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California Design, 1930-1965 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Submitted by youngmoderns on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 11:59pm
If you're close to Los Angeles anytime soon I would try to see the California Design show at LACMA. A friend of mine is one of the curators and it was years in the making. There are many amazing design and craft objects in the show, including the entire Eames house living room! Ceramics include Heath, Brayton Laguna, Metlox, and others. The exhibition is on view through March 25, 2012. I can't wait until I see it next month!
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Thanks so much for the heads up, Earl. Looks like a 'once in a lifetime' opportunity. Makes me want to book a flight right now. Please share your exhibition experience and reviews after you get back home. I think we'd all like to bask in the afterglow, even if only vicariously. ;-{)
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Over the years, hasn't the LA County Museum of Art taken a lead role in exhibiting current California ceramics? Seems to me I've seen a number of museum catalogs from them featuring both studio and production ceramics. If so, I am glad they are continuing the tradition.
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There's also an exhibit at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona entitled "Common Ground: Ceramics in Southern California 1945-1975." It's part of the "Pacific Standard Time" series of exhibits in southern California this fall/winter. Should be a winner...
http://www.amoca.org/pacific-standard-time
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I've always had a love/hate relationship with SoCal. I lived in Laguna Beach and West Hollywood for a few years in the 90's with middling results. I've been in Fargo for quite a while now - a decision I can't explain - but these two upcoming shows make me wish I was only a few miles from the 405!
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Very boring exhibit. The recreation of the Eames living room is a total waste of space and no photograghy is permitted of it.......go figure. It's a survey exhibition that shows nothing new and makes no new insights into this seminal period of California design. SUCH A DISAPPOINTMENT!
Better to see "The House That Sam Built" at the Huntington Museum in Pasadena. Interesting and well executed exhibit of wood artisan Sam Maloof and the Pamona post war design community. DON"T MISS IT!
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Photography is often not permitted in museum exhibitions when objects come from many different sources.
One of our members and NYC curator is a friend of the exhibition curator. He is out in CA right now viewing the exhibit. I'm anxious to learn his review. I also understand that a section of the catalog was written by Bill Stern, founder of MOCAD (Museum of California Design) and respected author (California Pottery: From Missions to Modernism).
I suspect your expectations and the exhibitions' objectives may be two different things. We are often toughest on exhibitions with which we know quite a lot. However, for many of the exhibition visitors, this may be a first time exposure.
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Happily, while most of the Pacific Standard Time programming has ended, the exhibit at LACMA has been extended through June 3.