Matthew Marks Gallery

Charles Ray's Sleeping Woman (2012), made out of solid stainless steel

This week's list includes an awkward, bearded voyeur in West Hollywood, a picture of a white horse in a Chinatown basement and stereoscopic images of made-up archeology in Crenshaw.

5. Underground Malibu in 3-D
The name "Malibu" comes from "Humaliwo," a word the Chumash Native American people used to mean "where the waves crash loudly." Benjamin Lord calls his new portfolio of stereoscopic photographs the Humaliwo Chambers, because they imagine a web of chambers and tunnels in the Malibu hillside. The photographs -- dense archeological fantasies of miniature coliseums in sand or rock formations covered in graffiti -- are meant to be seen in 3-D through a sterescope viewfinder. Lord has set one up and laid out his portfolios at the end of the main hallway in "Pale Fire," the new show Lily Siegel curated at Latned Atsar. 3222 W. Jefferson Blvd.; through June 4, by appointment. latnedatsar.com.

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It is when watching the movie Titanic in 3D that one appreciates anew the obsessive dedication to visual splendor, period detail and overall cinematic majesty that drives James Cameron to be the maker of not merely movies, but giant epics for the ages.

A special screening was held recently at Paramount to give a sneak peak of some of the three-dimensionalized footage of the 1997 blockbuster, the entirety of which will be released in theaters in April 2012 as Titanic 3D. Whatever one's usual taste or preference in filmed content, one simply has to admit that this movie looks fantastic, it's a hell of a piece of (dark) fairy-tale storytelling and the addition of that third visual dimension makes it in an even more immersive trip.

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If you go to a store called Dapper Cadaver in Sun Valley here in Los Angeles, you will see many weird things. Of the weird things, this monkey's paw is perhaps one of the weirdest. The monkey's paw, of course, is infamous for bringing bad luck to those who use it to make their wishes come true.

Proprietor B.J. Winslow took time out of his busy Halloween schedule to answer my questions about the paw.

Where did you get this monkey's paw? Did you make it yourself?

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Check out more of Christopher Victorio's photos in "Mummies of the World @ California Science Center."

California Science Center welcomed its 100,000th guest for the "Mummies of the World" exhibition on Thursday, according to a recent press release. The guest who helped the museum reach this milestone was James Medrano of Pomona, who received a special gift pack filled with memorabilia from the exhibition and a year-long membership from the Science Center.

Christopher Victorio

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See more photos in "Mummies of the World @ California Science Center."

On July 1, "Mummies of the World" opened at the California Science Center in Exhibition Park. The exhibit, which brings together both natural and intentional mummies of humans and animals from across the globe, is both a display of archaeological findings and an ongoing scientific research project. In May, we covered the arrival of the mummies, which you can read in "California Science Center Prepares for 'Mummies of the World.'"

Christopher Victorio

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On July 1, California Science Center will unveil an unprecedented collection of forty-five mummies and ninety-five related artifacts. The exhibit, "Mummies of the World," will feature both natural and intentional mummies hailing from collections in fifteen different museums and seven different countries. These will include one of the oldest known mummies in the world, a child mummy from Peru that is more than 6,000 years old, a family that succumbed to tuberculosis during the 18th century and a 17th century baron who is believed to have died during the Thirty Years' War. Friday morning, a motorcade transporting these human remains arrived at the Science Center to begin preparations for this world premiere event.

American Exhibitions, Inc.

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