Tuesday, December 7, 2010 Crocler Art Museum Gwathmey Siegel

Gwathmey Siegel Completes Design for Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum

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The New York-based architects 125,000 square-foot design nearly triples the 125 year-old museum’s historic structures, including one of the first purpose-built art museum buildings in the United States.

Thursday, November 11, 2010 Hanukkah Lamp Masada Moshe-Zabari Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind Designs Hanukkah Lamp Exhibit for Jewish Museum

by Nicholas Tamarin | posted 2:00 pm

“A Hanukkah Project: Line of Fire,” an exhibit of 40 Hanukkah lamps designed by the Polish-Jewish architect will be on view from November 19 through January 30.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010 Isamu Noguchi Herman Miller

Noguchi Museum Celebrates 25th Anniversary with Major Exhibition

by Nicholas Tamarin | posted 10:30 am

“On Becoming an Artist: Isamu Noguchi and His Contemporaries, 1922-1960” examines the Japanese-American legend’s ties to key figures in modern art, theater, design, and architecture and is on view from November 17 to April 24.

Thursday, September 30, 2010 Herbert Matter film

First Annual NY A&D Film Festival Selects 40 Films for Four-Day Run

by Nicholas Tamarin | posted 11:22 am

On view at Tribeca Cinemas from October 14 to 17, the roster was chosen by the festival’s advisory board, which includes such luminaries as Interior Design Hall of Fame architects Robert A.M. Stern and Richard Meier, MoMA A&D curator Paola Antonelli, and Cooper-Hewitt director William Moggridge.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010 All Utopias Fell Michael Oatman MASS MoCA

Michael Oatman’s “All Utopias Fell” Coming to MASS MoCA

by Nicholas Tamarin | posted 1:00 pm

The installation artist’s three-part work at the Massachusetts contemporary art museum, featuring a massive field of photovoltaics that generate seven percent of the power used by MASS MoCA, opens October 24.

Thursday, September 23, 2010 Youtube Guggenheim

Guggenheim Selects 125 Videos for YouTube Play Shortlist

by Nicholas Tamarin | posted 11:56 am

The museum foundation and the video-sharing website narrowed down 23,000 submissions for the second round of their collaborative contest to find the 20 most creative online videos. The final jury-selected videos will be presented at the Guggenheim in New York on October 21.

Friday, September 17, 2010 Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Frankfurter Küche Frankfurt Kitchen

Kitchen Design Exhibition Opens at MoMA

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“Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen,” running through March 14, examines the 20th-century kitchen and its continual transformation as a barometer of changing aesthetics, technologies, and ideologies through nearly 300 works from the museum’s collection, including design objects, architectural plans, and photographs.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Le Corbusier

Pratt Premieres Le Corbusier Exhibition August 30

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The Brooklyn-based A&D school is billing its free, three-part “Le Corbusier—Miracle Boxes” as the first New York exhibition dedicated entirely to the work of the master architect.

Friday, July 23, 2010 SFMOMA Snohetta

SFMOMA Selects Snøhetta to Spearhead Expansion

by Nicholas Tamarin | posted 1:00 pm

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art picked the Norwegian A&D firm as its partner for a $250 million expansion “that enhances the museum’s services to the community and its educational, social, and economic role in the city.”

Tuesday, July 20, 2010 Kate Chuck Close 2007 The Surrey Hotel New York

Lauren Rottet Studio Showcases “Elevated” Exhibition in L.A.

by Nicholas Tamarin | posted 11:50 am

The Interior Design Hall of Famer will host the exhibition, running from July 22 to September 6 and featuring works by Chuck Close, Jenny Holzer, Ed Ruscha, Thom Mayne, and Richard Meier.