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Illuminating the power of change in the L.A. Basin
For nearly a century starting in the 1880s, photographers went from sluice to street corner to suburban pool to record one utility's efforts to electrify Greater Los Angeles and beyond. The result of their labors: the 70,000-image Southern California...
Tags: Photography, Arts, Arts and Culture, Southern California Edison Company, Edison International
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Review: With 'Tosca,' Los Angeles Opera goes for grand
An essay in the program for Los Angeles Opera's new production of "Tosca," which opened at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Saturday night, begins by quoting Benjamin Britten on Puccini's opera. The British composer, Joseph Berger writes, was "'sickened'...
Tags: Entertainment, Bunny (music group), Les Miserables (musical), Tony Awards, Arts and Culture
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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: Fine Artists, Thom Mayne, Robert Venturi, Science and Technology, Architecture
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Stolen-artifacts case has cost much, yielded little, critics say
When hundreds of federal agents raided four Southern California museums early one January morning in 2008, it set the art world ablaze, suggesting that even amid an international looting scandal, museums had continued to do business with the black...
Tags: Archaeology, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Trials, Arts and Culture, University of California, Los Angeles
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Case study conservation on the Eames' Case Study House
Surprisingly, little has changed at the Eames House since 1949, when Charles and Ray Eames designed their Pacific Palisades home and studio as a model of affordable modern living. Most of the objects they lived with remain in place at the two-part,...
Tags: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Research, Architecture, Science and Technology, Arts
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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: Science and Technology, Arts, Arts and Culture, Standards, Frank Gehry
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A view into the photography program at Humanitas Academy of Art and Technology
FrameworkMore than 100 portraits of Humanitas Academy of Art and Technology (HAAT) students and their photographs will be featured on a 1,000-foot-long fence covering the construction of the Huntington Library's Education and Visitor Center. HAAT is in East Los... -
Pasadena Heritage home tour goes Modern
The preservation group Pasadena Heritage takes a turn toward the Modern when it hosts a May 19 tour of six homes built after 1940. Stops will include homes by Lloyd Wright, Harold Zook, Ted Tyler and Lawrence Test, plus two houses by the iconic...Tags: Architecture, Arts and Culture
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Bruery beer auction; history of peanut butter; cooking the ancient Sicilian way
Beer auction at Bruery: Orange County’s Bruery will be hosting a silent auction of rare beers on Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. at the Bruery’s Tasting Room in Placentia. The event, benefiting Share our Strength Taste of the Nation Los Angeles,...
Tags: Auction Service, Arts, Honey, Arts and Culture, Peanut Butter
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Getty Museum buys 'Rembrandt Laughing': tiny portrait, huge value
Stepping up the effort to strengthen its European art collection, the Getty Museum has acquired two major Old Masters paintings: an exuberant early self-portrait of Rembrandt from around 1628, and a classic scene of the Grand Canal in Venice by...Tags: Auction Service, Fine Artists, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Politics, England
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Delays, costs build up for 405 Freeway project in L.A.
Linda Rose was commuting home from UCLA through the Sepulveda Pass in December 2011 when she noticed that several panels of a tall retaining wall just west of the 405 Freeway had crumpled. "It was like it was there the day before, and it wasn't there...
Tags: Highway Transportation, California Department of Transportation, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Customs and Tradition, Arts and Culture
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The BMA's shrinking staff
It's one of the ironies of the art world that major cultural institutions like the Baltimore Museum of Art are home to priceless collections of paintings, sculpture and other works by the world's greatest masters, yet they often struggle to come up with...Tags: Unemployment, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Financial Markets, Finance, Arts and Culture
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