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Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury, the popular traveling exhibition organized by the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, California, where it premiered in October 2007, reaches its final venue this month--the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin. Comprising some two hundred art objects, along with multimedia content including a jazz lounge and a selection of film and television clips, the exhibition tells the story of the community of creative individuals who interacted in Southern California at mid-century and contributed to the overall style of the West Coast during the 1950s and early 1960s.
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Taking its title from Miles Davis's 1957 record album of the same name, Birth of the Cool features, among other things, Julius Shulman's photographs of modern domestic interiors designed by such luminaries as Richard Neutra and Pierre Koenig, furniture designed by Charles and Ray Eames, album ...
Source: HighBeam Research, California modern.(CURRENT and coming)(Brief article)