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15 November 2010

The ABCs of being Eli Broad

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Bad-boy Coagula Art Journal editor and HuffPo blogger Mat Gleason posits the naming possibilities for Uncle Eli’s swank new warehouse for his bulging contemporary art collection. [...]

9 November 2010

William Eggleston straddles Wilshire Boulevard

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Photographer Eggleston was a color specialist. His use of a color dye transfer process forged the field of color photography that before him was relegated to advertising or family snapshots. No one shot color. The big guys, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, were black and white men. [...]

2 May 2010

Renoir show still on view

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LACMA’s late-Renoir retrospective only runs for one more week. Get going! [...]

7 September 2009

Saving the village: our struggle to save LACMA’s film program

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At the September 1 “Popcorn Summit” (our coalition pictured above on the LACMA campus), Doug Cummings, my smart film critic partner, and I presented Mr. Govan with the petition. This we did with pride. We had amazing press coverage in the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine on-line, and the New York Times. But the piece de resistance was a beautifully written, highly personal article by David Mermelstein in the Wall Street Journal. [...]