News Bites

edited by Sheila Kim-Jamet -- Interior Design, 9/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Greeting Indian Summer

"Totems to Turquoise: Native North American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest" opens October 30 at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. The show features more than 500 pieces of jewelry alongside a myriad of totem sculptures, masks, paintings, and videos.

TWA Takes Off

Site-specific work by Vanessa Beecroft, Jenny Holzer, and other artists is scheduled for an October 1 arrival at Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal. "Terminal 5: A Project for Air Travel at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York" is sponsored in part by jetBlue Airways, which plans to take over the 1962 landmark.

Naturally Nakashima

Design and nature dovetail in "George Nakashima: Nature, Form & Spirit." Presented by the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, the show highlights the architect-designer's sculptural furniture—celebrating the raw beauty of wood. Archival prints, sketches, and photographs round out the offerings. Opening September 12.

Live at. . .

Trumpets are sounding at the new Hollywood Bowl, by Hodgetts + Fung Design and Architecture. Offering 30 percent more stage space than the 1929 predecessor, the band shell accommodates a full-size orchestra below an acoustical canopy of fiberglass, Lexan polycarbonate thermoplastic, and aluminum.

Earth Works

Pasadena's Art Center College of Design has sprouted the multidisciplinary GardenLAb, an evolving installation of 40 projects by some 100 designers, artists, performers, writers, scientists, and activists concerned about environmental issues. The exhibition debuted in the California college's Wind Tunnel space on September 7.