Esoteric Survey

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, h...

The 2018 Palm Springs Modernism show Archive 20th Century It's always great to see an Eames ESU 4 stacker.   Red Modern Allen Ditson and some Scandi stuff. I guess Finn Juhl is cool. Funkis had a great booth, as usual. Ken almost sold out. Sputnik Modern This was one of my favorite things at the show.  Ruth Duckworth, in bronze Reform Gallery The J.B. Blunk corner at Reform Bernard Rosenthal plaque  Converso It was Converso's 15th year of doing the show. He showed some great classics. 20C Design  from Texas Their fiber game was strong. They also had this Bonniers iron bowl by Isamu Noguchi (probably) MoModerne from St. Louis brought this Ray Eames catch all. A super rare form. BILLINGS with Damama Hunt Modern from Santa Fe had some serious top shelf merchandise. Objects USA Lots of straps