Through 01.16.10
Lincoln Center: Celebrating 50 Years
Courtesy of Pentagram
Seven themes in connection with Lincoln Center’s history explore origins and urban renewal; architecture; iconic personalities; landmark performances; innovative technologies; media and commerce; and educational initiatives. On view are a collection of 400 historic and contemporary objects including photographs, ephemera, correspondence, costumes, set pieces, props, and video recordings.
The Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, NYC
Through 01.19.10
Detour
Rest Area, Lofoten, Norway
Snøhetta AS
On view are the results of a global design competition organized by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, which challenged designers to propose alternatives to traditional tourist-route architecture. Through images, models, and films, selections are showcased from the more than 200 structures that have been built since the competition’s inception. Highlighted are projects by emerging architectural firms as well as prominent architects such as Peter Zumthor and Snøhetta.
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design
66 Fifth Avenue, NYC
Through 01.25.10
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Untitled (Woman [Lis Beyer or Ise Gropius] in B3 club chair by Marcel Breuer wearing a mask by Oskar Schlemmer and a dress in fabric designed by Beyer). c. 1926
Erich Consemüller
This is MoMA’s first major exhibition on the Bauhaus since 1938 and gathers more than 400 works that reflect the broad range of the school’s productions, including industrial design, furniture, architecture, graphics, photography, textiles, ceramics, theater design, painting, and sculpture. While visiting, also check out the exhibition In Situ, which closes 01.18.10.
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, NYC
Through 01.31.10
Collages: A Series of Works by Charles A. Platt
“An Instrument of War/Chanel Guernica” by Charles A. Platt
Charles A. Platt
Artist and architect Charles A. Platt, FAIA, “builds” his collages, which take on a three-dimensional effect. “I take apart clothes and find and re-work used objects — shoes and shirts, phonograph records, summer skirts, measuring tapes and rifle targets, tennis nets, wallets and so forth — and work them into compositions that depend on formal artistic expression and meaning. The nature of the object itself, the material, its color, texture, shape, construction, and the associations it evokes play a central role, as do the possibilities of its history.”
Garrison Art Center
23 Depot Square on Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY
Urs Fischer, Marguerite de Ponty, 2006-08. Cast aluminum and steel.
Courtesy the artist; Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York; Sadie Coles HQ, London; and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Fischer uses the museum’s galleries to create a series of environments featuring towering aluminum sculptures, objects that appear to melt, and a labyrinth of silk-screened chrome steel boxes.
New Museum
235 Bowery, NYC