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LACMA Receives $45M Donation
MID-WILSHIRE-- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, home to works by Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, received a $45 million donation to fund a wave of renovations, including a massive new gallery for special exhibits. The gift from beverage magnates...Tags: Arts, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, Renzo Piano, Book
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BMW Art Cars
LACMA is the first U.S. venue in a major worldwide tour of the cars; they next appear in New York City's historic Grand Central Terminal, March 25-April 7, before heading to a three-city museum tour in Mexico. Never-before-seen footage of the four...Tags: Alexander Calder, Arts, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg
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Instinct, vision and a bit of Brass
The EnvelopeIt might be a 1969 telegram to Australia from a label president unaccustomed to working with openly out-of-control rockers, asking about Joe Cocker's "deportment." Or a letter from a fan irritated that it was not possible, in 1966, to buy tickets in New...Tags: Joe Cocker, Bing Crosby, Soundgarden (music group), Music Industry, Barbra Streisand
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Obama's beautiful people 'roughing it'
The Swampby James Warren There were lots of Mercedes convertibles, Land Rovers and Priuses outside and Billy Joel and Alec Baldwin were among the a-list celeb co-sponors for an Obama fundraiser Sunday at the Hamptons beachside home (actually, amid the hamptons.......Tags: Caroline Kennedy, Long Island, Economic Policy, Arable Farming, Money and Monetary Policy
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'How to Draw a Bunny'
Times Staff WriterYou don't just learn how to draw a bunny in "How to Draw a Bunny," the delightful, unabashedly celebratory documentary about the life and times of the late artist Ray Johnson, you learn a few other useful things as well. For instance: In the lost paradise...Tags: Chuck Close, James Rosenquist, Movies, Arts, Entertainment
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Personal'Diary'
Tribune Art CriticRoger Shimomura's "An American Diary," a series of paintings and lithographs at the Chicago Cultural Center, is a successful amalgam of Eastern and Western art traditions put at the service of memory. Each image responds to or illustrates an entry...Tags: Arts, Aaron Siskind, Photography, Brice Marden, Superman (fictional character)
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Let the bidding begin
Special to The SunI consider myself a fairly fearless traveler. I've eaten things indigenous that were inedible (goat stomach, anyone?), hitched rides from people whose language I didn't speak, and bartered the shirt off my back for a souvenir. Until recently, though, I'd...Tags: Milton Avery, Arts, Dance, Matthew Barney, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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In search of Buffalo, N.Y.
Sun StaffTalk about a place with low self-esteem. The city of Buffalo, whose name suggests oxen and whose dominant winter accessory is the snowbank, isn't big on promotion. Grab a taxi outside the Buffalo Niagara International Airport and ask the driver, "Say,...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Arts, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Frank Lloyd Wright, Restaurants
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Steve Martin Donates $1M to Art Collection
SAN MARINO, Calif. - Entertainer Steve Martin donated $1 million to the American art collection at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens. The gift is seen as a boon for a department traditionally overshadowed by the museum's...Tags: Pablo Picasso, Arts, Edward Hopper, Steve Martin, Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
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The life -- and art -- of Times Square at 100
Staff WriterHey, whaddaya know, the gang's all here. Kids in pants so baggy they could stuff Bayonne in their pockets, dudes with Celtics caps and Sixers jackets, vendors selling knockoff purses like Saks on the sidewalk. There's the cutie-pie in denim mini dodging...Tags: Music Theater, Wachovia Corp., Road Transportation, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Times Square
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Pop till you drop
Daily PressSomething funny happened to the world of art as it spun into the 1960s. It turned away from the big, bad, brushstroke-filled canvases of the abstract expressionist painters -- such as Jackson Pollock -- and found a startlingly new source of inspiration in...Tags: Arts, Andy Warhol, Museum of Modern Art, Chrysler Museum of Art, Michael Jackson
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