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Kevin James vows to keep mayor's home from being a "party house"
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Johannes Vermeer paintings get California spotlights
Guards accompany them when they travel. Crowds flock to them when they arrive. Johannes Vermeer's exquisite paintings of young women in gleaming domestic settings are the vigilantly watched and amply insured celebrities of the museum world, promising not...
Tags: Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Concert (movie), Arts and Culture, Museums, Theft
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We need more mayoral debates. That's right, more!
So, I asked the candidates Tuesday night: How many mayoral debates does this one make? Forty-two and a half, Eric Garcetti said, in a bemused tone. A half debate? Maybe that was one where some of the principal candidates weren’t there. Or a...
Tags: Wendy Greuel, Jan Perry, State of the Union Address, Politics, Museums
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Getty Research Institute looks at Mexico's Dyn Group
André Breton, the French writer who founded the Surrealist movement in 1924, is widely known to have been a control freak. The so-called Surrealist Pope was happy to anoint and expel followers based on his autocratic judgment of their fealty to what he...Tags: Mexico, Arts and Culture, Research, Mexico City, Artists
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Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn list Pacific Palisades lot at $6.5 million
Perhaps they had a change of heart. Actors Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn have put a Pacific Palisades property they bought two years ago on the market at $6.5 million -- minus the house. The couple purchased the lot in early 2011 for $5.7 million, public...
Tags: Touchback (movie), Celebrities, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell
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Marching for civil rights
What's remarkable about photojournalist Leonard Freed's book "This Is the Day: The March on Washington" (Getty: $29.95), a photo essay documenting the historic Aug. 28, 1963, civil-rights march, is that it includes only one photograph of Martin Luther...Tags: Civil Rights, University of Pennsylvania, Morehouse College, Washington, DC, Barack Obama
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Moraga Vineyards in Bel Air for sale
If I had a spare $29.5 million or so lying around, I’d definitely be in the market for the Moraga Vineyards estate in Bel Air, which is now up for sale. You know those rows of vines you see across the 405 as you ride the tram up to the Getty Museum?...
Tags: Victor Fleming, Farms
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Getty Museum to return Hades terracotta head to Sicily
A terracotta head depicting the Greek god Hades that the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired in 1985 is being voluntarily sent back to Sicily, the museum has announced. Getty officials said that the museum has worked with officials from Sicily during the last...
Tags: Italy, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Greek Gods and Goddesses, Arts and Culture, Museums
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Pacific Standard Time's architecture focus moves forward
Last time around the focus was Southern California's art history; now homegrown architecture is getting its time in the sun. Getty Trust leaders are announcing Monday the final roster of exhibition and event partners in its Pacific Standard Time spinoff,...Tags: Peter Zumthor, Science and Technology, J. Paul Getty Trust, SCI-Arc, Architecture
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MOCA loses another curator as Rebecca Morse heads to LACMA
The brain drain continues: Rebecca Morse is leaving her job as associate curator at MOCA for a post with the same title within LACMA’s photography department. She will start her new position on Feb. 1, replacing Edward Robinson and reporting to...
Tags: Photography, Eli Broad, Arts and Culture, Museums, State University of New York
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Russia held in contempt in case that sparked its U.S. art-loan ban
This post has been corrected. See note below. Russia's ban on art loans to American museums has lasted more than two years now -- a strange and disruptive boomerang effect of a rancorous legal battle between the Russian government and the Chassidic...
Tags: Russia, National Government, World War II (1939-1945), Court Preliminary, Politics
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Ada Louise Huxtable dies at 91; renowned architecture critic
Ada Louise Huxtable, the architecture critic who in two decades of writing for the New York Times became a powerful force in shaping New York City and was better known than many of the architects she was covering and certainly more feared, has died. She...Tags: Getty Center, Pulitzer Prize Awards, New York University, Journalism, Reviews
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