Esoteric Survey

Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 Hammer museum Black Mountain College (BMC) was an experimental school located in Black Mountain, North Carolina. It opened in 1933 and was owned by the faculty. Josef and Anni Albers, John Cage, Buckminister Fuller, Robert Motherwell, Charles Olson, and Xanti Schawinsky is just a partial list of the faculty. Ruth Asawa, Kenneth Noland, John Chamberlain, Cy Twombly, and Robert Rauschenberg were all associated with the school. BMC closed in 1957. Source:  Western Regional Archives, States Archives of North Carolina Josef Albers painting and a desk he designed for the college Anni Albers Josef Albers Buckminster Fuller Buckminster Fuller Source: State Archives of North Carolina Emerson Woelffer Ilya Bolotowsky Robert Rauschenberg Ingeborg Svarc Lauterstein and  Rauschenberg at BMC. I bet at lot of good times were had there.  Source:  S...

A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living, at The Hammer Museum     Architecture exhibits are a hard thing to pull off.  There are only so many plans, models and photographs you can look at,  but the  Hammer did a good job with this one.    There were a few areas where they set up large photo walls, like here with t he "Eichler experience".   They also had  a Billy Haines vignette for the "fussy-modern" set. Too bad they didn't have the Eichler wallpaper  for  sale in the gift shop. This is the point of the exhibit where security busted me for taking pictures. In my defense, I didn't see a sign. The one thing I really wanted to get a photo of was the original Mutual Housing Association certificate they had on display.  That's  one of my favorite Jones projects. Anyway, if you're an architecture fan, you should check out the exhibit. While I was at the Hammer, President Obama and China's...