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"Pacific Standard Time: Top 10 Exhibitions for Design Lovers\nDon't miss the must-see events in this celebration of Los Angeles's design legacy\n\"Golden State of Craft: California 1960\u20131985\"\n\n Craft and Folk Art Museum\n\n Los Angeles\n\n September 25, 2011\u2013January 8, 2012\n\nThis tribute to innovators in the fields of furniture, textiles, and glass testifies to the power of the handmade object just as, some would argue, it's on the verge of becoming extinct. More than 70 works by the likes of Allan Adler, Laura Andreson, and Marvin Lipofsky may be enough to inspire a new generation.\n\n#561 by June Schwarcz. Photo: M. Lee Fatherree \u00A9 June Schwarcz\n\"5 Lite\"\n\n MK2 Projects\n\n Los Angeles\n\n September 29\u2013October 29, 2011\n\nOctogenarian painter Ed Moses and four other artists have created five site-specific light installations for gallerist Merry Karnowsky that will appear in a series of adjacent downtown L.A. spaces. Larry Bell, Laddie John Dill, Robert Irwin, and Robert Wilhite will each contribute a \"mystery in light,\" using sand, glass, neon, and fluorescent lights\u2014a bit of Hollywood razzle-dazzle from some of California's most adventurous formal thinkers.\n\nFiberglass Shell and Light by Ed Moses. Photo: David Austin\n\"Eames Designs: The Guest-Host Relationship\"\n\n A+D Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles\n\n October 1, 2011\u2013January 16, 2012\n\nThe A+D employs film, photography, and key pieces of furniture to explore the work of seminal modernist designers Ray and Charles Eames, whose philosophy is summed up by Charles's dictum: \"The role of the designer is that of a very good, thoughtful host.\" How the couple lived is also on view in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's re-creation of Case Study House No. 8, the Eames's former home in Pacific Palisades.\n\nESU (Eames Storage Unit) by Ray and Charles Eames \u00A9 Eames Office, LLC. Photo: Grant Taylor, courtesy of JF Chen, Collection of JF Chen\n\"California Design, 1930\u20131965: \u2018Living in a Modern Way'\"\n\n Los Angeles County Museum of Art\n\n October 1, 2011\u2013March 25, 2012\n\nThis ambitious show traces the origins of West Coast modernism through more than 300 objects, ranging from architectural drawings of houses by Rudolph Schindler and Richard Neutra to the ceramics of Otto and Gertrud Natzler to furniture by Van Keppel-Green.\n\nRecreation pavilion of the Mirman House in Arcadia, California, by Buff, Straub &amp;amp; Hensman. Photo: Julius Schulman \u00A9 J. Paul Getty Trust. Used with permission. Julius Schulman Photography Archive, Research Library at the Getty Research Institute\n\"Mural Remix: Sandra de la Loza\"\n\n Los Angeles County Museum of Art\n\n October 15, 2011\u2013January 22, 2012\n\nArtist and activist Sandra de la Loza, founder of the Pocho Research Society of Erased and Invisible History, has created the ultimate art mash-up, using archival examples of L.A.'s great Chicano mural movement of the 1970s to conjure a show that is part performance art, part sound-and-light installation\u2014a blaze of glorious imagery that honors Chicano artists' mastery of the form.\n\nPorque Se Pelean? by Roberto Chavez (detail). Photo: \u00A9 Sandra de la Loza\n\"San Diego's Craft Revolution\u2014From Post-War Modern to California Design\"\n\n Mingei International Museum\n\n San Diego\n\n October 16, 2011\u2013April 15, 2012\n\nAfter World War II, San Diego became a center of California Modernism. One of the most stunning pieces in this exhibition's eclectic mix is a sinewy polyurethane, fiberglass, and wood sculpture, a collaboration between artist Svetozar \"Toza\" Radakovich and Carl Ekstrom, the inventor of the asymmetric surfboard, as photographed by Lynn Fayman.\n\nDouble Door by Svetozar Radakovich in collaboration with Carl Ekstrom. Photo: Lynn Fayman, courtesy of Danah Fayman\n\"Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles\"\n\n Museum of Contemporary Art\n\n Los Angeles\n\n November 13, 2011\u2013January 27, 2012\n\nTabloid photographer Weegee (born Arthur Fellig) made his reputation in New York by capturing images of crime scenes moments after the deeds occurred. When he came west in the 1940s, he turned his eerie skill on the Hollywood life. Whether his subject was a stripper or a fizzy starlet, the picture was often less than pretty. Many of the nearly 200 photographs on display have never been exhibited.\n\nAs Is: Carson Drive &amp;amp; Wilshire Blvd. by Weegee. Photo: \u00A9 Weegee/International Center of Photography/Getty Images\n\"Breaking Ground: Chinese American Architects in Los Angeles (1945\u20131985)\"\n\n Chinese American Museum\n\n Los Angeles\n\n January 19\u2013June 3, 2012\n\n\"Breaking Ground\" honors the understated\u2014and underestimated\u2014work of four pioneering Chinese-American architects (Eugene K. Choy, Helen Liu Fong, Gilbert Leong, and Gin Wong) whose work became mainstays of L.A.'s built landscape.\n\nChoy Residence by architect Eugene Choy. Photo: Julius Shulman \u00A9 J. Paul Getty Trust. Used with permission. Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Research Library at the Getty Research Institute\n\"Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945\u20131982\"\n\n Palm Springs Art Museum\n\n January 21\u2013May 27, 2012\n\n\"Backyard Oasis\" presents a visual history of the swimming pool as a symbol of the Southern California lifestyle, from Mad Men\u2013era businessmen sipping cocktails while an Esther Williams wannabe swims in a tank behind the bar to Richard Gere taking phone calls poolside in the early '80s.\n\nParadise Cove by Lawrence Schiller. Photo: Courtesy of Judith and Lawrence Schiller; Lawrence Schiller \u00A9 Polaris Communications, Inc.\n\"Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch, 1920\u20131960\"\n\n University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara\n\n February 26\u2013June 17, 2012\n\nCliff May designed thousands of homes in the California ranch style (think Meryl Streep's house in It's Complicated). This exhibition documents the evolution of May's style as it was seen in architecture as well as on television and in magazines.\n\nPhilbin Residence: Perspective, 1959\u20131960 by Cliff May. Image: Courtesy of the Cliff May Collection, Architecture and Design Collection, University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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