Esoteric Survey

Ken Price: A Career Survey 1961-2008 opened this past weekend at Parrasch Heijnen This is the first show at the long time New York dealer's new gallery in Los Angeles.

 An early one
Late 60's cups.
Early 70's cup.
A space rock.


Check out the artsy guy back there.
It's Billy Al Bengston
The exhibition runs until March 8th.
A Ken Price exhibition is the perfect way to start a gallery in LA--Ferus style. 

Abelardo Rodriguez Market (1934), Mexico City

The market in 1934. It was a post-revolutionary progressive model which included social areas, day care and had a goal to bring art to the people.Source:  Portal Academico
Diego Rivera curated the art program. Murals were painted by his students and visiting artists.
A wood sculpture in the lobby. Unfortunately, I have no idea who the artist is.
Fresco murals by American artist,Marion Greenwood, 1935
Marion working on the mural Source: Archives of American Art
Her mural leads upstairs. At this time Isamu Noguchi came to Mexico City, apparently in a car (a Hudson) lent to him by his friend, Buckminster Fuller. Marion and her sister helped Noguchi get a wall commission in the market by convincing Diego Rivera to let him join the project. More information on this is included in Marion's interview at the Archives of American Art
Noguchi and Marion went way back. In 1929, Isamu made a bust of Marion out of cast iron. The only one he did in iron.

Sour…

Tapio Wirkkala, Fornasetti, and fiber
Pipsan Saarinen Swanson
Bauhaus/Hippie

Eames with Girard
Smalls