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Friday, May 21, 2021

Review: How will the Met respond to a changed world? If only this PBS doc would ask by Christopher Knight

Metropolitan Museum of Art awakens from the pandemic to questions about its cash crunch and a racial reckoning. "Inside the Met" provides few answers.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:08AM

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Review: LACMA reopens with six shows that hint to what the future museum will be like by Christopher Knight

Shuttered for a year, LACMA reopens Thursday with COVID-19 protocols, a Yoshitomo Nara show and a new direction for exhibitions.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:55PM

Sunday, February 14, 2021

Commentary: While the Met contemplates selling its treasured art, rich trustees sit idle by Christopher Knight

The COVID-19 crisis is defeating America's greatest art museum.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:09PM

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Review: At USC Pacific Asia Museum, portraits of actors done the Tsuruya Kokei way by Christopher Knight

Manga, anime and other sensations of 1990s pop culture made cosplay a fashionable pastime, but before that happened there was Tsuruya Kokei. An artist working at Tokyo’s renowned Kabukiza …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AM

Saturday, November 4, 2017

Adrián Villar Rojas at the Geffen Contemporary: The art museum, frozen in time by Christopher Knight

The exhibition, part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, turns the entire museum interior into a giant cabinet of curiosities - very cold curiosities.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM

Thursday, March 16, 2017

The NEA works. Why does Trump want to destroy it? by Christopher Knight

Yet another fight is shaping up over elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, which on Thursday the Trump administration announced as part of its first federal budget proposal. Th…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:25PM

The NEA works. Why does Trump want to destroy it? by Christopher Knight

Yet another fight is shaping up over elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, which on Friday the Trump administration announced as part of its first federal budget proposal. The …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:25PM

Saturday, February 28, 2015

The Mosul Museum video from Islamic State could be a staged drama by Christopher Knight

The Islamic State wants the global community to know that there's a new sheriff in town. So it wrecked a museum full of precious sculptures and on Thursday posted video of the vandalism on t…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00AM

Monday, October 3, 2011

Obama proclaims arts and humanities month with populist theme by Christopher Knight

A populist theme underscores Pres. Obama's proclamation of arts & humanities month

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:05PM

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

The arts economy is hurt by federal, state budget cutting by Christopher Knight

Federal and state budget cutting hurts the arts economy as much as any other

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:45PM

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Sarah Palin trashes National Endowment for the Arts | Culture Monster | Los Angeles Times by Christopher Knight

Television commentator and half-term Alaska governor Sarah Palin trashed the National Endowment for the Arts recently, describing the agency as "frivolous" in a Thursday interview on a Fox N…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:41PM

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