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GENERAL INFORMATION Main Museum
850 San Clemente Drive
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Phone: 949.759.1122
Fax: 949.759.5623
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.ocma.net
Hours: 11 am – 5 pm, Wednesday – Sunday
(closed Mondays & Tuesdays)
Extended Hours: Thursdays open until 8 pm. Every third Thursday of the month is free to the public.
Admission: $10/adults; $8/students and seniors; Free for OCMA members and children 12 and under.Orange Lounge at South Coast Plaza
3333 Bear Street
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
(3rd Floor, Crate & Barrel Wing)
Phone: 949.759.1122 ext. 272
Hours: 10 am - 9 pm, Monday - Friday
10 am - 8 pm, Saturday
11 am - 6 pm, Sunday
Admission: FREE
Web: www.ocma.net/orangelounge DIRECTIONS To the museum:
From the 405 North, exit Jamboree Road West. Continue on Jamboree and turn left onto Santa Barbara Drive, then turn left on San Clemente Drive. Take an immediate left into the parking lot. From the 405 South, connect to the 73 South and exit Jamboree Road. Continue on Jamboree and turn left onto Santa Barbara Drive, then turn left on San Clemente Drive. Take an immediate left into the parking lot. Click here for mapTo the Orange Lounge:
Exit the 405 freeway at Bristol Street. Head East. South Coast Plaza will be on the left. Continue on Bristol and turn left on Sunflower. Travel one block and turn left on Bear Street. The South Coast Plaza Home wing (also known as Crystal Court) is located on the right. The Orange Lounge is on the third floor near Crate & Barrell and the central elevator. Public Transportation:
For bus service to the museum, bus lines 55, 57, 75 and 79 service the area. Route 1 connects to the 55 and the 79.
Orange County Transportation Authority

Music:

ORANGE CRUSH

Featuring some of the best indie bands and hottest DJs in Southern California! Admission includes access to the galleries and the Museum’s Citrus Cafe offers Karl Strauss beer and wine for purchase.

Doors open at 6 pm and performances begin at 8 pm.

$5 General/Free for OCMA Members

9BeetStretch May 3-4
Join us for a very special 24-hour performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Cosponsored by the Philharmonic Society of Orange County

Performance begins Saturday, May 3 at noon and continues until Sunday, May 4 at noon.

9BeetStretch, a musical composition and sound scape, conceived and implemented by Leif Inge, a Norweigan composer, is part of the Odd Beethoven Festival. Inge takes Beethoven's Ninth Symphjony and stretches it out over a 24-hour period. Even thought is it dramatically slower, those familiar with the real time version of the symphony will recognize it as they listen to it in this slow, much extended experience.

Spend the night at the museum and witness this one-of-a-kind experience!

Movies:

CINEMA ORANGE Co-sponsored and co-curated by the Newport Beach Film Festival, this series features encore presentations of recent independent films from the 2006 Newport Beach Film Festival.

The Cool School
March 13
7:30 pm
Directed by Morgan Neville
The Cool School explores how L.A. learned to love modern art. A lesson in how a few renegade artists built an art scene from scratch. Director Morgan Neville will participate in a post-screening Q & A.

FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION

Books:

ORDER THE BIRTH OF THE COOL CATALOGUE TODAY! Hardcover; 304 pages
$65
(member price: $58.50)

EDITED BY ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG

1950s West Coast style exuded “cool”: from the smooth, hypnotic strains of a Miles Davis riff through Richard Neutra’s elegant modernist residences to the hard-edged paintings of Helen Lundeberg and Karl Benjamin. This richly illustrated volume casts a fresh eye on Fifties West Coast style.

Elizabeth Armstrong is Deputy Director for Programs and Chief Curator of the Orange County Museum of Art.

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Heroes:

OCMA/UCI LECTURE SERIES 7:30 pm, select Wednesdays and Thursdays
This winter's OCMA/UC Irvine Lecture Series is the second in the annual series and is cosponsored by the Orange County Museum of Art and the Studio Art Department at the University of California, Irvine. It features four artists and one critic discussing the theme of site-specificity in their work.
This program is supported, in part, by Donald L. Bren.
Wednesday, March 5
Renee Greene
$10 general
$8 members
$5 students/seniors
ARTIST TALKS 7:30 pm, select Thursdays
Join artists in Disorderly Conduct: Recent Art in Tumultuous Times as they discuss their specific installations in this exhibition within the context of their artistic practice and how they relate to our particular cultural moment.
Thursday, March 20
Pearl C. Hsuing
Thursday, April 17
Daniel Joseph Martinez
Thursday, May 15
Glenn Kaino
THURSDAY LECTURE SERIES Contemporary Art: From Post War to Present
6:30 pm, select Thursdays
February 28: Minimalism, Conceptual, and Performance Art
Lecture by Karen Moss
March 27: Video Art
Lecture by Anne Bray
April 24: Site-Specicfic and Installation Art
Lecture by Julia Bryan-Wilson
May 29: Feminist Art from the 1960s to the Present
Lecture by Jeanne S. M. Willette
June 26: Postmodern Practices
$10 general
$8 members
$5 students/seniors
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