Gimme Shelter.
Domesticity is the subject of "The Home Show," a four-part extravaganza at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (June 4-Aug. 20) with something old, something new, something borrowed, and something, well, dubious. The first section documents the Walker's ambitious Idea House and Everyday Art Gallery projects of the '40s. Next comes "The Un-Private House," an exhibition of twenty-six contemporary residential projects that debuted last summer at the MOMA Moma (mō`mä), town, E central Mozambique. It is important mainly as a harbor for the export of tropical produce. and will go on to the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum in October. Mark Bennett's elaborately detailed blueprints of iconic ICONIC - International Conference on Electromagnetic Near-Field Characterization and Imaging television dwellings--Samantha and Darrin's classic suburban Cape Cod from Bewitched, Laverne and Shirley's Milwaukee bachelorette pad, etc.--put a pop spin on the theme of domestic bliss. The Home Show's final (and somewhat perplexing) component, the unfortunately titled "Archaeologies of HOUS HOUS - Housing [E, ES, ING]," is an active design studio featuring architecture students and their professors working in their natural habitat.
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