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2X Japan: Textiles
2X Japan: Katagami
Both through March 29, 2009
MAK Vienna, Vienna, Austria
+43 1 711 36-248, www.mak.at
Japanese textiles and katagami, the paper
stencils used for dyeing traditional Japanese
fabrics.
© MAK.
Ron Arad: No Discipline
Through March 16, 2009
Hommage à Ettore Sottsass
Above Butterflies and ring bands, Japan, 19th century, fabric stencil (katagami). At MAK Vienna.
Through March 31, 2009
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
+33 1 44 78 12 33, www.centrepompidou.fr
Jean Lurçat: Tapisseries (1940–1965)
Designed by Ron Arad himself, “No Discipline” features a
Through May 17, 2009
full-scale reproduction of his foyer and staircase for the Tel
Musée Jean Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine,
Aviv Opera House, as well as multimedia exhibits, models
Angers, France
and drawings. + 33 2 41 05 38 38, www.musees.angers.fr
Furniture, glass, ceramics, jewelry and office machine designs, as Thirty tapestries by Lurçat (1892–1966), who incorporated the
well as drawings and multimedia, illuminate Sottsass’s career. texts of poets such as Paul Éluard into his pictorial themes of the
life-giving sun, animals, plants and minerals.
Rothko
Through February 1, 2009
Tate Modern, London, England
+44 20 7887 8888, www.tate.org.uk
This Rothko survey includes seldom-seen works like the murals
commissioned for the Four Seasons restaurant in Mies van der
Rohe’s Seagram Building in New York.
Marcel Duchamp: A Work That Is Not a Work “of Art”
Through February 28, 2009
Fundación Proa Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
+54 11 4303 0909, www.proa.org
More than 140 works by Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) trace
his idiosyncratic career as curator, designer, typographer and
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Changing Ideals: Re-thinking the House
Through March 29, 2009
Netherlands Architecture Institute, Maastricht, the Netherlands
+31 43 3503020, http://en.nai.nl
A comparison of historical and contemporary designs, avant-
garde experiments and mainstream production in search of the
ideal house. A conference is planned for Spring 2009.
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Left Ron Arad Associates, Box in Four Movements chair, 1994.
Cube in four stainless steel sections connected by hinges,
transformable into a chair or low table and able to be fixed in
Collection Aby J. Rosen, New Y
any position. At Centre Georges Pompidou.
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