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Crafting Modernism
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This isn't the first time we've been excited about Costantino Nivola. A feature on the artist and his work was included in the January-February 1959 issue of Craft Horizons, five years before he completed the concrete playground we highlight in Crafting Manhattan.
This glimpse of the Sardinian-born artist in his Midcentury heyday shows a man who is working hard to blur the lines between art and architecture in the world he sculpts.
From the article by Dore Ashton:
"The trouble with architecture today," he has said, "is that it lacks the vitalizing touch of the artist. Buildings are ...
Craftspotting
This fall, the Museum of Arts and Design opens its latest, much anticipated installment of The Centenary Project, a series of exhibitions that investigate American craft of the 20th century. "Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design" features works in a variety of mediums by more than 160 artists and designers who explore craft, design, and the transformation of American life from 1945 through the 1960s. As such, it promises to be the most comprehensive show on postwar craft to date.
However, neither the standalone objects of greats like Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi, Sheila Hicks, and Lenore Tawney nor MAD's comprehensive ...
ACC Library
If you haven't had a chance to check out the ACC Library Digital Collections, now is a wonderful time to take a peek. Nearly 2,500 images, newsletters, and exhibition catalogs are currently available for your viewing pleasure. The latest addition to the Your Portable Museum Image Collection is the OBJECTS: USA filmstrip. OBJECTS: USA was a seminal late 1960s to early 1970s traveling exhibition featuring materials collected by the S.C. Johnson and Son Company. OBJECTS: USA was exhibited throughout the United States at places like the Smithsonian, the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, and ...
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Get out your calendar - and get excited. Three weeks from now, on October 12, "Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design" opens at New York's Museum of Arts and Design.
The exhibition, which traces the handcrafted object in the postwar era, has been years in the making - in more ways than one. Its roots go back to the early '90s, when Janet Kardon (then director of MAD, then called the American Craft Museum) launched the Centenary Project, a series of exhibitions chronicling decorative arts and craft in the 20th century. Three shows came to fruition - as ...
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