MUSEUMS PUT ON HOLIDAY BEST.Byline: - Valerie Kuklenski Twentieth-century art is celebrated this season at area museums, with works ranging from gritty Depression-era photographs and paintings by the Blue Four to sculpture by Farrah Fawcett Farrah Fawcett (born February 2 1947) is an American actress. She became a noted pop culture figure and sex symbol of the 1970s and into the 1980s, shaping the landscape of fashion and pop culture. . Yes - that Farrah Fawcett. The Norton Simon Norton Winfred Simon (February 5, 1907-June 11993), in the United States was a millionaire industrialist and philanthropist based in California. A significant art collector, he is the namesake of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. showcases the collection of a noted modern art advocate with ``My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four,'' opening Dec. 13. The exhibit has the early-20th-century works of abstract and cubist artists Paul Klee Noun 1. Paul Klee - Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940) Klee , Vasily Kandinsky, Alexei Jawlensky and Lyonel Feininger Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17 1871 – January 13 1956); was a German-American painter and caricaturist. Feininger was born to parents of German descent and grew up in New York City. . NORTON SIMON MUSEUM This article is for the Norton Simon Museum in California. See this link for the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida.'' The Norton Simon Museum is a premier art museum located in Pasadena, California. , 411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. (626) 449-6840 or www.nortonsimon.org. Dorothea Lange's lens captured the plight of 1930s migrant workers for readers of Life magazine. ``About Life: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange'' at the Getty covers her work from 1920-60 and is paired with Horace Bristol's 1937 photo series on Dust Bowl migrants in California's Central Valley. On Dec. 4, Food Network chef Sarah Moulton will sign copies of her latest cookbook, ``Sarah Moulton Cooks at Home.'' A three-course lunch prepared from Moulton's recipes will be served - $35 without wines, $50 with. Reservations required. The Jean-Baptiste Greuze exhibit is up through Dec. 1, and the Orazio Gentileschi display continues through Jan. 12. GETTY CENTER, 1200 Getty Center Drive. (310) 440-7300 or www.getty.edu. 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. , ``Making'' is coming Nov. 24 to the Boone Children's Gallery. A collaboration with five art and design schools, the free installation explores art processes through participatory elements. In the main building, artist Keith Edmier and actress Farrah Fawcett consider the relationships between artist and muse, celebrity and fan in sculptures they created of each other for ``Contemporary Projects 7: Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett 2000,'' opening Thursday. The works - a mid-'70s Fawcett in marble and Fawcett's rendering of Edmier in bronze - are displayed with examples by Alfred Stieglitz, Man Ray and Auguste Rodin that deal with the same themes. Opening Dec. 5 is ``Munakata Shiko: Japanese Master of the Modern Print,'' whose prolific works display both Asian and Western influences. LACMA LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA Los Angeles County Medical Association LACMA Latin American and Caribbean Movers Association , 5905 Wilshire Blvd. (323) 857-6000 or www.lacma.org. |
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