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LACMA MUSE ART WALK- this Saturday May 14th

May 11, 2011

MUSE ARTWALK  Saturday, May 14  Participating Museums include: LACMA. 5900 Wilshire Blvd. | 11 am–8 pm.  Free general admissionArchitecture+Design Museum. 6032 Wilshire Blvd. | 12–6 pm. Free general admission Global Bazaar at Craft Folk and Art Museum. 5814 Wilshire Blvd. | 10…

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Vermeer painting never before seen in California- to be on view at Norton Simon

May 10, 2011

According to the Los Angeles Times, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will loan Vermeer‘s “Woman with a Lute” to the Norton Simon Museum this summer.  No West Coast museum currently owns a work by the celebrated Dutch Master. For a full report, please read:…

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In the news: Getty names new president- James Cuno

May 10, 2011

The J. Paul Getty Trust has named as its new Chief Executive Officer, James Cuno, the Director of the Art Institute of Chicago. Dr. Cuno has an M.A. and PhD in art history from Harvard, where he served as director of the Harvard…

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Mark Morris Dance Group at LA Opera: May 5-8

May 2, 2011

George Frideric Handel’s “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato”  Pastoral ode after poems by John Milton, rearranged by Charles Jennens Mark Morris Dance Group Los Angeles Opera Orchestra and Chorus Grant Gershon, CONDUCTOR Hei-Kyung Hong, SOPRANO Sarah Coburn, SOPRANO Barry Banks, TENOR John Relyea, BASS-BARITONEAvailable by phone only…

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Exhibit “Revisiting the Regency, England 1811-1820″- Huntington Library

May 2, 2011

Revisiting the Regency; England, 1811-1820 April 23- Aug 1, 2011 Library, West Hall Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens 1151 Oxford Road. San Marino, CA  91108. http://www.huntington.org

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Dialogue between art and fashion- May 3- Century City

May 1, 2011

The Fashionable Body: An Art and Fashion Dialogue Tuesday, May 3, 2011 Refreshments: 6:30pm Panel: 7–9pm Ray Kurtzman Theater at Creative Artists Agency (CAA) 2000 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, 90067 Join the MOCA Contemporaries for a discussion about…

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Spanish Police find missing Goya and El Greco Paintings

April 16, 2011

Spanish Police have discovered two missing masterpieces, El Greco’s ”La Anunciacion,” and Goya’s ”La Aparicion de la Virgen del Pilar.” The paintings had been missing for more than two decades and were recovered after a tip led them to a private home…

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In the news: Daniel Cátan: Composer of LA Opera’s Il Postino

April 15, 2011

Unfortunately, Daniel Cátan, a prolific opera composer, died this week at the age of 62. Mr. Cátan composed the music for LA Opera’s “Il Postino,” which had its premiere in Los Angeles only a few months ago. His other operas included: “Florencia en el…

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Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto-April 16 and 17- LA Chamber Orchestra

April 15, 2011

“What you are, is by accident of birth; What I am, I created myself. There are, and have been, thousands, of princes;  There is only one Beethoven.” –Ludwig Van Beethoven to Prince Lichnowsky, after storming out of his estate BEETHOVEN’S EMPEROR CONCERTO…

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Getty Villa- photography exhibit: In Search of Biblical Lands: From Jerusalem to Jordan

April 11, 2011

In Search of Biblical Lands: From Jerusalem to Jordan in Nineteenth-century Photography March 2–September 12, 2011 Getty Villa. 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, CA. (310) 440-7300 http://www.getty.edu/ Photo: 1870′s “Jews at the Wailing Wall,” Felix Bonfils

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