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