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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
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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Culture Monster (Free subscription) | yesterday
When the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced plans in 2007 to build Jeff Koons' massive, multimillion-dollar "Train," the news quickly polarized the art community. Some said it would be a monumental and important work of art for L.A....
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Culture Monster (Free subscription) | yesterday
Can a chair be a ravishingly beautiful, fascinating and revolutionary object as well as a place to sit? That’s what art specialists at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art say...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
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) | 11/23/2009
News added the blog post ' LACMA investments lose 23 percent in last financial year '
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
"The Los Angeles County Museum of Art saw its investment portfolio lose nearly a quarter of its value during its 2008-09 fiscal year." In the same period, contributions to the museum fell by $100 million - nearly 80 percent - from the year before....
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Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
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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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
She was a founding benefactor of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and a guiding patron of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Gardens in San Marino. Frances Lasker Brody, a philanthropist, arts advocate and collector who influenced the development of Los Angeles' cultural life as a founding benefactor of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and later as a guiding patron of the Huntington...
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Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
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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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
As a subway extension draws closer to reality, the debate over the route intensifies. Building a subway through the Westside has been the Holy Grail of transportation planners for decades, and many feel they are closer to tunneling than ever before.
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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) | 11/09/2009
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) | 11/09/2009
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) | 11/06/2009
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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