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reFramed: In conversation with WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY curator Anne Wilkes Tucker
FrameworkAnne Wilkes Tucker is currently the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston where she has worked since 1976. She founded the Photography Department at the museum that now has a collection of over 28,000... -
William Wilson dies at 78; former Los Angeles Times art critic
For William Wilson, the former Los Angeles Times art critic who died Saturday at the age of 78, art was a childhood refuge, a teenage survival mechanism, and, finally, a career that saw him chronicle the city's rise in art-world stature from his first...Tags: Museums, World War I (1914-1918), Museum of Natural History, Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Home-building boom returning to Southern California
Morning light revealed pitched tents and scattered sleeping bags in front of the sales offices of luxury builder Woodbridge Pacific Group. Attracted by a dozen new Huntington Beach homes touted as "starting in the low 1,200,000s," about 15 hopefuls...
Tags: Foreclosures, Credit Ratings, House Building, Realty, Endangered Species
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Curatorial change for Hammer's 2014 'Made in L.A.' biennial
The Hammer Museum has confirmed a change in its curatorial team for the 2014 edition of “Made in L.A.,” the museum’s biennial exhibition. Karin Higa has withdrawn from her role as co-curator for health reasons and is being replaced by...
Tags: Museums, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Arts, Los Angeles International Airport, Arts and Culture
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Gift valued at $1 billion transforms Met's modern art collection
Museum leaders are generally reluctant to see themselves engaged in competition, but the Museum of Modern Art in New York just lost a big one — and will lose its reputation as the city's only great destination for the Cubism of Picasso and Braque as...
Tags: Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Times, Whitney Museum, Museums, Artists
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Chinese abstract painter Zao Wou-ki dies
Abstract painter Zao Wou-ki, whose work fetched millions of dollars and set records at auction, died Tuesday. He was 93. Zao suffered from Alzheimer's disease and poor health. He was living near Geneva with his third wife, Francoise Marquet, a former...
Tags: Auction Service, Alzheimer's Disease, Arts, Arts and Culture
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The jarring reality and artful beauty of photography
I wonder if the curators of the excellent "War/Photography" show at the Annenberg Space for Photography were tempted to include Jeff Wall's "Dead Troops Talk (A Vision After an Ambush of a Red Army Patrol, Near Moqor, Afghanistan, Winter, 1986)". It...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Wars and Interventions, Armed Conflicts, Armed Forces, Afghanistan
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Gifford Phillips dies at 94; contemporary art advocate
Gifford Phillips, a gentlemanly patron of cultural institutions and passionate advocate of contemporary art who played a leading role at museums on both coasts of the United States, has died. He was 94. Phillips died Wednesday of natural causes at a...
Tags: Museums, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Politics, Arts and Culture
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MOCA hits $75-million mark, nearing endowment goal
Trustees of the Museum of Contemporary Art say they have reached the $75-million mark in their campaign to establish a $100-million endowment, with $50 million raised in the last month alone. MOCA's board co-chairs Maria Bell and David Johnson said...
Tags: Eli Broad, Museums, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Budgets and Budgeting, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Pedro Ramirez Vazquez dies at 94; architect changed the face of Mexico City
Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, an architect who changed the face of Mexico City by designing a number of landmark modernist structures, died on Tuesday, his 94th birthday. The cause was pneumonia, according to Mexico's National Council for Culture and the Arts....
Tags: Mexico, Crime, Law and Justice, Museums, Human Rights, Mexico City
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‘Oblivion’ and Tom Cruise: A closer look at the Bubble Ship design
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesThe U.S.S. Enterprise, the Millennium Falcon, the Nostromo — in the best science-fiction movies, the spaceship is an iconic character ...... -
For LACMA, the chance to snap up MOCA is a deal too good to shelve
Everybody loves a bargain. Here's a big one. If you were a wealthy major art collector, and for the price of one classic Jackson Pollock drip-painting or Andy Warhol's 1963 silk-screen "Eight Elvises" you could acquire a few billion dollars worth of...
Tags: Eli Broad, Andy Warhol, Museums, Washington, DC, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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