Peggy Guggenheim

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...

A new home for A'Maree's at Newport Harbor

2010-11-14 00:00:00

Every pocket of affluence in this country seems to have one stellar independent designer boutique, and in Newport Beach it's A'Maree's. Over the last 35 years, the family-owned business has grown into an international fashion force, showcasing cutting-...

Art review: 'David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy' at Los Angeles County Museum of Art

2011-04-05 16:33:25

L.A salutes Lesley M.M. Blume and her book about forgotten fashionable things

2011-02-03 16:32:13

Here we go again with the Iowa Jackson Pollock sale

2011-02-11 16:32:56

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art turns 75 with a splash

2010-01-31 00:00:00

When Grace McCann Morley became director of the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1935, she knew what she wanted to focus on: the art of her time. "If art of today is today overlooked or misunderstood, the loss is serious," she once wrote. "Art fails then to...

The Harry's Bar Bellini, brought home

2010-08-05 00:00:00

As stone fruits come into the peak of their season, I'm obsessing over Bellinis. For the uninitiated, that would be the Venetian aperitivo of Prosecco with white peach juice. The original was invented by Giuseppe Cipriani at Harry's Bar in Venice (not the...

Leonora Carrington's spectral presences

2008-05-09 00:00:00

Guggenheim names Richard Armstrong director

2008-09-25 00:00:00

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has been Exhibit A of museums-on-the-go during the expansionist and sometimes boundary-pushing and populist tenure of director Thomas Krens. Krens made "Guggenheim" an international brand name for modern and...

Palazzo Venier dei Leoni celebrates Guggenheim

2008-07-11 00:00:00

She was an heiress who collected art, interesting people and lovers. Peggy Guggenheim arrived in Venice in 1948 with a passel of paintings to show -- Picassos, Mir�s, Chagalls, Dalis and Klees -- that ultimately found a home at the Palazzo Venier dei...

A portal to the new Berlin

2005-07-24 00:00:00

For Westerners, the center of Berlin suddenly shifted east when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. The geographic heart of the metropolis still lies in the bohemian neighborhood of Kreuzberg, with its big, loft-like apartments and sometimes raucous night life....

Chocolate chip is a bargaining chip

2004-04-11 00:00:00

I got my 3-year-old daughter to quietly tour St. Peter's Basilica in Rome by counting angels and promising pizza for dinner. I got my 5-year-old son to politely sit through the dinner by drawing angels and promising a new toy soldier. I coaxed both...

Over the last 35 years, the family-owned business has grown into an international fashion force, showcasing cutting-edge labels such as Celine, Balenciaga, Azzedine Alaia, Dries Van Noten and the Row.

2010-11-12 17:44:21

The daughter of a knitwear designer and an interior decorator, Kauffman, who grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, is inspired by history s rare birds (Diana Vreeland, Peggy Guggenheim, Elsie de Wolfe), and could just be one herself. It was Infinite Variety, a book by Scot D.

2009-08-21 13:37:19

This year, the museum is celebrating the 60th anniversary of Peggy Guggenheim 's arrival in the Lagoon City. It will be marked with a film series and a landmark exhibition of early modern American art called "Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s."

2008-07-11 12:51:25