Andy Warhol coming soon to a cosmetics counter near you

Postmodern eye shadow, anyone? Tomato-soup blush? A new line of cosmetics is being launched that will bear the name of Andy Warhol, the Pop artist who immortalized Campbell's Tomato Soup cans and made silkscreen portraits of seemingly everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Mao Tse-Tung.

The new collection of makeup will be developed by Nars Cosmetics, under license from the Andy Warhol Foundation. It is scheduled to be launched in the U.S. in October and will be a limited edition collection, according to a report in Women's Wear Daily.

The foundation oversees rights, licensing and merchandise tied to Warhol. In the past, the artist's image and works have been reproduced extensively in advertisements, clothing and posters. Now it's makeup's 15 minutes.

Nars Andy Warhol will be created by François Nars, the founder of the cosmetics company. The WWD report states that the makeup line will "evoke the cool, image-rich, character-laden world of Warhol" and feature "innovative packaging, formulas and shades."

As Warhol had a witty response to everything, here's a quotation from the late artist that seems apt in light of the new makeup collection: "Some company recently was interested in buying my 'aura.' They didn't want my product. They kept saying, 'We want your aura.' I never figured out what they wanted."

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-- David Ng

Photo: Self-portraits of Andy Warhol. Credit: Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times

MOCA chooses a questionable guest curator for a new exhibition

If an art museum organized an exhibition of paintings and engaged a gallery owner as guest curator, the conflict of interest would be obvious. Even if the art dealer didn't represent any of the painters in the show, the perception of inappropriate commercial entanglements would be the same.

So, what if an art museum opens an exhibition of vintage clothing whose guest curator owns a vintage clothing store? Does the same conflict arise?

Of course it does. But, disappointingly, that didn't stop the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Monster Mash: Nick Jonas back on Broadway; 'Book of Mormon' plea

Climbing the corporate latter: Pop star Nick Jonas suits up to play Broadway's next J. Pierrepont Finch in "How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying," following Darren Criss' popular limited run. (Playbill) 

Sold out: Lawmaker pleads for Colorado homeboys Trey Parker and Matt Stone to extend "Book of Mormon" run in Denver. (Denver Post)

Money matters: The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society wins in dispute with "Spider-Man" producers. (Playbill) 

Crystal ball: Leaders in entertainment, academia and marketing gathered to predict what Broadway will look like in 2032 at the one-day inaugural TEDxBroadway. (Associated Press)

Spidey fashion sense: A cape made of spider silk — thanks to artist Simon Peers, designer Nicholas Godley and more than a million hard-working insects — goes on display at London's V&A museum. (The Guardian)

"Follies" follies: Even with a high demand for tickets, the critically acclaimed "Follies" ended its Broadway run without turning a profit. (New York Times)

Save the last dance: Financial woes postpone Oakland Ballet Company’s spring program. (Oakland Tribune)

Common ground: A museum devoted to Civil War, civil rights could come to North Carolina. (Fayetteville Observer) 

Stage hands: Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton have been tapped to host this year’s Olivier Awards. (Theater Mania) 

Passing: John Levy, first prominent African American jazz manager, dies at 99. (Associated Press) 

Also in the L.A. Times: Mark Swed reviews the Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra's performance of Mahler "Rescurrection"; highlights from this year’s Hollywood Bowl lineup.

-- Jamie Wetherbe

Photo: Singer/actor Nick Jonas as Link Larkin performs during the 2011 production of "Hairspray "at the Hollywood Bowl. Credit: Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times

 

Rodarte pair will design first opera costumes for L.A. Phil

Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy are slated to design their first opera costumes for the Los Angeles Philharmonic production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” in May, which will be staged by modernist director Christopher Alden.

The pair will join a creative team that includes conductor Gustavo Dudamel and architect Frank Gehry, the latter doing the set design.

The production will be a homecoming for the Los Angeles designers, who started their label in 2005 and have been recognized internationally for their artistic approach to fashion and their handcrafted technique.  

“It only took a few seconds to say ‘yes,’” Laura Mulleavy said Tuesday. “My grandmother sang opera, and if she were alive today, this would be her proudest moment.”

Although the sisters didn’t meet Dudamel until after they had signed on, they cited their respect for him as a factor in the quick decision. “He’s a larger-than-life figure in Los Angeles. It’s amazing to see someone so artistic, doing something that you’re not used to seeing, on a billboard here.”

Monster Mash: L.A. mural skirmish; Leonardo Da Vinci mystery

  

Public dispute: A nonprofit group in L.A. has apologized for pasting their campaign posters over one of the city's best known street murals. (Los Angeles Times)

Authentic?: An art expert in Britain claims that a painting that was once dismissed as a Leonardo Da Vinci forgery is actually genuine. (New York Post)

Desperate: The Philadelphia Orchestra, is seeking $3.1 million in loans to help fund operations through the end of its bankruptcy case, or risks shutting down. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Public outcry: The appointment of a former journalist as the director of the Palace of Versailles in France has caused a wave of criticism. (The Art Newspaper)

Keeping time: The Museum of Modern Art in New York is the latest institution to purchase Christian Marclay's popular video installation "The Clock." (New York Times)

Legal battle: Julie Taymor's arbitration proceedings against the producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" is scheduled to start next week. (New York Times)

Blockbuster potential: The Victoria & Albert Museum in London is in discussions to host a show dedicated to the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen. (The Art Newspaper)

Valuable: A donor is asking the bankrupt U.S. National Slavery Museum to return artifacts worth an estimated $75,000. (Virginia-Pilot)

Weepy: "Ghost: The Musical" will open on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in April. (Broadway World)

Keeping busy: Shepard Fairey was at the Jersey shore recently installing a mural at Asbury Park. (Newark Star-Ledger)

On the brink: The historic Lincoln Theatre in Washington could shut its doors if it doesn't receive a government bailout. (Washington Post)

In with the new: Alexander Pereira, the new director of the Salzburg Festival, said he wants most opera performed there to be new productions. (Associated Press, via Washington Post)

Also in the L.A. Times: Art critic Christopher Knight reviews "Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970" at the Getty.

-- David Ng

Photo: A detail of a painting that could be by Leonardo Da Vinci. Credit: Lumiere Technology / Pascal Cotte / EPA

Monster Mash: Michael Jackson art donated to children's hospital

Celebrity art: Sketches by Michael Jackson as well as a signed portrait of the entertainer have been donated to Children's Hospital Los Angeles by the late pop star's family. (Associated Press)

Blockbuster: New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art reported that its recent Alexander McQueen fashion exhibition drew 661,509 visitors, making it the eighth-most-visited show in the museum's history. (Wall Street Journal)

Unwound: Thieves took off with "yarn bombs" displayed at Laguna Beach's Sawdust Arts Festival. (Coastline Pilot)

Sacrilege?: Former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos has added her voice to a protest against an art exhibit in Manila that combines religious images with phallic symbols. (Voice of America)

Don't cry for him: Actor Michael Cerveris will join the cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of "Evita," starring Elena Roger and Ricky Martin. (Broadway World)

Musical genius: Marquette University has established the Stephen Sondheim Research Collection after acquiring materials relating to the works of the composer. (Washington Post)

Robbery: Two gunmen stole more than $120,000 in catering proceeds Friday during a lunchtime holdup at the Mann Music Center in Philadelphia. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Hard times: The Alliance for the Arts is transferring its primary activities to the Municipal Art Society and to WNET, in response to the difficult economic environment. (New York Times)

Coming soon: Athol Fugard's "The Road to Mecca" will open on Broadway in January with a cast including Rosemary Harris and Carla Gugino. (Theatermania)

Reverent: A new art exhibition in Rome is celebrating the 60th anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI's ordination. (The Art Newspaper)

Anachronistic: An unlikely mix of country music and William Shakespeare at L.A.'s Independent Shakespeare Co. (Los Angeles Times)

Also in the L.A. Times: Theater critic Charles McNulty reviews "This," by Melissa James Gibson, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

-- David Ng

Photo: LaToya Jackson and Michael Jackson's children, Prince Jackson and Blanket Jackson, attend Monday's art-donation ceremony at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Credit: Valerie Macon / Getty Images

The Arts on TV: Ryan Montbleau; 'Grand Canyon Serenade'; 'Born to Dance'

“Great Performances” 7 p.m., Thursday KOCE: Vivere: Andrea Bocelli Live in Tuscany, with Chris Botti, Heather Headley, Kenny G., David Foster, Lang Lang and Sarah Brightman.

“Great Performances” 8:30 p.m., Friday KOCE; 10 p.m., Saturday KVCR: The Hitman Returns: David Foster & Friends.

“Josh Groban Command Performance: 10 Years With Public Television” 10 p.m., Friday KVCR: A compilation.

“Sun Studio Sessions” 10 p.m., Friday KLCS: Ryan Montbleau Band -- Ryan Montbleau and his band perform jazz-infused rock.

“Great Performances” 10:30 p.m., Friday;  7 p.m., Saturday KOCE; 8:30 p.m., Saturday KVCR: Jackie Evancho: Dream With Me in Concert

“Forever Plaid” 11:30 p.m., Friday; Saturday KVCR: The off-Broadway musical revue centers on four young male singers killed in a car crash on the way to their first major show; narrator David Hyde Pierce.

“Made” 6 a.m., Saturday MTV: Ballerina: Taryn -- People get a chance to change.

“Grand Canyon Serenade” 4 p.m., Saturday KOCE: A visual tour of the Grand Canyon is set to classical music by Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Dvorak.

"Vine Talk" 5 p.m., Saturday KLCS: Navigating Napa Valley Cabernets: John Lithgow and S. Epatha Merkerson; Nora Ephron; chef Jonathan Waxman.  

“Great Performances at the Met” 1 a.m., Saturday KVCR: Thaïs: Renée Fleming plays the Egyptian courtesan in Jules Massenet's opera.
 
“Movie: Rembrandt” (1936) 6:15 a.m., Sunday TCM: Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester. Alexander Korda's fact-based account of the later years in the life of the great 17th-century Dutch artist.

“Theater Talk” 6 p.m., Sunday KLCS: Composer Alan Menken. (Part 1 of 2)

“Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One” 12:30 a.m., Sunday KLCS; 8:30 p.m., Monday KLCS:  Composer Lin-Manuel Miranda discusses Latinos on Broadway.

“Extreme Living” 7 a.m., Monday HGTV: An architect builds a luxury tree house.

“Rick Steves' Europe” 10 p.m., Monday KCET: Oslo: Opera House; Norwegian art. 

“Movie: The Universe of Keith Haring” (2008) 8 a.m., Tuesday LOGO: The work of New York artist Keith Haring.

“Born to Dance: Laurieann Gibson” 10 p.m., Tuesday BET: Triple Threat: The foundations of ballet, hip hop and jazz. (N)

“Live From the Artists Den” 3 a.m., Wednesday KVCR: Booker T. and the Drive-By Truckers -- Booker T. and the Drive-By Truckers perform at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans; special guest Bettye LaVette.

-- Compiled by Ed Stockly

Photo: "Born to Dance: Laurieann Gibson." Credit Mike Cassese / Reuters

The Arts on TV: 'Discover Beethoven's 5th,' Pierre Boulez Conducts Mahler's 7th

A weekly look at arts and music programming on television from Thursday  to Wednesday:

 
“The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway” 4:30 p.m. Thursday; 3:45 p.m. Sunday; 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, HBO: The comic brings “Pee-wee's Playhouse” to life at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York City.

“Tavis Smiley” 11 p.m. Thursday, KOCE: Artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel; Anne Heche. (N)

“Good Morning America” 7 a.m. Friday, ABC: A performance by the Broadway cast of “Anything Goes.” (N)

“The Artist Toolbox” 10 p.m. Friday, KVCR: Architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen has designed more than 400 private homes.

“Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations” 10:30 p.m. Saturday, KLCS: Sculptor Bob Mix. 

“Independent Lens” 11 p.m. Saturday, KLCS: Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai reclaims her land and culture by planting trees.

“Great Performances” 1 a.m. Sat./Sun., KVCR: La Boheme -- The Movie -- Russian soprano Anna Netrebko and Mexican tenor Rolando Villazon star as doomed lovers in Puccini's 1896 Opera “La Bohème.

“Discover Beethoven's 5th” 3 a.m. Sat./Sun., KVCR and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, KVCR: Director George Marriner Maull and the Discovery Orchestra explore the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5.

“Great Performances” 12:30 p.m. Sunday, KVCR: Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Pierre Boulez Conducts Mahler's 7th -- Chicago Symphony Orchestra Conductor emeritus Pierre Boulez leads the Orchestra in Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 7.

“Exploring the Arts With Gloria Greer” 4 p.m. Sunday, KVCR: McCallum Theatre -- The theater helps young artists.

“The Artist Toolbox” 9 p.m. Sunday, KLCS: Jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis.

“Frontline” 9 p.m. Tuesday, KOCE: Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei; Brian Manning discusses the charges against his son, U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, suspected of passing classified information to WikiLeaks. (N)

“The View” 10 a.m. Wednesday, ABC: Sarah Silverman; Director Glenn Lowry of the Museum of Modern Art; author Rahna Reiko Rizzuto.
 
-- Compiled by Ed Stockly

Photo: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Conductor Emeritus Pierre Boulez. Credit: Todd Rosenberg / PBS 

Jeffrey Deitch bringing fashion house Rodarte to MOCA Pacific Design Center

When Jeffrey Deitch took the reins of MOCA last year, he expressed a desire to reenergize the museum's satellite space at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. In June, he staged a James Franco/"General Hospital" event at the PDC, which brought out the TV cameras and quite a few Franco fans. Now, Deitch is bringing the über-cool house of Rodarte to the PDC in what is expected to be a fusion of art and fashion.

Rodarte, founded by sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy, is a fashion line whose expressive, sometimes ethereal creations frequently find their way onto the lithe bodies of celebrities during award shows and other red-carpet events.  "Rodarte: States of Matter," scheduled to run March 4 to June 5 at the PDC, will be the company's first West Coast solo exhibition.

The Museum of Contemporary Art said the exhibition will feature pieces from Rodarte’s spring 2010, fall 2010 and fall 2008 runway collections, plus original ballet costumes that the Mulleavys designed for the movie "Black Swan." The museum expects the show to feature about 25 pieces, which will be installed as a series of "interrelated conceptual vignettes," both static and in motion.

Rodarte was the subject of an exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York, titled "Quicktake: Rodarte" that ran in early 2010.

In an interview from her downtown L.A. office, Laura Mulleavy said that they received a call last year from Deitch, who had attended one of their shows, asking if they would be interested in doing an exhibition at MOCA. The sisters ultimately sat down with Deitch last summer just as he was assuming his new job at the museum.

Monster Mash: Alexander McQueen to be honored by Met museum; drug-themed exhibition in London

Fashion icon: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will pay tribute to late fashion designer Alexander McQueen with a 2011 exhibit at its Costume Institute. (NBC New York)

Under the influence: An exhibition on the influence of drugs on art and culture has opened at London's Wellcome Collection. (BBC News)

Vanity project: French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to create a museum in his own honor, but not everyone is happy about it. (The Guardian)

Leading men: Norbert Leo Butz and Aaron Tveit have officially joined the cast of the Broadway production of "Catch Me If You Can." (New York Times)

Back to work: The Arizona Opera and its orchestra musicians have agreed on a five-year contract. (Arizona Daily Star)

For sale: Mikhail Baryshnikov has put his upstate New York home on the market with an asking price of $4 million. (Wall Street Journal)

Free to come and go: Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been released from house arrest. (Voice of America)

Expanding: The San Francisco Opera will be getting new rehearsal, meeting and administrative space. (San Francisco Examiner)

Rock legend: A new statue of Grateful Dead musician Jerry Garcia has taken its place at the Santa Barbara Bowl. (Associated Press)

Master builders: A Denver-based architectural firm has been selected to design the proposed expansion of the San Diego Convention Center. (San Diego 6)

And in the L.A. Times: the Tony Awards ceremony is moving to New York's Beacon Theatre; conductor James Levine had to withdraw midway through a Wednesday evening performance at the Metropolitan Opera.

-- David Ng

Photo: Alexander McQueen, with actress Sarah Jessica Parker, in 2006. Credit: Stuart Ramson / Associated Press