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West Hollywood antiques dealer accused of selling fake Picasso for $2 million
L.A. NOWA West Hollywood antiques dealer has been charged with selling a fake Picasso drawing for $2 million, officials from the U.S. attorney’s office said today. Tatiana Khan, 69, owner of the Chateau Allegre gallery on La Cienega Boulevard, allegedly hired..... -
Art dealer agrees to plea deal in $2-million sale of fake Picasso
L.A. NOWAn art and antiques dealer who sold a fake Picasso for $2 million agreed to plead guilty to federal fraud charges, authorities said Tuesday. Tatiana Khan, 70, owner and operator of the Chateau Allegré gallery on La Cienega Boulevard, agreed...... -
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: Germany, University of California, Berkeley, Death, Eadweard Muybridge, University of California, Los Angeles
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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: Libraries, Prosecution, Arts, Arts and Culture, Crimes
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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: Bill Cosby, Northwestern University, Wheaton College, Pulitzer Prize Awards, NAACP
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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: Children, Los Angeles, Claude Monet, Travel, Rolling Hills Estates
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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: Tom Cruise, Invention and Innovation, Death, Danny DeVito, Family
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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.......
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