Metamuseum http://metamuseum.tumblr.com Statement: «Teaming with a group of 13 American museums and cultural institutions with design, craft and architecture collections, writer and critic Alexandra Lange has woven together the Multi-Museum, Multi-Curator Tumblr project MetaMuseum. Each week, work chosen by curators at each institution will be presented on tumblr and released through other social media outlets. […]
Also filed in Art and Design, Collection, Curating, Digital, Ephemera, History, Museums, Online, Participatory, Reference, Resource, Stories, Thematic, USA
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Frozen Lakes January 20 – March 24, 2013 (then extended through March 31, 2013) Artists Space, New York Statement: «In his essay accompanying the 1977 exhibition Pictures at Artists Space, and in a subsequent text published by October in 1979, the art historian Douglas Crimp introduced the work of a generation of artists, and their […]
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age 2001–2012 first held on January 15 – March 2, 2013 Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, Massachusetts (now traveling: see the schedule) Statement: «As a medium for social change, posters record our struggles for peace, social justice, environmental defense, and liberation from […]
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
MVP – MOST VALUABLE PUBLISHERS December 6-8, 2012 / Rookie Festival, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznań PL December 29, 2012 – January 13, 2013 / Arsenał City Gallery, Poznań PL Curator: Honza Zamojski Artists: «The sports analogy of the ROOKIE FESTIVAL is extended through to the MVP exhibition, applying the title to the Most Valuable Publishers […]
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Small Stories Bigger Picture MOTI Museum of the Image, Breda, NL September 13 – December 16, 2012 Curators: Sven Ehmann (Gestalten) and Dennis Elbers (MOTI) Statement: «Who doesn’t want to fly like a bird? And who doesn’t want to witness that? Human Bird wings, a portrait of the fictitious character Jarno Smeets and his attempts […]
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
The Magic of Things: Product Posters Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, CH August 29, 2012 – January 6, 2013 Statement: «“The Magic of Things” explores a by-and-large obsolete advertising strategy in the area of the product poster: banal, everyday objects – butter, a sewing machine or shoes – are presented as desirable objects that entice us […]
Wide White Space (The Way Beyond Art) was an exhibition held in 2011 at the CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco – aimed at investigating ‘graphic design’s evolving relationship with the practice of exhibition making as it intersects with the visual arts and the work of both artists and curators’ –, a series of lectures, […]
Also filed in Art and Design, Conference, Contemporary, Context, Curating, Exhibit design, Exhibition, Exhibition Making, Galleries, Publication, Reference, Schools, USA
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Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2011 (awarded in January 2012) first held at Helmhaus Zürich, Zurich, July 5-8, 2012 and later traveling to other venues (see schedule) Statement: «The competition ‘The Most Beautiful Swiss Books’ on an annual basis. It thereby recognizes excellence in the field of book design and production, as well drawing attention to […]
Also filed in Award, Books, Collection, Contemporary, Exhibition, Installation, Publication, Publishing, Switzerland, Thematic, Travelling exhibitions
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Fordham University at Lincoln Center Center Gallery 113 West 60th Street June 4 – July 26, 2012 Curators: Patricia Belen and Greg D’Onofrio (Kind Company) Statement: «Modernism, an ideology that covers a range of styles, is rooted in the Russian and European avant-garde including Constructivism, Dada, De Stijl, Futurism, and the New Typography – movements […]
Rhode Island School of Design MFA Graphic Design exhibition 2012 RI Convention Center, Providence May 19 – June 1, 2012 Statement: «GRAPHIC DESIGN MFA 2012 is an exhibition of books, printed matter, websites, interactive works, and videos from this year’s graduating class of MFA graphic design students at RISD. In order to stay in line […]
