Birth of the cool...  

If you happen to be passing through Newport Beach, Ca. soon, the OCMA is featuring:
Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury.
"Birth of the Cool examines 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."

Birth of the Cool Tour Schedule:
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy
February 15-April 13, 2008

Oakland Museum of California
May 18-August 17, 2008

Akron Art Museum
September 27, 2008-January 4, 2009

Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
February 27-May 31, 2009

http://www.ocma.net/index.html?page=current#Birth_of_the_Cool:_California_Art,_Design,_and_Culture_at_Midcentury