Beautiful things: paintings, books, sculptures, photographs, artistic finds.
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The Getty is art, architecture, and gardens at two locations: the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Getty Villa in Malibu.
“What is my L.A.? It’s the pot on the stove. Add stuff, keep it warm, new flavors and colors. Every day.”
PA and PE, 1990, Peter Alexander. Pacific Enterprises.
“My L.A. is very bright, hot, colorful, and a little rough around the edges. It’s far away from everything, but right next to everything at the same time.”
The messy chaos of Los Angeles can be charming. Or disorienting. Or a bit of both! Office hours with Chris & Lyra of Overdrive’s curatorial team continue tomorrow,12-1pm and Thursday, 2-3pm at the entrance to the exhibition at the Getty Center.
Inside Out, 1961, Roger E. Kuntz. The Estate of Roger E. Kuntz, courtesy of Mary Kuntz. Photo by Maureen Murphy Fine Arts.
Johnie’s
Miracle Mile, CA
Johnie’s, formerly Romeo’s Times Square, designed in 1955. Now just a filming location, Johnie’s is one of the many repurposed sites from an era of design innovation.
Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990 on view now at the Getty Center. A rich exploration of an often overlooked architecturally intriguing city.
Romeo’s Time Square Restaurant, exterior corner perspective, 1955, Armet & Davis, Collection of Armet Davis Newlove Architects.
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Lebbeus Woods, Architect is currently on view at SFMOMA, and throughout the run of the exhibition, we’ll be using Tumblr as a place to sequentially share Woods’s wonderful sketchbooks, since only a fraction of the pages can be on view in the galleries.
Image: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook, 2000; Courtesy of Aleksandra Wagner; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods
The amazing architect-nonarchitect Lebbeus Woods.
“[I saw that] works of art could lift experience out of the commonplace to a realm of meaning that, for me, would otherwise be unreachable. Certainly, even in my teens I knew people who simply loved life as they found it and needed no exaltation to enhance or ‘elevate’ it for them, but I also knew I was not among them. The reasons do not matter to this story. I can only see that I was lucky to have stumbled upon visual art as a transformative medium of my experience.” —Lebbeus Woods](http://24.media.tumblr.com/09db1cb6cae8966d865da2aa46fec12e/tumblr_mklodk7k171r064gzo1_250.jpg)
Lebbeus Woods, Architect is currently on view at SFMOMA, and throughout the run of the exhibition, we’ll be using Tumblr as a place to sequentially share Woods’s wonderful sketchbooks, since only a fraction of the pages can be on view in the galleries.
Image: Lebbeus Woods, Sketchbook, 2000; Courtesy of Aleksandra Wagner; © Estate of Lebbeus Woods
The amazing architect-nonarchitect Lebbeus Woods.
“[I saw that] works of art could lift experience out of the commonplace to a realm of meaning that, for me, would otherwise be unreachable. Certainly, even in my teens I knew people who simply loved life as they found it and needed no exaltation to enhance or ‘elevate’ it for them, but I also knew I was not among them. The reasons do not matter to this story. I can only see that I was lucky to have stumbled upon visual art as a transformative medium of my experience.” —Lebbeus Woods
South Seas Apartments (Karate Kid), Reseda
Essence of L.A. John Baldessari would give it an A+.
LAX, Theme Building; perspective view, 1961. Charles Luckman, William Pereira, Welton Becket, and Paul R. Williams. From the Alan E. Leib Collection. Image courtesy of and © The Luckman Partnership, Inc. | a Salas O’Brien Company
Coming in April 2013: Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.
