Entertainment & Arts
After 17 months without a chief curator, Newport Harbor Art Museum has named former Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art curator Bruce Guenther to the post, Newport Harbor officials said Thursday.
Sept. 27, 1991
When Bruce Guenther, Newport Harbor Art Museum’s new chief curator, took the same post at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art in 1987, he was agog at that city’s “important art community.”
Sept. 28, 1991
Art: Steps in dispersing collection include gifts and sales to other institutions.
Feb. 26, 1997
Kevin E.
Aug. 26, 1989
Los Angeles artists Billy Al Bengston, Tony Berlant, Chuck Arnoldi joined top artists and art dealers from New York, Chicago, San Francisco and elsewhere in Honolulu over the weekend for the opening of Hawaii’s first contemporary art museum.
Oct. 24, 1988
Donald Sultan may borrow an image or two from Manet, but roofing tar, butyl rubber, squares of vinyl tile and a late 20th-Century point of view make his works a mix of old and new.
Nov. 22, 1987
Three contemporary art museums -- the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York -- have formed a national consortium to commission and exhibit works by emerging artists.
March 24, 2004
Early news of New York’s November auction season suggests that private collectors will continue to cash in on their art or sell it to benefit charitable causes instead of donating the art to museums.
Sept. 7, 1989
Filled, at Last: After 17 months without a chief curator, Newport Harbor Art Museum has named Bruce Guenther to replace Paul Schimmel, who now holds that job at the Museum of Contemporary Art.