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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, Arts and Culture, Customs and Tradition, California Department of Transportation, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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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: Economy, Business and Finance, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arts, Finance, Museums
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reFramed: In conversation with WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY curator Anne Wilkes Tucker
FrameworkAnne Wilkes Tucker is currently the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston where she has worked since 1976. She founded the Photography Department at the museum that now has a collection of over 28,000... -
MOCA's 'A New Sculpturalism' faces uncertain future without Gehry
Frank Gehry has pulled out of a major architecture exhibition set to open June 2 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, a move that could force the show to find a new venue or face the prospect of being canceled altogether. The exhibition, "A New...Tags: Architecture, Housing and Urban Planning, Arts, Getty Foundation, Frank Gehry
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MOCA architecture show, funded by Getty, could face cancellation
Times Architecture CriticThe curator of a major architecture exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art says he is concerned it will be canceled in advance of its planned June 2 opening. “A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California”...Tags: Architecture, Science and Technology, Standards, Museums, Thom Mayne
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Art: 'Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance' is a vital show
Collecting rare works that include Italy's Giotto di Bondone and Pacino di Bonaguida, art history expands at the Getty to incorporate manuscript paintings as an essential feature of the early Renaissance story. "Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance:...Tags: Getty Center, Italy
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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. Next month LACMA will publicly unveil a $650-million plan by Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor for a dramatic new museum...
Tags: Architecture, Rem Koolhaas, Standards, SCI-Arc, Germany
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Elon Musk hates 405 Freeway traffic, offers money to speed widening
Entrepreneur Elon Musk has already spent $50,000 trying to make the 405 Freeway better – and he’s willing to pay even more. Musk said he is open to pay the cost of adding workers to the widening project "as a contribution to the city and...
Tags: PayPal, Inc., Satellite Technology, Traffic, Tesla Motors, Inc., Highway Transportation
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405 project stuck in the slow lane
Elon Musk quips that it's easier getting rockets into orbit than navigating his commute between home in Bel-Air and his Space Exploration Technologies factory in Hawthorne. "The 405 … varies from bad to horrendous," said Musk, who also co-founded...
Tags: PayPal, Inc., Los Angeles International Airport, Satellite Technology, Highway Transportation, Tesla Motors, Inc.
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Former L.A. Times art critic William Wilson dies at 78
William Wilson, who wrote art criticism for the Los Angeles Times for more than three decades, died Saturday after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for several years. He was 78. Wilson, who was diagnosed with the disease four years ago, passed away...
Tags: Museums, California State University, Fullerton, Artists, Fine Artists, Arts and Culture
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Review: History lurks in Stephen Prina's sculptures at LACMA
Edouard Manet (1832-83) was arguably the first Modern artist. Partly that's because the 19th century painter's work was made in direct, conscious response to museum art — in those days a newfangled institution. Before, painters and sculptors...
Tags: Architecture, Tangerine, Museums, Arts and Culture, Fine Artists
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Why you need to know Tyler Diehl
What he does: Tyler Diehl oversees the design, planting and maintenance of 22 acres of lush gardens in Monkton. The Ladew property, which is 250 acres in total, includes a nature walk and 15 “garden rooms,” each with its own theme. While...
Tags: Washington, DC, Botany
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