ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT REPORTS FROM THE TIMES, NEWS SERVICES AND THE NATION’S PRESS.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

KTLA Lauded: KTLA-TV will receive the television academy’s Los Angeles Area Governors Award during the 52nd annual local Emmy Awards, June 17 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. The award recognizes KTLA’s “continuing service as an innovative leader in broadcast technology” as well as its “pioneering contributions to local television” as Los Angeles’ first commercial station.

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Fifth Beatle’s Legacy: The “fifth Beatle,” Stuart Sutcliffe, died of a brain hemorrhage six months before the Beatles got their first hit, “Love Me Do.” But he’s now rejoined the group--or at least its memorabilia--with his letters and art being returned to Liverpool, the group’s birthplace. The Beatles Story Museum beat out rivals in Japan and America to nab the collection, loaned by Sutcliffe’s sister, Pauline. Sutcliffe met and became friends with John Lennon at the Liverpool Art School in 1959, and it was Lennon who persuaded Sutcliffe to sell one of his paintings to buy a guitar. His letters give new glimpses into the band’s formative years.

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Rauschenberg Backs Guggenheim Dream: Though there’s still a lot of “ifs” and “maybes” surrounding the proposal for a new $900-million Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim museum in New York, prominent artist Robert Rauschenberg has already donated more than 100 of his paintings and sculptures, along with his archives, to the project. Plans call for 12,000 square feet of exhibition space to house Rauschenberg’s works when--or if--the new Guggenheim branch is built over the East River. Gehry, Guggenheim director Thomas Krens and the museum’s leading benefactor, Peter B. Lewis, unveiled preliminary models this week for the project, which now goes before a city planning board considering possible uses for the Manhattan site. Krens said that donors are ready to fund the project if it gains political approval, but noted that even with an unlikely immediate go-ahead, it would still take six years to make the museum a reality.

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Spotlight Winners: The Performing Arts Center of L.A. County has announced the winners of its annual Spotlight Awards, a competition for Southern California high school-age musical and dance artists. Winners, who receive $5,000 each and rose above more than 800 entrants, are: Jennifer Whalen, 14, of Ventura (ballet); Jeremy Tatum, 17, of Long Beach (jazz modern dance); Carissa Kim, 14, of Diamond Bar (classical instrumental music); Tommy Catanzaro, 15, of Hemet (jazz instrumental music); Alex Torrico, 17, of Huntington Beach (classical voice); and Lindsay Michelle Mendez, 16, of Norwalk (nonclassical voice).

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Quick Takes: Shoplifting charges against film critic Rex Reed will be dismissed if he stays out of trouble for the next six months, a New York judge ruled. Reed, 61, was arrested in February after allegedly trying to steal three compact discs from a record store. He has denied the charges. . . . Madonna has learned from a routine prenatal scan that her baby with British director Guy Ritchie will be a boy, Britain’s Sun tabloid has reported. The Sun also said that the baby will be born in September. . . . Former Supreme Mary Wilson will chat with fans about why she is not included on Diana Ross’ upcoming “Supremes” concert tour, tonight at 8 at https://www.abcnews.com. Wilson is interviewed on the subject on tonight’s “20/20 Downtown,” at 10 on ABC.