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    May 23, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune
  1. Harris: Digital push builds to rectify 1991 Pritzker Prize omission

    <strong>Denise Scott Brown</strong> has worked side by side with her husband, architect <strong>Robert Venturi</strong>, since the early 1960s, joining his firm and marrying him in 1967 and becoming the firm's principal in charge of planning in 1969.
    Denise Scott Brown has worked side by side with her husband, architect Robert Venturi, since the early 1960s, joining his firm and marrying him in 1967 and becoming the firm's principal in charge of planning in 1969. In 1991, Venturi won their...

    Tags: Awards and Prizes, Gold Coast, Ryue Nishizawa, Culture, Human Interest

  2. May 22, 2013 |Story| Reuters
  3. Los Angeles calls upon star French designers for 'Figaro' opera

    Reuters
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Count Almaviva, muscles bulging and resplendent in white, struts like a peacock across the stage belting his baritone at his countess, who sits in a flowing red gown against a sparse backdrop of sleek, modernist lines. It is...

    Tags: Culture, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Rodarte, Arts and Culture

  4. May 17, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  5. '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."
    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: Music, Culture, Lady Gaga, Paris (France), Rodarte

  6. May 9, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  7. LACMA executives moving to Variety building

    The Times' Money &amp; 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.
    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: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Architecture, Artists, Arts, Museums

  8. May 2, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune
  9. Penny Pritzker nominated for Commerce secretary

    Tribune staff
    Chicago business executive Penny Pritzker was nominated by President Barack Obama to become the new Secretary of Commerce on Thursday, in an expected move that could prove controversial for the longtime political supporter and fundraising heavyweight....

    Tags: Companies and Corporations, Elections, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Rahm Emanuel, Entertainment Events

  10. May 1, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  11. 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.
    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: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Science and Technology, Standards, Artists, Germany

  12. Apr 18, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  13. Ed Ruscha, Wang Shu named to Time 100 list

    Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha and Chinese architect Wang Shu have been named to Time magazine's new list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The annual list, which features personalities from politics, business, sports and culture, was released on Thursday.
    Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha and Chinese architect Wang Shu have been named to Time magazine's new list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The annual list, which features personalities from politics, business, sports and culture, was...

    Tags: Wang Shu, Arts, Daniel Day-Lewis, China, Arts and Culture

  14. Apr 11, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  15. 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: Awards and Prizes, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Human Interest, Arts and Culture, Renzo Piano

  16. Mar 17, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  17. Japanese architect Toyo Ito, 71, wins Pritzker Prize

    In a return to form for the most prestigious award in architecture, Japan's Toyo Ito has won this year&rsquo;s Pritzker Prize.
    Los Angeles Times Architecture Critic
    In a return to form for the most prestigious award in architecture, Japan's Toyo Ito has won this year’s Pritzker Prize. After honoring younger and lesser-known figures in recent years -- including 49-year-old Chinese architect Wang Shu in 2012 --...

    Tags: Wang Shu, Tokyo (Japan), China Earthquake (2010), Japan, Willem-Alexander

  18. Mar 3, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune
  19. Will Penny Pritzker become the next U.S. commerce secretary?

    In late 2009, President Barack Obama appeared on "60 Minutes" and said "fat-cat bankers" were smothering his efforts to craft new rules for Wall Street.
    In late 2009, President Barack Obama appeared on "60 Minutes" and said "fat-cat bankers" were smothering his efforts to craft new rules for Wall Street. As soon as the reforms cleared Congress six months later, the president's top advisers launched a...

    Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Companies and Corporations, Elections, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., LaSalle Bank

  20. Feb 25, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  21. L.A. Phil announces 2013-14 season: From Amadeus to Zappa

    The music will range from A to Z -- Amadeus to Zappa, that is -- when the Los Angeles Philharmonic celebrates its 10th anniversary season at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2013-14. In marking the occasion, the Phil also will attempt both to look back at the hall's origins and face toward its future.
    The music will range from A to Z -- Amadeus to Zappa, that is -- when the Los Angeles Philharmonic celebrates its 10th anniversary season at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2013-14. In marking the occasion, the Phil also will attempt both to look back at...

    Tags: Mary Chapin Carpenter, Frank Zappa, Music, Maurice Sendak, Dee Dee Bridgewater

  22. Jan 8, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  23. 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: Science and Technology, Reviews, Entertainment Events, Robert Venturi, The Wall Street Journal

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