Tag: California

  • Los Angeles Art Show: January 14-18, 2015

    It’s that time of year again to mark your calendars for the Annual Los Angeles Art Show! This year’s show will be held January 14-28, 2015 at the LA Convention Center, South Hall J and K. This mark’s the Art Show’s 20th Anniversary and they’ve both added dates and scaled down the experience to two…

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  • Places Journal launches new website

    Places Journal, dedicated to public scholarship on architecture, landscape and urbanism, has a new responsive website. Browsing the Explore Places tab yields sections grouped by columnists or keywords such as Reputations, California, Ecology, Sustainability, Critical Practice and many others. h/t SAH

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  • MAK Center’s Schindler House Tour, May 17-18, 2014

    The MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, will celebrate its 20th year by offering a tour of a number of exemplary private houses by R.M. Schindler. The programming opens with a wine reception and talk with Judith Sheine (Professor of Architectural History at the University of Oregon) at Schindler’s How House in Silver…

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  • RM Schindler’s Bethlehem Baptist Church Open House, April 12, 2014

    Rudolph Michael Schindler’s Bethlehem Baptist Church, which had been boarded up for years and deteriorating from neglect despite its “Historic-Cultural Monument” status, has been given a new life. The church, originally built in 1944 with a minor budget for a congregation on Compton Avenue in South LA, has a new congregation, Faith Build International. To…

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  • Huntington Library acquires collections of LA early photography and Santa Barbara ephemera

    The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced the purchase of the Ernest Marquez Collection of 4,600 images of early Southern California during the 1870s to the 1950s, especially from Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades. Another purchase the Council made hits closer to home: a set of 383 rare pamphlets, maps, and ephemera related…

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  • Architecture & Design Film Festival coming to LA, March 12-16, 2014

    The Architecture & Design Film Festival, the “nation’s largest film festival celebrating the creative spirit of architecture and design,” is coming to Los Angeles for the first time in its five-year history. ADFF Los Angeles will be held at the downtown Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 South Spring Street, and will showcase more than 30…

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