Craft and Folk Art Museum Will Open in New Home Nov. 22

The Los Angeles Craft & Folk Art Museum, displaced from its Miracle Mile home earlier this year, will open its doors to the public again on Nov. 22.

The museum’s temporary home will be on the fourth floor of the May Co. building at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in a 9,000-square-foot space designed by architect Charles Moore and donated rent-free by the department store. It will be a transitional home for the museum’s permanent collection, which eventually will be housed in 55,000 square feet of space in a new retail, office and residential building at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Curson Avenue in Los Angeles. That location is set to open in 1992.

The inaugural exhibit at the May Co., entitled “Hands On! Objects Crafted In Our Time,” will feature 60 objects from the museum’s permanent collection, ranging from a maple rocker by Sam Maloof, papier-mache mariachi figures by Pedro Linares and Katharyn Loye’s “House Chair,” made with metal and Astroturf.

“Hands On!” will run through May, 1990 and will open with a gala benefit dinner on Nov. 21.

The museum will be open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Admission is free, and parking will be validated by the May Co.

For information about the inaugural, exhibit or tickets to the opening-night gala, contact the museum’s Janet Lubkin at (213) 937-5544.

SEE MORE GLASS: West Hollywood’s Kurland/Summers Gallery, the only gallery in the Los Angeles area exclusively devoted to the art of glassmaking, has just undergone a renovation that doubles its exhibition space to 2,200 square feet.

The space was designed by architect Lawrence A. Wise. It was supervised by Kurland/Summers co-owner Ruth Summers.

Composed of four distinct galleries in a figure-eight configuration, the cream-colored walls, gray carpets and rounded arches and hallways are reminiscent more of a private home than the traditional two-dimensional, linear gallery.

The gallery is showing its third exhibit of the glassworks of Richrad Jolley. The Jolley exhibit will be followed by the first major L.A. exhibition of Santa Fe glass artist Dulany Lingo, who brings the tenets of photo-realistic painting to glass-working.

Kurland/Summers Gallery, 8742-A Melrose Ave., West Hollywood. (213) 659-7098. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

THE MENACE OF MOVEMENT: Vladimir Velickovic, the Yugoslavian artist known for his stark and powerful canvases, is the subject of a show at the Mayer-Schwarz Gallery in Beverly Hills that will open Nov. 16 and continue through Dec. 22. Velickovic based this series on the photographs of pioneering British photographer Eadweard Muybridge, whose innovative use of stop-action photography studied the complexity of human movement.

Born in Yugoslavia, Velickovic has lived and worked in Paris since the 1960s. The paintings, drawings and gouaches in this exhibit are representative of Velickovic’s work: stark, dark and vivid, concerned with animate forms as machines.

On Nov. 15, Mayer-Schwarz will host a private opening reception that Velickovic will attend.

Vladimir Velickovic at the Mayer-Schwarz Gallery, 411 N. Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills. (213) 278-4666. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday.