The LA County Museum of Art’s just-opened BCAM and courtyard addition features lots of little things made big. A balloon bouquet of tulips MADE BIG, a toy firetruck MADE BIG. Inside there’s a table and chairs MADE BIG – us museum goers feel like kids walking under it. But I thought it was the real kids next door making the best art in the Boone Children’s Gallery (inside the old May Company building.)

Inside there’s a bunch of work stations for anyone to make cardboard models and add them to the large floor model of a city of the future. Also, a building-block area with a wall of Polaroids of kids standing next to their creations. And of course, a whole 2-D visual art area with much collaging and painting happening.

Outside during the opening three-day weekend you could grab handfulls of red construction flags and mark off a footprint for your imagined soon-to-be-built structure. You had to move fast though – I hadn’t finished my large circles on a hillside before two toddlers uprooted my work.

…and they’re currently for sale on ebay. The seller explains: “We purchased this group of related drawings and paper at a local estate auction. The estate sale was that of a designer named Aureli – according to the auctioneer who sold this he had been an architect and had taught at both Columbia and MIT.” (A quick search didn’t turn up anything on this name Aureli.) Let’s hope Disney’s recently announced “new” House of the Future will have interiors this super.

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I fist saw his work while having a fabulous lunch at the art-filled Chambers Hotel in Minneapolis. This is Will’s site.

She’s showing at Honor Fraser here in LA thru March 28.