Frank Gehry

MOCA architecture show opening pushed back to June 16

2013-05-17 13:28:00

The Museum of Contemporary Art released a statement Friday saying it has moved back the opening date of its show about contemporary Los Angeles architecture, part of the Getty's "Pacific Standard Time Presents" initiative, by two weeks, to June 16....

'The Marriage of Figaro,' right in time with the 21st century

2013-05-17 06:11:00

Suffice to say that Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte weren't thinking about Proposition 8 when they composed "The Marriage of Figaro." The 1786 comic opera follows bullying Count Almaviva's efforts to invoke droit du seigneur to sexually conquer...

L.A. artists, architects' effect on each other at MAK Center exhibit

2013-05-16 06:00:00

"Everything Loose Will Land" has landed. And its timing could hardly be better. The exhibition at the MAK Center in West Hollywood, curated by UCLA architectural historian and critic Sylvia Lavin, is a wry study of the ways Los Angeles artists and...

Jean Nouvel, Gustavo Dudamel have designs on 'Marriage of Figaro'

2013-05-16 09:00:00

So what will Jean Nouvel do? For the Los Angeles Philharmonic production of “Marriage of Figaro,” the second in Gustavo Dudamel’s cycle of the Mozart operas with librettos by Lorenzo Da Ponte, the famed French architect will design...

Review: '10 Buildings That Changed America' is a rewarding tour

2013-05-11 07:00:00

The new PBS program "10 Buildings That Changed America" is nothing if not efficient. In a single breezy hour, it moves from Thomas Jefferson to Frank Gehry, racing in a chronological blur past Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Venturi and a handful of other...

TV Picks: 'Family Tree,' 'Nashville,' '10 Buildings,' 'The Middle'

2013-05-09 14:50:00

"Family Tree" (HBO, premieres Sunday). Christopher Guest has made you a TV series. Thank him. The director of "A Mighty Wind" and "Best in Show" and one of the forces behind and in "This Is Spinal Tap" -- in which he was Nigel Tufnel, whose amplifier went...

MOCA's 'A New Sculpturalism' faces uncertain future without Gehry

2013-05-03 05:00:00

Frank Gehry has pulled out of a major architecture exhibition set to open June 2 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, a move that could force the show to find a new venue or face the prospect of being canceled altogether. The exhibition, "A New...

MOCA architecture show, funded by Getty, could face cancellation

2013-05-01 16:59:00

The 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”...

LACMA draws up ambitious plans for a $650-million new look

2013-05-01 05:00:00

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...

Photographer Jeffrey Milstein captures poetry in motion at airports

2013-04-27 06:30:00

Photographer Jeffrey Milstein has been fascinated with aviation and flying since he was a young boy building toy models. At 15 he would sweep hangar floors at the Santa Monica Airport on Sunday mornings in exchange for flying lessons. He passed his pilot'...

Dr. Frank Gehry? A Cleveland university honors the architect

2013-04-23 07:26:00

Frank Gehry has another academic credit coming: The renowned architect in May will receive an honorary doctorate from Case Western Reserve University.� The commencement marks the 10-year anniversary of the curvaceous – and controversial –...

Irish hit 'The Commitments' bound for London stage

2013-04-23 13:10:00

More than 25 years after Roddy Doyle wrote "The Commitments," the bestselling book-turned-movie is bound for London’s West End. The scrappy story about a group of down-and-out Dubliners who form a soul band will open on Oct. 8 at the Palace...

Frank Gehry, architect at Gehry Partners LLP, in 2012.

2013-05-02 00:00:00

Facebook has the go ahead to build a second campus designed by architect Frank Gehry.

2013-03-28 00:00:00

A model image, provided by the Eisenhower Memorial Commission, shows the proposed Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial to be built in Washington. The design is by architect Frank Gehry.

2013-03-17 23:01:00