Exhibits

MOCA’s A New Sculpturalism show stalled and restarted amidst a dispute over its curatorial direction. But it may also offer an exciting taste of the architecture of tomorrow. On this show, LA architects discuss why they don’t want to be “sculpturalists,” even as they showcase work in an art museum; and they give us a taste of the latest manifestation of LA’s long tradition of architectural experimentation. …

As part of our ongoing coverage of Pacific Standard Time Presents:Modern Architecture in L.A., we’ve talked about a show that looks not at individual buildings but a boulevard. It is called Windshield Perspective and it opens tonight with a party at A+D museum.
From Griffith Park, to Mulholland Drive, to its many miles of sunny beaches– Los Angeles is a place that attracts those in search of …

The design pack was out in force Wednesday night at the opening of the Mak Center’s Everything Loose Will Land at the Schindler House, the So Cal HQ for bohemian salons and unfettered progressive thinking and making since the 1920s. The Good4Nothing Connoisseur, aka Bennett Stein, reports.
The history-rich scene show (and what is history really but the right now anyway) is guest curated by Sylvia …

If you want to know what’s going on in interior design and decorating, ask Mallery Roberts Morgan. Here she gives her recommendations for La Cienega Design Quarter’s Legends, starting tonight.
Legends is a three-day event with a jam-packed schedule of panel discussions, book-signings, showroom events, exhibitions, cocktails and lots of parties. Most of the event schedule is open only to design industry professionals – either by invitation …

As many designers get ready to head to ICFF at the vast Javits Convention Center next week, others are getting their design fix with friends in the patios of showrooms in the La Cienega Design Quarter (the design district on and around La Cienega, between Beverly and Santa Monica Boulevard), which will play host to LEGENDS, a two-event blast of store displays and discussions starting this Wednesday, May 8. This …

Downton Abbey or M/M? Paris Photo or John Parkinson?
In a coincidence of timing longtime frenemies, the French and the British, have launched cultural campaigns in LA that are reaching a crescendo of activity this week.
From the Cultural Services arm of the French Embassy comes “Ceci N’est Pas”, meaning, with inimitable Gallic obscurantism,  ”No, This Is Not” (an allusion to Magritte’s Ceci N’est Pas Une Pipe, n’est-ce pas?). It …

As part of KCRW and DnA’s ongoing coverage of Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., Art Talk’s Hunter Drohojowska-Philp reviewed the current shows at the Getty and LACMA. She writes:
“With ‘Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990,’ the Getty Museum and Research Institute launch their next round of PST exhibitions. The show at the Getty itself, on view through July 21, thoroughly and somewhat …

As part of KCRW’s ongoing coverage of Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., Edward Goldman aired this meditation on Art Talk, telling listeners of his ongoing love affair with the city:
“Yes, you might say it was the proverbial love at first sight. And how could it be any other way? My airplane descended over the city in the middle of the night, and I …

Last night DnA DJ Danielle Rago attended the opening reception at LACMA for American artist Stephen Prina’s “As He Remembered It” exhibit, part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in Los Angeles initiative. She reports here.
The installation recontextualizes pieces of furniture from two R. M. Schindler homes in Los Angeles built during the early 1940s that have since been demolished. Individual pieces were …

By Javier Cabral
KCRW generated quite the design buzz this last weekend at the Dwell on Design exhibition. Sonic Trace, a project of KCRW & AIR (Association of Independents in Radio), was there to personally showcase the 30 submissions received for the sound booth design challenge, with a focus on the winning design submitted by Hugo Martinez and Christin To of Mat-ter: La Burbuja or …