Off the Wall.
Courtesy Jewish Museum of New York
Through 03.27.08
Off the Wall: Artists at Work
A two-week open studio project featuring 11 artists working and performing in the galleries, the new generation of Jewish social networks is on view. Artists create a work-in-progress and exhibit other work in various media including fashion, music, performance art, video, and new technologies. Events include concerts, salons, a runway show, and a Purim party. Exhibition design is by Studio ST Architects and Z-A.
The Jewish Museum of New York
1109 5th Avenue
Tropon est L’Aliment le Plus Concentre, lithograph on wove paper.
Henry van de Velde (Belgian, 1863-1957), Germany, 1898. Photo provided by Christie’s, courtesy Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Through 03.27.08
Rococo: The Continuing Curve
This is the first museum survey of Rococo and its ongoing resurgence. Lalique jewelry, glass, and rare design drawings will illustrate the evolution of the Rococo style as it entered the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It will trace the movement’s birth, rebirth, and transformation across centuries and continents. Lalique’s objects will illustrate the chronological modifications to the Rococo style that occurred when elements were incorporated into the Art Nouveau style popular during the late 1800s and the Art Deco style of the 1920s.
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street
Francesco Salviati, Head and Shoulders of a Bearded Man (1540s), black chalk.
Courtesy Friedman Benda Gallery
Through 03.31.08
In Their Own Words
This exhibition features photography, sculpture, furniture, and architecture captioned by the artists’ own words. Each work has been selected for the way it questions accepted notions of politics, mass culture, or production. By exhibiting art and what is traditionally thought of as “design” together, the exhibition aims to dissolve the division between the fields and provoke the debate on the cultural significance and authority currently assigned to each.
Friedman Benda Gallery
515 West 26th Street
Demisch Danant
524 West 22nd Street
Exterior Rendering of The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY. View from Montauk Highway.
© Herzog & de Meuron, 2007, courtesy The Architectural League of New York
Through 05.02.08
Studio as Muse: Herzog & de Meuron’s Design for the New Parrish Art Museum
Curated and installed by Pritzker Prize-winning Herzog & de Meuron, the exhibition displays 130 study models, material samples, and short videos detailing the firm’s design process for the new Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY. It is part of an ongoing series of exhibitions that investigate the design process of a single significant building. In revealing the different steps that architects take to arrive at a completed design, the exhibitions demystify for the public the way buildings are designed while serving as important learning tools for design professionals and students.
The Architectural League of New York
457 Madison Avenue
Model of “Flower House,” Suiza, Switzerland.
Courtesy SANAA
03.28.08 through 06.15.08
SANAA: Works 1998 – 2008
Commissions and projects from the last decade by Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, designers of the new home of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, will be on display. Works include the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, and the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art. The exhibition will also provide an opportunity to understand the New Museum in the context of the firm’s work. The installation takes the form of an environment, rather than a traditional exhibition, exploiting and further exploring SANAA’s vision of the museum lobby as, in their words, “a kind of constantly animated public-private living room where visitors can look, eat, read, shop, discover, and reflect among new art and new ideas.”
The New Museum of Contemporary Art
235 Bowery
Habitable Sculpture, 2000, by Philip Johnson.
Courtesy of Antonio Nino Vendome, and the Kreeger Museum
Through 07.31.08
Phillip Johnson: Architecture as Art
This exhibition showcases the relationship between art and architecture as seen by Philip Johnson (1906-2005) in his late works (notably, Johnson designed The Kreeger Museum). From structured, twisting forms to softer, curving expressions produced in chain-link, fiberglass, or concrete, Johnson’s work of the 1990s and 2000s was often not only sculptured architecture, but can be considered sculpture itself. Curated by Hilary Lewis, a longtime interpreter of Johnson’s life and work, and designed by Wendy Evans Joseph Architecture, the exhibition will present visitors with the final chapter of Johnson’s long career.
Kreeger Museum
2401 Foxhall Road, NW in Washington, D.C.