Esoteric Survey

Moholy-Nagy: Future Present  opened recently at LACMA. The exhibition looks at the work by the painter, photographer, sculptor, filmmaker, graphic/type designer, space designer, and teacher at the Bauhaus,  Hungarian-born László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946). Yellow Circle and Black Square, 1921 Construction in Enamel 1–3, 1923 A IX, 1923 A II (Construction A II), 1924 Vertical Black, Red, Blue, 1945 The exhibition runs until June 18th 👋

Scandi and Soleri Rain and staying local = tough weekend

Archive 20th Century  stacked it high with great stuff Reform Gallery  with California's finest J.B. Blunk at  Reform Gallery Sputnik does not mess around. Get it, they're from Texas. Sputnik   Funkis Billings Red had these great Allen Ditson chairs √ Red Atomic Home Modern Dharam Damama Design One Lisa Cliff Collection Objects USA Objects USA Dave Hampton of Objects USA showed work by Kay Whitcomb The Museum Of California Design  Plastics from Paradise: California Modernizes the American Lifestyle Exhibition    The Viejas box on the right was loaned by Keith York of Modern San Diego . The 17th annual  Palm Springs Modernism Show  did not disappoint this year. Dealers brought some great pieces and the crowds showed up in full force to scoop it up. The show is over, but  Modernism Week  events are still going on. 

Jack Boyd Japan Mosaic mural by Genaro Álvarez Greta Grossman Alexander Girard and George Nelson/Irving Harper

Executive Order 9066: February 19th, 1942, President Roosevelt authorized the internment thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens from Japan. Roosevelt's order affected 117,000 people of Japanese descent, two-thirds were native-born citizens of the United States. Ruth Asawa's father Umakichi, a 60 year-old farmer who had been living in the United States for forty years, was arrested by FBI agents and taken to a camp in New Mexico. The family did not see him for almost two years. Ruth (seated second from the left) was sent along with her mother and five siblings to the Santa Anita race track in Arcadia, California, where they lived for five months in two horse stalls. They took only what they could carry. “The stench was horrible,” she recalled. “The smell of horse dung never left the place the entire time we were there.” Read more, here . Source: Ruth Asawa George Nakashima was forced, along with his wife and newborn daughter M