An offer of free museum admission (for some)

Membership has its privileges, and one of them is free admission to local museums.

Bank of America is offering free admission to participating museums Saturday and Sunday as part of its Museums on Us program. Customers must present their Bank of America ATM, credit or check card plus a valid photo ID to gain free admission.

Participating museums include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Autry National Center of the American West, the Museum of Latin American Art and MUZEO.

Other local institutions in the program are the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Riverside Art Museum and the Living Desert in Palm Desert.

Bank of America said it will sponsor other free admission weekends, including Feb. 6-7, March 6-7, April 3-4 and May 1-2.

The Museums on Us program isn't valid for special exhibitions, fund-raising events or ticketed shows unless otherwise stipulated, according to Bank of America.

In California, other participating museums include: the De Young Museum in San Francisco, the Birch Aquarium at Scripps in La Jolla and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.

In New York, participating museums include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Aquarium and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

-- David Ng

Photo: Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach. Credit: Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times

Comments

[TylerDurden]

Since B of A was rescued this year with taxpayer money, it's "Museums on Us" campaign is really something we, the taxpayer, have already paid for. It's all part of their campaign to dupe more people into supporting their billion-dollar executive bonuses...plus they're scared that us taxpayers are closing our Big Brother Bank accounts and switching to community banks and credit unions.

They can keep their stupid museum programs. Start lending again, and stop ripping off customers with exorbitant fees, and then you might have some legitimacy.

[Cate]

Happy new year, I guess. (sigh)

[Donald Frazell]

MoLAA is always open free on Sundays thanks to Target. And Cate, rejoice, life is wondrous. Dont let the follies of the few ruin the gift of life god has given us. No matter what religion or how you view god, there is more than just our puny being. Be grateful, and work for god, which is the blending and exhaltation of the all, of nature, of man, of whatever god is to you, that brings your life meaning.

For god is beyond all understanding, humanity? Pitiful only when it takes its preemincence and vanity seriously. We have great potential, lets use it for the common good. For that IS god. Our reason for being, our Purpose, living with love and passion. Inner peace if the common theme of all religions. That man fails is our imperfection and conceit. Bitterness and isolation in selfishness is against our species, and the root of our failures. Yet has become the foundation of academic entertainments for the few.

Now is a time of opportunity, of change. Fundamentally, in how we see ourselves, and this is arts calling. It is time we stepped up and performed our role in humanity. To inspire, to reflect the truth of who we are, and why we struggle to benefit mankind. Art must change before this can happen, and now is the time. Artists cannot point fingers, but needs to go look in the mirror, and see the fat whore she has become. Instead of the goddess she was meant to be.

It is time to get to work, we are what we do, not the meaningless words we mouth but dont follow. And rejoice in the life we have been given.

Happy New Year!
Art collegia delenda est
Save the Watts Towers, tear down the Ivories.