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Nov 01, 2009 / Sunday
Speed Limits
May 20–November 08 Montreal, Quebec Speed Limits addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and…
L.A. Skies- The Photographs of Jim McHugh Now Extended until November 14,2009
September 09–November 14 Paris, France Jim McHugh is a widely acclaimed portrait, lifestyle and fine art photographer. He has created award winning portraits of Samuel L. Jackson, Clint Eastwood, and Sir. Anthony Hopkins. A unique…
Michael Peterson: Evolution | Revolution
October 16–January 03 San Francisco, California Join the San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design for a preview reception for Michael Peterson: Evolution | Revolution, a collection of more than 30 distinctive wood works that showcases two decades of…
Bike Rides
September 26–January 03 Ridgefield, Connecticut Organized by Aldrich curators Richard Klein and Mónica Ramírez–Montagut, with the advice of musician, artist, and bicycle advocate David Byrne, the exhibition explores the…
Steampunk Across the Pond
October 13–February 21 Oxford, England With names like Dr. Grimm, Datamancer, and Mad Uncle Cliff working in media ranging from gas masks to brass goggles and hot-air engines, the artists of the Steampunk movement are bringing their…
Nuts and Bolts: Machine Made Man in Films from the Collection
November 01–January 02 New York, New York Nuts and Bolts: Machine Made Man in Films from the Collection was created especially for Performa 09's celebration of the centenary of Futurism, after Performa Director RoseLee Goldberg approached…
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
October 16–March 13 Chicago, Illinois Actions: What You Can Do With the City presents 99 actions that instigate positive change in contemporary cities around the world. Featured are projects related to the production of food and urban…
Harrison McIntosh: A Timeless Legacy
September 12–January 09, 11:00 AM–5:00 PM Pomona, California This retrospective exhibition honors the life and ceramic artwork of Harrison McIntosh, a ceramic artist of the Pomona Valley and leader in the post-World War II Southern California crafts…
Late Night at the A&D Building
September 17–December 17 New York, New York Starting Thursday, September 17, 26 showrooms of the A&D Building will stay open on the Third Thursday of each month until 8:00pm. For more information, click the link below.
With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America
September 22–November 11 New York, New York MOCA’s new core exhibit will bring to life the Museum’s unique historical content and birth a compelling art work by fusing itself with the architectural heart of its new home designed…
Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008
September 26–January 03 Toronto, Ontario The exhibition showcases 150 portraits, including classic images from Vanity Fair’s early period and photographs featured in the magazine since its 1983 relaunch. Sitters range from Claude…
The Red Book of C.G. Jung
October 07–January 25 New York, New York This unprecedented exhibition marks the first public presentation of the preeminent psychologist C. G. Jung’s (1875-1961) famous Red Book. In the book Jung developed his principal theories of…
Lace in Translation
September 24–April 03 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Design Center (TDC) has commissioned three internationally-renowned artists and designers – whose works are often inspired by traditional lace imagery – to mine its historic Quaker…
Contemporary Japanese Fashion: The Mary Baskett Collection
October 17–April 11 Washington, District of Columbia This exhibition will include approximately 40 garments from the collection of Mary Baskett, an art dealer and former curator of prints at the Cincinnati Art Museum who has been collecting and…
Palm Springs Modern: Photographs by Julius Shulman
September 19–January 31 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania This exhibition features 100 original photographs by the renowned photographer Julius Shulman of houses designed by iconic Modernist architects, such as Richard Neutra, Albert Frey, and John…
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976
July 15–November 09 New York, New York This is an exhibition of 75 works by ten American and European artists relating to travel and the city of Amsterdam. Focusing on Conceptual art practices between 1960 and 1976, the show includes…
Ruth Asawa: Drawing in Space
September 19–February 07 Asheville, North Carolina This exhibition celebrates artist and sculptor Ruth Asawa (1926- ) and features her earliest sculptures, drawings and paintings created while studying at Black Mounain College with Josef Albers…
Not New Work
July 25–November 08 San Francisco, California San Francisco–based sculptor Vincent Fecteau culled through the museum's collection to present this exhibition of 25 rarely-seen artworks from artists such as Judy Chicago, Max Ernst, Richard…
Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act
October 15–April 11 Seattle, Washington This exhibition will feature a selection of the American sculptor's work from 1927 through to the mid-1970s. Many pieces will be from Jon and Mary Shirley's collection—many of which are…
Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood
September 03–January 01 Houston, Texas Celebrated for his work as a modernist painter, teacher, and author, Joaquin Torres-García is also known for breaking new ground in the realm of wooden constructions or…
What Was Good Design? MOMA's Message 1944-56
May 06–November 30, 10:30 AM–5:30 PM New York, New York At mid-century, The Museum of Modern Art played a leading role in the definition and dissemination of ‘Good Design,’ a concept that started taking shape in the 1930s and emerged with…
Design for a Living World
May 14–January 04, 10:00 AM–6:00 PM New York, New York Ten leading designers have been commissioned to develop new uses for sustainably grown and harvested materials in order to tell a unique story about the life-cycle of materials and the power of…
Nov 03, 2009 / Tuesday
Otto Neurath. Gypsy Urbanism
November 03–January 31 West Hollywood, California At a time when contemporary culture is dominated by mass media and we are all glued to many screens, it is fascinating to contemplate the career of little-known Austrian sociologist, Otto Neurath…
Nov 05, 2009 / Thursday
CHAIRS for CHAIRity
November 05, 6:00 PM–9:00 PM San Diego, California Have a seat for a worthy cause! Southern California's most respected design leaders and local celebrities have stretched their creative limits to fashion quirky, fun and fabulous chairs to be…
Architecture & Design as a Catalyst for Change
November 05–October 07, 9:00 AM–3:30 PM Carol Coletta, of CEOs for Cities, and Damon Rich, Center for Urban Pedagogy, will keynote the first-ever conference of the Association of Architecture Organizations and the Architecture + Design…
Nov 06, 2009 / Friday
Detour: Architecture and Design Along 18 National Tourist Routes in Norway
November 06–December 14 New York, New York What can rest stops, information centers, and observation decks tell visitors about a culture? The School of Constructed Environments at Parsons The New School for Design will explore this question…
Nov 07, 2009 / Saturday
Control | Print
November 07–December 20 New York, New York Control|Print features works by a number of international artists and designers who play with the notion of digital technology. In this first American presentation, members of the Parsons community…
Nov 08, 2009 / Sunday
Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity
November 08–January 25 New York, New York This exhibition brings together over 400 works that reflect the extraordinarily broad range of the Bauhaus school's productions, including industrial design, furniture, architecture, graphics…
Nov 10, 2009 / Tuesday
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
November 10–January 31 New York, New York In this first-ever retrospective of the life and work of Eero Saarinen (1910—1961), never-before-seen sketches, models, photographs, furnishings will appear alongside a…
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