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For LACMA, the chance to snap up MOCA is a deal too good to shelve
Everybody loves a bargain. Here's a big one. If you were a wealthy major art collector, and for the price of one classic Jackson Pollock drip-painting or Andy Warhol's 1963 silk-screen "Eight Elvises" you could acquire a few billion dollars worth of...
Tags: Museum of Modern Art, Andy Warhol, Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Eli Broad
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Art review: 'Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain' shows life
If you like paint, you'll like "Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain," the artist's 40-year retrospective exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach. It's awash in the stuff. Thick, brightly colored paint oozes like mortar from...Tags: Lobbying, Arts, Marcel Duchamp, Fine Artists, Politics
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MCA show explores destruction and how it relates to creation
It's not every day you get invited to witness a museum destroy a work of art. And not just any work of art — a nearly 60-year-old piece from the Japanese master Saburo Murakami. In fact, because Murakami died in 1996, the Museum of Contemporary...
Tags: Arts, Fine Artists, World War II (1939-1945), Japan, John Lennon
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Richard Jackson wants to make you feel uncomfortable
The sculpture of a giant black Labrador outside the Orange County Museum of Art looks friendly, nose to the sky and tail up. But with a hind leg cocked, "Bad Dog" is designed to spray gallons of yellow paint through a powerful gear pump onto the museum...
Tags: Arts, Fine Artists, Rentals, Science and Technology, Hunting
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Mix history, art in Palm Beach at the Flagler Museum
If ever a room was aptly named, it's the Grand Hall of the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum in Palm Beach. The 5,000 square-foot reception hall is adorned with almost every conceivable trapping of Gilded Age splendor: A bust of Caesar Augustus atop a...
Tags: Arts, Florida East Coast Railway, Whitehall, Norton Museum of Art, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida)
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Abstract expressionists shake things up at FAU exhibition
No one is exactly sure how Jackson Pollock arrived at the pour and drip techniques he began to use in the late 1940s to create the sprawling paintings that brought him enduring acclaim. But we do know that he is the most-famous abstract expressionist, a...
Tags: Arts, Fine Artists, Boca Raton, Arts and Culture, Artists
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'Word Jazz' pioneer Ken Nordine's career gets a closer look at film festival
Chicago's Oldest Living Hipster lives in Edgewater, on the North Side. He is 92 but looks 83. He lives behind a wrought-iron fence, surrounded on all sides by the drabbest of stone-colored apartment complexes. His home is a small castle, built a...
Tags: Poetry, Six Flags Inc., Film Festivals, Lone (music group), Festive Events
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A 'more approachable' Allium
As the former executive chef of the Ritz-Carlton Dining Room and Seasons, Kevin Hickey knows fine dining. He also knows when the writing is on the wall.
"We saw the dining trend going much more casual," says Allium executive chef Hickey. "We saw the...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Chicago Gourmet, Event Planning, NoMI, Seasons Restaurant
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From Sun Magazine: Q&A: BMA director Doreen Bolger
A large drawing hangs behind Doreen Bolger's desk, dripping with the words "Forward in all directions." The phrase, drawn with bleach on dark paper by Baltimore artist Colin Benjamin, has become something of a mantra for Bolger, the director of the...
Tags: Baltimore Museum of Art, Theft, Auction Service, Arts, Fine Artists
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Wesleyan University Press Celebrates a Music Maverick
Always In Trouble An Oral History of ESP-Disk', The Most Outrageous Record Label in America by Jason Weiss, Wesleyan Univ. Press, 292 pages, $24.95 (paper), $11.99 eBook While the music scene over the past half-century has been dominated by major...
Tags: Wesleyan University, Charles Manson, Music Industry, Fine Artists, Ornette Coleman
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Free Music Friday! A power-pop jolt from reunited North Carolina band The dB's
The dB's -- one of the greatest, most-overlooked rock bands of the 1980s -- is back together with its original lineup and a new album of fresh material. For me, this is more exciting than the Beach Boys mending fences with Brian Wilson. The new dB's...
Tags: The Beach Boys, Steve Earle, Big Star (music group), Entertainment, Matthew Sweet
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Michael Heizer's calling is set in stone
In early 1969, a young artist working in the Nevada desert had an idea for an epic sculpture. Michael Heizer had found a 120-ton boulder in the mountains and wanted to set it above a trench dug in a dry lake bed. Visitors would be able to walk into the...
Tags: Customs and Tradition, CNN (tv network), IBM, Arts, Fine Artists
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