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**The Museum of Arts and Design (“MAD”) explores the blur zone between art, design, and craft today. Accredited by the American Association of Museums since 1991, MAD focuses on contemporary creativity and the ways in which artists and designers from around the world transform materials through processes ranging from the artisanal to the digital. by May 8
This summer, the Museum of Arts and Design is proud to present David Bowie, Artist , a multi-platform retrospective re-framing Bowie’s daring, multi-discipline career as that of an artist working primarily in performance. From his roots in such performance-based practices as cabaret, mime, and avant-garde theater, to Ziggy Stardust, his revolutionary tour that synthesized theater, music, and contemporary art into a rock spectacle, as well as his innovative video collaborations, and his work in cinema and theater, David Bowie, Artist presents Bowie as one of the most iconoclastic cultural producers of the 20th century. Presented as a multiplatform retrospective— including cinema series and multimedia screens — David Bowie, Artist celebrates a layered and shifting body of work that has continually innovated practices throughout a multitude of cultural spheres.
David Bowie, Artist | madmuseum.org
Le MOCA de Los Angeles a levé le voile sur son exposition Art In The Streets . Voici les premières images des espaces du musée, investient par les street artists du monde entier. Banksy , Swoon , Roa , Shepard Fairey , Os Gemeos pour ne citer qu'eux, ont installé leurs oeuvres pour cette exposition qui apportera peut-être un tournant décisif au street art et à cette communauté de passionnés. L'ampleur et la majesté des installations (celle des Os Gemeos notamment) demandent a être vu en vrai mais faute de pouvoir tous nous rendre à Los Angeles, voici quelques images dans la suite... Banksy
Visite: Art In the Streets @ MOCA (LA)
Le MOCA de Los Angeles a levé le voile sur son exposition Art In The Streets. by May 6
Selected Objects from the Exhibition
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty by May 3
Tate Modern: International modern and contemporary art
International modern and contemporary art
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London SE1 9TG
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Whitney - Museum of American Art: Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time
M odern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time traces the development of realism in American art between 1900 and 1940, emphasizing the diverse ways that artists depicted the sweeping transformations in urban and rural life that occurred during this period. The exhibition highlights the work of Edward Hopper, whose use of the subject matter of modern life to portray universal human experiences made him America’s most iconic realist painter of the 20th century. Drawn primarily from the Whitney Museum’s extensive holdings, M odern Life places Hopper’s achievements in the context of his contemporaries—the Ashcan School painters with whom he came of age as an artist in the century’s first decades, the 1920’s Precisionist artists, whose explorations of abstract architectural geometries mirrored those of Hopper, and a younger generation of American Scene painters, who worked alongside Hopper in New York during the 1930s.
Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time by Mar 30
first image 'rijksmuseum renovation' cruz y ortiz arquitectos, amsterdam, the netherlands image © pedro pegenaute all images courtesy of cruz y ortiz arquitectos spanish firm cruz y ortiz arquitectos' competition-winning design for the dutch treasure trove, rijksmuseum, will open its doors this week, 5 years over its deadline and tens of millions over budget. the 10 year architectural endeavor was complex, regarding both the technical challenges of the below-sea-level site in amsterdam and the massive conceptual task of overhauling a national institution. the mammoth project restores original architect's plan and circulation pathways while updating the red-brick volumes with much-need light via a 24,000 square foot glass-topped atrium.