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Instead of producing his own art, Govan has spent much of his career nurturing and learning from artists. At the Guggenheim, he came into contact with such artists as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, and when he got to Dia in 1994, he helped his artists dream big. Besides offering them close to 240,000 sq. ft. (73,000 sq m) of exhibition space at Dia, he embraced such large-scale earthworks as Michael Heizer's City project and James Turrell's Roden Crater...
Govan has brought in new corporate sponsors and expanded the board to include such trustees as Barbra Streisand; Broad says trustee giving has tripled during Govan's tenure. Museum guards wore Magritte-style bowler hats for that exhibition and donned sunglasses for this summer's retrospective of neon artist Dan Flavin, which co-curator Govan brought to LACMA at the end of a world tour. "The Flavin exhibition was beautifully selected, installed and almost choreographed," observes artist Alexis Smith. "Its level of visual sophistication was doubly interesting because it was done not by a museum curator but by a museum...
...winningest season yet, following an already historic season last year. In addition to Caputo and O’Connor, the two returning All-Americans on the team, the Crimson has a lot more depth in its starting lineup this season than last. Freshmen Shay Warren and Dan Kelly will bolster the starting spot at 125 lb., and five wrestlers, including Olsen, are set to compete at 174 lb. Co-captain Robbie Preston, who is taking the semester off, will return to the team in the spring. “This is a very special group with a lot of chemistry...
...began with a 10-0 Crimson spurt, including two key steals by sophomore guard Dan McGeary, who also hit two three-pointers en route to eight points, which led to easy buckets...
...Well before the halfway mark, I found my unengaged mind turning wistfully to another current film about a family gathering in a bucolic setting. That would be Dan in Real Life, in which a damaged figure, (the always excellent Steve Carell), playing a mournful widower, falls comically but painfully, in love with the wrong woman while somehow enlisting both our sympathy and our grateful laughter. It is a low-key, commercial comedy, but its people are believably eccentric instead of unbelievably nutsy, it offers an interesting twist on the basic dilemmas of romantic comedy and it finds...