EXHIBIT A+ LACMA HANGS 40TH ANNIVERSARY DISPLAY ON WINDFALL OF DONATIONS.Byline: Evan Henerson Staff Writer How do a Picasso, a Gilbert Stuart, a Rembrandt, a contemporary performance-art piece and an eighth-century Chinese sculpture manage to share the same exhibition? Why, through the generosity of 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. donors, thank you very much. The museum's 40th anniversary continues with ``LACMA LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA Los Angeles County Medical Association LACMA Latin American and Caribbean Movers Association at 40: Gifts in Honor of the Museum's Anniversary.'' The exhibition, opening Friday and running through April 16, will include works from all the above-mentioned artists, as well as a group of prints from American artist Ed Ruscha and works by contemporary Japanese artists Mariko Mori Mariko Mori (森万里子, Mori Mariko, b. 1967 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese video and photographic artist. While studying at Bunka Fashion College, she worked as a fashion model in the late 1980s. , Takashi Murukami and Yoshitomi Nara. The exhibition totals some 150 gifts organized by LACMA's curator of prints and drawings, Kevin Salatino. They include two recent gifts, the Asian sculptures ``Shakyamuni, the Historical Buddha,'' and the 16th- century Hindu goddess ``Shri-Lakshmi.'' All of the works on display were given to the museum in 2005 with an eye toward the 40th anniversary celebration. Only Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo's ``Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery'' has been on display in the museum prior to now, and that painting only for the past few weeks, Salatino said. ``We held off on the show because we wanted to finish off the year, and we knew that people would need time,'' said Salatino, nothing that the museum's 40th anniversary officially ended in 2005. Salatino and fellow exhibition organizers had plenty of donated artwork from which to select. A promised gift of old-master prints includes 25 prints by German Renaissance The German Renaissance, which originated with the Italian Renaissance in Italy, started spreading among German thinkers in the 15th and 16th centuries. This was a result of German artists who had traveled to Italy to learn more and become inspired by the Renaissance movement. artist Albrecht Durer and etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn Rembrandt (Harmenszoon) van Rijn (born July 15, 1606, Leiden, Neth.—died Oct. 4, 1669, Amsterdam) Dutch painter and etcher. As a young man, he was apprenticed to masters in Leiden and in Amsterdam. . Tiepolo's ``Christ and the Woman'' (1752) joins the old-master collection thanks to the generosity of the Ahmanson Foundation. Contemporary art will hardly get short shrift short shrift n. 1. Summary, careless treatment; scant attention: These annoying memos will get short shrift from the boss. 2. Quick work. 3. a. . Jane and Marc Nathanson have donated the 16-panel ``Reds,'' and the museum's first work by British performance art duo Gilbert and George Gilbert Prousch (or Proesch) (born in San Martin (San Martino), Italy, September 11, 1943) and George Passmore (born in Devon, England January 8, 1942), better known as Gilbert & George, are artists. They have worked almost exclusively as a pair. . Of the 156 Ruscha prints donated by the Nathansons, 62 will be on display. Donation-themed exhibitions honoring an institution's milestone are a regular staple of art museums, says Salatino, and for obvious reasons. ``It's a way of celebrating the museum's history, which is also a great way of encouraging the terrific donations we all depend upon,'' says Salatino. ``Our 50th will be much more ambitious. In 10 years time, keep your eyes out.'' Evan Henerson, (818) 713-3651 evan.henerson(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- color) ``Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery,'' 1752, oil on canvas, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. (2 -- color) ``Jester,'' 1905, bronze, Pablo Picasso, bronze. (3 -- color) ``Shakyamuni, the Historical Buddha,'' Middle Tang dynasty Tang dynasty or T'ang dynasty (618–907) Chinese dynasty that succeeded the short-lived Sui and became a golden age for poetry, sculpture, and Buddhism. , circa 700-810, carved marble, artist unknown. (4 -- color) PO + KO Surrealism surrealism (sərē`əlĭzəm), literary and art movement influenced by Freudianism and dedicated to the expression of imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and free of convention. (Green), 1999, acrylic on canvas on board. |
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