Tag: Millard Sheets

Cinema and music merge in ‘Lightscape’ at Marciano
A large-scale, multi-screen installation by artist Doug Aitken is accompanied by music by the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a new exhibit at the Marciano Art Foundation (MAF). The exhibition, Lightscape, features cinematic images of Southern California and the American West in the MAF’s giant Theater Gallery on the first […]

Encounter with Ice Age past, gift shop for crafts, global view
New programming at local museums promises encounters with Los Angeles’ past, from an Ice Age animal to the Scottish Rite Masonic Temple-turned-Marciano Art Foundation. Holiday gift shopping and exhibits on animation and works by Black artists are also featured this month. Ice Age Encounters returns Wed., Dec. 4, to the La Brea Tar Pits in […]

Preservationist works to save landmark and family’s legacy
The City of Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission agreed Jan. 20 to take under consideration the nomination of the Hollywood Home Savings and Loan (aka the Chase Bank) on the corner of Sunset and Vine for Historic Cultural Monument (HCM) status. Designed by artist Millard Sheets for Howard Ahmanson Sr., whose Savings and Loan helped […]

On Books and Places: Permanence and renewal expressed in Marciano Art Foundation
No building in the Greater Wilshire area so self-consciously expresses permanence and solidity as what is now the Marciano Art Foundation. The former Scottish Rite Cathedral was completed in 1961 — a near past relative to the construction dates of churches, libraries, theaters, and schools from surrounding neighborhoods. But while most of those older structures […]

Scottish Rite Temple sold to Guess jeans co-founders
The Scottish Rite Masonic Temple in Windsor Square has been sold for approximately $8 million to the Maurice and Paul Marciano Art Foundation. The Marcianos founded the GUESS clothing line in 1981; it was one of the first companies to debut designer jeans. The Foundation intends to rehabilitate the building at 4357 Wilshire Blvd. into […]