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ART

O’Keeffe Museum Planned: The Museum of New Mexico has announced an agreement to form a Georgia O’Keeffe museum in Santa Fe. The new museum--expected to open next fall in a 10,000-square-foot space currently occupied by the Allene Lapides Gallery--will be privately owned and financed but operated in conjunction with Santa Fe’s public museum system. Principal donors to the O’Keeffe project are Santa Fe residents John Marion, retired chairman of Sotheby’s North America, and his wife, Anne, a major collector of O’Keeffe’s work. A core group of artworks is being donated by private collectors, including the Marions. Additional pieces may be purchased from the Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation. O’Keeffe, known for her paintings of the Southwest, died in 1986.

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Estate Project Comes to L.A.: The New York-based Estate Project for Artists With AIDS, which helps artists with AIDS to continue and preserve their artwork, will expand its presence to Los Angeles when it presents “TranscEnd AIDS,” a group exhibition of work by artists with AIDS, opening next Friday and running through Dec. 17 at Hollywood’s Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies. The exhibition, timed to coincide with the annual observance Friday of World AIDS Day and A Day Without Art, features works by 12 artists, including Ron Athey, Edward Lightner, Philip Pirolo, Cory Roberts-Auli, Daniel Salazar and Joey Terrill. Also on Friday, film director John Waters (“Cry-Baby,” “Serial Mom”) will present his new live performance, “A Matter of Taste,” at Sunset Boulevard’s Chateau Marmont Hotel at 7 p.m. as a benefit for the Estate Project. Waters’ performance is held in conjunction with the opening of the Gramercy International Art Fair Los Angeles. Tickets are $50 and $100.

MOVIES

Honoring the Storyteller: The Writers Guild of America, West will pay tribute to legendary director Billy Wilder on Dec. 6 when it presents him with a lifetime achievement award honoring his screenwriting and storytelling skills during sold-out ceremonies at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. Tony Curtis and Jackie Cooper are among those scheduled to deliver celebrity tributes to Wilder, whose credits include the original “Sunset Boulevard” as well as “Double Indemnity,” “The Lost Weekend,” “A Foreign Affair,” “Sabrina,” “The Seven Year Itch,” “Love in the Afternoon,” “Some Like It Hot” and “The Apartment.” Walter Matthau is master of ceremonies for the evening, which concludes with a screening of “Sunset Boulevard.”

POP/ROCK

Europe’s King of Pop: Michael Jackson is still the king of pop, according to European music fans who voted him best male singer at the 1995 MTV Europe Music Awards, presented Thursday in Paris. Other award winners included Iceland’s Bjork (best female singer), U2 (best group), Bon Jovi (best rock group), Dog Eat Dog (breakthrough artist) and the Cranberries (best song, for “Zombie”). The charitable organization Greenpeace also received a special “Free Your Mind” award for its “25 years of ceaseless campaigning for care of the environment.”

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Ringing Up Sales: Several pop stars are set to man the cash registers at local retail stores next Saturday during this year’s “Counter Aid,” an annual benefit for the music-industry-fights-AIDS organization LIFEbeat. Among those confirmed so far: Warren G and Jody Watley at Blockbuster Music on Fairfax Avenue; Weird Al Yankovic, Motley Crue singer John Carobi and Duff McKagan of Guns N’ Roses at Sunset Boulevard’s Tower Records, and Me’Shell NdegeOcello and the members of Earth, Wind & Fire at the Virgin Megastore on Sunset. Other scheduled participants in the 1 to 4 p.m. event include L.A. Laker Cedric Ceballos at the Beverly Center’s Hard Rock Cafe, Richard Marx and David Wilcox at Borders Books & Music on La Cienega Boulevard and Shai, Traci Lords and Tevin Campbell at the Beverly Connection Wherehouse. From Friday through Dec. 7, each participating store named above will ask customers to round their purchases up to the nearest dollar, with the proceeds going to LIFEbeat.

QUICK TAKES

Funeral services for longtime Directors Guild of America official Joseph C. Youngerman, who died Wednesday from complications following a stroke, will be held Sunday at 11 a.m. in the Park Chapel at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City. . . . A post-Thanksgiving present from Grammy winners Mannheim Steamroller: Patrons who purchase one ticket to the group’s “Christmas in the Aire” 3 p.m. concert Sunday at the Pantages Theatre will receive a second free when they donate a can of food to the L.A. Foodbank. The offer is available only at the Pantages box office and may be purchased in advance. . . . The rock band Blues Traveler guests on Tuesday’s “Roseanne,” with front-man John Popper playing an old buddy of John Goodman’s character, Dan. . . . Hillary Rodham Clinton will be a special guest on “Martha Stewart’s Home for the Holidays” special airing Dec. 12 on CBS. Stewart will assist the First Lady in preparing the White House for the holidays.