Warhol Exhibit to Open at Newport Harbor Museum

Galleries at the Newport Harbor Art Museum will be closed until Jan. 21 for installation of “Success Is a Job in New York . . . The Early Art and Business of Andy Warhol.” The museum store and restaurant remain open.

Pacific Bell has given Opera Pacific $5,635 to underwrite a signed interpretation of Verdi’s “La Traviata” on Jan. 11 at 2 p.m. at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. Two interpreters, Claudia Kinder and Stephen Decator, will stand in costume at the side of the stage during the performance rendering the dialogue and lyrics into American Sign Language. The grant will also subsidize 50 tickets for the hearing-impaired, which will be offered at the reduced price of $20. For information, call Opera Pacific on the California Relay Service at (800) 342-5833.

The Orange County Chapter of the American Institute of Architects will present “An Intimate Conversation with Frank Lloyd Wright” Jan. 17 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Tale of the Whale Restaurant, 400 Main St., Balboa. Lyman Shepard, an architectural historian and Wright impersonator, will show slides of the architect’s work and will comment on Wright’s life and philosophy. Registration and cocktails will begin at 6 p.m., with dinner and the program afterward. Tickets: $25 general admission, $20 for OCCAIA members. Reservations and information: (714) 557-7796.

Meanwhile, the board of directors of the OCCAIA has installed a new officers: Dell H. DeRevere of Revere Partnership in Newport Beach, president; Dan Heinfeld of Corona del Mar, vice-president/president-elect; Roberta W. Jorgensen of Mission Viejo, secretary, and David J. Baab of Irvine, chief financial officer.

“Eat Your Heart Out,” the current production at the Way Off Broadway Playhouse, 1058 East 1st St., Santa Ana, has been extended through Jan. 20. Curtain today: 8 p.m. Tickets: $10. Information: (714) 547-8997.

The Cypress Pops Orchestra will have auditions for new members during the last week of February at Cypress College. Dates and information: (714) 527-0964.

Patricia Goldman of Mission Viejo has been named executive director of the Historical and Cultural Foundation of Orange County, effective Jan. 17, succeeding Virginia Donohugh, who resigned in November. The foundation promotes local ethnic culture through exhibitions and other events. Goldman, 32, is communications supervisor for Pacific Volt Information Systems, which produces the Pacific Bell telephone directory. She is a former director of the Art Directors Club of Boston, a nonprofit trade organization for graphic design professionals. The foundation’s next event is a fund-raising dinner Jan. 28 at Emperor’s Fortune restaurant in Costa Mesa. Tickets: $100. Information: (714) 250-1957.