Category Archives: DESIGN

GEHRY AND DUDAMEL IN INGLEWOOD

The Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA) is getting a new, permanent home in Inglewood, and its architect Frank Gehry will join Gustavo Dudamel, Inglewood mayor James T. Butts, Jr., and CEO Simon Woods this week for the unveiling of the project’s design.

Under the leadership of Dudamel and the L.A. Phil, YOLA provides young people with free, high-quality music education and academic support.

Gehry’s design will transform an existing 17,000 sq. ft. structure at Manchester and La Brea into a purpose-built facility. This project is made possible through a gift from Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen.

 

FRANK GEHRY and GUSTAVO DUDAMEL, Wednesday, August 15, at 10:30 am.

JUDITH AND THOMAS L. BECKMEN YOLA CENTER, 111 South La Brea Avenue, Inglewood.

See: la.curbed.com/frank-gehry-youth-orchestra-inglewood

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Gustavo Dudamel in rehearsal.

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BLESS AT NEUTRA HOUSE

“The Neutra House project is some sort of a dream project. Not only does it contribute to architecture in general, but a great deal to our well being. In this specific case the house matches in shape, size, style, and configuration our personal needs quite well.

“[The house] absorbs and reflects its environment, and is simultaneously woven into and through nature, embracing naturally its surroundings. It is very present in so many nice details, tempting permanently to open new perspectives. Yet, at the same time, it’s almost invisible as you immediately feel part of it when you are in it. What more can you expect from good design?

“Whatever we will do there, we aim to add ourselves and what we currently relate to in the same airy and generous balance.” — Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag, Bless*

Bless has moved into the great Neutra VDL Studio and Residences, and there are five more Saturdays to catch their Bless no. 63 Neutra Dasein project, curated by Douglas Fogle and Hanneke Skerath.

BLESS NO. 63 NEUTRA DASEIN

Saturday, August 11, 18, 25, September 1, and 8,

from 11 am to 3 pm.

NEUTRA VDL STUDIO AND RESIDENCES, 2300 Silver Lake Boulevard, Los Angeles.

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*“Bless, Ines Kaag and Desiree Heiss in conversation with Helena Papadopoulos,” PARIS LA 16 (2018): 171–173.

Special thanks to Neutra VDL director Sarah Lorenzen.

Photographs of Bless no. 63 Neutra Dasein at Neutra VDL Studio and Residences by Sandy Miller for

PARIS LA.

DANDY OF THE BAZAAR

The late Christopher Gibbs was given an inimitable send-off by Hamish Bowles last week:

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See “The Great Someone,” Massimiliano Mocchia di Coggiola’s essay on dandyism, in the forthcoming print issue of PARIS LA.

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Above: Anita Pallenberg, James Fox, and Mick Jagger in Performance (1970, directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg), for which Christopher Gibb was the set designer. Image credit: BFI Archives.

Below: Christopher Gibbs.

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ARTISTS’ BOOKS AT THE GETTY

A book with a Plexiglas exterior stands upright with the cover open to reveal distressed pages of plastic-sealed cheese. The title poetrie appears in lowercase letters across the top of the first page.

A beautiful new exhibition of artists’ books is up now at the Getty Center.

The exhibition includes books by Nobuyoshi Araki, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Tauba Auerbach, Raffaele de Bernardi, Sandow Birk, Andrea Bowers, Chris Burden, Jan Činčera, Johanna Drucker, Dave Eggers, Felipe Ehrenberg, Olafur Eliasson, Timothy C. Ely, Barbara Fahrner, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Jennifer A. González, Katharina Grosse, Robert Heinecken, Leandro Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, Daniel E. Kelm, Anselm Kiefer, Monika Kulicka, Sol LeWitt, Russell Maret, Didier Mutel, Katherine Ng, Clemente Padín, Felicia Rice, Dieter Roth, Ed Ruscha, Christopher Russell, Barbara T. Smith, Keith A. Smith, Buzz Spector, Beth Thielen, Gustavo Vazquez, Cecilia Vicuña, Ines von Ketelhodt, Zachary James Watkins, William Wegman, and Tian Wei.

 

ARTISTS AND THEIR BOOKS–BOOKS AND THEIR ARTISTS, through October 28.

GETTY CENTER—RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood, Los Angeles.

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Above: PoetrieDieter Roth, 1967. The Getty Research Institute. © Dieter Roth Estate. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.

Below: Stab/Ghost, Tauba Auerbach, 2013. The Getty Research Institute. © Tauba Auerbach. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

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WEPRODUCTIONS

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This is the last week to view the Printed Matter exhibition WEPRODUCTIONS, a celebration of the imprint co-run by Telfer Stokes and Helen Douglas over the last forty years.

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“Organized by Douglas, the exhibition draws from extensive archival material to examine the working methods, surrounding context, and emergent themes (narrative, place, the natural world) that shaped the output of the press from the early 1970s through to the 2010s…

“The exhibition includes the early bookworks of Douglas and Stokes, charting the confluence as the two joined up in 1974 to produce collaborative large-edition offset publications. Solo offset editions by both artists are also examined as well as the smaller, digitally printed books, concertinas, and scrolls by Douglas.”*

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WEPRODUCTIONS, through Sunday, July 1.

PRINTED MATTER, 231 Eleventh Avenue (at 26th Street), New York City.

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Helen Douglas, Winter Celestial Montain (Yarrow, Scotland: Weproductions, 2015). 12 pages, edition of 25.

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