New Documentary Surveys How László Moholy-Nagy Tried to Launch Bauhaus 2.0 in Chicago
The less visible aspects of the artist's oeuvre may be the most influential ones, this film suggests.
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Books: Chicago Confidential
"Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now" emphasizes how women artists and artists of color have contributed to the city's cultural life from its very beginnings and how activism has…
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The retrospective exhibition of the weaver Anni Albers that began at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, and then traveled to Tate Modern in London, has been greeted from all sides…
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The title of "Claire Falkenstein: Matter in Motion" took its terms from the artist herself, who spoke freely of the energy that ricochets through the universe and animates matter.
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Sound Disposition: A Personal, Peculiar Top 10 of a Memorable Year in Art
Anything like a clear through-line connecting what I marked down as the year’s most affecting shows has proven elusive. As happens often when in my own head, though, I can’t help but think of…
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Stars of the Electric Stage: Matthew Weinstein on Moholy-Nagy at the Guggenheim and ‘Lady Dynamite’
The painting Z VIII (1924) by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), is a schematic representation of intersecting transparent planes. It is a dictionary of Bauhaus formalism, and would come off…
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Memorial to a Many-Sided Non-Objectivist: Thomas B. Hess on László Moholy-Nagy, in 1947
"Perhaps some day the examples of his teaching, his writing, his applied and 'fine' art may 'penetrate into everyone's daily routine,' " Hess wrote
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More and more museums are showcasing jewelry from across cultures and centuries.
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