ENTERTAINMENT
March 2, 1997
Suzanne Muchnic's article on the L.A. County Museum of Art exhibition "Exiles and Emigres: The Flight of European Artists From Hitler" left me deeply touched ("Art in a World Gone Mad," Feb. 16). Was it really over 60 years ago that I came to New York as a Hitler refugee, went to work for the International Relief Assn. and associated with many of the artists featured in Stephanie Barron's exhibition? Barron and her German associate, Sabine Eckmann, vividly illustrate a nearly forgottenaspect of the '30s: the American public was unaware of Nazi atrocities, and the belief that the Hitler regime was here to stay was widespread.
ENTERTAINMENT
February 10, 1991 | SUZANNE MUCHNIC
"Works of art" that are not capable of being understood in themselves but need some pretentious instruction book to justify their existence--until at long last they find someone sufficiently browbeaten to endure such stupid or impudent twaddle with patience--will never again find their way to the German people. --Adolf Hitler, 1937. Adolf Hitler's foray into the art world didn't end with his failed career as a painter.
ENTERTAINMENT
February 10, 1991
The County Museum of Art and nine other local institutions have scheduled a wide range of educational events in conjunction with "Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany." Following are some highlights of the concerts, lectures, symposia, films and dramatic productions that are scheduled through April 29.
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March 16, 1993 | SUZANNE MUCHNIC, TIMES ART WRITER
In a major curatorial shift at the County Museum of Art, Maurice Tuchman, longtime senior curator of 20th-Century art, has been named senior curator of 20th-Century drawings. Stephanie Barron, curator of 20th-Century art, has been appointed acting head of the 20th-Century art department. In his new post Tuchman, 56, will head a newly created department, building upon a collection of about 750 American and European drawings.
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October 22, 2000 | SUZANNE MUCHNIC, Suzanne Muchnic is The Times' art writer
"That looks enormous, way out of proportion. It dwarfs everything else in the gallery." Stephanie Barron is gazing unhappily at a mannequin in a zoot suit standing on a central platform in a room of 1940s artworks at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It's a month before the exhibition "Made in California" will open, but the countdown is on for the museum's senior curator of modern and contemporary art and vice president of education and public programs.
ENTERTAINMENT
October 20, 2000
Stephanie Barron's LACMA exhibitions always put art in a larger context. Now the museum curator takes on a real monster: the state of California.