ART BEAT : BAROQUE CARTOON?Byline: Lori Moody Los Angeles-based artist Lari Pittman will appear at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California, located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. for an art talk with Howard N. Fox, the museum's curator of contemporary art. Thirty-five of Pittman's paintings are on exhibit at LACMA LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA Los Angeles County Medical Association LACMA Latin American and Caribbean Movers Association through Sept. 8. His works are described by the museum as having ``baroquely decorated surfaces, cartoony pictures and a vocabulary of images that is rooted in popular culture yet intensely personalized in meaning.'' The exhibit will travel to the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston and the Corcoran Gallery of Art Corcoran Gallery of Art: see under Corcoran, William Wilson. in Washington, D.C. For more information, call (213) 857-6522. An exotic cause The Wildlife Waystation's second annual art festival will be held Saturday and Sunday on the grounds of the 160-acre nonprofit wild and exotic animal rescue facility in the Angeles National Forest The Angeles National Forest (ANF) was established by executive order on December 20, 1892 as the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve. It covers over 2,600 km² (650,000 acres) and is located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, just north of the metropolitan area of Los . The festival will feature paintings, sculpture, photographs, fine art prints, drawings and mixed-media works by more than 20 artists. A portion of the proceeds from sales of the works will benefit the Waystation, which was founded in 1976. A $7 donation ($3 for children) includes a tour of the Waystation and live animal presentations. There also will be music featured during the festival. The Waystation is located at 14831 Little Tujunga Canyon Road. For information, call (818) 899-5201. Mogul merchandise On Sunday, Butterfield & Butterfield will auction property from the estate of the wife of late film producer and director Mervyn LeRoy and furniture and decorative arts decorative arts, term referring to a variety of applied visual arts, both two- and three-dimensional, including textiles, metalwork, ceramics, books, and woodwork, as well as to certain aspects of architecture (see ornament), public buildings, and private houses (see from the MCA/Universal Jules Stein Collection. The items, which includes a Steinway grand piano estimated to sell for $4,000 to $6,000, a Steuben glass stemware stem·ware n. Glassware mounted on a stem with a broad base. service for 30 with an estimated presale price of $1,000 to $1,500 and a George III-style mahogany pedestal desk A pedestal desk is usually a large free-standing desk made of a simple rectangular working surface resting on two pedestals or small cabinets of stacked drawers of one or two sizes, with plinths around the bases. estimated to bring $2,000 to $3,000. There will be a public preview on Saturday. For information, call (213) 850-7500. |
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