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The former home of a Pasadena collector goes Op

January 8, 2020 Patricia Zohn
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USC's Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena has a more narrow focus than some of its other art venues. Yet Grace Nicholson, in whose 1924 home it now exists, was a kind of west coast version of Edith Halpert (Jewish Museum) collecting artifacts from Asia and the East and so its grounded in its collecting mandate. However: like many other institutions, USC is trying to draw online eyeballs. In turn, they have given Oscar Oiwa and four SC students 120 Sharpies to make a black and white grammable space. It looks very cool, cave-like, a bit sixties psychedelic and I look forward to seeing it. 

In Fine Art Tags USC, Oscar Oiwa, Sharpies