The original preparatory painting for the acclaimed British painter, sculptor and printmaker Allen Jones’ poster for the ill-fated 1972 Munich Olympics is to be sold at Bonhams, Knightsbridge, as part of the Vision 21 sale on 16 March 2011. It has attracted [Read More]
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Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Insights, the annual design series presented by the Walker Art Center and AIGA, begins March 1 and runs every Tuesday through March 29. The series brings the world’s leading graphic designers to the Twin Cities to [Read More]
The Goldstein Museum of Design presents small architecture, BIG LANDSCAPES on view through March 6, 2011 at HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall, Minneapolis Campus. One billion leftover people—typically called squatters or self-builders or homeless (it’s a big category)–claim leftover spaces in cities and [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville presents The Art of Seating 200 Years of American Design on view January 21, 2011 — April 3, 2011. “The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, a [Read More]
The Minneapolis Institute of Art presents Chairevolution! 300 Years of Designing the Chair on view through Sunday, February 6, 2011. Take a look at how design has evolved over 300 years with an examination of a single object: the chair. From the [Read More]
A week of 20th Century Design sales at Sotheby’s New York concluded, bringing in excess of $19 million. This represents the highest total for a week of Design sales at Sotheby’s New York since December 2003, achieved with less than one third [Read More]
The Corning Museum of Glass presents a survey of one of the largest and finest collections of contemporary studio glass in the United States, Voices of Contemporary Glass showcases, for the first time, the collection donated to the Museum in 2006 by [Read More]
The 4th Gwangju Design Biennale, open 2 September – 23 October 2011, has appointed Seung H-Sang, a Korean architect, and Ai Weiwei, a Chinese artist and architectural designer, as co-directors of the 4th Gwangju Design Biennale. Eight curators and two designers have [Read More]
The first pre-event of the Istanbul Design Biennial; an International Design Symposium will be organised at Kadir Has University, on 2-3 December 2010. Titled “Why Design, Why Biennial?”, the symposium aims to create means for a productive debate on the interaction of [Read More]
Phillips de Pury & Company opens the first UK solo exhibition of Japanese design studio, Nendo. The exhibition will be presented in two parts and split between two galleries. Part 1: Thin Black Lines, features a new series of bent, solid, tubular [Read More]
Iconic Designs by Marc Newson, Ron Arad, Tom Dixon and John Makepeace Also on Offer at London Design Festival Sale Two tables designed and executed circa 1981 for Foster’s architectural practice in London, Foster Associates, and Foster’s Renault Distribution Centre in Swindon [Read More]
The Rijksmuseum has acquired two masterpieces for its collection of 20th-century art and history: the famous chair designed by Gerrit T. Rietveld around 1918 and a relief by Jan J. Schoonhoven from 1963. Both artworks will be added to the permanent collection [Read More]
The Jewish Museum will present a selection of colorful, luminous lamps designed by internationally renowned architect Frank Gehry in Fish Forms: Lamps by Frank Gehry, on view from August 29 through October 31, 2010. This exhibition also explores the significance of fish [Read More]
An international group of students has designed and built an installation evoking the Finnish national epic Kalevala, The Shaman’s Haven of the Kalevala, on the Seurasaari island in Helsinki. The project is the culmination of the Spirit of Place/Spirit of Design architectural [Read More]