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Contemporary trove
Spain, less burdened by the weight of history than many of its European neighbors, is now one of the best places in the world to see contemporary architecture. Besides Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which draws about a million visitors a year...Tags: Architecture, Spain, Europe, Arts and Culture, Rafael Moneo
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The art shows must go on
Three Southern California art fairs in January, two of them in one weekend? In this economy?
It may defy logic, but business is business.
As conceived when the financial outlook was rosier, photo.l.a., an annual marketplace for a kaleidoscopic range...Tags: Movies, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Arts and Culture, Czech Republic, Education
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Coosje van Bruggen dies at 66; art historian made sculptures with husband Claes Oldenburg
Coosje van Bruggen -- an art historian, writer and curator whose professional partnership with her husband, artist Claes Oldenburg, turned ordinary objects into startling monuments around the world -- died Saturday at her Los Angeles residence. She was 66...Tags: Bruce Nauman, Walt Disney, Arts and Culture, Yale University, Foods and Beverages
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SPAIN: Napoleon slept here, and so can you
IF you've been looking for those castles in Spain — to sleep in, that is — the network of state-owned paradores that crisscrosses the country will fill the bill. Established in 1928 at the instigation of King Alfonso XIII to bolster tourism...Tags: England, Los Angeles International Airport, Easter, Television Industry, Weather
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'The Women,' by T.C. Boyle
The Women A Novel T.C. Boyle Viking: 452 pp. $27.95 On paper, T.C. Boyle's latest novel, "The Women," sounds like a prizefight: Swaggering fiction heavyweight takes on America's greatest architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. Boyle has written about...Tags: Arts and Culture, Hospitals and Clinics, Frank Lloyd Wright, Crime, Law and Justice, Health
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Sydney Pollack, 73; Oscar-winning director and producer
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSydney Pollack, the Academy Award-winning director of "Out of Africa" who achieved acclaim making popular, mainstream movies with A-list stars, including "The Way We Were" and "Tootsie," died Monday. He was 73. Pollack, who also was a producer and actor,...Tags: Faye Dunaway, Jay Roach, Jane Fonda, Awards and Prizes, Culture
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LACMA mend fences with the Prices
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJOE AND Etsuko Price are back. Twenty-five years ago, they joined with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to fulfill a dream. The Prices donated $5 million to help construct the Pavilion for Japanese Art and promised a spectacular collection of...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Charity, Arts and Culture, Trials, Frank Lloyd Wright
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Bank of America expands Museums on Us program
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMore than 75 million Bank of America customers can get into dozens of museums free of charge, thanks to a newly expanded "Museums on Us" program. Here's the deal: If you hold a Bank of America check, credit or ATM card, you can enter more than 70...Tags: Banking, Bank of America Corp.
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Kippenberger retrospective at MOCA
Times Art CriticA WICKED sculpture at the entrance to the retrospective exhibition of Martin Kippenberger's work at the Museum of Contemporary Art crystallizes the manic tone that made the German-born Conceptual artist such an influential force, beginning in the 1980s....Tags: Arts and Culture, Joseph Beuys, Franz Kafka, Frank Lloyd Wright, Arts
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Staying in Vegas? Not the Guggenheim
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDustin and Lindsay Phillips had no idea they were part of the beginning of the end of the Guggenheim's great Las Vegas adventure, a seven-year gamble that is coming to a close with the museum taking its chips -- its paintings -- back home. The...Tags: Frank Sinatra, Tourism and Leisure, Family, Rem Koolhaas, Dean Martin
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L.A.'s Skyline to Get Gehry Touch
Times Staff WriterArchitect Frank O. Gehry will design a 40- or 50-story skyscraper next to his iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall, as well as other elements of the $1.8-billion complex planned along Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, officials said Wednesday. The...Tags: Arts and Culture, Walt Disney, Education, Robert Harris, Architecture
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Centre Pompidou Foundation: L.A.'s French connection
The Pompidou Center is a magnet for students, tourists and arts aficionados in central Paris, housing the National Museum of Modern Art, a public library and performance spaces in an inside-out building with mechanical systems encased in giant red, blue...Tags: Columbia College Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, Auction Service, Arts and Culture, Charity
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