Atlanta
Made in Georgia: The State of Industrial Design
To October 18
Contemporary product design from local freelance designers, consulting firms, corporations and design schools will be on display.
Museum of Design Atlanta
285 Peachtree Center Ave.
(404) 979-6455
Basel
Animatus: Hyungkoo Lee
TO AUGUST 31
South Korean artist Hyungkoo Lee latest exhibit involves the reconstructions of cartoon characters’ skeletons. From Bugs Bunny to Donald Duck, Hyungkoo gave the skeletons Latin names and modeled the forms down to the smallest details, crossing the lines between natural science and art.
Natural History Museum
Augustinergasse 2, 4001
+41 61 266 55 00
Beacon, New York
Tacita Dean, Merce Cunningham performs Stillness to John Cage’s composition
To SEPTEMBER 1
Tacita Dean’s new 6-part film installation came about when Dean filmed Merce Cunningham performing with Trevor Carlson at the Cunningham Studio in 2007 and used the shots to produce the film projection.
Dia:Beacon
3 Beekman St.
(845) 440-0100
An-My Lê, Trap Rock, 2006
To September 1
A series of photographs of a basalt quarry located just 16 kilometres up the Hudson from the gallery will be on display, including images documenting the seasonal changes of the quarry through the winter months.
Dia:Beacon
3 Beekman St.
(845) 440-0100
Berlin
Berlin Embassy Architecture Exhibition
Through September 7
Celebrating the return of the American embassy to its original pre–World War II site alongside the Brandenburg Gate, this exhibition will present models and original drawings from the building’s design, as well as videos and art installations.
Galerie Aedes
Christinenstr. 18-19
+49 (0)30 282 7015
Brooklyn
Everyday Eden
To September 7
Works by Jedediah Caeser, Tony Feher, Rob Fischer, Paula Hayes and Nina Katchadourian will be exhibited in and around the Brooklyn’s MetroTech Center. The exhibition illustrates the artists’ common interest in reflecting today’s ecological concerns with natural settings, constructed landscapes, decay, recycling and preservation by illuminating that which might otherwise go unnoticed.
MetroTech Center
4 MetroTech Center
Charlotte, North Carolina
The Brilliant Period of American Cut Glass
THROUGH AUGUST 17
No longer an exclusive collectible for the upper-class, American cut glass has become widely appreciated. More than 100 elaborate, highly polished and patterned pieces are on display, some dating back to 1880.
Mint Museum of Art
2730 Randolph Rd.
(704) 337-2000
Chicago
CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed
To October 3
Photographer Frederic Chaubin’s extensive documentation of Soviet architecture from the last two decades of the Cold War will be on exhibit, with film stills, drawings, magazine articles and historical timelines.
Chicago Architecture Foundation
224 South Michigan Ave.
(312) 922-3432
Corning, New York
Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal–Gold Ruby, 1650–1750
To January 4, 2009
Exploring the often-overlooked role of 17th-century “chymists” in developing glass production, this exhibition brings together 117 objects from eight international collections.
Corning Museum of Glass
1 Museum Way
(607) 937-5371
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Be(com)ing Dutch
TO SEPTEMBER 14
Two years of project development have gone into this exhibition, which features debates, artists’ projects and presentations. Thirty-five Dutch and international artists, including Libia Castro, Daan van Golden and Fiona Tan are displaying works at the museum and throughout Eindhoven that question what it means to be Dutch.
Van Abbemuseum
Bilderdijklaan 10
+31 (0)40 23 810 00
Frankfurt
Michael Sailstorfer
To August 31
Berlin-based Sailstorfer breaks down objects – like beer bottles, or a steel plate from a police car – deforms them and then reassembles them. His installations connect with the venues in which they’re presented, making each version slightly different.
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Römerberg
+49 6929 9882 0
Terence Koh: Captain Buddha
To AUGUST 31
Terence Koh transfers post-minimalist and body art influences of the ’70s into a universe of his own. The Chinese-Canadian artist displays white objects – a hand, strings, buckets, a toilet, a dead bird and a flag – in a white room, attempting to draw the viewer into his pale world.
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Römerberg
+49 6929 9882 0
Total Enlightenment: Moscow Conceptual Art 1960–1990
To September 14
This exhibition is the first survey of conceptual art in late- and post-Soviet Russia. Performances, installations and texts from the ’60s, once subject to strict ideological censorship in the Soviet Union, will be on display.
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Römerberg
+49 6929 9882 0
Houston
Mark Fox: Dust
To August 29
Fox began drawing the clutter of objects that filled his studio in 2001, and embarked on a “meditation of ownership” by drawing each possession separately. His collection of more than 1,000 drawings will be on display in the gallery’s window, while the actual gallery is closed throughout the summer.
Rice University Art Gallery
6100 Main St.
(713) 348-6069
Lisbon, Portugal
Peter Zumthor: Buildings and Projects 1986–2007
September 6 to November 2
In the largest and most comprehensive display of the Swiss architect’s work, an exhibit of 29 buildings and projects, two video installations and six large-scale models will span three floors.
LX Factory
Rua Rodrigues Faria, 103
+351 213 143399
Los Angeles
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Basic Forms
To September 14
The Bechers spent the past 50 years photographing the industrial architecture of western Europe. The collection will be arranged as a grid formation, to demonstrate their interest in a typological exploration of form.
Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Dr.
(310) 440-7300
Milan
Made in Cassina
THROUGH SEPTEMBER 7
As the first temporary exhibition hosted at the Triennale, Made in Cassina features more than 100 pieces from Italian and international designers. The pieces reflect the designers’ personal and unique relationships with Cassina. Products, study models, prototypes and plans by more than 20 designers, including including Tobia Scarpa, Pesce and Panton will be on display.
Triennale di Milano
Viale Alemagna 6
+39 02 72 43 41
Monterrey, Mexico
InTENtions: Enrique Norten
To October
Showing the development of Norten’s architectural projects, from the National Laboratory of Genomics to Rutgers University, this exhibition features 35 projects presented through maquettes, photographs, plans, renderings and videos.
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey
Zuazua y Jardón S/N, Centro
+52 (81) 8262 4500
Montreal
The Québec Triennial
To September 7
The entire Musée d’Art Contemporain is dedicated to this extensive exhibition, which will display 135 new works by 38 Quebec artists, ranging from sculpture and photography to video and installation.
Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal
185 rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest
(514) 847-6226
Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa
To October 26
Original display furniture, new large-scale models, drawings, renderings, books and photography will examine Taylor and Nishizawa’s approaches to living in their respective urban environments.
Canadian Centre for Architecture
1920, rue Baile
(514) 939-7000
Warhol Live
September 25 to January 18, 2009
Immerse yourself in opera, jazz and rock, and experience Andy Warhol in all his pop culture glory. The role of music in the artist’s work will be explored in his major pieces and lesser-known projects.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Jean-Noël Desmaris Pavilion
1380 Sherbrooke St. W.
(514) 285-2000
Will Alsop: OCAD, An Urban Manifesto
To October 5
This exhibition explores the preparatory creative work behind Alsop’s Sharp Centre for Design in Toronto, and emphasizes the role of painting in his design process.
Canadian Centre for Architecture
1920, rue Baile
(514) 939-7001
New York
Campana Brothers Select: Works from the Permanent Collection
To September 28
Brazilian design team Fernando and Humberto Campana selected the pieces for this show from the museum’s collection of objects from the 16th to the 20th century. A new chair specially designed by the Campanas for the Cooper-Hewitt will also be featured.
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
2 East 91st St.
(212) 849-8400
Tools of the Trade
To December 7
Fifty objects used to build and operate railroads, subways, buses, bridges and tunnels throughout New York, from the 1880s to the present, will be on display.
New York Transit Museum
130 Livingston St.
(718) 694-1600
Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland
To September 15
An intergenerational and interdisciplinary exhibition featuring 16 Finnish artists explores the outlandish visions of aliens, utopias, animals and psychedelia of modern Finnish art. A specially-designed screening room for videos and documentaries and a newly composed sound piece promise to enlighten and entertain.
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave.
(718) 784-2084
Buckminster Fuller: Starting With the Universe
To September 21
Best-known as the inventor of the sustainable geodesic dome, Fuller also developed theories and innovations in architecture, literature and environmental design. This exhibition examines how contemporary practitioners are pushing Fuller’s ideas and projects into the 21st century.
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave.
(212) 570-3600
Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement Three Installations, Two Films
To October 12
McCarthy uses architecture to cause perceptual disorientation, with such features as spinning mirrors, rotating walls, projections and altered spaces.
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave.
(212) 570-3600
Ottawa
Utopia/Dystopia: The Photographs of Geoffrey James
To October 19
James is known as one of Canada’s most eloquent interpreters of landscape since the ’70s. The exhibition includes over 80 photographs that span all of his major series.
National Gallery of Canada
380 Sussex Dr.
(613) 990-1985
Paris
Design Contemporain Finlandais – Promenons-nous Dans Le bois
Through August 31
Under the theme of wood and forests, the works of over 20 designers will be on exhibit in four categories: furniture, interior and industrial design; experimental design; applied art and jewellery; and graphic design. Designers include Mikko Paakkanen, Tony Alfström and Tom Dixon.
Le musée des Arts décoratifs
107, rue de Rivoli
+33 (0)1 44 55 58 78
Rotterdam
NL28 Olympic Fire
To September 21
Scale models, film, debate and theatre speculate what it would be like if the Olympic Games were held in the Netherlands in 2028, a century after Amsterdam hosted. A timeline of how the Games have affected other cities is also on display.
Netherlands Architecture Institute
Museumpark 25
+31 (0)10 440 1200
San Francisco
From The New Yorker to Shrek: The Art of William Steig
Through SEPTEMBER 7
Famous for his drawings, cartoons and children’s books, Steig published more than 1,600 drawings while working for The New Yorker for 73 years. Along with his drawings and books, the museum will also be exhibiting his lesser-known mid-life symbolic drawings, correspondence and other documentary materials.
CONTEMPORAY JEWISH MUSEUM
736 MISSION ST.
(415) 655-7831
John Zorn Presents: The Aleph-Bet Project
Through January 4, 2009
Zorn is leading fellow musicians, composers and artists in a series of commissioned sound pieces that acoustically explore the Hebrew alphabet. Linking the alphabetic symbols found throughout Daniel Libeskind’s architecture with the museum’s mission of rethinking tradition through its programming, the artists will be inspired by the Kabbalistic principle that the ancient Hebrew alphabet is a spiritual tool full of hidden meaning and harmony.
CONTEMPORAY JEWISH MUSEUM
736 MISSION ST.
(415) 655-7831
246 and Counting: Recent Architecture and Design Acquisitions
Through January 4, 2009
Over 246 architecture and design objects acquired by curator Henry Urbach will be on display, including Eliot Noyes’s model of the Westinghouse pavilion, and a graphic portfolio by Jack W. Stauffacher. The show will also highlight the museum’s acquisitions process.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third St.
(415) 357-4000
St. Catherines
David Spriggs: Archaeology of Space
To September 7
Working with space – both real and conceptual – Montreal-based Spriggs is often influenced by cubist and futurist deconstructions. Included in the show are his paintings and drawings on parallel sheets of transparent film spaced apart, so that the images challenge the traditional notions of form and space.
Rodman Hall Arts Centre, Brock University
109 St. Paul Cres.
(905) 684-2925
Stavanger, Norway
A World of Folk
To October 5
Curated by Li Edelkoort, this exhibition of Nordic design and craft brings together disciplines of furniture, toys, textiles, fashion, metalwork and music. Pavilions designed by Norwegian architects Helen&Hard host scenarios from the contemporary folk movement: archetypal, rural, tribal, ecological and global.
+47 51912008
Toronto
Object Factory: The Art of Industrial Ceramics
Through September 7
Artist Cindy Sherman, designers Ettore Sottsass and Masahiro Mori, and manufacturers Rosenthal and Nymphenburg, to name just a few, are on display together, demonstrating that art, design and manufacturing – while often considered wildly different in concept and methods – do share sources of inspiration and process.
Gardiner Museum
111 Queen's Park
(416) 586-8080
The Art of Clairtone: The Making of a Design Icon
To October 13
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of one of Canada’s most iconic companies from the ’60s, the Clairtone Sound Corporation, this exhibition features over 70 artifacts, including stereos, furniture, fashion, photography, vintage marketing materials and more.
Design Exchange
234 Bay St.
(416) 363-6121
Sacred Space
To September 7
Architecture firms Levitt Goodman, Kearns Mancini and Taylor Smyth will explore and debate the idea of sacred space using constructed models, built objects, printed images, mixed media and more. A light installation by Levitt Goodman and a series of photographs by Taylor Smyth will also be on display.
Harbourfront Centre
235 Queens Quay W.
(416) 973-4000
Shanghai Kaleidoscope
To November 2
See Shanghai, one of the world’s most dynamic cities, through artwork, video installations, photography, architectural models, designer fashion apparel and runway videos.
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen’s Pk.
(416) 586-8000
Sculpture Supernova
To August 31
Highlighting innovative “plasticians” from Berlin, Buenos Aires, New York, Paris, Rio and Toronto, the exhibition showcases the drastic changes in the sculptural medium over the past decade. Young and emerging artists experiment with unprecedented material and new forms.
Artcore Gallery/Fabrice Marcolini
55 Mill St., Pure Spirits Building 62
(416) 920-3820
The Street Belongs to All of Us
To October 2
Designers and architects, such as Zaha Hadid and Snøhetta Architects, address the idea of the street as a social phenomenon.
Eric Arthur Gallery and Larry Wayne Richards Gallery, University of Toronto
230 College St.
(416) 978-5038
Vicenza, Italy
The Great Exhibition: Palladio
September 20 to January 6, 2009
Andrea Palladio’s drawings, paintings, sculptures and manuscripts will be displayed, along with 30 architectural models and 70 architectural drawings by Michelangelo, Raphael, Le Corbusier and others.
Palazzo Barbaran da Porto
Contrà Porti, 11
+39 044 4323014
Vienna
Linz Texas: A City Relates
Through September 8
Linz has been named the 2009 European Capital of Culture. To celebrate this distinction, several events are taking place, including a film that compares Linz to other great cities.
Architekturzentrum Wien – Old Hall
Museumsplatz 1
+43 (0)732 2009
