Note from the LA Times Culture Monsters:

Just over a year ago, New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum completed a three-year restoration project for its great landmark building by Frank Lloyd Wright. Among much else, the beautifully done project put a grayish white skin on the original corkscrew building, visually separating it from the undistinguished annex added in the rear in 1992.

The renovation was done in time for the Guggenheim's 50th anniversary celebration — and, happily, in time for the celebratory Vasily Kandinsky retrospective, on view now. Kandinsky (1866-1944) was among the small handful of authentic revolutionaries in Modern art. The big retrospective draws heavily on the incomparable Kandinsky collections at museums in Munich, Paris and New York, but the relationships between his achievements and Wright's remarkable building are one of the unique pleasures of seeing the show at the Guggenheim.

I'll have a full review of the Kandinsky retrospective in Sunday's paper.

– Christopher Knight

Photo: Vasily Kandinsky, “Impression III (Concert)” 1911. Credit: Guggenheim Museum

Originally posted here:
Art review: ‘Kandinsky’ at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Another great shout out from San Diego’s North County Times.

The California Surf Museum and Fuel TV present their second four-day showcase of films, books, music and art devoted to and inspired by the surf culture, Thursday-Sunday; program includes six surf-themed documentaries and film shorts, a book-signing by Australian surfer Nat Young (7 p.m. Nov. 19); a concert by Jake Shimabukuro (7:30 p.m. Nov. 20); a 50th anniversary tribute to Surfer Magazine (8 p.m. Nov. 21); an exhibit of Clark Little surf photography (2:30 p.m. Nov. 22); California Surf Museum, 312 Pier View Way, Oceanside; event prices range from $15 to $75; visit surfmuseum.org or call 760-721-6876.