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Micro apartments in Los Angeles: 'How Small Is Too Small?'
With condo buildings sprouting from vacant lots and talk of lifting height restrictions on its high-rises, Hollywood offers one of the best illustrations of Los Angeles' push toward population density. In the heart of this quickly changing neighborhood,...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Architecture, Arts, Demographics, IKEA
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Getty Villa to sport a giant steel wheel for 'Prometheus Bound'
This post has been corrected. Please see below for details. The Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades boasts a magnificent collection of ancient art in a replica of a Roman Villa, but this summer the biggest sculpture on display will be a creation from 2013:...
Tags: Theme Park Vacations, Machine Manufacturing, Arts and Culture, Music Industry, Museums
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Wim de Wit to step down at Getty Research Institute
After 20 years at the Getty Research Institute, Wim de Wit, the head of the architecture and contemporary art offerings there and co-curator of the current Pacific Standard Time Presents initiative on modern architecture in Los Angeles, is leaving the...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Research, Architecture, Arts, Oprah Winfrey
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A virtual milestone
Library hounds, research heads and history buffs, Robert Darnton has been reading your diary. Darnton, the university librarian at Harvard University, envisioned a digital library available free of charge to the public that would provide online access...
Tags: West Point, Arts and Culture, Harvard University, 2012 Democratic National Convention, University of Georgia
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Reader photos: Best of Southern California moments for May 2013
FrameworkI love the variety of processes involved in this month's photos. From iPhone portraits, like Steve Saldivar's image of Henry Nakamura at Evergreen Cemetery in East L.A., to Toby Hancock's deceptively simple photograph of the Original Tommy's World... -
Sunnylands presidential summit spotlights estate's public mission
Even when it was just an architectural glimmer in the eye of Walter and Leonore Annenberg, the desert estate where President Barack Obama will greet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday was never in danger of being confused with a mere vacation house....
Tags: Camp David, Xi Jinping, Barack Obama, Arts and Culture, Elizabeth II
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Where to enjoy summer concerts on the cheap in L.A.
Though the annual array of summer tours and festivals may be enticing, the shows can also empty your pockets. It's good to know L.A. offers plenty of cheap alternatives for great music over the next few months. This weekend's 12-hour marathon of 150...
Tags: Concerts, Arts and Culture, Music Industry, Ozomatli (music group), Culture
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Found: R.M. Schindler's hidden church
Rudolph Schindler is L.A.'s prototypical Modernist architect. His house on King's Road (the MAK Center now) is a public monument. Design magazines gush over Schindler restorations. Curbed LA, online, tracks the Schindler real estate market. And the...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Architecture, Google Inc., Religion and Belief, Frank Lloyd Wright
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Reader Photo: Light-headed
Light appears to shine from a girl's forehead in an illusion created by this double-exposure, or two images taken on the same frame of film, by "Jimmay Bones." The image was made on May 18 at the Getty Museum. Follow Armand Emamdjomeh on Twitter or ...
Tags: Google Inc.
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L.A. arts endowments fell in 2011-12, but things are looking up
The public's window into nonprofit arts groups’ financial condition is a time-lapse look. The numbers typically don’t become available until many months after an organization has closed the books on a fiscal year. They're now in for most...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Arts and Culture, California Science Center, 401K, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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Starving artists? Not among the leaders of L.A. arts institutions
L.A. added two new million-dollar-a-year executives to the ranks of its top-paid arts leaders during 2011, although two existing members of the seven-person club had to get by with less than they'd made in 2010. Increases for Music Center President...
Tags: Lincoln Center, New York City, Concerts, Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, Arts and Culture
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Ada Louise Huxtable memorial explores architecture critic's legacy
NEW YORK -- On Tuesday afternoon at the Metropolitan Museum in New York the architecture world, or what felt like a pretty substantial cross-section of it, gathered to remember the pioneering New York Times and Wall Street Journal architecture critic...Tags: New York City, Awards and Prizes, Arts and Culture, Museums, Reviews
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