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• The Wall Project: Berlin To Los Angeles

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  aharvey2ks Flickr photostream/Creative Commons To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall , The Wende Museum developed the Wall Project , in which eight sections of the Berlin Wall were relocated to Los Angeles, and an adjacent symbolic wall was built, painted by artists and torn down for the ...
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• Milans big showing of a Da Vinci notebook recalls L.A.s Leonardo that got away

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 740
  In light of recent controversies, most folks who care about art know that its a really big deal for a museum to even think of unloading a masterpiece. (Consider Brandeis Universitys attempt to sell off the collection of its Rose Art Museum to rescue the university from budgetary woes, brought on partly by some of ...
  3 days ago

• LACMAs Newest Wilshire Building is Toast

  
  Curbed LA — Authority: 638
  Smaller photo via Unframed That Wilshire Boulevard building across from LACMA scheduled be destroyed has indeed been destroyed, reports the LACMA Unframed Blog. The smaller photo shows the "After" view (youre looking at the site from the point of view of Chris Burdens lights). Last we heard, the museum intended to ...
  5 days ago

• Songwriter Carole Bayer Sager and two others join LACMAs board

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 740
  If the Los Angeles County Museum of Art ever  needs a theme song, it wont have far to look for a composer: LACMA announced today that Carole Bayer Sager has joined the museums board, along with two other new trustees, Ghada Irani and Dr. Richard Merkin. The theme songs singer, of course, would be Barbra ...
  1 week ago

• Mais Oui: Vanity Fairs profile of Wallis Annenberg...

  
  Curbed LA — Authority: 638
  Vanity Fair s profile of Wallis Annenberg reveals that the philanthropist doesnt think much of that smoke-belching Jeff Koons train planned for LACMA, even though she personally paid for the $2 million exploratory grant on the project. Part of her quote: “I personally think Los Angeles deserves a much finer icon ...
  1 week ago

• B+S Notes—November 2, 2009

  
  BLACKBURN AND SWEETZER — Authority: 511
  Awesome/disturbing fashion shoot-inspired Halloween costume, from Glamourai — The post-plastic surgery Halloween costume / Glamourai — Creative Costumes at LACMA’s MUSE Party / LAist — Awesome vintage boots around town / Style Section LA — New Faces Join the Late-Night Wars / WSJ — Jonathan ...
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• Art reviews: R. Crumb @ UCLA Hammer, Indias Comics @ LACMA

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 740
  Cartoons have been arts most common language going on 50 years, ever since Roy Lichtenstein painted Mickey Mouse and Edward Ruscha conjured Little Orphan Annie. Make that 140 years if you believe (as I do) that the brushy, broken, unfinished-surface look of Impressionist paintings derived from the oil sketches that ...
  1 week ago

• Indian fan boys, South Asian comics come to LACMA

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 740
  If you want to understand the meaning of comics in India, one place to start is a battered, chipped piece of sandstone from the 9th century. “Durga Slaying the Buffalo Demon,” in which an eight-armed goddess impales a part-man, part-animal monster, doesn’t bear any obvious resemblance to the X-Men or even the ...
  1 week ago

• Culture Monsters 13 things to do on Halloween

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 740
  Should the spirits move you to celebrate Halloween or Day of the Dead, arts offerings in the L.A. area abound, from the mildly scary to the incredibly creepy. Culture Monster has scared up a lucky 13. 1. THEATER OF THE MACABRE Judging by its name alone, Zombie Joes Underground Theatre is the perfect fit for ...
  1 week ago

• Yoshitoshis Demons at LACMA

  
  twenty2wo blog — Authority: 493
  I had a nice visit to LACMA yesterday afternoon and was really blown away by the wood block prints of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi . Considered the last great master of Ukiyo-e, Yoshitoshis prints are colorful, vibrant and packed with detail. The exhibition Yoshitoshis Demons contrasts an early set of prints the One ...
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• CurbedWire: Altered Landscapes at LACMA, Name Change in WeHo

  
  Curbed LA — Authority: 638
  Photo by Bernd and Hilla Becher, via LACMA LOS ANGELES : Running through January at LACMA is the exhibition "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape," a mixture of work from notable photographers (the photos are restaged from an original 1975 event), and a video installation by the Center for ...
  1 week ago

• LACMA and KCET among nations top fund-raisers -- back in the good old days of 2007-08

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 740
  The Chronicle of Philanthropy has identified the 400 U.S. charities that raised the most money during the fiscal year reflected by their 2008 tax statements. Twenty-seven arts and cultural institutions made the top 400 for 2008 -- 14 museums, three performing-arts centers, one opera company (the San Francisco ...
  2 weeks ago

• Audrey Hepburn Film Series: CHARADE, MY FAIR LADY

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 444
  Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn in Love in the AfternoonAudrey Hepburn LACMA Series: ROMAN HOLIDAY, SABRINALove in the Afternoon October 30 | 9:35 pm Love in the Afternoon, Wilder’s long awaited tribute to his idol Ernst Lubitsch, is based on a French novel and tells the story of Ariane, an innocent young cello ...
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• Audrey Hepburn LACMA Series: ROMAN HOLIDAY, SABRINA

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 444
  Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s“Audrey Hepburn: Then, Now and Forever” IntroScreening schedule and synopses from LACMA’s press release:Roman Holiday October 23 | 7:30 pm | Introduction by Peter BogdanovichCloistered in a Roman palace on a brief state visit and yearning for a taste of la dolce vita, a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Audrey Hepburn: Then, Now and Forever

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 444
  Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s"Audrey Hepburn: Then, Now and Forever" is the title of the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art film series that kicks off this evening with a double bill: Roman Holiday (1953, right), the film that both made Audrey Hepburn a star — in her first leading role — and earned ...
  2 weeks ago

• L.A. Loves Audrey

  
  The Fabulous Audrey Hepburn News — Authority: 91
  Got some cool news for my fellow Angelinos last night! Sorry I waited until today to post it, but my Internets been wonky and I dont trust posting here via my phone. Anyway, beginning tonight LACMA is hosting an Audrey Hepburn marathon entitled "Audrey Hepburn: Then, Now and Forever." It will run until November 13 and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Culture Clicks: Weekly Art News Roundup

  
  Artstoile — Authority: 121
  Nancy Spero, Artist of Feminism, is Dead at 83 (NY Times)Artists Salute Undersung Multitasker:  Ron Warren (NY Times)David Hockney’s Long Road Home (NY Times)Signs of Life in London’s Art Market (WSJ)Sun King’s Ego, Lust Are Celebrated in Versailles Exhibit (Bloomberg)Dutch Financier to Auction $40 Million ...
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• Calendar. 10.20.09.

  
  C-MONSTER.net — Authority: 121
  Hollywood , 1972, by Henry Wessel Jr., at LACMA. (Image courtesy of LACMA .) In L.A.: New Topographics: Photographs of Man-Altered Landscapes at LACMA, opens Sunday. In L.A.: The Giant Robot Biennale at the Japanese American National Museum, opens Saturday. In L.A.: Susan Anderson, High Glitz , ...
  2 weeks ago

• Berlin Wall segments arrive in Los Angeles

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 740
  You could drive to 5900 Wilshire to see segments of the real Berlin Wall, which have been donated to Culver Citys Wende Museum of the Cold War and will be part of the museums Wall Project, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Or you could rely on Culture Monster for a first glimpse ...
  3 weeks ago

• LACMA On Fire Blog and Lets Start A New Power 100 List

  
  Frenchy But Chic! — Authority: 110
  My connection is freakingly sluggish these days, and Im not too much into writing, but I wanted to link to the really smart blog Los Angeles County Museum on Fire, which I like a lot because, unlike most art blogs in this town and elsewhere, it does not focus exclusively on contemporary art.For the few people who ...
  3 weeks ago

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