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Vivid images and words on Marilyn Monroe
![The suite at the Hotel Bel-Air where Bert Stern photographed Marilyn Monroe for her famous "Last Sitting" in 1962 no longer exists. It is now part of the elegant La Prairie Spa — rather apropos, as the often difficult star was well known for making people wait while relaxing in a hot bath. In 1972, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer took refuge a few steps away in one of the secluded bungalow-like rooms to soak up the ambience while writing his biographical essay on the tragic celebrity.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/66710018-11200858.jpg "The suite at the Hotel Bel-Air where Bert Stern photographed Marilyn Monroe for her famous "Last Sitting\" in 1962 no longer exists. It is now part of the elegant La Prairie Spa — rather apropos, as the often difficult star was well known for making people wait while relaxing in a hot bath. In 1972, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer took refuge a few steps away in one of the secluded bungalow-like rooms to soak up the ambience while writing his biographical essay on the tragic celebrity.")
Special to Tribune NewspapersThe suite at the Hotel Bel-Air where Bert Stern photographed Marilyn Monroe for her famous "Last Sitting" in 1962 no longer exists. It is now part of the elegant La Prairie Spa — rather apropos, as the often difficult star was well known for...Tags: Michelle Williams, Entertainment Events, Julie Newmar, Norman Mailer, Lindsay Lohan
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Georgia Carroll Kyser dies at 91; model, actress sang with husband's big band
Georgia Carroll Kyser, a fashion model in the 1930s and '40s who became an actress and a singer with her husband Kay Kyser's big band, died Friday in Chapel Hill, N.C. She was 91.
The cause was not revealed.
Born Nov. 18, 1919, in Blooming Grove, Texas,...Tags: The Spirit (movie), Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Movies, Big Band (genre), Music Theater
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Jasper Johns is first studio artist in 34 years to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
Culture MonsterObama to confer 2011 Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday; arts honorees are Yo-Yo Ma and Jasper Johns, the first visual artist to win since 1977.... -
Richard C. Miller dies at 98; photographed an evolving Los Angeles
As photographer Richard C. Miller documented the construction of the four-level freeway interchange in mid-20th century downtown Los Angeles, he was overwhelmed by its man-made beauty.
"I saw it and just went out of my mind," he later wrote. "I thought,...Tags: Stanford University, James Dean, Norman Rockwell, Transportation, Arts and Culture
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From Harlow to Clooney: The largest-ever collection of glamour photography goes up for auction
All The RageMad about old Hollywood? Now may be your chance to nab a classic photo from Tinseltown's storied history. Thousands of classic Hollywood glamour photographs from the Michael H. Epstein and Scott E. Schwimer collection will be auctioned off on March...... -
L.A. exhibitions focus on Paul Outerbridge
Paul Outerbridge, one of the great pioneers of color photography, spent the last 15 years of his life in creative decline, moving from the East Coast to Laguna Beach where he opened a small portrait studio and helped his wife manage her fashion business....Tags: Libraries, Arts and Culture, Death, New York, Los Angeles
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'Vanity Fair Portraits' at LACMA
![Founded in 1856, London's National Portrait Gallery is a place where the people in the pictures, not the pictures themselves, are what count. The museum's <a href="http://www.npg.org.uk/live/history.asp">website</a> explains: "The National Portrait Gallery was established with the criteria that the Gallery was to be about history, not about art, and about the status of the sitter, rather than the quality or character of a particular image considered as a work of art. This criterion is still used by the Gallery today."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-10/43117999-30124033.jpg "Founded in 1856, London's National Portrait Gallery is a place where the people in the pictures, not the pictures themselves, are what count. The museum's <a href="http://www.npg.org.uk/live/history.asp\">website</a> explains: \"The National Portrait Gallery was established with the criteria that the Gallery was to be about history, not about art, and about the status of the sitter, rather than the quality or character of a particular image considered as a work of art. This criterion is still used by the Gallery today.\"")
Times Art CriticFounded in 1856, London's National Portrait Gallery is a place where the people in the pictures, not the pictures themselves, are what count. The museum's website explains: "The National Portrait Gallery was established with the criteria that the...Tags: Libraries, Arts and Culture, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Christopher Hitchens, Celebrities
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Robert Frank goes from ignored to a national treasure
Looking In
Robert Frank's "The Americans" -- Expanded Edition
Edited and with text
by Sarah Greenough
Steidl: 506 pp., $75 hardcover
He was a foreigner with a camera, a young artist newly arrived on the streets of Manhattan from the Old World,...Tags: Jack Kerouac, Arts and Culture, Movies, Los Angeles, New York
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Beauty, week after week
Special to The TimesGardeners are innate timekeepers who clock hours by the tilt of the sun and days by the life of a bud and flower. Months are marked by the spin of the moon, seasons by the length of day, and years by the girth of once-tiny trees. Despite such acuity,...Tags: Arts and Culture, Death, Candy, Flowers and Gifts, Edward Gorey, California
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American landscapes are seen anew
Tribune art criticAn exhibition as powerful as it is overdue is "American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh," the master lensman's first full-scale retrospective that begins a four-city tour at the Art Institute of Chicago. Before his death at age 59 in 1983,...Tags: Illinois, Indiana University, Arts and Culture, Colleges and Universities, Death
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