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Connie Butler of MoMA goes to Hammer Museum as new chief curator
After more than a year-long search, the Hammer Museum has hired Connie Butler, currently the chief curator of drawings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as its chief curator. She is leaving that position by July 1 in order to assume her L.A. post...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Museums, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles International Airport, Tribeca
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Swallow Magazine's Mexico City: Strippers, artists, mezcal and scratch-and-sniff
The ruling elite ought not to mess with Mexico City's favorite restaurants. That might be one lesson from a recent scandal that this week brought down the head of the nation's consumer protection agency, whose daughter couldn't get a table at Maximo...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Arts and Culture, Services and Shopping, Photography and Video, Restaurants
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Artworks by Barnett Newman and Gerhard Richter set auction records
A painting by Barnett Newman set an artist record at auction on Tuesday, selling for $43.8 million in New York. Sotheby's had expected "Onement VI," an abstract work in dark blue, to go for between $30 million and $40 million. The sale was part of a...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, The Wall Street Journal, Paul Allen, Artists
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L.A. artists, architects' effect on each other at MAK Center exhibit
"Everything Loose Will Land" has landed. And its timing could hardly be better. The exhibition at the MAK Center in West Hollywood, curated by UCLA architectural historian and critic Sylvia Lavin, is a wry study of the ways Los Angeles artists and...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Frank Gehry, Architecture, The Getty, Thom Mayne
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Santa Monica Museum celebrates ahead of annual art sale InCognito
The great opera and theater director Peter Sellars draped a chain of Lithuanian amber around his neck for PreCognito, something he does, he said, only for very special occasions. That special occasion, Thursday’s gala dinner, celebrated the Santa...
Tags: Museums, Arts and Culture, Artists, Lucques, Jeff Davis
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$75,000 Alpert Awards in the Arts honor marathon play directors
The annual Alpert Awards in the Arts give a $75,000 boost to midcareer artists who often aren’t well known but have earned respect in their fields. Among the higher-profile winners of this year's awards, funded by the Herb Alpert Foundation and...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Music Industry, Artists, Music
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The Sunday Conversation: Peter Sellars
Theater director Peter Sellars, a UCLA professor of world arts and cultures, will be honored by the Santa Monica Museum of Art at its 25th-anniversary Precognito Gala on May 9. Why are you based in Los Angeles instead of New York, which has a larger...
Tags: Museums, Arts and Culture, University of California, Los Angeles, Entertainment, Festive Events
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Angel City Brewery is feeling fizzy about its first Heritage Festival
Once a barroom outlier compared with its standing in other West Coast cities, craft beer has become a Los Angeles fixture. Breweries have been sprouting like hops across town in recent years, and the latest in the field is the new incarnation of Angel...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Festive Events, Artists, Music
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Channa Horwitz dies at 80; artist known for geometric paintings, drawings
Channa Horwitz, an artist known for her dizzyingly intricate geometric drawings and paintings based on complex predetermined systems, died Monday of complications from Crohn's disease at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica. She was 80. In 1968,...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Museums, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, St. John's Health Center, Artists
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Janet Malcolm's brilliant methods are on show in 'Forty-One False Starts'
Janet Malcolm may end up best known for a single paragraph: the one that starts her 1990 book "The Journalist and the Murderer." "Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally...
Tags: Photography, Arts and Culture, Journalism, Criminals, Artists
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Michelle Tea turns a radical eye on YA in 'Mermaid in Chelsea Creek'
NEW YORK — Michelle Tea has been a horoscope writer, an activist and a sex worker. She never graduated from college, but she has written a novel, a poetry collection and four memoirs — one of which, "Valencia," is being made into an...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Poetry, Authors, Literature, Artists
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Disney unveils plan for first animated Marvel film
The studio behind the animated fantasies "Bambi," "Dumbo" and '"The Lion King" has a new kind of hero tale on the way — a Marvel Comics one. Walt Disney Animation Studios on Thursday announced plans to release "Big Hero 6," an action-comedy inspired...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Authors, Wreck-It Ralph (movie), Animation (Movie Genre), Entertainment
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