Bauhaus

The Barbican's Bauhaus Show Teases Out the Playful Side of the Iconic Industrial Design School

ARTINFO | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Barbican Centre, London, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Bauhaus, Artinfo, Art, BLOUIN ARTINFO, Arts News

Prepare to see a slightly different side of the 20th century's most influential design movement. The objects in the upcoming Bauhaus survey "Art is Li...

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The Bauhaus, Where Form Follows Function

| Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Architecture, Bauhaus, The Bauhaus, Culture News

By Megan Jett (click here for original article) From the “starchitect” to “architecture for the 99%,” we are witnessing a shift of focus ...

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PHOTOS: 10 Icons Of Modern Architecture

Tom Mallory | Posted 09.05.2011

A few weeks ago ICOMOS' recommendation against the registering of 19 buildings designed by Le Corbusier in the World Heritage List provoked heated dis...

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The Effect Of War On An Artist's Work

Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: German Expressionism, World War I, Lyonel Feininger, At the Edge of the World, German Painting, Bauhaus, Germany, German Art, The Whitney Museum, World War II, Painting, Weimar Republic, Arts News

Germany in the 1920s would have been an exciting time for an artist. The First World War had ended and a period of stability and creativity, known as ...

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Women Artists Remembered and Beloved

Max Eternity | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Women's Suffrage, Art, Iwd, Bauhaus, Ban Ki-Moon, Nancy Bechtol, Dee Hood, Lisa Tuttle, International Women's Day, ARC Gallery, Women's Day, Arts News

"In contemporary art, we can never underestimate the role of women artists in opening up the art world to diverse groups... starting in the 60's," says Lisa Tuttle, an Atlanta artist.

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Modernism's Empty Empty Spaces

Michael Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Modernist-Architecture, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bauhaus, Postmodernism, Arts News

There is an intriguing connection between modernism's claim to unbridled liberty and the way that it has shaped the physical environment in which we live.

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The Brief, Glorious Life Of Bauhaus (New York Review)

The New York Review of Books | Martin Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hitler, Bauhaus, German Art, Pompidou, Weimar, Guggenheim, Moma, Gropius, Museum, German Architecture, New York Review of Books, Nyr, Books News

Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus-...

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LA Business As Usual and A Better Place

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Returning to LA from an inspiring visit to Better Place, I wasn't ready for the now almost perennially bad news about the city's financial health. Bu...

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The Ghost(s): Of Tony Blair, Roman Polanski, and A War on Terror

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chinatown, The Parallax View, Tony Blair, The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski, Cia, Bauhaus, Ronald Reagan, Kim Cattrall, Tom Wilkinson, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jim Belushi, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton, Alfred Hitchcock, Hitler, Michael Sheen, Helen Mirren, Warhol, Alexandre Desplat, Morgane Polanski, Brutalist Architecture, James Bond, Cool Britannia, Ewan McGregor, Barack Obama, The Queen, Tim Hutton, Bernard Herrmann, Olivia Williams, Eli Wallach, Sex and the City, 9/11, Iraq War, Condi Rice, Alan J. Pakula, Britain, Pakistan, Rendition, Halliburton, Robert Harris, Warren Beatty, Robert Pugh, Jack Nicholson, Entertainment News

Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer is one of the best films I've seen in recent years. Yet it seems unlikely, at least in America, to break out beyond the art house hit status.

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Culture Zohn: Dancing With the Outliers

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Architecture of Dance, Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, Wayne McGregor, Philip Johnson, Bauhaus, NY City Ballet, Entertainment News

Wayne McGregor, an outlier himself, wants bodies to "misbehave." This energetic, sexy ballet, informed by architecture, shows how.

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A Letter From Concerned Citizens to Mayor Daley

Jim Peters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2016 Olympics, Chicago Architecture, Bauhaus, Walter-Gropius, Mayor Daley, Michael Reese Hospital, South Side of Chicago, Chicago Development, Modernist Architecture, Chicago News

The disappointment over the loss of the 2016 Olympics should not prevent Chicagoans from realizing a great opportunity -- the redevelopment of the former Michael Reese Hospital Campus.

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Ninety-Two

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Oak Ridge Boys, Califone, mp3s, Bauhaus, Phil Ramone, Psych Funk 101, Danielle Evin, Music, Dog Ears, Blitzen Trapper, Elizabeth Johnson, Entertainment News

This week's column features music by Califone, Bauhaus, Elizabeth Johnson, The Oak Ridge Boys, Blitzen Trapper and Psych Funk 101

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Bauhaus 90th Anniversary Show Draws Many Visitors

AP | KIRSTEN GRIESHABER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bauhaus Anniversary, Bauhaus 90th Anniversary, Bauhaus, Style News

BERLIN - It's all there: the well-known desk lamps, the original metal tube chairs and models of boxy white buildings. Ninety years after the foundin...

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"Excess" Versus "Relevance" Is an Irrelevant Debate

Frances Anderton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cameron Sinclair, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas Beijing, Architecture of Excess, Bauhaus, Frank Gehry, Architecture, Starchitects, Style News

By setting up an "excess" vs "relevance" dichotomy, Cameron Sinclair has created an irrelevant conflict that ignores the full scope of architecture and its role as built manifestation of all our human tendencies.

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