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Topic Archive: Arts & culture
As an amateur admirer of mariachi, I enjoyed CityBeat's feature on the female ensemble Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles. But I was stopped by the...
Posted May 6, 2008 10:10 PM
Artist Kent Twitchell settled his lawsuit against the U.S. government and 12 other defendants for painting over his 70-foot tall landmark mural of Ed Ruscha...
Posted April 30, 2008 09:16 AM
The Center for Land Use Interpretation, as is their style, interprets the new BCAM as "more than an immediate housing for cultural artifacts...[but] engaged in...
Posted April 24, 2008 02:16 PM
Another local music critic down, not many left to go. Alan Rich, who is at least 83, was let go as classical music critic over...
Posted April 9, 2008 12:37 AM
Longtime L.A. Times pop critic Robert Hilburn has signed with ModernTimes/Rodale to do a "deeply personal and highly opinionated memoir" of his decades covering the...
Posted March 18, 2008 11:41 AM
Last weekend's New York Times did a nice spread on J. Michael Walker and his one-of-a-kind Los Angeles book, "All the Saints of the City...
Posted March 11, 2008 06:40 PM
Tyler Green at Modern Art Notes has the memo and the explanation from spokesman Ron Hartwig that staff reductions are a result of new CEO...
Posted March 7, 2008 09:44 AM
Not too many musicians follow this particular career arc. Buddy Miles, who died yesterday in Austin of congestive heart failure, began as a session player...
Posted February 27, 2008 07:35 PM
The skylight over the rotunda of the Natural History Museum in Exposition Park has been nicely, if painstakingly, restored with help from the great-grandson of...
Posted February 17, 2008 10:49 PM
One of my favorite quirky L.A. public sculptures — the gold panner of Carthay Circle — has been stolen and recovered. The bronze cast in...
Posted February 15, 2008 04:45 PM
Vogue fashion photographer Irving Penn began taking photographs of workers in Paris in 1950, usually posing them in natural north light. He continued in New...
Posted February 7, 2008 12:25 AM
Downtown blogger Angelenic has the scoop (and some nice photos): Wilshire Boulevard institution La Fonda will reopen on Valentine's Day. The new version won't appeal...
Posted February 6, 2008 08:05 PM
Irene Hirano will step down next year as president of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. But that's not her big news. She...
Posted January 30, 2008 03:05 PM
Search warrants were served on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Pasadena's Pacific Asia Museum, the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana and the Mingei...
Posted January 24, 2008 01:11 PM
Mark Swed's Jan. 7 LAT review of an L.A. Philharmonic performance of pieces with an urban theme said, among other things: In between came Frank...
Posted January 16, 2008 09:33 PM
Eli Broad has changed course and decided not to donate his impressive collection to any museums — including LACMA, which is close to finishing the...
Posted January 8, 2008 09:18 AM
Music Center president Stephen Roundtree said today that the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion will close for renovations in 2013, not 2011 as originally announced. Apparently, offices...
Posted January 7, 2008 02:56 PM
In the eyes of the New York Times, the 96 students in the Colburn School conservatory on Bunker Hill "are among the finest young musicians...
Posted January 6, 2008 10:56 PM
If you were in Hollywood last night, you might have seen a line around the block at the Pantages after the performance of Wicked. Hundreds...
Posted December 31, 2007 11:17 AM
The defrocked Getty curator of antiquities who has faced criminal charges in Europe finally talks to the media, in the form of Hugh Eakin in...
Posted December 9, 2007 03:04 PM
Sharon Waxman went out to the Getty Villa today to monitor the packing up, and shipping out, of some of the 40 statues and other...
Posted November 21, 2007 09:49 PM
Harold Nelson is out as director of the Long Beach Museum of Art, replaced on an interim basis by former board president Ron Nelson...
Posted December 5, 2006 06:22 PM
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