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Connie Butler of MoMA goes to Hammer Museum as new chief curator
After more than a year-long search, the Hammer Museum has hired Connie Butler, currently the chief curator of drawings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as its chief curator. She is leaving that position by July 1 in order to assume her L.A. post...
Tags: Tribeca, Arts, Arts and Culture, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museums
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A. Quincy Jones, overlooked genius? Hammer Museum makes the case
The Hammer Museum exhibition opening May 25, "A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living," redresses what curators consider a major omission in the history of Los Angeles Modernism. Jones, they argue, had as much, if not more, influence on Southern...
Tags: Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Arts, Architecture, Arts and Culture, Religion and Belief
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New York City secret photo exhibition: Art or invasion of privacy?
Residents of a Tribeca apartment building are fuming over a new exhibition of photographs in which they star -- and which were taken without their knowledge. Some of the residents are considering legal action, the New York Post reported. The apartment...
Tags: Tribeca, Arts, Arts and Culture, Museums, Chelsea (Staten Island, New York)
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Cannes 2013: Chile's onetime cult king still the wizard of weird
CANNES, France — The Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky has made only seven features in his nearly half-century career, but his legendary midnight movie "El Topo," a wigged-out peyote western that played to New York audiences for months in 1970,...
Tags: Psychotherapy, Criminals, Paris (France), Literature, Movies
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'The Real Indies: A Close Look at Orphan Films' takes in strays
Lost works, home movies, industrial films, abandoned technologies and other assorted cinematic ephemera all fall under the umbrella of miscellany known as "orphan film." The strange mix of the odd and slightly sad gets its own festival at the Linwood Dunn...
Tags: Queens (New York City), Arts, Independent (Movie Genre), Movies, Arts and Culture
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MOCA's 'A New Sculpturalism' faces uncertain future without Gehry
Frank Gehry has pulled out of a major architecture exhibition set to open June 2 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, a move that could force the show to find a new venue or face the prospect of being canceled altogether. The exhibition, "A New...
Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Museums, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Politics
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Museum of Modern Art launches free-admission promotions
At $25, general admission to the Museum of Modern Art in New York is among the highest in the nation. This month, the museum is promoting a word that its visitors don't hear very often: free. MoMA is kicking off a series of free-admission offers...
Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Museums, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Twitter, Inc.
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William Wilson dies at 78; former Los Angeles Times art critic
For William Wilson, the former Los Angeles Times art critic who died Saturday at the age of 78, art was a childhood refuge, a teenage survival mechanism, and, finally, a career that saw him chronicle the city's rise in art-world stature from his first...
Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Arts, Arts and Culture, World War I (1914-1918), Museums
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reFramed: In conversation with WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY curator Anne Wilkes Tucker
FrameworkAnne Wilkes Tucker is currently the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston where she has worked since 1976. She founded the Photography Department at the museum that now has a collection of over 28,000... -
Online provider offers courses in education, teacher training
A leading online course provider announced Wednesday that it will offer free professional training and development courses to prepare teachers worldwide for Web-based classes. Coursera, a for-profit clearinghouse for online and videotaped courses...Tags: Arts, University of California, Irvine, Arts and Culture, Museums, Teachers
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The jarring reality and artful beauty of photography
I wonder if the curators of the excellent "War/Photography" show at the Annenberg Space for Photography were tempted to include Jeff Wall's "Dead Troops Talk (A Vision After an Ambush of a Red Army Patrol, Near Moqor, Afghanistan, Winter, 1986)". It...
Tags: Photography, Arts, Armed Forces, Armed Conflicts, Arts and Culture
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Gifford Phillips dies at 94; contemporary art advocate
Gifford Phillips, a gentlemanly patron of cultural institutions and passionate advocate of contemporary art who played a leading role at museums on both coasts of the United States, has died. He was 94. Phillips died Wednesday of natural causes at a...
Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Museums, Politics, Elections
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