Joseph Cornell

Kenneth Price dies at 77; artist transformed traditional ceramics

2012-02-25 00:00:00

Kenneth Price, a prolific Los Angeles artist whose work with glazed and painted clay transformed traditional ceramics while also expanding orthodox definitions of American and European sculpture, died early Friday at his home and studio in Taos, N.M. He...

Dorothea Tanning dies at 101; artist and poet married Max Ernst

2012-02-05 00:00:00

Over more than a century, Dorothea Tanning collided and consorted with artistic titans of the 20th century who included Pablo Picasso, John Cage and Joseph Cornell. She designed sets for George Balanchine ballets, played romantic matchmaker for poet Andre...

PST, A to Z: ’46 N. Los Robles’ at Pacific Asia, ‘Proof’ at Norton Simon

2011-12-26 16:32:55

Art review: 'Announce' at Thomas Solomon Gallery

2011-11-25 16:32:55

Eve Babitz kicks off L.A. '60s art world tribute

2011-08-04 16:33:07

Theater review: 'The Hyacinth Macaw' at the Royal Theatre, Queen Mary

2011-02-24 16:32:57

Art review: Laurie Frick at Edward Cella

2011-03-03 16:32:57

Art review: 'Some Assembly Required' at Jack Rutberg

2011-03-03 21:32:56

Book review: 'This Must Be the Place' by Kate Racculia

2010-08-22 00:00:00

This Must Be the Place A Novel Kate Racculia Henry Holt: 354 pp., $25 During his lifetime, the artist and sculptor Joseph Cornell established a celebrated career by creating shadow boxes filled with eclectic assemblages of random objects that...

"The Sky Below: A Novel" by Stacey D'Erasmo

2009-01-25 00:00:00

The Sky Below A Novel Stacey D'Erasmo Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 288 pp., $24 Gabriel, the chimerical narrator of "The Sky Below," Stacey D'Erasmo's episodic novel of mayhem and myth, was not the sort of boy his "sad brown bear of a father" could bond...

Shaped, in bits, drips and quips

2004-10-24 00:00:00

I grew up with people telling me -- I think rightly -- that the greatest plays in the western world were written by Shakespeare, and, of course, by the Greeks. But when I started writing plays, people were trying to write plays like Ibsen and Eugene O'...

A most personal gallery

2003-05-08 00:00:00

He seems like just the kind of guy you'd expect to be a success in the television industry. Brusque-yet-polished New York manners, semi-casual dress, dry wit and enough self-deprecation to let you know right away there's a lot more intellect beyond the...

The latest from Single Carrot Theatre is Charles Mee's inventive look into the genius mind of American modern artist Joseph Cornell. Trippy. Previews tonight and Thursday; runs Friday through April 29. $10-$20. 120 W. North Ave. Station North. singlecarrot.com

2012-03-26 16:35:00

, to whom she was married for nearly 30 years. Above, a detail from her 1943 painting "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik." She was 101.

2012-02-07 09:44:59