IN THE MUSEUMS
EAST
Batiste Madalena: Hand-Painted Film Posters
for the Eastman Theatre, 1924–1928
October 15, 2008 – April 6, 2009
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
212/708-9400,
www.moma.org
More than 30 of Madelena’s brilliantly colored posters in
tempera commissioned for the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, New York, during the last years of the silent cinema.
Solos: Tulou/Affordable Housing in China
October 3, 2008 – May 8, 2009
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY
212/849-8400,
www.cooperhewitt.org
Housing by the Chinese architectural firm Urbanus for the city
of Guangzhou.
Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933
October 16, 2008 – February 15, 2009
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
212/570-3600,
www.whitney.org
A look at the artist’s years in Paris where he made his first mobiles and wire drawings in space and launched his Circus of miniature wire performers to the fascination of the Parisian avant-garde.
Karsh 100: A Biography in Images
September 23, 2008 – January 18, 2009
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
617/267-9300,
www.mfa.org
An iconic 1941 portrait of Winston Churchill joins those of Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and other celebrities, as well as industrial advertising images, all by photographer Yousuf Karsh (1908–2002).
Fashioning the Modern French Interior: Pochoir Portfolios in the 1920s and Art Deco New York
September 25 – December 20
New York School of Interior Design, New York, NY
212/472-1500,
www.nysid.edu
Pochoir (stencil) portfolios used for marketing modern interiors by greats such as Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand and Eileen Gray. A companion exhibiton features photographs by David Garrard Lowe of New York’s most celebrated Art Deco buildings.
Yaddo: Making American Culture
October 24, 2008 – February 15, 2009
New York Public Library, Humanities and
Social Sciences Library, New York, NY
212/592-7730,
www.nypl.org
The role of the famous artists’ colony in nurturing the creativity of such influential figures as James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copeland, Jacob Lawrence and Philip Guston through letters, photographs, books, artwork and sound recordings from the Yaddo archive.
Frank O. Gehry: Design Process and the Lewis House
November 8, 2008 – April 5, 2009
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
215/763-8100,
www.philamuseum.org
Models, drawings, photographs and videos illuminate the decade-long design process behind Frank Gehry’s seminal Peter Lewis House (1985–95) in Lyndhurst, Ohio, which gave him his first major opportunity to experiment with the forms and structural innovations developed in his later projects.
Marilyn Monroe Wanted to be Buried in Pucci
September 18 – November 21
Design Center at Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA
215/951-2850,
www.philau.edu
A large-scale mixed-media installation by Devon Dikeou uses the funerary request of the actress as a basis for examining her life and the art, design and popular culture of her day.
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes
October 4, 2008 – January 18, 2009
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
412/622-3131,
www.cmoa.org
Architectural models and drawings, installations, animations, paintings, photographs, sculptures and videos by more than 30 artists and architects explore suburbia and propose ideas for its future.
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