March 26, 1998
CONTACT: Shirley Hulett, 594-5204
CALENDAR: Oil and Tomato Sauce SDSU Art Lecture Series to Focus on L.A.’s Cultural Aspirations ‘Recipe’
WHAT: San Diego State University’s School of Art, Design and Art History presents a lecture by Suzanne Muchnic, arts writer for the Los Angeles Times and author of a forthcoming biography of art collector Norton Simon. Muchnic will deliver a slide-illustrated lecture about the formation of the collections and institutions that make Los Angeles a major art museum center. Muchnic has titled her talk "Los Angeles Art Museums: A Tale of Oil, Tomato Sauce and Cultural Aspirations."
Muchnic describes her subject as, "a surprisingly colorful story in which the leading characters include a penny-pinching oil baron, a self-made industrialist who built a corporate empire from a food processing plant, and civic leaders who believed a young city best known for its movie industry and trendiness could become a mecca of high culture."
WHEN: Tuesday, April 14, 3 p.m.
WHERE: School of Art, Design and Art History, room 412
COST: Free and open to the public
PARKING: Parking is available without permits in Lots 160, 105, 400.
INFORMATION: (619) 594-1210