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Museum of the San Fernando Valley Grand Opening
Sorry for the short notice, but the Museum of the San Fernando Valley says that it’s having a grand opening today from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 18860 Nordhoff St. in Northridge. More information is...
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‘Art Along the Hyphen’ Opens at the Autry
Image: Latinas in the New World, a new online exhibit. Dahleen Glanton, writing in the Chicago Tribune, uses the death of the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth to examine the idea that teaching about the...
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Remembering ‘Injun Summer’– But Not in a Good Way
Image: Detail of “Injun Summer” (d. 1992), by John T. McCutcheon, once an annual fall tradition of the Chicago Tribune. The old man tells the boy: “Don’t be skeered — hain’t none around here now,...
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Shakespeare, ‘Anonymous’ and Nonsense
Photo: Trailer for “Anonymous.” In a New York Times op-ed piece, Columbia English professor James Shapiro challenges the premise of Roland Emmerich’s upcoming film “Anonymous,” which presents Edward...
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Court Dispute Highlights Kevorkian’s Artwork
Image: Johann Sebastian Bach by Dr. Jack Kevorkian, in one of his paintings that doesn’t involve death and – apparently — wasn’t painted with his own blood. Washington Post education writer and...
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Occvpy Mvsevms? (How’s that for a non-SEO hed?)
Maura Judkis of the Washington Post writes about a new trend in the Occupy movement: Occupy Museums. Protesters had planned demonstrations Thursday at the Museum of Modern Art, the Frick Collection...
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Suspect in After-Hours Sex at Museum: ‘I Get Around’
Image: The Charleston Museum, where Michael L. Miller was arrested on charge of having sex at 3 a.m. Neale Gulley of Reuters reports that the Buffalo Transportation Pierce Arrow Museum in Buffalo,...
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Paul McCartney Rescues Motown Museum’s Steinway
Photo: Stone chopping tool from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Credit: “A History of the World in 100 Objects.” Last year, BBC4 aired a program that tried to compress the history of the world into the...
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A Look at Paul Revere Williams
Image: “Paul Revere Williams: A Legend in Architecture.” Credit: Dave Kelly My Times colleague Scott Harrison digs up some archival photos from the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Chris...
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Scientists to Build Computer From 1830s Drawings
Photo: The lobby of La Concha Motel, designed by Paul Revere Williams. Credit: The Neon Museum The first in a planned series of monthly lectures in the newly reopened Globe Lobby is sold out. The next...
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Black Dahlia – Los Angeles Police Historical Society
The Daily Mirror visited the Los Angeles Police Historical Society on Saturday and stopped in at the Black Dahlia exhibit. Photo: An unidentified man and Elizabeth Short on display at the Los Angeles...
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Black Dahlia Exhibit – Leslie Dillon
This is one of the 1949 photos of Leslie Dillon displayed in the Black Dahlia exhibit at the Los Angeles Police Historical Society. In case you don’t recall, Dillon is the fellow who contacted LAPD...
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Eve Golden: Queen of the Dead
A model of the Jaguar XKE hearse from “Harold and Maude” has been listed on EBay with bids starting at 125 GBP. Queen of the Dead – dateline July 16, 2012 • I’m a real bear on architectural...
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‘What Is the Jewish Experience in Los Angeles?’
My latest column is in The Times this morning. I visited the Autry National Center’s new exhibit “Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic” and attended a daylong symposium on some aspects of the Jewish...
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May 22, 1947: Art Club Calls LACMA Exhibit ‘Subversive Propaganda’
Note: This is an encore post from 2005 and originally appeared on the 1947project. The California Art Club yesterday lambasted the current Los Angeles County Museum art exhibit—the museum’s eighth...
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1935 Bugatti Type 57 Ventoux
One of the joys of living in Southern California is the random opportunity to see gorgeous cars – new and vintage – in the wild. We saw this 1935 Bugatti Type 57 Ventoux a few blocks from the Daily...
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Black L.A., 1947: Sentinel Reports on City’s Segregated Fire Department
Engine Co. 30 in 1947, top, and via Google Street View. Oct. 9, 1947: The Sentinel reports on segregation in the Los Angeles Fire Department. Sentinel Publisher Leon H. Washington Jr. said that...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Huntington Japanese Garden Gives Rest and...
A c. 1937 image of the Japanese garden at the Huntington, courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library. In 1919, Henry E. and Arabella Huntington signed trust papers that would turn their estate into a...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood’s Long Struggle for a Movie Museum
The Motion Picture Museum and Hall of Fame, about 1932. Photo courtesy of Marc Wanamaker, Bison Archives. On September 30, 2021, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures finally opens to the public. Long...
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Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – The Quest for a Movie Museum
Image: Postcard showing a model of a proposed Hollywood museum, listed on EBay $3.99. Note: This is an encore post from 2011. Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts...
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