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Dealers, auction houses cheer ruling on Calif. Resale Royalty Act
For more than 30 years, California gallery owners have complained about the state's resale royalty law, which gives visual artists in certain cases a percentage of repeat sales of their artworks. But few disputes over royalties have ever reached court,...
Tags: Arts, Martin Lawrence, Gays and Lesbians, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Fine Artists
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Federal judge finds California Resale Royalty Act unconstitutional
You can almost hear the sighs of relief coming from art galleries and auction houses up and down California: Federal Judge Jacqueline Nguyen has declared the California Resale Royalty Act unconstitutional. The highly controversial, widely misunderstood...
Tags: Arts, Chuck Close, Lawyers, Judges, Auction Service
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PST, A to Z: ’46 N. Los Robles’ at Pacific Asia, ‘Proof’ at Norton Simon
Culture MonsterPacific Standard Time will explore the origins of the Los Angeles art world through museum exhibitions throughout Southern California over the next six months. Times art reviewer Sharon Mizota has set the goal of seeing all of them. This is...... -
Art review: 'State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970' at OCMA
Culture MonsterChristopher Knight reviews "State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970" at the Orange County Museum of Art... -
Helen Frankenthaler dies at 83; abstract painter
Helen Frankenthaler, a New York artist whose bursts of color achieved by pouring thinned paint onto canvas from coffee cans helped point art in fresh directions after the initial post-World War II explosion of Abstract Expressionism, has died. She was 83....Tags: Arts, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helen Frankenthaler, Obituaries, Museum of Modern Art
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Review: 'Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970'
Culture MonsterChristopher Knight reviews the Getty Museum's flagship Pacific Standard Time show, "Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970"... -
Reynolda in Winston-Salem Set to Show American Abstract Art
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is best known for elegant portraits of colonial figures and stunning depictions of nature.
The museum's permanent collection features the work of noted abstract artists such as Stuart Davis and Lee Krasner, but these...Tags: Arts, Stuart Davis, Armed Conflicts, Ad Reinhardt, Fine Arts
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Artists sue Christie's and Sotheby's for 'resale royalties'
Culture MonsterWhat do New York painter Chuck Close, L.A. artist Laddie John Dill, and the estate of L.A. sculptor Robert Graham have in common? They are all plaintiffs in a pair of class-action lawsuits filed Tuesday against the New York operations of Sotheby's and... -
Resale royalty lawsuits filed against nine California galleries
Culture MonsterManny Silverman says he opened his gallery in 1987, then on La Cienega Boulevard, at the urging of painter Sam Francis. Now he’s being sued by the Sam Francis Foundation--along with eight other galleries who allegedly refused to pay a 5 percent... -
June Wayne dies at 93; led revival of fine-art print making
June Wayne, who helped pioneer a revival of fine-art print making in the 1960s when she founded the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, has died. She was 93.
An accomplished artist in her own right, Wayne died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles...Tags: John Donne, Arts, Rutgers University, Colleges and Universities, Fine Arts
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Southland arts venues
18th Street Arts Center
1639 18th St.,
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 453-3711, 18thstreet.org
A + D Architecture and Design Museum
6032 Wilshire Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 932-9393, http://www.aplusd.org
American Museum of Ceramic Art...Tags: Architecture, Arts, Gays and Lesbians, Fine Arts, Minority Groups
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Lesser-known artists are poised for a breakthrough
Nobody thought a 12-sided geometric painting by a little-known artist could top a Hockney. The painting, "Vector," has languished in storage for at least 30 years. The painter, Ron Davis, has been living off the grid near Taos, N.M., for almost as long....Tags: David Hockney, Arts, Activism, Standards, Photography and Video
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