Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
ONTARIO.- Equivalent to the Turner Prize, the Sobey Art Award, presented by Scotiabank is Canada's pre-eminent prize for young Canadian artists. Five artists vie for this award in this intriguing exhibition featuring the best in young Canadian contemporary art. This dynamic showcase of paintings, multimedia and sculpture will culminate with the presentation of the award on
TABlog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Bauhaus exhibit Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music brings it back to the basics.
Devlounge (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
I don't know if I am a fan of minimalism because I picked out these websites. But I like to appreciate designs that stand out not because they're loud and proud, but because they're calm and clear. Silent waters run deep, they say. I like to think restraint is more powerful than the lack of it, especially in design.
Candyjar - David Ward (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Where Saul Bass said ‘design is thinking made visual', László Moholy-Nagy has a more… philosophical view on the subject. The designer must see the periphery as well as the core, the immediate and the ultimate, at least in the biological sense. He must anchor his special job in the complex whole. The designer must be trained not [...]
Signal vs. Noise (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
“Designing is not a profession but an attitude” is an excerpt from László Moholy-Nagy ’s 1947 book “Vision in Motion.” The designer must see the periphery as well as the core, the immediate and the ultimate, at least in the biological sense. He must anchor his special job in the complex whole. The designer must be trained not only in the use of materials and various skills, but also in appreciation...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Dessau-Rosslau, Germany - An exhibition of historic drawings and models created by Germany's Bauhaus architectural movement is to begin its tour of four Japanese cities later this month, the Bauhaus Foundation said Monday. The seminal Bauhaus style, ...
today and tomorrow (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
The ‘Light-Space Modulator‘ is a kinetic sculpture made by László Moholy-Nagy during his Bauhaus time. It is a composition of color, light and movement, his film “Motion picture black-white-grey” shows it in action. You can find more pictures of it in this Flickr set.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
For the Los Angeles Times, Christopher Knight reviews California Video, an exhibition on view at the J Paul Getty Museum through June 8: "Assembled are more than 50 single-channel videos and 15 installation works made in the four decades...
Crap Detector! (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
These questions are due on Wednesday the 13th! OMG! 1. Cubo-futurism, page 287: 2. Suprematism, page 287 3. Constructivists, page 289, 4. Tectonics, page 289 5. Texture, page 289, 6. Construction, page 289 7. PROUNS, page 290 8. Novyi lef...
Fashiontribes.com (Free subscription) | 07/30/2007
(Available at Tecta.de) From 1919 to 1933, this profoundly influential German school of art architecture existed in Weimar, Dessau Berlin under the leadership of Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - later for a year in...
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 07/07/2007
Lotte Jacobi... Klaus and Erika Mann (c. 1928–1932, gelatin silver print, Dietmar Siegert Collection). From the exhibition Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. "...The story of photography's phenomenal success in Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Austria during a time of tremendous social and political upheaval is presented in the...
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 05/28/2007
Claude Cahun... L'Herbe au pauvre homme (The Poor Man's Grass, ca. 1930s, vintage gelatin silver print with gouache). From Ubu Gallery at Art | 38 | Basel . Works by Hans Bellmer, Bob Brown, Claude Cahun, Salvador Dali, Otto Dix, Cesar Domela, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Auguste Herbin, Hannah Höch, Heinrich Hoerle, André Masson, László Moholy-Nagy, Richard Oelze, Francis Picabia, Albert Renger-Patzsch,...
