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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: Death, Charlotte, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, Jerry Seinfeld
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Jeff Koons, MOCA, Connie Butler among winners of new art award
Culture MonsterAward season in Hollywood is often mocked by cultural aesthetes as crass and commercial. But purveyors of the fine arts certainly aren't above throwing their own lavish parties to honor themselves. In fact, it's apparently hip now to imitate those...... -
Monster Mash: U.S. returns art looted during World War II; 'Mona Lisa' reveals more secrets
Culture Monster-- Making amends: The U.S. is returning to Germany 11 oil paintings that were taken by American soldiers at the end of World War II. (Agence France-Presse) -- Enigmatic: Researchers using X-ray technology say that Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa"...... -
Updated: A green answer to Vanity Fair's architecture poll has its own blind spot
Culture MonsterWhen Vanity Fair magazine recently released the results of a survey ranking the most significant pieces of architecture of the last 30 years -- with Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, topping the list -- the poll was met...... -
Abu Dhabi's fortune favors the bold
Architecture CriticThe longstanding sibling rivalry between the two biggest members of the United Arab Emirates, always complex, has taken a remarkable turn in recent months. For years, as its neighbor on the Persian Gulf, Dubai, engaged in a frenzy of construction and...Tags: Comedy (genre), Dubai (United Arab Emirates), United Arab Emirates, Human Rights Watch, Arts
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Critic's Notebook: The void as muse
Culture MonsterNEW YORK -- With the available money for ambitious new buildings having shrunk to almost nothing in this country -- and with firms continuing to downsize in brutal fashion -- where will architectural ideas come from, and where will they...... -
The time is Wright: Frank Lloyd celebrated from L.A. to New York this month
L.A. at HomeFrank Lloyd Wright, arguably the first "starchitect" and perhaps the most celebrated residential designer of the 20th century, continues to be a news maker more than 50 years after his death. "Contemplating the Void," a show featuring 200 renderings... -
[Updated] Jeffrey Deitch says he'll still sell art -- but not deal in it -- after taking MOCA reins
Culture Monster"Art isn't easy," Stephen Sondheim once noted in song, and Jeffrey Deitch, director-in-waiting of L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art, is finding that disposing of it in a hurry isn't easy either. MOCA braved considerable controversy when it announced in... -
Conversation with Frank Gehry to benefit Santa Monica High School orchestra
L.A. at HomeLike his most famous buildings -- downtown's Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, among them -- Frank Gehry is adventurous and yet enduring. At 81, one of the world's most important (and controversial) architects shows no...
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