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Museums
MUSEUMS MUSEUMS define relationships between life, community, the nation, and the world through the interpretation of objects, experience, and the environment. These institutions range from community-based museums, such as the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, and Chinatown... Read more |
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John Chamberlain
John Chamberlain 1927-, American sculptor, b. Rochester, Ind. In the late 1950s, Chamberlain became known for his welded assemblages of smashed automobile parts and colored scrap metal. His work is represented in the Los Angeles County Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.... Read more |
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Clancy Sigal
SIGAL, Clancy Nationality: American. Born: Chicago, Illinois, 6 September 1926. Education: The University of California, Los Angeles, B.A. in English 1950. Staff Sergeant in the United States Army Infantry, 1944-46. Career: Assistant to the Wage Coordinator, United Auto Workers, Detroit,... Read more |
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Culver City
Culver City city (1990 pop. 38,793), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1917. It is a center of the U.S. motion-picture industry, whose roots in the city date to c.1915. Its chief manufactures are rubber products and computers. Directly south of the city is Los... Read more |
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Frank Marshall
MARSHALL, Frank Producer and Director. Nationality:American. Born:Los Angeles, 13 September 1946. Education:Attended University of California, Los Angeles, as political science major. Family:Married the producer Kathleen Kennedy. Career:Protégé... Read more |
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angels of the Churches
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John Rechy
RECHY, John (Francisco) Nationality: American. Born: El Paso, Texas, 10 March 1934. Education: Texas Western College, El Paso, B.A.; New School for Social Research, New York. Military Service: Served in the United States Army. Career: Has taught creative writing at University of... Read more |
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Kenneth MacGowan
MacGOWAN, Kenneth Producer. Nationality:American. Born:Winthrop, Massachusetts, 30 November 1888. Education:Attended Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, graduated 1911. Career:1910–25—drama critic; stage producer with Eugene O'Neill's... Read more |
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Art Shell
Art Shell 1946–Football coach When Art Shell was named head coach of the Los Angeles Raiders in 1989, he became the first African-American head coach in modern National Football League (NFL) history. A former star offensive lineman for the Oakland Raiders, and part of two Super Bowl championship... Read more |
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ART EXHIBITS & MUSEUMS.(L.A. Life)
...ensuring our museums are favored...Photoworks,'' Museum of Contemporary...The American Tradition...Synchromism,'' Los Angeles County Museum...2000,'' Los Angeles County ... |
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A Seed Of Modernism: the Los Angeles Art Students League, 1906-1953.(Book...
...Pasadena Museum of California...paper) THE LOS ANGELES ART WORLD...But the national recognition of Los Angeles artists...reinvented in Los Angeles during this...styles of ... |