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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915, a major exhibition highlighting the variety and strength of American artistic achievement during an epochal century and a half, from the colonial era through the period leading to World War I. American Stories—the first survey of American narrative painting in...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
SAN MARINO, CA.- The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced today the joint purchase of an iconic chair designed by groundbreaking English architect, graphic artist, and craftsman Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851–1942). One of only five chairs in the set known to exist, the Huntington/LACMA piece is one of only two in the United...
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Art reviw Alex Stalenbertg (Free subscription) | yesterday
News added the blog post ' LACMA investments lose 23 percent in last financial year '
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Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
No arts nonprofit is apt to show a rosy balance sheet for the year of the great economic meltdown, unless by rosy one means red ink. In the case of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which recently posted...
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Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
As my colleague Mike Boehm reported Monday, Eli Broad is considering at least two sites -- and potentially a third -- for a planned museum to hold the collection of his Broad Art Foundation, which is mostly dedicated to post-war...
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Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
This morning's New York Times features a front-page Deborah Sontag and Robin Pogrebin article on a story that MAN has been aggressively covering for six weeks: The New Museum's self-made ethical problems regarding its exhibition of a trustee's collection. ( Click here for a roundup of links to MAN's coverage. Click here for an op-ed I wrote for the current issue of The Art Newspaper.) Some thoughts:...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Los Angeles - The Berlin Wall - or at least pieces of it - came down in Los Angeles early Monday as the entertainment capital of the US staged a glitzy arts extravaganza to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the historic moment. Eight pieces of the ...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents its recent acquisition of one of the most significant private collections of Pacific Island art assembled in the twentieth century in an installation designed by artist Franz West. Representative of the wide range of arts from the Pacific regions and with historic provenance, the collection’s greatest strengths lie in artworks...
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Looking Around (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Dia Art Foundation is a unique thing, a non-profit that collects a limited roster of artists in depth, especially Minimalists and Conceptual artists, and gives them the kind of long term exhibition space their work requires. This can get tricky when you're talking about something like Walter de Maria's New York Earth Room, [...]
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Knowledge is Power (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
An authentic section of the Berlin Wall, donated in April 1990 by the Berlin Wall Commemorative Group to President Reagan for his unwavering dedication to humanitarianism and freedom over communism throughout his presidency. This segment measures 3.5 feet by 10 feet, and weighs approximately 6,000 pounds. The concrete wall that divided the city of Berlin for 28 years is suddenly splitting a segment...
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Causecast - Latest News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
by SARAH NELSON , Contributing Writer November ninth marks the 20 year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which triggered the collapse of communism that would spread throughout Eastern Europe in the years to follow. The Berlin Wall was the iconic symbol of the proverbial iron curtain that separated a free Europe from the communist east and divided the city of Berlin for nearly 30 years. The...
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Intelligent Travel (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
For the past month, 10 slabs of the Berlin Wall have been installed outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). According to thelocal.de, "The 2.6-tonne slabs have been made available to artists, who have been given free rein... Los Angeles County California - Berlin Wall - Los Angeles - United States - California
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Pasadena Events Calendar (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Night Theater, 35.5” x 50”, pastel on paper Almaraz / Legacy, an exhibition of over 80 works selected from the Estate of Carlos Almaraz, opens Sunday November 8, 2009 with an opening reception from 2:00 - 6:00 p.m. at the Fremont Gallery in South Pasadena. Curated by Patrick Ela and Elsa Flores Almaraz, the exhibition celebrates the [...]
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L.A. Story (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Yes, that is my child standing in front of segments of the original Berlin Wall . Yes, she is wearing the "Ich bin ein Berliner" T-shirt I bought for her when I was in Berlin for the 2008 film festival . No, she is not in Berlin. CC is getting all touchy-feely with an installation of the infamous Wall that's been painted by muralist Thierry Noir and erected at 5900 Wilshire Blvd., across...
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Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
If the Los Angeles County Museum of Art ever needs a theme song, it won't have far to look for a composer: LACMA announced today that Carole Bayer Sager has joined the museum's board, along with two other new trustees,...
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