Diary.AR'S CHOICE OF INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS DENMARK BASELITZ: PAINTER Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, established and incorporated in 1929. It is privately supported. Alfred H. Barr, Jr., was its first director. Operating at first in rented galleries, the museum specialized in loan shows of contemporary European and American art. A start toward its permanent collection was made with the Lillie P. Bliss bequest, which included nine Cézannes and the Daumier Washerwoman., Humlebaek Until 6 June Retrospective of German artist Georg Baselitz from the art museum that gave him his first Danish show in the early 1980s and which has tracked his career ever since. www.louisiana.dk FRANCE RENZO PIANO BUILDING WORKSHOP: ZENTRUM PAUL KLEE La Galerie d'Architecture, Paris Until 1 April Exhibition exploring the thinking behind Renzo Piano Building Workshop's recently completed Paul Klee Musuem in Bern Bern or Berne (1990 pop. 136,338), the capital, is also the capital of Switzerland. Situated within a loop of the Aare River, the city is a university, administrative, transportation, and industrial center. Its manufactures include precision instruments, textiles, machinery, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, and chocolate. (AR August 2005). The building draws inspiration from both Klee's work and the site topography. www.galerie-architecture.fr GERMANY UN STUDIO: EVOLUTION OF SPACE Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt Until 30 April Major show of the work of Dutch architectural duo Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos. Projects such as the Moebius House and forthcoming Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart embody an intelligent preoccupation with digital form making. www.dam-online.de UK PREFABULOUS LONDON: THE A-Z OF MODERN CITY HOMES Building Centre, London Until 18 March Case studies of imaginative new housing projects around London that aim to challenge convention and explain modern construction methods such as modules and panels in concrete, steel and timber. www.buildingcentretrust.org USA DADA National Gallery of Art National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, established by act of Congress, Mar. 24, 1937. Andrew W. Mellon donated funds for construction of the building as well as his own collection of 130 American portraits. The marble building was designed by John Russell Pope; it was opened in Mar., 1941. The east wing, designed by I. M. Pei, was completed in 1978. Other works in the gallery include Samuel H., Washington DC Until 14 May The bumper Dada exhibition which was originally shown at the Pompidou Centre in Paris gets welcome transatlantic exposure. Themed around the sextet of cities in which Dada was manifest to varying degrees (Zurich, Berlin, Hanover, Cologne, New York, and Paris), this complex and compelling show features a myriad of painters, poets and provocateurs. www.nga.gov Subscribe using the enclosed form or click on our website www.arplus.com |
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