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Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
LACMA adds Kienholz but not the furor
Entertainment |
August 20, 2008
In 1966, when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art put up a retrospective exhibition of Ed Kienholz’s work, the County Board of Supervisors threatened to shut it down. Read more
Saturday, June 14, 2008
It’s a battle won for Cheech Marin
Entertainment |
June 14, 2008
After more than seven years on the road, the Chicano art collection of Cheech Marin has finally come home. Read more
Friday, June 6, 2008
The 7-hour ‘War’
Entertainment |
June 6, 2008
If you’ve got the time, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has the movie. Read more
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Public art a victim of its success
Entertainment |
April 12, 2008
When the Los Angeles County Museum of Art launched the Broad Contemporary Art Museum with great fanfare in February, some of the biggest, splashiest art was outside. Read more
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Gala opens new L.A. museum
California | Local |
February 10, 2008
The “spider” escalator of the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum was red, the fire escapes were red, Charles Ray’s 46½-foot “Firetruck” was red. Read more
Friday, February 8, 2008
The art of the last-minute project
California | Local |
February 8, 2008
LACMA director Michael Govan squinted into the sun and watched a weathered forklift cradle a Charles Ray sculpture – a toy firetruck blown up to the size of a real one and intended to be confused for the real thing. Read more
Thursday, February 7, 2008
County museum’s expansion reflects two clashing visions
Entertainment |
February 7, 2008
You know that well-worn architectural saying: A great building requires a great client. Read more
Monday, February 4, 2008
No street smarts near LACMA
Entertainment |
February 4, 2008
Last April, the Los Angeles Planning Commission endorsed a list of 14 aggressive principles to help make the city more livable. Read more
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Now, Africa
Entertainment |
January 29, 2008
WHEN museums display African art and Modern art together, they generally do so to illustrate how seeing Africa’s arresting masks and fantastic figures helped Picasso and other Modern artists escape the constraints of Realism and move into Cubism, Surrealism and Dadaism. Read more
Monday, January 21, 2008
An ear for art, as well as an eye
Entertainment |
January 21, 2008
Art circles buzzed with last month’s news that private art collectors Janice and Henri Lazarof had notably enriched the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Modern art holdings with their donation of 130 works by major artists. Read more
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Gift is a Modernist trove for LACMA
Entertainment |
December 12, 2007
In a single stroke of philanthropy, two scrupulously private L.A.
art collectors have transformed the Los Angeles County Museum of
Art’s holdings of modern art. Read more
Thursday, November 15, 2007
WITH THE KIDS - They use child labor at LACMA’s Boone Gallery
Entertainment |
November 15, 2007
Give a kid a box of crayons and she’ll create for a day. Read more
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Schools get a major art loan
Entertainment |
November 7, 2007
Armed with a $24-million special endowment, the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art has begun what its leaders say will be a long-term
campaign to help plant visual art instruction securely in county
public schools. Read more
Friday, October 19, 2007
QUICK TAKES - LACMA board gets new head
Entertainment |
October 19, 2007
Andrew M. Gordon, head of Goldman Sachs & Co. Read more
Sunday, October 14, 2007
The art of the feather (and the downside)
Entertainment |
October 14, 2007
ONE of the most dazzling tidbits in the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art’s big show “The Arts in Latin America 1492-1820” is enshrined
in a gallery devoted to silver. Read more
Thursday, September 13, 2007
A ‘Carousel’ of musicals
News |
September 13, 2007
RICHARD Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were the most successful team on the Great White Way from 1943, when their first collaboration, “Oklahoma!,” premiered on Broadway, until their last show, “The Sound of Music,” opened in 1959. Read more
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Spreading the riches
Entertainment |
August 19, 2007
“I have to admit that I’m enjoying the shock value of this,” says
Venezuelan collector Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, walking into a
display of 20 Spanish colonial objects at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art. Read more
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Latin splendor
Entertainment |
August 4, 2007
DEPENDING on where you’re coming from, it can be difficult to wrap
your head around colonial painting and sculpture from Latin America. Read more
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
QUICK TAKES - LACMA welcomes `Emma’
Entertainment |
July 18, 2007
“Emma in the Purple Dress,” a 1919 portrait by George Bellows, has
joined the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s collection of American paintings. Read more
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
A saintly sort makes her new home at LACMA
Entertainment |
July 17, 2007
A 17th century Italian painting that had been hidden away in an
English estate for 160 years has a new home at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art. Read more
