Tastes of Culture

Monster Mash: Rafael Viñoly to design Kennedy Institute; Cherry Lane Theatre going dark

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:49:48 +0000

-- Master builder: Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly has been selected to build the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. (Art Info) -- Financial trouble: New York's Cherry Lane Theatre said its mainstage will go dark for a...

If purported Ansel Adams photos earn big money, their discoverer may not get to keep it

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:00:00 +0000

Here's a little plot-thickener in the strange case of the disputed photo negatives of Yosemite and coastal California scenes that may or may not have been taken by Ansel Adams. Rick Norsigian, a wall-painter for the Fresno school district, bought...

Theater review: ‘Young Frankenstein’ at the Pantages

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:30:00 +0000

In 2007, New York grabbed torches and pitchforks and went after a monster. The object of this pursuit, "Young Frankenstein," was indeed frightful in some respects, but it didn't deserve quite such bitter griping. True, moviemaker turned theater adventurist Mel...

Hollywood Foreign Press gives (another) $75,000 to LACMA for film program

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:49:55 +0000

The beleaguered film program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art got a welcome infusion of cash on Wednesday when the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. announced at a special luncheon that it is donating $75,000 to the museum in...

Travis Preston to head CalArts theater school

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:27:10 +0000

The California Institute of the Arts has found a new leader for its theater school. Travis Preston will take over the position of dean of the School of Theater on Aug. 1. He succeeds Erik Ehn, who left CalArts in...

L.A. Phil unfurls a new banner for a new season at Walt Disney Concert Hall

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:15:52 +0000

It's time for that rite of summer: The Los Angeles Philharmonic -- anticipating the opening of a new season -- is changing the giant banner that hangs outside the entrance to its administrative offices at Walt Disney Concert Hall. On...

David Fray and Pablo Heras-Casado make ‘heroic’ Hollywood Bowl debuts

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:12:01 +0000

The crowd at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Heroic Beethoven” program Tuesday night at the Hollywood Bowl can be forgiven for thinking the heroic meant them, enduring an arctic chill to hear the Third Piano Concerto and Third Symphony. Crazy as...

Polish museum debuts 3-D movie about World War II

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:15:00 +0000

Hollywood's current infatuation with 3-D has almost exclusively benefited science fiction, action and animated movies. But 3-D can also be used for historical films, as proved by a new initiative by a museum in Poland. "City of Ruins," a new...

LACMA, Michael Govan party in the Hamptons

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:39:18 +0000

You can take the museum director out of the East Coast, but apparently you can't take the East Coast out of the museum director. Over the recent weekend, Michael Govan, the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,...

Monster Mash: Ansel Adams photography debate; lawsuit filed over Hungarian art collection

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:07:51 +0000

-- Photo finish: The next round in a debate over the authenticity of a stash of photographic negatives that some say were created by Ansel Adams. (Los Angeles Times) -- Heading to court: The heirs of a Jewish banker have...