John Chamberlain

John Chamberlain dies at 84; American sculptor

2011-12-23 00:00:00

John Chamberlain, a prolific American sculptor whose use of crushed automobile sheet metal became his signature during a career that spanned half a century, died Wednesday in New York City. He was 84. Reportedly in poor health, he had been working on a...

Monster Mash: New Shroud of Turin theory; 'Rent' protest in Idaho

2011-12-23 16:33:01

Last inmate sentenced in notorious O.C. jail-beating death

2012-04-23 16:36:10

Art review: Nancy Rubins @ Gagosian Gallery

2010-06-10 21:32:58

Book Review: A dealer and his galaxy of art stars in 'Leo and His Circle"

2010-05-23 00:00:00

Leo and His Circle The Life of Leo Castelli Annie Cohen-Solal Translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti Alfred A. Knopf: 544 pp., $35 The ascension of New York gallerist Jeffrey Deitch to the Museum of Contemporary Art's helm has occasioned...

This is how he grew to be unclean

2008-07-25 18:05:39

SAN FRANCISCO -- "It's not clean," says Paul McCarthy. The L.A. artist is talking about his autobiographical exhibition at the California College of the Arts' Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. He's just filling in some background information...

Hammer Museum loses chief curator Gary Garrels

2008-05-16 00:00:00

Gary Garrels, the highly sought-after curator who has helped raise the profile of the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and beyond, is jumping ship. The Hammer snagged Garrels, 56, from the Museum of Modern Art in New York three years ago. But now he...

Pure folly? Precisely

2005-06-30 00:00:00

Richard SHAPIRO'S folly began, as many great things do, with the smallest of ambitions. Though the modern art collector and antiques dealer already had seven fireplaces in his 1920s Holmby Hills villa, he wanted an outdoor hearth. A place, he recalls,...

Beatings reveal O.C. jail policy leaving sex suspects vulnerable

2006-11-15 00:00:00

Orange County jails are the only ones among the state's five largest jail systems that do not automatically provide protective custody to inmates accused of sex crimes involving children, leaving them vulnerable to attacks like the one last month in which...

Marfa as masterpiece theater

2005-04-10 00:00:00

In Dostoevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov," Marfa is a faithful servant to a treacherous Russian family. The raw landscape of West Texas couldn't be less evocative of Russia, but the name Marfa, said to have been bestowed by a railroad executive's...

Their own little MOCA

2004-03-25 00:00:00

Cliff and Mandy Einstein are the kind of couple you can't imagine apart. They finish each other's sentences. They savor the same coffees and wines. They treat each other with great affection and yet are quick to quibble over a forgotten fact in the...

H.B. man gets six years in inmate death

2012-04-25 16:13:13

A Huntington Beach man was sentenced Monday to six years in state prison for his role in the beating death of an inmate at the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange in 2006. Eric Charles Miller, 26, was the ninth and final inmate to be sentenced in the killing of...

crafted works from masses of crushed cars and automobile sheet metal. He was 84.

2011-12-24 10:12:19

The American sculptor died in December after a period of ill health. His audacious artwork made use of crushed cars and automobile sheet metal.

2011-12-23 13:24:24

The grand jury investigation probed the October 2006 beating death of John Chamberlain , an inmate at the Theo Lacy Jail in Orange.

2008-04-07 12:58:13