Events / September 2008
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SAUMA - user-driven design
until friday january 09 2009
Head of exhibitions
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Main exhibition from the 20th of September. SAUMA presents innovative contemporary design by some of Finland’s new designers. |
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Cold War Modern: Art & Design in a Divided World 1945 - 1975
until sunday january 11 2009
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Concentrating on the highly volatile years from 1945 to 1975, the exhibition will examine the key themes of the period including the task of reconstruction in Europe after the war and the rise of consumerism. The strong influence of the Cold War upon popular culture will be shown through graphics, fashion, film and product design. |
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ID LAB
until sunday january 11 2009
listasafn@reykjavik.is
Public relation director
ID LAB is an exhibition presenting works by artists who explore the ´zeitgeist´ of our times by using the powerful concepts of fashion and design. The works present ideas and impulses that reach beyond external influences and explore traditions, processes and the cultural construction of identity. |
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The spirit of “Mingei” in Japan: folk art design
until sunday january 11 2009
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Frédéric Pillier / Pierre Laporte Communication
This exhibit is based on a specific case-that of thinker Yanagi Soetsu, promoter of the “Mingei” movement, and his son, Yanagi Sori, who was a premier post-war designer. The exhibit causes one to reflect on the relationship, established during the 20th century, between the rediscovery of certain traditional arts and international modern art through design. |
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Warhol Live
until sunday january 18 2009
www.mbam.qc.ca/micro_sites/warhol/index_fr.html
For the first time in the historiography of Andy Warhol (1928-1987), the exhibition-event Warhol Live, presented from September 25, 2008, to January 18, 2009, will explore the all-pervading and fundamental role of music and dance in the artist’s work and life. |
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Gustave Serrurier-Bovy (1858-1910) - Acteur du futur
until sunday january 18 2009
info@caracascom.com
Le Musée d'Art moderne et d'Art contemporain et la Ville de Liège organise la première rétrospective des oeuvres de l'architecte-décorateur Gustave Serrurier (dit Bovy), dont 2008 marque le 150ème anniversaire. |
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From one revolution to another
until sunday january 18 2009
service presse
Carte blanche to Jeremy Deller avec Ed Hall, Alan Kane, Scott King, Matt Price, William Scott, Andrei Smirnov, Marc Touché, White Columns. |
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GÜNTER BRUS: Midnight Dawn
until sunday january 25 2009
Dedicated to one of the most important protagonists of Austrian modernity, the MAK exhibition “GÜNTER BRUS. Midnight Dawn” focuses on hitherto largely unknown individual works and picture-poems dating from the late 1970s and early 1980s. The presented drawings mark a new period in the artist’s production characterized by a variety that reveals the actionist, self-mutilator, book illustrator, picture-poet, word/image artist, draftsman, and painter, as well as the ironic, sarcastic contemporary wielding his pen as formerly his razor blade. |
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House Proud: Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection
until sunday january 25 2009
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This exhibition showcases Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw’s collection of nineteenth-century watercolor drawings, which meticulously detail the era’s interior furnishings and document the social, cultural, and aesthetic development of European domestic life. |
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400 years of telescopes
until sunday february 01 2009
info@zeeuwsmuseum.nl
www.inventionofthetelescope.eu
October 2008 will mark precisely four centuries since the invention of the telescope. The fact that this ground-breaking invention took place right here in Middelburg inspired the Zeeuws Museum to mount an exhibition of rare telescopes from the world-famous collection of Peter Louwman. |
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Rothko
until sunday february 01 2009
T : 020 7887 8888
This is the first significant exhibition of his work to be held in the UK for over 20 years. |
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CAHIER DE COLORIAGE
until sunday february 01 2009
responsable relations presse et relations publiques
A l'initiative de Playtime, le salon international dédié à l'univers de l'enfant, un cahier de coloriage regroupant les créations d’une trentaine de créateurs de mode enfantine est réalisé cette saison pour la première fois. Il sera vendu 7 € à partir du mois de février 2008 dans tous les magasins Habitat, au profit de l'association Toutes à l’Ecole (association présidée par Tina Kieffer et consacrée à la scolarisation des petites filles très défavorisées du Cambodge). |
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Permanently MAD: Revealing the Collection
until sunday february 15 2009
Public Relations Office
info@madmuseum.org
Permanently MAD: Revealing the Collection presents approximately 250 works from the Museum of Arts and Design’s permanent collection. For the first time in the Museum’s 52-year history, dedicated collections galleries introduce visitors to the phenomenal ceramic, glass, wood, metal, fiber, and mixed media works in the Museum’s collections. Many of the pieces are on view for the first time. |
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Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary
until sunday february 15 2009
Public Relations Office
info@madmuseum.org
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary will be the inaugural exhibition at the Museum of Arts & Design when it opens in a new building at 2 Columbus Circle in September 2008. |
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Moderm Times - The untold story of modernism in Australia
until sunday february 15 2009
Media Officer
Modern times reveals how modernism transformed life in Australia across five tumultuous decades from 1917 to 1967. The exhibition traces for the first time the impact of modernism on all aspects of Australian culture — from art, design and architecture to advertising, photography, film and fashion. |
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GEORGE NELSON
until sunday march 01 2009
T : + 49 (0) 7621 702 3590
In 2008, the American designer George Nelson (1908-1986) would have been 100 years old. In recognition of this centennial anniversary, the Vitra Design Museum is planning the first comprehensive retrospective on his work. Trained as an architect with a degree from Yale, Nelson was one of the defining figures of American design in the latter half of the 20th century. |
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Curators Select: Recent Acquisitions, 2003–2008
until sunday march 01 2009
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International in scope and possessing one of the most diverse and comprehensive collections of design works in existence, the Museum's rich holdings range from the Han Dynasty (200 B.C.) to the present day and total more than 200,000 objects. This exhibition will feature recent acquisitions to all four of the museum's collecting departments: Product Design and Decorative Arts; Drawings, Prints and Graphic Design; Textiles; and Wallcoverings. |
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Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since the 1970s
until monday march 02 2009
Rem Koolhaas's watercolor Plan of Dreamland (1977), a recent acquisition, is the point of departure for this presentation of selections from the Architecture and Design collection. The 1970s saw an explosion of architectural thought and experimentation—with the city, and New York especially, becoming a screen for the projection of architectural fantasies and utopias. |
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Ateliers Jean Prouvé
until monday march 30 2009
This exhibition examines Prouvé's collaborations within his Ateliers Jean Prouvé from idea to finished product. |
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Tribute to Ettore Sottsass
until tuesday march 31 2009
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Cette exposition ambitionne de refléter la richesse créative et les différents champs d'intervention dans le processus de création d'Ettore Sottsass, architecte aux facettes multiples. |
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FLORALS IN FLUX: Abstract, Stylized, Naturalistic
until sunday april 12 2009
The exhibition deals with the aspect of floral ornamentation in the work of the Wiener Werkstätte. |
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The Art of Drinking
until sunday april 26 2009
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Drink has stimulated a rich material culture. Specific situations and drinks require particular vessels; from stoneware beer mugs to jade cups and silver goblets. |
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Elegant Armor: The Art of Jewelry
until sunday may 31 2009
Public Relations Office
info@madmuseum.org
The exhibition presents the major themes, materials and techniques that make contemporary jewelry visually exciting and intellectually stimulating. |
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Aussi rouge que possible
until sunday november 01 2009
Press contact
New accrochage. |
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Living in the Lowlands - The domestic scene in the Nai collection
until thursday december 31 2009
The NAI has one of the world's most important collections of archives of architecture, interiors, landscape architecture and urban planning. The permanent exhibition Living in the Lowlands reveals the collection's wealth of drawings, models and photographs. |
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Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights from the Collection
until friday december 31 2010
Exhibitions Coordinator
Visitor services
This first-ever retrospective exhibition of the National Building Museum’s unique collection explores quintessentially American, 20th-century buildings from center-city mansions to main street storefronts and sleek downtown skyscrapers. |
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Washington: Symbol and City
until saturday december 31 2011
Exhibitions Coordinator
Visitor services
This exhibition explores how residents experience the city and how Washington itself expresses the tension between the demands of a working siege of government and the desire for a national symbol, and the hopes and needs of an evolving city. |
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STUDIO MUSEO ACHILLE CASTIGLIONI
until monday december 31 2012
info@achillecastiglioni.it
Free entrance: at 10.00, 11.00, 12.00 with free 60-minute guided tour.School and group bookings. |
