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Here's the latest installment in the courtship of Eli Broad — and the art museum he aims to plunk somewhere in the Los Angeles Basin, complete with big-name architecture, a spiffy $200 million endowment and the 2,000 works of contemporary art held by his Broad Art Foundation.

Downtown L.A. is officially making a play, courtesy of the Grand Avenue Authority, which today authorized negotiations with Broad toward a possible deal that would wrest the museum from Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, which are also in the running.

After a closed session today of the Grand Avenue Authority, L.A. City Councilwoman Jan Perry, a member of the joint city-county authority that's overseeing development of vacant land and parking lots in the heart of downtown's arts district, said it will deploy a negotiating team “to proceed with discussions with the Broad Foundation to consider his proposal and reach a mutual agreement.”

The Grand Avenue project, of which Broad himself has been a leading advocate, is considered the centerpiece of downtown's revitalization. Designed by Frank Gehry, it includes two towers, condos, hotel rooms and a shopping center….

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L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art is poised to name its new director Monday morning, and one of the names circulating through the art world is Jeffrey Deitch, a high-flying New York art dealer who, if chosen, would be a radical break from the usual museum-world pattern.

MOCA’s key financial backer, Eli Broad, will present the new director along with the museum’s co-chairs, Maria Bell and David Johnson, and city Councilwoman Jan Perry, the museum announced today.

American museum directors typically come from within the curatorial, academic or other nonprofit ranks. No major art museum in the United States is directed by a former owner of a commercial art gallery…..

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Los Angeles Center for Digital Art

This sounds really cool– if you’re a Picasso fan.
 

HELSINKI.- An exhibition space on the third floor of Ateneum has been transformed into Picasso’s Living Room, which was created by the Company design office of Helsinki, consisting of the designer couple Aamu Song and Johan Olin. This interactive space invites you into the world of the master – Picasso was always an inspiration for this space and the objects placed in it. Try out the furniture, read the newspapers and magazines, be happy and inspired. An extensive exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s (1881–1973) work is currently on view at the Ateneum Art Museum. This unique exhibition is the first comprehensive presentation ever seen in Finland of all the different periods of Picasso’s career.

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Ateneum Transforms Third Floor into Picasso’s Living Room

This looks like a unique interactive museum-art-making experience happening in Palm Springs, California, a favorite San Diego getaway.

This weekend, the museum will feature a fun and interactive exploration of the exotic world of glass blowing by showcasing the Mobile Hot Shop, a fully equipped glass blowing studio from the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA. This is the first time this Mobile Hot Shop will visit Southern California, and attendees to this FREE event (running two days, on Nov. 14 and 15) will experience a complete glassblowing demonstration, with highly skilled artists working with molten glass while a trained commentator explains the art and science of glass and answers questions. A state-of-the-art audio-visual system will enhance the experience, and the audience will share in this right-before-your-very-eyes creative process, holding a collective breath as molten glass is transformed into a work of art.

Art in the Desert at Palm Springs Museum of Art

More art to do and see in the California desert this month:
The Coachella Valley Art Scene: Palm Springs Art Museum Happenings

Check out the listings for tonight’s Pasadena Art Night, including a museum show of Wayne Thiebaud’s paintings.

Wayne Thiebaud at Pasadena Museum of California Art

American artist Alexander Calder studied and worked with many of the abstract artists who inspired a new generation in Paris of the 1920’s. While Picasso, Miro and many others focused on drawings and paintings, Calder expressed his artistic vis…

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Sculptor Alexander Calder’s wearable art on display at SD Museum of Art

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Daily Painters International Art Gallery: Museum Painting by k …

Other courses include art history, criminology, museum security and forgery. They’re all part of a three-month master’s program here trying to capitalize on interest in a field that’s been gaining attention through news media reports … Harasyn Sandell, 22, who graduated this year from Dominican University of California , said she had long wanted to work with the F.B.I. Art Crime Team. “I think I’d be a good undercover agent because no one would suspect me,” she said. …

Edgar Tijhuis teaching art criminology

The rest is here:
Art and Crime « Slow Painting

This is a great article on one of San Diego’s relatively unknown art museum treasures in Balboa Park.

John Wilson has been director of the Timken Museum of Art for less than a year, but already he is making a large claim for the institution he leads.

“It’s among the most intimate art viewing experiences in the world,” he says.

The point isn’t exaggerated. Within its modest confines – the museum contains about 4,300 square feet of gallery space – you will find steller paintings by European and American greats: Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Anthony Van Dyke, John Singleton Copley and many others.

But Wilson makes another very different observation about the Timken: “We’re invisible in many ways. People are delighted with the collection and always comment that the guards are wonderful. But they say ‘We didn’t know you were here.’”

Read the entire article in the UT online.

Director John Wilson of the Timken Museum on Balboa Park, San Diego

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