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We made our way around the southern end of the museum with its spectacular views, and across the courtyard to the Getty's airy restaurant, with its interior walls disarmingly decorated with food-related art by Alexis Smith, an absorbing, tongue-in-cheek challenge to the whole idea of "decoration" -- and still holding its own in the years since the museum's opening.

Peter Clothier: One Saturday: Art/L.A. Peter Clothier 2011

We made our way around the southern end of the museum with its spectacular views, and across the courtyard to the Getty's airy restaurant, with its interior walls disarmingly decorated with food-related art by Alexis Smith, an absorbing, tongue-in-cheek challenge to the whole idea of "decoration" -- and still holding its own in the years since the museum's opening.

Peter Clothier: One Saturday: Art/L.A. Peter Clothier 2011

It is both beautiful and haunting to see those Hebrew letters in Berman's works, on display both at the Armory and at the Getty's "Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture 1950-1970" survey.

Tom Teicholz: Wallace Berman: The Aleph Male Tom Teicholz 2011

Black Mussels in wine sauce at the Getty's French dinner.

Jay Weston: Paris: Life & Luxury Exhibit at Getty Museum Displays Wonderful World of Excess Jay Weston 2011

Black Mussels in wine sauce at the Getty's French dinner.

Jay Weston: Paris: Life & Luxury Exhibit at Getty Museum Displays Wonderful World of Excess Jay Weston 2011

It is both beautiful and haunting to see those Hebrew letters in Berman's works, on display both at the Armory and at the Getty's "Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture 1950-1970" survey.

Tom Teicholz: Wallace Berman: The Aleph Male Tom Teicholz 2011

It is both beautiful and haunting to see those Hebrew letters in Berman's works, on display both at the Armory and at the Getty's "Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture 1950-1970" survey.

Tom Teicholz: Wallace Berman: The Aleph Male Tom Teicholz 2011

Other wines are actually made by Getty family members, i.e., Gordon Getty's Plumpjack Winery in the Napa valley.

Monet and Montrachet: Museums With Great Wine Lettie Teague 2011

It is both beautiful and haunting to see those Hebrew letters in Berman's works, on display both at the Armory and at the Getty's "Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture 1950-1970" survey.

Tom Teicholz: Wallace Berman: The Aleph Male Tom Teicholz 2011

Black Mussels in wine sauce at the Getty's French dinner.

Jay Weston: Paris: Life & Luxury Exhibit at Getty Museum Displays Wonderful World of Excess Jay Weston 2011