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☆ Arts Galas Show That Extravagance Never Goes Out of Style
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-03 | by ( Robin Pogrebin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

They drank salted maple espresso martinis and ate snow crab, Wagyu short rib and passion fruit bonbons. They watched Kim Kardashian pose on the red carpet in a plunging white neckline. Leonardo DiCaprio charmed them as their host, and Charli XCX pumped them up with her hit song “360.”But these were not attendees at some glamorous awards show. For its own annual fund-raising event, the New York Philharmonic served Skuna Bay salmon and beef tenderloin. The tables were set with Wedgewood blue linens and tall arrangements of hydrangeas and orchids, surrounded by silver votive candles with sprigs of blue delphiniums.

Persons: Kim Kardashian, Leonardo DiCaprio Organizations: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York Philharmonic

☆ Kim Kardashian wore a nearly $200,000 necklace previously seen on Princess Diana. It isn't the only vintage piece she owns.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Samantha Grindell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Kardashian bought the necklace at an auction for nearly $200,000 in 2023. Kardashian has a penchant for vintage fashionThe necklace isn't the first famous archival piece Kardashian has bought at an auction. AdvertisementIn addition to her auction purchases, Kardashian is also known to borrow vintage pieces for red carpets. Kim Kardashian attends the Academy Museum Gala in October 2024. Fashion enthusiasts were concerned she damaged the vintage piece, but Kardashian and Ripley's Believe It or Not, which owns the gown, denied those claims.

Persons: Kim Kardashian, Princess Diana, Kardashian, —, Gucci, Bauer, Griffin, Princess Diana's, Garrard, Naim Attallah, Sotheby's, Diana, Tim Graham, Attallah, Catherine Walker, Alberto E, Rodriguez, Michael, Jackie Kennedy, Martin Nolan, Nolan, it's, Emma McIntyre, Marilyn Monroe's Organizations: Service, Angeles County Museum of Art, Axelle, Getty, Julien's, Academy Museum, Academy Museum of Motion Locations: Palestinian, British, West

☆ Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, the artist messing with Mickey Mouse
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Christian House | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“Magdalena Suarez Frimkess: The Finest Disregard” finds the artist enjoying her first major solo show at the tender age of 95. Whimsical and nostalgic or unsettling and sinister, Magdalena Suarez Frimkess is an anarchic cartoonist in clay, says this writer. Museum Associates/LACMAConsidering her medium and subject matter, Suarez Frimkess sits art-historically somewhere between Grayson Perry and Andy Warhol. With these and other works, Suarez Frimkess began exploring the absurdities of the commonplace. Bowl with Mickey Mouse, Condorito and Pansy Pattern by Magdalena Suarez Frimkess (2010).

Persons: Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Olive Oyl, Looney, “ Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Suarez Frimkess —, Michael Frimkess —, Betty Boop, Bugs Bunny, Felix the, Miles Davis, Fidel Castro, Martin Luther King, Mickey, Suarez Frimkess, Grayson Perry, Andy Warhol, Magdalena, Rafael Ramon González, ”, Minnie Mouse, Michael Frimkess, “, Suarez, Michael, Jenni Sorkin, wackiness Organizations: Los Angeles CNN —, Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum, Escuela de Artes Plásticas de, Pontifical Catholic University, Clay Art Center Locations: Venezuelan, Venice Beach, Los Angeles, American, Chilean, Maturín, Venezuala, Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Caracas, Portuguese, Santiago, Chile, Port Chester , New York, California, LACMA, Venice

☆ Match Made in Venice: Tadao Ando and Zeng Fanzhi
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Andrew Maerkle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An American institution sponsors an exhibition by a Chinese artist in collaboration with a Japanese architect at a centuries-old Venetian building. This is the kind of far-flung constellation that can only come together during the Venice Biennale, when the historic Italian lagoon city turns into contemporary art’s grandest stage. While the Biennale itself is famed for its national pavilions, scores of collateral exhibitions, some organized independently, proliferate. Ando sculpts intricate yet airy interiors, enlivened by dramatic voids or unexpected lightwells, out of slabs of concrete. And the matchmaker is the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which is sponsoring a collaborative exhibition in the impressive space of the Scuola Grande della Misericordia in the Cannaregio district of Venice.

Persons: Zeng Fanzhi, Tadao Ando, Pritzker, Ando, “ Zeng Fanzhi Organizations: Venice Biennale, Angeles County Museum of Art, Scuola, della Misericordia Locations: American, Venice, Beijing, Osaka, della, Cannaregio

☆ Giving Big, a California Couple Gets Gratitude and Scrutiny
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Robin Pogrebin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Standing on the grand staircase of Lynda and Stewart Resnick's opulent Beverly Hills mansion at a party last fall — where Diane Keaton, Bob Iger and Brian Grazer were among the luminaries making small talk over crudités and Sazerac cocktails — the author Walter Isaacson took a moment to thank his hosts. Not only were the Resnicks giving the party to celebrate his new biography of Elon Musk, they had also been major supporters of his former professional home, the Aspen Institute, donating $36 million to the think tank over the years. Isaacson was not the only one in the room with reason to be grateful to them. Overall, the Resnicks — whose Wonderful Company business empire includes Pom Wonderful pomegranate juice, Wonderful Pistachios, Fiji Water, Halos mandarins and Teleflora, the flower-delivery service — have donated $1.9 billion of their estimated $13 billion fortune to academic institutions, climate change initiatives, cultural organizations and programs in California’s Central Valley. Their gifts have landed them on the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual list of the 50 biggest donors three times.

Persons: Stewart, Diane Keaton, Bob Iger, Brian Grazer, Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk, Isaacson, Picasso, Fragonard, Boucher, Michael Govan, Ann Philbin, Michael Milken Organizations: Aspen Institute, Angeles County Museum of Art, Milken Institute, Wonderful Company Locations: Beverly, Fiji, Central Valley

☆ 30-year-old works ‘2 hours a day’ on her side hustle and makes $22,000/month in passive income—here’s her typical week
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Domonique Brown | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

I make $22,000 a month in passive income from online sales through my website, Etsy, Society6, and retailers like Target and Home Goods. The best part is that I spend an average of just two hours a day on DomoINK. On Wednesdays, I typically work on a new art piece and film the entire process to post online. Photo: Domonique BrownMy work was featured in Target's 2023 Black History Month collection. My artwork will also be featured on stationary for Walmart's Black History Month collection.

Persons: I've, Martens, Domonique Brown, Domonique, I'm, Goody, Fleur Organizations: Target, Goods, Disney, Samsung, Lowe's, Adobe, Santa, NASCAR, Walmart, Broad Museum, Angeles County Museum of Art Locations: Santa Monica , California

☆ For Some Culture Executives, a Housing Perk Is Rolled Back
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Robin Pogrebin | More About Robin Pogrebin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

For years the Metropolitan Museum of Art housed its directors in a $5 million apartment on Fifth Avenue, where they lived for free and paid no taxes on that benefit. The American Museum of Natural History’s president also lived for decades in a rent-free, tax-free luxury East Side apartment owned by the museum that is just down the block from Central Park. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art long provided its director with a Tudor home valued at more than $6.5 million, and later a more modest mansion valued at $2.4 million. But in recent years, as art organizations contend with financial struggles at a time of heightened sensitivity around issues of income inequality, cultural institutions have begun to revisit — and in some cases roll back — the perks they give top executives.

Organizations: Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum, Natural, Los Angeles County Museum of Locations: Central Park, Los

☆ In Los Angeles, an Indian Chinese Feast Celebrating Female Founders
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( Jean Trinh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Before all of that, though, the women had some cooking to do, with help from chef Akilah York, whom Gao had hired to provide culinary back up. The goal was to kick back while shoring one another up. “We’re going around the table being like, ‘I see you. The guest Yasmine Khatib of the Los Angeles flower studio Yasmine Floral Design provided a trio of pastel arrangements: white vases filled with foxgloves, pincushions, peonies, poppies and alliums. And Shelley Kleyn Armistead, another guest and the chief executive of the Gjelina hospitality group, supplied the speckled white dinner plates from Gjelina’s kitchenware brand, Gjusta Goods.

☆ Painters in Search of Transcendence
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Susan Delson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

In 1932, the painter Agnes Pelton traded a well-established career in New York for the beauty and isolation of Cathedral City, a desert settlement near Palm Springs, Calif. A few years later, her ethereal abstractions caught the attention of a small group of artists in New Mexico who called themselves the Transcendental Painting Group (TPG). Pelton never met most of the artists and didn’t attend their gatherings, but they saw in her work what they hoped to achieve in their own, and they elected her their honorary president. “Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group, 1938-1945,” opening Dec. 18 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), brings to light this little-known band of philosophically minded artists. The exhibition presents some 80 works by 11 artists who were united in the belief that “the spiritual can be both achieved and expressed through abstraction,” said LACMA curator Leah Lehmbeck.

As I drive through a gate high above Los Angeles’s Nichols Canyon, a tall man with unmistakably bushy eyebrows waves me into a precarious parking spot and says, “That’s $20. Leave the keys in the car.” My valet is Will Ferrell, clad in basketball shorts, slides and a T-shirt bearing the crest of the Los Angeles Football Club, of which he is a minority owner. Ferrell waves to his wife, Viveca Paulin-Ferrell, an art auctioneer and board member at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as she sits idling in a blue Tesla , waiting to pull out. “It’s gonna be a tennis court,” Ferrell explains. “I don’t play, but you need one if you want to sip a gin and tonic.”

Leave the keys in the car.” My valet is Will Ferrell, clad in basketball shorts, slides and a T-shirt bearing the crest of the Los Angeles Football Club, of which he is a minority owner. On this October morning, Ferrell is playing a parking attendant for reasons beyond comic value: Although his three sons are already at school (one in college), his home is a hive of domestic activity. Ferrell waves to his wife, Viveca Paulin-Ferrell, an art auctioneer and board member at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as she sits idling in a blue Tesla , waiting to pull out. “It’s gonna be a tennis court,” Ferrell explains. “I don’t play, but you need one if you want to sip a gin and tonic.”

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