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LACMA executives moving to Variety building
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...
Tags: Architecture, Arts, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Entertainment Events, Artists
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LACMA draws up ambitious plans for a $650-million new look
At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, an acclaimed Swiss architect is hoping to pull off what an acclaimed Dutch one could not. Next month LACMA will publicly unveil a $650-million plan by Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor for a dramatic new museum...
Tags: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Peter Zumthor, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Rem Koolhaas, Architecture
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Motion Picture Academy unveils ambitious plans for film museum
Will the Academy's big bubble pop before it has a chance to be built? Italian architect Renzo Piano, Los Angeles architect Zoltan Pali and officials from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled preliminary designs Thursday for a $300-...
Tags: Movies, Peter Zumthor, Rem Koolhaas, Entertainment, Arts
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Is the Academy building a death star at its new museum?
ReutersLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The Academy has tweeted a picture of a model of its upcoming Academy Museum of Motion Pictures - and from the looks of things, they're building a "Star Wars" Death Star adjacent to the former May Company building in the Miracle...Tags: Star Wars (movie), Tom Hanks, Golden Globe Awards, Architecture, Entertainment Events
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Motion Picture Academy unveils new drawings for film museum
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has unveiled new concept drawings for its film museum — including a giant, domed theater structure — to open in 2017 at the historic May Co. building on the LACMA campus at Fairfax Avenue and...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Awards and Prizes, Architecture, Museums
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David Geffen donates $25 million to academy film museum at LACMA
David Geffen has donated $25 million to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' new museum dedicated to the history of film. In recognition of the gift — the museum's largest commitment received to date — the academy will name a...
Tags: Tom Hanks, Music, Jerry Bruckheimer , Entertainment, Dolby Laboratories Incorporated
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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Oslo at Christmas time
ReutersDec 7 (Reuters) - Oslo dresses up in white lights ahead of Christmas but keeps the spirit of the season partly under wraps as befits a reserved Nordic capital with a winter shroud of darkness and some of Europe's highest food and drink prices....Tags: Awards and Prizes, Restaurants, Nobel Prize Awards, Opera (genre), Dining and Drinking
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In The Arts
Collectors Council taking art trip to Windy City The deadline to sign up for an art-filled, group package trip to Chicago in September with the Laguna Art Museum's Contemporary Collectors Council is July 15. LAM Executive Director Malcolm Warner will...
Tags: Navy Pier, Libraries, Frank Lloyd Wright, Travel, Arts
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Academy chooses architects for its movie museum project at LACMA
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New holiday tradition at Art Institute
Special to Tribune NewspapersGriffin Court in the Modern Wing of the Art Institute was transformed into a giant snow globe for "Let it Snow," the inaugural holiday party hosted by the Woman's Board of the Art Institute. More than 350 adults and children welcomed in the holiday season...Tags: Music, Entertainment, Travel, Circuses, Museums
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New museums to marvel over in Amsterdam, Rome and Paris
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIn a wide-ranging trip to Europe this year, I found three major new museums to love: in Amsterdam, the first satellite branch of Russia's celebrated Hermitage; in Rome, a long-awaited museum for contemporary arts that is a work of art itself; and in...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Christianity, Restaurants, Travel, Sandro Botticelli
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The Review: Ray's and Stark Bar at LACMA
Restaurants with a view usually come in two varieties: landscape or cityscape. The new Ray's and Stark Bar at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art have a view. But it's not the ocean or the city lights spread on a starry carpet below. Instead, the new...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Tim Burton, Los Angeles Times, Restaurants, Radishes
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