Pasadena’s Hidden Art Legacy Gets Its Long-Overdue Spotlight at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Pasadena presents "Pasadena: L.A.'s Art Legacy," an exhibition opening June 7 and running through August 29. Featuring nearly 60 artists and 70 works from the gallery's holdings, the show highlights Pasadena's overlooked but crucial role in establishing Los Angeles as a major international art center. Each work includes provenance labels noting when museums exhibited the artist, with surprises such as Alexander Calder's childhood years in Pasadena and a wall label referencing Marcel Duchamp's legendary 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum.