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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: Artists, Robert Motherwell, George W. Bush, Obituaries, Morris Louis
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John Chamberlain dies at 84; American sculptor
John Chamberlain, a prolific American sculptor whose use of crushed automobile sheet metal became his signature during a career that spanned half a century, died Wednesday in New York City. He was 84.
Reportedly in poor health, he had been working on a...Tags: Artists, Manufacturing and Engineering, Larry Rivers, Automotive Equipment, Guggenheim Museum
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Stanford picks architect for art collection's $30.5-million home
Culture MonsterStanford University has picked New York's Ennead Architects to build a $30.5 million home for a collection of contemporary American art it was given earlier this year. It's part of an arts building boom on the Palo Alto campus.... -
Steve Cohen, billionaire financier and art collector, joins MOCA board
Culture MonsterSteven A. Cohen, the billionaire who is in contention for the L.A. Dodgers baseball team, has been elected to the MOCA board of trustees.... -
Val Kilmer wants to make his Mark (Twain)
Culture MonsterFew actors own a role the way Hal Holbrook owns Mark Twain. The Tony- and Emmy-winning actor, who recently turned 87, has played the humorist in his one-man stage play “Mark Twain Tonight!” since 1954, logging thousands of performances and... -
Theater review: 'England' at Skirball Cultural Center
Culture MonsterTim Crouch's "England," a play for galleries, performs at the Skirball Cultural Center.... -
Art review: Denver's Clyfford Still Museum
Culture MonsterChristopher Knight reviews the new Clyfford Still Museum in Denver... -
Brandeis University won't sell works from Rose Art Museum
Culture MonsterWorks from Rose Art Museum won't be sold by Brandeis... -
50 Years of NASA Art at National Air and Space Museum
Culture Monster50 Years of NASA Art at National Air and Space Museum... -
Fall arts picks: Art
Culture MonsterChristopher Knight's art picks for the fall season... -
MOCA celebrates 30 years and a rebirth
The financial chickens came home to roost at the Museum of Contemporary Art a year ago, but on the eve of what's being dubbed "MOCA New," a 30th-anniversary celebration centering on the museum's biggest exhibition ever -- drawn almost entirely from its...Tags: Demographics, Diane Arbus, Piet Mondrian, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns
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Monster Mash: Stonehenge skeleton from Mediterranean area; Pace Gallery nabs de Kooning
Culture Monster-- Distant traveler: Scientists have determined that an ancient skeleton buried near Stonehenge in the U.K. came from the Mediterranean area. (BBC News) -- Abstract expressionist: The Pace Gallery said it has won the rights to the estate of artist......
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