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The first Arts and Crafts exhibition mounted at the museum in more than 30 years, Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago will present designs by the movement's most notable practitioners, from William Morris and Charles Robert Ashbee to Gustav Stickley and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Highlighting a wide range of objects, including ceramics, furniture, metalwork, paintings, photographs, and textiles, the exhibition will focus on Chicago collections, featuring works from the Art Institute, the University of Chicago, the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Crab Tree Farm, and other private collections.
Although Arts and Crafts has been the subject of recent retrospectives, the Art Institute's exhibition will make a thoughtful contribution to scholarship by exploring the complex influences of Arts and Crafts style, situating its origins and expressions.
Both the exhibition and catalogue will present a thematic history of the movement, culminating in a section on design and collecting in Chicago.
The exhibition will introduce large audiences to some of the city's little seen, previously unpublished yet spectacular, world-class private Chicago collections.
Approximately half of the objects have not been published before and will be presented in a contextual way to make these objects accessible to a broad audience.
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The Brooklyn Museum will be the final venue of an international tour of the first retrospective in more than twenty years of art by the internationally acclaimed artists Gilbert & George.
On view from October 3, 2008, through January 11, 2009, the exhibition comprises of more than ninety pictures produced since 1970, among them more than a dozen that will be seen only in the Brooklyn presentation.
Gilbert and George met in 1967 while students at St. Martin's Art School in London.
They began to create art together, developing a uniquely recognizable style both in their pictures and in their presentations of themselves as living sculptures.
Over the forty years they developed a new format that created large scale pictures, which are visually and emotionally powerful, through a unique creative process.
Most of their pictures are created in groups and made especially for the space in which they are first exhibited.
Since 1974 Gilbert and George have used their personal complex grid system to create their pictures, which are now developed with the use of sophisticated digital editing techniques.
In the early 1980s they began to introduce bold colors into their pictures, with one or more pictures in each group that were created on a monumental scale.
All pictures in a group share common motifs and conceptual and formal elements.
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The Lighthouse, Scotland's National Architecture and Design Centre, has unveiled an exhibition of photographs by Mark Sinclair, capturing the construction of the new Shetland Museum and Archives.
The series of large-scale, evocative, black and white images - shown in the Long Gallery - capture moments in time as reconstruction developed from 2005 to its completion in 2007.
Mark Sinclair: Art on Site runs at The Lighthouse until 26 October 2008.
In 2005, Shetland-based photographer Mark Sinclair embarked on an "Art on Site" public art project funded by Shetland Amenity Trust to document the restoration of Hay's Dock, (led by Nicolas Groves Raines), and the construction of the Shetland Museum and Archives, (designed by architects BDP), on an adjacent site.
Sinclair's photographs record the construction process of this dynamic new building right up to and immediately following its opening in Summer 2007.
This exhibition presents a selection of the 500+ black and white images taken over the two years that the work was in progress.
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The Board of the Roswitha Haftmann Foundation will award the 2009 Roswitha Haftmann Prize to the American artist Vija Celmins.
Vija Celmins paints with oils on canvas or draws with charcoal on paper; her imagery is representational and sometimes not without allusions to violence: a gun held by an outstretched hand or a burning man getting out of a car imply a potential threat.
Especially her works dating back to the 1960s reflect a world destabilized by the menace of war and domestic political conflicts.
However, the works she executed at the turn of the millennium contrast radically with her earlier creations.
Reinstating perpetuity and tranquility, they transport the viewer beyond the immediate present with its restless streets and pressures of mass media.
The artist redirects her focus entirely to nature and levels her attention at the remote distance.
Aided by the photogravure technique to render a generalized representation, night skies have a calming effect and refer to universal laws.
If we scrutinize the close-up view of a spider's web, then our fear subsides and turns into admiration of natural phenomena.
Celmins' late works are the products of many minute and often repetitive stages of laboriously fixing images on paper.
Not only the artist derives inner strength from this creative process, but it also promotes the same depth of concentration and profundity of aesthetic experience in the viewer.
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From August 25-September 12, Parsons The New School for Design presents its annual exhibition of MFA Photography thesis work in the Arnold & Sheila Aronson Galleries of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center.
The exhibition features thesis work by recent graduates Brett Bell, Mark William Fernandes, Nathaniel Harger, Meghan McInnis, Kyung Mi Park, Haley Samuelson, Sean Simpson, Kirsten Springer-Delgado, Meng-Hsun Wu, Tingting Xu, and Grace Yang.
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