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Katy Perry, Celebrities Burnish LA’s Contemporary Art Museum Gala

Keith Girard
Katy Perry and Glee’s Dianna Agron were among celebrities who attended the Museum of Contemporary Art’s 35th Anniversary Gala in Los Angeles, burnishing the troubled museum’s reputation and bottom line. The event, sponsored by fashion brand Louis Vuitton, also honored Philippe Vergne, the museum’s new director. Owen Wilson, singer Pharrell, television host Ryan Seacrest, burlesque star Dita Von Teese and actress Jane Fonda were also spotted in the crowd that came out Saturday (Mar. 30)...
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George Clooney’s Monuments Men in Real Life Featured at The Met

Keith Girard
James J. Rorimer, one of art experts portrayed in George Clooney’s film “The Monuments Men,” will be featured in a new Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit, highlighting his historic role saving priceless artworks during World War II. Rorimer became director of the Museum after the war. The film, starring Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray and John Goodman, is about museum directors, curators and art historians who go to war in search of plundered Nazi loot. ...
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Amiri Baraka, Poet, Playwright Radical Black Activist, Dies at 79

Keith Girard
Amiri Baraka, an influential black writer and artist, who veered into radicalism and became a chief proponent of black separatism during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, died yesterday (Jan 9.) after a long illness. He was 79. Amiri Baraka, an influential black writer and artist, who veered into radicalism and became a chief proponent of black separatism during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, died yesterday (Jan 9.) after a long illness. He was 79. Baraka came of age during the rise of the Beat Generation in the 1950s, a time when widely accepted values about life came into question, leading up to the counter-culture revolution....
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Hildebrand Gurlitt, Notorious Nazi Art Thief, Surfaces in Art Probe

Keith Girard
Hildebrand Gurlitt hailed from a family that was well known in artistic circles in pre-World War II Germany. His father was an architect and art historian, one brother was a musicologist and a nephew was an art dealer. But a deep, dark secret set him apart. During World War II, Gurlitt, a specialist in modern art, was hired by Joseph Goebbels, the feared Nazi propaganda minister, to loot priceless artworks from homes and museums across Nazi-occupied Europe....
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Riley Keough, Michelle Williams Light Up Whitney Gala (photos!)

Keith Girard
Riley Keough, granddaughter of the late King of Rock Elvis Presley, and actress Michelle Williams were among celebrities who polished their artsy cred at the Whitney Museum of American Art Gala & Studio Party in New York City last night (Oct. 23). Riley, who had a rough go in the tabloids recently, was the picture of hipster chic in her Louis Vuitton black mini-dress, with a white jacket from the designer’s spring 2013 collection....
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Wallace Hartley’s Titanic Violin Fetches $1.5M at London Auction

Keith Girard
Wallace Hartley, a second-class passenger on the Titanic, went down with the ship, but the violin he was playing on the night the liner stuck an iceberg survived and was sold at auction over the weekend for a surprisingly titanic sum, $1.5 million. The instrument was recovered in 2006 along with Hartley’s travel bag, which also was auctioned by Henry Aldridge & Son in London. The bag contained the violin and sheet music....
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Mary Carillo, Julie Foudy Co-Host Women in Sports Gala

Keith Girard
Former tennis player Mary Carillo and Olympic soccer standout Julie Foudy hosted the 34th “Salute to Women in Sports” at Cipriani Wall Street last night (Oct. 16), an event that honors 50 top female athletes for their accomplishments inside and outside of their sports. Swimmer Diana Nyad, just one month after her record-breaking Cuba-to-Florida swim, was one of the women honored with a special tribute award....
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Vanessa Hudgens Spices Up ULTA Beauty Cancer Event

Keith Girard
Vanessa Hudgens hosted the 2013 ULTA Beauty “Donate With a Kiss” event in New York City last night (Oct. 2) along with Miss USA Erin Brady to raise funds for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Vanessa, 24, looked alluring in a vintage dress with alice + olivia by Stacey Bendet shoes and an Edie Parker clutch, according to the event....
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Sarah Jessica Parker Hosts Fall 2013 New York City Ballet Gala

Keith Girard
Sarah Jessica Parker hosted the New York City Ballet 2013 Fall Gala last night, an annual event that usually draws an over abundance of celebrities to one of the city’s signature events. Parker, 48, wore a strapless, billowing silk dress, with a pink bodice and cream skirt at the David H Koch Theater at Lincoln Center....
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James J. Kaufman Novels Explore Themes of Honesty, Integrity

Keith Girard
In his follow-up novel to “The Collectibles,” James J. Kaufman has delved even deeper into the meaning of life, the importance of honesty, the nature of love and the power of relationships. The 74-year-old former attorney, judge and, chief executive of the charitable “Imaging The World” foundation has called book two of his trilogy, “The Concealers.”...
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Keith Girard

Keith Girard four decades of experience as an award-winning reporter, editor-in-chief, and senior media executive. Keith’s career began in Washington, D.C., where he was a reporter for The Washington Post and a contributing editor for Regardie's and Washingtonian magazines. He also worked as a writer/producer in CNN's Washington Bureau and has written one book on the U.S. Marines in the Gulf War.