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From 11 January to 30 March 2008 Kunsthaus Zurich will be offering a glimpse at an unknown facet of the work of the great 20th-century American photographer.
Forty years after the artist's death, original prints by Edward Steichen (1879-1973) for Vanity Fair and Vogue are only now available to the public.
In the 1920s and 1930s Steichen was at the height of his career as a photographer, and some of the images he created during that period for the magazines published by Conde Nast are among his most striking.
While Kunsthaus Zürich presents some 200 works under the theme of high fashion, the Musee de l'Elysee in Lausanne shows an overview of Steichen's entire career entitled "Lives in Photography".
Steichen had already made his name as a painter and art photographer on both sides of the Atlantic by the time he was offered the position in early 1923 that made him one of the best-known figures in commercial photography, as chief photographer for Conde Nast's influential Vogue and Vanity Fair magazines.
Over the next 15 years, Steichen brought all of his extraordinary talents to bear on the project of portraying contemporary culture and its foremost exponents, from the fields of literature, journalism, dance, sports, politics, theatre and film, and in particular from the world of haute couture.
The result was a grand oeuvre.
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The most comprehensive retrospective to date of the work of internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Takashi Murakami will be presented at the Brooklyn Museum from April 5 through July 13, 2008.
The exhibition, MURAKAMI, will include more than ninety works in various media that span the artist's entire career, installed in more than 18,500 square feet of gallery space.
The exhibition was organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, where it will be on view through February 11, 2008.
Born in Tokyo in 1962, Murakami is one of the most influential and acclaimed artists to have emerged from Asia in the late twentieth century, creating a wide-ranging body of work that consciously bridges fine art, design, animation, fashion, and popular culture.
He received a Ph.D. from the prestigious Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where he was trained in the school of traditional Japanese painting known as Nihonga, a nineteenth-century mixture of Western and Eastern styles.
However, the prevailing popularity of anime (animation) and manga (comic books) directed his interest toward the art of animation because, as he has said, "it was more representative of modern day Japanese life." American popular culture in the form of animation, comics, and fashion are among the influences his work, which includes painting, sculpture, installation, and animation, as well as a wide range of collectibles, multiples, and
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This January, four years' worth of artists' impressions, whims, dreams, and nightmares - over 450 images - will download from the web to the walls of gallery hanahou.
The exhibit is the physical incarnation of Der Bilderklub, a Berlin-based experimental platform and virtual community where professional illustrators share their visual lives, via personal drawings, sketches, and photographs, uploaded on an ongoing, everyday basis.
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French street artist L'Atlas declares that "actions tell more than words."
The exhibition Cosmic Graffiti in Paris will testify that he is true to his word.
From January 9th to 27th his latest bodies of work will be presented at Studio 55.
L'Atlas' art is luminous and sparse, dark and profound and often leaves you musing why you got caught in his visual maelstrom.
Cosmic, indeed.
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Imagine a world without oil as a source of power.
This was the point of departure for students from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City participating in Horsepower, an innovative design exhibition at the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook from February 2 through March 2, 2008.
Before the 20th century, the world depended on another source of power - the horse.
The avenues of New York City and Main Streets of America were crowded with horse-drawn vehicles.
Given this rich history, SVA students have borrowed from the past and have re-imagined today's world without oil.
In response to today's energy-challenged world, SVA students, under the direction of Kevin O'Callaghan, chairman of the school's 3D Design Program, have taken horse-drawn vehicles and have reinvented them.
Carriages and sleighs that were considered beyond restoration have been dramatically remodeled in a satirical manner in hopes of showing what we could learn from our past.
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