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- Los Angeles County Museum of Art Announces Partnership to Preserve Historic Watts Towers - Art Daily
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| Los Angeles County Museum of Art Announces Partnership to Preserve Historic Watts Towers - Art Daily Posted: 23 Oct 2010 08:17 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) today announced a collaboration with the City of Los Angeles's Department of Cultural Affairs, toward the day-to-day preservation of the Watts Towers in a one-year agreement. LACMA will provide staff-time and expertise to identify repairs to the Towers, preserving the unique outdoor public landmark, and the City will provide $150,000 in funds towards this effort. | LACMA will reach out to other local institutions including the Getty, the California African American Museum, the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, and others, for their expertise and recommendations in support of LACMA's efforts. LACMA will also partner with community members to address local concerns about the way the Towers are cared for and managed, and to recommend a long-term plan. Tours, community festivals, and other art center and park-related programs will continue to be operated by the Department of Cultural Affairs in collaboration with the Watts Towers Arts Center and the Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center. LACMA's specific scope of work will be to undertake a review and assessment of the City's existing conservation and preservation plans for the Watts Towers, and to develop a comprehensive management plan, including an organizational structure and long-term budget for conservation efforts, suggesting potential collaborations, and identifying possible funding sources. LACMA will provide day-to-day oversight and monitoring of conservation and preservation of the Towers and of the implementation of minor restoration and repairs, under the direction of the museum's Conservation Center. LACMA will also engage with potential funders that could provide resources to raise awareness of the Watts Towers and present the conservation and other program needs. LACMA Director Michael Govan said, "By expanding LACMA's mission to include the care, preservation, and interpretation of architectural and sculptural works of art within the community that are at risk of neglect and deterioration, we are changing the way LACMA functions as a museum, from what we collect to how we work within the community more directly. The historical Watts Towers are an indelible landmark within the Los Angeles community, and we are proud to help sustain efforts in preserving them." As Mark Ridley-Thomas of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Second District, noted, "The Watts Towers are of great importance to the entire region—as a source of inspiration to Angelenos and as a cultural treasure. I am proud to partner with LACMA on this necessary and important project to stabilize and preserve one of Los Angeles's great artistic monuments." Olga Garay, Executive Director of the Department of Cultural Affairs, added, "The City of Los Angeles acknowledges the importance of public/private partnerships to preserve arts and cultural programs for Angelenos and the millions of annual visitors to our City. We recognize the iconic nature of the Watts Towers, and the responsibility we have to preserve this National Historic Landmark for current and future generations. Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa has championed our partnership with LACMA, as well as our collaboration with other stakeholders such as the California African American Museum and the J. Paul Getty Trust. This is evidence that the City of Los Angeles as well as the State of California—owners of the Watts Towers—are committed to creating innovative strategies needed to maintain Los Angeles's most precious cultural assets." | This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Tanner calls for festival spending audit - msnbc.com Posted: 22 Oct 2010 11:46 PM PDT DAYTONA BEACH -- The chairman of the Daytona State College Board of Trustees wants a forensic audit involving the Community Cultural Foundation and all financial transactions between the college and the foundation. John Tanner on Friday called a special meeting that will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the college's Daytona Beach Campus, Building 100, Room 402 in the Board Room, 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd. The meeting will address several issues from Thursday night's meeting, but Tanner also plans to ask the board to hire an independent auditor to look into pledges that organizations and others made to the Community Cultural Foundation that are still owed. Questions have arisen over whether some are valid. Tanner, the former state attorney, wants the audit to also look into "all expenditures and all disbursements and all monies received," including every transaction the college made on behalf of the foundation. Daytona State College is still owed more than $1.4 million it provided to the Community Cultural Foundation for last month's American Music Festival in Daytona Beach. Tanner, who has been asked to serve on a special task force to come up with a plan to pay back the college, said after "listening and seeing all the shifting and changing numbers and confirmations and denials" regarding the pledges, he wants a hands-on audit. "I am concerned there have been some deliberate misrepresentations and if so, by whom," he said. Tanner said the audit of the cultural foundation could probably be handled by a local firm. He did not know what it would cost. Wednesday's meeting will also include a presentation by Tallahassee attorney Stephen Kahn. The board on Thursday approved an independent audit of the failed student housing project last year and the board vice chairman recommended hearing from Kahn, who served as general counsel for the Florida Senate for more than 30 years. The board wants that audit to look at the project, the college's overall bidding process and the authority of the president to act without board approval. Kahn said in a phone interview he looks forward to meeting the board and that he has a lot of experience investigating public entities and public officers, including former House Speaker Rep. Ray Sansom. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php | ||
| Online Resource Debuts For Nazi-Era Looted Art - msnbc.com Posted: 20 Oct 2010 01:15 AM PDT Columbus — The Nazis stripped hundreds of thousands of artworks from Jews during World War II in one of the biggest cultural raids in history, often photographing their spoils and meticulously cataloguing them on typewritten index cards. Holocaust survivors an ... This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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