Through the Works Progress Administration, the U.S. government supplied money and jobs to visual artists during the Depression, thus stimulating a renaissance in the arts. While creating artwork for public buildings and spaces, artists and craftsmen were able to develop their techniques and styles and maintain a degree of autonomy. Printmaking was one medium pursued by many WPA artists, and here the Gibbes Museum curators have showcased 25 such prints from the museum’s permanent collection.
Gibbes Museum of Art
135 Meeting Street
Charleston, SC 29401
Telephone: (843) 722-2706
www.gibbesmuseum.org
August 25, 2006 – April 15, 2007
Set in the center of Carolina’s low country, Charleston has a remarkably colorful and lively history. The civil war in 1865 and the abolition of slavery left their marks on the city, which faltered during the years leading up to the new century. Although challenged by major cultural, economic and intellectual shifts, a strong historic core remained vibrant. Photographer George W. Johnson captured life in Charleston during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; his work serves as an architectural history of the city from the turn-of-the-century through 1930.
Gibbes Museum of Art
135 Meeting Street
Charleston, SC 29401
Telephone: (843) 722-2706
www.gibbesmuseum.org
September 8 – April 15, 2007
The 25 prints on view at the de Young are the most recent additions to the museum’s significant collection of Ruscha’s works. The prints reflect themes Ruscha considered in the past and ideas he is currently developing.
During his career, Ruscha (b. 1937) created a visual language from the landscape and culture of the West. For his newest works, he used etching, photogravure, digital media and the Mixografia process.
De Young Museum
Golden Gate Park
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118
Telephone: (415) 863-3330
Web site: www.deyoungmuseum.org
16 September 2006 —4 March 2007
Taken during travels to Asia made by Roberts during a two-year interval, from 2004-2006, the 26 photographs on view chronicle the lives of individuals and their circumstances in particular areas of the continent. “Humanitas” indicates the development of human virture, and Roberts captured the virture he noted in people he obviously came to admire. A book featuring these and more of Roberts’s images, Humanitas, is available from Hylas Publishing (2005).
Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011
Telephone: (212) 620-5000
Web site: www.rmanyc.org
September 29, 2006–February 26, 2007
Early Sikh Art and Devotion traces the roots and development of Sikh beliefs and culture through nearly 100 works (drawings, paintings, metalwork, textiles and photographs) drawn from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries.
Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011
Telephone: (212) 620-5000
Web site: www.rmanyc.org
September 18, 2006 through January 29, 2007
When the idea for the Droog collective was conceived in Amsterdam in 1993 by product designer Gijs Bakker and design historian Renny Ramakers, it was a reaction to the state of design at that time: neon-colored, fussy and laden with gimmicks. Bakker and Ramaker recognized that consumers were eager for pared-down, accessible pieces that reflected a new sensibility. Bakker was also a professor at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, and she planned to show work by her students at the 1993 Milan Furniture Fair. Among fourteen works were a bookcase made from strips of paper and triplex by Jan Konings and Jurgen Bey; Hella Jongerius’s polyurethane bath mat; and a chest of drawers for which designer Tejo Remy used cord to tie half-a-dozen wooden drawers into a bundle. Viewing such works, the word “Droog,” which in Finnish means “dry wit,” seems remarkably apt. Subtle wit infuses and accents the basic nature of the materials.
Museum of Art and Design
40 West 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019
Telephone: 212-956-3535
Web site: www.madmuseum.org
Simply Droog
10 + 3 Years of Creating Innovation and Discussion
September 21, 2006 – January 14, 2007
The Art of War, The Art of Computer Programming, The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Art of Shaving, The Art of Sex, The Art of Computer Game Design, The Art of Healing, The Art of Crime Detection, The Art of Eating, The Art of Kissing, The Art of Motion, The Art of Driving, The Art of Peace, The Art of E-commerce, Art of Questioning, The Art of Work, The Art of Insults, The Art of Living, The Art of Photography, The Art of Listening, The Art of Innovation, The Art of Storytelling, The Art of Loving, …
Art is Creation, Art is Thought, Art is Action, Art is Reaction, Art is Pleasure, Art is Peace, Art is Art, Art is Philosophy, Art is Nothing, Art is Everything,…
What’s Art to You?
The Art of War, The Art of Computer Programming, The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Art of Shaving, The Art of Sex, The Art of Computer Game Design, The Art of Healing, The Art of Crime Detection, The Art of Eating, The Art of Kissing, The Art of Motion, The Art of Driving, The Art of Peace, The Art of E-commerce, Art of Questioning, The Art of Work, The Art of Insults, The Art of Living, The Art of Photography, The Art of Listening, The Art of Innovation, The Art of Storytelling, The Art of Loving, …
Art is Creation, Art is Thought, Art is Action, Art is Reaction, Art is Pleasure, Art is Peace, Art is Art, Art is Philosophy, Art is Nothing, Art is Everything,…
What’s Not Art to You?
