LACMA / Coded

Angelo Testa textile for IBM and Eames Computer House of Cards. Part of Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982 at LACMA. The exhibition looks at the interaction of art/design and computer technology.

This is pretty high up on my want list.

It's hard to talk about design and computers and not include Paul Rand.

In the last 1960's Frederick Hammersley used an IBM mainframe at the University of New Mexico to do a number of computer works.

Donald Judd

Hans Haacke, News, 1969/2008 - continually prints the news of the day.

This Lillian Schwartz piece is on loan from The Henry Ford Museum. My buddy Kristen Gallerneaux, The Henry Ford's curator of communications and information technology, helped bring the Schwartz estate to the Henry Ford.

Speaking of Kristen, here she in front of a Tanya Aguiniga piece recently acquired by LACMA.

I was at the border during the making of it. Mostly for the party. More about that, here.

Back to the regular LACMA programing.

It's always good to see Montauk Highway (left) by Willem de Kooning. It came from the Blankfort collection, more info on that here. The gallery it used to hang in at LACMA has been demolished, so it now hangs next to a Clyfford Still, not Franz Kline.

JB Blunk bench from the Sam Francis House. It's being shown in the Sam Francis and Japan: Emptiness Overflowing exhibition. The table was bought through The Landing.

More of LACMA's hits.

"Mexican" chair for Black Mountain College by Josef Albers. He designed this version of the butaque for student dormitories at Black Mountain. Albers learned about this form from Cuban-born Clara Porset, a former Black Mountain student.

Isamu Noguchi