Explore - North America

The Modernist Landscape - Then and Now

Celebrate the anniversary of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius' birthday and the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus at the Gropius House on Sunday, May 17, with half-price admission....

04.26.09
Closing Next Week: Deborah Butterfield

At the opening for sculptor Deborah Butterfield’s current show at L.A. Louver gallery, which runs through May 9, visitor after visitor walked up to the monumental bronze horses, leaned...

04.27.09
The Cinema Cabaret: Live Film Narration

The art of live film narration reached its peak with the benshi, a performer who voiced silent films from the stage. Reviving this tradition with a contemporary twist, the "neo-benshi"...

04.27.09
Venice Art Walk "ART & ARCHITECTURE" Tours

The Venice Art Walk "ART & ARCHITECTURE" Tours are returning! Three separately ticketed home tours will take place on Saturday May 16 and Sunday May 17. Saturday tours include a...

04.29.09
Legends of La Cienega

This three-day event, benefiting Habitat for Humanity Greater Los Angeles, honors the 60-year-old La Cienega design district. There will be book signings, vignettes by a collection of interior...

04.29.09
Beverly Semmes and Glenn Adamson

Listen to a conversation between Glenn Adamson, consulting curator to Dirt on Delight, and exhibition artist Beverly Semmes. Adamson’s book Thinking Through Craft (Berg Publishers, 2007)...

04.29.09
What Was Good Design? MOMA's Message 1944-56

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...

04.29.09
Heath Ceramics: Open Studio and Sale

Heath Ceramics “Open Studio” is offering visitors a chance to explore its fascinating history through guided tours and hands-on tile glazing opportunities. The tours will highlight...

04.29.09
Objectified

Stop by and check out a screening of Objectified, director Gary Hustwit's new film about everyday objects and the industrial designers who create them. The screening will be followed by a Q&A...

04.29.09
Union Design Festival

The Union Design Festival is a continuation of the Capsule Design Festival, and focuses on original independent creations produced by SF Bay–based designers. There will be clothing, bags,...

05.02.09
Garden Talk: Urban Agriculture

Whether it’s a backyard vegetable patch or a farming co-op in the city, more and more people are embracing the idea of locally grown food and sustainable gardening. Learn more in this talk by...

05.04.09
Modern Embassy Walking Tour in DC with Editor Aaron Britt

Embassy Row along Massachusetts Avenue NW is one of the great architectural and cultural treats of Washington DC. Newly constructed embassies mingle with the brick colonials that give the city so...

05.04.09
Best of Italy Designer Kitchens Showroom Event

Please join Designer Kitchens and Dwell magazine at our showroom for a special evening of Design. Enjoy Italian wine, hors d’oeuvres, and sweets with our participating local vendors....

05.07.09
Mannahatta/Manhattan: A Natural History of New York City

Mannahatta/Manhattan: A Natural History of New York City will reveal the island of Mannahatta on September 12, 1609, the moment of Henry Hudson's arrival – a fresh, green new world at the...

05.08.09
The Go Game’s Kiva.org FUNdraiser

The Go Game is an all-out urban adventure game using cell phones and flip cameras.Teams compete by following clues on wireless devices and hints planted in unlikely places, which guide teams to...

05.08.09
What Is Green Architecture? with Werner Sobek

The Goethe-Institut New York presents What Is Green Architecture?, a series of conversations, lectures, and events exploring the cutting-edge developments in the field and their impact on...

05.08.09
Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin, and Florence Miller Pierce

This is the first exhibition to bring together the work of these four important American women modernists. O’Keeffe (1887-1986) and Pelton (1881-1961) were born six years apart in the 1880s,...

05.12.09
Odegard Flagship at the San Francisco Design Center

Odegard is hosting an opening party on May 14th, 2009, which will showcase carpets from the recently launched Mughal Collection, inspired by the unsurpassed design legacy of 17th-century India....

05.13.09
Dreams Happen

Dreams Happen is a biennial fundraising event benefiting Rebuilding Together Peninsula (RTP) and hosted by Stanford Shopping Center. The event teams local architects and builders in the...

05.18.09
Vertical Los Angeles

Join Dwell, designers, architects, and developers at the W Hollywood Residences for a discussion of the transformative effects of large-scale mixed use projects in urban Los Angeles. We will...

05.18.09