Los Angeles Museum Receives Big Boost

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Museum of Art plans to announce on Monday that it has received a $45 million cash gift and the promise of $10 million in artworks from Lynda and Stewart Resnick, a Beverly Hills couple who are longtime supporters of the museum. The cash gift, $25 million of which had [...]

Kids, Can You Say ‘Cultural Diversity’? - NY Times

By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN / NYTIMES Published: September 18, 2008 Now that nearly every museum is also a children’s museum — now that nearly every museum has programs that strive to lure the young — what do we seek from a museum that really is a children’s museum? And not just any children’s museum, but the venerable Brooklyn [...]

The Role Is a Workout, but She’s Fit

Estelle Parsons tears up the staircase in the haunted dollhouse of a set in the Broadway production of “August: Osage County” with the nimbleness of an Olympian. For the next several months this 80-year-old Oscar-winning actress will inhabit the physically demanding role of Violet Weston, the drug-ravaged matriarch of “August,” Tracy Letts’s Tony Award-winning play. Her [...]

James Clan, a Family With a Load of Baggage

“House of Basket Cases” might be a better title for Paul Fisher’s big, sweeping biography of the James family. Henry Sr., the patriarch, was an alcoholic, the author reminds us, and so was his son Bob, who in addition suffered from erectile problems. Henry Jr., or Harry, as the book refers to him, the great [...]

China’s Female Artists Quietly Emerge

Natalie Behring for The New York Times The Chinese artist Cui Xiuwen in her studio in Beijing next to a print that is part of a triptych titled “Angel No. 9,” from 2006. By HOLLAND COTTER Published: July 30, 2008 BEIJING — On a February day in 1989, a young woman walked into a show at the National Gallery [...]

2 Picassos stolen from Fla. gallery

PALM BEACH, Fla., May 26 (UPI) — Two paintings by famed artist Pablo Picasso, with a combined worth of about $450,000, have been snatched from a Florida art gallery, police said. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel said “Le Repas Frugal” and “Jacqueline Lisant” were stolen last week from the the privately owned Gallery Biba in Palm Beach. “This [...]

Loosen Your Borscht Belt and Raise Your Highbrows

Michelle V. Agins/ The New York Times A paper-cut version of the Haggadah, the Passover Seder text, is on view at the Yeshiva University Museum. By SETH KUGEL Published: May 18, 2008 JEWISH arts in New York City. What, exactly, does that mean? A 19th-century Austrian menorah? D.J.’s from Tel Aviv playing Prospect Park in Brooklyn? Jackie Mason cracking [...]

A British Actor’s Seduction of America

When Ben Daniels was preparing for his role as the ostentatiously rakish Valmont in the Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” he did all the research about the demimonde of an 18th-century aristocratic hedonist that you’d expect of a studious, experienced actor. He toured Versailles. He gleaned clues on body language from historical [...]

Robert Rauschenberg, Titan of American Art, Dies at 82

Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Robert Rauschenberg at his home and studio in Captiva, Fla. in 2005. Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died Monday night. He was 82. He died of heart failure, said Arne Glimcher, chairman of PaceWildenstein, the artist’s gallery in Manhattan. Mr. Rauschenberg’s work [...]

How to Deal With Midlife: Keep Dancing

IN the center of a room littered with strange objects, Bill Irwin was watching himself in a mirror, making faces and laughing. A quick glance around the room revealed a set of giant golf clubs, a trampoline, trunks of various sizes and an enormous fake horseshoe magnet.

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