Iwan Baan’s first look inside the Manetti Shrem Art Museum by SO-IL and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art is set to open in Davis, California on November 13, as construction is wrapping up. The building is a collaboration of associated architects SO-IL of New York, and the San Francisco office of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. The museum has been in a smaller space, but this building will give it space to show off its collection, which grew from the “spirit of defiant provincialism” that took root in the Central Valley city in the 1960s to 1990s. A group of artists that is sometimes called “funk artists” included Wayne Thiebaud, who has donated 72 of his own works and 300 works by other artists to the permanent collection.
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