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Acting Getty Museum director David Bomford is leaving
Culture MonsterDavid Bomford, who has been acting director of the Getty Museum since the 2010 departure of former director Michael Brand, will leave the Getty and return to London, where he will "pursue research, scholarship and writing." He will leave Feb. 1, 2011.... -
Getty Research Institute buys dozens of Man Ray datebooks
Culture MonsterThe Getty has long been a leading resource for Man Ray scholars, with some 300 photographs at the museum and some 700 letters at the Getty Research Institute. But two recent acquisitions by the research institute--packed with more letters, photographs,... -
Huntington picks Kevin Salatino to head its art collections
Culture MonsterThe Huntington Library has named Kevin Salatino as its next director of art collections. Now the director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, he previously worked in L.A. from 1991 to 2009, as a curator of graphic arts at both the... -
Michael Brand named new director of Art Gallery of NSW
Culture MonsterAfter a six-month global search, the Art Gallery of NSW announced Friday that Michael Brand has been appointed the museum’s new director.... -
Getty Museum hires Timothy Potts as new director
Culture MonsterThe Getty Museum's Jim Cuno announces his decision to hire Timothy Potts as his new museum director, effective in September.... -
Getty posts salary of its new museum director
Culture MonsterWhen Timothy Potts joins the Getty in September as its new museum director, he also will join the narrow ranks of American museum directors who earn more than half a million dollars annually, according to a compensation update dated Feb.14 and published... -
Getty gets NEH grant to organize huge contemporary art archive
Culture MonsterThe Getty Research Institute has received a $230,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to help it organize a huge archive on modern and contemporary art that it acquired last summer. The NEH announced $17 million in grants, including $1.4... -
Patt Morrison Asks: James Cuno, guiding Getty
Along the 405 is L.A.'s version of a shining city on the hill -- a castle of culture in all its incarnations. The Getty Trust is more than its collections and museums; it's about worldwide research, preservation and philanthropy. Its new chief, James...Tags: Media Industry, Culture, Museums, Cultural Development, Arts and Culture
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Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945-1980
Sometimes we seem to know less about the early years of post-World War II art in Los Angeles than we know about the Pleistocene Age mammals dredged up from the La Brea Tar Pits. In the last 30 years, L.A. pushed to the front ranks of international...Tags: Artists, Hobbies, Culture, Natural Resources, Museums
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Pacific Standard Time makes a bid for L.A. in art history
It seems worthy of an old-fashioned Hollywood epic, with a cast of thousands and a plot that spans four decades: "The Greatest Story Ever Told About Southern California Art."
Over the next six months, more than 60 museums and arts venues from Santa...Tags: Research, Artists, David Hockney, Culture, Museums
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Jon B. Lovelace dies at 84; head of American Funds
Jon B. Lovelace, who led the Los Angeles-based American Funds mutual fund company as it became one of the country's largest money management firms, has died. He was 84.
His family said Lovelace died of natural causes at his home in Santa Barbara on...Tags: Personal Finance, Heart Attack, Great Depression (1929), Yosemite National Park, Getty Center
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Getty acquires Manet's moody 'Portrait of Madame Brunet'
Culture MonsterOne painting at a time, the Getty has been trying to change the familiar complaint that its museum grounds are more exciting than the collection inside. Toward that end, it is announcing its acquisition of Edouard Manet’s “Portrait of Madame...
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