Artdaily (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
PITTSBURGH.- Two hundred arts managers and directors from around the country will converge in Pittsburgh at the Hilton Hotel and Towers on October 9 - 11, 2008 to share knowledge of and gain access to innovative technology solutions specifically designed for the arts and culture industry. The three-day conference hosted by Carnegie Mellon's Center for Arts Management and
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced today it has received a gift of $55 million from Los Angeles-based philanthropists Lynda and Stewart Resnick, including $45 million toward LACMA's ongoing Transformation, a campaign to unify the museum's campus and refurbish and expand its gallery spaces. Additionally, the Resnicks have promised LACMA
machine project (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
On November 15th, Machine Project will unleash over fifty interventions, experiments, and installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. What have we gotten ourselves into? We’re not quite sure, but we will need some extra hands to help pull this one off… Site specific installations, mobile performers, and other various antics will be occupying [...]
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
LOS ANGELES.- For too long, art historians, students and theorists have toiled apart from their colleagues at museums and galleries. No longer, at least not in Los Angeles. Directed by art historian Richard Meyer of USC College, The Contemporary
Osoblog (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Now here's someone who should have made People magazine's best-dressed list. Mind you, she's got plenty of time. What with her only being, what, 10 or something? Yes, High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens most definitely rocked - as The...
Internet Time Blog (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Here’s a pattern I’ve seen in California, Italy, France, Australia, Germany, the U.S., Brazil, Australia, and Spain. People far from the equator think themselves refined, cultured, and responsible; they consider their neighbors closer to the equator slow, shiftless, and overly emotional peasants and farmers. Those peasants consider their compatriots distant from the equator cold, dull, [...]
Entertainment Tonight (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
It's every teenager's dream -- Zac Efron and Jesse McCartney on one roof! ET was there as Zac, Jesse, Vanessa Hudgens , and Rumer Willis partied on the top of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for the 6th Annual Teen Vogue Young Hollywood Party. We caught up with Zac, who opened up to ET about his good friend and former co-star Nikki Blonsky and her recent airport incident. "She's one of my best...
USC News (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
USC College and the USC Roski School join Los Angeles museums to launch The Contemporary Project, a partnership directed by Richard Meyer.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
LOS ANGELES.- Commissioned by Dia Art Foundation and curated by Lynne Cooke, Francis Alÿs: Fabiola was first installed at the Hispanic Society of America in northern Manhattan from September 2007 to April 2008. Francis Alÿs, a Belgian artist who relocated to Mexico City in the early 1990s, has assembled a significant collection of nearly identical paintings and other depictions of fourth-
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
In today's "Wavy Rule," Paul makes art about art about art. He writes: Last year, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art began feasibility studies to build what is proposed to be a 161-foot-tall piece by Jeff Koons. It will be a train engine suspended from a crane. You can read all about it here ; The New Yorker 's Peter Schjeldahl reviewed Koons' latest retrospective back in June, and Calvin Tomkins...
Styledash (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Filed under: Events: On the Scene , Style in the News In 1973, the LACMA unveiled "LA Flash." The exhibition featured photographs of 400 of the city's most stylish residents, collected by a handful of shutterbugs who wandered different neighborhoods, capturing the best of L.A. street style. Now, on its 25th anniversary, the museum will re-launch "LA Flash" for a three-month viewing. The photos, according...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
The Democratic National Convention is akin to a long-standing family reunion. And Barack Obama was not on the guest list eight years ago...
green LA girl (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Thought the Subway to the Sea was all set to run all the way down Wilshire to the beach? Well, it might — but it might not — and the earliest way to find out’s by going to one of the next Westside Extension Community Update Meetings — where the mystery will be revealed! Well, it [...]
St Louis (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
This is the year of the cultural face-lift. From the completion of the $29 million Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exterior restoration to the Los Angeles ...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
LOS ANGELES.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures (on view January 25 to April 19, 2009), the first major exhibition in the United States to examine the range of art created during the Cold War. Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures continues LACMA's tradition of thematic explorations of twentieth century German art in its
