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Art review: Japanese art revival restores the peace
The flurry of traditional Japanese arts and crafts in Southern California this month is not in Los Angeles proper. L.A. County Art Museum's majestic Pavilion for Japanese Art remains the West Coast's greatest showcase, but three unrelated Pasadena...
Tags: Fine Artists, Charles Bukowski, Artists, Arts and Culture, Arts
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The 340-ton rock arrives safely at LACMA, at last
After 11 grueling, and especially cold, nights on the road navigating tight corners, “crabbing” across bridges and narrowly avoiding collision with towering utility poles, LACMA’s monolith has finally arrived.
That is, it arrived at the...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Arts and Culture, Arts, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia)
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Art review: Syd Mead's believable, progressive futurism
The Forest Lawn Museum retrospective exhibition of Syd Mead’s half-century career as designer, illustrator and artist is composed of more than just renderings of his curious futuristic inventions. Mead shapes a utopian future made believable. His...Tags: General Motors Corp., Sony Corp., Ridley Scott, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Chrysler
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A reflection of China's ancient past at the Huntington
A tiny leopard frozen in mid-leap. A stalking hunter. Twining leaves, coiled dragons, interlaced serpents, swooping birds and “swirling cloud scrolls” that represent “the vital energy, or qi, of everything in the universe”:...Tags: Hobbies, China, Artists, Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
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Baring a hidden Pasadena gem
Pacific Asia Museum, celebrating its 40th anniversary in Pasadena, may be one of the most overlooked cultural resources in Southern California.
“People call it a ‘hidden gem,’" said Executive Director Charles Mason.
Yet this Chinese-...Tags: Ceremonies, Claes Oldenburg, Plastic Art, Edward Ruscha, Customs and Tradition
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Art Review: Pacific Asia Museum goes modern, for the time being
One of the unexpected dividends of the Getty’s far-reaching “Pacific Standard Time” series is the cross-pollination of audiences and institutions; another is focused historic perspective. The Pacific Asia Museum, not known for modern-art...Tags: Claes Oldenburg, Kurt Schwitters, Arts, Lyonel Feininger, John McLaughlin
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Ron Kaye: Unraveling the redevelopment mess
Sooner or later, the bills come due in all our lives — even in the lives of government agencies. Just ask the people who bought a house they couldn't afford or city officials who got addicted over the years to draining vast amounts of tax dollars...Tags: Public Officials, Regional Authority, Government, Politics, Arts and Culture
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Old west stays alive at the Autry National Center
With a rawhide apron tied around his front and a black leather satchel in his hand, Chuck Merman looked every inch the 19th-century frontier doctor en route to a house call.
When he held up a particularly menacing tool used to extract teeth, the...Tags: History (tv network), John Marshall, Arts and Culture, Education, Museums
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Chicano artists reign at museum
Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale ushered in Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 through Oct. 15) with the opening of “Adelante! Mexican American Artists: 1960s and Beyond,” an exhibition of paintings, prints, sculpture and photography that...Tags: Justice and Rights, Cheech Marin, Labor Legislation, Symbols and Symbolism, Richard Riordan
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Pasadena Art Walk features 25 artists
The sixth annual Pasadena Art Walk will take place Saturday, Oct. 15 in downtown Pasadena’s historic playhouse district. The event will feature the work of 25 artists and will serve as an opportunity for both attendees and vendors to engage in the...Tags: Fine Arts, Artists, Arts and Culture, Arts, Painting
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Getty Museum in a legal fight over Armenian Bible pages
The J. Paul Getty Trust failed Thursday to derail a lawsuit by the Armenian Orthodox Church that accuses the museum of harboring stolen illuminated medieval manuscripts — 755-year-old works that are masterpieces and, to the church, spiritually and...Tags: J. Paul Getty Trust, Christianity, The Getty, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Christian Orthodoxy
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Protesters call on Getty to relinquish medieval manuscripts
About 30 protesters on Saturday called on the Getty Museum to return seven ornate pages from a sacred, medieval-era Armenian book considered to be a national treasure. The protesters gathered outside the gates of the museum Saturday holding signs that...Tags: Photography Supplies and Services, Crime, Law and Justice, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Turkey, Politics
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