The MAK Center (The Schindler House) has posted the date for their 2010 architectural tour: October 10. This year’s tour will commemorate the 100th birthday of architectural photographer Julius Shulman, who died July 15, 2009 at age 98, by featuring homes from his images. Stay tuned for further information.
The “Degenerate Art” Research Center, Art History Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin now hosts a database that documents the fate of over 21,000 works of art deemed “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate Art) and confiscated by the Nazis in 1937. The database is searchable by artist, title, object type, current repository and specific Nazi-era exhibitions. Many…
After an extensive two-year renovation, the Oakland Museum of California will reopen its doors with a Weekend Celebration 1-2 May to show off the museum’s new, brighter galleries. They have also been redesigned so installations can be more conceptual — objects from history and natural science collections share spaces with works of art and design.…
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater has been replicated in LEGO blocks – 15,000 of them. It took the creator seven months to complete it. In other Wright-LEGO news, the LEGO company is introducing the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection, which includes instructions for building six of his iconic designs. These won’t take seven months or 15,000 blocks,…
The Museum of Modern Art in New York’s current retrospective of performance artist Marina Abramović includes a live video-feed of the artist in a new work, “The Artist is Present.” The piece, which can be viewed during museum hours through the run of the exhibition (14 March-31 May), is performed in the museum’s Marron Atrium…
The Museum of Broken Relationships is a great concept museum. It is based in Croatia, and is sending a collection on tour. It is currently at an Istanbul shopping mall – read more in this New York Times article. Exhibits include unopened bottles of champagne, cell phones, prosthetic legs, and more, all with great memories…