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Review: 'Sicily' at Getty Villa looms larger than life
There are at least three great reasons to see "Sicily: Art and Invention Between Greece and Rome," the newly opened antiquities exhibition at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades. A major sculpture anchors each of the show's three rooms, and together they...
Tags: Greek Gods and Goddesses, Rome (Italy), Artists, Fine Artists, Arts and Culture
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reFramed: In conversation with WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY curator Anne Wilkes Tucker
FrameworkAnne Wilkes Tucker is currently the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston where she has worked since 1976. She founded the Photography Department at the museum that now has a collection of over 28,000... -
MOCA architecture show, funded by Getty, could face cancellation
Times Architecture CriticThe curator of a major architecture exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art says he is concerned it will be canceled in advance of its planned June 2 opening. “A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California”...Tags: Getty Foundation, Museums, Artists, Standards, Thom Mayne
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Art: 'Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance' is a vital show
Collecting rare works that include Italy's Giotto di Bondone and Pacino di Bonaguida, art history expands at the Getty to incorporate manuscript paintings as an essential feature of the early Renaissance story. "Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance:...Tags: Getty Center, Italy
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LACMA draws up ambitious plans for a $650-million new look
At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, an acclaimed Swiss architect is hoping to pull off what an acclaimed Dutch one could not. Next month LACMA will publicly unveil a $650-million plan by Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor for a dramatic new museum...
Tags: Pritzker Architecture Prize, Peter Zumthor, Standards, Science and Technology, Arts and Culture
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Elon Musk hates 405 Freeway traffic, offers money to speed widening
Entrepreneur Elon Musk has already spent $50,000 trying to make the 405 Freeway better – and he’s willing to pay even more. Musk said he is open to pay the cost of adding workers to the widening project "as a contribution to the city and...
Tags: Zev Yaroslavsky, PayPal, Inc., Satellite Technology, Tesla Motors, Inc., Traffic
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405 project stuck in the slow lane
Elon Musk quips that it's easier getting rockets into orbit than navigating his commute between home in Bel-Air and his Space Exploration Technologies factory in Hawthorne. "The 405 … varies from bad to horrendous," said Musk, who also co-founded...
Tags: PayPal, Inc., Satellite Technology, Traffic, California Department of Transportation, Transportation
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Former L.A. Times art critic William Wilson dies at 78
William Wilson, who wrote art criticism for the Los Angeles Times for more than three decades, died Saturday after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for several years. He was 78. Wilson, who was diagnosed with the disease four years ago, passed away...
Tags: Artists, Museums, Alzheimer's Disease, Obituaries, Fine Artists
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Review: History lurks in Stephen Prina's sculptures at LACMA
Edouard Manet (1832-83) was arguably the first Modern artist. Partly that's because the 19th century painter's work was made in direct, conscious response to museum art — in those days a newfangled institution. Before, painters and sculptors...
Tags: Tangerine, Museums, Artists, Austria, Fine Artists
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Why you need to know Tyler Diehl
What he does: Tyler Diehl oversees the design, planting and maintenance of 22 acres of lush gardens in Monkton. The Ladew property, which is 250 acres in total, includes a nature walk and 15 “garden rooms,” each with its own theme. While...
Tags: Botany, Washington, DC
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Review: L.A.'s satisfying sprawl
Architecture exhibitions are notoriously tricky to pull off. It's hard to squeeze a whole building inside a museum, after all. And the number of forces that shape any piece of architecture — engineering, politics and money, to begin with —...
Tags: Tarsem Singh, Standards, Thom Mayne, Arts and Culture, Science and Technology
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Thomas Demand: A journey in great demand
Special to the TribuneJohn Lautner believed that "architecture should be really odd." To this end the midcentury American architect dotted Southern California with a concrete, glass and copper volcano for Bob Hope's second home, a dwelling that looks like a UFO perched on a...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Jackson Pollock, World War I (1914-1918), Photography, Arts and Culture
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