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For craft aficionados, it is a great joy to walk into the Museum of Modern Art’s “Bauhaus 1919-1933” show and immediately see a display case of ceramic works. Among the introductory pieces was a pot by Marguerite Friedlaender (later Wildenhain) decorated with a bull in slip trailing. This design relates to other linear decoration in painting and drawings also on view. In fact, the pottery, furniture, weavings in various forms from rugs to upholstery to wall hangings, plus metalwork by many individuals but especially Marianne Brandt and stained glass by Josef Albers, all fitted seamlessly with the paintings by ...
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Considering that it's home to a long-standing community of ardent skateboarders, where else but in California might you expect to see an anthology of skate art from the 1960s to the present? In what promises to be a refreshingly fun and enlightening show, over 300 skateboard decks by artists and skaters from across the country come out of the garage, the attic or off the shelf for display in “Full Deck” at Walnut Creek’s Bedford Gallery starting July 5th until September 13th. With unique hand-painted decks, recent commercial boards, historic decks, photography, painting, prints, sculpture and video the ...
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Contemporary hat designs by young designers from Lasell College along with the hats from ATHM's historic collection that inspired them. ...
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Arizona State University Art Mueum ...
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This exhibition is the last in of a series of exhibitions over the past two years exploring the role of the Principles of Design within artworks from the Museum's Permanent Collection. This exhibit will focus on unity, which is what occurs when all of the other principles of design have been applied correctly. It creates a sense of order and makes the work feel complete.
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In a discussion at Art Basel 2007, Massimiliano Gioni, the curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, referred to Art Basel Miami Beach as the “fake Art Basel.” Dioni seems to be alone in his thoughts because last week tens of thousands of collectors clamoring to buy, celebrities wanting to be seen and people simply looking to participate in all the excitement invaded Miami for a non-stop week of exhibits, parties and events. With Design/Miami running concurrently and a variety of other art fairs, design shows and exhibitions piggybacking on the two main events, the city was overwhelmed with ...
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Located in the southern Appalachian mountain region, Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina, has made a specialty of celebrating the handwork of yesterday and today. In October it reunited the master ceramists Don Reitz and John Jessiman , old friends from the 1960s, for a workshop–Reitz’s first since his heart surgery two years ago. The event launched the university’s brand new Randall and Susan Parrott Ward Endowment Fund for Ceramics. Meanwhile, the school continues to develop its digital exhibit “Craft Revival: Shaping Western North Carolina Past and Present,” documenting a historic artisans’ movement (1895-1945) that still ...
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Last year I received a message from jeweler Bruce Metcalf… ...
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Last year I received a message from jeweler Bruce Metcalf… ...
Heck Yes Craft
Boris Bally's sophisticated reinvention of reclaimed street signs and found objects will rattle your mind. Bally transforms traffic signs into everything from entirely modern furniture to sleek jewelry and home decor items -- and even flatware! My favorite piece is a necklace created with 100 handgun triggers from Pittsburgh's "Goods for Guns" program. It's Bally's spin on the talismanic charms of aboriginal cultures, and he says, "this urban 'mojo' protects the wearer from the gun violence so prevalent in today's culture."
Can't get enough craft? Neither can we. Heck Yes Craft is a series of visual blog posts ...
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The weather in New York seems to have finally committed itself to spring which means a heady two weeks of design are in store for the city… ...
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Heath Ceramics, founded in 1944, grew into an unconventional amalgam of craft, design and manufacturing, and has gone on to become one of the most celebrated, slighted and generally misunderstood workshops to emerge from California’s studio pottery movement. Here, photographer Laurie Frankel shows us stand-out work from the past half-century while in print Mija Riedel looks at what makes the company tick. ...
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By E. Graeme Robertson and Joan Robertson
Thames & Hudson
$65
Were you to randomly open this reference work to any of its abundant, evocative illustrations—of balconies, say, in the French Vieux Carré in New Orleans or of bridges in Leningrad—you would likely be drawn into a deeper investigation of the subject matter. Reprinted directly from the first edition of 1977 and largely a photographic essay, all in black and white, the book has become a classic in the literature of architecture and design. Motivated to bring attention to the aesthetic value of a distinctive form of decoration, E. Graeme Robertson, ...
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Jeweler and writer, Bruce Metcalf and indy craft artist and Etsy-seller Chanel Kennebrew played to a full house during the American Craft Council’s second Summer in the City Salon Series. Tune in, turn on and pretend you were there for this wide ranging conversation that found these opposites discovering that they have a lot more in common than anyone suspected. ...
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