If you're setting up your new calendar for 2007, you should bookmark September for a very cool exhibit at the Orange County Museum of Art entitled "The Birth of Cool" according to their site...
Birth of the Cool will look at the broad cultural zeitgeist of “cool” that influenced the visual arts, graphic and decorative arts, architecture, music, and film produced in California in the 1950s and early 1960s. The widespread influence of such mid century architects and designers as John Lautner, Richard Neutra, Harry Bertoia, and Charles and Ray Eames, to name a few, have been well-documented. Less well-known, however, are the innovations of a group of hard-edge painters
