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Bubble bursts for former president of Art Center College of Design
Some bubbles are harder to burst than others. After a four-year run as director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Richard Koshalek says he is returning to California — and just might bring with him a version of the inflatable event...
Tags: Arts and Culture
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Altadena Junction: It's a hot year for the Town Council election
The Altadena Town Council may be one of the most powerless bodies in the county. Because Altadena is an unincorporated town, the county Board of Supervisors really makes all the decisions that involve money or exercise of government power. The Council,...
Tags: Elections, Arts and Culture, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Music, Local Elections
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California Art Club: Surviving and flourishing
It's long been said that every revolution has its victims, and that adage played out in a dramatic way for the California Art Club in 1947. Since its 1909 founding, the Pasadena-based organization had been instrumental in putting the state's Impressionist...
Tags: Painting, Arts and Culture, Artists, Bulgaria, Human Interest
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'Beyond Brancusi' invites a study of sculpture's space
Curator Leah Lehmbeck has been associated with the Norton Simon Museum for the last five years and was responsible for 2011's incisive-yet-panoramic "Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California" survey — the museum's smashing entry in...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Sculpture, Museums
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Inside the Huntington story
"Masterpiece Theatre" has nothing on the real-life, rags-to-riches saga that led to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. This singularly American story of an extraordinary family dynasty...
Tags: Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, Research, Arts and Culture, Adultery, Authors
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Finding state-of-the-art tradition
The young contemporary Japanese artists whose work is most often put before us are typically splashy and bold. Recall last year's Pacific Asia Museum show of graphic works by Gaijin Fujita, with its exploding color and colliding imagery. The new PAM...
Tags: Asia, Arts and Culture, Museums
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Jonesing for a great cup of coffee
Some mornings just go better than others. This one started off badly. In my enthusiastic search for a midcentury chair, I got to the Huntington Collection thrift store an hour early. I noticed a sign on a warehouse across a desolate parking lot reading...
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San Marino mural is a nod to a piece of iconic history
A historic gift to San Marino several years in the making made its debut on Valentine’s Day, a mural celebrating the city’s red wooden Pacific Electric Railway trolley brought in the 1900s by none other than Henry Huntington himself. The idea...
Tags: Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Arts and Culture, The Happiest News!, Hybrid Vehicles, Passenger Cars
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Altadena Junction: Sheriff cuts squeezing unincorporated areas, Walmart Neighborhood Market update, and more
Sheriff Lee Baca has clashed with the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors recently about cutting deputy overtime, which has the immediate effect of reducing patrols in unincorporated county areas. Supervisors felt that Baca was favoring cities that...Tags: Arts and Culture, Poetry, Artists, Black History, China
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Maurice Merlin paintings and prints on display at Huntington Library
We've heard lately that America is trying to rise up from "the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression." While economists, political scientists and historians will debate that point, an exhibition of paintings and prints by Maurice Merlin at...
Tags: Germany, Arts and Culture, Ku Klux Klan, Artists, Frank Lloyd Wright
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On the Town: 'Tuesday Painters' on exhibit, a 'Wild Thing' visited Vroman's Bookstore
A watercolor class offered through Glendale's Lifetime Learning classes is standing room only with a waiting list that outstrips many of Parks and Recreation's other courses. Art instructor Peggy Reid has taught “Journey in Watercolors” at...
Tags: Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are (movie), Painting, Washington, DC, Fine Artists
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On the Town: Fezziwig's Festive Holiday Tea at A Noise Within, Pasadena Museum of California Art celebrates the holidays
The invitation was titled Fezziwig's Festive Holiday Tea at A Noise Within. In smaller type was the announcement of a post-tea, matinee performance of Charles Dickens' “A Christmas Carol.” Both events could be had for $300, representing one of...
Tags: Human Interest, Alison Elliott, Education, Jack Elliott, The Happiest News!
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