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• Big giant heads are coming to LACMA

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 713
  Olmec civilization emerged roughly 3,000 years ago in the eastern lowlands along Mexicos Gulf Coast in what is today the region of Veracruz and Tabasco . In many ways it provided the foundation for all Mesoamerican art, much the way ancient Greek art did for subsequent European culture. Still, Olmec society today ...
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• Martin Scorsese to speak about film and museums at LACMA in January

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 713
  The ongoing debate over the future of the weekend film program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will get a boost  -- not to mention publicity -- when Martin Scorsese appears at the museum next month. Scorsese is scheduled to speak at LACMAs Bing Theater on Jan. 20 at 7:30 p.m. The Oscar-winning filmmaker will ...
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• Resnick Shows Set

  
  Los Angeles County Museum on Fire — Authority: 118
  The Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion will debut this fall with three shows, reports LACMA: "Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico," "Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1715-1900," and "The Resnick Collection." The latter will be the first public showing of the Resnicks European painting ...
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• Your Daily Photo (Its Grey, Its Cold, Heres an Old Shot Edition)

  
  Immodest Proposals — Authority: 440
  Cold is relative, of course, most people other corners of this nation wouldnt be complaining about temps in the mid fifties, but it is indisputably grey, so not a good day for a photo walk. Starting tomorrow, and each morning thereafter, I plan on taking my camera with me as a I walk to the gym, so Ill upload daily ...
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• Twilights Robert Pattinson takes a trip to LACMA

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 713
  Normally, celebrity sightings arent Culture Monsters métier. Frankly, theyre too commonplace and just a bit déclassé for a culture blog. But truth be told, we never say never, and as such, we couldnt resist following up on a recent sighting of actor Robert Pattinson at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. As was ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Topographics Revisited: LACMAs blog takes the logical next...

  
  Curbed LA — Authority: 630
  LACMAs blog takes the logical next step following the museums New Topographics exhibit, a restaging of a 1975 exhibit of "Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape" : The blog has paired photos from the show with photos taken from the same spots today. See how the views from West Fourth and South Hill have grown. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Annenberg Disses “Train”

  
  Los Angeles County Museum on Fire — Authority: 118
  Has Wallis Annenberg unfriended Jeff Koons? Easily missed in the spate of recent articles about the plight of Koons Train is this jaw-dropper from Annenberg (in the October Vanity Fair profile by Bob Colacello ): "I personally think Los Angeles deserves a much finer icon than a train hanging from a crane." ...
  3 weeks ago

• Koons’s Crazy Train

  
  Art Market Monitor — Authority: 453
  LACMA’s planned signature sculpture by Jeff Koons has become a bit of a football. Bloomberg ran a story recently that claimed the sculpture was imperiled by the museum’s endowment losses. At the time, museum officials claimed the work was always slated to be funded by donors. Now, in the Los Angeles Business ...
  3 weeks ago

• Catherine Opie on New Topographics

  
  Liz Kuball Photography | Blog — Authority: 121
  This interview with Catherine Opie about LACMA’s presentation of the New Topographics show is worth a viewing. And if you’re in or around Los Angeles and haven’t made it over to the museum to see the show yet, move it to the top of your to-do list. It’s on view through January 3, 2010.
  3 weeks ago

• "A final obstacle has to do with shifting expectations about what architecture (at LACMA) is capable..."

  
  hyde or die — Authority: 582
  “A final obstacle has to do with shifting expectations about what architecture (at LACMA) is...
  4 weeks ago

• "Another self-portraiture show? That was the initial response from many when our current exhibition..."

  
  hyde or die — Authority: 582
  “Another self-portraiture show? That was the initial response from many when our current...
  4 weeks ago

• Culture Clicks: Weekly Art News Roundup

  
  Artstoile — Authority: 115
  Miami Fair:  Big Pieces, Smaller Prices and Relief (NY Times)Tweaking the Big Money Art World on Its Own Turf:  William Powhida (NY Times)A Rembrandt Identity Crisis at the Getty (NY Times)Peter Zumthor, Michael Govan Plot LACMA’s Future (LA Times)The Worlds of David Hockney (LA Times)Sizzle Sans Steak and other ...
  4 weeks ago

• Tuesday’s Video Pick | Emily Lacy’s Temples of the Mind at LACMA

  
  Bad at Sports — Authority: 126
  Preview: Temples of the Mind at LACMA from Emily Lacy on Vimeo . On this week’s pick we bring you a preview to a performance by Emily Lacy at LACMA. I am heading out to LA in the next couple of weeks for the holiday and am really psyched if I can check this out. Lacy will be in residence at the Pavilion for ...
  4 weeks ago

• B+S Notes—December 8, 2009

  
  BLACKBURN AND SWEETZER — Authority: 141
  Mmm, hot chocolate from Intelligentsia, courtesy of LAist — Looking for the Best Hot Chocolate in LA / Laist — Angeli Caffe Will Innovate Nightly Through 2010 / Grub Street LA — Spotted: Rodarte for Target at the Westfield Topanga / ShopDiary — Rodarte Collection on Racks in Eagle Rock / Racked LA ...
  4 weeks ago

• The LACMA Train Wreck

  
  http://art-for-a-change.com/blog/ — Authority: 109
  "Train" - Jeff Koons. Work in progress. The Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Michael Govan, has compared the $25 million 70-foot locomotive dangling from a 161-foot crane to the Eiffel Tower in Paris. On November 23, 2009, Bloomberg News filed a report titled “ Koon’s $25 Million Dangling Train ...
  4 weeks ago

• LA Story

  
  Marc Scheff's Illustration — Authority: 111
  This weekend I went to LA for business and pleasure. While there, Chloe and I made it to LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and were impressed by the breadth of the collection there. Their permanent collection features a broad range of work, including an incredible collection of Luis Meléndez, an unparalleled ...
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• Degenerate Architecture

  
  Los Angeles County Museum on Fire — Authority: 118
  One of LACMAs curatorial innovations is the faithful-as-practical reconstruction of an art exhibition from the past. "Degenerate Art," presented in 1991 (and by the Nazis in 1937) remains the touchstone of the genre. LACMAs latest effort is a reprise of the 1975 "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered ...
  4 weeks ago

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