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Elaine Wynn, LACMA co-chair, art collector and Wynn Resorts co-founder, dies at 82

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Elaine Wynn, the co-founder of Mirage Resorts and Wynn Resorts, billionaire art collector and philanthropist, has died. She was 82. The Elaine P. Wynn & Family Foundation announced her death on Tuesday. The cause of death was not immediately known. She was born in New York City and raised in Miami Beach, but it was … Read more

G. Ray Hawkins, gallerist who championed photography as fine art, dies at 80

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When G. Ray Hawkins opened the first public gallery in Los Angeles devoted to photography in 1975, the financial rewards were unremarkable. Even names that defined fine art photography drew humble prices. Ansel Adams’ famous nighttime landscape “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico” typically sold for about $600 then, and that was at the higher end of … Read more