ART

Could it be that the “Helga” hype is fading? Despite some serious media limelight, Andrew Wyeth’s portraits of his voluptuous neighbor Helga Testorf haven’t drawn record-breaking crowds at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. With one weekend left to go, “Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures” has attracted about 155,000 visitors, says a museum spokeswoman. About 217,000 visitors saw a David Hockney retrospective this spring, making it the museum’s best-ever attended show of a contemporary artist. “Helga” made nationwide front-page news in 1986 when Wyeth unveiled 240 Helga portraits, many of them nudes, supposedly kept secret from his wife and everybody else for 15 years.