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LACMA, Getty among 134 museums joining Google's art site
Culture MonsterGoogle knows something about the power in numbers, even in an art website. Google Art Project (www.googleartproject.com), which launched last year with virtual tours and digitized artworks from 17 museums, has added 134 new museums to its site,... -
A Second Look: 'A Hollis Frampton Odyssey'
Half a century ago, the writer C.P. Snow famously coined the phrase "the two cultures," referring to the widening gulf between the sciences and the arts. Few have bridged that chasm of incomprehension with as much verve and ingenuity as the American...
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*[Updated] Ansel Adams, Earl Brooks share top billing in show on Yosemite photography since the 1860s
Culture MonsterIt’s questionable whether Rick Norsigian ever will achieve his goal of convincing the photography world that 65 old-fashioned glass-plate negatives of Yosemite and coastal California that he found at a Fresno garage sale 10 years ago constitute the “... -
Monster Mash: BP to continue cultural sponsorships; LACMA film program gets another reprieve
Culture Monster-- Still giving: BP said it will continue its sponsorship of cultural institutions in Britain -- including the 2012 Olympic Games in London -- despite the on-going oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (Bloomberg) -- Another extension: The weekend...... -
Muybridge photos questioned by Getty curator
Culture MonsterThe history of California art is entwined with the history of photography, since the state and the camera both emerged at roughly the same moment in the mid-19th century. Over at the Modern Art Notes blog, both histories are undergoing...... -
Writers, the future is still yours
On a long sojourn in Iceland during the strange year that was 2008, I was talking to the writer Andri Magnason who took seriously my quip that after Barack Obama became president, I'd write nothing but haiku. Six months later, Obama's on the cusp of...Tags: Culture, Iraq, Barack Obama, Iraq War (2003-2011), Arts and Culture
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Need a knockout photo? They're game
It remains the most famous sports action photograph of the 20th century: Muhammad Ali looms over Sonny Liston, whose arms are splayed, before Ali retains the heavyweight championship in 1965.
Longtime Sports Illustrated photographer Neil Leifer snapped...Tags: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Periodicals, Photography, Mass Media, Joe Namath
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Robert Bartlett Haas dies at 94; longtime UCLA educator studied writings of Gertrude Stein
Robert Bartlett Haas, a longtime UCLA educator who spent years immersed in the writings of Gertrude Stein, has died. He was 94. Haas died April 20 in a hospital in Nuertingen, Germany, after a brief illness, said his son, Peter. He had spent most of...Tags: University of California, Berkeley, Death, Career and Workplace, Yale University, Germany
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A Cambridge crash course
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHanging around in Cambridge has its drawbacks. You may stub your toe or splinter a heel on the uneven sidewalks. You may discover that John Harvard smells funny. You may be arrested for obstreperousness inside your own lodging (see Gates, Henry Louis Jr.)...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Teaching and Learning, Buzz Aldrin, Bob Dylan, Museum of Natural History
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Carleton Watkins on the frontier of U.S. photography
Times Art CriticConventional wisdom is that the Civil War didn't have a dramatic impact on American art. The preservation of the Union and the end of hideous intramural hostility supposedly generated an illusion of continuity, reflected in dreamy landscape painting and...Tags: Transportation, Arts, Photography, Wars and Interventions, Railway Transportation
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Photo Pioneer Shot More Than Just Pictures
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterEadweard Muybridge's pioneering time-lapse photography laid the foundation for Hollywood movies -- and his colorful life could have been one. Muybridge, a 19th century British American, made his name documenting animals and humans in motion. He also...Tags: Crimes, Photography, Science and Technology, Defense, Movies
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Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University hosts Yosemite photography exhibit
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe superstars of early Yosemite photography come together at an exhibition of 50 photographs and related items through Oct. 28 at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University in Palo Alto. In "Yosemite's Structure and Textures," images of the valley...Tags: Education, Photography, Stanford University, Arts and Culture, Ansel Adams
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