home - aka Los Angeles.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. at the Hammer Museum presents:

Wole Soyinka in conversation with UCLA faculty member Mona Simpson and Theresia de Vroom of Loyola Marymount University.

The Line Up:

Wole Soyinka, Nobel prize-winning playwright, poet, and novelist, is considered by many to be Africa’s finest writer. Born in Nigeria, his work serves as a record of twentieth-century Africa’s political turmoil and struggle to reconcile tradition with modern culture. Soyinka has published over 40 works in a career that spans five decades including recently Mandela’s Earth and Other Poems; Art, Dialogue, and Outrage; and The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis.

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