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    May 11, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Willie Middlebrook dies; photographer documented African American life

    Willie Robert Middlebrook, a photographer who sought to enlarge public perceptions of the African American community through painterly depictions of its people and places, died Saturday at Brotman Medical Center in Culver City. He was 54.
    Willie Robert Middlebrook, a photographer who sought to enlarge public perceptions of the African American community through painterly depictions of its people and places, died Saturday at Brotman Medical Center in Culver City. He was 54. The cause was...

    Tags: Photography, Theft, Arts, Chicago Tribune, Arts and Culture

    2. May 2, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' goes for $119.9 million at Sotheby's

    NEW YORK -- Sometimes beauty is trumped by the beast. After bullish expectations and an aggressive marketing campaign for an image considered the quintessential expression of modern horror, Sotheby'sNew York sold Edvard Munch's 1895 “The Scream” for $119.9 million on Wednesday night, setting a record for the most expensive artwork sold at auction.
    NEW YORK -- Sometimes beauty is trumped by the beast. After bullish expectations and an aggressive marketing campaign for an image considered the quintessential expression of modern horror, Sotheby'sNew York sold Edvard Munch's 1895 “The Scream&...

    Tags: Auction Service, Tuberculosis, Arts, Human Accomplishments, Painting

    3. Apr 30, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. At home in a piece of history

    ELDON, Iowa — Beth Howard sits at her kitchen table on a Sunday morning and pulls back the curtain to peer at a group of rosy-cheeked youths taking pictures on her front lawn. They pair off to stand side by side in the pose familiar to millions — the dour farmer with a pitchfork, the unsmiling woman beside him in front of the white house.
    ELDON, Iowa — Beth Howard sits at her kitchen table on a Sunday morning and pulls back the curtain to peer at a group of rosy-cheeked youths taking pictures on her front lawn. They pair off to stand side by side in the pose familiar to millions...

    Tags: Italy, Grant Wood, Rentals, France, Travel

    4. Apr 23, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. LACMA buys seven works, led by Rauschenberg and Sullivan

    Sometimes bigger is better when buying art by committee. At this year’s Collectors Committee weekend, the L.A. County Museum of Art bought $2.5-million worth of artwork to add to its permanent collection, including two larger-than-life works: a 60-foot-long Robert Rauschenberg screenprint that shows a collage of newspaper articles from 1970, bought for $775,000, and a nearly 10-foot-tall elevator surround that Louis Sullivan designed around 1892 for the Chicago Stock Exchange Building, bought for $177,500.
    Sometimes bigger is better when buying art by committee. At this year’s Collectors Committee weekend, the L.A. County Museum of Art bought $2.5-million worth of artwork to add to its permanent collection, including two larger-than-life works: a 60-...

    Tags: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museums, Robert Rauschenberg, Arts, Art Basel

    5. Mar 23, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Juan Gris, famous for fracturing Picasso, gets a Google Doodle

    Juan Gris, recipient of a Google <a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/" target="_blank">Doodle </a>on the 125th anniversary of his birth, was a Cubist painter who was a legend in his own right. But he seems to have rubbed another legend -- Pablo Picasso -- the wrong way.
    Juan Gris, recipient of a Google Doodle on the 125th anniversary of his birth, was a Cubist painter who was a legend in his own right. But he seems to have rubbed another legend -- Pablo Picasso -- the wrong way. Gris was a minor player in the art...

    Tags: Amedeo Modigliani, Georges Braque, Jean Cocteau, Arts, Science and Technology

    6. Apr 2, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  6. LACMA, Getty among 134 museums joining Google's art site

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    Google knows something about the power in numbers, even in an art website. Google Art Project (www.googleartproject.com), which launched last year with virtual tours and digitized artworks from 17 museums, has added 134 new museums to its site,...
    7. Apr 4, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Google Art Project expands to include the Getty Museum, LACMA

    Have you tried to get close enough to paintings at the Getty Museum to investigate individual brush strokes? If you did, a stern security officer probably asked you to step away from the painting. Now, you can get up close and personal with works from the Getty and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art without tripping alarms or being admonished.
    Have you tried to get close enough to paintings at the Getty Museum to investigate individual brush strokes? If you did, a stern security officer probably asked you to step away from the painting. Now, you can get up close and personal with works from the...

    Tags: Museums, Arts, Norman Rockwell, White House, Arts and Culture

    8. Jan 1, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  8. In the Abstract

    LA Times Magazine
    The genius of Ellsworth Kelly on display in Los Angeles not once but twice...
    9. Dec 9, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  9. Monster Mash: Broad Museum at MSU; World Trade Center site

    Culture Monster
    The Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University has named Alison Gass as its curator of contemporary art. A planned performing arts center to be designed by Frank Gehry for the former World Trade Center site in New York is in limbo as organizers await...
    10. Dec 13, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  10. Cuno on Bomford's departure and hiring a new museum director

    Culture Monster
    We can cross one name off the small list of possible museum directors for the Getty: David Bomford, who has served as the museum’s acting director for nearly two years without much fanfare or much criticism, has announced that he is leaving the...
    11. Dec 21, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  11. Book review: 'The Young Leonardo' by Larry J. Feinberg

    Culture Monster
    Christopher Knight reviews "The Young Leonardo: Art and Life in Fifteenth-Century Florence."...
    12. Jan 25, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  12. Sundance 2012: 'For Ellen' puts focus on the father

    24 Frames
    In the Sundance Film Festival movie "For Ellen," director-writer So Yong Kim changes her focus from girls to a troubled dad in this excellent film about a father who must decide if he can live for his daughter as well as his music....
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