Thursday, July 12, 2018

"Five Picassos went missing from the L.A. Times. What happened to them?"

LAT:
“The Picasso Room was exclusive — you had to be an officer in the corporation, a high-up editor to go there,”

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The artwork had disappeared at some point between 2014 and 2018, a period of great tumult at The Times, as a series of publishers and top editors were shuffled in and out by then-owner Tribune Publishing, which renamed itself Tronc.

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Times tour guide Darrell Kunitomi noted their disappearance when he greeted visitors in the community room a few years ago.

“I would raise the AV screen, behind which there were five Picassos. People were impressed to see them,” he said. “One night I raised it, and there was a bare wall. I had no idea as to whether they were taken or stored — they were simply gone.”