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James Turrell shapes perceptions
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Flying a couple of thousand feet above a volcanic field in Arizona near the Painted Desert, it's fairly easy to spot the extinct volcano known as the Roden Crater. It stands alone in the field, apart from hundreds of other...
Tags: Religious Events, Arts, Starbucks Corp., Artists, Science and Technology
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Facebook cleared to break ground on second Menlo Park campus
SAN FRANCISCO -- Frank Gehry is about to update the status of Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook got the go-ahead this week for the architect to build a second campus there. The City Council voted 4-0 Tuesday night to allow the giant social network to...
Tags: Highway Transportation, Social Media, Frank Gehry, Architecture, Media Industry
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L.A.'s art world presents a super-sized spring
Super-sized exhibitions are becoming more common in art museums, and the next few months will see several among the notable new shows opening around town. Chronologically, here's a selection of what's coming up in art this spring, including three really...
Tags: Getty Villa, Arts, Artists, The Getty, Fine Arts
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Celebrity wardrobe hits and misses of 2012
Special to the Los Angeles TimesStrike a pose If you're Madonna and you plan to stage the most fashionable Super Bowl halftime show in years, there's only one way to kick it off: Perform the 1990 smash hit "Vogue" as classic Vogue covers are projected on stage. The Queen of Pop's...Tags: Solange Knowles, Super Bowl, Sports Illustrated, Drew Barrymore, Giambattista Valli
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Father Maur van Doorslaer dies at 87; famed for folksy plaques
Father Maur van Doorslaer lived a kind of double life. For decades, the Benedictine monk spent half the year working in a studio at an abbey in Belgium, painting abstract art in varying shades of white. For the other half, he took in the High Desert...
Tags: Arts, Religion and Belief, Colon Cancer, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Building Material
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Catherine Opie's documentary photography is on display
The room is arranged like a gallery, hung with photographs of various sizes and shapes, framed and unframed, surrounding the artist Catherine Opie, who looks pleased as she observes from a rocking chair. This studio built behind her house in West...
Tags: Elizabeth Taylor, Arts, Photography, Gays and Lesbians, Richard Burton
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Review: Frank Gehry fishes for the perfect form at Gagosian
“Fish Lamps,” currently on view at Gagosian, is a return to a familiar form for architect Frank Gehry. He created his first set of glowing, fish-shaped sculptures in 1984 as a commission for the Formica Corp., using their plastic laminate...
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Proposed tower for Phoenix resembles Apple Maps' drop pin
An observation tower that has been proposed as a landmark for downtown Phoenix is being dubbed the "Big Pin" because of its likeness to that of the drop pins used in the iPhone's Apple Maps app. The tower would be 420 feet tall, and at the top, it would...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Frank Lloyd Wright
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Danh Vo wins 2012 Hugo Boss Prize from Guggenheim Foundation
Artist Danh Vo has been named the winner of the 2012 Hugo Boss Prize, which is administered by the Guggenheim Foundation. Vo, who was born in Vietnam in 1975 and grew up in Denmark, will have a solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New...
Tags: Museums, Arts, Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Arts and Culture
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Frank Gehry endows new annual prize at SCI-Arc
Architect Frank Gehry has made a new donation to the Southern California Institute of Architecture, and as a result, the school is naming a new prize after him. SCI-Arc announced Wednesday that Gehry, a trustee of the school since 1990, and his wife,...
Tags: Human Interest, Frank Gehry, Walt Disney, Architecture, Arts and Culture
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John Chamberlain dies at 84; American sculptor
John Chamberlain, a prolific American sculptor whose use of crushed automobile sheet metal became his signature during a career that spanned half a century, died Wednesday in New York City. He was 84.
Reportedly in poor health, he had been working on a...Tags: Andy Warhol, John Chamberlain, Jackson Pollock, Long Island, Larry Rivers
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Frank Gehry designs official poster for Grammy Awards
Culture MonsterFrank Gehry has designed the new official poster for the 54th annual Grammy Awards....
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