Events / November 2008

  december 2008

Gaudi - Sagrada Familia

4xBarcelona

until tuesday january 06 2009
Arkitekturmuseet
T : +46 8 587 270 00
Skeppsholmen
SE-111 49 Stockholm
Sweden

info@arkitekturmuseet.se
www.arkitekturmuseet.se

Gaudì, Miralles, Cerdà, Patent Constructions.
The exhibition program for the autumn includes a variety of different apporaches to the city of Barcelona. The four exhibitions presented as part of the theme are: "Patent Constructions. New Catalonian Architecture", "Gaudí Unseen - Completing La Sagrada Familia", "Cerdà. The Eixample project of Barcelona" and "Miralles - Interpretations of the work of an architect. Photographies by David Bestué".


Photo Sagrada Família, Barcelona, 2007. Architect: Antoni Gaudí © Mark Burry / Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família


Bill Violla

Bill Viola, Inner visions

until tuesday january 06 2009
Palazzo Delle Esposizioni
T : +39 6 48941230
Via Nazionale 194
00184 Rome
Italy

info@palazzoesposizioni.it
www.palazzoesposizioni.it/

Bill Viola’s work is one of the greatest examples of contemporary art's ability to achieve transcendence, expressing an almost ancestral pietas, a universal and shared mysticism. These feelings are reinforced by his exhibition “Inner Visions,” which sets up a figurative via crucis, or Way of the Cross, its videos' overly theatrical characters; their extremely slowed-down, expanded, or inverted time; their oneiric spaces suffused with light; and their altered sounds convey a suspended, estranged, contemplative atmosphere.

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TheAnySpaceWhatever

theanyspacewhatever

until wednesday january 07 2009
Guggenheim Museum
T : + 1 212 423 3500
1071 Fifht Avenue
New York
United States

www.guggenheim.org/new-york/

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

Collectif Dito: appartement 101

until friday january 09 2009
Galerie Blanche, association Première rue
Cité Radieuse Le Corbusier de Briey
Résidence Le Corbusier
54150 Briey-en-forêt
France

Mlle Véronique Léonard / association Première rue
T : +33 (0)3 82 20 28 55
lapremiererue@briey-cable.com
www.lapremiererue.fr

Vernissage le 24 Octobre 2008 à 18H30, entrée libre
The group design Dito is invited to explore and expose a contemporary vision of a cell identical to those used in the Cité Radieuse Le Corbusier in Briey. The exhibition will be held in one of these modules.

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Sauma

SAUMA - user-driven design

until friday january 09 2009
Dansk Design Center
T : +45 3369 3369
HC Andersens Boulevard 27
DK 1553 Copenhagen
Denmark

Head of exhibitions
Maria Elskær
T : +45 3369 3332
mel@ddc.dk

Press contact
Susanne Søndahl Wolff
T : +45 3369 3309
ssw@ddc.dk
www.ddc.dk

Main exhibition from the 20th of September. SAUMA presents innovative contemporary design by some of Finland’s new designers.

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Face à Face

Pierre Paulin/ Inédité

until saturday january 10 2009
Perimeter art-design
T : +33(0)1 5542 0122
47 rue Saint André des Arts
75006 Paris
France

Directeur
Nicolas Chwat
T : +33(0)1 5542 0122
contact@perimeter-editions.com
www.perimeter-editions.com

Press contact
Liza Fitoussi
T : +33 (0) 1 48 78 15 28
F : +33(0) 1 48 78 16 66
lfit@wanadoo.fr

Perimeter art-design et Nicolas Hug, ex-Directeur de la Galerie Scandinave, grand collectionneur et ami de Pierre Paulin, sont heureux de présenter l’exposition : Pierre Paulin/ Inédité.




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Beltrame

Louidgi Beltrame - Brasilia / Chandigarh

until saturday january 10 2009
Galerie Jousse Entreprise
T : +33 (0)1 53 82 10 18
24, rue louise Weiss
75013 Paris
France

art@jousse-entreprise.com
www.jousse-entreprise.com

Two capitals, on the one hand, Brasilia, Brazil's administrative capital built by Oscar Niemeyer in the late 1950s, on the other, Chandigarh, built at more or less the same time by Le Corbusier, in India. So here we have two iconic cities introduced in a film-cum-exhibition.


Magdalena Gerber

Petits bouleversements au centre de la table

until sunday january 11 2009
Les Arts Décoratifs
T : + 33 (0)1 44 55 57 50
107-11, rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris
France

presse@lesartsdecoratifs.fr
www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr

relations presse Bernardaud
sdufresne@bernardaud.fr
www.bernardaud.fr

Après 4 mois à Limoges, l’exposition de la Fondation d’entreprise Bernardaud sera exposée aux Arts Décoratifs jusqu'en janvier.




Magdalena Gerber

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Esprit Mingei

The spirit of “Mingei” in Japan: folk art design

until sunday january 11 2009
musée du quai Branly
galerie Jardin
T : +33 (0)1 56 61 70 00
37, quai Branly
75007 Paris
France

conatct presse
Anne-Sylvie Capitani
anne-sylvie.capitani@quaibranly.fr
www.quaibranly.fr

Frédéric Pillier / Pierre Laporte Communication
T : +33 (0)1 45 23 14 14
frederic@pierre-laporte.com

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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Architecture in Scotland

Architecture in Scotland 2006-2008

until sunday january 11 2009
The Lighthouse
Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City
T : +44 (0)141 221 6362
11 Mitchell Lane
G1 3NU Glasgow
Scotland

enquiries@thelighthouse.co.uk
www.thelighthouse.co.uk

lesley.booth@newcenturypr.com

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.



Lotte Glob


Affiche de l'exposition Nobel

Alfred Nobel, au service de l'innovation

until sunday january 11 2009
Le palais de la Découverte
T : + 33 (0)1 56 43 20 20
Avenue Franklin-D.-Roosevelt
75008 Paris
France

press contact
Christelle Linck
T : +33 (0)1 40 74 81 04
christelle.linck@palais-decouverte.fr
www.palais-decouverte.fr

www.rmn.fr

Designed by the Nobel Museum in Stockholm.

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Id Lab

ID LAB

until sunday january 11 2009
The Reykjavik Art Museum
Hafnarhus
T : + 354 590-1200
Tryggvagata 17
121 Reykjavik
Iceland

listasafn@reykjavik.is
www.artmuseum.is

Public relation director
soffia.karlsdottir@reykjavik.is

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.

The Icelandic Love Corporation, 2008.


Cold War Modern

Cold War Modern: Art & Design in a Divided World 1945 - 1975

until sunday january 11 2009
Victoria and Albert Museum
V&A South Kensington
T : +44 (0)20 7942 2000
Cromwell Road
London
United Kingdom

Press contact
T : + 44 (0)20 7942 2502
press.office@vam.ac.uk
www.vam.ac.uk

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.


Illustration : Eero Aamio, Globe Chair


Akira Kurozawa

Akira Kurosawa

until sunday january 11 2009
Tous les jours sauf lundis et jours fériés de 10h à 18h, nocturne le jeudi jusqu'à 20h
Petit Palais
T : +33 1 53 43 40 00
avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
France

contact presse
Caroline Delga
T : +33 1 53 43 40 14
caroline.delga@paris.fr
www.paris.fr/portail/Culture/Portal.lut?page_id=6228

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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Joan Miro

Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927–1937

until monday january 12 2009
MOMA
Museum of Modern Art
T : +1 (212) 708-9400
11 West 53 Street (between Fifth and Sixth avenues)
NY 10019-5 New York
United States

info@moma.org
www.moma.org

Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927–1937 is the first major museum exhibition to identify the core practices and strategies Miró used to attack painting between 1927 and 1937, a transformative decade within his long career. Taking his notorious claim—“I want to assassinate painting” —as its point of departure, the exhibition explores twelve of Miró’s sustained series from this decade, beginning with a 1927 group of works on canvas that appears to be raw and concluding with 1937’s singular, hallucinatory painting, Still Life with Old Shoe.

Joan Miró. Rope and People, I. 1935. Oil on cardboard mounted on wood, with coil of rope. 41 1/4 x 29 3/8" (104.8 x 74.6 cm). The Museum of Modern Art. Gift of the Pierre Matisse Gallery. © 2007 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Ryoji Ikeda

Ryoji Ikeda & Benedict Gross

until monday january 12 2009
Le Laboratoire
T : +33 (0)1 78 09 49 50
4, rue du Bouloi
75001 Paris
France

Press contact
Valérie Abrial
T : +33 (0)1 78 09 49 55
valerie.abrial@lelaboratoire.org

info@lelaboratoire.org
www.lelaboratoire.org

Le Laboratoire is pleased to present, for the first time in Europe, a solo exhibition of the Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda.
Vue d’exposition V≠L, associant Ryoji Ikeda à Benedict Gross.Exposition présentée au Laboratoire entre le 11 octobre et le 12 janvier 2009 © Marc Domage
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Christian Dior

Christian Dior & Chinese artists

until thursday january 15 2009
UCCA
Big Hall
798 Art District, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, P.O. Box 8503, Chaoyang District,
100015 Beijing
China

T : +86 (0) 10 8459 9269
F : +86 (0) 10 8459 9717
ucca.org.cn

Contact Presse
Valériane van der Noordaa
vvandernoordaa@christiandior.fr

The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art presents the exhibition "Christian Dior and Chinese Artists" starting November 16th, 2008 in Beijing.
Conceived as a highly innovative project, this exhibition creates a dialogue between two continents and two different means of expression, contemporary art and fashion. A legendary name, synonymous around the world with haute couture, places itself as a source of inspiration for major Chinese artists:
Wang Du, Zhang Huan, Huang Rui, Li Songsong, Zhang Dali, Xu Zhongmin, Liu Jianhua, Zheng Guogu, Lu Hao, Wang Qingsong, Yan Lei, Zhang Xiaogang, Wen Fang, Shi Jingsong, Wang Gongxin, Quentin Shih, Liu Wei, Rong Rong & Inri, Tim Yip, Qiu Zhijie et Ma Yan Song.
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Design et Cuisine

Design & kitchen

until thursday january 15 2009
Galerie Haute Définition
T : + 33 (0)1 40 41 16 00
4, Passage du Grand Cerf
75002 Paris
France

Directrice
Sabine Sautter
T : + 33 (0)1 40 41 16 00
contact@haute-definition.com
www.haute-definition.com

To discover and by special objetcs dedicated to kitchen, designed by european and japonese's designers and architects.


Bus Stop

Collection Agustín et Isabel Coppel, Mexico: expected/unexpected

until sunday january 18 2009
La maison rouge
T : +33(0) 1 40 01 08 81
10 boulevard de la Bastille
75012 Paris
France

service des publics
Stéphanie Molinard
www.lamaisonrouge.org/fr/index.php

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.

Gabriel Orozco, Bus Stop, 2008
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Aretha Franklin

Warhol Live

until sunday january 18 2009
Musée des Beaux-Arts
T : + 1 514 285 2000
1380, rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Montreal
Québec

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.

Aretha Franklin © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

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Les Somnanbules

Alain Séchas chez Hermès

until sunday january 18 2009
Maison Hermès
8 F Le Forum
T : 03 3569 3611

Tokyo
Japan

www.alainsechas.com/details_categorie.php?id=369

Première exposition solo au Japon, dans l'édifice en verre signé Renzo Piano.


Jeremy Deller

From one revolution to another

until sunday january 18 2009
de midi à minuit tous les jours sauf le lundi.
Palais de Tokyo
T : +33 1 47 23 54 01
13, avenue du Président Wilson
75116 Paris
France

service presse
Dolores Gonzales
T : +33 1 47 23 52 00
dolores@palaisdetokyo.com
www.palaisdetokyo.com/

Carte blanche to Jeremy Deller avec Ed Hall, Alan Kane, Scott King, Matt Price, William Scott, Andrei Smirnov, Marc Touché, White Columns.

Illustration © Palais de Tokyo

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Serrurier

Gustave Serrurier-Bovy (1858-1910) - Acteur du futur

until sunday january 18 2009
Du mardi au dimanche : 10h-18h. Clôture vente des billets : 17h. Fermé le lundi et les 1/11, 2/11,11/11, 24/12, 25/12 et 1/1.
MAMAC
Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain
T : + 32(0)4 343 04 03
3, parc de la Boverie
4020 Liège
Belgium

info@caracascom.com
www.mamac.be

www.liege.be

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.

Illustration : Gustave Serrurier-Bovy, entre 1900 et 1910, Collection Ville de Liège (Don de Mme Soyeur-Delvoye)


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Vidéo

La vidéo, un art, une histoire 1965 - 2007

until sunday january 18 2009
Musée Fabre
T : +33 4 67 14 83 00
39, boulevard Bonne Nouvelle
34000 Montpellier
France

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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Dovima et les éléphants

Richard Avedon photographs (1946-2004)

until monday january 19 2009
Martin-Gropius-Bau
Niederkirchnerstraße 7 | Corner Stresemannstr. 110
10963 Berlin
Germany

Contact presse
Katrin Mundorf
T : +49 0 30 254 86 112
F : +49 0 30 254 86-235
presse@gropiusbau.de
www.berlinerfestspiele.de/

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.

Illustration : Dovima et les éléphants Robe du soir de Dior, Cirque d’Hiver, Paris, 1955 © 2008 the Richard Avedon Foundation

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54 - Transition

54 / transition

until saturday january 24 2009
Galerie Kreo
T : +33 (0)1 53 10 23 00
31, rue Dauphine
75006 Paris
France

kreogal@wanadoo.fr.
www.galeriekreo.com

 


Design Packaging

Pack'Art : l'art dans le packaging

until saturday january 24 2009
DesignPack Gallery
T : +33(0)1 44 85 86 00
24, rue de Richelieu
75001 Paris
France

gallery@p-reference.fr
www.designpackgallery.fr

Contact presse
Sophie Louvet
T : +33(0)1 44 85 86 30
louvetso@wanadoo.fr

La place prépondérante du packaging dans notre société mais aussi les critiques exacerbées qu’il soulève, en font une source d’inspiration récurrente pour les artistes. L’exposition issue du nouvel ouvrage montrera aux visiteurs à quel point les échanges créatifs entre l’art et le packaging sont riches, réciproques et continus depuis plus d’un siècle et demi.


Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois for Capodimonte

until sunday january 25 2009
Museo de Capodimonte
T : +39 08174 99 111
via Miano 2
Naples
Italy

Barbara Izzo
T : +39 06 692050220
F : +39 06 69942202
izzo@civita.it
www.museo-capodimonte.it/

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.

Illustration : Louise Bourgeois - Maman - (1999)

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Big Ideas

CLOSE UP I: BIG IDEAS

until sunday january 25 2009
Danish Architecture Centre
T : +45 3257 1930
Strandgade 27B
DK - 1401 Copenhagen
Denmark

press contact
Line Juul Greisen
T : +45 3264 5489
ljg@dac.dk
www.dac.dk

press@big.dk
www.big.dk

Close Up is the new DAC exhibition series on Danish architectural firms setting the agenda with visionary architecture and new thoughts and ideas on issues that excels much further than everyday architectural and planning matters. I

Illustrations: BIG’s winning project, Welfairytales


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Günter Brus

GÜNTER BRUS: Midnight Dawn

until sunday january 25 2009
Mak - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
T : (+43-1) 711 36-0
Stubenring 5
A-1010 Vienna
Austria

office@mak.at

presse@mak.at
www.mak.at

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.

Günter Brus: Abbruch der Beziehungen zum Ich, 1980. Bleistift und Farbstift auf Papier, 35,5 x 26,9 cm. Privatsammlung.
© Peter Kasperak/MAK


Patricia Urquiola

Patricia Urquiola - Purely Porcelain

until sunday january 25 2009
Design Museum
T : +44 (0)870 833 9955
28 Shad Thames
SE1 2YD London
England

info@designmuseum.org
www.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.

Media view on 9 October, 3pm-5pm. RSVP: media@designmuseum.org


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Chantal Ackerman

Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space

until sunday january 25 2009
Miami Art Museum
T : 305.375.3000
101 West Flagler Street
33130 Miami
United States

www.miamiartmuseum.org/

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.

Illustration : (D'est: Au bord de la fiction), 1995. Video installation. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris.

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Arabia 135

Arabia 135: Ceramics - Art - Industry

until sunday january 25 2009
Design Museo
T : +358 (0)9 622 0540
Korkeavuorenkatu 23
00130 Helsinki
Finland

Public Relations
Christa Pelin
T : +358 (0)9 6220 5428
christa.pelin@designmuseum.fi

info@designmuseum.fi
www.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.


Teacup and plate, mold D, decoration Canton. Faiance, copperplate technique. 1893-1925. Copperplate, decoration Canton. Photo: Rauno Träskelin.


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Hermann Jünger

Hermann Jünger - Jewellery, found objects

until sunday january 25 2009
Design Museum Gent
T : +32 (0)9 267 99 99
Jan Breydelstraat 5
BE-9000 Gent
Belgium

museum.design@gent.be
design.museum.gent.be

German jewellery designer Hermann Jünger is one of the most important and most influential 20th-century jewellery designers. He was one of the pioneers who granted jewellery a whole new status.

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Biennale d'Helsinki

Helsinki Biennale 2008

until sunday january 25 2009
Design Museo
T : +358 (0)9 622 0540
Korkeavuorenkatu 23
00130 Helsinki
Finland

Public Relations
Christa Pelin
T : +358 (0)9 6220 5428
christa.pelin@designmuseum.fi
www.designmuseum.fi

Head of Helsinki Biennale
Aki-Pekka Sinikoski
T : +358 40 55 234 50
peki@helsinkibiennale.com
www.helsinkibiennale.com

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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Sylvie Fleury - Pop Corn geants

Sylvie Fleury, Paillettes et dépendances ou la fascination du réel

until sunday january 25 2009
Mamco
T : +41 22 320 61 22
10, rue des Vieux-Grenadier
CH-1205 Geneva
Switzerland

www.mamco.ch/

Twelve years after her first exhibition in Mamco, Sylvie Fleury is back for a retrospective, with new pieces beside her classics.

Illustration : Sylvie Fleury - Pop Corn géants (blanc,rose,caramel)- (2008)

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Political/Minimal

Political/Minimal

until sunday january 25 2009
KW Institute for contemporary art
T : +33 44 30 24 34 590
Auguststr. 69
10117 Berlin
Germany

info@kw-berlin.de
www.kw-berlin.de/index.htm

The exhibition Political/Minimal presents art works from the past forty years that are minimal in form and political in content.

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Alan Alridge Madam Bell

Alan Aldridge - the man with kaleidoscope eyes

until sunday january 25 2009
Design Museum
T : +44 0870 833 9955
28 Shad Thames
SE1 2YD London
England

info@designmuseum.org
www.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.

Late night openingFriday 31 October and Friday 5 December until 10pm.


Alan Alridge. Madam Bell Donna, illustration from The Peacock Party, first published 1979 © Design Museum

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House Proud

House Proud: Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection

until sunday january 25 2009
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
T : +1 (0)212.849.8400
2 East 91st Street
NY 10128 New York
United States

press contact
T : +1 212 849 8420
cooperhewittpress@si.edu
cooperhewitt.org

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.

The Blue Room, Schloss Fischbach.Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Klose (German, 1804–after1863) Germany, 1846.Brush and watercolor, graphite on white paper. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Thaw Collection, 2007-27-39. Photo: Matt Flynn

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Musée de Nancy

Jean-Michel Alberola, huile sur toile

until wednesday january 28 2009
10h à 18h tous les jours sauf le mardi
Musée des Beaux-Arts
T : +33 3 83 85 30 72
3, place Stanislas
54000 Nancy
France

F : +33 3 83 85 30 76
mbanancy@mairie-nancy.fr
www.nancy.fr

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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Guitare silencieuse

WA: L'HARMONIE AU QUOTIDIEN - Design japonais d'aujourd'hui

until saturday january 31 2009
Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris
T : +33 (0)1 44 37 95 00/01
101bis, quai Branly
75015 Paris
France

Relations publiques
Philippe Achermann
T : +33 (0)1 44 37 95 24
p.achermann@mcjp.asso.fr
www.mcjp.asso.fr

Service de presse Observatoire
Véronique Janneau
T : +33 (0)1 43 54 87 71
veronique@observatoire.fr

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.


Illustration : Guitare silencieuse Yamaha Product Design Laboratory, crédit: Yamaha Corporation


Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005

until sunday february 01 2009
Daily 10.00 – 18.00
National Portrait Gallery
T : 020 7312 2463
St Martin's Place
London
United Kingdom

www.npg.org.uk/

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.

Annie Leibovitz, My Brother Philip and My Father, Silver Spring, Maryland, 1988
Photograph © Annie Leibovitz


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Mark Rotkho

Rothko

until sunday february 01 2009
Tate Modern
Bankside
SE1 9TG London
United Kingdom

T : 020 7887 8888
visiting.modern@tate.org.uk
www.tate.org.uk/modern/

This is the first significant exhibition of his work to be held in the UK for over 20 years.

Illustration : Mark Rothko Mural for End Wall (Untitled) [Seagram Mural] 1959 National Gallery of Art

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Paris Probale et Improbable

Unrealised Dreams. Plans for Paris (1850-1900)

until sunday february 01 2009
Musée d'Orsay
Galerie de photographie
T : +33 (0)1 40 49 48 14
62, rue de Lille
75007 Paris
France

contact presse
presse@musee-orsay.fr
www.musee-orsay.fr

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).

Louis-Ernest Lheureux Monument to the Glory of the French Revolution© photo RMN, René-Gabriel Ojeda


Memory 2008

Anish Kapoor: Memory

until sunday february 01 2009
daily 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Deutsche Guggenheim
T : 49 30 2020 9314
Unter den Linden 13-15
D-10117 Berlin
Germany

contact presse
Julia Rosenbaum
T : 49 30 2020 9314
F : 49 30 2020 9320
berlin.guggenheim@db.com
www.guggenheim.org/berlin/exhibitions

For the Deutsche Guggenheim, Kapoor has created an ambitious sculptural installation utilizing Cor-Ten steel, a new experiment for the artist. Memory offers a new kind of space in the galleries, as its total shape can never be experienced at once.

Illustration : Memory, 2008 Installation shot, Deutsche Guggenheim Photo: Mathias Schormann

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Gerhard Richter - Claudius

Gerhard Richter

until sunday february 01 2009
Museum Ludwig
T : +49 221 221 26165
Bischofsgartenstraße 1
D-50667 Cologne
Germany

F : +49 221 221 24114
info@museum-ludwig.de
www.museenkoeln.de

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.

Illustration : Gerhard Richter - Claudius (1986)

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CAHIER DE COLORIAGE

CAHIER DE COLORIAGE

until sunday february 01 2009
Habitat
Paris
France

responsable relations presse et relations publiques
Julia Duhamel
T : + 33 (0)1 55 37 45 17
julia.duhamel@habitat.fr
www.habitat.fr

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).


Baumberger

Otto Baumberger – Advertising Pioneer

until sunday february 01 2009
Museum of Design Zürich, Plakatraum
Plakatsammlung
T : +41 (0)43 446 44 66
Limmatstrasse 55
CH-8005 Zurich
Switzerland

Poster Collection
Bettina Richter
T : +41 (0)43 446 66 06
bettina.richter@zhdk.ch
www.museum-gestaltung.ch

Head of exhibitions
Angeli Sachs
T : +41 (0)43 446 67 01
angeli.sachs@zhdk.ch

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.


Otto Baumberger, Wer rechnet kauft im Globus (Educated shoppers go to Globus), Poster design, 1934 © 2008 ProLitteris


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Inauguration de l'exposition

400 years of telescopes

until sunday february 01 2009
Zeeuws Museum
Abdij (The Abbey)
T : +31 (0) 118 65 30 00
Middelburg PO Box 378
4330 AJ Middleburg
The Netherlands

info@zeeuwsmuseum.nl
www.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 - Silver & Wood

ANDREA BRANZI - Open Enclosures and other works

until sunday february 01 2009
Grand-Hornu Images
Design et Arts appliqués, Architecture et Patrimoine
T : +32 (0)65 65 21 21
82, rue Sainte Louise
BE-7301 Hornu
Belgium

Responsable service communication
Dominique Cominotto
T : +32 (0)65 61 38 65
communication@grand-hornu.be
www.grand-hornu.be

Caracas Public Relations
Hélène van den Wildenberg
T : +32 (0)4 349 14 41
hvdw@caracascom.com

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...

Illustration : Andrea Branzi, Silver & Wood 07, crédit: Argentaurum


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Swiss Federal Grants

Swiss Federal Design Grants 2008

until sunday february 01 2009
Museum Bellerive
Kunstgewerbesammlung
T : +41 (0)43 446 44 69
Höschgasse 3
CH-8008 Zurich
Switzerland

Exhibition Coordinator
Sonja Gutknecht
T : +41 (0)43 446 69 22
sonja.gutknecht@zhdk.ch
www.museum-bellerive.ch

This competition, organized by the Bundesamt für Kultur (Federal Office of Culture), is one of the most important instruments for the promotion of design.



Franziska Lüthy, Hickory, Winter collection 2007/2008 consisting of 10 knitted tops, 2006 – 2007 © Körner Union, Lausanne



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Christophe Berdaguer et Marie Péjus, 7ème Continent, Lauréats du Prix Fondation d' Entreprise Ricard 2007

until monday february 02 2009
Centre Pompidou
T : +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33
Place Georges Pompidou
75004 Paris
France

press contact
Isabelle Danto
T : +33 (0)1 44 78 42 00
isabelle.danto@centrepompidou.fr
www.centrepompidou.fr

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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Making Architecture

The Making of Architecture

until monday february 02 2009
Architekturzentrum Wien
T : +43 (1) 522 31 15
Museumsplatz 1
A-1070 Vienna
Austria

press contact
Ines Purtauf
T : +43 (1) 522 31 15-23
purtauf@azw.at

office@azw.at
www.azw.at

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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Pablo Picasso

Picasso et les maîtres

until monday february 02 2009
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais
T : +33 1 44 13 17 17
3 avenue du Général Eisenhower
75008 Paris
France

Contact presse
Gilles Romillat
T : + 33 1 40 13 47 61
gilles.romillat@rmn.fr
www.rmn.fr/Picasso-et-les-maitres

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.

Illustration : Picasso © Photo Béatrice Hatala © Arnold Newman Estate/Getty Images © Succession Picasso, 2008

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America 1928

Amerika 1928 - Photos of a Study Trip by Walter Gropius

until monday february 02 2009
Bauhaus
Archive Museum of Design
T : +49 (0)30 - 25 40 02 0
Klingelhöferstraße 14
D - 10785 Berlin
Germany

bauhaus@bauhaus.de
www.bauhaus.de

Upon resigning as director of the Dessau Bauhaus in early 1928, Walter Gropius decided to fulfil a long-held dream.
Organized in cooperation with the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, the exhibition is being shown in conjunction with the International Month of Photography.

Fred F. French Building, 1926-27, Fiew from West, Architect: Sloan & Robertson and Douglas Ives, © VG Bild-Kunst



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Alain Janssens

L'Alibi Documentaire

until monday february 02 2009
Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles
T : +33 (0) 1 53 01 96 96
127-129, Rue Saint-Martin
75004 Paris
France

info@cwb.fr
www.cwb.fr

Communication, relations publiques
Ariane Skoda
T : +33 (0)1 53 01 96 98
communication@cwb.fr

L’exposition envisage un croisement des regards entre architecture et photographie, un travail sur la porosité de la frontière entre les deux disciplines.

Alain Janssens, Cinéma Sauvenière-Liège, vers plus de bien-être:/B.A.S. architectes © Communauté française Wallonie-Bruxelles

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Munio Weinraub

Munio Weinraub | Amos Gitai - Architecture and film in Israel

until sunday february 08 2009
Pinakothek Der Moderne
T : + 49 (0) 89 238 05 360
Barer Str. 40
D 80333 Munich
Germany

press contact
Tine Nehler
T : +49 (0)89.23 805-118
presse@pinakothek.de
www.pinakothek.de

Press preview on 11-05-2008 at 11.00 and opening at 19.00.
The exhibition on the Bauhaus-trained architect Munio Weinraub (1909-1970) and his son, the internationally acclaimed director Amos Gitai (born 1950), presents a protagonist of New Building in Israel and a critical filmmaker and chronicler of his country.

Illustration : Munio Weinraub & Amos Gitai - Wasserturm, Gil Jungen Reformschule, Shefaram, Israel © Gabriele Basilico

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Scottish Show

The Scottish Show Switzerland

until sunday february 08 2009
Mudac - Musée de design et d'arts appliqués
T : +41 21 315 25 30
6, place Cathédrale
CH-1005 Lausanne
Switzerland

info@mudac.ch
www.mudac.ch

www.thescottishshow.com

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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Demeyre

100 years Demeyere

until sunday february 08 2009
Design Museum Gent
T : +32 (0)9 267 99 99
Jan Breydelstraat 5
BE-9000 Gent
Belgium

museum.design@gent.be
design.museum.gent.be

Demeyere has become a reference over the world for the production of culinary cooking utensils made of stainless steel. Over multiple generations, the company has succeeded in developing cooking utensils of the highest quality.
This exhibition has a scoop in the form of cooking pots resulting from the intensive cooperation with internationally renowned English designer John Pawson.


Jean-Marc Bustamante

Jean-Marc Bustamante

until sunday february 15 2009
Ouvert du mardi au dimanche de 10 à 18 h
MAC's Musée des Arts Contemporains
Site du Grand Hornu
82, Rue Sainte-Louise
Hornu
Belgium

T : +32 (0) 65 65 21 21
F : +32 (0) 65 61 38 97
info.ghi@grand-hornu.be
www.grand-hornu.be/

The exhibition "Le Grand Tour" by Jean-Marc Bustamante at the Museum of the Contemporary Arts of the Grand-Hornu is not properly speaking a retrospective of his work, but rather a reprise of his past and recent pieces.

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Suh  Do Ho Metal Jacket

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

until sunday february 15 2009
Museum of Arts and Design
T : +1 212.299.7777
2 Columbus Circle
NY-10019 New York
United States

Public Relations Office
Heidi Riegler
T : +1 212-229-7713
heidi.riegler@madmuseum.org

info@madmuseum.org
www.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.

Do Ho Suh. Metal Jacket, 1992-2001. 3,000 dog tags on U.S. military jacket fabric liner. 60 x 50 x 15 in.
Courtesy of Danielle and David Ganek
Photo: Courtesy of the artist; Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York



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Nakashima

Permanently MAD: Revealing the Collection

until sunday february 15 2009
Museum of Arts and Design
T : +1 212.299.7777
2 Columbus Circle
NY-10019 New York
United States

Public Relations Office
Heidi Riegler
heidi.riegler@madmuseum.org

info@madmuseum.org
www.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.

Harumi Nakashima, Struggling Form (from the Ecstatic Series), 2002. Glazed stoneware, 40 x 18 x 18 in.
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2004
Photo: Ed Watkins


Encore une fois

Delphine Coindet: Encore une fois

until sunday february 15 2009
Domaine de Chamarande
T : +33 1 60 82 25 32
38, rue du Cdt Arnoux
91730 Chamarande
France

chamarande@essonne.fr
www.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.

Illustration : Delphine Coindet, Chérie Chérie, 2006 - Collection Frac basse-Normandie, Caen

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Jackson Pollock et le chamanisme

Jackson Pollock et le chamanisme

until sunday february 15 2009
tous les jours de 10h30 à 18h00
Pinacothèque de Paris
28, place de la Madeleine
75008 Paris
France

T : +33 1 42 68 02 01
contact@pinacotheque.com
www.pinacotheque.com/fr/

la Pinacothèque de Paris présente, pour la première fois à Paris depuis 26 ans, un ensemble exceptionnel d'oeuvres du peintre expressionniste abstrait Jackson Pollock inspiré par le chamanisme amérindien.

Grâce à cette lecture inédite, véritable découverte du mode opératoire de l'artiste, nous vous proposons d'éclairer et de comprendre le processus de transformation spirituelle chamanique que Pollock avait fait sien.


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PETER KNAPP

until sunday february 15 2009
Galerie Anatome 2008
T : + 33 (0)1 48 06 98 81
38 rue Sedaine
75011 Paris
France

contact@galerie-anatome.com
www.galerie-anatome.com

Peter Knapp, artistic director.


Modern Times Powerhouse

Moderm Times - The untold story of modernism in Australia

until sunday february 15 2009
Powerhouse Museum
T : (+61 2) 9217 0111
500 Harris Street Ultimo, PO Box K346 Haymarket
NSW 1238 Sydney
Australia

Media Officer
Mandy Campbell
T : +61 2 92170551
www.powerhouse.com

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.



Australia Square, 1968. Photo by Max Dupain. Courtesy Max Dupain and Associates

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Cy Twombly - Courant Froid

Cy Twombly

until sunday february 15 2009
Museo Guggenheim
T : +34 94 435 90 08
Avenida Abandoibarra
Bilbao
Spain

F : +34 94 435 90 59
media@guggenheim-bilbao.es
www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/?idioma=fr

Bilbao devotes an important monograph for the 80 years of Cy Twombly,

The exhibition features Twombly’s work in series, including the earlier five-canvas Ferragosto (1961), which, unlike its successor, can be viewed as individual paintings. Other important series included in this major exhibition are Hero and Leandro (1984) and Quattro Stagioni (1993-94).

Illustration : Cy Twombly - Courant Froid (1966)


Big Game

BIG GAME

until sunday february 22 2009
Grand-Hornu Images
Design et Arts appliqués, Architecture et Patrimoine
T : +32 (0)65 65 21 21
82, rue Sainte Louise
BE-7301 Hornu
Belgium

Responsable service communication
Dominique Cominotto
T : +32 (0)65 61 38 65
communication@grand-hornu.be
www.grand-hornu-images.be

Caracas Public Relations
Hélène van den Wildenberg
T : +32 (0)4 349 14 41
hvdw@caracascom.com

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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Head to Head

Head to Head – Political Portraits

until sunday february 22 2009
Museum of Design Zürich
T : +41 (0)43 446 67 67
Ausstellungsstrasse 60
CH-8005 Zurich
Switzerland

Communication
Bernadette Mock
T : +41 (0)43 446 67 04
bernadette.mock@zhdk.ch
www.museum-gestaltung.ch

Head of exhibitions
Angeli Sachs
T : +41 (0)43 446 67 01
angeli.sachs@zhdk.ch

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.



Commissioned by the Kennedy for President Committee, A Time For Greatness – Kennedy for President, Boston 1960

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Design Medal

Design Medal 2008

until sunday february 22 2009
The Lighthouse
Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City
T : +44 (0)141 221 6362
11 Mitchell Lane
G1 3NU Glasgow
Scotland

enquiries@thelighthouse.co.uk
www.thelighthouse.co.uk

press contact
Lesley Booth
T : +44 (0) 779 941 4474
lesley.booth@newcenturypr.com

An opportunity to see work by a new generation of design talent, the annual Glasgow 1999 Design Medal is a platform for designers studying at Glasgow’s Higher and Further Education institutions.
To find out more about the Glasgow 1999 Design Medal click here

Dieny Itoe, Glasgow 1999 Design Medal 2007 Winner © Mary Knox

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Atelier

until sunday february 22 2009
The Lighthouse
Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City
T : +44 (0)141 221 6362
11 Mitchell Lane
G1 3NU Glasgow
Scotland

enquiries@thelighthouse.co.uk
www.thelighthouse.co.uk

press contact
Lesley Booth
T : +44 (0) 779 941 4474
lesley.booth@newcenturypr.com

Atelier are fashion designer Beca Lipscome, illustrator Bernie Reid and fine artist Lucy McKenzie.




Consult Atelier's website

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Chocolatière

La faïence fine française, 1743-1843

until monday february 23 2009
Musée National de Céramique
T : +33(0)1 41 14 04 20
Place de la Manufacture
92310 Sèvres
France

musee.sevres@culture.gouv.fr
www.musee-ceramique-sevres.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.




Chocolatière, manufacture du Pont-aux-Choux, 1735-1788 © photo PMN, Martine Beek-Coppola.

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Kristian Solmer Vedel - Pair of children chairs

Curators Select: Recent Acquisitions, 2003–2008

until sunday march 01 2009
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
T : +1 (0)212.849.8400
2 East 91st Street
NY 10128 New York
United States

press contact
T : +1 212 849 8420
cooperhewittpress@si.edu
cooperhewitt.org

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.

Pair of children’s chairs with adjustable parts,designed by Kristian Solmer Vedel (Danish, 1923–2003). Manufactured by Torben Ørskov
Denmark, designed 1951–53, produced 1957. Painted beech plywood. Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2007-37-1,2
Photo: Matt Flynn



GEORGE NELSON

GEORGE NELSON

until sunday march 01 2009
Vitra Design Museum
T : + 49 (0) 7621 702 3200
Charles-Eames-Strass 1
D-79576 Weil am Rhein
Germany

T : + 49 (0) 7621 702 3590
info-weil@design-museum.de
www.design-museum.de

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.


Teaser Bont

Asian ceramics

until sunday march 01 2009
Groningen Museum
T : + 31 50 3666555
Museumeiland 1
9711 ME Groningen
The Netherlands

T : + 31 0900-8212132
webmaster@groningermuseum.nl
www.groningermuseum.nl

The Starck Pavilion is an especial place to display highlights of the Museum’s Asian Ceramics collection.



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The Brussels dream

The Brussels Dream

until sunday march 01 2009
Moravian Gallery in Brno
T : +42(0) 532 169 111
Husova 18
662 26 Brno
Czech Republic

info@moravska-galerie