ART/SNEAK PEEK : QUAINT TOWN LOOKS BACK AT `1937 ART AND LIFE'.Even people who've never set foot there may have a mental picture of Santa Paula Santa Paula (săn`tə pôl`ə), city (1990 pop. 25,062), Ventura co., S Calif., on the Santa Clara River in a fertile valley that yields citrus fruits, avocados, vegetables, flowers, nursery products, and walnuts; laid out 1875, inc. . Located northeast of Ventura, about a 45-minute drive from the Valley, this quintessential California town has been used more than once as a Hollywood backdrop. It also plays host to an annual art exhibition that's been one of the state's most durable and historically revealing. This year the Santa Paula Union Oil Museum is celebrating that exhibition's 60th anniversary with ``1937 Art and Life,'' which opened in September and will wrap up Jan. 4. To mark its six decades in operation, the exhibition this year includes examples of works by some of the 22 Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, artists who participated in the inaugural 1937 show, such as Douglas Shively and Robert Clunie. Collectively, they function as a kind of time capsule, indicating not only of the tastes but the life and times of provincial, pre-war California. Augmenting the art works are newspaper articles, fashion displays and other artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. from the 1930s. Located at 1001 E. Main St. in downtown Santa Paula, the museum is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. Admission is free. Call (805) 933-0076. Expansion mode The Solomon R. Guggenheim Solomon Robert Guggenheim (February 2, 1861 – November 3, 1949) was an American art collector and philanthropist. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Meyer Guggenheim and brother to Simon, Benjamin, Daniel and four others. just can't stop growing. On Sunday, its highly publicized, $100 million branch in the northern Spanish port of Bilbao The Spanish Port of Bilbao is located on the Bilbao Abra bay, and along the Estuary of Bilbao; the main facilities are in the Santurtzi and Zierbena municipalities, approximately 15 km (9.3mi) west of Bilbao. , designed by Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. architect Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize winning architect based in Los Angeles, California. His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. , is opening. And while the museum's top curators are in Spain for the celebrations, the institution has applied to the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Planning Commission to expand its SoHo branch at Broadway and Prince Street. The plans call for adding two floors of exhibition space on the building's third and fourth floors, which now have offices, and putting an 80-seat auditorium in the cellar. This would be the second expansion at SoHo Guggenheim. After closing for three months last year, it reopened with a new entrance on Mercer Street, an expanded lobby area and newly outfitted galleries to accommodate multimedia works with special technical requirements. The Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, who designed the original renovation of the building, also designed the first expansion. Of course, if you're as interested in a museum's outer skin as its inner contents, Frank Lloyd Wright's original Guggenheim overlooking Central Park still is worth a visit or two. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: ``10th Street'' by Lawrence Hinckley is included in the collection at the Santa Paula Union Oil Museum through Jan. 4. |
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