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Monster Mash: Former Guggenheim director jailed; Washington National Opera's financial woes; Iraqi theater's comeback
Culture Monster-- Busted: The former director of Spain's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has been sentenced to 32 months in jail for stealing about $750,000 from the museum between 1998 and 2008. (Agence France Presse) -- Trouble looming: Are layoffs and other...... -
New York makes a (shaky) bid for L.A.'s pop culture crown
Culture MonsterFor decades, the stereotype has been that Los Angeles is the center of the pop culture universe. Now, New York appears to be making a claim on the title. Not New York, the city; New York, the magazine. Here’s esteemed...... -
'Hearts of the City' by Herbert Muschamp
Hearts of the City
The Selected Writings
of Herbert Muschamp
Herbert Muschamp
Alfred A. Knopf: 888 pp., $50
In December 1997, with the Getty Center finally set to open its expansive hilltop campus after more than a decade of frustration, Herbert...Tags: Elizabeth II, Culture, Frank Lloyd Wright, Philosophy, Marilyn Monroe
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Kandinsky retrospective is natural for Guggenheim
Art Critic"Kandinsky," the big exhibition of 95 oil paintings made between 1902 and 1942 by the visionary pioneer of abstraction, Vasily Kandinsky, is a show that looks like it was made expressly for the spiral ramp of the Guggenheim Museum. That's because in a...Tags: Nazi Party, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Wagner, Arts and Culture, World War II (1939-1945)
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Monster Mash: Paris officials investigate art heist; Black Dahlia play moves to N.Y.; British architects prizes
Culture MonsterSuper structures: The Royal Institute of British Architects has given out 102 awards for architectural excellence to buildings ranging from a circular loo in London to the Neues Museum in Berlin. (Independent) Security lapse: A day after the big Paris....... -
Giuseppe Panza di Biumo dies at 87; art collector legitimized MOCA
Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, an Italian collector of American art whose cache of paintings and sculptures by Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and others legitimized the fledgling Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, has died....Tags: Robert Rauschenberg, Eli Broad, Arts and Culture, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline
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Art review: 'Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective' @ MOCA
Culture MonsterArshile Gorky was an essential pivot in Modern abstract art -- a critical hinge between rarefied European aesthetics before World War II and a more muscular, thoroughly American variety that emerged after, in the late 1940s and 1950s. That's the...... -
Monster Mash: Ernest Fleischmann remembered; Getty Trust leadership dilemma
Culture Monster-- In memoriam: Times critic Mark Swed remembers Ernest Fleischmann, the former managing director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. (Los Angeles Times) -- Looking ahead: The void in leadership at the Getty Trust following the recent death of James N....... -
Monster Mash: 'Red,' 'Memphis' win Tonys; Getty CEO James Wood mourned; new orchestra leader in Philly
Culture MonsterTony winners: "Red," a drama about Mark Rothko; "Memphis," a musical inspired by an episode from the birth of rock 'n' roll; and "Fences," the August Wilson revival with Denzel Washington are big Tony winners as Hollywood stars prosper. (Los...... -
Monster Mash: Paula Wagner eyes 'Saigon'; Guggenheim's birthday; is 'Shrek' a turkey?
Culture Monster-- Stage to screen: Film producer Paula Wagner (pictured) is planning a film adaptation of the musical "Miss Saigon." (Variety) -- Birthday bash: New York's Guggenheim Museum celebrates its 50th anniversary today by offering free admission to all.... -
Frank Gehry's Bilbao museum tops Vanity Fair architecture list
Culture MonsterVanity Fair recently asked 52 prominent architects and critics to name the most important pieces of architecture built since 1980. The winner of the informal survey -- which is to be published in the magazine's August issue -- is a...... -
Charles Gwathmey dies at 71; architect known for modernist home designs
Associated PressCharles Gwathmey, an architect known for his influential modernist home designs and famous clients, has died. He was 71. Gwathmey died of cancer Monday in Manhattan, said his stepson, Eric Steel. The architect formed the firm of Gwathmey Siegel &...Tags: Steven Spielberg, Frank Lloyd Wright, David Geffen, Philosophy, Arts and Culture
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