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NYC museum acquires 3 Jasper Johns
The Museum of Modern Art in New York has acquired a series of three paintings by Jasper Johns, which had been in the artist's private collection. The works, Tantric Detail I, Tantric Detail II and Tantric Detail III, feature Johns' signature cross hatch...Tags: Museum of Modern Art
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Align light switches and outlets for sightlier interiors
ART ADVISOR Marcel Sitcoske points out one design decision that remodelers often neglect: light switches. "Electricians will put a switch anywhere," she says, shaking her head. Why allow a 50-cent switch plate to compete with her silk-screen "Flowers #66"...Tags: Andy Warhol, Ray Charles
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Then I saw Blue Man's bare faces, now I'm a believer
Sentinel Pop Music CriticIn character, the members of Blue Man Group don't talk. Backstage, out of that blue makeup, it's hard to get a word in edgewise. These blue guys really believe they are making the world a better place, just by catching marshmallows, pounding on tubes...Tags: Society, Blue Man Group, Universal CityWalk, Ceremonies, Amway Arena
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Why this actor's art shouldn't be at LACMA
Times Art CriticI'm no fan of public art museums exhibiting private collections. The negatives so far outweigh the positives that such shows hurt, rather than help, a museum's mission. The latest example is "Los Angelenos/Chicano Painters of L.A.: Selections From the...Tags: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Libraries and Museums, Christopher Knight, Museum of Modern Art, Book
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Lecture at Pfac aims to demystify abstract art
757-247-4783Program Director and Curator Michael Preble of the Peninsula Fine Arts Center will present a special program Tuesday night titled "The Hows and Whys of Abstraction." Presented in conjunction with a recently opened series of exhibits on abstract art,...Tags: Hans Hofmann, Richard Diebenkorn, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Helen Frankenthaler, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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See contemporary abstract art now at Pfac
757-247-4783More than 70 pieces of vibrant, often strongly expressive but non-representational art will go view Saturday when the Peninsula Fine Arts Center opens a series of new exhibits exploring the world of Abstract Art. Organized by Pfac curator and programs...Tags: Hans Hofmann, Richard Diebenkorn, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Helen Frankenthaler, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Robert Rauschenberg was a defier of convention
Sun Art CriticRobert Rauschenberg, the multifaceted artist who pioneered a new sense of openness and unlimited possibility in American painting, sculpture, photography and printmaking, died Monday at his home in Captiva Island, Fla. He was 82. Mr. Rauschenberg was...Tags: Merce Cunningham, Baltimore Museum of Art, Sculpture, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage
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Artist mixed paint, sculpture, cast-offs
Times Art CriticRobert Rauschenberg, the protean artist from small-town Texas whose imaginative commitment to hybrid forms of painting and sculpture changed the course of American and European art between 1950 and the early 1970s, died Monday night, according to New...Tags: Photography, Dance, Culture, Death and Dying, Jack Kerouac
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'Sand' at Parrish, Buckminster Fuller at Whitney
Special to NewsdaySand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor (June 29-Sept. 14 at Parrish Art Museum, Southampton). We play in it, loll on it, build castles out of it, and wash it out of our hair, but what, exactly, does sand mean? Its physical and metaphysical significance is...Tags: George Washington, Photography, Deer Park (Cook, Illinois), Long Island, Guggenheim Museum
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Modern design takes unlikely form
Tribune NewspapersBefore construction had wrapped on Vanessa Choy and Andrew Wong's house in Studio City, a suburb in the San Fernando Valley of California, the rumors had started swirling. The couple were building a halfway house for addicts, passersby speculated. The...Tags: Architecture, Mies van der Rohe, The Farmhouse, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), San Fernando
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