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Yes, Virginia, there is a Picasso
Culture MonsterIt's doubtful Virginia attorney general Kenneth T. Cuccinelli will be at Christie's New York auction house tonight, when Pablo Picasso's 1932 "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" will be hammered down to what everyone, everywhere seems to assume will be a...... -
Robert Bartlett Haas dies at 94; longtime UCLA educator studied writings of Gertrude Stein
Robert Bartlett Haas, a longtime UCLA educator who spent years immersed in the writings of Gertrude Stein, has died. He was 94. Haas died April 20 in a hospital in Nuertingen, Germany, after a brief illness, said his son, Peter. He had spent most of...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, University of California, Berkeley, Germany, Yale University, Stanford University
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Paintings by Picasso, Matisse stolen from Paris Art Museum
Associated PressPARIS -- A lone thief stole five paintings possibly worth hundreds of millions of euros, including major works by Picasso and Matisse, in a brazen overnight heist at a Paris modern art museum, police and prosecutors said Thursday. The paintings...Tags: Amedeo Modigliani, Lawyers, Libraries, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque
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Extension 720 Classic, Audio Archives, February 2006
Staff reporterDavid Galenson, professor of economics at the University of Chicago, and Joshua Kotin, graduate student in English language and literature and editor of the Chicago Review discuss the nature of artistic genius and evaluate the careers of such diverse...Tags: NAACP, Abraham Lincoln, Northwestern University, Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), University of Chicago
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Picasso painting sold at auction for a world record of $106.5 million
Culture MonsterExpectations were high, and expectations were met. On Tuesday night Christie’s New York sold Pablo Picasso’s bold 1932 portrait of his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter, “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust,” for $106.5 million, making it the most expensive... -
Monster Mash: a record-breaking Picasso; Ojai Music Festival taps Dawn Upshaw as guest music director
Culture Monster--Super sale: Pablo Picasso's 1932 portrait of his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter, "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust," has fetched $106.5 million at Christie's New York, making it the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. The painting came from the... -
Elin Brekke Vanderlip dies at 90; grande dame of the Palos Verdes Peninsula
Elin Brekke Vanderlip, the Norwegian-born grande dame of the Palos Verdes Peninsula and founder of a Los Angeles group that raised millions of dollars to help rescue France's cultural riches, has died. She was 90.
Vanderlip, who was a member of the...Tags: Iowa, French Literature, California, Greenwich, Obituaries
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'Short Girls' by Bich Minh Nguyen
"This is a country of tall people," Dinh Luong frequently reminds his daughters, Van and Linny, the protagonists of Bich Minh Nguyen's first novel, "Short Girls," which follows her acclaimed memoir, "Stealing Buddha's Dinner." For the Luong family, height...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Book, Danny DeVito, California, Television Industry
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West Hollywood antiques dealer pleads guilty to selling fake Picasso for $2 million
L.A. NOWAn antiques dealer who sold a fake Pablo Picasso painting for $2 million has pleaded guilty to witness tampering and lying to the FBI, authorities said Friday. Tatiana Khan, 70, of West Hollywood, could be sentenced to as much as...... -
Monster Mash: Paris officials investigate art heist; Black Dahlia play moves to N.Y.; British architects prizes
Culture MonsterSuper structures: The Royal Institute of British Architects has given out 102 awards for architectural excellence to buildings ranging from a circular loo in London to the Neues Museum in Berlin. (Independent) Security lapse: A day after the big Paris....... -
MOCA announces 3 new trustees, including billionaire diamond merchant
Culture MonsterThe Museum of Contemporary Art has added Laurence Graff, a London-born diamond tycoon with a reported net worth of $2.5 billion, to its board of directors, along with New York City real estate developer Edward J. Minskoff – who spent...... -
Monster Mash: Damaged Picasso painting; Haiti's art community suffers; London's ICA in trouble
Culture Monster-- Damaged masterpiece: A visitor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York fell into Pablo Picasso's "The Actor" and left an approximately 6-inch tear in the right-hand corner of the painting. (Agence France Presse) -- Devastation: Haiti's art......
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