Cortica Cork Chaise by Daniel Michalik, Brooklyn, NY (72 x 26 x 20″).
Mark Johnston
Through 07.17.08
Seats of New York: Benches, Stools and Chairs from Across the State
Presented by the Purchase College School of Art+Design and the Furniture Society, the exhibition showcases imaginative and unique benches, stools, and chairs that reflect the wide array of approaches to furniture making throughout New York State. They are as diverse in style and historical precedent, as they are in production methods, materials and places of origin.
Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery at Purchase College
Art+Design Building, 735 Anderson Hill Rd, Purchase, NY
MITSUKO ASAKURA, Escalation (1973), cotton. 89 3/4 x 57 7/8 in. Suntory Headquarters, Tokyo.
Courtesy of the artist
07.10.08 through 08.14.08
Tapestry in Architecture: Creating Human Spaces
The first U.S. show of textile artist Mitsuko Asakura highlights intricately woven, delicately patterned works specifically designed to compliment architectural interiors. The exhibition showcases 11 hanging pieces replete with photos and a video essay depicting the creation process, and features works specifically commissioned by clients including Hie Shrine for its new building in downtown Tokyo, Pfizer Global Research and Development for its laboratories in Nagoya, Resona Bank in Osaka, and more.
Japan Society Gallery
333 E. 47th St.
Formula for House in Chiang Mai, 2008, Rirkrit Tiravanija.
Courtesy Van Alen Institute
Through 08.15.08
Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Formulas for Now
As Van Alen Institute’s inaugural New York Prize Senior Fellow, Obrist has revisited interviews conducted over the last 15 years with quintessential NY figures who have played critical roles in shaping the cityscape. Two new interviews with Rem Koolhaas and Yoko Ono, asking “What is your formula for the 21st century?” debut alongside a selection of unedited interviews with famed NY artists, architects, and cultural leaders including Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, AIA, and Philip Johnson with Rem Koolhaas.
Van Alen Institute
30 West 22nd Street 6th Floor
HL23.
Courtesy Museum of the City of New York
Through 09.14.08
New York Fast Forward: Neil Denari Builds on the High Line
The exhibition documents the design and construction plans for the first freestanding building by LA-based architect Neil Denari, AIA. The exhibition features historic images of the High Line and its surrounding neighborhood alongside models, computer renderings, and drawings of HL23. A highlight of the exhibition is a model offering visitors cutaway views of the HL23’s structure and its façade of patterned stainless steel. Read LA to NY: Neil Denari Meets the High Line in this issue to read more about the exhibition.
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue
Buckminster Fuller, Model of Dymaxion Dwelling Machines community, ca. 1946, refabricated 2008.
Photograph by Patrick Hobgood, Iannis Kandyliaris, and Ilias Papageorgiou, courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art
Through 09.21.08
Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe
R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was one of the great American visionaries of the 20th century. Best-known as the inventor of the geodesic dome, Fuller devoted much of his life to resolving the gap between the sciences and the humanities, which he believed was preventing society from taking a comprehensive view of the world. His theories and innovations traversed the worlds of architecture, visual art, literature, mathematics, molecular biology, and environmental science and have had a deep impact on all of those fields. This exhibition includes original examples of Fuller’s important works from both private and public collections, among them the sole extant Dymaxion car; models of the Wichita House; the Tetrascroll portfolio; several geodesic study models; as well as numerous sketches, notebooks, and other artifacts.
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue