Museums

Stolen-artifacts case has cost much, yielded little, critics say

2013-05-18 22:09:00

When hundreds of federal agents raided four Southern California museums early one January morning in 2008, it set the art world ablaze, suggesting that even amid an international looting scandal, museums had continued to do business with the black...

Case study conservation on the Eames' Case Study House

2013-05-18 09:07:00

Surprisingly, little has changed at the Eames House since 1949, when Charles and Ray Eames designed their Pacific Palisades home and studio as a model of affordable modern living. Most of the objects they lived with remain in place at the two-part,...

New York City secret photo exhibition: Art or invasion of privacy?

2013-05-17 07:40:00

Residents of a Tribeca apartment building are fuming over a new exhibition of photographs in which they star -- and which were taken without their knowledge. Some of the residents are considering legal action, the New York Post reported. The apartment...

Google aims to be your personal cartographer to extend maps lead

2013-05-16 11:04:00

SAN FRANCISCO -- With its three-dimensional satellite imagery of the planet, its block-by-block detail of neighborhoods and its ubiquitous driving directions, Google is already the king of online cartography. Now it's looking to lengthen its significant...

Las Vegas: Mob lawyer, then mayor, celebrates new job as memoirist

2013-05-16 07:27:00

Oscar Goodman, the former mob lawyer-turned-mayor of Las Vegas, will showcase his latest career as an author, during the three-day “Being Oscar Bash” May 23-25 at the Mob Museum�in downtown. The event comes on the heels of the Tuesday...

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...

A. Quincy Jones, overlooked genius? Hammer Museum makes the case

2013-05-17 16:19:00

The Hammer Museum exhibition opening May 25, "A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living," redresses what curators consider a major omission in the history of Los Angeles Modernism. Jones, they argue, had as much, if not more, influence on Southern...

Senate opposes ceding control of parking at Coliseum

2013-05-10 09:45:00

SACRAMENTO -- State lawmakers are jumping into the middle of a dispute over who should control state-owned parking lots at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The state Senate voted unanimously Thursday to prohibit the California Science Center from...

Catalina exhibit illuminates a dark episode in island's past

2013-05-12 18:30:00

The Catalina Island Museum has opened a window into a dark period of life on the island with an exhibition devoted to a pseudoscientist who looted Native American graves for profit eight decades ago. "The Strange and Mysterious Case of Dr. Glidden,"...

LACMA executives moving to Variety building

2013-05-09 10:40:00

The Times' Money & Co. blog has reported that top executives at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will be moving offices to the Variety building, which is across the street from the museum campus at 5900 Wilshire Blvd. Museum officials will move into...

Web campaign to build a Tesla museum succeeds in purchasing lab

2013-05-09 14:51:00

The campaign led by Web cartoonist The Oatmeal to buy Nikola Tesla's last laboratory and turn it into a museum honoring the scientist has succeeded in purchasing the property. Matthew Inman, the artist behind The Oatmeal, put up a comic strip announcing...

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...

With a giant portrait of A. Quincy Jones on the wall, the Hammer Museum works to install what it's billing as the first major museum retrospective of the architect's work.

2013-05-16 00:00:00

This picture taken during a press preview on May 8, 2013 of the new permanent exhibition at the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva shows pictures taken on 1994 of children separated from their families in Rwanda.

2013-05-08 00:00:00

Emilie and Liam Sager check out the navigation chart at the entrance to Martinsburg, W.Va.' new children's museum, For the Kids, by George. A dedication ceremony for the museum takes place all day Saturday, May 11, at Martinsburg Roundhouse.

2013-05-07 00:00:00