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Ada Louise Huxtable dies at 91; renowned architecture critic
Ada Louise Huxtable, the architecture critic who in two decades of writing for the New York Times became a powerful force in shaping New York City and was better known than many of the architects she was covering and certainly more feared, has died. She...
Tags: Robert Venturi, Pulitzer Prize Awards, The Wall Street Journal, Research, Science and Technology
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Photo L.A. this weekend in Santa Monica
More than 300 galleries and dealers have convened at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for Photo L.A., the 22nd annual photography-based art fair that is running through Monday. Photo L.A. is more than exhibits. The schedule includes lectures on...
Tags: Photography, Arts, Artists, Arts and Culture
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Winter book preview
Looking ahead to books in 2013 is a little like predicting the Los Angeles weather: sunny, pleasant, better than average. The fiction fields are fertile, the nonfiction skies clear and the young adult books are fresh like spring rain. We'll see new...
Tags: Sonia Sotomayor, Book, Ender's Game (movie), Literature, Science and Technology
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Have you digitally interfaced with your art museum lately?
Los Angeles Times Art CriticThe National Center for Charitable Statistics at the Urban Institute says there were 39,719 arts, culture and humanities nonprofits in the U.S. in 2009, the most recent year for which numbers are available. You can bet that virtually all of them would...Tags: Social Media, Museums, Arts, Artists, YouTube
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New Barbershop Ristorante Italiano pop-up at A.O.C.
Chef Walter el Nagar of La Botte in Santa Monica is slated to launch a weekly pop-up called Barbershop Ristorante Italiano at the new A.O.C. space. Beginning Dec. 19, every Wednesday through Saturday night, el Nagar will take over the kitchen and upstairs...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, Wines, Lifestyle and Leisure, Google+
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Review: Carl Cheng's 'Ghost Fish 107' strikes cautionary note
Los Angeles Times Art CriticThe unblinking eye in a big new sculpture of a bluefin tuna by Carl Cheng contains a live-feedback television screen. Approach the monumental, 40-foot-tall fish, which is suspended by its tail from a galvanized steel frame over water dotted with...Tags: Port of Los Angeles, World War II (1939-1945), United Nations, Science and Technology, Arts
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Gondola owner has rowing in his blood
He labels himself as "Venetophile," or someone obsessed with everything dealing with Venice. No, not the city in California, but the water-locked city in Italy. When Tim Reinard, owner of Sunset Gondola in Huntington Beach, was 11 years old, he...
Tags: Sports, Arts, Rowing, Arts and Culture, Quiksilver Incorporated
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Museum talks on Caravaggio's cameras, Van Gogh's paints and more
Did Caravaggio use optical devices — essentially transforming his studio into a giant camera obscura — to make his paintings? Pegged to their big exhibitions this winter, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Getty and the Norton Simon...
Tags: Arts, Museums, Artists, Arts and Culture, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Rem Koolhaas to curate 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale
Dutch starchitect Rem Koolhaas has been tapped to curate one of architecture's most high-profile events -- the Venice Architecture Biennale. Koolhaas will curate the 2014 edition of the Biennale, taking over from British architect David Chipperfield,...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Rem Koolhaas, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Board of Directors
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Burbank schools get grants for arts programs
Burbank Arts For All recently awarded thousands of dollars worth of grants to local schools, but with more than 30 applicants, demand far outstripped available money. In all, 31 Burbank schools sent in grant applications totaling $85,565, but in the...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Government Debt, Arts, Museum of Modern Art
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Timothy Potts has ideas for Getty Museum
When Timothy Potts became the director of the Getty Museum in September, he knew he was stepping into an anomaly of a job, unusual within the ranks of America's most prestigious museums. Other museum heads, bound by tight budgets, must essentially beg...
Tags: Finance, Economy, Business and Finance, Arts, China, Artists
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Visiting Van Gogh self-portrait delights at Norton Simon unveiling
This post has been corrected. See note below for details. It was a particularly lively reception Thursday evening at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena. More than 600 people -- local curators and artists, media and museum members, many nibbling on...
Tags: Arts, Museums, Artists, Arts and Culture, Fine Artists
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