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IMAGE: XY FACTOR Defiant One
LA Times MagazineMenswear styles come and go, but the iconic Schott Perfecto lives to tell... -
Calvin Hicks dies at 71; his photos chronicled black life in L.A.
Calvin Hicks, a photographer who documented the nuances of daily African American life in Los Angeles and co-founded an association and gallery to preserve and display the work of black photographers, died May 20 at Ronald Reagan-UCLA Medical Center after...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Arts and Culture, Cancer, Arts, Robert Hicks
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What Patti Smith and Neil Young won't be doing at BEA
Jacket CopyAn encore of the stunning 1996 performance by Neil Young and Patti Smith is probably too much to hope for from their upcoming discussion together at BEA.... -
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: Upper East Side, Sam Francis, Clement Greenberg, Obituaries, Whitney Museum
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Critic's Notebook: Patti Smith's 'Woolgathering'
Los Angeles Times Book CriticOne thing I've always admired about Patti Smith is her refusal to be characterized. Rocker, poet, artist, mother: She seems to inhabit each of these roles almost effortlessly, moving among them as if the only difference was in our heads. And why not?...Tags: Gravy, Patti Smith, Arts and Culture, Sam Shepard, Fine Artists
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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... -
Getty acquires Ed Ruscha photos -- some famous, some hidden
Culture MonsterThe Getty Museum and Getty Research Institute have acquired more than 70 photographs by L.A. artist Ed Ruscha, as well as a large personal archive from the artist. Many of the works reflect Ruscha's fascination with the streets of L.A.... -
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... -
A different kind of cut-up storytelling: Beatrice Coron [Video]
Jacket CopyBook artist Beatrice Coron explains her cut-up process at TED 2011.... -
PST, A to Z: 'Identity and Affirmation' at CSUN Art Galleries
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...... -
Sofia Coppola curates Robert Mapplethorpe show in Paris
Culture MonsterSofia Coppola is curating a new exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Galerie Thaddeus Ropac in Paris. The show, titled "Robert Mapplethorpe by Sofia Coppola," is set to open Friday and will run through Jan. 7.... -
Monster Mash: 'Spider-Man' creative team talks damage control; lost Da Vinci painting identified
Culture MonsterNew 'Spider-Man' creative team discusses their rescue mission...
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