Last Chance / Ends This Weekend

Music

The Los Angeles Philharmonic gives its final 1998 summer performance today at the Hollywood Bowl. Led by music director Esa-Pekka Salonen, the orchestra plays Salonen’s “LA Variations,” selections from Stravinsky’s “The Firebird,” and with American mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt as soloist, Mahler’s “Songs of a Wayfarer.” The next time you can hear the Philharmonic is Oct. 5, in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, where it begins its winter season. Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave. 8:30 p.m. $1-$80. (323) 850-2000.

Art

“Margaret Mee: Return to the Amazon,” an exhibition of botanical works by the pioneering conservationist, closes Sunday at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino. Gallery hours today-Sunday, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Adults, $8.50; seniors, $7; students, $5; children under 12, free. (626) 405-2141.

Museums

Nearly 350 objects, including drawings, paintings, historical photographs and models, explore the multiple myths of the Magic Kingdom in “‘The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme Parks,” closing Sunday at the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood. Museum hours: today, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Adults, $4.50; students, seniors and UCLA faculty and staff, $3; UCLA students, $1; children under 17, free. (310) 443-7000.