Diary.AR'S CHOICE OF CURRENT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS For an expanded and constantly updated list, go to our website: www.arplus.com/exhibitions FRANCE France (frăns, Fr. fräNs), officially French Republic, republic (2005 est. pop. 60,656,000), 211,207 sq mi (547,026 sq km), W Europe. JOAN MIRO Until 28 June Centre Pompidou, Paris Focusing on Miro's work between 1920 and 1930, a period characterized by intense production and exuberant invention. Paintings, collages and constructions bring the artist's theories and preoccupations vividly to life. www.cnac-gp.fr GERMANY STANLEY KUBRICK Noun 1. Stanley Kubrick - United States filmmaker (born in 1928) Kubrick Until 4 July Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt Intriguing survey of film director Kubrick's work, including props, sets, designs and costumes that reveal his intense involvement with architecture and contemporary art. www.dam.de SPAIN VITO ACCONCI Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940) is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based architect, landscape architect, and installation artist. His father was an Italian immigrant who took him to museums and opera houses and gave him his first arts education. Until 3 June Museu d'art Contemporani de Barcelona The singular career of multi-faceted artist and designer Vito Acconci from the mid 1960s to the early 1980s, encompassing poetry, performance, photography, film, video and architectural projects. www.macba.es UNITED KINGDOM MAGGIE'S AT THE SOANE Until 19 June Sir John Soane's Museum Sir John Soane's Museum (often abbreviated to the Soane Museum) is a museum of architecture, and was formerly the house and studio of the neo-classical architect Sir John Soane. , London Tracing the evolution of the Maggie's Centre project, named after Charles Jencks' wife Maggie Keswick Jencks, who, during her life as a cancer sufferer, identified a gap in the provision of emotional and practical support for cancer patients. The success of the first centre in Edinburgh has led to an ambitious development programme, including buildings by Daniel Libeskind Daniel Libeskind, (born May 12, 1946 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish-born Jewish American architect, who has designed many prominent and celebrated buildings, including the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the Imperial War Museum , Zaha Hadid Zaha Hadid (Arabic: زها حديد) CBE (born October 31, 1950, Baghdad, Iraq) is a notable Iraqi-British deconstructivist architect. Biography Born october 31 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. and Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize winning architect based in Los Angeles, California. His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. . www.soane.org UNITED STATES AFFORDABLE HOUSING: DESIGNING AN AMERICAN ASSET Until 8 August National Building Museum, Washington Low-cost housing tends to be marginalized in both social and architectural terms; this imaginative exhibition attempts to prove otherwise. www.nbm.org AR next month BUILDING FOR THE ARTS Subscribe using the enclosed form or click on our website www.arplus.com |
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