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ART BEAT\Works on paper.


Byline: Lori Moody

The Museum of Contemporary Art has received 83 works on paper from 51 artists, including Willem de Kooning, Sam Francis

For other people named Sam Francis, see Sam Francis (disambiguation).


Samuel Lewis Francis (June 25, 1923 - November 4, 1994) was an American painter and printmaker.
 and Jasper Johns Noun 1. Jasper Johns - United States artist and proponent of pop art (born in 1930)
Johns
, from the collection of Marcia Simon Weisman, one of the museum's founders and longtime trustee.

Additionally, MOCA MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art
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MoCA Museum of Chinese in the Americas
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MOCA Montezuma Castle National Monument (US National Park Service) 
 announced last week the formation of a works on paper study center with the research phase of its development funded in part by the Marcia S. Weisman Foundation. The center, which is expected to be open in 1997, will house the Weisman Collection, as well as works on paper currently in MOCA's permanent collection.

One of five Batmobiles created for the 1989 film "Batman," a spear gun spear gun
n.
A device for mechanically shooting a spearlike missile under water, as in spearfishing.
 from "Waterworld," a hard rubber flying monkey model
This article is about military equipment of the Soviet Union. For the medicine and biology-related term, see Animal model.


Monkey model was the unofficial designation given by the Soviet Military to versions military equipment (armored vehicles,
 used in "The Wizard of Oz Wizard of Oz

reaches and departs from Oz in circus balloon. [Children’s Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]

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false wizard takes up residence in Emerald City. [Am. Lit.
" and other movie-related items will go on the auction block next week at Butterfield & Butterfield.

Items in the Entertainment Memorabilia auction will go on view today through Monday at Butterfield's Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades.  gallery. The auction is scheduled Monday and Tuesday. Additionally, Hollywood movie posters, lobby and window cards, insets and animation cels, that will be sold Sunday, also can be previewed beginning today. Among those items will be a window card from the 1931 film "Dracula," a French poster of the 1933 film "King Kong" and a one-sheet poster from "Mr. Wu," the 1927 film starring Lon Chaney.

For information about both auctions, call (213) 850-7500.

Skoglund on line

If you're a student or a teacher, tap into the Internet for an on-line discussion with New York-based artist Sandy Skoglund through March 1.

Skoglund is best-known for her photographs of satirical room-size art installations. Samples of her work can be found on ArtsEdNet, the World Wide Web site of the Getty Center for Education in the Arts. The electronic discussion can be carried on via e-mail at artsednetgetty.edu.

ArtsEdNet, started last year, provides art resources to teachers, including lesson plans, images of art works and other resources that can be downloaded. The on-line address is http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/
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Title Annotation:L.A. LIFE
Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Feb 23, 1996
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