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Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990 

Using a wide variety of materials culled from archival collections, primarily the Getty Research Institute, the J. Paul Getty Museum presents Overdrive, an exhibition of Los Angeles's urban landscape, presented in a way that would be almost impossible to recreate from ground level in L.A. Drawings, photographs, models, films, animations, oral histories, and ephemera provide a view of L.A.'s "ambitious freeway network, sleek corporate towers, whimsical coffee shops, popular shopping malls, refined steel-and-glass residences, and eclectic cultural institutions." For example, visit the Engines of Innovation section to watch a video on how the Capitol Records building, a round, 13-story tower, was designed and built, and take a peek inside its recording studios, built underground to be soundproof. Community Magnets discusses institutions and buildings that draw people to Los Angeles and promote the city's culture. These include concert halls such as the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 1964; structures built for the 1984 Olympic games; shopping malls, and churches. The last section of the exhibition is a video gallery that brings together all the videos from other parts of the site, plus oral histories and animated maps.
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2013
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May 31st, 2013
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May 30th, 2013 at 10:14am
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May 30th, 2013 at 1:59pm
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