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Car review: Jaguar sets bar high for 2014 F-Type
In a 1961 debut that reverberated worldwide, Jaguar pulled the covers off its E-Type coupe at the Geneva Motor Show and redefined beauty in automobiles. In the era of audacious tail fins and unchecked mass, the sensual 1961 E-Type, also known as the...
Tags: Mercedes-Benz, Arts and Culture, BMW, Jaguar, Aston Martin
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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: Arts and Culture, Anglicanism, Architecture, Religion and Belief, Museums
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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: Arts and Culture, Tribeca, Los Angeles International Airport, Artists, Museums
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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: Arts and Culture, Chelsea (Staten Island, New York), Tribeca, Artists, Museums
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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: Arts and Culture, Philosophy, Skype, Criminals, Paris (France)
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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 and Culture, Politics, Thom Mayne, Artists, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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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: Arts and Culture, Movies, Entertainment, Shirley, Queens (New York City)
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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: Arts and Culture, World War I (1914-1918), Alzheimer's Disease, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Artists
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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 and Culture, Twitter, Inc., Museums, Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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 and Culture, Teachers, Museum of Natural History, Museums, Teaching and Learning
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Chinese abstract painter Zao Wou-ki dies
Abstract painter Zao Wou-ki, whose work fetched millions of dollars and set records at auction, died Tuesday. He was 93. Zao suffered from Alzheimer's disease and poor health. He was living near Geneva with his third wife, Francoise Marquet, a former...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Alzheimer's Disease, Auction Service, Arts
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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 and Culture, Painting, Armed Conflicts, Afghanistan
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