ART/SNEAK PEEK : DISNEY HALL ARCHITECT FRANK GEHRY, TAKE A BOW.Boosters of the planned Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or must have jumped for joy two weeks ago after reading The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Sunday Magazine. So must have architect Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize winning architect based in Los Angeles, California. His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. of Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , the Disney project's controversial designer. In a cover story, Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp This article is about a recently deceased person. Some information, such as the circumstances of the person's death and surrounding events, may change rapidly as more facts become known. heaped praise on Gehry's soon-to-open Guggenheim Museum Guggenheim Museum, officially Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, major museum of modern art in New York City. Founded in 1939 as the Museum of Non-objective Art, the Guggenheim is known for its remarkable circular building (1959) designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. in Bilbao, Spain, an extension of the famous Frank Lloyd Wright-designed museum in Manhattan. Muschamp described Gehry's undulating steel, glass and titanium structure as ``a sanctuary of free association,'' and commended the 68-year-old architect for pointing the way past post-modernism and toward the future. With this building, Muschamp wrote, ``American architecture has jumped back into the present with a splash.'' Expect Disney Hall's backers to hand out photocopies at the next fund-raisers' meeting. Rooms with a view L.A. architecture will look back to its futuristic past next month with an exhibition at the Couturier Gallery of drawings and furniture prototypes by Richard Neutra (1892-1970), who left such a deep stylistic imprint on Los Angeles. Neutra's son, architect Dion Neutra, co-curated the exhibition of previously unseen works from the 1950s and '60s. He will give a free lecture on the exhibition at 1 p.m. Oct. 26 at the gallery (reservations required). The exhibition runs Oct. 17 through Nov. 29 at 166 N. La Brea Ave. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. For information, call (213) 933-5557. Figuratively speaking During the 1960s and '70s, when Ed Kienholz was building his nightmarish assemblages and other L.A. artists were doing pioneering work in photography and conceptual art, the human form seldom was seen in local galleries. But in the 1990s, figurative art has been making a comeback, as a number of L.A. artists incorporate art history knowledge with contemporary concerns and perspectives. The Santa Monica College Santa Monica College was first opened in 1929 as Santa Monica Junior College. Current enrollment is 32,000 students in more than 90 fields of study. The college also has one of the largest international student populations of any community college in the US, with approximately Art Gallery will spotlight several of them in ``Reconfigured Part I: Paintings,'' which will include works by Jeanine Breaker, Wes Christensen, F. Scott Hess, Ruth Weisberg and others. Showing Oct. 3-31, the show will be open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Admission is free. A companion exhibition, ``Reconfigured Part II: Drawings,'' is set to open Nov. 7. The gallery is at 1900 Pico Blvd. For information, call (310) 450-5150. |
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