Events / October 2009
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Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton
until sunday march 21 2010
press@bonnefanten.nl
The museum is presenting the first comprehensive retrospective of Peyton's oeuvre in the Netherlands, mounted by the New Museum in New York, comprising work of the past eighteen years, beginning with a small-scale portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte and going up to one of fashion designer Marc Jacobs. |
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ARTISTS IN FOCUS: #7 LIAM GILLICK - EXECUTIVE TWO LITRE GXL
until sunday march 21 2010
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In the role of communicator, Liam Gillick examines existing processes and produces new structures. He considers the design and structural aspects of society and places them in a framework for discussion at the interface of analysis and fictional narration. |
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Anish Kapoor: Memory
until sunday march 28 2010
Director, Media and Public Relations
Memory (2008) is a site-specific work that was conceived to engage two different exhibition locations at the Guggenheim museums in Berlin and New York. Utilizing Cor-Ten steel for the first time, the sculpture represents a milestone in Kapoor’s career. |
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CHAWAN - TEABOWLS
until sunday march 28 2010
press office
The history of tea is directly linked to the history of the tea-cup becoming an aesthetic object. Ceramics from the twelfth to the twenty-first century – tea-cups from the MAK Collection from China, Korea, Japan as well as loans from private collections – demonstrate that diversity was discovered in the reduction of form to its essentials. This idea is taken up in the installation “ Door of Eternity” by Heinz Frank, which can be seen in the center of the room. |
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OBJECTS OF LUXURY: FRENCH PORCELAIN OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
until tuesday march 30 2010
This display will introduce the major French factories, including the Royal Porcelain Manufacture at Sèvres, and will demonstrate the wide variety of objects they could provide for their fashionable clientele. |
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BANCS D'ESSAI
until wednesday march 31 2010
info@citedudesign.com
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Sur le site de la Cité du design, dans le jardin Michel Olagnier sont exposés cinq éléments de mobilier urbain produits et édités par la Tôlerie Forézienne. |
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LACE IN TRANSLATION
until saturday april 03 2010
thedesigncenter@philau.edu
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Lace in Translation will be the first exhibition produced by The Design Center in conjunction with its new interpretive initiative, The Fabric of Philadelphia. Three contemporary art/design studios, whose works are often inspired by traditional lace imagery, are mining the historic lace collection at The Design Center (TDC) for inspiration. These Dutch and Canadian art/design teams are being commissioned to create new, site-specific works for installation in the Center’s galleries and on its adjoining grounds during the fall and winter of 2009/10. |
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DESIGN USA: CONTEMPORARY INNOVATION
until sunday april 04 2010
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Design USA celebrates the accomplishments of the winners honored during the first ten years of the prestigious National Design Awards. The exhibition features outstanding contemporary achievements in American architecture, landscape design, interior design, product design, communication design, corporate design, interaction design, and fashion. Developed in collaboration with the renowned firm 2x4, Design USA focuses on innovation through the lens of technology, material, method, craft and transformation. |
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James Turrell. The Wolfsburg Project
until monday april 05 2010
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The primary medium of Californian artist James Turrell is light. Probably the best-known artist in his field, Turrell's entire oeuvre since the 1960s has been devoted to exploring the diverse manifestations of this immaterial medium and working towards a new, space-defining form of light art. While light here refers to nothing beyond itself, it causes surface, colour and space to interact and allows viewers to immerse themselves in a mysterious, painterly world. |
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Christian Marclay
until monday april 05 2010
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This fall P.S.1 presents 2822 Records (PS1), 1987-2009, a site-specific floor-based installation of vinyl records by Christian Marclay. |
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American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion
until saturday april 10 2010
Fashion designed and made in the United States over the past one-hundred years has attained worldwide influence due in large part to the creation and popularization of sportswear, denim, and mass marketing. Yet, contrary to popular belief, America has also produced artistic and innovative clothing that utilized the craft of dressmaking. |
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IT'S A SMALL WORLD
until tuesday may 04 2010
How will future designers work, and how does Danish design address global issues such as sustainability, new technology and consumption? The exhibition it’s a small world challenges the Danish design tradition and explores future design practices in a global perspective. |
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ELLES@CENTREPOMPIDOU
until monday may 24 2010
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Pour la première fois dans le monde, un musée présente ses collections au féminin. Cette nouvelle présentation des collections du Musée national d'art moderne est entièrement consacrée aux artistes-femmes de notre temps. |
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SPHÈRES 2
until sunday may 30 2010
Réservation
For the second edition, the Spheres project re-involves the participation of several contemporary art galleries of international dimension prompted by one desire: to join their diverse forces and energies to develop a shared exhibition - a new kind of exhibition experience - with no submission to any restricting theme. The Galleries will present artists from the five continents, whose works will be installed in and will relate to various parts of the exceptional complex. In doing so, they will engage with the rich history of the site. |
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SOL LEWITT, SEVEN WALL DRAWINGS
until wednesday june 02 2010
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Sol LeWitt holds a special position within the group of prominent Minimalists and Conceptual artists that were so pioneering at the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 70s. He drew directly on a wall for the first time for an exhibition in 1968. For the remainder of his life he continued to work with what he termed wall drawings and investigated every line combination imaginable. |
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Joseph Kosuth : ni apparence ni illusion
until monday june 21 2010
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Des phrases en français écrites en néons blancs sont suspendues aux remparts médiévaux. Joseph Kosuth, artiste majeur de la scène contemporaine internationale, investit les espaces historiques du Louvre pour offrir au regard du visiteur une oeuvre dense et lumineuse. |
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NOUVEAUX LOGEMENTS SOCIAUX
until thursday july 01 2010
com@citechaillot.fr
L’exposition explorera les nouvelles typologies en phase avec les modes de vie et l’évolution de la société aux prises avec les questions essentielles de la ville contemporaine ; et si l’on ajoute le paramètre du développement durable en termes de qualité de vie et de justice sociale, le logement est plus que jamais un sujet d’actualité. |
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WHAT WAS GOOD DESIGN ? MoMA'S MESSAGE 1944-56
until saturday july 31 2010
+1 212 708-9431
At mid-century MoMA played a leading role in the definition and dissemination of so-called Good Design, a concept that took shape in the 1930s and emerged with new relevance in the decades following World War II. This installation presents selections from MoMA's design collection that illuminate the primary values of Good Design as promoted (and disputed) by museums, design councils, and department stores. |
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L'OBJET DU DESIGN
until sunday august 22 2010
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Commissariat : Les Sismo. Cette exposition propose quatre entrées complémentaires comme autant d’engagements, selon lesquelles un designer peut aborder la création d’objets, l’accompagnement de ses commanditaires et la satisfaction des usagers. |
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DAN GRAHAM: BEYONG
until monday october 11 2010
press@whitney.org
Dan Graham: Beyond is the first-ever comprehensive museum survey of Graham’s career to be done in the United States. The show is co-curated by Chrissie Iles, the Whitney’s Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, and Bennett Simpson, MOCA associate curator. Organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in collaboration with the Whitney, it examines Graham’s extensive body of work in photographs, film and video, architectural models, indoor and outdoor pavilions, conceptual projects for magazine pages, drawings, prints, and writings. |
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JOSEPH HOFFMANN: INSPIRATIONS
until friday december 31 2010
Head of the MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection
In collaboration with the Moravian Gallery in Brno, the MAK is developing a concept for a permanent exhibition on the life and work of Josef Hoffmann in Austria and the Czech Republic, to be shown in Hoffmann’s birthplace in Brtnice beginning in June 2009. The project encompasses the redesign of the six exhibition rooms in the house. |
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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. |
