May 29 through October 31, 2011.
The exhibition will bring together more than 700 drawings, paintings, photographs, film and video works, storyboards, puppets, concept artworks, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, including art from a number of unrealized and little-known personal projects.
The tickets for the exhibit go on sale May 2.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art • 5905 Wilshire Blvd. LA, CA, 90036
323-857-6000. For more information, please visit:
http://www.lacma.org/art/tim-burton.aspx
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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 in Alicante.
For more information, please read:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/04/15/Spanish-police-find-El-Greco-Goya-artwork/UPI-72751302884799/
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“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
- Saturday, April 16, Alex Theater, Glendale- 8pm. 216 North Brand Boulevard
Sunday, Apr 17, Royce Hall, UCLA- 7pm
- Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
- Jon Kimura Parker, piano
- JOHN HARBISON Gli accordi più usati(“The Most Often Used Chords”)
- DVOŘÁK Serenade in E major for Strings
- BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, “Emperor”
For information about tickets, please call: 213 622 7001
or visit: http://www.laco.org/
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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 Amazonas” and ”Rapaccini’s Daughter.”
Mr. Catán received his doctorate from Princeton University, where he studied under Milton Babbit.
For more on the life of Mr. Cátan, please read the following article in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/arts/music/daniel-catan-composer-of-operas-in-spanish-dies-at-62.html?src=me
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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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April 14 (Thursday)
7 p.m.
The Independent Shakespeare Co. will present readings of some of the Bard’s sonnets and scenes, in the Huntington Art Gallery.
Catherine Hess, curator of European art, will explore their connections to some of the masterpieces in the collection. Seating is limited.
For information on ticket prices, please call: 626-405-2128.
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens 1151 Oxford Road. San Marino, CA 91108.
http://www.huntington.org
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Tennessee Williams’ final play, never before seen on the West Coast:
A HOUSE NOT MEANT TO STAND extends at the Fountain- till May 22
The Fountain Theatre. 5060 Fountain Ave. LA CA 90029 (Fountain at Normandie)
For information on show times and tickets
(323) 663-1525 or www.FountainTheatre.com
For a link to my review on this play, one of the best theatrical productions in LA this year, in my opinion, please see:
Review: -Must See- Tennessee Williams puts the fun in dysfunctional at the Fountain Theater
-Leticia Marie Sanchez
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The La Times reports the real reason why Gustavo Dudamel was unable to conduct last Tuesday’s concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic: he and his wife Eloisa were having a baby boy.
Many congratulations to the conductor on his newest creative endeavor!
For more, please read:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/04/gustavo-dudamel-and-wife-welcome-baby-boy-martin-in-la.html
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Illegal Smuggling?
Organized Crime?
After much controversy, the Getty’s Villa’s Aphrodite goes home.
Ciao bella! Buon Viaggio!
For the full report, read:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-return-of-aphrodite-20110323,0,6998689.story
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Which American Museum has:
181 works by Renoir
69 Cezannes (more than in all the museums of Paris combined),
59 Matisses
46 Picassos
and
7 Van Goghs
The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
This happens to be the spot that Matisse called, “the only sane place to see art in America.”
Unfortunately, the collection will be at the Foundation for only two more months.
The Independent covered the saga and court hearings behind the attempt to move the works of art out of the Foundation
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/rupert-cornwell/rupert-cornwell-is-this-the-biggest-art-heist-in-history-2246968.html
as did the documentary Art of the Steal.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1326733/
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