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Art Center Exhibit "PAGES" to Include Caltech Treasures

The exhibit PAGES flyer

On the evening of October 12, coinciding with Pasadena's Art Night, the Art Center College of Design will open its new exhibit titled " Pages ". The exhibit explores the role of the page in its many manifestations in forming and preserving collective memory. Entry to the exhibit is free to the public beginning at 6 PM.
Three artifacts will be on loan to the exhibit from the Caltech Archives: two rare books and one sheet of mathematical calculations on a placemat. The books are a volume from the historic atlas of cities of the world, Civitates orbis terrarum , printed in Cologne around 1600, and an account of the great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 printed in Germany. The page of calculations is by Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winner in Physics (1965), late Caltech faculty member, and sometime diner at Gianonni's bar in Altadena.
Materials from the Albert Einstein papers will also be shown, courtesy of the Albert Einstein Archives of Jerusalem and the Einstein Papers Project at Caltech.
"Pages" is curated by Stephen Nowlin and John David O'Brien and will be mounted in the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery at the Art Center Hillside Campus, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena. Posted 10-01-2012