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MoMA acquires cup designed for extraterrestrial use
When drinking coffee in space, you’ll need a cup adapted to the behavior of liquids in zero gravity, naturally. Paola Antonelli, MoMA’s Senior Curator of Architecture & Design, describes their latest acquisition as the “first object in our collection designed expressly for extraterrestrial use.” This zero-G coffee cup was designed by astronaut Don Pettit: MoMA’s collection now includes…
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This Week’s TOP FIVE Museums News
1. A portrait of Tsar Nicholas II was discovered during the restoration of a full-size painting of the 1917 October Revolution leader Vladimir Lenin. READ MORE 2. An original exhibition featuring cat-themed artworks from a range of well-known international comics creators and illustrators, will be held at Porto’s Boémia Caffe. READ MORE 3.…
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VR exhibition at ICA
A VR exhibition curated by ICA Student Forum will be launched this Wednesday 7 December from 18-21:00pm. The evening offers a discussion around VR technology for young artists and the chance to experiment with viewing devices such as Google cardboard glasses and Oculus Rift. A special event marking the launch of a web platform for…
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Pioneering Ulm Model design at Raven Row
The Ulm Model is on view at Raven Row in London through Sunday, December 18. The exhibition looks at the pioneering interdisciplinary Ulm School of Design in Southern Germany, which operated from 1953 to 1968. Its clients included Lufthansa and Braun. During its short life from 1953 to 1968, the Ulm School of Design (HfG…
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Star Wars Identities London exhibition celebrates 40 years of saga
The Star Wars Identities exhibition (18 Nov 2016 – 3 Sep 2017) has just opened at the O2, London. Featuring original costumes and props, the interactive exhibition celebrates 40 years of the Star Wars saga. For almost 40 years, audiences around the world have followed the adventures of Luke and Anakin Skywalker, cinema’s most famous father and…
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Painting of last Russian Tsar found beneath portrait of Lenin
A portrait of Tsar Nicholas II was discovered during the restoration of a full-size painting of the 1917 October Revolution leader Vladimir Lenin. The image was “hidden” for the last 90 years beneath water-soluble paint on the back of the canvas used by Soviet artist Vladislav Izmailovich for Lenin’s portrait. The discovery was made by…
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Cat-themed illustration exhibition in Porto
An original exhibition featuring cat-themed artworks from a range of well-known international comics creators and illustrators, will be held at Porto’s Boémia Caffe starting this November 2016 and running until January 2017. According to the exhibition’s curator, Manuel Espírito Santo, the selection of international cat-themed artworks began in order to share the loss of his kitten, Ilvie, that…
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Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion at The Met
The Met Costume Institute’s Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion exhibition will feature significant acquisitions of the past 10 years and explore how the department has honed its collecting strategy to amass masterworks of the highest aesthetic and technical quality, including iconic works by designers who have changed fashion history and advanced fashion as an art form. During the…
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Teller on Mapplethorpe exhibition at Alison Jacques Gallery
To coincide with what would have been the 70th birthday of the iconic American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, Alison Jacques Gallery has invited acclaimed UK-based, German-born photographer Juergen Teller to curate the Teller on Mapplethorpe exhibition (18 Nov 2016 – 7 Jan 2017). Teller worked in collaboration with The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation in New York to make…
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Diane Arbus’ In The Beginning exhibition in its final week
The Diane Arbus In The Beginning exhibition (12 July – 27 Nov 2016) is in its final week, after running for four months at The Met, New York. This landmark exhibition features more than 100 photographs that together redefine Diane Arbus (1923–1971), one of the most influential and provocative artists of the 20th century. It…
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Anselm Kiefer’s Walhalla at White Cube Bermondsey
This week will see the opening of Anselm Kiefer’s Walhalla exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey (23 Nov 2016 – 12 Feb 2017), in which the artist revives the image of Walhalla through his new paintings, depicting the hall of the gods in Germanic and norse legend, reimagining death, time and the end of the world.…
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Tate Modern’s The Radical Eye photo exhibition assembled by Elton John
The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection (at Tate Modern until 7 May 2017). Photography is a 19th-century invention, but it was only in the 1900s that it became a medium for avant-garde vision. It took the modernist revolution in painting and the splintered perceptions of cubism to show photographers that the…
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‘Haze’, a musical composition inspired by JMW Turner
‘Haze’ by Helen Caddick is inspired by the JMW Turner: Adventures in Colour exhibition at Turner Contemporary. Selecting 5 paintings, taken from across 20 years in Turner’s lifetime, Helen’s creation of ‘Haze’, a musical composition has been documented by Phil Miller. You can now watch the film charting her journey as a composer from initial thoughts to performance…
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Mucha’s grandson sues Prague to stop world tour of Slav Epic
According to The Art Newspaper, a major legal battle looms over Alphonse Mucha’s monumental Slav Epic. The gigantic canvas cycle, which took the Czech-born Art Nouveau pioneer 18 years to complete, is due to go on a controversial tour to Asia, which has alarmed Mucha’s descendants and some conservators. The Slav Epic depicts key events…
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Ai Weiwei’s four New York shows focus on European refugee crisis
Ai Weiwei returns to New York with powerful shows at Deitch Projects, Mary Boone, and Lisson. Thousands of articles of clothing, neatly draped from wire hangers on dozens of rolling racks, are arranged across the sprawling main space at Deitch Projects in SoHo. They are labeled and sorted by category and size: One rack brims…
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David Bowie’s art fetches £24m in first round of sale
According to The Guardian, the first items from David Bowie’s personal art collection were sold at auction in London on Nov 10th, 2016, fetching more than £24m. A 1984 Jean-Michel Basquiat painting, titled Air Power, was the most expensive of the night, selling for nearly £7.1m including premium – double the pre-sale upper estimate of…
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Legal battle over 271 allegedly stolen Picasso works continues
According to a recent Artsy article, a retired electrician told a French appeals court that he lied about how he came to be in the possession of 271 works on paper by Pablo Picasso. 77-year-old Pierre Le Guennec, hired by Picasso in the 1970s for a series of odd jobs, originally claimed that the painter’s…
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Martin Margiela The Hermès Years announced at ModeMuseum
A new exhibition will explore the work of Martin Margiela during his Hermès years. Antwerp’s ModeMuseum will be showcasing the collections the Belgian designer created during his time as artistic director of the iconic French brand. Next Spring, MoMu are paying tribute to the visionary work of Martin Margiela during his time heading up the…
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Caribbean Cultural Center finds permanent home
The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) just reopened in a landmark building that was once a firehouse at the heart of East Harlem. The Institute is an organization that, in the words of founder Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, was created “to make African descendants visible, part of history, and [make us] dynamic participants…
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Athens’ National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) opens after 19-year delay
Nearly two decades in the making, Greece’s first National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) has opened to the public in Athens. Although legislation establishing the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) was passed in 1997, delays fueled by government disagreements around regulations and administration, as well as a shortage of funds, kept the museum from…
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Dr. Seuss Museum to open in June
Things are really picking up speed for the opening of the world’s first museum honoring Theodor Seuss Geisel. The Springfield Museums are planning to open a museum that honors the life and work of beloved native son Theodor Seuss Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss). The museum will feature the interactive exhibition The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss, as well…
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Pedro Almodóvar retrospective at MoMA
Pedro Almodóvar will be honored with a major career retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art (29 Nov 2016 – 17 Dec 2016). Opening on November 29 with a special screening of Almódovar’s latest work and 20th feature film, Julieta (2016), the retrospective will include all 20 of the director’s feature films, beginning with his…
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Punks at the Museum of London
Punks (1 October 2016 – 15 January 2017) tells the story of one of music’s most explosive genres from the people who were there. From the handmade mixtape sleeves and DIY fanzines, to the radical clothes sold on the King’s Road, this exhibition displays the personal objects and tells the stories of ordinary punks of the…
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The Taylor Swift Experience opens in New York
The Grammy Museum announced the opening of The Taylor Swift Experience (18 Nov 2016 – 19 Feb 2017) in New York’s Seaport District. Opening on November 18th, 2016, this will mark the first major exhibit opening for The Taylor Swift Experience on the East Coast following its record-setting Los Angeles showing. Having originally debuted at the Grammy Museum in…
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Prince’s Paisley Park home to open as museum
Prince’s Paisley Park home and studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota, has permanently opened for public tours, following unanimous approval by the Chanhassen City Council on October 24th, 2016. Tour dates for 2017 are expected to go on sale by mid-November 2016. Paisley Park is Prince’s extraordinary private estate and production complex in Chanhassen, Minnesota. Fans will…
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2,000 year-old Roman statue damaged at British Museum corporate event
The Townley Venus, one of the British Museum’s most important Roman sculptures, was damaged when its thumb was knocked off as catering staff were setting up for a corporate event amongst Ancient Greek and Roman statues last December. Although the British Museum’s trustees were informed about the damage, the news was not released to the press or…
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Paul Nash’s surreal and mystical English landscapes
Paul Nash was fascinated with Britain’s ancient past and spent time in southern England exploring the Downs and coastal areas. Equally inspired by the equinox and the phases of the moon, he used all these influences in his work, interpreting his environment according to a unique, personal mythology, evolving throughout his career. Featuring a lifetime’s…
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Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest at the New Museum
New Museum presents Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest (26 Oct 2016 – 15 Jan 2017), the most comprehensive presentation of Rist’s work in New York to date. It includes work spanning the artist’s entire career, from her early video works of the 1980s, to her recent immersive installations. Over the past thirty years, Rist (b. 1962)…
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You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970 launches
You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970, the V&A Museum‘s next major exhibition, will explore the era-defining significance and impact of the late 1960s, expressed through some of the greatest music and performances of the 20th century alongside fashion, film, design and political activism. More than 200 LPs from the collection of the late…
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Somerset House launches an “experimental workspace for artists”
Somerset House Studios launch this month, with 36,000 sq ft of space in the former Inland Revenue offices transformed into studio, rehearsal and project spaces. This week Somerset House announced the opening of over 35 shared and solo occupancy studios, rehearsal and project spaces, which will accommodate around 100 artists. Residents in the new Somerset…
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Tate Modern to host Bruce Nauman exhibition
Bruce Nauman has signed on for a major retrospective at London’s Tate Modern, set for 2019. The exhibition, which has not yet been formally announced, will come after two other retrospective exhibitions for the influential artist. The first will open in at the Schaulager in Basel in 2018, before traveling on to the Museum of…
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Design Museum relocates sharing video celebrating iconic designs
According to The Drum, the Design Museum has embraced some of the most iconic retro designs for a new video promoting its relaunch, focused on ‘opening and closing’. Created by Gravity Road and directed by Daniel de Viciola , the video will air in cinemas and be bolstered by a social media and out-of-home campaign. The…
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Guerrilla Girls: Is it even worse in Europe?
New Guerilla Girls exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery from 1 October 2016 – 5 March 2017 The Guerrilla Girls’ new commission for the Whitechapel Gallery revisits their 1986 poster stating “It’s Even Worse in Europe”. Characteristically deploying their strategic combination of humour, information, bold graphics and a subversive use of public space, their latest campaign includes a…
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A wonderlab inside the Science Museum
According to Dezeen, Architecture studio Muf has created a new interactive gallery at London’s Science Museum, featuring playground slides, a quilted theatre and a huge model of the solar system. As the first of several new galleries set to open at the museum, the Wonderlab invites visitors to experiment with over 50 different models and…
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Do British museums focus on the sunny side of history?
According to a recent article by Museums Association, Neil MacGregor, the former director of British Museum, has condemned Britain for having a narrow view of its own history, describing it as “dangerous and regrettable” for focusing almost entirely on what he called the “sunny side”. According to press reports, he made these comments ahead of…
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