Archive for the ‘cooper-hewitt national design museum’ Category
in museums of the upper east side
What to do in museums of
the upper east side
what NY socialites do in 10021
- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Museum of the City of New York
- The 92nd Street Y
- 10021 NY socialites
- The Asia Society
- Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- The Frick Collection
- Goethe-Institut New York
- The Jewish Museum of New York
- The National Academy of Design
- Manhattan House
- NY socialites of the UES
- The Neue Galerie
- Society of Illustrators
- The Whitney Museum of American Art
- The Irish Georgian Society
- Upper East Side NY socialites
George Tooker.avi
George Tooker
Nato il 5 agosto 1920 a Brooklyn ( New York ) –
E’ uno dei maggiori pittori Americani .
Da Brooklyn si trasferisce a Belleport, Long Island. Studia con Malcolm Frazier, un pittore ( che s’ispira a Barbizon ) . Frequenta la Philips Academy ( scuola privata ) in Andover nel Massachusetts . Entra subito In contrasto con l’ambiente elitario del campus . Lui ama osservare e capire le classi discriminate , visita le vicine Lowell e Lawrence, da ciò nasce una certa influenza che si manifesta nelle sue opere . Benchè desideroso di frequentare una scuola d’arte , dopo la laurea si reca ad Harvard , ove studia letteratura inglese e diviene un attivista socialista del campus. Nel 1942 si laurea , entra nel Corpo dei Marines ma viene rifiutato per un difetto fisico. Dal 1943 studia con Reginald Marsh e Kenneth Hayes Miller presso la Art Students League di New York. Il suo amico Paul Cadmus, lo incoraggia e l’nvita a sperimentare la tempera all’uovo , veloce nell’ asciugarsi ma di difficile applicazione . Intanto nei suoi dipinti sono raffigurate scene della vita quotidiana americana . Queste figure sono viste con estrema malinconia , ciò le iconizza dando loro con ossessione un grave senso di isolamento psicologico , di anonimità e di un’umiliante ripetizione . Inoltre esse sono spesso di sessualità e razza non ben definite , tutte costrette in ingombranti vestiti e prigioniere dei mondi in cui vivono . Ricerca rigorosamente sia la geometricità che la simmetria , per questo la sua produzione è di sole due opere all’anno . Il Maestro viene di sovente confrontato con Edward Hopper . I suoi quadri più belli sono ” la metropolitana ” ( 1950 ) , ora presso il Whitney Museum of American Art, e ” L’ufficio del Governo ” ( 1956 ) ora presso il Metropolitan Museum of Art. Moltissime sue opere sono presenti nelle collezioni permanenti del Museum of Art di Colombo e lo Smithsonian American Art Museum. La sua prima grande mostra che risale al 1951 avvenne all’ Edwin Hewitt Gallery . Da allora le sue opere vennero esposte presso molte istituzioni tra cui l’Art Institute di Chicago, il Museum of Modern Art e la Galleria Nazionale d’Arte. Di recente ( 2008 -2009 ) , una grande mostra itinerante è stata organizzata dalla National Academy Museum, New York City, la Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, e il Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio. Nel 1968 viene eletto membro della National Academy of Design , poi anche membro della American Accademia delle Arti e delle Lettere. Il 15 novembre 2007 presso la DC Moore Gallery a New York il Presidente Bush gli conferisce la National Medal of Arts con questa motivazione : ” I quadri di Mr . Tooker uniscono realismo e simbolismo, trasformando scene di vita americana in immagini iconiche. Le sue opere metafisiche rivelano il cammino dell’uomo dalla
disperazione alla vittoria . “
Duration : 0:5:53
Cooper-Hewitt: Provoking Magic – Lighting of Ingo Maurer
This retrospective of the celebrated lighting designer Ingo Maurer will offer a comprehensive overview of his nearly four decades of work. Maurer himself will help select works for display, including rare prototypes, serially produced lamps and one-off pieces, as well as models, photographs and films documenting his illumination projects around the world. A highlight of the exhibition will be lighting installations designed by Maurer specifically for Cooper-Hewitt’s galleries.
Duration : 0:0:52
Cooper Hewitt
A video created by walking around the Cooper Hewitt National Museum of Design in New York City, with my iPhone on and iTimeLapse running. Successful? Not really. The phone kept turning off and I didn’t really pause long enough at objects; and i didn’t put enough time between one shot and the next. Next time, though, I’ll get it.
Created with iTimeLapse , available on the iTunes app store.
Duration : 0:0:17
Cooper-Hewitt – Mechanical book: Alice in Wonderland
Mechanical book: Tony Sargs Treasure Book
This colorful movable book contains adaptations of Rip Van Winkle, Treasure Island, and Alices Adventures in Wonderland by Tony Sarg, a German-American craftsman and illustrator best known for creating puppets for the Macys Thanksgiving Day parade in 1928 and the 1933 Chicago Worlds Fair.
Created by Tony Sarg (18821942)
Published by B. F. Jay
New York, NY, ca. 1942
Smithsonian Institution Libraries. PZ7.S24 To 1942
Wall Stories: Children’s Wallpapers and Books
On view: October 3, 2008April 5, 2009
This exhibition will explore the relationship between wallpapers and books created for children through works from the permanent collection and the National Design Library. From their beginning in the 1870s, children’s wallpapers have been strongly influenced by literature and popular culture. Works on view will include papers illustrated with nursery rhymes and designs inspired by works of fiction and adventure, such as Peter Rabbit, Alice in Wonderland, and Cinderella. The exhibition also will trace the evolution of children’s books from instructional to fictional and include developments such as movable and pop-up books, which added an interactive element to children’s reading.
Wall Stories: Childrens Wallpaper and Books is made possible in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency. Additional support is provided in part by Esme Usdan, Margery and Edgar Masinter, The Liman Foundation and The Walt Disney Company.
Duration : 0:1:50
2009 SMoCA Contemporary Catalyst Award Nominee Wendell Burnette
At the annual benefit, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art honors a group of special individuals whose accomplishments reflect the ideals of creativity, innovation and cultural community that are at the heart of the Museums mission. This annual award acknowledges the cultural entrepreneurs and out-of-the-box thinkers in our midst—those who truly have built the foundations of a creative culture here and on whose shoulders we all stand. Such spirited, entrepreneurial individuals have—through their professional or civic activities—raised the profile of contemporary art, architecture and design in the Valley. We call these individuals Contemporary Catalysts.
Wendell Burnette AIA, Principal, was educated in the practice of architecture through 30 years of experience that spans all aspects of the profession spanning a wide range of commercial and residential work. Wendells curriculum of self-study education includes a three-year period at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. His 11-year association with the studio of William Bruder culminated in a six-year design collaboration on the Phoenix Central Library as co-designer, project architect, and field architect. Since 1996, he has led Wendell Burnette Architects as its sole principal in all aspects of development. The specific focus of the practice is concerned with space and light, context and place, and with the environment and landscape in which we live. He is also an equal design partner in I-10 Studio, LLC with Marwan Al-Sayed and Rick Joy which is dedicated exclusively to completing design and documents on a destination eco-resort Hotel and Spa in southern Utah. Wendells work has been featured twice at SMoCA, including the recent Flip a Strip exhibition (2008) and the southwestNET Architecture & Design (2003) exhibition. The Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York also exhibited his work in Design Culture Now. The work of Wendell Burnette Architects has earned numerous honors, including a 1990 Young Architects Award from Progressive Architecture magazine, and most recently a National AIA Honor Award for the Palo Verde Library/Maryvale Community Center. In addition to the private practice, Wendell is an Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Arizona State University.
Duration : 0:2:42
Definition of Sustainability Per Wendy Brawer
Wendy Brawer is Green Map System’s Founder and Director. She has been an eco-designer, public educator and consultant since 1990.
Brawer created the first Green Apple Map of New York City in 1992 and published the 5th citywide edition in 2006. Wendy initiated the global Green Map System in 1995 and leads its development. She is founder of a small eco-design firm, Modern World Design, focused on energy generation and waste reduction. She has taught at NYU, Cooper Union and presented at more than 25 universities and conferences. Recognition includes Woman of Earth/Terre de Femmes (Yves Rocher Foundation 2005), Designer in Residence, (Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum 1997) and a Sea Change Award (Gaea Foundation 2003).
For more info, see http://eclips.cornell.edu
Duration : 0:0:36
Cooper-Hewitt: Shahzia Sikander and Glenn Lowry in Conversation
A conversation with internationally acclaimed artist Shahzia Sikander and art historian and MoMA Director, Glenn Lowry.
Shahzia Sikanders work takes apart the conventional methods of addressing traditional miniature paintings and reassembles them to expand their associations, inserting new dialogues often subversive in nature. Using wit, irony and paradox, Sikanders inventiveness draws upon literary, pop, media and art historical contexts. Her work ranges from intimate watercolors, large scale wall installations and digital animation and video. Sikander studied at both the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan and the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence.
Glenn Lowry is an art historian and current Director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). A noted scholar of Islamic arts and architecture, Lowry was previously Curator of Near Eastern Art at the Smithsonian Institutions Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art (1984-90) where he organized, among other exhibitions, Timur and Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century (1989) and A Jewelers Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book From the Vever Collection (1988).
Duration : 1:4:59
First Lady Michelle Obama Celebrates National Design Awards
The First Lady hosts a ceremony at the White House for the winners and finalists of the 2009 National Design Awards, part of the Smithsonians Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. She praises the recipients for their innovative ideas, and for serving as inspiration for future generations of designers. July 24, 2009. (Public Domain)
Duration : 0:15:18
descours 2009 TOUR 12 New Orleans Open House Prototype.mov
Tour 12 DesCours PODCAST for “Open House Prototype 2″ by Francis Bitonti and Brian Osborn, part of DesCours 2009 Installation series sponsored by the New Orleans Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Concept:
openHouse is an illuminated canopy filling the upper portion of a small courtyard. As participants fill the courtyard the space is transformed by a field of kinetic devices. Our objective is to create a fluid public condition which is programmed by habitation and social interaction. Participants control the architecture through the casual use of daily objects — glasses, plates and the like. The character and structure of the space becomes inseparable from the objects, and therefore the users, within it.
Bio:
FRANCIS A. BITONTI is an award winning designer based in New York. Francis holds a Master of Architecture from Pratt Institute and a BFA from Long Island University in Digital Media. Francis has exhibited his work internationally and has most recently shown work at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Francis founded FADarch, an experimental design and research entity, in 2007. His work with computational design and digital technologies has been widely influential and has lectured at a number of conferences and academic institutes. In addition to his professional work Francis has been a visiting instructor at Pratt Institute in the Graduate Architecture and Urban Design department (GAUD) and at the New York City College or Technology.
BRIAN OSBORN holds the Master of Architecture (MArch) from Pratt Institutes School of Architecture in Brooklyn, New York, and the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Brian has exhibited his work internationally. Since founding BOTH Landscape and Architecture, Brian has provided innovative landscape solutions for SHoP Architects, SYSTEMarchitects, and the Design Office for Research of Architecture (LABDORA). Brian teaches in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers—The State University of New Jersey as well as at the School of Art and Design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
Duration : 0:3:26