Events / October 2008
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theanyspacewhatever
until wednesday january 07 2009
The Guggenheim’s exhibition, theanyspacewhatever, brings together 10 artists who exemplify this creative impulse: Angela Bulloch, Maurizio Cattelan, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Jorge Pardo, Philippe Parreno, and Rirkrit Tiravanija. |
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Collectif Dito: appartement 101
until friday january 09 2009
Mlle Véronique Léonard / association Première rue
Vernissage le 24 Octobre 2008 à 18H30, entrée libre |
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SAUMA - user-driven design
until friday january 09 2009
Head of exhibitions
Press contact
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
Press contact
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
conatct presse
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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Alfred Nobel, au service de l'innovation
until sunday january 11 2009
press contact
Designed by the Nobel Museum in Stockholm. |
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Akira Kurosawa
until sunday january 11 2009
contact presse
Akira Kurosawa is universally known as one of the most prominent film-directors of the second half of the twentieth century. But it was also an illustrator. Le Petit Palais offers to discover or rediscover this Japanese artist fascinated by the West, through an unprecedented retrospective in France with 87 drawings. |
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Architecture in Scotland 2006-2008
until sunday january 11 2009
enquiries@thelighthouse.co.uk
The latest biennial review of Scottish architecture presents recent Scottish projects alongside European examples from Austria, Switzerland and Norway. This exhibition seeks to place Scottish buildings in an international context exploring issues such as the culture of place, regional identity and globalisation, to discover the story of each building. |
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Ryoji Ikeda & Benedict Gross
until monday january 12 2009
Press contact
info@lelaboratoire.org
Le Laboratoire is pleased to present, for the first time in Europe, a solo exhibition of the Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda. |
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Collection Agustín et Isabel Coppel, Mexico: expected/unexpected
until sunday january 18 2009
service des publics
This exhibition of the Isabel and Agustin Coppel Collection attempts to explore contemporary Mexican art from a point of view that simultaneously underlines the intense dialogue with its canonical predecessors that characterizes it and the international landscape to which it also belongs. |
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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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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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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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La vidéo, un art, une histoire 1965 - 2007
until sunday january 18 2009
museefabre.montpellier-agglo.com
Sur plus de 1500 m², cette exposition rassemble une quarantaine d’œuvres et d’artistes dont Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Peter Campus, Dan Graham, Pipilotti Rist, Pierre Huygue, Aernout Mik, Laurent Grasso, Nora Martirosyan... |
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Alain Séchas chez Hermès
until sunday january 18 2009
www.alainsechas.com/details_categorie.php?id=369
Première exposition solo au Japon, dans l'édifice en verre signé Renzo Piano. |
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Richard Avedon photographs (1946-2004)
until monday january 19 2009
Contact presse
The retrospective exhibition features more than 250 photographs, demonstrating the scope of Avedon’s production, from the glamorous world of fashion through the more psychological portraits to reportage-oriented shots. |
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Helsinki Biennale 2008
until sunday january 25 2009
Public Relations
Head of Helsinki Biennale
Grand Opening for Helsinki Biennale's World Fair in Design Museum Friday October 24th at 6.p.m. If you are alive and in Helsinki – do not miss it! |
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Patricia Urquiola - Purely Porcelain
until sunday january 25 2009
info@designmuseum.org
One of the most active and exciting designers working today, Spanish born Patricia Urquiola will exhibit Landscape, her recent porcelain range for the ceramic manufacturers Rosenthal, at the Design Museum this Autumn. From dinnerware to tea sets as well as cutlery and glass, this exquisite design, which took over two years to develop, combines smooth simplicity with richly textured surface decoration. |
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Louise Bourgeois for Capodimonte
until sunday january 25 2009
Barbara Izzo
For the first time in Italy, an exhibition that includes works from all periods of Louise Bourgeois’s career will be inaugurated at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples. The artist - who over the last few decades has become a symbol of modernity - will present a collection of works that trace the steps of her artistic production from the last century until the present day, in a knowledgeable reflection that unites poetry and individual assumptions with the ordered language of contemporary avant-garde art. |
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Arabia 135: Ceramics - Art - Industry
until sunday january 25 2009
Public Relations
info@designmuseum.fi
With what would Finns have used as coffee cups and plates over the past century if the Rörstrand porcelain factory of Sweden had not received permission in 1873 from the Imperial Senate of Finland to establish a subsidiary named Arabia in Helsinki. |
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Alan Aldridge - the man with kaleidoscope eyes
until sunday january 25 2009
info@designmuseum.org
Alan Aldridge - the man with the Kaleidoscope Eyes is the first UK retrospective featuring the works of the celebrated illustrator and graphic designer Alan Aldridge. |
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Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space
until sunday january 25 2009
MAC@MAM presents the first major traveling exhibition in the United States of works by one of the great filmmakers or our time. The five projects of Moving through Time and Space span more than two decades of Akerman's career, opening a window onto the permeable border between the creative domains of fact and fiction. |
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Sylvie Fleury, Paillettes et dépendances ou la fascination du réel
until sunday january 25 2009
Twelve years after her first exhibition in Mamco, Sylvie Fleury is back for a retrospective, with new pieces beside her classics. |
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House Proud: Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection
until sunday january 25 2009
press contact
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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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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Jean-Michel Alberola, huile sur toile
until wednesday january 28 2009
F : +33 3 83 85 30 76
L'artiste présente une rétrospective complète de sa production picturale des 10 dernières années, près de 80 huiles sur toile sont rassemblées. |
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WA: L'HARMONIE AU QUOTIDIEN - Design japonais d'aujourd'hui
until saturday january 31 2009
Relations publiques
Service de presse Observatoire
Couverts, montres, théières, sacs, bicyclette, mobilier, fourniture de bureau, mais aussi guitare silencieuse, appareil photo numérique, robot humanoïdes miniatures... C'est tout l'univers quotidien des Japonais qui est exposé à la Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris. De grands classiques d'Isamu Noguchi ou de Sori Yanagi côtoient une multitude de créations plus récentes conçues par des stars du design telles que Naoto Kukasawa, Shunji Yamanaka, Makoto Koizumi et Tokujin Yoshioka. |
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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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ANDREA BRANZI - Open Enclosures and other works
until sunday february 01 2009
Responsable service communication
Caracas Public Relations
In collaboration with the Fondation Cartier, Grand Hornu Images invites the Florentine designer and architect Andrea Branzi to invest its rooms with two bold installations created in collaboration with the CIRVA... |
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Unrealised Dreams. Plans for Paris (1850-1900)
until sunday february 01 2009
contact presse
The great modernisation projects of 19th century Paris left many plans unrealised, but which still influenced the architectural development of the capital. This display of drawings from the Musée d'Orsay collections presents projects put forward for public buildings (Sorbonne, Caserne des Célestins, Opéra Comique and Grand Palais) and urban planning (Tuileries, Place de la Concorde and Ile de la Cité). |
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Otto Baumberger – Advertising Pioneer
until sunday february 01 2009
Poster Collection
Head of exhibitions
Otto Baumberger (1889 – 1961) was one of the first Swiss who can be correctly described as a "poster designer," even though his personal desire for artistic recognition would remain unfulfilled. |
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Gerhard Richter
until sunday february 01 2009
F : +49 221 221 24114
Here, for the first time, a wide-ranging museum exhibition of works by Gerhard Richter will concentrate solely on the abstract paintings he has produced since the mid-1970s, and that constitute the most striking body of work in his oeuvre. |
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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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Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005
until sunday february 01 2009
Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005 includes over 150 photographs by the celebrated photographer, encompassing well-known work made on editorial assignment as well as personal photographs of her family and close friends. |
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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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Christophe Berdaguer et Marie Péjus, 7ème Continent, Lauréats du Prix Fondation d' Entreprise Ricard 2007
until monday february 02 2009
press contact
www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com
Every year since 2000, the Centre Pompidou has welcomed the Prix Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, in recognition of an artist representative of the young French art scene. |
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Picasso et les maîtres
until monday february 02 2009
Contact presse
Bringing together 210 works from the most prestigious public and private, French and international collections, Picasso and the Masters at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais takes stock of this process. |
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The Making of Architecture
until monday february 02 2009
press contact
This exhibition tells about the very different ways in which architects use their various tools, from the pencil to the computer. |
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The Scottish Show Switzerland
until sunday february 08 2009
Mise sur pied par The Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City, à Glasgow, The Scottish Show Switzerland présente les travaux de 15 designers actifs en Ecosse. |
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Delphine Coindet: Encore une fois
until sunday february 15 2009
chamarande@essonne.fr
After Philippe Ramette in 2007, the castle is hosting an exhibition devoted to the artist Delphine Coindet entitled "Encore une fois". A wide set of recent works (2007-2008) and some older works (2005 - 2006) are presented by the artist in the chapel, the castle courtyard and the entire ground floor. |
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Cy Twombly
until sunday february 15 2009
F : +34 94 435 90 59
Bilbao devotes an important monograph for the 80 years of Cy Twombly, |
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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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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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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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Head to Head – Political Portraits
until sunday february 22 2009
Communication
Head of exhibitions
This exhibition illuminates the historical roots, epochal electoral campaigns, recurring patterns of political public relations work, and the shaping of such influential figures as Lenin, Che Guevera, Arnold Schwarzenegger, or Yulia Tymoshenko. In collaboration with the Institute for Mass Communication and Media Research Zurich. |
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BIG GAME
until sunday february 22 2009
Responsable service communication
Caracas Public Relations
Pour la première exposition solo du studio BIG-GAME, Grand-Hornu Images offre un regard sur l’ensemble de leur travail. A cette occasion, ils dévoileront leurs toutes dernières créations ainsi que la collection « Ready Made » . |
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La faïence fine française, 1743-1843
until monday february 23 2009
musee.sevres@culture.gouv.fr
Le musée national de Céramique à Sèvres, sous l’égide de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, organise une exposition sur les origines de la faïence fine française, la première depuis quarante ans. |
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Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008
until sunday march 01 2009
publicinfo@lacma.org
Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008 is the first major exhibition to bring together the magazine's historic archive of rare vintage prints with its contemporary photographs. |
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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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Asian ceramics
until sunday march 01 2009
T : + 31 0900-8212132
The Starck Pavilion is an especial place to display highlights of the Museum’s Asian Ceramics collection. |
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Curators Select: Recent Acquisitions, 2003–2008
until sunday march 01 2009
press contact
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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L'Observeur du design 09, 10ème édition
until monday march 09 2009
contact presse
Annabelle Hagmann / Cité des sciences et de l'industrie
L'Observeur du design souffle ses 10 bougies !!!! |
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Permis de construire, Carte blanche à Matali Crasset
until monday march 09 2009
com@citechaillot.fr
La Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine presents, 16 October 2008 to 9 March 2009 an workshop exhibition for toddlers (from 4 years) designed as a carte blanche to the designer Matali Crasset. |
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2 x JAPAN - Katagami / Textiles
until sunday march 29 2009
2008 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Heinrich Siebold, to whom the MAK owes a large part of its Japanese collection. |
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Artists in focus: #5 Heimo Zobernig - Total design
until sunday march 29 2009
In his oeuvre, which find his origine in the work for theatres, Heimo Zobernig, who has been a key artist in Austria’s art scene since the 1980s, moves along the boundaries between concepts and artifacts, models and architecture, materials and form, roles and film, signs and text. |
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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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Wall Stories: Children's Wallpapers and Books
until sunday april 05 2009
+1 212 849 8420
This exhibition will explore the relationship between wallpapers and books created for children through works from the permanent collection and the National Design Library. |
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Solos: Tulou/Affordable Housing for China
until sunday april 05 2009
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In the fifth installment of the Solos series, the museum will present Tulou, a prototype for affordable housing being built in the city of Guangzhou by the Chinese architectural practice Urbanus. |
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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
press contact
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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Shape our country - Workshop for national planning
until sunday may 03 2009
Marketing & Communication Dept
Would you like to see more greenery in your street? Do you dream of living on water? Or do you think you’ve found the solution to the traffic jam problem? Decide yourself what the Netherlands ought to look like! |
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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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Vous avez de beaux restes ! Objets et modes de vie du XXe siècle
until sunday july 05 2009
museedelaville@agglo-sqy.fr
Partez à la rencontre de l’homo urbanus et redécouvrez ses modes de vie : et si en 2820, un archéologue retrouvait les vestiges d’aujourd'hui ? |
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Trahison
until sunday august 30 2009
T : +33 5 56 00 81 50
«Trahison» s’envisage comme une manière de réagir à une crise de l’expérience sensible avec des oeuvres explorant le champ de l’étrange ou de l’extravagant. |
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Daniel Buren, La coupure
until tuesday september 01 2009
T : +33 1 42 71 25 21
Le Musée Picasso invite l'auteur des deux plateaux à présenter une création in situ : La Coupure. |
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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. |
