Art News

  1. Mondo Mendini - The World of Alessandro Mendini at Groninger Museum

    Mondo Mendini: The World of Alessandro Mendini at Groninger Museum

    'Mondo Mendini: The World of Alessandro Mendini,' on view at the Groninger Museum through May 5, is a large-scale exhibition of the renowned Italian designer, who 25 years ago served as the chief architect of the still remarkable Groninger Museum building, put together shortly before he passed away. Mendini chose to display not only a broad selection from his own oeuvre, but he also selected works by artists with whom he felt a kinship, such as Paul Signac, Gio Ponti, and Michele De Lucchi.

  2. Spotlight - Architecture x Design at 55th Chicago International Film Festival

    Spotlight: Architecture x Design at 55th Chicago International Film Festival

    The 55th Chicago International Film Festival​ has announced the line-up for this year's ​'Spotlight: Architecture x Design'​ program with a special focus on Production Design. The Spotlight, presented on the occasion of the third Chicago Architecture Biennial, will showcase a program of films that bring a new perspective to architecture and design-related themes. As part of the event, the Festival will feature a unique ​'In Focus: Production Design'​ program with support provided by the ​Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences​.

  3. Ettore Sottsass and the Social Factory

    Ettore Sottsass and the Social Factory

    This April, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) will launch a new biannual exhibition initiative committed to exploring significant advances in postwar and contemporary design and its relationship to contemporary art, with Ettore Sottsass and the Social Factory - an exhibition that considers the practice of the influential designer beyond his place in the history of design, and places Sottsass' work within the social and economic contexts in which it was produced.

  4. DANAD Design - The Art of Pop Design

    DANAD Design: The Art of Pop Design

    An exhibition of works celebrating DANAD's 60th Anniversary by Peter Blake, Bernard Cohen, Tom Adams, Barry Daniels, Robyn Denny & Edward Wright tells the untold story of the DANAD Design collective (1958-62). The exhibition, sponsored by Abet Laminati and hosted at Paul Smith's Mayfair gallery from April 25 through May 10, is the first in DANAD's 2019-20 series of events celebrating the forgotten story of a group of young artists of the pop-art era.