An upcoming audit will shape the Long Beach Museum of Art’s future, and possibly shed some light on two long-lost paintings by the Russian master

JAWLENSKY: GONE MISSING?
Buried in the city’s 2006 audit of the Long Beach Museum of Art, there’s this sentence, a brief one —and boring (“Discussion with Foundation staff and review of documentation [...]

Electronic billboards would help retire the LB Museum of Art debt–and, really, who doesn’t want to retire?

Much has been said and written about how bad the electronic billboards proposal–which returns to Long Beach City Council on Tuesday night–would be for our city.
But all those scofflaws seem to forget: if the proposal is approved (and our [...]

‘California Video’ makes history out of art that Long Beach surrendered

“THE ETERNAL FRAME” LBMA, 1975-76
The Getty Center’s new “California Video” exhibition is as much about Long Beach’s art history as it is the state of the state. That’s because nearly half the works in this show were created at, then acquired by, the Long Beach [...]

We told you last year that Long Beach Museum of Art wasn’t doing all that well paying off the $3 million construction bond floated in 1999 to pay for its awesome new gallery space.
Specifically, I wrote then that LBMA was making interest-only payments, and that the revenue from those electronic freeway billboards–the ones they haven’t [...]

Not really. But dedicated Long Beach City Council watchers should notice that item No. 19 under Departmental Communications on tonight’s Council agenda (it’s also denoted by the No. 08-0092) has been taken off the agenda.
Apparently, it wasn’t put on the agenda long enough before the meeting; that’s what a staff member in Third District Councilman [...]

Fifteen months after the ouster of Hal Nelson, its director of 17 years, the Long Beach Museum of Art finally has a new executive director.

First Fingerprints hip-hop in-store ever with Pigeon John, Quannum signee (Blackalicious, Lyrics Born) and member of L.A. Symphony, with a set also to be recorded live for surely cool future purposes.

‘LBMA After Dark’? Well, duh!

‘COCKFIGHT’ by LORI LAMONT
Look, I don’t know why it took this long for the Long Beach Museum of Art to hold one of these “Evenings at . . .” events. It’s not like it’s a new concept; museums from LACMA to OCMA have been holding these things for years; the kind [...]

According to Ed Fosmire, Long Beach Museum of Art’s director of development, the museum will receive a donation later this winter of around 100 wood sculptures valued around $1 million to $1.5 million.

A ceramic sculpture has neighbors threatening to disown Long Beach Museum of Art

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
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Long Beach has few areas comparable with, say, Laguna Beach, where you can genuinely fantasize about the plein air masters sitting down to preserve scenes of crisp, fall mornings [...]