AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion

AngloMania focuses on British fashion from 1976 to 2006, a period of astounding creativity and experimentation. Over the past 30 years, British fashion has been defined by a knowing and self-conscious historicism. In their search for novelty, designers have looked to past styles with an appetite that is as audacious as it is rapacious. Focusing on their postmodern, historicizing tendencies, this exhibition presents a series of tableaux based on Britain's rich artistic traditions.

The irony of satirical prints, the romance of landscape paintings, and the glamour and bravado of grand manner portraits are evoked through a wide spectrum of British designers.

The exhibition is set in the Metropolitan Museum's English period rooms-the Annie Laurie Aitken Galleries-to create a potent dialogue between the past and the present.

The exhibition and its accompanying book are made possible by Burberry.

Anglomania defined on Wikipedia.

May 30 , 2006

Feeding Desire via Cooper Hewitt

Feeding Desire : Design and the Tools of the Table

A journey through the evolution of Western dining from the Renaissance to the present, Feeding Desire showcases objects from Cooper-Hewitt's world-class collections and the Tiffany Archives. The exhibition will address the development of utensil forms, innovations in production and materials, etiquette, and flatware as social commentary.

The exhibition will take place between May 5 through October 29, 2006 at Cooper Hewitt in New York City

May 22 , 2006

Arts Journal: The Daily Digest of Arts, Culture & Ideas

ArtsJournal is a weekday digest of some of the best arts and cultural journalism in the English-speaking world. Each day ArtsJournal combs through more than 200 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications featuring writing about arts and culture.

Direct links to the most interesting or important stories are posted every weekday beginning at 5 AM PT on the ArtsJournal news pages. Stories from sites that charge for access are excluded. If you encounter a registration screen after clicking an ArtsJournal link, try logging in as either 'ajreader' or 'ajreader@artsjournal.com' with the password 'access'.

http://www.artsjournal.com

May 15 , 2006

Whitney Biennial 2006

Begun in 1932, by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Whitney Biennial is a world-renowned showcase for recent American art, typically by young and lesser known artists. The Whitney show is generally regarded as one of the leading shows in the art world, often setting or leading trends in contemporary art.

Whitney Biennial 2006 Online
Peace tower 2006 by Mark Di Suvero online
Main Whitney website

May 7 , 2006

Artomat

Art-o-mat, vending art and culture since 1997.

What is an Art-o-mat? Art-o-mat machines are retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art. There are 82 active machines in various locations throughout the country. [ find an art-o-mat near you. ]

What do you get from an Art-o-mat? The experience of pulling the knob alone is quite a thrill, but you also walk away with an original work of art. What an easy way to become an art collector. [ art-o-mat samples ]

Want to be an Artomat artist? There are around 400 contributing artists from 10 different countries currently involved in the Art*o*mat project. We are always searching for fresh work. [ submission process ]

Artomat.org

April 23, 2006

Border Film Project is made of three friends - a Rhodes Scholar, filmmaker, and a Wall Street analyst - who spent three months on the U.S. Mexico border filming and distributing hundreds of disposable cameras to two groups on different sides of the line: undocumented migrants crossing the desert and Minutemen volunteers trying to stop them. To simplify the complexities of immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border, and to show the realities on the ground. To date, we have received more than 1,500 photographs and more continue to arrive everyday. The pictures speak for themselves. They capture the humanity present on both sides of the border. They tell stories that no news piece or policy debate or academic study could convey. They are non-partisan and inclusive.

Border Film Project

April 7, 2006

Klee in America at Neue Gallerie in New York city, March 9 - May 22, 2006. Paul Klee (December 18, 1879 – June 29, 1940) was a Swiss painter. Klee worked with many different types of media – oil paint, watercolor, ink, and more. He often combined them into one work. He has been variously associated with expressionism, cubism and surrealism but his pictures are difficult to classify. They often have a fragile child-like quality to them, and are usually on a small scale.

Neue Gallerie online

March 27 , 2006

Juergen Teller was born in Erlangen, Germany in 1964. He studied at Bayerische Staatslehranstalt Photographie in Munich, Germany before moving to London in the early 1980s. In England, Teller was introduced to the world of fashion photography and used his assignments at i-D, The Face, Index and W magazines as resources from which he could nurture his own photographic sensibility. His work is the subject of monographs by Taschen and Scalo and he has had solo exhibitions at the Mnchner Fotomuseum, Museum Folkwang, Essen, and Galleria d'Arte Moderna, among others, and has been included in exhibitions at the Tate Modern in London and Programa Centro de Arte in Mexico. This year, Teller received the Citibank Photography Prize. Juergen Teller continues to live and work in London.

Lehmann Maupin gallery online
Foundation Cartier current show

March 20 , 2006

b. 1971, Danish Textile Designer. Ratzer graduated from Designskolen Kolding in 1998, specializing in industrial design. Her work has a simple, graphic expression and her patterns are a composition of geometric lines and planes. In the process of creating her pieces she unites a painter’s techniques for handling images with artisan workmanship. She uses just a few colours, combining them to create a certain tension, the visual qualities of which are amplified when the blanket is in use. Her blankets are made from finest-quality Australian organic merino wool. Tina Ratzer has participated in numerous exhibitions; her work has been featured i.a. at the annual censored exhibition KE at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. In 2004 she created a large wall-hanging for the Danish Design Centre. Her work has been acknowledged with several grants, including one from the Danish Arts Foundation.

http://www.ratzer.dk

March 12 , 2006

David Smith Retrospective

David Smith, Guggenheim, New York, February 3 though May 14, 2006

Widely considered the greatest sculptor of his generation, David Smith (1906–1965) created some of the most iconic works of the 20th century. Marked by the use of industrial materials, especially welded metals, and the integration of open space, Smith’s three-dimensional version of Abstract Expressionism revolutionized the art of sculpture in the U.S. and around the world. Organized on the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth, David Smith: A Centennial presents over 120 of his greatest sculptures, as well as a selection of his drawings and sketchbooks, from his entire 33-year career as a sculptor.

Guggenheim Museum, David Smith overview online

February 25, 2006

Moma = Online Projects

Museum sponsored online projects and web installation created to explore new art forms that exist only on the Web. These commissioned online projects explore new forms of storytelling — taking a fresh look at what constitutes an exhibition — within the unique space of the personal computer screen. The one on one with the audience makes these projects both personal and having a different type of impact that a typical installation in a physical space. Shown here: by Peter Halley, Exploding Cell interactive project.

Moma.org online
SFMoma.org online

February 15, 2006

Droog Design Collective

Droog is a brand and a mentality: design of products that do what they should and think about why they’re doing it in the first place: function? fun? wit? criticism? All of the above?

Droog is a curatorial collection of exclusive products, a congenial pool of designers, a distributed statement about design as cultural commentary, a medium, working with cutting edge designers and enlightened clients, taking the production and distribution of its collection into its own hands, being unique in its conceptual and contextual approach towards design.
On this site you will find information on Droog Design, Factory and Outlet in a 100% hypertext® environment. This means that every word on this site is a link, which when clicked will generate associated information displayed on the right. A click on a sentence in this ‘concordance’ will open the associated text in this window.

Droog Design online

February 7, 2006

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 20, 2005–April 2, 2006, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor

This exhibition is a comprehensive survey of the highly inventive body of work that Robert Rauschenberg (b. 1925) terms "combines." Among the 67 works in the show are a number that have not been shown publicly before, as well as some of the artist's best-known objects, such as Canyon and Monogram. With these mixed-media works of art, Rauschenberg reinvented collage, changing it from a medium that presses commonplace materials to serve illusion into something very different: a process that undermines both illusion and the idea that a work of art has a unitary meaning. Appearing as either wall-hung works or as freestanding objects, the combines are composed as syncopated grids that draw on materials from everyday life and the history of art.

The Met Online

February 1, 2006