A Cultural Comment at the New Yorker website.
The great Schindler House in West Hollywood is celebrating its centennial this summer. Through September 25, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, which presents programming and exhibitions at three Schindler buildings in the Los Angeles area, is offering a richly layered, historically conscious show titled Schindler House: 100 Years in the Making. It is co-curated by Jia Yi Gu, the MAK Center's director, and the historians Gary Riichirō Fox and Sarah Hearne, with support from Allie Smith, Ann Basu, Stratton Coffman, and Tristan Espinoza. Participating artists include Kathi Hofer, Carmen Argote, Fiona Connor, Julian Hoeber, stephanie mei huang, Andrea Lenardin Madden, Renée Petropoulos, Gala Porras-Kim, Stephen Prina, Jakob Sellaoui, and Peter Shire. Documentation of the exhibition's "rotating vitrine" can be found here. I urge anyone in the LA area to make a visit and, if possible, to support the house, which needs various restoration projects. The Friends of the Schindler House are the owners of the property itself.
