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Leonardo da Vinci's 'Codex Arundel' digitized for online viewing
A notebook from Leonardo da Vinci that contains some of the Renaissance-era thinker's scientific and artistic studies has been digitized by the British Library and is now available for online viewing. The so-called "Codex Arundel" is viewable on the...
Tags: Artists, Libraries, Arts and Culture
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Getty Research Institute looks at Mexico's Dyn Group
André Breton, the French writer who founded the Surrealist movement in 1924, is widely known to have been a control freak. The so-called Surrealist Pope was happy to anoint and expel followers based on his autocratic judgment of their fealty to what he...
Tags: The Getty, Research, Artists, Mexico City, Arts and Culture
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Stuart Freeborn dies at 98; 'Star Wars' makeup artist
It was no accident that British makeup artist Stuart Freeborn resembled his most famous movie creation — Yoda, the wrinkled, ancient sage from the "Star Wars" films. "I looked at myself in the mirror and decided that I was comic, with all these...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Charles Dickens, Electronics, Judaism, Superman (fictional character)
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Richard Artschwager, celebrated artist, dead at 89
Richard Artschwager, the painter and sculptor who recently was honored with a career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, died on Saturday at 89. His death was confirmed by the Gagosian Gallery. Artschwager's death comes just a week...
Tags: Artists, Whitney Museum, Museums, Arts and Culture, Arts
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Grammys 2013: A magical year for son jarocho
Last week, a group of Latino and Mexican artists up for three Grammy Awards gathered in a narrow Boyle Heights storefront — mostly in the flesh, some via Skype, a few present in spirit. They'd assembled to honor a strain of regional folk music...
Tags: Music, Julie Taymor, Genres, Mexico City, Skype
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Grammys 2013: Live blogging all the pre-show winners
It's brunch at the Grammys! Live updates from the pre-telecast. 4:10 p.m.: Final update from the pre-show: The 70th award this afternoon went to the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach for producer of the year. “Wow,” said Auerbach, who moments...
Tags: Janelle Monae, Genres, Electronics, Mirrors (music group), Bill Clinton
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Artists in Egypt work in a tense atmosphere
CAIRO — The Muslim women in Marwa Adel's photographs are shadows, repressed by custom, religion, marriage and regret. While nude, the figures are obscured by sepia scrims, scrawled upon with stifling words — as if their true selves may never...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Egypt, Customs and Tradition, Cairo (Egypt), Family
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Gordon Davidson is still giving to theater
Founder of the Mark Taper Forum, éminence grise of the regional theater movement, crusading champion of Los Angeles theater, Gordon Davidson was put in an unusual position last fall at USC's School of Dramatic Arts: He had to explain who he was to a group...
Tags: Education, Anna Deavere Smith, Students, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Tony Kushner
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Review: 'The Gift' wraps itself up in banalities
An appealing and capable cast keeps the flicker of hope alive that Joanna Murray-Smith's play "The Gift" will be worth our time despite the mounting evidence to the contrary. But by the end of this 90-minute comedy even the actors seem done in by the...
Tags: Annette Bening, Artists, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, James van der Beek
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Review: Caravaggio is boldly painted with music at LACMA
Caravaggio is a great subject for music. There are fascinating parallels between the way the artist helped usher in modern painting at the turn of the 17th century and the way his Italian contemporaries Monteverdi and Gesualdo laid the foundations for...
Tags: Music, Electronics, Yo-Yo Ma, Philip Glass, Italy
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Al Walser calls his Grammy nomination a win for independents
Dressed in a black leather punk jacket, Al Walser leans conspiratorially across a glass table in a Mid-Wilshire office suite. It's stacked with paperwork, golf clubs and a placard deeming the space an Honorary Consulate of the Principality of...
Tags: Miley Cyrus, Electronics, Academy Awards, Germany, Africa
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L.A. Art Show is taking a broad view of art
Invited to provide a table-setter for the L.A. Art Show, a sprawling and mind-bogglingly diverse annual marketplace and smorgasbord for the eyes, Marilyn Lowey delivered an installation that's cheekily site-specific. Titled "Translating Transitions #4,"...
Tags: Neil Diamond, Cyndi Lauper, Fine Arts, Customs and Tradition, Art Basel Miami Beach
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