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Learning Modern exhibit

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Learning Modern was 2009 gallery show featuring a rebuild of Ken Isaacs' Knowledge Box, an educational "information structure."

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Article, "DIY TV headphones." referenced in Recipe for the AV Engineer, Oct 1957, c 2009

 File — Box 49, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Series: Includes correspondence with art historian Victor Margolin, with Wilma Keppel about grid beam construction, an oral history project conducted by Leslie Coburn, and correspondence regarding exhibits, including the rebuilding of the Knowledge Box for the Learning Modern show in 2009 and its inclusion in the Hippie Modernism show in 2015. Presentation binders collect thematic or retrospective materials put together by Isaacs and curatorial partners to represent different aspects of his work for...
Dates: Usage: c 2009

Emails and agenda; exhibit planning, Knowledge Box, 2009

 File — Box 49, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents From the Series: Includes correspondence with art historian Victor Margolin, with Wilma Keppel about grid beam construction, an oral history project conducted by Leslie Coburn, and correspondence regarding exhibits, including the rebuilding of the Knowledge Box for the Learning Modern show in 2009 and its inclusion in the Hippie Modernism show in 2015. Presentation binders collect thematic or retrospective materials put together by Isaacs and curatorial partners to represent different aspects of his work for...
Dates: 2009

Group Portrait in Front of Blue Knowledge Box

 Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_73_10_01

Ken Isaacs at door of Knowledge Box

 Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_73_10_03

Label text; Learning Modern exhibit, 2009

 File — Box 49, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents From the Series: Includes correspondence with art historian Victor Margolin, with Wilma Keppel about grid beam construction, an oral history project conducted by Leslie Coburn, and correspondence regarding exhibits, including the rebuilding of the Knowledge Box for the Learning Modern show in 2009 and its inclusion in the Hippie Modernism show in 2015. Presentation binders collect thematic or retrospective materials put together by Isaacs and curatorial partners to represent different aspects of his work for...
Dates: 2009

Learning Modern exhibit flier

 Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_51_04_01

Press copies, printouts, bulk: 2007 - 2010

 File — Box 50, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Series: Includes correspondence with art historian Victor Margolin, with Wilma Keppel about grid beam construction, an oral history project conducted by Leslie Coburn, and correspondence regarding exhibits, including the rebuilding of the Knowledge Box for the Learning Modern show in 2009 and its inclusion in the Hippie Modernism show in 2015. Presentation binders collect thematic or retrospective materials put together by Isaacs and curatorial partners to represent different aspects of his work for...
Dates: Majority of material found within 2007 - 2010

Press file; Learning Modern show, 2009 - 2010

 File — Box 50, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series: Includes correspondence with art historian Victor Margolin, with Wilma Keppel about grid beam construction, an oral history project conducted by Leslie Coburn, and correspondence regarding exhibits, including the rebuilding of the Knowledge Box for the Learning Modern show in 2009 and its inclusion in the Hippie Modernism show in 2015. Presentation binders collect thematic or retrospective materials put together by Isaacs and curatorial partners to represent different aspects of his work for...
Dates: 2009 - 2010

Woman Views Faces Projected Inside Knowledge Box

 Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_73_10_03b