FROM ART AND AUTOMOTIVES TO NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE

• Getty Villa – the ancient world of Greece and Rome is only 15 minutes away at 17985 E. Pacific coast Hwy Pacific Palisades, CA 90272  Note: Parking Reservations are required. Call (310) 440-7300. Warren’s review: “This is what you do with taste and money.”
• Adamson House – 23200 Pacific Coast Hwy Malibu, CA 90265 310-456-8432 The first Malibu beach-house. Astounding ’30s tile decor. Warren’s review: “Killer seaside location. Uneven architectural style. An explosion in a tile factory.” and “When in doubt, tile it.”
• Getty Center – LA’s hilltop acropolis was conceived as a home for the contents of the J. Paul Getty Trust Art Collection. 1200 Getty Center Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90049 Phone: Warren’s review: “Bullock’s Department Store on the Hill. A great collection in two hundred more years.”
• LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art – 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 Warren’s review: “Lose the “rock”, the silly installations and the street lamps and you’ve got a good, old museum. Don’t miss the Japanese Museum next door.” Trivia note: When Warren was in music school at USC he played in the orchestra for the opening of the new buildings. They played Handel’s “Fireworks Music”. The teenage Michael Tilson Thomas “conducted” the fireworks display. Ask Warren for details.
• MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles – 250 S Grand Ave, Plaza Level, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Warren’s review: “Be critical. Be ruthless. Just because it’s in an art museum doesn’t mean it’s art.”
• Norton Simon Museum – Art, 411 W. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91105  Warren’s review: One of the best art museums in Los Angeles. Great collection of sculpture and paintings. Local version of Giverny gardens.”
• Hammer Museum – Art, 10899 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90024 Warren’s review: “A few real works of art adjacent to tiresome Woke nonsense.”
• Peterson Automotive Museum – Cars, 6060 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036 Warren’s review: “Car Guy’s Heaven. Period.”
• Science Museum, Natural History Museum and Rose Garden – Great for children and next to the USC campus, 900 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90007  Warren’s review: “See the Space Shuttle. It’s a hell of a lot bigger than you think.” Trivia note: Warren worked here in 1962 as a tour guide to help pay for his college across the street.”
• La Brea Tar Pits – Great for kids. 5801 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036 Warren’s review: “Millions of years and still bubbling up.”
• The Broad – 221 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, 90012 Contemporary Art. Warren’s review: “All statements, no paintings.”
• The Huntington – 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino 91108.  Extensive Botanical gardens, Research Library, Important Art Gallery, the Original Huntington Residence, two Japanese Houses, Sand Garden, Lake and Tearoom, an English Rose garden and Tearoom. Warren’s review: “The jewel of Los Angeles. Not to be missed.”