Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From January 16 to June 27, 2010, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present "Ewan Gibbs: San Francisco". Made up of works commissioned for the museum's 75th anniversary, the exhibition premieres 18 of Gibbs's urban portraits—drawn by hand—that depict views of the city familiar to visitors and residents alike. Using his signature visual language...
Curbed (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Welcome back to Tuesday Townhouse: A look at a new-to-market townhouse that is rocking our world. Today we venture to Williamsburg. This week's townhouse of note is 293 Grand Street in Williamsburg, a 6,500 3BR, 3BA building with a terrace and a balcony. The ground floor commercial space is currently home to an art gallery with "museum quality" track lighting (and a kitchen). How much for...
Isola di Rifiuti (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Barb’d Wire A YEAR CCCXXI Corvine black up along the running ridge, stench of catfish guts slather’d into the sandy yellow pit, blue’d with fly-shine. Thunder lowering its boom a county away. One caprice of context is to make inert dandyism succumb, plumb formlessness with a fix’d indolence that rebuts its rump basis in raw affinity. Ammonia smell of the rookery making me gag....
Design Observer (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The upcoming Museum of Modern Art exhibition “Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity” is the first update since “Bauhaus 1919–1928,” MoMA’s first, last and only comprehensive examination of the school.
The ArchitectsNewspaper Blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
In the late 1960s, the New York architect Stan Ries was consulting on design and photography for the art nouveau exhibit Hector Guimard at the Museum of Modern Art, when the director approached him with an unusual opportunity to photograph the entire design collection. Given two days to decide between architecture and photography as a [...]
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Man Ray has one of the coolest names in the history of art. However, he was born Emmanuel Radnitzky. He rejected his birth name moved to Paris in 1921 and became the sole American in the vanguard of Parisian Modernism. This transformation represented a conflicted identity and his deep desire to escape the limitations of his Russian Jewish past. "Le Violon d'Ingres," 1924. Rosalind and Melvin...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Wallspace Gallery 619 West 27th Street, ground floor, 212-594-9478 Chelsea October 30 - December 19, 2009 Opening: Friday, October 30, 6 - 8 PM Web Site Wallspace is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Shannon Ebner. This will be the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Images point to what is in the world; that is the problem with representation....
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity at MoMA. "...Founded in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus brought together artists, architects, and designers in an extraordinary conversation about the nature of art in the age of technology. Aiming to rethink the very form of modern life, the Bauhaus became the site of a dazzling array of experiments in the visual arts that...
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Time magazine's Richard Lacayo is the latest to wonder : What was the New Museum thinking? Lacayo also writes the single best NuMu line of the week: "[A]re shows at the New Museum essential exhibitions, or just the last word in product placement?" Contrary to what you may have read elsewhere, I agree with Lacayo not seeing "the point of an absolutist position" against these shows....
The Lobby from SPG (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
On a recent stroll through the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, I was struck by a photograph of two men napping on the paint-spattered floor beneath a collection of Van Gogh paintings. These men, it turns out, are two...
Eclectica (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
I've just finished browsing the very well produced web site for the Bauhaus exhibition at MOMA (see my previous post for a discussion of the exhibition design). The Bauhaus was a German design and craft school, in existence from 1919 until it's closure by the Nazi regime in the early '30s. Its proponents maintained that the building was the ultimate form of art, and that art and craft were not separate...
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
"Like LA's MOCA, Brandeis' Rose Art Museum suffered from not permanently displaying its permanent collection." -- Christopher Knight via Twitter. 'Twas a weekend during which closely-related stories came together to reveal an under-considered truth: Contemporary art museums that collect and that don't commit themselves to their collections are creating problems for themselves. In the Boston...
Hatch: The Design Public ® Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
I picked this book up at one of the best used bookstores I’ve ever visited, ABCD in Camden Maine (though my Great Uncle Frank Piskor, a huge bibliophile, used to say they had “New York prices.”). It’s a MoMA book from 1961, and Uncle Frank was right; it was $6.50 new, and $75 used forty [...]
Luxist (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Architecture lovers and foodies come together in a new package that combines a private tour of the P hilip Johnson Glass House site in New Canaan, Connecticut with a three-course dinner at the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York. This exclusive package is available for $400 per person and includes a two-hour tour with access to five Johnson-designed structures - Glass House, Painting Gallery, Sculpture...
Brooklyn Heights Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Manhattan has the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, the Guggenheim and more but Brooklyn Heights has snagged the Toy Museum. The Brooklyn Eagle reports: Brooklyn Eagle: Marlene Hochman, founder of The Toy Museum of New York (formally known as The Doll and Toy Museum of NYC) and local public officials will host a preview of the museum’s [...]
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