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Los Angeles Magazine April 2019 issue (left to right: Norman Ives, Iva Gueorguieva, Jennifer Steinkamp)
Los Angeles Magazine
Inside Cedars-Sinai’s Art Collection
Some hospitals boast an army of specialists in every field, but few can say they have an art curator on staff. Fewer still are home to a blue-chip art collection. Cedars-Sinai is a prominent exception. John T. Lange, who studied sculpture and had been a gallery assistant and graphic designer, was hired in 2003 to oversee thousands of priceless Pop Art, epic sculpture, and contemporary video installations that fill every patient room, waiting room, and exam room at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Beverly Grove. For more than 50 years, the institution has collected works by the likes of Picasso, Miró, and Warhol, and it has more than 4,000 pieces on display to provide both a pleasant distraction and a healing environment. Read more.
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CBS aired a piece on their Sunday Morning show about the arts program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Click the image above to view the story on the CBS web site.
CBS Sunday Morning
The Healing Arts
Among the many healing arts practiced at one of the nation’s leading hospitals is that of healing art. Thousands of paintings and other art works grace the walls of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, creating an environment conducive to recovery. Bill Whitaker reports. Read more.
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The LA Times produced an article in their newspaper and on their web site. Check out the web version on the LA TIMES web site
LA TIMES
Abstract Frank Stella sculpture Adjoeman joins Cedars-Sinai artworks
An enormous abstract sculpture, a sailboat of sorts, rests on a pedestal at the intersection of Beverly and San Vicente boulevards in West Hollywood. Its dark, carbon-fiber sails seem to billow in the wind, and corkscrew spirals of stainless steel, like twirling gusts of air, dance around it. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center rises up behind it, like towering, angry waves. Read more.
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An online interview with Huffington Post Live for their Third Metric project. Check it out on the Huffington Post web site.
HUFFINGTON POST
The Third Metric
Art is many things: beautiful, controversial, funny, expensive. But no matter what it looks like, art has the power to heal us.
Since the 1970s, the staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles has curated a growing art collection that adds some character to the sterile hospital environment. Curator John T. Lange told HuffPost Live he sees the artwork's powerful effects on patients and staff alike, and it's become an integral part of Cedars-Sinai. Read more.
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Check out my installation piece, Nostalgia and the Antiquated - The Landscape Series (#3), in Vox Populi's book, We're Working On It. It is the piece in the upper right hand page in the above spread.
VOX POPULI GALLERY
We're Working On It
We’re Working On It is a visual representation of Vox Populi’s 21st year of programming (2009-2010). Also included in the pages is the first written history of Vox Populi (by Amy Adams), the starting point for a history of artist-run spaces in Philadelphia (by Richard Torchia), and an essay on our city’s identity as a center of artistic production (by Paul Galvez).
An illustrated timeline of artist-run spaces in Philadelphia, dating from the 1960s, rounds out this important publication.
Edited by Andrew Suggs
120 pages / full color / $15
Get your copy at Vox Populi's web site.
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ART and Living Magazine
The World-Renowned Center of Innovative Healing — Past, Present and Future
The year was 1966. As Frederick Weisman lay ill in his bed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, his wife Marcia desperately looked for ways to cheer him up. Frederick, a well-known collector, had always loved to gaze at the art on his walls at home, so when Marcia brought him one of his favorite pieces (a Jackson Pollock painting), he responded joyfully. Each day, as Marcia brought another piece to the hospital, his recovery would surprisingly progress. Visit the ART and Living web page.
Download the PDF here and check out page 100.
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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
LA Weekly / Best of LA
Best Modern Art Museum for Your Health
If you want Calder, Oldenburg, Warhol, Lichtenstein and other icons, the medical center to the stars, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, is the place to go. Problem is, you might have to break a leg to get into the show or have a friend who's been assigned a room. That's because most of the good stuff is located on walls in patient-care areas, thanks to a Cedars mantra: "We believe in the healing power of art." All of the art is donated and on permanent display. But you don't have to have surgery to get a glimpse of noteworthy artists like Vasa at the admitting desk or a Warhol print near the microwave oven in the blood donor unit. Stop by and give a pint. Small price for admission. 8700 Beverly Blvd., Mid-City. (310) 423-3277, cedars-sinai.edu.
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The Art of Healing
(Page 16)
Catalyst Magazine not only highlights the hospital’s fine art collection of donated museum-quality pieces but also the healing power of art.
The Art of Love
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In the Winter 2012 issue of Catalyst, Phyllis and William Axelrod built a legacy of caring through their devotion to the giving of art.
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