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California African American Museum names George Davis as new executive director
The California African American Museum in Los Angeles announced on Friday that its board of directors has named George Davis as the institution's new executive director.Davis served as the state museum's interim leader for three months following the departure last year of executive director Charmaine Jefferson, who left the museum after 11 years.Davis previously served as a state-appointed board member, starting in 1999. His professional career has been mainly in broadcast and digital, having founded Davis Broadband Group, a digital distribution consulting firm, in 2001.Following Jefferson's resignation last year, the museum was led on an interim basis by Patrick Kemp, followed by...
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California African American Museum names George Davis as new executive director
The California African American Museum in Los Angeles announced on Friday that its board of directors has named George Davis as the institution's new executive director.
Davis served as the state museum's interim leader for three months following the...
A re-edited plan for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — the organization that awards the Oscars — is poised to build a new museum stretching across 208,000 square feet on Wilshire Boulevard just west of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Dedicated to the...
Natural History Museum renames Dinosaur Hall for Director Jane Pisano
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County held its bi-annual Dinosaur Ball on Saturday evening at which trustees, museum staff and other guests gave Director Jane Pisano a monster of an honor.
The museum announced it would be renaming its dinosaur...
Memorial Day kicks off free museum admission for military personnel, families
Memorial Day marks the start of free museum admission for members of the U.S. military and their families.
The 2015 Blue Star Museums program offers free general admission to select museums nationwide for U.S. active-duty military...
Remarkable 'Ode,' Next on Grand, peeking at ballerinas
I’m Kelly Scott, the arts and culture editor of the Los Angeles Times, and this holiday weekend marks the rough midway point of the arts year. Spring shows have completed their runs, the L.A. Philharmonic season concludes this week, and we look ahead to...
'Cultural feeding frenzy': Art world descends on Cuba for Havana Biennial
Rosa Lowinger has been getting the invitations at a rate of two a day. The Los Angeles-based sculpture conservator, who writes frequently on Cuba and leads art and architectural tours of the country, is in the Cuban capital for the...
Moment of Friday: The Jay Z versus Marina Abramovic feud, illustrated
This week, Marina Abramovic trash-talked Jay-Z. The Getty Museum helps us tell the story of their feud using medieval manuscript illuminations.
Four things to do over Memorial Day weekend -- for free
Record numbers of us -- 37.2 million, according to the AAA -- are going somewhere over the Memorial Day weekend. Here are four events that will take you off the freeway and into communities for music, reflection and art.
Pt. Reyes National Seashore: A...
Datebook: Experimental shoes, art by vets, stories about immigration
Over-the-top shoes. Works produced by military veterans. And a series of collaged paintings that chronicle the lives of modern-day gold prospectors on the San Gabriel River. Plus: works that touch on personal stories of immigration and a painter’s...
NYC: Ellis Island's revamped museum opens with new immigrant exhibition
Ellis Island, the historic processing center for millions of immigrants in New York Harbor, will open a new exhibition Wednesday that focuses on American immigration in the postwar years and up to the present.
The new show and completion of the...
Diane Keaton, Paul McCarthy to be honored at Hammer Museum
In a famous scene from Woody Allen's "Manhattan," a cultural intellectual played by Diane Keaton offers her withering assessment of art that she has recently seen at a museum.
"I really felt it was very derivative. To...
LACMA expansion, Ridley-Thomas, 'super PAC' intersect in email trail
When Michael Lynton, chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures Entertainment, sat down for lunch last July with L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, each wanted something.
Lynton is a trustee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which...
FreeCity, dosa tapped for latest Wear LACMA collection
Beloved L.A. brands FreeCity and dosa have been tapped by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to create the fifth edition of the Wear LACMA collection of fashion and accessories inspired by the museum’s permanent collection.
Both brands celebrate the...
New York: Nine tips for dodging crowds, enjoying new Whitney Museum
The Whitney Museum of American Art opened its new home in New York City's Meatpacking District on May 1, and New Yorkers and visitors have come in droves. I turned up on a recent Saturday and was discouraged by the line that wrapped half of the building....
Roundup: USC students boycott graduation; Fox station censors Picasso
The announced withdrawal of an entire MFA class from USC's Roski School of Art and Design continues to make news. Historic ruins are threatened in Syria. A Picasso inspires talk of inequity and censorship. And Renzo Piano’s Academy Museum moves...
Essential Arts: Chris Burden's big ideas and the first Mr. Yoko Ono
I'm Kelly Scott, the arts and culture editor of the Los Angeles Times, with a week in the arts with Times writers and critics.
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Chris Burden's roundabout route of bringing 'Urban Light' to L.A.
The last time I formally interviewed Chris Burden was on the eve of the unveiling of "Urban Light" in early 2008. I was on assignment for this newspaper, and we met on a dreary winter day on the plaza of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art...
Video: San Francisco's big, green secret
The Presidio -- a 1,491-acre chunk of public land at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge -- is one of San Francisco’s greatest assets, yet it remains underappreciated by travelers. Too bad, because as this video shows, it keeps getting better.
The area...
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures clears environmental review
Hollywood usually adores plot twists, but a thriller was the last thing planners of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures wanted Thursday as they sought a vital stamp of approval needed to push forward with their $300-million project.
As it turned out,...
The Whitney Museum replies to my request to withdraw a false statement
Eight days after asking the Whitney Museum of American Art to remove an exhibition wall-text that refers in a false and defamatory way to a review that I wrote 22 years ago, I received a reply from Whitney director Adam Weinberg.
The short answer:...
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