ENTERTAINMENT
August 17, 2003 | Suzanne Muchnic
Is an anonymous strip of South La Cienega Boulevard the next hot spot in L.A.'s art gallery scene? Dealers Anna Helwing, Tim Blum and Jeff Poe are banking on it. Helwing launched herself in the gallery business in mid-July in a 2,000-square-foot space at 2766 S. La Cienega Blvd., just north of Washington Boulevard. Blum and Poe, who have operated a small but prestigious contemporary art gallery in Santa Monica for the past nine years, will move to a 5,000-square-foot gallery at 2754 S.
ENTERTAINMENT
July 19, 1986 | ROBERT McDONALD
After 23 years of dealing in art in the area, Sigmund and Muriel Wenger are moving to Los Angeles. It is a remarkable move, not only because of the couple's long identification with the San Diego art scene, but also because they are both in their 70s. The expectation would be that they would retire after having made a significant contribution to San Diego's art history. But the Wengers have always been an adventurous pair.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 6, 2004 | Myrna Oliver, Times Staff Writer
Benjamin Horowitz, influential art dealer who opened his Heritage Gallery in 1961, representing such artists as Charles White, William Gropper and David Alfaro Siqueiros, and a decade later became founding president of the Art Dealers Assn. of California, has died. He was 92. Horowitz died Friday in Los Angeles of natural causes, according to his gallery co-director, Charlotte Sherman.
BUSINESS
September 27, 2008 | From Bloomberg News
Kathy Fuld, the art-collecting wife of Lehman Bros. Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Richard Fuld, is selling a $20-million set of rare Abstract Expressionist drawings at a November auction, according to two art dealers. Christie's International, which is offering the works in New York on Nov. 12, declined to reveal the seller's identity. The auction house announced the sale of the drawings, including three by Willem de Kooning, four days after Lehman filed the largest bankruptcy in U.S.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 21, 2006 | Mary Rourke, Times Staff Writer
Herbert Bearl Palmer, one of the first art dealers in Los Angeles to exhibit works by David Hockney, Bridget Riley and other leading contemporary artists, starting in the mid-1960s, died Dec. 12. He was 91. Palmer, who helped establish La Cienega Boulevard as an art district more than 40 years ago, died at his home in Brentwood of natural causes, his daughter, Meredith, said.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 26, 1990 | SHERYL STOLBERG, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Stanley R. Lerner--the 25-year-old Beverly Hills art dealer who helped authorities crack a major art fraud case--was sentenced Monday to three years in federal prison for cocaine dealing, although U.S. District Judge Robert M. Tagasuki said the time could be served in a halfway house. The judge pronounced the sentence, which also included a $50,000 fine and five years probation, behind closed doors.