Model City: Buildings and Projects by
Paul Rudolph for Yale and New Haven
SOUTH
Through February 6, 2009
Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT
American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow
203/432-2288, www.architecture.yale.edu
Through May 17, 2009
Wolfsonian Museum,
See Modern Times, p. 20.
Florida International University, Miami, FL
Louis I. Kahn: The Making of a Room
305/531-1001, www.wolfsonian.fiu.edu
February 7 – March 29, 2009
Streamlined furniture, ceramics, metalwork, plastics, graphic design
Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
and archival design books from the 1930s and 1940s, plus some
215/898-2083, www.upenn.edu/ARG
present-day examples.
Kahn’s interior and furniture design through drawings,
models, photographs, correspondence and project files.
MIDWEST
Frank O. Gehry: Design Process and the Lewis House
Through April 5, 2009
Daniel Burnham’s Plan of Chicago
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Through December 15, 2009
215/763-8100, www.philamuseum.org
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Models, drawings, photographs and videos illuminate the decade- 312/443-3600, www.artic.edu
long design process behind Gehry’s seminal Lewis House (1985–95).
Architect Daniel Burnham’s Chicago city plan of 1909, which still
influences the city today
WEST
Alexander Calder: In Focus
Yves Saint Laurent
Through March 1, 2009
Through April 5, 2009
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Warhol Live
312/280-2660, www.mcachicago.org
February 14 – May 17, 2009 Mobiles, stabiles, drawings and paintings illuminate the artist’s
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
50-year career.
415/750-3600, www.famsf.org/deyoung
Sketches and more than 100 accessorized garments designed by
Saint Laurent in the 1960s, and an exploration of the art, theater,
Below Marina Schiano in Yves Saint Laurent Evening Gown,
history, literature and nature that inspired them.
Fall-Winter 1970. At the De Young Museum, San Francisco.
Hundreds of Warhol’s paintings, prints, album covers and films
in an installation evoking his Silver Factory.
Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008
Through March 1, 2009
Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures
January 25 – April 19, 2009
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
323/857-6000, www.lacma.org
The history of celebrity portraiture through photographs from
Vanity Fair magazine by Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Irving Penn,
Annie Leibovitz and others.
A comparison of Cold War-era works from East and West Germany.
Dan Graham: Beyond
February 15 – May 25, 2009
Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
213/621-1745, www.moca-la.org
Conceptual mirrored pavilions of polymath Dan Graham (1942–)
that hover between architecture and art; this retrospective also
includes his photography, graphic design, prints and drawings,
writings and musical collaborations.
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the
Russian Avant-Garde, 1910–1917
Through March 22, 2009
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
310/440-7330, www.getty.edu
Modernist illustrated books created by Russian artists and poets
just before the revolution.
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