Events / December 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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La maquette de la cathédrale de Laon - De l'ombre à la lumière
until monday march 22 2010
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Le musée de la Cité accueille une exceptionnelle maquette de la cathédrale de Laon et des bâtiments environnants, conçue à partir des plans de la restauration du XIXe siècle. À l’occasion de cette exposition, le 5 janvier 2010, à 19h30, récital exceptionnel dans les galeries du musée par François-René Duchâble (piano) et Marielle Nordmann (harpe), Alain Carré, comédien-metteur en scène, lira quelques textes tirés de Huysmans à propos des cathédrales. |
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Undeniably me. 1309 Faces
until sunday march 28 2010
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This exhibition features works by ten artists who explore themes of identity. Expressing confidence and doubt, self-control and disclosure, familiarity and alienation, remembering and forgetting, the more than 1300 faces on display reveal the complex personality possessed by every single human being. |
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Isabelle Lévénez, Portraits fragmentés
until sunday march 28 2010
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Le musée des Beaux-Arts présente le travail de l’artiste Isabelle Lévénez dans l’exposition Portraits fragmentés, vidéos/dessins. Pour la première fois au musée, l'oeuvre d'une artiste contemporaine est étroitement mêlée à celle d'un artiste renommé du siècle précédent -en l'occurence Rodin- auquel le musée des Beaux-Arts consacre l''exposition La fabrique du portrait, Rodin face à ses modèles. Face au "monument" Rodin, Lévénez répond par ses vidéos, dessins et mur d'écriture dans et autour de l'exposition. |
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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
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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
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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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BAROCK - ART, SCIENCE, FAITH AND TECHNOLOGY IN CONTEMPORARY EGE
until sunday april 04 2010
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In the framework of the events organized by the Campania Region to celebrate the Baroque culture, a big collective exhibition titled BAROCK – Art, Science, Faith and Technology in the Contemporary Age, which will run from December 12th to April 5th. |
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Urs Lüthi, Just Another Story About Leaving
until monday april 05 2010
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MACRO presents a solo exhibition of works by Urs Lüthi, the Swiss artist famous since the 1970s for his research on the idea of “Self” and on the ambiguities both of the individual and of the objects. |
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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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Elger Esser. Proper time
until sunday april 11 2010
press@kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de
The photographs of Elger Esser act like a déjà vu: his magic pictures of riverscapes, bridges, villages, and seacoasts awaken vague memories, even if we have never visited any of the places photographed. Consciously drawing on Marcel Proust, the Stuttgart-born artist (b. 1967) repeatedly sets out in »search of lost time« in his poetic, melancholic photographs. |
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Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson
until sunday april 11 2010
directorate@mca.com.au
Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson is the first full-scale survey of projects by this contemporary Icelandic artist to have been presented in Australia. The exhibition gathers works from major public and private collections worldwide and spans Eliasson’s diverse range of artistic production from 1993 to the present, including installations, large-scale immersive environments, freestanding sculpture, and photography. |
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Luc Tuymans, Against the day
until sunday april 25 2010
Communications Officer
The Belgian artist Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) is one of the most respected artists of his generation. The exhibition Against the Day presents 20 of his recent paintings. In this new series the focus is on virtual realities, fantasies and illusions. |
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Tim Burton
until monday april 26 2010
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This major career retrospective on Tim Burton (American, b. 1958), consisting of a gallery exhibition and a film series, considers Burton's career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator. |
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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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Night & Day
until tuesday may 11 2010
The Museum at FIT presents Night & Day, a new exhibition examining how the rules that dictate appropriate dress for women have changed over the past 250 years. |
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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
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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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PERFORMANCE 7: MIRAGE BY JOAN JONAS
until monday may 31 2010
Chief Communications Officer
Inspired by a trip the artist took to India, Joan Jonas’s Mirage (1976/2005) was originally conceived as a 1976 performance for the screening room of New York’s Anthology Film Archives. In it, Jonas carried out a series of movements, such as running as a form of percussion and as gestural drawing, while interacting with a variety of sculptural components and video projections. |
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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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IL ETAIT UNE FOIS PLAYMOBIL
until wednesday june 09 2010
Il était une fois Playmobil est la première exposition en France de la marque allemande célébrant les trente-cinq ans de ce personnage de 7,5 cm de haut et de ses multiples accessoires. |
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COLLECTION: THE FIRST 30 YEARS
until tuesday june 15 2010
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On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, MOCA opens Collection: The First 30 Years, a permanent installation of its renowned collection. Comprising nearly 6,000 works dating from 1939 to the present day, MOCA’s collection is internationally regarded as one of the largest and most important collections of postwar art in the world. |
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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
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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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THE NEW TYPOGRAPHY
until monday july 12 2010
Chief Communications Officer
In the 1920s and 1930s, the so-called New Typography movement brought graphics and information design to the forefront of the artistic avant-garde in Central Europe. Rejecting traditional arrangement of type in symmetrical columns, modernist designers organized the printed page or poster as a blank field in which blocks of type and illustration (frequently photomontage) could be arranged in harmonious, strikingly asymmetrical compositions. |
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Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980
until saturday july 31 2010
T : +1 212 708-9431
The new installation of the Architecture and Design Galleries features a selection of visionary objects, graphics, architectural fragments, and textiles from the Museum’s collection that reveal the attempts of successive generations to shape their experience of living in the modern world. |
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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
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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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Carlos Amorales
until tuesday december 14 2010
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The exhibition Nuevos Ricos will present for the first time the entire product range and scope of the art project and record label of the same name by Carlos Amorales. The Kunsthalle Fridericianum will not only provide an overview of the history and social positioning of the project, but above all will reflect the broad artistic spectrum: The abstract ground plan of a concert hall becomes a platform for performances and concerts as well as for discussions about topics such as copyright and piracy. |
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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
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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. |
