Esoteric Survey

See you at Boomerang for modern  on the 30th

Stan Bitters (complete with Hans Sumpf catalog) and Raul Coronel Painting by Myrton Purkiss Early 1960s linocut printed posters from two shows with Dora de Larios, Susan Peterson and Ynez Johnston Ray Eames, French Eames Mathematica Disk from the  Los Angeles Museum of Science and Industry in the Exposition Park (now the California Science Center) Pepe Mendoza Smalls, including a Harrison McIntosh glass vase.

Ok, I blew it and missed the opening. The exhibition is up at the Encinitas Library Gallery until May 31st. Don't you blow it. Learn more about Ruth and Toza Radakovich here .

A Cinco de Mayo celebration was held this past weekend at the Fulton Mall in Fresno.   This comes as the City of Fresno is going ahead with plans to rip up the art-filled pedestrian mall. According to an article in the Fresno Bee , "A general contractor to oversee the $20 million project should be selected by late summer. The first chunks of mall concrete could be flying by the fall." See the City's anti-environmental and backwards thinking plan here . Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/2015/04/25/4494432_city-hall-officials-full-speed.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy It's bittersweet to see so many people enjoying the mall. Cars could be taking over soon. The vacant  Luftenburg's Bridal  has now been replaced with 3 Hermanos furniture. Still no Falkenstein Peter Voulkos bench Stan Bitters jungle gym See past posts here . Visit  Save the Fulton Mall  for more information.

George Nelson, more here and here Sori Yanagi Heifetz, John Risley, etc.

Alvin Lustig's uncredited appearance in Maya Deren's experimental silent short 'At Land' (1944). Lustig would have been 100 this  year.