Design and Architecture
Art and Architecture in 60s New York and 70s LA
Counterculture LA and New York: A new detective novel inhabits the Soho art scene in the late 60s; Sylvia Lavin talks about “Loose” artists and architects in 1970s LA.
By Frances Anderton • • 29m ListenA novel and an exhibit bring alive the experimental art and architecture scene in LA and New York, in the counterculture years. Pop Art expert Christopher Finch talks about his first novel, “Good Girl Bad Girl,” a crime yarn set in the Soho art scene in the late 1960s; Sylvia Lavin talks about her MAK Center exhibit “Everything Loose Will Land,” about the “loose” artists and architects in 1970s LA
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2 storiesEverything Loose Will Land
Of all the Pacific Standard Time Presents shows on right now, there is a small exhibit at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House that has garnered a big response. It is called “Everything Loose Will Land.”
Read the story1 minGood Girl Bad Girl
Christopher Finch produced the first of what will be a series, Good Girl, Bad Girl, featuring the slightly hapless private eye Alex Novalis (Finch describes him not as a hard-boiled PI, but rather “scrambled on bagel”), a former art fraud detective, on the hunt for a missing “bad girl” amidst the garbage, grunge, sexual and political radicalism…
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