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Rosso in Hollywood
Allegory of Salvation with the Virgin and Christ Child, St. Elizabeth, the Young St. John the Baptist and Two Angels, about 1521, Rosso Fiorentino Giovanni Battista di Jacopo. Oil on panel, 63 1/2 × 47 in. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert T. Kalmus (54.6). Image: www.lacma.org

Rosso in Hollywood

What two pioneers of color movies saw in a 16th-century painting.

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| May 12, 2020

My Internship in the Culture Wars
The Perfect Moment: Ajitto, 1981, Robert Mapplethorpe. Gelatin silver print. Jointly acquired by the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, with funds provided by the J. Paul Getty Trust and the David Geffen Foundation. © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Making Waves: The Thinker, c. 1930, Hiromu Kira. Gelatin silver print. Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation and Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin

My Internship in the Culture Wars

A fateful summer in Washington, D.C.

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| June 6, 2016

Coming in 2016: Robert Mapplethorpe
Thomas, negative 1987; print 1994, Robert Mapplethorpe. Gelatin silver print, 19 3/16 x 19 3/16 in. Jointly acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, with funds provided by The David Geffen Foundation and The J. Paul Getty Trust. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011.7.31. © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation

Coming in 2016: Robert Mapplethorpe

A major retrospective of the artist’s work is coming in March 2016.

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| April 2, 2015