Exhibitions

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René Magritte - Italy’s Largest Magritte Art Show

By Chris Prince • Nov 21st, 2008 • Category: Current Design Event, Exhibitions, Illustration, Painting, Traditional Art

Rene Magritte’s Birthday! As well as the Largest Italian exhibition of his work to date!



Victoria Vesna Presents at Parsons the New School for Design

By Katherine • Nov 6th, 2008 • Category: Digital Art, Exhibitions, Installations, Recent Posts

Speaking on Friday (tomorrow), at 10:00 AM at the New School at Wollman Hall, 65 W 11th St., will be media artist Victoria Vesna. After doing a little more research I found her projects extremely interesting and I was actually surprised at myself that I had never heard of her prior to this circulating email [...]



Confrontations with Esquire

By Katherine • Nov 6th, 2008 • Category: Books and Magazines, Current Design Event, Exhibitions, Print design

For those of you who have not yet seen it, the MoMA in NYC is providing the public a look at what great communication design really is. George Lois: The Esquire Covers exhibition is a collection of the most though provoking, controversial magazine covers designed by Lois. For anyone interested in the communication arts, or [...]



Seed Stage at the Whitney

By Katherine • Oct 23rd, 2008 • Category: Current Design Event, Exhibitions

Through January 4th visitors to the Whitney Museum of American Art can peer in on Corin Hewitt’s “Seed Stage”, a performance piece that exhibits the artist himself making the art that will populate the gallery walls.



Once Upon a Wall…

By Katherine • Oct 21st, 2008 • Category: Architecture, Books and Magazines, Current Design Event, Exhibitions, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interior Design, Print design, Traditional Art

The Cooper-Hewitt is featuring “Wall Stories: Children’s Wallpapers and Books” through April 5th, 2009. It is a collection that keeps us all in touch with fairy tales and the child within, and for those of us who can recall the nostalgia of having inspirational wallpaper in their rooms when they were growing up, or their favorite book to read…



Chambers Fine Art Presents the The Heaven of Nine Levels

By Katherine • Sep 26th, 2008 • Category: Current Design Event, Exhibitions, Industrial Design, International, Traditional Art

Here in New York, Chinese contemporary artist Wu Jian’an is exhibiting his extraordinary, large-scale “paper-cut” installations. With his inspiration being channeled from Chinese folk art, more specifically Chinese mythology and the eerily beautiful shadow puppets, Wu Jian’an creates detailed and expressive pieces.



Frederick Kiesler: Co-Realities

By Megalongcat • Jul 23rd, 2008 • Category: Current Design Event, Drawings, Exhibitions, Traditional Art

This past weekend, Saturday I believe, I decided to surprise my girlfriend with a random trip to the Drawing Center located in downtown Manhattan.  Normally I tend to shy away from traditional art forms, namely those of the pencil and paintbrush variety, but something about this exhibition caught me eye.  The name of the event [...]