Art & Museums

If you're like me you've been desperately wanting to stroll the grounds of the Getty Villa in Malibu exploring the Greek antiquities and such yet have hesitated since it's reopening over two years ago because you just can't shake the image of the havoc your tiny tikes are sure to wreck if cut lose on the villa's beautiful grounds.

This Saturday, September 27, Smithsonian Magazine is sponsoring Museum Day 2008. "Enjoy free general admission for you and a guest to hundreds of museums and cultural venues nationwide. Present the Museum Day admission card to receive free general admission at participating Museum Day locations.

Nathan Sawaya is a professional LEGO artist and former LEGO Master Model Builder, who has been playing with LEGOS since he was five. "His work is obsessively and painstakingly crafted and is both beautiful and playful," says the museum. "Sawaya’s ability to transform LEGO bricks into something new, his devotion to scale and color perfection, the way he conceptualizes the action of the subject matter, enables him to elevate an ordinary toy to the status of art..."

Yeondoo Jung's "Wonderland" collection of images where children's drawings were transformed into photographs is simply magical. I know by watching my 8 year old son sketch out entire worlds he's imagined up that in his mind they are very realistic places where anything and everything can happen.