Fine Artists

Review: Elegant photographic fictions at Thomas Solomon

2013-05-17 09:00:00

The strangeness and mystery of the Voynich Manuscript has inspired musicians and novelists.� Not surprisingly, the work has also proved a springboard for visual artists, but the remarkable thing about the photographs by Miljohn Ruperto and Ulrik Heltoft...

Review: Ilene Segalove, past and present at Jancar

2013-05-17 10:00:00

"Dialogues in Time" at Jancar skips between past and present in Ilene Segalove's life and work, looking at each through the lens of the other. It's a small show, but a poignant romp: at once blunt, wry, endearing and revealing. The recent work deals...

Kennedy Center changes Honors process after Latino groups' outcry

2013-05-17 06:50:00

After saluting just two Latino performers in 35 years with its Kennedy Center Honors awards, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts says it has revised the selection process to be more inclusive. The changes were announced Thursday in a news...

Swallow Magazine's Mexico City: Strippers, artists, mezcal and scratch-and-sniff

2013-05-17 08:00:00

The ruling elite ought not to mess with Mexico City's favorite restaurants. That might be one lesson from a recent scandal that this week brought down the head of the nation's consumer protection agency, whose daughter couldn't get a table at Maximo...

Connie Butler of MoMA goes to Hammer Museum as new chief curator

2013-05-16 13:05:00

After more than a year-long search, the Hammer Museum has hired Connie Butler, currently the chief curator of drawings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as its chief curator. She is leaving that position by July 1 in order to assume her L.A. post...

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...

Mosaic tile house open for Venice Art Walk

2013-05-16 09:02:00

Every surface is a canvas for artists Cheri Pann and Gonzalo Duran, who have covered the walls, floors and landscape of their Venice home with mosaic tiles, broken plates, figurines -- even teacups. See it for yourself Sunday when the artists open their...

Artworks by Barnett Newman and Gerhard Richter set auction records

2013-05-15 10:33:00

A painting by Barnett Newman set an artist record at auction on Tuesday, selling for $43.8 million in New York. Sotheby's had expected "Onement VI," an abstract work in dark blue, to go for between $30 million and $40 million. The sale was part of a...

Vatican becomes patron of arts again

2013-05-14 10:11:00

VATICAN CITY -- Centuries after it helped kick-start Western art, the Vatican is seeking to break back into the art world with its first-ever pavilion at the prestigious Venice Biennale. The display includes a very modern mix of photography and...

Santa Monica Museum celebrates ahead of annual art sale InCognito

2013-05-10 13:00:00

The great opera and theater director Peter Sellars draped a chain of Lithuanian amber around his neck for PreCognito, something he does, he said, only for very special occasions.� That special occasion, Thursday’s gala dinner, celebrated the Santa...

Getty Museum buys 'Rembrandt Laughing': tiny portrait, huge value

2013-05-09 12:00:00

Stepping up the effort to strengthen its European art collection, the Getty Museum has acquired two major Old Masters paintings: an exuberant early self-portrait of Rembrandt from around 1628, and a classic scene of the Grand Canal in Venice by...

Herbert Blau, theater director and former CalArts provost, dies at 87

2013-05-08 13:46:00

Herbert Blau, a renowned and influential theater director who helped to shape the California Institute of the Arts during its early years, has died at 87. He died at his home in Seattle on Friday following a battle with cancer, according to reports....

Opened in 1914, the Shubert earned the title "Birthplace of the Nation's Greatest Hits," by staging over 300 shows that later opened in New York.

2013-04-22 05:38:28

Griswold was a resident of Old Lyme, Conn., who fostered the Impressionist art movement in America, as stated by the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame. She hosted artists drawn to the attraction of Connecticut's bucolic surroundings, and her home became the center for Impressionist artists in the U.

2013-02-25 00:00:00

Here's a question with no right answer: Why hasn't a Baltimore rapper broken through the city confines? There have been glimmers of hope. Caddy Da Don caught a quick flame last year with "Grindin' On Me," but his momentum slowed.

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