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Venice Heritage Museum Debuts
The Venice Heritage Museum opens tonight with a public celebration, 6:30 to 9:30 PM. Free tickets are required, with only a few left. Located at 228 Main St., Venice, the institution will explore the...
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Botticelli Loan at the Getty
Sandro Botticelli, Madonna of the Magnificat, late 1480s. Private collectionThe Getty Museum is showing a version of Botticelli's Madonna of the Magnificat as a loan from a private collection. This is...
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MOCA Said "No Thanks!" to This Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Hollywood Africans, 1983. Whitney Museum of American Art, gift of Douglas S. Cramer. (c) The Estate of Jean-Michel BasquiatA Vanity Fair piece on Gagosian's Basquiat show revives...
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Maurice Sendak Survey for Skirball
Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are, 1963. (c) The Maurice Sendak FoundationThe Skirball Center will be presenting an exhibition on author and illustrator Maurice Sendak. "Wild Things Are...
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Two Drawing Shows Dazzle
Guercino, Bespectacled Man Reading a Book, 1630s-1640s. Princeton University Art MuseumThe Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College is presenting two wide-ranging shows of Western drawings. "500 Years of...
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AI and the Mystery of Life
Allison Human, The Mystery of Life, 2024The Forest Lawn Museum will open a group show of Filipino-American art next month. Among the works is muralist and street artist Allison Hueman's The Mystery of...
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A Pasadena Masterpiece at the Prado
Francisco de Zurbarán, Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose, 1633. The Norton Simon Foundation (c) The Norman Simon FoundationThe Norton Simon Museum's rarely lent Zurburán Still Life with...
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"Scratching at the Moon" at ICA-LA
Amanda Ross-Ho, Untitled Prop Archive (THE PORTFOLIO), 2024Amanda Ross-Ho's father, Ruyell Ho, emigrated from Shanghai to California in 1955. Aspiring to be a commercial photographer, he photographed...
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Prado Is Lending a Velázquez to Norton Simon Museum
Diego Velázquez, Queen Mariana of Austria, 1652-53. Museo del Prado A sign at the Norton Simon Museum indicates that the Prado will lend Diego Velázquez's Queen Mariana of Austria to the Pasadena...
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Museum Attendance Rebounds
"Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody" at the BroadThe Art Newspaper's annual survey of museum attendance finds four greater L.A. museums with 2023 attendance in the ballpark of a million: the Getty...
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Broad Expands, Backed by Billion-Dollar Endowment
Rendering of expanded Broad. (c)Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Rendering by PlompThe Broad has announced a 55,000-sf expansion to its downtown building. The story's buried lede is that the Broad endowment...
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Getty Buy: "Earliest Pregnant Self-Portrait"?
Elena Luksch-Makowsky, Self-Portrait of the Artist During Pregnancy, 1901The Art Tribune reports that the Getty Museum has purchased a watercolor self-portrait of Vienna Secessionist artist Elena...
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LAX's Secret Kunsthalle Surveys Light & Space
Installation view, "Luminaries of Light and Space." Photo by SKA Studios LLC, courtesy of Los Angeles World AirportsThe art program at Los Angeles International Airport's Tom Bradley International...
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JANM to Feature 3 Women Modernists
Miki Hayakawa, One Afternoon, about 1935. New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa FeThe Japanese American National Museum and ShiPu Wang of UC Merced have organized a nationally traveling exhibition of the...
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Meet Richard Eurich, Artist Who Inspired Ruscha's Fire Paintings
Richard Eurich, 1936Artistic influence takes many forms. Sometimes an artist is so consumed by another's achievement that they struggle to distinguish their own work (the "anxiety of influence"). In...
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Sophie Frémiet Portrait for Getty
Sophie Frémiet, Portrait of a Woman, 1818. Getty MuseumExtending a string of acquisitions of work by women artists, the Getty Museum has added a portrait by Sophie Frémiet, a pupil of Jacques-Louis...
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Ikebana at Hollyhock House
Arrangement by Ravi GuneWardena. Photo by Hiroshi ClarkHollyhock House will present 45 Japanese-style flower arrangements amid Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture and grounds. "Flowers for Aline: An...
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Levitated Mass: The Meme
Levitated Mass meme from Anarchist Meme CollectiveIn Artnet News, Brian Boucher traces Levitated Mass' second life as a meme. In brief, a touristy photo of Michael Heizer's 2012 land art work at LACMA...
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Camille Claudel Shines in Natural Light
Camille Claudel, The Age of Maturity, modeled 1899, cast 1902. Musée d'OrsayThe Getty Center's "Camille Claudel" brings together about 60 works by the pioneering woman sculptor, known for her...
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A Modest Proposal for LACMA
David Geffen Galleries under construction. Photo by Gary Leonard (c) Museum Associates/LACMAAn Urbanize LA feature has aerial views of Peter Zumthor's LACMA building (the David Geffen Galleries), now...
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Mineo Mizuno Commission for Huntington
Reclaimed timber pieces in Mineo Mizuno's studioMineo Mizuno is creating a 16-foot reclaimed timber sculpture for the Huntington's garden north of the Munger Research Center. Titled Homage to Nature,...
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Loathing Las Vegas
Francis Bacon, Three Studies of Lucian Freud, 1969. Elaine Wynn collectionIn case you missed it, the Los Angeles Times has dual (and dueling) takes on Michael Govan's plan to share LACMA art and...
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Caillebotte Retrospective for L.A., Chicago, Paris
Gustave Caillebotte, The Floor Scrapers, 1875. Musée d'OrsayThe Getty Museum is co-organizing a major Gustave Caillebotte exhibition with the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, and the Art Institute of Chicago....
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Getty Buys Manfredi "Drinking Party"
Bartolomeo Manfredi, A Drinking and Musical Party, about 1619-20The Getty Museum has acquired Bartolomeo Manfredi's A Drinking and Musical Party, a well-known work by the Caravaggesque artist....
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Getty Returns Bronze Head to Turkey
Head from a Statue of a Youth, 1st century BC-1st century CE. Formerly Getty Museum collectionStill more Getty news: The museum has returned an ancient Roman bronze head to Turkey after the Antiquities...
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