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The Whitney Museum of American Art has a collection of more than 12,000 works in a wide variety of media. It emphasizes exhibiting the works of living artists. Annual and biennial exhibitions showcase younger and lesser-known artists.
The Whitney Museum of American Art has a collection of more than 12,000 works in a wide variety of media. It emphasizes exhibiting the works of living artists. Annual and biennial exhibitions showcase younger and lesser-known artists.
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LACMA to unveil 'Levitated Mass' and its 340-ton rock on June 24
The massive boulder that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art transported from a Riverside quarry to its Wilshire Boulevard campus will be unveiled June 24 as the main component of Michael Heizer's sculpture "Levitated Mass." The rock made its 11-day...
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Opera designer Robert Israel's sculptures will cheer sick kids
Culture MonsterVeteran opera and stage designer Robert Israel has done 11 huge sculptures for a new children's hospital wing in Baltimore. The UCLA professor -- currently working on a ballet at La Scala in Milan, Italy -- had set sculpture aside since his 1968 debut... -
Art critic Hilton Kramer, a champion of modernism, dies at 84
Culture MonsterHilton Kramer was a fierce, combative critic who defended modernism and waded into the 'culture wars' of the '80s. He has died at age 84.... -
Whitney Houston's 'Sparkle': Could it come before August?
24 FramesThe movie “Sparkle,” Whitney Houston’s final recorded work, has been the subject of intense interest since the pop star died in Beverly Hills on Saturday.... -
Artist Sarah Sze will represent U.S. in 2013 Venice Biennale
Culture MonsterSculptor and installation artist Sarah Sze has been tapped to represent the United States at the 2013 Venice Biennale.... -
Monster Mash: Steve Jobs statue unveiled; Beethoven's deafness
Culture MonsterPaying tribute: A statue of the late Steve Jobs has been unveiled in a technology park in Budapest, Hungary. (Los Angeles Times) Genius: Experts say Ludwig van Beethoven's gradual deafness may have influenced his music. (BBC News) They're in the...... -
Monster Mash: Annie Leibovitz's new show; 'Superstar' kerfuffle
Culture MonsterTim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber are publicly at odds over a new production of "Jesus Christ Superstar," which Webber plans to cast via a television contest. Annie Leibovitz's new show of landscapes and objects at the Smithsonian is a departure from her... -
Mike Kelley: A game-changer for the art world
Culture MonsterChristopher Knight looks back at the art of Mike Kelley, who died Tuesday at 57... -
Helen Frankenthaler dies at 83; abstract painter
Helen Frankenthaler, a New York artist whose bursts of color achieved by pouring thinned paint onto canvas from coffee cans helped point art in fresh directions after the initial post-World War II explosion of Abstract Expressionism, has died. She was 83....Tags: Clement Greenberg, Culture, Arts, Obituaries, Rufino Tamayo
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Mike Kelley dies at 57; L.A. contemporary artist
Mike Kelley, an influential Los Angeles artist whose physically messy and psychologically complex projects laid the groundwork for present-day installation art, has died. He was 57.
He was found dead Tuesday evening at his home in South Pasadena in...Tags: Concerts, John Waters, Arts, Sculpture, University of Michigan
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Art review: 'Glenn Ligon: America' at LACMA
Culture MonsterChristopher Knight reviews Glenn Ligon's mid-career retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art... -
PST, A to Z: 'Alternative Projections' at L.A. Filmforum
Culture MonsterPacific Standard Time will explore the origins of the Los Angeles art world through museum exhibitions throughout Southern California over the next six months. Times art reviewer Sharon Mizota has set the goal of seeing all of them. This is......
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