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THE ARTS

Disney Hall Gift: Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., is donating $1 million to the Walt Disney Concert Hall project, Disney Hall officials are expected to announce today. Toyota was the first corporation to give to Disney Hall’s capital campaign in 1990, when the company pledged $1 million toward construction of an elaborate pipe organ that will become the centerpiece for the L.A. Philharmonic’s new downtown’s home, expected to open in 2001. This latest donation raises recent Disney Hall gifts to $76 million, but officials still have at least $50 million more to raise.

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A Record Night: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art paid $5.9 million for a Mark Rothko painting Wednesday night, setting a record for the artist. The work, “No. 14, 1960,” was estimated to sell for between $2.5 million and $3 million by Sotheby’s, which auctioned the painting in New York. The contemporary art sale, which fetched a total of nearly $29 million, also set new records for seven other artists, including Bruce Nauman ($2.2 million), Chuck Close ($431,500), Jeff Koons ($156,500) and Mike Kelley ($63,000). At rival auctioneer Christie’s, meanwhile, an untitled 1982 work by the late Jean Michel Basquiat sold for $255,500 Wednesday, setting a record for a Basquiat work on paper.

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Baring It for AIDS: Four persons living with AIDS, including heiress Aileen Getty (J. Paul Getty’s granddaughter), will pose as real-life nude models in “Don’t Be Scared,” an installation by artist Tony Kaye that will be on view through Monday at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. As part of the installation, which will contain signs urging viewers to “please touch,” each model will have a vial of blood drawn. Kaye, who has staged similar installations in New York and London, said the exhibit aims “to break the taboo that a person with AIDS is untouchable.”

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Seeing the Getty: Speaking of the Gettys, filming is scheduled to be completed today on “Concert of Wills: Making the Getty Center,” a two-hour documentary chronicling the 12-year process of building the Getty Center in the Sepulveda Pass, which opens to the public Dec. 16. The movie, from filmmakers Susan Froemke, Albert Maysles and Bob Eisenhardt, will air on KCET-TV Channel 28 on Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. A separate 30-minute “Getty Museum Preview,” hosted by news anchors Ann Martin and Michael Tuck, will air on KCBS-TV Channel 2 on Dec. 11 at 7:30 p.m.

POP/ROCK

Acoustic Christmas Lineup: Chumbawamba, Matchbox 20, Fiona Apple, the Verve, Sneaker Pimps, Jamiroquai, Sarah McLachlan, Smash Mouth and Jane’s Addiction are set to play Dec. 5 in the first night of KROQ-FM’s (106.7) eighth annual Almost Acoustic Christmas concert at Universal Amphitheatre. On tap for Dec. 6, meanwhile, are Sugar Ray, the Aquabats, Third Eye Blind, Save Ferris, Live, Everclear, Portishead, Green Day, 311 and David Bowie. Ticket information will be announced Monday.

QUICK TAKES

Taking a page from NBC’s “Today” show set in New York’s Rockefeller Center, ABC’s “Good Morning America” has announced plans to relocate to a new street-level facility in Manhattan’s Times Square, with broadcasting to begin in 1999. . . . Facing a 15-minute run-over on what executives deemed to be an exceptional installment of “NYPD Blue,” ABC will for the first time expand the series’ Dec. 9 episode to 90 minutes, beginning at 9:30 p.m. . . . Insane Clown Posse singer Violent J was arrested on aggravated battery charges following a club show in Albuquerque, N.M., last weekend. An unidentified concert-goer who was treated for cuts and bruises told police that the rapper--whose real name is Joseph Frank Bruce--hit him 30 times with a microphone and kicked him in the head. In a statement, Insane Clown Posse’s publicist said Bruce threw only “a few punches” and acted “in defense” after the concert-goer pulled his hair. . . . “Puppies for Sale,” a short film about people with disabilities starring Jack Lemmon, will be shown at Mann’s Westwood Theatre today through Sunday prior to screenings of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid.” . . . “A Smooth Jazz Christmas” at UCLA’s Veterans Wadsworth Theater has been pushed back by a week and is now scheduled for Dec. 19. Tom Scott and his band the LA Express will headline the event, which will also feature guitarist-singer Jonathan Butler.