Walters Art Museum

Santa Ana has two finalists for national museum and library medal

2013-02-15 07:00:00

Santa could come early to Santa Ana’s cultural scene this year: the Institute of Museum and Library Services announced Thursday that both the Discovery Science Center and the Santa Public Library are finalists for its 2013 National Medal for...

Major art museum group bolsters rules for acquiring ancient art

2013-01-31 07:10:00

The ethics for adding ancient works to American art museum collections became substantially more stringent five years ago when the Assn. of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) decided to set the bar higher -- prompted by complaints from Italy, Greece and other...

Monster Mash: Dodgers' Don Mattingly in 'Nutcracker'; Warhol tops S&P

2011-12-21 16:33:10

Monster Mash: LACMA, new movie museum; La Plaza de Cultura in trouble

2011-10-05 16:33:02

Getty loses bid to dismiss art-restitution lawsuit

2011-11-04 16:33:01

Monster Mash: Lockout at Sotheby's; Oscar to James Earl Jones

2011-08-03 16:33:29

Natural History Museum to raise admission price to $12 on May 11

2011-04-29 21:33:19

Far East treasures in San Francisco

2009-12-13 00:00:00

Doris Duke. It's a mighty big name in philanthropic circles. The only child of tobacco and hydropower magnate James Buchanan Duke, she inherited his $80 million estate in 1925, when she was 12. The "poor little rich girl" grew into an elegant woman whose...

Goal of LACMA’s redesign is to have architecture serve the art

2010-05-02 00:00:00

If you were looking for European art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art recently, you may have been a bit disappointed. There is the current Renoir exhibition, of course, and a show of paintings by 18th century Spanish master Luis Mel�ndez closed...

Behind Michael Govan's almost $1-million LACMA salary

2009-08-18 00:00:00

In the museum world, there are any number of ways to spend $1 million. That's nearly as much as Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, will earn this year in salary, deferred compensation and benefits. That also happens to be...

Getty Museum adds rare Ethiopian book

2008-07-30 00:00:00

The J. Paul Getty Museum has added a rare Ethiopian Gospel book to its collection of illuminated manuscripts. Created around 1504-05 with five full-page paintings and many ornamental touches, it is one of the few such volumes to have survived wars and a...

Book with a buried treasure

2006-12-26 00:00:00

The book cost $2 million at auction, but large sections are unreadable. Some of its 348 pages are torn or missing and others are covered with sprawling purple patches of mildew. Sooty edges and water stains indicate a close escape from a fire. "This...

The Chalice of Antioch, center, on display at the Hall of Religion at the Century of Progress International Exposition, the World's Fair, held in Chicago. The cup, originally thought to be a Holy Chalice after being recovered in Antioch just before World War I, is no longer identified as a chalice.

2013-05-16 15:24:47

14th century Dutch manuscript from Walters Art Museum

2013-05-09 15:16:00

Walters Art Museum sculpture court

2013-03-13 07:14:00