Esoteric Survey

LAMA preview for the May 17th Auction RM Schindler, Jean Prouve and Le Corbusier with Charlotte Perriand
Early Eames three leg table and the other side of the Corbusier with Charlotte Perriand room divider
LAMA always keeps it real with some good Eames lots.
Max Gottschalk sofa
 Custom Gerald McCabe desk and bench
Claire Falkenstein
Great clay. I'll take it all.
June Harwood and Karl Benjamin = hardedge
Oh, and then there's this 1976 Alexander Calder mobile. I bet it hits a million.

Buck House (1934) by Rudolph Schindler


There was a Claire Falkenstein sculpture/fountain at the house in 1979. It must have been installed sometime after 1960.
Photo: Julius Shulman, Getty Research Institute
It's not there now.
There's another one over the fireplace, 1979.
Photo: Julius Shulman, Getty Research Institute
There's a couple more Falkenstein sculptures and a Voulkos. 1979
Photo: Julius Shulman, Getty Research Institute
Eames and more power art, 1979   Where did it all go?
Photo: Julius Shulman, Getty Research Institute

1937 Photo: Julius Shulman, Getty Research Institute

Ron Nagle: Peripheral Cognition at the San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) is surprisingly Nagel's first major solo museum exhibition. It includes work from over 30 years and it's magical. Along with ceramic sculptures with glazes that are like no other is a series of drawings that have never been shown publicly.






The exhibition design is tremendous.


This exhibition ends on February 27. You better not miss it.
Right now is the time to go to SDMA.  
Gauguin to Warhol: 20th Century Icons from the Albright-Knox is in the gallery next to the Nagle exhibit. It's as power as it gets, as seen here with Clyfford Still and David Smith. The Still looks small in this photo. It's actually enormous.  Robert Irwin and Anne Truitt are also part of the Gauguin to Warhol exhibition. It ends January 27th.
 The SDMA permanent collection isn't bad either.
 Malcolm Leland protects the art.
They're still playing hide the Falkenstein. It was back for a minute and now it's gone again. More on t…

Earlier this month I stopped off at the Fulton Mall again.  I was on the way back from the Stan Bitters: Modern Primitive show at Heath in San Francisco. It's sad that in San Francisco they're honoring Stan's work and in his hometown of Fresno, the city is leaving it in a state of disrepair and are actually working to rip it out. On March 28th a coalition associated with the 1000 Friends of Fresno filed a lawsuit in Fresno County Superior Court. The coalition, called the Downtown Fresno Coalition, challenges the City Council’s certification of an Environmental Impact Report on the proposed Fulton Mall Reconstruction Project. Read about the lawsuit filed to stop the destruction of the mall, here.  The court date is set for October and in the words of Stan Bitters.... The litigation has only begun and we need your continued help raising funds to see us through the legal process. Donate here
Another dry Bitters fountain. 
The Falkenstein sculptures are still missing.  More on th…

San Diego fine Arts Gallery, West Wing (1966) by Mosher & Drew Now the San Diego Museum of Art
Notice anything different? Yes, the Claire Falkenstein is back, but look higher...
The canopy roof is gone and the sun is shining on the Malcolm Leland bronze fascia.
This is the what it usually looks like. That top hides what the real architecture is supposed to look like.   Apparently, the wind damaged the canvas and it was removed.  Yes, you can have your wedding party amongst Louise Nevelson and Claire Falkenstein. Source: Concept Events
Or if you're into something with a little less commitment, you could just have lunch there. 
Let's hope they keep the top off. It's how it was designed to be and it looks so good. The gates were designed by Malcolm Leland. Source: Julius Shulman, 1968
The wildlife also seems to like it better this way.  More about the sculpture court and garden can be found here and here.
The Timken Museum (1965) by Frank L. Hope and Associates (again). More here.