Alexander Calder

Leaders of LACMA's Art Museum Council quit en masse over fee hikes

2012-11-29 14:05:00

Diana Gutman, chairwoman of the Art Museum Council at LACMA, says the group's 40-member board has voted unanimously to stop volunteering at the museum next year because of its plans to triple council members' fees.� As the museum announced this week,...

Pedro E. Guerrero dies at 95; fine arts photographer

2012-09-14 00:00:00

Pedro E. Guerrero, a photographer whose early work with architect Frank Lloyd Wright sparked a long, distinguished career in the worlds of fine art and glossy magazines, died Thursday. He was 95. Guerrero died at his home in Florence, Ariz., said his...

Seattle, beyond the usual tourist haunts

2012-07-29 00:00:00

SEATTLE — Pike Place Market. The Space Needle. Pioneer Square. Check, check and check. If you've hit these obvious Seattle destinations, you're not a newbie. But maybe you're not an insider either. So, this 21-stop Seattle checklist is for you. It...

Mark Rothko painting sells for $87 million at auction

2012-05-09 08:05:00

An oil painting by Mark Rothko sold for $86.9 million at a Christie's auction in New York on Tuesday, setting a record for the abstract expressionist painter. Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow," which dates from 1961, was being sold by�the estate of David...

12 micro-itineraries for coastal Orange County

2011-05-29 00:00:00

Hear that? That dull roar, like the sound from inside a shell? That might be the Orange County coastline calling you — 42 miles of beach and beach towns, give or take, from San Clemente to Seal Beach. Follow the advice here, and this coastline...

Pedro E. Guerrero: Frank Lloyd Wright's photographer, in focus

2012-03-29 16:35:34

Charles and Ray Eames' living room makes an interim home at LACMA

2011-09-24 00:00:00

Charles and Ray Eames nurtured a design imagination that knew few boundaries, stretching far and wide, but if you were to look for its center — its heart — you might have found it in the living room of their landmark Pacific Palisades house....

Anthony J. Lumsden dies at 83; Southern California architect

2011-10-10 07:24:00

Anthony J. Lumsden, a prolific Southern California architect who helped develop new ways of wrapping buildings in smooth glass skins, accelerating a shift that reshaped skylines around the world, died Sept. 22 in Los Angeles. He was 83. The cause was...

Detroit evolving into a haven for artists

2011-11-13 00:00:00

"Where you headed?" asked the cheerful driver of the rental-car shuttle at the Detroit airport. "Detroit!" I answered, equally cheerfully. "Southfield, Birmingham or Rochester?" he asked, referring to well-to-do northern suburbs. PHOTOS: Detroit's...

Henry Segerstrom's mall hosts exhibit on his public art patronage

2011-11-30 16:32:57

It Speaks to Me: Billy Al Bengston on Calder's 'Hello Girls' at LACMA

2011-10-12 16:32:55

Photographer Carl Kleiner pays tribute to Alexander Calder in food

2011-10-21 16:32:59

Alexander Calder's "Trois noirs sur un rouge" (foreground). The museum's collection spans five centuries, from Colonial works to the present day.

2012-10-09 17:13:17

The light-filled foyer in the Severn River home of Kitty and Tom Stoner is the visitor's introduction to their art collection, which pairs a sculptor's drawing and the finished piece. A mobile made by Alexander Calder himself, not one of his students, hangs above the staircase.

2012-06-25 00:00:00

mobile at the National Gallery of Art. Galleries devoted to impressionism and post-impressionism have recently re-opened after a two-year renovation. The collection includes paintings by Manet, Monet, Renoir, C�zanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin. (6th Street and Constitution Ave.

2012-03-01 00:00:00