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...lost in an industrial area that he should have won because they repesent the people that his message stands for," said Bernard Weisman, a volunteer from Massachusetts who spent yesterday campaigning for the governor...
...Julian Ganz Jr.; Robert Rifkind's superb conspectus of German expressionist paintings, sculpture, prints and posters, remarkable for its depth and its number of first-rate works by unfamiliar names as well as obvious greats; the collections of post-1945 American art put together by Robert Rowan, Marcia Weisman and her ex-husband Frederick Weisman; anthologies of big-ticket contemporary work bought in a few years by Douglas Cramer and Eli Broad; smaller and more concentrated collections owned by Steve Martin and Beatrice and Phil Gersh...
Chief among these was Marcia Weisman, Norton Simon's sister and a formidable < presence on the cultural horizon of the West Coast. In 1979 she began to lobby L.A.'s mayor, Tom Bradley, for a building -- or at least a site -- for a contemporary art museum, and helped form an ad hoc museum committee. This came to the ears of the community redevelopment agency which was getting ready to let a final eleven-acre parcel of land in Los Angeles' seedy downtown Bunker Hill district. Gradually a deal was hammered out that is unique in the civic relations of American...
...production executive whose tastes for minimal art, neoexpressionism and media-based "appropriation" imagery were much copied by new Los Angeles collectors before his death in 1985. There are few collectors of note among MOCA's 39 trustees, and none have promised their holdings to the museum -- not even Marcia Weisman, despite her role as founding mother. But Koshalek is convinced that MOCA's collections will fill out, and that his target of funding acquisitions with $10 million a year in gifts and raised money will be met. "Doing the Temporary Contemporary and Bunker Hill in four years left nothing over...
...Weisman disputed a widespread media contention that there are 5 million "regular" U.S. coke users. The figure, he said, is the maximum estimate by the National Institute on Drug Abuse of those who have used cocaine within the previous month, among them many who take the drug only occasionally or are trying it for the first, and perhaps last, time. Said Weisman: "The figures for alcohol abuse dwarf those of all illicit drugs." Taking a swipe at his own employer, he added, "Nor are drugs, as U.S. News & World Report puts it, 'the nation's No. 1 menace.' Not while...