Category: exhibitions
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Eames living room moved to LACMA
The living room from Charles and Ray Eames’ iconic house has been meticulously taken apart and re-assembled at LACMA, as part of the exhibition California Design, 1930–1965: “Living in a Modern Way”. The LA Times has a great back story, plus a timelapse video of the disassembling of the living room. It had remained preserved…
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Leonora Carrington dies at 94
Artist Leonora Carrington has died in Mexico City at age 94. Born in Britain but working in Mexico City, Carrington was a central figure among Surrealist artists and writers. Save the date (January 29, 2012–May 6, 2012) for LACMA’s exhibition In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States, which…
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A hard-to-categorize museum
The New York Times has an interesting profile of the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, which is unusual in its lack of clear mission but fascinating in the range of its holdings. It contains historic structures (a relocated lighthouse, a round barn, a steamboat); curiosities such as a 3,500-piece miniature circus; folk and early American art…