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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: Santa Claus (fictional character), Flat Feet, Joseph Beuys, Frank Lloyd Wright, Death
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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: Family, Henry Moore, Frank Sinatra, Casino and Gambling, Tourism and Leisure
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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: Robert Harris, House Building, Jan Perry, Arts and Culture, Contracts
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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: Saint Petersberg (Russia), Social Issues, Colleges and Universities, Auction Service, Charity
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New wave Canaries
Times Staff WriterVISITORS to the Canary Islands come here with one thing in mind: the beach. It's especially attractive to Europeans in winter, when you need a coat even on the Mediterranean. These cold-weather refugees generally head straight for resorts on the sunny...Tags: Air Transportation, Dining and Drinking, Volcanoes, Landforms, Air France-KLM
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Taking the creative approach
Times Staff WriterAWAKEN the artist within during a nine-day tour of the City of Light. The Nov. 11 Paris tour is designed for women in the creative arts. Participants will meet for discussions on the Left Bank near the spot where Gertrude Stein held her post-World War...Tags: Music Theater, Theater, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gertrude Stein, Tourism and Leisure
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Caught up in the Crossfire
Like many great beauties -- Marilyn Monroe, for instance -- the new Chrysler Crossfire has a faintly tragic air about it. And like many consumers of beauty -- Frank Sinatra, for instance -- I'm only too happy to exploit it. The 2004 Crossfire ($35,570 as...Tags: Frank Sinatra, Vehicles, Daimler AG, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Car Engine Repair
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When in Rome
GETTING THERE: From LAX to Rome, connecting service (change of plane) is available on KLM, Lufthansa, Delta, British Airways, Air France, Swiss, US Airways and Continental. Restricted round-trip fares begin at $568. Leonardo da Vinci International...Tags: Air Transportation, Dining and Drinking, Death, Tourism and Leisure, Air France-KLM
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In Sin City, a spot worth coveting
Times Staff WriterThe new Palms resort boldly hypes itself as Las Vegas' sex-iest adult playground--a way-cool, celebrity-studded, off-Strip boutique hotel and gambling joint. It's a big boast in a town that calls itself Sin City. My wife and I decided to find out for...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Maytag Corp., Las Vegas, Alexander Calder, Bars and Clubs
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Eisenhower memorial moving ahead, despite family's objections
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The design for a memorial to former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, more than 10 years in the planning, has so divided supporters and critics that the commission created to build it gave up trying to find a compromise and defiantly voted...Tags: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Daniel Inouye, Elections, Environmental Issues, White House
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Florida Travel Tips & Deals
Special CorrespondentCheck this list often as new tips, events and deals around Florida come in: Partnership for cruise line The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), founded nearly 200 years ago to advance geographical science, is to...Tags: Chocolate Bars, Music Theater, Starbucks Corp., Networking, Kennedy Space Center
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Painstaking work, posthumous laud
At the opening of the 20th century, an archaeologist unearthed a Bronze Age palace larger than Buckingham on the island of Crete in the ancient city of Knossos. In that collapsed edifice, which extended some six acres, he found hundreds of clay tablets...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Archaeology, Arts and Culture, Symbols and Symbolism, Fiction
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