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MOCA architecture show opening pushed back to June 16
The Museum of Contemporary Art released a statement Friday saying it has moved back the opening date of its show about contemporary Los Angeles architecture, part of the Getty's "Pacific Standard Time Presents" initiative, by two weeks, to June 16....
Tags: The Getty, Arts and Culture, Standards, Science and Technology, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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'The Marriage of Figaro,' right in time with the 21st century
Suffice to say that Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte weren't thinking about Proposition 8 when they composed "The Marriage of Figaro." The 1786 comic opera follows bullying Count Almaviva's efforts to invoke droit du seigneur to sexually conquer...
Tags: Jean Nouvel, Arts and Culture, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Architecture, Entertainment Events
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L.A. artists, architects' effect on each other at MAK Center exhibit
"Everything Loose Will Land" has landed. And its timing could hardly be better. The exhibition at the MAK Center in West Hollywood, curated by UCLA architectural historian and critic Sylvia Lavin, is a wry study of the ways Los Angeles artists and...
Tags: Artists, The Getty, Arts and Culture, Frank Lloyd Wright, Architecture
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Jean Nouvel, Gustavo Dudamel have designs on 'Marriage of Figaro'
So what will Jean Nouvel do? For the Los Angeles Philharmonic production of “Marriage of Figaro,” the second in Gustavo Dudamel’s cycle of the Mozart operas with librettos by Lorenzo Da Ponte, the famed French architect will design...
Tags: Jean Nouvel, Arts and Culture, Culture
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Review: '10 Buildings That Changed America' is a rewarding tour
The new PBS program "10 Buildings That Changed America" is nothing if not efficient. In a single breezy hour, it moves from Thomas Jefferson to Frank Gehry, racing in a chronological blur past Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Venturi and a handful of other...
Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Arts and Culture, Frank Lloyd Wright, Fenway Park, Architecture
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TV Picks: 'Family Tree,' 'Nashville,' '10 Buildings,' 'The Middle'
Los Angeles Times Television Critic"Family Tree" (HBO, premieres Sunday). Christopher Guest has made you a TV series. Thank him. The director of "A Mighty Wind" and "Best in Show" and one of the forces behind and in "This Is Spinal Tap" -- in which he was Nigel Tufnel, whose amplifier went...Tags: Connie Britton, Charlie McDermott, Scandal (tv program), Television, Nashville (tv program)
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MOCA's 'A New Sculpturalism' faces uncertain future without Gehry
Frank Gehry has pulled out of a major architecture exhibition set to open June 2 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, a move that could force the show to find a new venue or face the prospect of being canceled altogether. The exhibition, "A New...Tags: Museum of Modern Art, Artists, The Getty, Getty Foundation, Arts and Culture
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MOCA architecture show, funded by Getty, could face cancellation
Times Architecture CriticThe curator of a major architecture exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art says he is concerned it will be canceled in advance of its planned June 2 opening. “A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California”...Tags: The Getty, Artists, Getty Foundation, Arts and Culture, Architecture
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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: Artists, The Getty, Arts and Culture, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Architecture
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Photographer Jeffrey Milstein captures poetry in motion at airports
Photographer Jeffrey Milstein has been fascinated with aviation and flying since he was a young boy building toy models. At 15 he would sweep hangar floors at the Santa Monica Airport on Sunday mornings in exchange for flying lessons. He passed his pilot'...Tags: Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events, Ronald Reagan, Fashion Shows, Military Equipment
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Dr. Frank Gehry? A Cleveland university honors the architect
Frank Gehry has another academic credit coming: The renowned architect in May will receive an honorary doctorate from Case Western Reserve University. The commencement marks the 10-year anniversary of the curvaceous – and controversial –...
Tags: Education, Arts and Culture, Architecture, Colleges and Universities, Human Interest
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Irish hit 'The Commitments' bound for London stage
More than 25 years after Roddy Doyle wrote "The Commitments," the bestselling book-turned-movie is bound for London’s West End. The scrappy story about a group of down-and-out Dubliners who form a soul band will open on Oct. 8 at the Palace...
Tags: London Theatre, Theater, Entertainment Events, Fiona Shaw, Music
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